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Aziz seeks flexibility on NFC issue
ISLAMABAD, March 3: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Thursday sought cooperation and flexibility from all the provinces for an early finalization of the National Finance Commission award.
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Kalabagh dam: opposition stages walkout
ISLAMABAD, March 3: Opposition parties walked out of the National Assembly on Thursday to protest against President Musharraf's stand in favour of building the Kalabagh dam, with one party threatening to seek his impeachment by parliament.
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Five-year plan sets Rs293bn for water sector
ISLAMABAD, March 3: The 'medium-term development framework (2005-10)' sets a target of Rs293 billion allocation for water sector to increase water availability to 150.35 million acre feet from the existing 135.68MAF.
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Rain, flood toll rises to 29
QUETTA, March 3: The death toll in different areas of Balochistan hit by rain and flood rose to 29 as reports of more casualties were received on Thursday, while many villages in the district of Gwadar were still flooded.
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Rail link to Iran hit by blast
QUETTA, March 3: Saboteurs blew up a railway line between Nushki and Ahmedwal, which links Quetta with the Iranian border town of Zahidan, and fired rockets on a PTCL microwave tower in the early hours of Thursday.
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Railway line damaged
DERA GHAZI KHAN, March 3: Saboteurs blew up the Multan-Quetta rail track near Kot Chutta station, 18km from here, on Thursday night. Police said the blast occurred at 8:50pm.
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Meerwala rape: five accused acquitted
MULTAN, March 3: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Thursday overturned the convictions of five of the six accused who had been sentenced to death for raping a woman in Meerwala.
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New Delhi to run trains for cricket fans
NEW DELHI, March 3: India will run special trains for Pakistani cricket fans who want to travel to Mohali to watch the first Test starting on March 8, it was officially announced on Thursday.
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Six killed in Iraq bomb blasts
BAGHDAD, March 3: Two suicide car bombs outside Iraq's interior ministry and another near a police station in Baquba killed six people on Thursday.
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US constantly after Osama, says Bush WASHINGTON, March 3: President George W. Bush on Thursday said the United States is constantly in pursuit of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his associate Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, head of the Iraqi branch of the group.
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Saudi Arabia urges 'rapid' Syrian pullout from Lebanon RIYADH, March 3: Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad On Thursday to pull his troops out of Lebanon "rapidly" in accordance with UN Security Council demands
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