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Opposition senators walk out of meeting: Protest against official's absence
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: Opposition members on Thursday walked out of a meeting of a Senate committee after an exchange of hot words with Law Minister Wasi Zafar over the absence of National Accountability Bureau Chairman Lt-Gen Munir Hafiz from the proceedings.
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ARD meeting now on 12th
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: The meeting of the heads of the component parties of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy scheduled to be held in Lahore on January 11 has been postponed for one day, says ARD Secretary General Iqbal Zafar Jhagra.
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Aziz calls for steps to pre-empt disasters
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: Alarmed by the worst human catastrophe in several South and South East Asian countries due to tsunami, the government has decided to carry out an exercise to evolve an early warning system to pre-empt
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Commanders discuss security issues
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: A meeting of military commanders held at the GHQ on Thursday reviewed the internal and external security situation. President Gen Pervez Musharraf presided over the meeting.
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Water system fails to record correct data
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: The telemetry system installed at a cost of Rs33 million on dams, discharge points and flows in rivers has been facing problems in providing authentic data about the water situation, it is learnt.
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Railways earns Rs927m profit
RAWALPINDI, Jan 6: The Pakistan Railways earned a profit of Rs927 million during the first half of the fiscal year 2004-05.
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US Congress team to visit Pakistan
WASHINGTON, Jan 6: A five-member congressional delegation is leaving for Pakistan next week for talks on bilateral relations. Sources at the US Congress said that the delegation would be in Pakistan from Jan 15 to 17.
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266 Indian fishermen return home
LAHORE, Jan 6: Pakistan on Thursday repatriated 266 Indian fishermen via the Wagah border crossing.The fishermen were caught on the charge of illegally entering the Pakistani waters.
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Baglihar dam talks collapse: Reservations not addressed: Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Jan 6: Talks between India and Pakistan over the disputed Baglihar dam project ended inconclusively here on Thursday, leaving the way open for the issue to be referred by Islamabad to the World Bank for arbitration
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Avalanche kills 4 Indian troops
SRINAGAR, Jan 6: Four Indian soldiers were found dead on Thursday after being reported as missing since a snow avalanche last weekend in the occupied Kashmir, a police spokesman said.
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Australian claims to have been tortured
SYDNEY, Jan 6: An Australian held by the United States in Guantanamo Bay has claimed he was tortured during interrogation in Egypt and abused while in US custody in Pakistan, his lawyers said on Thursday.
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Bodies of 18 workers found in Mosul
BAGHDAD, Jan 6: The bodies of 18 Iraqis lured by promises of lucrative work from a Shia neighbourhood in Baghdad to Mosul were found on Wednesday in the northern city, an interior ministry source said.
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Abbas cancels Jerusalem trip
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan 6: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, a frontrunner for the Jan. 9 presidential election, has cancelled plans for a campaign appearance in Arab East Jerusalem, a Palestinian official said on Thursday.
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IAEA probes Egypt for nuclear experiments
VIENNA, Jan 6: The UN nuclear watchdog is investigating Egypt for small, undeclared nuclear experiments that could be related to atomic weapons development, diplomats said.
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150,000 at extreme risk, says UN: Tsunami devastation
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 6: With aid pledges for the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami already nearing $4 billion, the United Nations health agency warned that 150,000 people were at 'extreme risk' of dying from preventable diseases
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Annan for rapid tsunami aid
JAKARTA, Jan 6: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan made an impassioned appeal on Thursday for nearly a billion dollars of immediate aid for countries stricken by the Asian tsunami disaster
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Oil-rich OIC states urged to come up with more aid
KUALA LUMPUR/ DUBAI, Jan 6: The opposition has urged Malaysia, current chairman of the OIC, to call an emergency meeting to push members to contribute to $2 billion dollars from its oil-rich members
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