Jamali resigns, nominates Shujaat as prime minister: •Shaukat to be next PM •Special NA session on Tuesday
ISLAMABAD, June 26: Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has stepped down as prime minister of Pakistan, dissolved his cabinet and nominated the ruling Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain as his interim successor.
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Shujaat to file papers on 29th
ISLAMABAD, June 26: A special session of the National Assembly will be held on Tuesday evening to elect the new prime minister, sources told Dawn on Saturday.
Under the constitution, the sources said, a member of the National Assembly could become prime minister only through an election. Thus, prime minister-designate Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain will have to contest an election in the National Assembly before assuming the charge of the office.
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Political setup not acceptable to mly: NSC fails to ensure stability: PPP
ISLAMABAD, June 26: The People's Party Parliamentarians will finalize its future strategy at a meeting here on Sunday evening in the wake of the political situation
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MMA leaders discuss situation
LAHORE, June 26: The MMA has started consultations to frame its policy in the emerging situation after resignation by Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali as the prime minister.
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'US looks forward to working with new govt'
WASHINGTON, June 26: The United States said on Saturday that it looked forward to "working closely" with the new government on a variety of issues, including terrorism.
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Fazl sent back from Karachi
KARACHI, June 26: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and MMA Secretary-General Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who arrived in Karachi on Saturday evening by a PIA flight, was sent back to Islamabad on board an Aero Asia flight.
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MQM criticizes delay in tabling of bills: Hudood, women's rights laws
ISLAMABAD, June 26: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has apprised President Gen Pervez Musharraf about its concern over what it termed "unnecessary" delay in the tabling of five bills
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PML-N leader shot dead in Lahore
LAHORE, June 26: Punjab PML-N vice-president and former provincial minister Pir Binyamin Rizvi was shot dead along with his driver and guard by unknown gunmen near the New Campus bridge here on Saturday.
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Khokhar in Delhi for talks
NEW DELHI, June 26: India and Pakistan said on Saturday they were approaching foreign secretary-level talks with sincerity, with both sides saying they were coming with concrete ideas to take the peace process forward.
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12 shot dead in Valley
SRINAGAR, June 26: Unidentified men shot dead 12 people in occupied Kashmir on Friday, two days before Pakistan-India talks expected to take up the Kashmir dispute.
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Taliban kill 2 women election workers
JALALABAD, June 26: A bomb killed two women working for the UN-Afghan electoral body and wounded nine female poll workers and two children on Saturday, in one of the worst attacks yet on preparations for the elections.
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US wins EU backing for new Iraq leaders
ENNIS, June 26: US President George Bush on Saturday won the European Union's unconditional backing for Iraq's new leaders just four days before they take power, as well as its support for NATO to train the fledgling Iraqi security forces.
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Car bomb claims 17 lives
BAGHDAD June 26: At least 17 people were killed and 40 wounded in Hilla on Saturday as a powerful car bomb ripped through the centre of the Iraqi city.
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6 Palestinians die in Israeli attack
NABLUS, June 26: The West Bank leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a key militant group, and five other Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army during a raid in Nablus on Saturday.
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