Senate prorogued amid controversy
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: While being abroad, President Pervez Musharraf prorogued the Senate on Friday, sparking a new controversy over powers of the acting president and adding a new element to the mystery surrounding the assumption of charge by Mohammadmian Soomro four days ago.
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Boldness needed for peace in region: No official involvement in N-tech transfer: Musharraf
DAVOS, Jan 23: President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday that talks with India over the long-disputed Kashmir region would progress only if both sides were bold.
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No 'invisible hand' in operations: FM
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri rejected an opposition charge in the Senate on Friday that there was "an invisible hand" behind the government's anti-terrorism operation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
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Court bars KRL men's shifting
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: The Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court on Friday directed the federal government that serving and retired officials of the Khan Research Laboratories (KRL), who are in government custody for debriefing, should not be taken out of the court's jurisdiction.
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Lawyers demand release of scientists
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: The lawyers of the country observed a partial strike on Friday to express solidarity with nuclear scientists who have been taken into custody on the pretext of "debriefing," and demanded their immediate release.
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Differences in Sindh coalition resolved
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: Differences in the ruling coalition of Sindh were apparently resolved here on Friday at a meeting in the Prime Minister's Secretariat
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No change in policy on Israel: FO
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: Pakistan on Friday said that President Gen Pervez Musharraf's 'chance' meeting with former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres at Davos on Thursday should not be seen as a change in the country's policy towards Israel.
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'Security problems hit exploration work'
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: Petroleum and Natural Resources Minister Noraiz Shakoor Khan on Friday said the biggest hurdle in the way of exploiting Balochistan's natural resources was the fragile security conditions in that province.
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Rs30bn uplift schemes to be approved today
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: The ministry of water and power will undertake two major energy projects, one in Punjab and the other in Balochistan at a cost of Rs10.5 billion.
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Cracks emerge in Sukkur barrage
SUKKUR, Jan 23: Cracks have developed in the structure of Sukkur barrage, the largest system of irrigation in the world and the backbone of the country's agriculture.
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Hurriyat leaders back Vajpayee's initiative
NEW DELHI, Jan 23: All Parties Hurriyat Conference leaders met Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee for the first time on Friday and assured him they backed his bid to resolve the Kashmir dispute and make peace with Pakistan.
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India test-fires Prithvi missile
NEW DELHI, Jan 23: India on Friday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Prithvi missile, as part of a regular series of trials of domestically designed and produced weapons.
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50 die in Indian wedding inferno
CHENNAI, Jan 23: At least 50 people died on Friday when fire swept through a wedding hall, turning the building into an inferno, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, police said.
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US invites Brahimi
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 23: The Bush administration invited UN Secretary-General Special Adviser Lakhdar Brahimi to Washington on Thursday to discuss the role the world body could play in helping it in returning Iraq to self rule, officials said.
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Guardian Council to review 'mistakes'
TEHRAN, Jan 23: Iranian Guardian Council chief Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said on Friday that it was willing to reverse any "mistakes" made when it banned thousands of liberal candidates from running in parliamentary elections.
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Chicken flu takes human toll in Thailand
BANGKOK, Jan 23: A Thai man suspected of having bird flu has died in hospital, his doctor said on Friday, adding that tests were underway to determine whether he was infected with the disease which is sweeping Asia.
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