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| December 19, 2005 | Monday | Ziqa’ad 16, 1426 |
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Troops move against Marris in Kohlu
QUETTA, Dec 18: Paramilitary forces moved on Sunday against Marri tribesmen for their alleged involvement in rocket attacks, bomb explosions and other subversion activities in different areas of the Kohlu district, sources said.... 
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Consensus likely on reservoirs: Aziz
ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz claimed on Sunday that a consensus was likely on the construction of major water reservoirs, including Kalabagh dam. He was responding to reporters’ questions...
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‘MQM against Kalabagh’
KARACHI, Dec 18: In a policy statement released from London and Karachi on Sunday night, Muttahida Qaumi Movement made its stand on Kalabagh dam clear, saying it would not support it whatever the cost....
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‘Punjab, Sindh to get more water from new dams’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: The additional water that will be there in case the Kalabagh and Bhasha dams are built, will be distributed among Sindh and Punjab, says a senior official, adding...
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Rift in MMA over NSC meetings
LAHORE / ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: At least three components of the six-party Muttahida Majlis Amal (MMA) will oppose any proposal allowing Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman...
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Oil prices: govt saving Rs5bn a month
ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: The federal government’s saving on oil prices has crossed the mark of Rs5 billion a month as a result of decline in international market and a freeze on domestic oil prices for about 75 days....
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Farm subsidies to end by 2013: Interim deal reached in WTO talks
HONG KONG, Dec 18: Global trade talks here headed off a failure similar to that in Seattle and Cancun by striking an interim deal on eliminating farm subsidies by the year 2013....
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42 killed in Chennai stampede
NEW DELHI, Dec 18: Forty-two homeless people were trampled to death on Sunday and 37 were injured in a stampede during the distribution of flood relief supplies at a shelter in southern India, officials and witnesses said....
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Turk engineer dies of tent fire burns
ANKARA, Dec 18: A Turkish engineer has died from severe burns he sustained during a fire in a tent city in quake-ravaged Pakistan, Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday....
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JKLF leader praises relief work
WASHINGTON, Dec 18: Mohammad Yasin Malik, Chairman, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) on Saturday commended the relief and rehabilitation work under way in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir for the earthquake affected people....
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Policemen, Taliban killed in clashes
KANDAHAR, Dec 18: Four policemen and three suspected Taliban fighters were killed in two separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, police and a provincial official said on Sunday....
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17 killed in Iraq violence
BAGHDAD, Dec 18: At least 17 Iraqis were killed as violence flared on Sunday after Sunni Arab and Shiite politicians appealed for unity and warned against sectarian divisions following a landmark election....
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‘NFC award to be finalized soon’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will soon invite all chief ministers to finalise the seventh National Finance Commission (NFC) award, says a top government advisor....
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Mechanism to tackle calamities urged
NEW DELHI, Dec 18: The Second India and Asia Regions Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Conference concluded here on Sunday with focus on carving out regional institutional mechanism to tackle catastrophic natural disasters like earthquake and Tsunami....
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Cheney in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Dec 18: US Vice President Dick Cheney, one of the main architects of the invasion to oust Saddam Hussein, paid a surprise visit on Sunday to Iraq, three days after the parliamentary election there, his office said....
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Rice defends spying on people in US
WASHINGTON, Dec 18: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday President George Bush’s secret order to allow spying on people in the United States was legal and necessary to...
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Time to meet aid pledges: Farooq
ISLAMABAD, Dec 18: Chief Relief Commissioner Major General Farooq Ahmad Khan has called for early materialization of $6.2 billion aid pledged at the international donors conference....
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Govt urged to respect assemblies’ resolutions
QUETTA, Dec 18: Deputy parliamentary leader of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal in the National Assembly Hafiz Hussain Ahmed said on Sunday that the government must respect the resolutions adopted by the provincial...
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