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| January 7, 2006 | Saturday | Zilhaj 6, 1426 |
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Khokhrapar, Munabao train from Feb 1: Accord on modalities likely this month
NEW DELHI, Jan 6: Pakistan and India on Friday agreed to revive the Khokhrapar-Munabao train service from Feb 1, it was officially announced.... 
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Progress on Kashmir expected, APHC told
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri told the visiting All-Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) delegation here on Friday that some forward movement was expected on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir during the next round of Indo-Pakistan composite dialogue....
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Autonomy, self-rule must not be confused: Mirwaiz
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has called for a step-by-step approach to finding out a just solution to the longstanding Jammu and Kashmir dispute....
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Part of train track in D.G. Khan blown up: PTV broadcast suspended in Dera Bugti
DERA GHAZI KHAN/QUETTA, Jan 6: Rail traffic on the Dera Ghazi Khan-Jacobabad section was suspended on Friday night after a ‘bomb’ explosion blew up the track hardly two kilometres south of the local railway station....
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Tripartite gas pipeline plan intact, says Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: Pakistan is in dire need of energy for its growing economy and Pakistan-Iran-India gas pipeline programme is intact, says Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasneem Aslam....
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Quake survivors storm UN helicopters
MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 6: The United Nations is probing reports that some quake survivors forced their way onto two aid helicopters then made the crew airlift them from the disaster zone Friday, officials said....
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Sugar mills in Sindh stop crushing
MIRPURKHAS, Jan 6: All 27 sugar mills in Sindh stopped crushing on Thursday following registration of cases against the owner and some officials of a sugar mill....
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US, EU asked for more market access
KARACHI, Jan 6: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday urged the United States and the European Union to give Pakistan more market access in view of the country’s role in the fight against terrorism....
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Makkah death toll 76
MAKKAH, Jan 6: The death toll from the collapse of a hostel in Makkah rose to 76 on Friday, the interior ministry said, adding that recovery operations had now been completed....
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Landslide hits bus: 7 killed
PESHAWAR, Jan 6: Seven people were killed and 19 others injured when a landslide hit a passenger bus on the Karakoram Highway in Kohistan district on Thursday night, officials said....
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No shortage of water for Rabi: minister
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: Water and Power Minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi on Friday said that there would be no injustice in distribution of water among the provinces....
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Religious leaders held in Punjab
FAISALABAD, Jan 6: The Punjab Home Department on Friday decided to detain ‘high-profile religious leaders and extremists’ for a period of one to three months to avoid any protest movement from the religious groups....
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Nawaz to visit UAE
LAHORE, Jan 6: Barring some unforeseen development, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his wife Kulsoom Nawaz would visit the UAE on Saturday to offer their condolences on the death of Shaikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai....
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Kidnappers release five Italians in Yemen
ADEN (Yemen), Jan 6: Yemeni tribesmen freed five Italian tourists on Friday after holding them for almost a week to press authorities to release jailed family members, Yemeni officials said....
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Al Qaeda not regrouping in Afghanistan: Nato
MONS (Belgium), Jan 6: Nato’s military chief said on Friday that the Taliban and Al-Qaeda were not regrouping in Afghanistan despite more than a dozen suicide attacks there in the last three months....
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Iraq’s Shia leaders counsel restraint
KERBALA, Jan 6: Iraqis buried their dead on Friday from a day of bloodshed, which left some Shias calling for a backlash against the Sunni militants they blame for a suicide bombing in Kerbala....
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Sharon ‘critical but stable’
JERUSALEM, Jan 6: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remained critically ill on Friday after undergoing a new three-hour surgery to stop fresh bleeding in his brain....
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Gas supplies to Uch plant set to resume
ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: Gas supplies from a pipeline blown up by tribal militants in Balochistan were expected to resume to US and British-owned power plants by Friday, said a press release issued by Oil and Gas Development Company Limited....
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