Another requisition for NA session filed
ISLAMABAD, March 12: The opposition parties on Wednesday filed a fresh requisition asking the speaker of the National Assembly to summon session of the lower house....
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Opposition takes oath under altered text
ISLAMABAD, March 12: In an unprecedented protest, opposition senators changed the text of the oath they took as members of the newly-elected upper house at a stormy inaugural session of the...
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Bush ready to extend compliance deadline
WASHINGTON, March 12: President George W. Bush is preparing an ultimatum for President Saddam Hussein that would demand immediate and complete compliance with UN demands, US officials said Wednesday....
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Constitution revived after 41 months
ISLAMABAD, March 12: The Constitution of the country fully revived after exactly 41 months, when the members elected to the Senate took oath on Wednesday....
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Muharram procession teargased in Kashmir
 SRINAGAR, March 12: Police in occupied Kashmir used teargas and batons to break up a Muharram procession on Wednesday and arrested 80 people, including two top leaders....
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UK sets 6 conditions for Iraq to avert war
 UNITED NATIONS, March 12: In an attempt to break a UN Security Council deadlock over a resolution on Iraq, Britain on Wednesday set six new “benchmarks” for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein...
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Death sentence of two convicts remitted: Tando Bahawal case
KARACHI, March 12: The offences of murder and kidnapping are mutually exclusive and there can be no simultaneous conviction under sections 302 and 364 of the Pakistan Penal Code, the Sindh...
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Soomro elected Senate chairman
ISLAMABAD Mar 12: The combined opposition charged on Wednesday that the government had used state machinery to gain support in elections to the Senate....
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Over 100 Pakistanis deported from US
WASHINGTON, March 12: Another chartered flight is expected to arrive in Islamabad on Thursday with 103 Pakistani nationals deported from the United States....
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JI not suspected of having links with Al Qaeda: ISI
ISLAMABAD, March 12: A top official of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) told a group of editors and senior journalists here on Wednesday that the Jamaat-i-Islami was not suspected of having...
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Osama sets up women squads: report
DUBAI, March 12: The Al Qaeda network has set up squads of female suicide bombers who take orders from Osama bin Laden and will target the United States, a newspaper said...
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US won’t confirm Osama’s capture
WASHINGTON, March 12: The United States government said on Wednesday it had no information to substantiate an Iranian radio report that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been captured in...
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Pakistan, Mexico to try to avert UN split
ISLAMABAD, March 12: United Nations Security Council members Mexico and Pakistan decided on Wednesday to seek a compromise in the divisive debate on invading Iraq to save a split on the...
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Bush calls Musharraf, others; seeks support
WASHINGTON, March 12: US President George W. Bush courted support on war with Iraq from the United Arab Emirates, the Philippines, Pakistan and Russia on Wednesday in a third straight day...
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Serbian premier shot dead
BELGRADE, March 12: Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who played a key role in ousting Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, was assassinated on Wednesday, gunned down outside Belgrade’s main government building....
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Alys Faiz passes away
 LAHORE, March 12: Human rights crusader, peace activist and wife of poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Alys Faiz, passed away here on Wednesday morning at the age of 88....
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