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| January 1, 2006 | Sunday | Ziqa’ad 29, 1426 |
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Cabinet revives CCI: Govt to go ahead with construction of dams
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: In an apparent shift from its earlier position of soliciting a national consensus on the construction of Kalabagh dam and other water reservoirs, the federal cabinet on Saturday... 
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Gas prices scaled up by 15.5pc
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: The government has notified an across-the-board 15.51 per cent increase in gas prices for all consumer categories throughout the country with effect from Jan 1, 2006, a top petroleum ministry official announced on Saturday....
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SC to take up case against two ministers
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, has taken suo motu notice of violation of wedding meal ban by two ministers and set the hearing for Jan 5....
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‘Tripartite accord in two months’: Gas pipeline project
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: Pakistan, Iran and India will finalize in February a tripartite framework agreement and consider project structure and detailed feasibility study of the $7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline plan, a senior government official said....
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Trade pact with Tashkent
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: Pakistan and Uzbekistan have agreed to enter into a trilateral transit trade agreement with Afghanistan to benefit from the Gwadar port facility and land routes....
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Naib nazims to take oath on 3rd
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: The newly-elected naib nazims of city district/zila, town/tehsil/taluka councils in all the four provinces will take the oath of office on Jan 3....
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Hurriyat team set to leave for Pakistan, Azad Kashmir
NEW DELHI, Dec 31: A three-member delegation of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, headed by its chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, will leave here for Islamabad on Monday for talks with Pakistani...
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Sherpao says 65pc students returned voluntarily
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: Some 65 per cent of the foreign students studying in various seminaries of the country have returned to their homelands voluntarily....
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Blast kills eight in Indonesian market
PALU (Indonesia), Dec 31: Eight people were killed and dozens injured when a bomb tore through a market stall selling pork in Indonesia’s religiously divided province of Central Sulawesi early on Saturday, police said....
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BD arrests militant commander
DHAKA, Dec 31: Bangladesh’s crack security force said Saturday it had arrested a commander of an Islamic militant group and seized a large cache of explosives in a hunt for those responsible for nationwide blasts....
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Advani sticks to his remarks on Quaid
MUMBAI, Dec 31: Former President of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), L. K. Advani on Saturday stuck to his remarks on Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah made during his visit to Pakistan, saying...
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Sudanese hostages released in Iraq
DUBAI, Dec 31: Sudanese hostages held by Al Qaeda in Iraq have been freed, the Al-Jazeera news channel said on Saturday, a day after Khartoum shut down its embassy in Baghdad in line with the kidnappers’ demands....
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Unilateral flexibility on Kashmir ruled out
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: Minister for Foreign Affairs Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has ruled out any unilateral flexibility on the Kashmir issue....
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Freed UK aid worker to stay in Gaza
LONDON, Dec 31: A young British aid worker held hostage for two days with her parents by militants in the Gaza Strip plans to continue her work there, she said in a statement released on Saturday....
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New Year revelry breaks out in Sydney, Hong Kong
HONG KONG, Dec 31: Fireworks lit up the sky from Sydney to Hong Kong as the cities rang in 2006, kickstarting a night of celebration around the world as revellers bid farewell to a year scarred by violence and natural disasters....
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Najeeb elected KPC secretary
KARACHI, Dec 31: The journalists of the city elected on Saturday the new body of the Karachi Press Club for 2006. Najeeb Ahmed was elected secretary....
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PPP, MQM discuss political situation
KARACHI, Dec 31: Convenor of Muttahida Qaumi Movement Dr Imran Farooq had telephonic exchange of views with ARD chief Makhdoom Amin Fahim and Akhtar Mengal, president Balochistan National Party on the...
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Religious leader held near Gilgit
GILGIT, Dec 31: Police on Friday arrested a religious leader who was addressing a gathering of his followers in Jalalabad, some 30 kilometres east of Gilgit....
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