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| December 24, 2005 | Saturday | Ziqa’ad 21, 1426 |
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Decision on dam, NFC to be made together: President shrugs off BLA threat
HYDERABAD, Dec 23: President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday that the National Finance Commission (NFC) award would be announced along with a decision on new water reservoirs.... 
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Crackdown: opposition in Senate warns of ‘serious consequences’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: The week-old government crackdown in Balochistan came under severe criticism on Friday at the start of an inconclusive Senate debate on the situation in the troubled province after two protest walkouts by opposition parties....
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ARD seeks West’s help on Balochistan
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) has appealed to “Western democratic forces” to stop the Pakistan government from carrying on its military operation in Balochistan....
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Railways officials escape disaster
QUETTA, Dec 23: A special train carrying railway officials to Zahidan from Quetta escaped disaster when a part of the track linking Pakistan with Iran was blown up on Friday evening, apparently an act of sabotage....
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Aziz says water crisis looming
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday said that the country had to build big water reservoirs because doing nothing was no more an option when a dangerous water crisis was looming....
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Saudi king due next month
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 23: King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia will visit Pakistan in the last week of January as part of a four-nation tour which will also take him to India, China and Malaysia....
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Over 9,000 missing in quake areas: Farooq: Rs16bn compensation paid
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: Federal Relief Commissioner Maj-Gen Farooq Ahmad on Friday said that over 9,000 people were still missing since the Oct 8 earthquake and were believed to be dead....
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Deadline given to expel foreigners
LAHORE, Dec 23: Police on Friday gave a one-day deadline to madressahs for the expulsion of all foreign students. However, the madressahs did not take the deadline seriously and claimed that they had already repatriated the foreign students....
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Blast rocks Valley airfield
SRINAGAR, Dec 23: A powerful explosion on Friday ripped apart a taxicab at a checkpoint of a heavily-guarded Indian Air Force airfield outside Srinagar that is commonly used by political leaders, police said....
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Hurriyat leaders due in January
NEW DELHI, Dec 23: A delegation of Kashmir’s All-Parties Hurriyat Conference, led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, will visit the earthquake-hit areas of Pakistan and the Azad Kashmir in the first week...
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India sacks 11 MPs in bribery scam
NEW DELHI, Dec 23: Eleven members of bicameral parliament were sacked on Friday. Ten members of the Lok Sabha and one of the Rajya Sabha were caught on camera taking money...
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LTTE attack on navy bus kills 13
COLOMBO, Dec 23: Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels ambushed and killed 13 Sri Lankan sailors in an attack on a naval bus in northern Sri Lanka on Friday in the worst breach of a 2002 ceasefire so far....
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SC approached on dam issue
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: A Karachi-based social worker on Friday petitioned the Supreme Court ‘to provide guidelines’ on construction of the controversial Kalabagh dam....
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US announces Iraq troop reductions
BAGHDAD, Dec 23: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on a visit to Baghdad on Friday that the United States will withdraw some of its combat forces from Iraq early next year....
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Cloning expert accused of faking research
SEOUL, Dec 23: South Korean investigators said on Friday that the stem cell research by cloning expert Hwang Woo-Suk had been faked, turning the one-time national hero into a disgraced fabricator....
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UN budget may be adopted today
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 23: After weeks of wrangling over the UN Budget, President of the UN’s General Assembly Jan Eliasson said on Thursday that the 191-member body may adopt it by the weekend....
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Tochi Scouts’ rest-house in Bannu attacked
BANNU, Dec 23: A rest-house of the paramilitary Tochi Scouts here came under rocket attack on Thursday night, officials said. Three rockets were fired at the rest-house near Kot Beli on the Kohat Road at around 11.20pm....
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180 Pakistanis in Turkish jail
RAWALPINDI, Dec 23: About 180 Pakistanis arrested for crossing into Greece illegally are languishing in a Turkish detaining facility for the last three months. Relatives of the arrested people told Dawn...
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