Constitution revived partially: Musharraf assumes power under 58(2)(b)
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: The president on Friday partially revived the Constitution, keeping articles dealing with the floor crossing, qualification of the MNAs and the power of parliament to amend the Constitution...
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President to take fresh oath today
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: Gen Pervez Musharraf will take the oath as President of Pakistan on Saturday, starting his new term of five years following the mandate he got through referendum....
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12 Jewish settlers die in ambushes
TEL AVIV, Nov 15: At least 12 Jewish settlers were killed and 30 others wounded on Friday in back-to-back ambushes on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Al Khalil....
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No compromise on principles: Fazl
KARACHI, Nov 15: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s nominee for the prime minister’s office, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, has said that attempts to ease out MMA from the government formation, to satisfy the concerns...
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Petrol price reduced by Rs3 per litre
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: The government on Friday announced 1.5 per cent to 8.6 per cent reduction in various petroleum products prices, and directed the provincial governments and law enforcing agencies to...
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Women’s movement in Masjid-i-Nabawi restricted
RIYADH, Nov 15: Women visiting Masjid-i-Nabawi in Madinah Munawwara have been temporarily banned from entering, approaching or praying at the Prophet’s chamber and the Rawdah (the area between the Prophet’s chamber...
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Govt fails to produce Dr Amir in court
LAHORE, Nov 15: The interior ministry failed to produce Dr Amir Aziz in the Lahore High Court on Friday in breach of the orders of Justice Tassaduq Husain Jilani on the...
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UN weapons inspectors leave for Baghdad
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 15: Following Iraq’s acceptance of a tough new UN resolution, weapons inspectors left here on Friday to get ready for the stringent weapons inspections ever....
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US warned of retaliation
LOS ANGELES, Nov 15: Mir Aimal Kasi, just a few hours before execution, had warned the US of severe retaliation after his death....
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Vajpayee faces VHP wrath as Gujarat rally banned
NEW DELHI, Nov 15: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was headed for a bruising confrontation with rightwing hardliners in his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday after he backed a...
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Scuffles at WTO meeting
SYDNEY, Nov 15: Anti-globalization protestors scuffled briefly with police on Friday as they tried to break through barriers around a meeting of world trade ministers at Sydney’s Olympic Park....
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Straw blames UK for ME, subcontinent troubles
LONDON, Nov 15: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has blamed his nation’s own imperial past for the chronic troubles of the Middle East, in an interview published in the New Statesman...
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National Assembly session today
 ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: The maiden session of the 11th National Assembly will be held here in the parliament building, renovated at a cost of Rs75 million, on Saturday morning....
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Aimal Kasi executed
JARRATT (Virginia), Nov 15: Mir Aimal Kasi, convicted of killing two CIA employees in 1993, was executed on Thursday night, with the US State Department warning of global retaliation against Americans....
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Fahim slams govt for horse trading
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: The President of People’s Party Parliamentarian, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, on Friday said that his party members would take oath under the 1973 Constitution....
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2 killed in Hyderabad bus blast
 HYDERABAD, Nov 15: Two men were killed and nine injured when a powerful bomb went off in bus carrying passenger at Society Chowk here on Friday....
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118 die in Maoist attack
KATHMANDU, Nov 15: Thousands of Maoist rebels stormed two remote Nepali towns, fighting pitched battles with security forces in which at least 118 people were killed....
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Benazir vows to fight dictatorship
 ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: Chairperson of Pakistan People’s Party, Benazir Bhutto, on Friday vowed to continue fight against dictatorial forces till the last....
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Musharraf felicitates Hu Jintao
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has sent a message of felicitation on Friday to Mr Hu Jintao, on his election as the general-secretary of the Communist Party of China...
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Pilot killed in PAF crash
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: A Pakistan Air Force Mirage Fighter Aircraft, while on the routine mission, crashed in the vicinity of PAF Base Rafiqui (Shorkot)....
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