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| February 20, 2006 | Monday | Muharram 21, 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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MMA defies ban on rallies: Police fire teargas, rubber bullets on stone-throwing protesters
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: Police fired teargas shells and rubber bullets on Sunday to break up demonstrations in Islamabad and Rawalpindi after the Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) defied a government ban on public...
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Islamabad rally a success, says Fazl
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rahman said on Sunday that the demonstration in Islamabad against blasphemous cartoons published in European newspapers was a success...
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Danish envoy back home: Saudi paper prints apology
COPENHAGEN, Feb 19: Denmark said on Sunday that its ambassador in Pakistan had temporarily returned home because he could not work after violent protests over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) first published in the Nordic country....
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150 workers detained in Punjab
LAHORE, Feb 19: Police rounded up around 150 activists of the MMA and some other religious groups and parties late on Saturday night and early on Sunday to stop them from participating in a rally in Islamabad....
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Musharraf-Hu talks today
BEIJING, Feb 19: President General Pervez Musharraf and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao will hold formal talks on Monday on wide-ranging issues, covering the whole gamut of Pakistan-China relations and regional and international matters of mutual concern....
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Pakistan test-fires missile
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: Pakistan successfully test-fired a short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile on Sunday, a military statement said. It said the Hatf-II/Abdali ground-to-ground missile had a range of 200km (125 miles) and could carry “nuclear and other types of warheads”....
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Qazi gives protest call for 24th
LAHORE, Feb 19: Denouncing torture of participants of the Shan-i-Mustafa rally in Islamabad, MMA president Qazi Husain Ahmad vowed to oust the military government before March 23....
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MMA workers stopped at bridge
PESHAWAR, Feb 19: A motorcade of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, going from here to Islamabad to attend a rally against the publication of sacrilegious cartoons by European newspapers, was stopped at Khairabad bridge on the NWFP-Punjab border on Sunday....
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$250,000 paid to infiltrate Pakistani community
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 19: An FBI informer in a terror case against two Pakistani Americans was paid $250,000 to infiltrate the large Pakistani-American community in Lodi, California....
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Clinton hopeful of better ties between India, Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Feb 19: Former US president Bill Clinton said on Sunday that the United States expected relations between India and Pakistan to improve within the framework of an economically unified South Asia....
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Israel stops transfer of tax money to Palestine
AL QUDS, Feb 19: Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved an immediate freeze on the transfer of about $50 million in tax money to the Palestinians in its first response to the takeover of the Palestinian parliament by the militant group Hamas....
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Saudi Arabia likely to invest in water projects
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: Saudi Arabia is likely to participate as financier and investor in Pakistan’s major water sector projects through its public and private sector, it is learnt....
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Indian city on high alert after blast injures 25
AHMEDABAD, Feb 19: India’s western Ahmedabad city was placed on high alert on Sunday after 25 people were injured, three of them seriously, in a bomb blast at the main railway station, police said....
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Four Iraqi drivers killed
BAGHDAD, Feb 19: Gunmen ambushed a convoy of trucks carrying construction material to US military north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing four Iraqi drivers....
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China to bolster security cooperation
BEIJING, Feb 19: Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said on Sunday that Pakistan and China advocated same stand against terrorism and enjoyed full cooperation in all the fields of common interests....
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PML sets up committee for party polls
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: Pakistan Muslim League (PML) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Sunday appointed an election coordination committee to ‘ensure’ holding of free, fair and transparent elections within the party at all its tiers by Aug 14....
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Man dies in blast near Philippine army camp
JOLO (Philippines), Feb 19: One person died in a bomb blast at a karaoke bar near a Philippine army camp on southern Jolo island where American troops are staying, the Philippine military said on Sunday....
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Indian N-facilities’ separation backed
WASHINGTON, Feb 19: A pro-Indian Democratic Congressman Frank Pallone has supported the Bush administration’s demand for separation of India’s military and civilian nuclear facilities....
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U-19 team beats India, retains title
COLOMBO, Feb 19: Pakistan became the first Under-19 team to retain the world title when they beat India by 38 runs in an extraordinary final on Sunday....
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British MPs arrive
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: A four-member delegation of British parliament arrived here on Sunday on a four-day visit to Pakistan at the invitation of the special committee of parliament on Kashmir....
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