Majority group in Sindh won’t be opposed: PM: Govt formation
QUETTA, Dec 3: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said that the federal government would not create any hurdle in the way of majority group for the formation of government...
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Muttahida again supports Jamali: No conditions attached
KARACHI, Dec 3: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Tuesday announced its “unconditional” support to the Jamali government “to save the democratic dispensation”....
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Fresh parleys with US today
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: US President George Bush’s Deputy National Security adviser Stephen Hadley arrives here early Wednesday morning for a day-long visit that will mark the opening of dialogue between the...
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Wapda causes huge loss to consumers: Malpractices in meter purchases
LAHORE, Dec 3: Wapda’s scandalous meter purchases took another turn for the worse when the authority scuttled an international tender to favour a cartel of three local companies and caused power...
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West asked to focus on poverty than Osama
BERLIN, Dec 3: Pakistan’s foreign minister said here on Tuesday that western powers should fret less about Osama bin Laden and pay more attention to the root-causes of militancy, such as...
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Inspectors search Sadam’s palace for arms
BAGHDAD, Dec 3: UN arms inspectors searched one of President Saddam Hussein’s large palace compounds in Baghdad on Tuesday in the biggest test of Iraqi cooperation since inspections for weapons of...
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Uch gas pipeline blast an act of sabotage: OGDCL
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) confirmed on Tuesday that a powerful explosion blew off its 26-inch gas pipeline near Uch in Balochistan that disrupted gas...
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Putin to help resume Indo-Pakistan talks
NEW DELHI, Dec 3: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived here on Tuesday partly to boost Moscow’s flagging arms sales to a major client but also to promote a recently articulated Chinese...
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Jam orders release of religious activists
QUETTA, Dec 3: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Mir Mohammad Yousaf has ordered the provincial home department to release all prisoners belonging to the defunct religious outfits in the province before Eid....
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Portfolios allocated to NWFP ministers
PESHAWAR, Dec 3: The 13-member NWFP cabinet was allocated portfolios late Monday night. Chief minister Akram Khan Durrani decided to retain information, revenue, establishment and administration, works and home and tribal...
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Access to Kenyan detainees sought
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: Pakistan has demanded access to six Pakistanis held in Kenya over last week’s attack on Israelis near Mombasa in which 16 people died, a foreign ministry statement said...
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Israelis kill 95-year-old Palestinian woman
 RAMALLAH, Dec 3: Israeli soldiers on Tuesday shot dead a 95-year-old Palestinian woman who was taking a taxi home after a medical check-up in the West Bank city of Ramallah....
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Abolished districts restored
QUETTA, Dec 3: The Balochistan government on Tuesday restored four defunct districts, including the home district of Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali— Jafarabad....
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Edhi’s son injured
KARACHI, Dec 3: Faisal Edhi, son of noted social worker Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi, received bullet injury here on Tuesday night....
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First ADB loan for Kabul
MANILA, Dec 3: Afghanistan is set to get its first loan in 23 years from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Philippines-based lender said on Tuesday....
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UNHCR office attacked
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: Unknown men threw two grenades into the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Gardez, southeastern Afghanistan, on Monday night damaging the office....
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