LHC orders DAG to inform about Dr Amir’s custody
LAHORE, Nov 12: Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jilani of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday directed Deputy Attorney-General Dr Danishwar Malik to get in touch with the federal interior secretary to find...
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Row over 58(2)B settled: Shujaat: Govt amending LFO
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: The government has agreed to make “some concessions” to the Legal Frameworks Order in a major breakthrough to resolve differences with political parties, PML-Q parliamentary leader Chuadhry Shujaat...
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Iraqi legislators reject UN resolution
 BAGHDAD, Nov 12: Iraq’s parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday to reject a tough UN disarmament resolution seen as a last chance to avoid an invasion, but agreed to leave the final...
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India disputes call for deadline
NEW DELHI, Nov 12: Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday rejected Pakistan’s bid to put a deadline for New Delhi to confirm its participation in the SAARC summit proposed to...
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Pakistan blasts IAEA’s double standards
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12: Pakistan on Monday criticized the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) double standards by denying access to the latest nuclear technology for peaceful purposes to developing countries....
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Key issues settled with PML-Q: Fazl
LAHORE, Nov 12: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Aml candidate for prime minister Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Tuesday that religious parties’ alliance had reached a settlement on a number of important issues in...
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Those not with US are with enemy, says Bush
WASHINGTON, Nov 12: President George W. Bush has once again said that the nations which were not with the United States in the war against terror were with the enemy....
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US army personnel to get privileges
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: Pakistan and the United States are considering signing the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that aims at providing privileges to civil and military personnel of the US department...
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Yasin Malik says he was tortured
NEW DELHI, Nov 12: Kashmiri freedom fighter Yasin Malik said on Tuesday that he was tortured during his seven-month captivity and described the recent Indian-backed polls in the region as spurious....
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Death toll in Gujarat riots rises
AHMEDABAD, Nov 12: The death toll in communal violence in Gujarat state rose to six on Tuesday when two people injured the previous evening died, a police spokesman said....
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SC issues notice to AG on polls petition
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to Attorney General on an election petition filed by Sindh Democratic Alliance leader Imtiaz Shaikh against denotification of his election result....
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Six killed in Kabul university protest
KABUL, Nov 12: Police opened fire on Tuesday on several thousand students protesting in the Afghan capital against authorities’ handling of the previous night’s riot in which at least one student...
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GNA gets close to deal with MMA
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: The GNA, a conglomerate of the PML-Q and six-party National Alliance, and the MMA have come close to an agreement on the LFO, the status of the president...
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Bilqis Zardari dies
KARACHI, Nov 12: Bilqis Hakim Ali Zardari, the wife of Hakim Ali Zardari and mother of Asif Ali Zardari, died of broncho-pulmonary pneumonia in a local hospital on Tuesday. She was...
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Islamabad gives Saarc secretariat cut-off date
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: Islamabad has asked the Saarc Secretariat to confirm participation of its members in the proposed 12th Saarc Summit to be hosted by Pakistan in January 2003 by mid-November,...
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WB to help improve investment climate
ISLAMABAD, Nov 12: The World Bank and its investment agencies plan to help Pakistan improve its investment climate through macro-economic and social reforms, direct project investments and political risk guarantees over...
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Jail officials prepare for Kasi’s execution
WASHINGTON, Nov 12: Authorities at the Greensville Correctional Center in Virginia are preparing to execute Mir Aimal Kasi on Thursday for the 1993 murders of two CIA employees after President George...
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Rashid foresees MMA coalition with PML-Q
LAHORE, Nov 12: The PML-Q and the MMA are poised to form a government with Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali as prime minister, says a PML-Q leader....
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