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| February 11, 2006 | Saturday | Muharram 12, 1427 |
Welcome to DAWN, Pakistan's most widely circulated English language newspaper
Updated round-the-clock, with a major update before 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
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ECC asks provinces to tackle sugar crisis
ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: Having failed to arrest the rising sugar prices the government has shifted the responsibility to the provinces and said that the provincial governments should play a role in... 
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Sugar policy comes under fire in Senate
ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: The opposition and treasury members in the Senate on Friday called upon the government to provide details about measures taken by it to control sugar prices and cope with the present shortage of the commodity....
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37 die in two Hangu blasts, violence
HANGU, Feb 10: Death toll on Friday rose to 37 and the number of injured to 91 in two days of sectarian violence in Hangu, NWFP....
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Goods trains collide near Hyderabad
HYDERABAD, Feb 10: At least 17 containers and an engine of two goods trains of the Pakistan Railways (PR) were badly damaged in an accident between the Meting and Bholari railway...
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Candidates asked to submit party tickets
ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: The Election Commission on Friday asked the ticket holders of parties for the Senate elections to attach their tickets while submitting nomination forms....
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PM calls for tolerance, sectarian harmony
ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has strongly condemned the Hangu blasts and said that such acts of terrorism are against the spirit of Islam....
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Opposition criticizes govt on Hangu blasts
ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: Opposition parties in the National Assembly on Friday criticised the government over Thursday’s bomb attack on an Ashura procession in Hangu and other violence before Speaker Chaudhry Amir...
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Govt blames terrorists for Ashura explosions
ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: The government on Friday said that Ashura bomb blast in Hangu, which killed 27 mourners and injured 40 others, was a terrorist act....
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Landmine kills three of a family
QUETTA, Feb 10: Three members of a family, including two women, were killed and three others were seriously injured in a landmine explosion near Sangsilla, Dera Bugti district, on Friday....
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Gunbattle leaves 13 dead in Russia
MOSCOW, Feb 10: Ten gunmen and three police died after special forces stormed a house in southern Russia near Chechnya on Friday following a day-long standoff against heavily-armed gunmen, officials said....
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Explosion kills 8 Afghan troops
KABUL, Feb 10: Eight Afghan soldiers were killed on Friday and four Canadian soldiers lightly hurt in a series of roadside bomb attacks in the provinces of Kunar and Kandahar, government and military officials said....
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Ashura observed with fervour
ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: Mourners all over Pakistan observed Ashura, the 10th of Muharram, on Thursday and paid tributes to Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) and his companions for their great sacrifice in Karbala for the universal principles of justice and truth....
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Rice defends US decision to support Musharraf WASHINGTON, Feb 10: President Pervez Musharraf is not just a US ally in the war against terror, he also wants to create a more open, moderate and tolerant Pakistan, says US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice....
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Four MoUs likely to be signed with Bangladesh ISLAMABAD, Feb 10: Pakistan and Bangladesh are expected to sign four Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and one agreement in diverse areas during Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s three-day official visit here from February 12, diplomatic sources told Dawn on Friday....
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Kofi Annan deplores cartoon reprinting
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 10: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday lashed out at those publishers who ‘pour oil on the fire’ by reprinting controversial cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) while repeating his condemnation of the violent protests they have sparked....
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Bush to visit Pakistan despite protests
WASHINGTON, Feb 10: President George W. Bush is going ahead with his trip to Pakistan in March despite widespread outrage in the Muslim world over sacrilegious caricatures [of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)], the White House said....
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Eight killed in Baghdad attack
BAGHDAD, Feb 10: A car bomb exploded outside a mosque in Baghdad on Friday, killing eight people. Masked gunmen appeared at the scene later, killing one woman and wounding several other people near the blast-damaged building....
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Shia bloc poll win confirmed
BAGHDAD, Feb 10: Iraq on Friday confirmed the Shia United Iraqi Alliance as the winner of December’s elections, finally paving the way for opening parliament and forming a new government....
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Intelligence on Iraq misused: ex-aide
WASHINGTON, Feb 10: A former CIA official, responsible for coordinating assessments on Iraq from all 15 Western agencies working there, has accused the Bush administration of misusing intelligence to justify invading the country....
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Body recovered from plane’s landing gear
KARACHI, Feb 10: The corpse of a man was recovered from the wheel cavity of a PIA plane after it landed at the Karachi Airport on Friday night....
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