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MMA's top leadership meets today
ISLAMABAD, Jan 1: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) will hold a convention of its supreme council here on Sunday. It will be the first such meeting after Gen Pervez Musharraf formally announced to simultaneously retain offices of the president and chief of army staff.
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Asif says he'll return to Pakistan
DUBAI, Jan 1: The husband of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has vowed that nothing will stop him returning to his homeland following his release after eight years in jail, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
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2 Pakistan Navy ships, C-130s to join rescue work
ISLAMABAD, Jan 1: Pakistan will dispatch on Monday two navy ships to Sri Lanka to help in rescue operations there and also fly two C-130 cargo planes with relief goods and medical supplies to Indonesia that has been worst hit by the Tsunami disaster.
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Ten killed in heavy rain, snowfall
PESHAWAR, Jan 1: At least 10 people were killed on Saturday, six of them from the same family, as heavy rains continue to lash several areas of the country for the past three days, officials said.
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15 die as rain, snowfall wreak havoc in Balochistan
QUETTA, Jan 1: At least 15 people, including four women, were killed in Balochistan during the past 48 hours because of the combined effects of cold, rain, snowfall and flash floods.
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4 of a family die of asphyxiation
QUETTA, Jan 1: Four persons of a family died of gas suffocation here on Saturday. "Asphyxiation victims include a woman and her three children in the Tin Town area of Tareen Road," police said, adding that head of the family was found unconscious in his bedroom.
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LB election in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Jan 1: Indian authorities announced on Saturday that municipal elections, the first in 25 years, will be held next month in insurgency-hit Kashmir.
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Violence greets Iraq's new year
BAGHDAD, Jan 1: Iraq's insurgency began the new year by claiming the lives of at least seven Iraqis and one US marine, with elections less than a month away and no end in sight to the violence.
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Iran's polls set for June 17
TEHRAN, Jan 1: The date for Iran's presidential elections has been fixed for Friday June 17, state media reported on Saturday. The date was approved by the Guardians Council.
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Diseases threaten survivors: WHO
GENEVA, Jan 1: The first signs of potentially deadly diseases are threatening survivors in areas hit by killer tidal waves in Asia, the World Health Organisation said on Saturday.
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World aid soars to $2bn for victims
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 1: Japan on Saturday donated $ 500 million, highest single pledge for the aid and rehabilitation of the tsunami disaster victims in South and South-East Asia, a United Nations official said.
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Tsunami death toll likely to cross 150,000
BANDA ACEH, Jan 1: A legion of ships and planes delivered aid to millions of Asian tsunami survivors on Saturday as New Year celebrations around the world paused to mourn victims of one of the worst disasters in living memory.
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Quake may hit Assam: US agency
WASHINGTON, Jan 1: A US-based agency reported on Saturday that aftershocks of last week's quake off Sumatra are moving northwards Assam and may cause a big quake there.
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Strong quake rocks Sumatra
JAKARTA, Jan 1: A large earthquake struck under the sea off Indonesia's Sumatra Islands on Saturday afternoon, seismologists said.
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