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Pakistan to go for neutral experts: Baglihar dam dispute
NEW DELHI, Jan 7: Pakistan said on Friday it would seek neutral experts, as prescribed by the Indus Water Treaty with India, to resolve differences with New Delhi over the Baglihar dam project on River Chenab
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MMA starts second phase of movement
ISLAMABAD Jan 7: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Friday launched the second phase of its protest campaign against President Pervez Musharraf's decision to retain the office of the army chief.
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Shahbaz due in US after Eidul Azha
WASHINGTON, Jan 7: Former Punjab chief minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif will come to New York soon after Eidul Adha, PML-N sources told Dawn in Washington.
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Committee on religion column fails to reach consensus
ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: The ministerial sub-committee on religion column in machine-readable passports met here on Friday and discussed the issue of religion column in new passports but failed to reach a consensus in this regard.
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ADB offers assistance for new projects
ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to offer $400 million new assistance to Pakistan to help undertake bigger infrastructure development projects including 'the Karachi Mega City Renewal Project'.
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Irsa reduces water shortage estimates
ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) on Friday provisionally reduced the water shortage estimates from the original 47 per cent to 40pc for the Rabi season owing to recent rains in the country.
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Sub-standard flour being supplied across country
ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: The supply of substandard wheat flour to consumers has been continuing across the country for the past few weeks because of shortfall in the supply of wheat to millers.
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Sui gas pipeline blown up
QUETTA, Jan 7: At least two people, a Frontier Corps soldier and a civilian girl, were killed and many others injured when a gas pipeline blew up and caught fire during a gun battle between armed men
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4 members of a family die of suffocation
LAHORE, Jan 7: Four members of a family died of suffocation at the PCSIR Colony in Hanjarwal on Friday. Abdul Wahid told police that his maid Allah Rakhi, 30, lived in the servant quarter of his house along with her husband
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Three killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Jan 7: Three people were killed and five others injured on Friday when militants attacked the income tax office in Srinagar.
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Nine US troops die in Baghdad attack: Pentagon move to review Iraq strategy
BAGHDAD, Jan 7: The Pentagon has ordered a top-level review of its strategy in Iraq as nine US troops were reported killed on Friday and US President George W. Bush voices hope for a strong turnout in elections barely three weeks away.
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Abbas vows to strive for Al Quds freedom
BIR NABALA, Jan 7: Mahmoud Abbas cancelled an election rally in Jerusalem on Friday, objecting to an Israeli security presence, but vowed Palestinians would go there one day "as free people in their millions".
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Zoellick to be Rice's deputy
WASHINGTON, Jan 7: President George Bush announced on Friday he had chosen US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick as deputy to secretary of state-designate Condoleezza Rice.
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US Marines land in Aceh
BANDA ACEH, Jan 7: A vanguard squad of US Marines landed in Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh province on Friday to prepare for a major deployment to reinforce a huge US military relief operation in the region.
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Indonesia tsunami toll tops 101,000: Annan horrified at destruction
BANDA ACEH, Jan 7: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan flew over the tsunami-ravaged landscape of Indonesia's Aceh province on Friday and wondered: "Where are the people?" as Jakarta raised its death toll by thousands.
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