Opposition to protest today: Strategy to be finalized before session
ISLAMABAD, June 6: The combined opposition announced on Friday it would continue its protest on the floor of both houses of parliament during the budget session after what it termed the...
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NWFP impasse stays unresolved: Durrani wants governor’s replacement
ISLAMABAD, June 6: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and Chief Minister NWFP Akram Khan Durrani on Friday held a second meeting in twenty-four hours to resolve the differences between the...
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Govt to take aggressive path
ISLAMABAD, June 6: The government on Friday shut its doors for dialogue with the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and decided to take an aggressive stand against the opposition during the budget session, sources...
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JUI warns Centre of withdrawing support in Balochistan
LAHORE / ISLAMABAD, June 6: MMA secretary-general Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) will quit the coalition government in Balochistan if the Centre takes any action against...
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Mobilink fined Rs60m for poor service: Customers to get compensation
ISLAMABAD, June 6: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday slapped a fine of Rs60 million against a leading cellular company, Mobilink, for poor quality of service, with a direction to...
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Pakistan, US to sign trade agreement
WASHINGTON, June 6: The US and Pakistan are expected to sign a trade and investment framework agreement during President Pervez Musharraf’s forthcoming visit to the country, official sources told Dawn on...
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Karzai seeks aid to replace poppy crop
LONDON, June 6: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Friday he believed Osama bin Laden was probably alive and further attacks like those of Sept 11 could still occur, but he...
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Vajpayee says wars can’t solve disputes
PATNA, June 6: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Friday asked Pakistan to completely “remove the sword of terrorism” before talks could begin....
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Budget today
ISLAMABAD, June 6: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz is to present here on Saturday a Rs805 billion federal budget for 2003-04, that is to include a massive Rs185 billion outlay for social...
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New rules drafted for district govts
ISLAMABAD, June 6: The National Reconstruction Bureau has prepared a draft of new Rules of Business (RoB) for the district governments of the NWFP, and handed it over to the provincial...
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Khokhar-Sibal meeting next month likely
ISLAMABAD, June 6: Foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India, Riaz Khokhar and Kanwal Sibal, are likely to meet on the sidelines of an extraordinary session of the Saarc Standing Committee next...
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UN experts to check Iraq looting
BAGHDAD, June 6: United Nations nuclear experts returned to Iraq on Friday for the first time since the US-led invasion, to check on looting at a research facility that may have...
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Gwadar offers trade outlet for CARs: Naval chief
LAHORE, June 6: Global interests are now focussed on the Middle East and Asia with the primary concern of protecting economic interests in the form of a free flow of oil...
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Afghan troops on alert after battle
KANDAHAR, June 6: Afghan troops are on high alert in country’s restive south Friday after a major clash with suspected Taliban fighters that left 49 dead near the ousted militia’s former...
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