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| January 17, 2006 | Tuesday | Zilhaj 16, 1426 |
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Quake zone to be built on modern lines: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday stressed Pakistan’s commitment to rebuilding the quake-ravaged areas on modern lines...
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26 die in Taliban suicide attacks
KANDAHAR, Jan 16: Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 26 people in two attacks in southern Afghanistan on Monday, a day after a Canadian diplomat and two civilians were killed in another attack in the area....
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Joint stand on pipeline agreed
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: Pakistan and Afghanistan on Monday agreed to adopt international best practices for determination of transit fee for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan gas pipeline project....
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Pakistan-India accord on N-alert likely
NEW DELHI, Jan 16: India and Pakistan will start a fresh round of their composite dialogue on Tuesday with a breakthrough expected on a mechanism to reduce their nuclear alert followed...
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Balochistan mining sector to be boosted: Investor confidence restored: PM
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: Balochistan has tremendous potential in natural resources and the government is focusing to develop the mining sector to utilize the potential as this will contribute to the province’s economic uplift, says Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz....
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KSE crosses 10,000 mark
KARACHI, Jan 16: The main Karachi Stock Exchange index on Monday crossed the 10,000-point mark for the second time in the bourse’s 47-years history. The KSE-100 index closed at 10,093 points with a gain of 103 points....
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2 US pilots killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Jan 16: Two US pilots were killed when their Apache combat helicopter went down north of the Iraqi capital on Monday, the US military said, without giving the cause of the crash....
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US defends tactics against militants
MONROVIA, Jan 16: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday defended tough US tactics to root out Al Qaeda militants on Pakistan’s border after a deadly air strike on a village sparked a wave of angry street protests....
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Troops kill Delhi bombings suspect
SRINAGAR, Jan 16: Indian troops and police on Monday killed the “main conspirator” behind three bombings in New Delhi in which 66 people died last October, police said on Monday....
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India to hold talks with Kashmiris
NEW DELHI, Jan 16: After talks between Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and People’s Conference chief Sajjad Ghani Lone on Kashmir dispute last week, Indian government leaders are likely to hold talks with other Kashmiri leaders....
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Iran’s referral to UNSC ‘a done deal’: diplomat
LONDON, Jan 16: Referring Iran to the UN Security Council is ‘a done deal’, a European diplomatic source said on Monday as officials from the world’s leading powers gathered in London...
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Musharraf to be key speaker at WEF
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: President General Pervez Musharraf will be leading Pakistan’s delegation to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos next week where he will make a...
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UK lauds S. Arabia’s anti-terror role
LONDON, Jan 16: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Monday Saudi Arabia was playing a vital role in fighting the global war on terrorism....
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German parties seek probe
BERLIN, Jan 16: German opposition parties said on Monday they will force the government to call an inquiry into the decision to share intelligence with the United States during the Iraq war....
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Two BD youths killed
DHAKA, Jan 16: Two Bangladeshi youths were killed by the Border Security Force of India at Ganakiya, a frontier subdistrict of Bangladesh, on Sunday....
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MMA vows to keep up protests
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: Leaders of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal pledged on Monday to keep up their protests against a failed air strike targeting Al Qaeda’s number two which Islamabad said led to the deaths of 18 civilians....
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IAEA meeting
Britain, France, Germany and the European Union told the United States, Russia and China they plan to call for an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Feb 2 and 3 to discuss Iran....
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Landslides, snow block KKH
GILGIT, Jan 16: Massive landslides blocked the Karakoram Highway (KKH) on Sunday night, suspending traffic between the Northern Areas and rest of the country....
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