Civil servants warned against influencing poll results
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: The Chief Election Commissioner on Wednesday warned that any civil servant using official position to influence the election results would be doing so “at his own risk and...
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Kashmir election a farce: Mirwaiz
NEW DELHI, Sept 18: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference has asked the Organization of Islamic Conference to demand a special UN envoy for Kashmir, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said on Wednesday from...
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Congress will vote on Iraq in weeks: Bush
 WASHINGTON, Sept 18: US President George W. Bush, scorning Baghdad’s offer to re-admit UN arms inspectors as a “ploy”, said on Wednesday that the US Congress would vote in weeks on...
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Shahbaz, Kulsoom petition returned
LAHORE, Sept 18: Lahore High Court officials on Wednesday returned the petition challenging the electoral disqualification of PML-N leaders Shahbaz Sharif and Kulsoom Nawaz to the counsel for Sharif family, saying...
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Tamils make concessions to Muslims
SATTAHIP (Thailand), Sept 18: Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers made a dramatic conciliatory gesture towards Muslims on Wednesday, a move that further boosts Norway’s bid to broker peace in the war-torn island....
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Muslim suspects are victims of McCarthyism, say lawyers
LACKAWANNA, New York, Sept 18: Lawyers representing six men, who are allegedly belonging to an Al Qaeda terrorist cell in upstate New York, said their clients were victims of McCarthyism, referring...
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Laws changed to keep Benazir out, court told
KARACHI, Sept 18: Hearing of the petition of Benazir Bhutto, challenging recent amendments to the Constitution and NAB laws was adjourned here on Wednesday to Oct 2....
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Pakistan hopes Iraq will not be attacked
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 18: Pakistan on Wednesday joined most members of the international community in expressing hope that following Iraq’s unconditional acceptance of weapons inspection the use of force against Iraq...
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Defence exports doubled: Aziz
KARACHI, Sept 18: Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Gen Aziz Khan, has said that Pakistan is a peaceful country but it “cannot allow itself to become an easy prey to...
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17 killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, Sept 18: Indian and Pakistani troops exchanged fire along the Line of Control on Wednesday, while 17 people were killed in violence linked to ongoing elections in occupied Kashmir, police...
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UK sceptical about Iraqi offer
LONDON, Sept 18: British prime minister Tony Blair expressed scepticism about the Iraqi offer of allowing UN inspectors....
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8 militants arrested in Karachi
KARACHI, Sept 18: Eight suspected militants of a Jihadi organization were picked up on Wednesday and a considerable quantity of arms and ammunition seized from them, police sources claimed....
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NFC award to be finalized on Sunday
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: A meeting of the National Finance Commission will be held here on Sunday to finalize the 6th award....
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12 sentenced to death in Gichki murder case
QUETTA, Sept 18: The Anti-Terrorism Court, Khuzdar, on Wednesday awarded death penalty to 12 people, eight of them in absentia, for the murder of Sardar Mohammed Aslam Gichki and his two...
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2 Pakistanis arrested in Afghanistan
KABUL, Sept 18: Two Pakistani men are in custody in Afghanistan after dynamite was found on their fully-loaded fuel tanker bound for a US air base, an international security force spokesman...
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Ramzi has not been arrested: Al Qaeda
CAIRO, Sept 18: An Islamic group on Wednesday denied US and Pakistani reports that Al Qaeda’s Ramzi bin Al Shibh, an alleged coordinator of the Sept 11 attacks, was among those...
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