Satellite to help promote education: Musharraf launches Paksat-I
 ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: Pakistan entered the space age with the formal launching of Paksat-I by President Gen Pervez Musharraf at an impressive ceremony here on Saturday....
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Fresh agreement on gas needed, says Bugti
QUETTA, Jan 25: Bugti chieftain and Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) president Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti has said that a fresh agreement is needed with all the gas companies and the government...
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PM approves Haj pleas to resolve dispute
ISLAMABAD Jan 25: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has approved all the 18,811 disputed Haj applications under Open Haj Scheme to end the ongoing wrangling between the ministry of religious...
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Country has oil reserves for 28 days: minister
ATTOCK, Jan 25: Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Chaudhry Nouraiz Shakoor has said that we have oil reserves for 28 days and if the US attacks on Iraq and...
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India, Iran to widen anti-terror cooperation
NEW DELHI, Jan 25: India and Iran on Saturday signed seven agreements, including a declaration slamming “double standards”, in the global campaign against terrorism....
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Tehran sees modest progress in gas pipeline project
NEW DELHI, Jan 25: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said on Saturday that his country’s bid to get India’s nod to a gas pipeline project that runs through Pakistan had made...
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Shujaat keen to get Mushahid in Senate
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: Former Information Minister Mushahid Hussain who has been awarded a Senate ticket for one of the two general seats from Islamabad by the PML-Q is facing an unexpected...
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Pressure mounts on US to give UN more time
DAVOS, Jan 25: World pressure mounted on the United States on Saturday to allow United Nations weapons inspectors more time to do their work in Iraq after they make a key...
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Sui-Guddu gas line repaired
MAZARI GOTH (Rajanpur), Jan 25: The SNGPL on Saturday repaired the Sui-Guddu transmission line at Dauli and partially restored the gas supply....
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Top level changes in bureaucracy
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Saturday made some high-level changes in the bureaucracy, appointing Khawaja Ijaz Sarwar as secretary labour, manpower and overseas Pakistanis and Major...
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No change in foreign policy, says Jamali
 ABU DHABI, Jan 25: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Saturday night said that there was no change in Pakistan’s foreign policy and the government was now in place to...
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Asif shifted to Karachi hospital
KARACHI, Jan 25: Asif Ali Zardari, interned spouse of the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was on Saturday shifted to Karachi after his visit to Naudero where he had gone to...
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Cop killed in Kashmir mine blast
SRINAGAR, Jan 25: A policeman was killed in a mine explosion in occupied Kashmir on Saturday, a day before India’s Republic Day celebrations....
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PPP to chalk out strategy for Senate elections
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) will consider alliances for next month’s Senate elections at a meeting to be held in Islamabad on Friday, party sources said on Saturday....
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Bugti men booked for sabotage
ISLAMABAD, Jan 25: The government registered a case against unidentified Bugti tribesmen for the sabotage of gas pipelines as supply to domestic consumers was restored on Saturday....
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Israeli army dynamites four bridges in Gaza
 GAZA CITY, Jan 25: Israeli forces dyamited four road overpasses on Saturday, isolating the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun after rockets were fired on Israeli territory from the area...
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Rocket attack on Mazari village
SUKKUR, Jan 25: A village inhabited by Mazari tribesmen came under heavy rocket fire on Saturday morning, but no loss of life or damage to property was reported....
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3 die in BD poll-related violence
DHAKA, Jan 25: At least three people were killed and 100 others injured ahead of voting in Bangladesh’s staggered local council elections which began on Saturday, reports said....
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