PML comittees for departments soon
KARACHI, July 8: The Pakistan Muslim League will form committees at the federal and provincial levels to recommend solutions to the problems of each department. Up to 80 per cent of the members of these committees would be workers and party leaders, he said.
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PPP, PML-N discuss plan for by-election: ARD may name Attock candidate tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, July 8: The leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and the People's Party Parliamentarians met here on Thursday in an effort to resolve differences and finalize a joint candidate for the by-election in Attock against Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz.
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14 file papers to face Aziz in Attock
ATTOCK, July 8: Ten candidates from the opposition parties and four independents have filed nomination papers to contest the by-polls from NA-59 Attock-III
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Nine candidates for Tharparkar by-election
MITHI, July 8: Nine candidates have filed nomination papers for the August 18 by-election for National Assembly's NA-229 Tharparkar-I seat.
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Ministers' portfolios announced
KARACHI, July 8: The Sindh government notified on Thursday the portfolios of 12 ministers who were inducted last week into the Arbab Ghulam Rahim cabinet.
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Islamabad, Baku sign four accords: Support pledged for Kashmir, Karabakh
BAKU, July 8: President Pervez Musharraf, on the first day of his state visit to the Muslim former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, said on Thursday that the two countries had agreed to work together on issues including the Kashmir dispute
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Kasuri in Moscow
MOSCOW, July 8: Foreign Minister Khurshid M. Kasuri arrived here on Thursday at the start of an official visit to Russia. He was received at the Sheremetyevo airport by third director of the Asia Department Gleb. A. Ivashentsov
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UK, Saudi missions reopen
ISLAMABAD, July 8: The British High Commission here and the Saudi Arabian consulate in Karachi reopened on Thursday after closing down following threats of attack.
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SC urged to hear plea on N. Areas people's rights
ISLAMABAD, July 8: The Supreme Court has been urged to hear on an urgent basis a petition regarding the protection of the fundamental rights of the people of Northern Areas.
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Contaminated water claims five lives
QUETTA, July 8: At least five people, including three women, have died after drinking contaminated water in a village in Wadh tehsil. "Five people died after using contaminated rainwater gathered in a pond and 50 other villagers fell ill," a local doctor said in Wadh on Thursday.
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Pakistan terms raise unusual: Indian defence budget
ISLAMABAD, July 8: Pakistan has said that the "unusual" increase in India's defence budget is not a matter of concern and that it is obliged to upgrade its capabilities to address the existing asymmetry in the conventional field.
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New Delhi allocates funds for Baglihar dam
NEW DELHI, July 8: Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday allocated special funds for the controversial Baglihar hydroelectric dam in occupied Kashmir, but Pakistani officials said they were not opposed to the project, only to its design.
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India increases defence budget by 23pc
NEW DELHI, July 8: India announced a Rs770 billion defence budget on Thursday, a whopping 23 per cent increase from the previous year chiefly representing some Pakistan-specific acquisitions and proposed modernization.
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Afghan intelligence officials talk to Mullah Omar
KABUL, July 8: Afghan intelligence agents have talked to Taliban founder Mullah Mohammed Omar after commandeering a satellite phone being used by his top aide, an official claimed on Thursday.
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Five US troops die in Iraq attacks
BAGHDAD, July 8: Guerillas killed five US soldiers and two Iraqi guards in a mortar attack on National Guard headquarters in Samarra, north of Baghdad, on Thursday.
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US fears massive Al Qaeda attack
WASHINGTON, July 8: Al Qaeda is planning a large-scale terrorist attack on the United States in an "effort to disrupt our democratic process," Secretary of the Homeland Security Tom Ridge warned on Thursday.
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Brother of slain American visits Zarqawi hometown
AMMAN, July 8: The ailing brother of an American beheaded last month in Saudi Arabia and a US-based peace activist travelled on Thursday to the family home in Jordan of suspected Al Qaeda operative Abu Mussab Zarqawi.
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Guantanamo prisoners may contest detention
WASHINGTON, July 8: Prisoners held at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will get a hearing in a military court to determine their status as early as next week but they will not be allowed lawyers and military officers representing them need not have legal training
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IAEA expects talks with Israel on N-free zone
JERUSALEM, July 8: UN nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei said he had won a promise from Israel on Thursday to consider discuss establishing a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East.
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Israelis kill seven Palestinians in clashes
BEIT HANUN, July 8: Seven Palestinians were shot dead and six Israeli troops wounded, including two colonels, during a major flare-up in violence in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
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