Shaukat to fight polls from Attock, Tharparkar
ISLAMABAD, July 1: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz will contest election for the National Assembly from two constituencies, one in Punjab and the other in Sindh.
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Portfolios still to be notified
ISLAMABAD, July 1: The cabinet division has not issued so far formal notifications about portfolios of 27 cabinet members who were sworn in on Wednesday, owing to differences over allotment of portfolios to two ministers from Fata.
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Senate session summoned
ISLAMABAD, July 1: President General Pervez Musharraf has summoned the Senate to meet in the Parliament House on Saturday, July 3, at 10am.According to statement issued here on Thursday from the Senate
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President, PM vow to stamp out terrorism
ISLAMABAD, July 1: President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Thursday vowed to stamp out extremism and terrorism and make all-out efforts for the maintenance of law and order for continued socio-economic progress of Pakistan.
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PM orders measures to check price of wheat
ISLAMABAD July 1: Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain reviewed on Thursday the wheat and flour situation in the country at a high-level meeting he chaired at the Prime Minister's House.
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Militants clash with security forces
WANA, July 1: Security forces and militants exchanged fire close to the Pakistan-Afghan border in the rugged South Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday. There were no reports of any casualties on either side, official and tribal sources said.
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Kasuri reaffirms desire for peace with India: Foreign ministers meet in Jakarta today
JAKARTA, July 1: Pakistan's new prime minister wants peace with India and in the past had even written to Sonia Gandhi, president of the ruling Congress party, Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri said on Thursday.
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Pakistan's ARF entry to boost security: official
JAKARTA, July 1: Pakistan's admission to the Asia-Pacific's only security forum on Friday is expected to ease tensions in South Asia over its rivalry with India, an official said on Thursday.
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Pakistan, China to hold talks on security issues
BEIJING, July 1: Interior Minister Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat will arrive in Beijing on Friday on a four-day official visit to China. He will meet senior officials of the Chinese government to discuss matters of bilateral interest.
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5 workers killed near Pakpattan
VEHARI, July 1: Five labourers were killed and four others injured when a cotton factory wall fell on them near Pakpattan, 120km from here, on Thursday.
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Afghan clash claims lives of four
KABUL, July 1: US and Afghan troops killed four Taliban fighters including Mullah Seddiqi, a local commander in the southern province of Zabul, provincial officials said on Thursday.
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Afghan candidate vows to accept Durand Line
PARIS, July 1: A candidate in Afghanistan's forthcoming presidential election said on Thursday he was prepared to recognize the controversial Durand treaty setting out the border between Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan.
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Defiant Saddam defends Kuwait invasion: Calls trial a theatre, Bush a 'criminal'
BAGHDAD, July 1: A defiant and unrepentant Saddam Hussein appeared before an Iraqi judge on Thursday, to hear a string of charges for which the former Iraqi president could face the death penalty.
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Saddam being denied fair trial, say his lawyers
AMMAN, July 1: A team of Western lawyers defending Saddam Hussein said on Thursday the former dictator was being denied a fair trial by being brought before an Iraqi court without a lawyer and without independent judges.
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Seven dead in Iraq post-handover strike
FALLUJAH, July 1: At least seven people were killed and 17 wounded in the first major US military strike in Iraq since the occupation ended, hospital sources said Thursday, and five others died in roadside blasts in the capital.
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Two killed in Gaza
JERICHO, July 1: Two Palestinians, including a nine-year-old boy, were killed by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as 35 suspected militants were detained in a major operation in the West Bank town of Jericho.
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Accused in Pakistani women's killing found dead
RIYADH, July 1: A Filipino man suspected to be involved in last week's murder of two Pakistani women in the Seder village residential compound in Riyadh has been found dead.
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Five die in Ingushetia
MOSCOW, July 1: Five people died on Thursday in fresh clashes in Ingushetia, a Russian province next to rebel Chechnya where nearly 100 people were killed last week in attacks.
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