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MMA warns Musharraf of joint struggle
ISLAMABAD Jan 2: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Sunday demanded that Gen Pervez Musharraf should quit the offices of president and the chief of army staff. Otherwise, it warned, he would face "a strong and joint opposition movement".
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MMA ready to re-open debate on amendment
ISLAMABAD, Jan 2: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal is ready to negotiate with the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy to workout a plan for struggle for restoration of 1973 Constitution
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ARD lashes out at military's role
SUKKUR, Jan 2: Leaders of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy have reiterated their commitment to end the role of armed forces in politics which, they said, had been harming the country since its inception.
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Rs50m uplift package for Hub unveiled
QUETTA, Jan 2: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday announced a Rs50 million development package for Hub, the only industrial town of Balochistan.
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Tarbela discharge stopped
ISLAMABAD, Jan 2: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) stopped on Sunday water releases from Tarbela on an emergency basis, owing to technical constraints at Chashma and Sukkur barrages
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Ex-MNA, three aides shot dead
GUJRAT, Jan 2: Former MNA Syed Manzoor Hussain Shah and his three aides were shot dead by unidentified assailants in an ambush on the GT Road near Theekarian Morr on Sunday.
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Two Turk Al Qaeda suspects extradited
ANKARA, Jan 2: Pakistan on Sunday extradited two Turks suspected of links to the Al Qaeda network who were immediately arrested and charged by Turkish authorities, the Anatolia news agency reported.
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US drone crashes in tribal area
PESHAWAR, Jan 2: An unmanned US surveillance plane crashed near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan in the rugged tribal terrain of North Waziristan, officials said on Sunday.
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268 Indian fishermen released
KARACHI, Jan 2: Pakistan released 268 Indian fishermen on Sunday who had been languishing in jails for the last one year for illegally fishing in Pakistani waters, officials said.
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Nine killed in flash flood
MIANWALI, Jan 2: Flash flood claimed nine lives in Kundal area, 65 kilometres from here on Sunday afternoon. Reports reaching said that the torrent was caused by heavy rains on the surrounding Isakhel hills.
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US soldier killed near Herat
KABUL, Jan 2: A US soldier and an Afghan citizen were killed early Sunday in a gun battle in western Afghanistan's Shind and district near the city of Herat, a US military spokesman said.
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26 Iraqi guards killed in bus blast
BAGHDAD, Jan 2: Suicide car bombers hit a bus packed with Iraqi National Guards on Sunday, killing 26 people in the deadliest attack of its kind in four months on Iraqis cooperating with US forces to secure a Jan 30 election.
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Israeli troops storm Gaza
JABALIYA, Jan 2: Israeli troops poured into the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday in a bid to halt rocket attacks by Palestinian militants who were rebuked for their tactics by presidential election favourite Mahmud Abbas.
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UN urges food aid for 1.8m survivors: Tsunami disaster UNITED NATIONS, Jan 2: The number of survivors in need of food aid after the Indian Ocean tsunami has soared to 1.8 million people stretching from Somalia to Thailand, and the figure could rise further, the United Nations said on Sunday.
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Thousands of Americans still missing, says Powell
WASHINGTON, Jan 2: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday he did not expect large US casualties from the Indian Ocean tsunami although "there are a lot of Americans we haven't heard from".
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