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Govt suffers defeat in NA
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The government was defeated in the National Assembly in a vote-count on Wednesday, although Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain tried to bail it out by delaying the count.
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Lawmakers in NA unite on privilege motion
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The opposition and the treasury members on Wednesday joined hands to table a motion on breach of their privilege at the hands of security agencies who had blocked their way
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Musharraf seeks US support for Kashmir process
ISLAMABAD, March 16: President General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday urged the United States to support efforts aimed at resolving the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in keeping with the aspirations of the Kashmiri people. During a meeting with the visiting US Secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice, he underscored that normalization in the region would not be possible without the settlement of the core dispute between Pakistan and India.
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Masood elected ILO body chief
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations in Geneva, Masood Khan, was elected chairman of the Committee on Employment and Social Policy of the International Labour Organization on Wednesday.
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$123m WB loan for Taunsa Barrage
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The World Bank has approved a $123 million loan to Pakistan to rehabilitate the Taunsa Barrage on the River Indus whose structure had been damaged owing to soil erosions and old-age.
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ANP acts against Nasim Wali
RAWALPINDI, March 16: The central leadership of the Awami National Party has dissolved the party's NWFP committee headed by Begum Nasim Wali Khan and terminated party membership of its provincial secretary-general Farid Toofan.
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Security for Mukhtar Mai
LAHORE, March 16: Thirty policemen have been sent to the village of rape victim Mukhtar Mai after the release of four of the men acquitted of attacking her, BBC said in a report on Wednesday.
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President to watch Delhi match
NEW DELHI, March 16: President Pervez Musharraf will watch the last one-day match between India and Pakistan in New Delhi on April 17, the Indian prime minister's office announced on Wednesday
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Jinnah House to serve as Saarc cultural office
NEW DELHI, March 16: India said on Wednesday that the house in Mumbai that belonged to Qaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah would be converted into an office for a Saarc cultural centre.
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Islamabad accused of 'abandoning core issue'
New Delhi, March 16: Kashmir's resistance leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani accused Pakistan on Wednesday of letting down the cause of freedom by changing its attitude towards what Islamabad has been regarding as a core issue with India.
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India, US differ on F-16s, gas pipeline
NEW DELHI, March 16: India and the United States expressed sharp differences on Wednesday over two issues seen as central to the visit of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the region
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US wants Wolfowitz as WB chief
WASHINGTON, March 16: The United States has officially nominated Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as its choice for World Bank president, the World Bank confirmed on Wednesday.
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Editor: Tahir Mirza
ISLAMABAD, March 16: US Secretary of State Dr Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday that Pakistan was a pivotal country in the region that could be a model for the Muslim world.
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