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Road blockades hit NA session
ISLAMABAD, March 15: Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain adjourned the National Assembly proceedings 15 minutes after the house met on Tuesday as a majority of the members failed to reach the Parliament House due to road blockades
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PPP, PML-N to jointly contest LB polls: Zardari
DUBAI, March 15: The Pakistan People's Party will contest the forthcoming local bodies elections in collaboration with the Pakistan Muslim League-N, the other major opposition party.
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Rice to meet president, PM today
ISLAMABAD, March 15: Chief US diplomat Dr Condoleezza Rice, who is scheduled to arrive here on Wednesday, will hold meetings in the evening with President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
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Arrangements made for bus service: Kasuri
ISLAMABAD, March 15: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri has said that all arrangements for launching the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus service have been finalized. He, however, said it had not been decided who would inaugurate the service.
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4 accused in Mukhtar Mai case released
DERA GHAZI KHAN, March 15: Four of the five men convicted in the Mukhtar Mai rape case but acquitted by the Multan bench of the Lahore High Court were released by the Central Jail authorities here on Tuesday.
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Omar Kureishi laid to rest
KARACHI, March 15: Eminent sports writer, cricket commentator and Dawn columnist Omar Kureishi, who died on Monday, was laid to rest at the Gizri Graveyard here on Tuesday.
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'Forces had chance to capture Osama'
ISLAMABAD, March 15: Pakistani forces had their best chance of capturing Osama bin Laden last year, but they lost the trail, President Pervez Musharraf has told the BBC.
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Nappy bag of Musharraf's grandson causes alarm
ISLAMABAD, March 15: President General Pervez Musharraf's son Bilal Musharraf was stopped and made to miss his flight at San Francisco Airport last week for a unique suspicion.
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Enough water for Kharif
ISLAMABAD, March 15: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) on Tuesday unanimously accepted Wapda's operation schedule of dams for construction requirements of Mangla Dam
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Petrol price increased by Rs1.57
KARACHI, March 15: The Oil Companies Advisory Committee (Ocac) has increased the petrol price by Rs1.57 to Rs45.53 from Rs43.96 a litre, while Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) have raised the high speed diesel (HSD) price by 85 paisa
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New mobile phone service
ISLAMABAD, March 15: Norwegian telecom operator Telenor launched a mobile telephone service in Pakistan on Tuesday, becoming the fifth entrant to the country's thriving but fiercely competitive cellular market.
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589 Indian prisoners to be freed
ISLAMABAD, March 15: The government has issued release orders on Tuesday for 589 Indian prisoners as a gesture of goodwill towards New Delhi, an official statement said.
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Agenda for talks being worked out
NEW DELHI, March 15: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has expressed his inability to make it to the southern Indian port city of Kochi to watch the first India-Pakistan one-day international (ODI) on April 2
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Rice arrives in Delhi to explore Bush's visit
NEW DELHI, March 15: US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice arrived here on Tuesday to explore a likely visit to South Asia later this year by President George W. Bush, her agenda including India-Pakistan relations
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
MUSCAT, March 15: Pakistan and Oman on Tuesday agreed on the need to enhance their bilateral relations in all fields after talks between Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
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