PML to guide govt: Shujaat
ISLAMABAD, May 14: Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Friday that the party would give guidelines to the government in matters pertaining to the expansion of the cabinet and formulation of its policies.
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112 judges and magistrates quit in Lahore
LAHORE, May 14: The ongoing bench-bar conflict took a new turn on Friday when the 112 members of the subordinate judiciary resigned from their offices against what they called lawyers' 'high-handedness'.
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C'wealth to discuss Pakistan's re-entry
LONDON, May 14: A meeting of Commonwealth countries next week will consider readmitting Pakistan to the 53-nation group. A lifting of the suspension, imposed in 1999 after President Pervez Musharraf seized power
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Washington stays out of deportation row
WASHINGTON, May 14: The US administration wants to stay out of the dispute involving Shahbaz Sharif's deportation to Saudi Arabia and treats it as Pakistan's internal matter, diplomatic sources told Dawn on Friday.
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Stalemate continues over foreigners' registration
WANA, May 14: Negotiations to work out modalities for registration of foreigners in the volatile South Waziristan tribal region again hit snags when a tribal militant refused to agree to terms set by the government.
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Karachi mosque bomber 'identified'
KARACHI, May 14: Police on Friday claimed to have achieved a breakthrough in the investigation into the May 7 Hyderi Mosque bomb explosion which left 19 people dead and 91 injured.
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Five of a family shot dead in Lahore: Over a dozen protesters held after violence
LAHORE, May 14: Five members of a family, including an infant, and their maid were found murdered in their house-cum-school at Lal Pull in the city's Mughalpura area on Friday.
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Team leaves for Iran
CHAGAI, May 14: A delegation of Pakistan left for Iran on Friday to attend joint border commission meeting in Zahidan, official sources here said.
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FM to discuss Indian poll results in US
WASHINGTON, May 14: Pakistan will share its assessment of the Indian elections with senior US officials when Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri meets them in Washington next week, officials said.
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Poll verdict in Gujarat strengthens Sonia
NEW DELHI, May 14: The memories of Gujarat's anti-Muslim pogrom emerged as the essential glue to cobble together a disparate coalition in India on Friday
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US, UK say India to remain key ally
NEW DELHI, May 14: The United States and Britain on Friday expressed their support for India's new government, likely to be headed by the Congress party, as London asserted that New Delhi would remain its key strategic ally.
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US troops battle militiamen in Najaf, Karbala: Sadr urges followers to fight on
KARBALA/NAJAF, May 14: At least 10 people were killed on Friday in fierce clashes between United States troops and Mehdi Army in Najaf and Karbala, as Moqtada Sadr remained defiant and urged his followers to fight on.
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Allies to leave Iraq if asked: Powell
WASHINGTON, May 14: The United States, Britain, Italy and Japan would pull their troops out of Iraq if the new interim authority that takes control after June 30 says they should, foreign ministers of the four countries said on Friday.
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OIC panel condemns prisoners' abuse
JEDDAH, May 14: Senior officials from the Muslim countries have condemned the barbaric and inhuman abuse of Iraqi detainees by the US forces.
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Israeli army demolishes Rafah homes
GAZA, May 14: Israeli army forces backed by dozens of tanks, bulldozers and armoured personnel carriers as well as support of Apache helicopters, intensified their operations in the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip on Friday
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Spain arrests 5 Al Qaeda suspects
MADRID, May 14: Spanish police said on Friday that they had arrested five suspected members of the Al Qaeda terrorist network in different parts of the country.
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