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| January 31, 2006 | Tuesday | Muharram 1, 1427 |
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Train derailment termed sabotage: Railway traffic restored
LAHORE, Jan 30: Government investigators and federal and state ministers for railways on Monday termed the derailment of the Lahore Express an act of sabotage and said saboteurs tampered with a section of rail tracks....
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Rockets fired at FC camp, checkpoints: Blast rocks Hub
QUETTA, Jan 30: Several rockets were fired at a Frontier Corps camp and check-posts in the Pir Koh gasfield and the Nal area in Kahan while a powerful explosion rocked Hub, an industrial town in Balochistan on Monday....
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Help sought for peaceful nuclear technology: Govt committed to gas pipeline project: Kasuri
LONDON, Jan 30: Foreign minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri on Monday asked the international community not to adopt a discriminatory approach toward Pakistan but to help it acquire nuclear energy for peaceful purposes....
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N-ties not linked with democracy, says FO
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: Pakistan on Monday made it clear that while it was cooperating with the international community in the war against terrorism the effective measures it had taken to fight this scourge were primarily prompted by its own national interest....
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Balochistan issue echoes in Senate
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: The issue of military operation in Balochistan echoed in the Senate on Monday when Sen Sanaullah Baloch pointed out that the US Congress had recommended to President Bush to discuss it during his upcoming visit to Islamabad....
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NA session prorogued
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain cut short an opposition-called National Assembly session in apparent anger on Monday after a stormy sitting marked by opposition protests and rows with the chair and treasury benches....
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Constitution violators to be punished, says Nawaz
LONDON, Jan 30: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday lashed out at the domestic and foreign policies of President Pervez Musharraf. Addressing a gathering of about 1,000 party workers after...
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Benazir sees change in US attitude
WASHINGTON, Jan 30: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has said that she is noticing a change in Washington’s attitude towards Pakistan as US policy makers now have also started to “see the people of the country.”...
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Ashura on Feb 9
QUETTA, Jan 30: Muharram moon was sighted here on Monday and Ashura will be on Feb 9, Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee Chairman Mufti Munibur Rahman has announced....
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Innocent people killed in US strike: Zawahri
DUBAI, Jan 30: Al Qaeda’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri blasted US President George W. Bush as a “butcher” in a video tape aired on Monday, saying a recent US air strike targeting him had killed only innocent people....
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Kalpars returning to Sui attacked
QUETTA, Jan 30: Some 200 members of the Kalpar sub-clan of Bugti tribe returned to their hometown Sui on Monday after several years, an official said here....
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People want peace, says Jaswant
MIRPURKHAS, Jan 30: Opposition leader in the Indian Rajaya Sabha and former foreign minister Jaswant Singh has said that the people of Pakistan and India want peace in the region....
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Abdullah’s visit to take ties to higher plane: FO
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia will take up vital regional security matters including the brewing crisis over the Iran nuclear programme and the Kashmir issue during Saudi King Abdullah...
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EU links Palestine aid to peace commitment
BRUSSELS, Jan 30: The European Union is ready to continue aid to the Palestinians as long as a future Hamas-led government commits itself to seeking peace with Israel, foreign ministers of the bloc said on Monday....
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One soldier dies, nine wounded in blast
MIRAMSHAH, Jan 30: One paramilitary soldier was killed and nine others wounded in an explosion in Mubarek Shahi, North Waziristan Agency, on Monday, officials said. The explosion took place when paramilitary...
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President, PM call for peace, unity in Muharram
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have called for shunning sectarianism and foster unity and brotherhood during Muharram....
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PM appreciates Turkish help for quake victims
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: Pakistan is proud of its friendship with Turkey and will never forget the generous help provided by the people of Turkey and its government following the October 8 earthquake....
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‘Small dams key to avert water crisis’
ISLAMABAD, Jan 30: Experts at a seminar on Monday warned of severe water crisis in Rawalpindi in the near future if small dams on Soan and Ling rivers are not built and leakages, wasting 50 per cent of water, not plugged....
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