NA speaker agrees to discuss calling Hashmi to session
ISLAMABAD, March 29: National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain, responding to continuing opposition protests, on Monday agreed to discuss in an advisory committee whether to call the arrested president of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, Javed Hashmi, to the lower house.
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Opposition submits nine adjournment motions in Senate
ISLAMABAD, March 29: Members of the opposition Democratic Alliance have submitted a heavy agenda to the Senate Secretariat comprising a number of adjournment motions, resolutions and call attention notices for the next session, sources told Dawn here on Monday.
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CEC extends voter lists revision date
ISLAMABAD, March 29: The chief election commissioner on Monday extended the last date for revision of electoral rolls to April 30. An EC announcement said that the application for deletion and correction of electoral rolls could be made on a prescribed form to the revising authorities.
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PM vows to root out terrorism
SUKKUR, March 29: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said that the Wana operation has not been stopped; it has been suspended for the time being. He said that the operation would continue till the elimination of all terrorists from the area.
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Musharraf dismisses reports of deal as humbug
WASHINGTON, March 29: President General Pervez Musharraf has made it categorically clear that there is no deal on the Khan network and the operation against Al Qaeda operatives in tribal areas. "This is all humbug. There is just no deal, "Gen Musharraf told the ABC.
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Al Qaeda chief spy among dead: 166 captured in operation - ISPR
ISLAMABAD, March 29: Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan, Director-General of the Inter-Services Public Relations, confirmed here on Monday that the chief of the Al Qaeda intelligence network, Abdullah, had been killed in the recent operation
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NFC: Jamali may intervene
KARACHI, March 29: The National Finance Commission (NFC) will meet again in Islamabad some time in mid-April after its two-day session beginning from Tuesday in Quetta
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Water distribution on basis of historical use
ISLAMABAD, March 29: With estimates of about five per cent average water shortage during Kharif season, the Indus River System (Irsa) is expected to distribute water among provinces on historical use basis, Dawn has learnt.
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'FMs will strengthen peace process'
ISLAMABAD, March 29: Pakistan on Monday confidently hoped that the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan in their first scheduled formal contact under the January 6 Indo-Pakistan Islamabad Summit agreement
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Pakistan to finalize bus service talks strategy this week
ISLAMABAD, March 29: Pakistan will finalize its strategy for the forthcoming talks with India on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service later this week, Dawn learnt through well-placed sources on Monday.
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APHC working for acceptable solution: Bhat
ISLAMABAD, March 29: Former Chairman, All Parties Hurriyat Conference, (APHC), Abdul Ghani Bhat on Monday said the organization is struggling for an acceptable solution of Kashmir dispute and not for elections or power.
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Kashmir blocking road to peace, says envoy
NEW DELHI, March 29: Rigid positions and stereotyped arguments over disputes such as Kashmir are blocking India's land access to Central Asia via Pakistan and the flow of its oil and gas to India
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India twice test-fires Akash missiles
BHUBANESWAR, March 29: India on Monday twice test-fired medium range surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles within two minutes of each other from a site in the eastern state of Orissa, a defence official said.
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29 die in Jammu bus accident
JAMMU, March 29: At least 29 people were killed and 17 injured on Monday when a bus rolled down a deep gorge in held Kashmir, police said. The driver lost control of the bus near Bracher village, 240 kilometres northwest of Jammu
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Uzbekistan violence claims 19 lives
TASHKENT, March 29: At least 19 people were killed in a series of explosions and shootouts in Uzbekistan in attacks apparently aimed at splitting the US-led coalition in the "war against terrorism", officials said on Monday.
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Peter Ustinov dies at 82
GENEVA, March 29: Oscar-winning British actor and playwright Peter Ustinov, one of the world's best loved raconteurs and mimics, has died at the age of 82.
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