Eid Milad being celebrated today
ISLAMABAD, May 2: Eid Milad-un-Nabi (peace be upon him) will be celebrated with traditional zeal throughout the country on Monday.Processions will be taken out and Naatia programmes and Quran Khwani will be organized across the country.
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Call to fight evils of terrorism, sectarianism
ISLAMABAD, May 2: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has asked the nation to fight the evils of terrorism and sectarianism and to work for eliminating negative propaganda against Islam by highlighting its true spirit.
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Five PML factions, SDA agree to unite
ISLAMABAD, May 2: Five factions of Pakistan Muslim League and the Sindh Democratic Alliance on Sunday approved a unification plan and a new draft party constitution.
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Fahim foresees IJI-type alliance for snap polls
LAHORE, May 2: ARD chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim described on Sunday a planned merger of various factions of the PML and the National Alliance as an attempt to form another IJI-like coalition to counter opposition forces
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40 PML-N activists arrested in raids
LAHORE, May 2: Police are reported to have arrested over 40 PML-N leaders and workers and raided residences of many others as the ARD said on Sunday that all components of the alliance would jointly receive Mian Shahbaz Sharif
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Tribesmen asked to furnish guarantees
WANA, May 2: Authorities in the rugged South Waziristan tribal region have announced that tribesmen sheltering foreign militants could furnish guarantees about their future good conduct to facilitate their registration with the government.
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Guantanamo prisoners: largest group from Karachi
WASHINGTON, May 2: Among the Pakistanis imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, the largest group is from Karachi, and students of the city's Binori madressah outnumber others, diplomatic and US sources told Dawn.
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Gas supply affected after rocket attack
JACOBABAD, May 2: A rocket attack reported to have been carried out by a 'group of 15 miscreants' damaged a 20-inch diameter gas pipeline near the village of Hajano in the Tangwani area on Sunday.
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Abuse decried
ISLAMABAD, May 2: Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan on Sunday expressed his sense of shock at the treatment meted out to Iraqi prisoners. "We are horrified to see these shocking images," he said. -APP
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Nepra seeks advice on hydel profit
ISLAMABAD, May 2: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has sought policy guidelines from the federal government over net hydel profit to Punjab, Azad Kashmir and the NWFP on electricity generated in their respective areas
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Nine slain by police were not outlaws, say villagers
SUKKUR/MULTAN, May 2: At the intervention of the Deputy Speaker of Punjab Assembly, Mr Shoukat Mazari, the Rajanpur police handed over to relatives the bodies of nine Mazari tribesmen who had been killed on Saturday
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Congress criticizes Vajpayee for 'memory lapse'
NEW DELHI, May 2: Imagine President Gen Pervez Musharraf's plight if Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee simply forgets all about the commitments he might have made to him?
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34 die in Afghanistan gas tanker explosion
KABUL, May 2: At least 34 people died and scores more sustained severe burns on Sunday when a gas tanker exploded on a crucial road linking southern and north-western Afghanistan, officials said.
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US troops kill 3 Afghan policemen
KABUL May 2: Three police officers died in a gun battle with troops on patrol from a US military base in eastern Afghanistan after a mix-up at a checkpoint, police said on Sunday.
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Nine US troops killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 2: The US-led coalition faced continuing outrage on Sunday over reported abuse of Iraqi prisoners at its jails, as 11 more soldiers, including nine Americans, were killed in less than 24 hours
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US has failed in Iraq, says Bashar
DAMASCUS, May 2: The US occupying force in Iraq has not liberated the country and has failed to bring the promised peace and democracy, Syrian President Bashar Al Assad said in an interview aired Saturday
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'UK will send 4,000 troops to Iraq'
LONDON, May 2: Up to 4,000 troops are to be sent to Iraq to take control of the Shia holy city of Najaf in the largest expansion of British forces in the country since the end of the war, a British newspaper said on Sunday.
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Israelis kill four Palestinians
NABLUS, May 2: Four Palestinian were killed on Sunday in an Israeli air raid in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, security sources on both sides said.
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Likud party rejects pullout plan
JERUSALEM, May 2: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected his plan to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip, according to exit polls.
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Saudi Arabia denies report about corpse dragging
RIYADH, May 2: A Saudi official announcement has categorically denied a report that the corpses of an American, and another person killed in Yanbu incident on Saturday were dragged on the street.
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