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| March 14, 2006 | Tuesday | Safar 13, 1427 |
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Agreement with US on working group: Aziz meets energy official
ISLAMABAD, March 13: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Monday that establishment of nuclear power plants would be encouraged to produce cost-effective energy to meet the country’s growing needs.... 
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US offers help only for non-nuclear energy: Iran gas pipeline opposed
ISLAMABAD, March 13: The United States on Monday ruled out the possibility of offering civilian nuclear technology and advised Pakistan to concentrate on alternative sources of energy....
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Team to visit US for energy talks: FO
ISLAMABAD, March 13: Pakistan will be sending a team to Washington to explore ways to bolster its energy security through enhanced collaboration and prop up US investment in the country’s energy sector....
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Oil and food prices push inflation up
ISLAMABAD, March 13: Inflation climbed to 8.42 per cent during eight months (July-February) of the current fiscal year, mainly because of sharp increases in prices of oil and food items....
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Balochistan minister removed
QUETTA, March 13: Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani has removed provincial Minister for Forests and Wildlife Mir Bakhtiar Khan Domki with immediate effect....
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Transmission towers in Bolan damaged
QUETTA, March 13: Terrorists on Monday blew up two high-tension power transmission towers in the Bolan area while rockets were fired on Frontier Corps’ checkposts in Kohlu and Dera Bugti areas....
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‘Two nuclear power plants to be set up’
KARACHI, March 13: Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) Parvez Butt has said that two more nuclear power plants will be set up in Karachi to cater to the growing energy requirements....
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Afghan refugees ordered to leave N. Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH, March 13: Political authorities in the North Waziristan agency on Monday ordered Afghan nationals to leave the area immediately. A radio broadcast in Miramshah warned them of strict action if they stayed on in the area....
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New Delhi leaked N-secrets: report
WASHINGTON, March 13: India circumvents other countries’ export controls and leaks sensitive technology in procuring materials for its nuclear programmes, according to a report by former UN weapons inspector David Albright....
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Rebels attack Indian trains
NEW DELHI, March 13: Communist rebels attacked two trains in a remote part of eastern India on Monday, and authorities could not contact a passenger train carrying more than 200 passengers, a railway official said....
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Canal system faces closure
ISLAMABAD, March 13: The water in reservoirs of Tarbela and Mangla dams has almost hit the dead levels and the canal system is likely to be closed for irrigation in the...
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Sugar cartel’s threat forces NAB to drop probe
ISLAMABAD, March 13: The National Accountability Bureau has announced that it is closing investigation into the sugar scam following threats from the mills of price hike....
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Danes seek reconciliation over cartoons
COPENHAGEN, March 13: Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller on Monday received a petition with 60,000 signatures calling for reconciliation between Denmark and the Muslim world following the crisis over the cartons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)....
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FIA, CBI heads to meet after 17 years
NEW DELHI, March 13: The heads of federal investigative agencies of India and Pakistan are to meet here after 17 years on March 21, and officials say discussions would mainly focus...
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N-capacity of India to rise 3-fold, says Rice
WASHINGTON, March 13: There will be a three-fold increase in India’s nuclear capacity by 2015 while New Delhi plans to import eight nuclear reactors by 2012, says US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice....
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Websites blocked, PTA tells SC: Blasphemous material
ISLAMABAD, March 13: The Supreme Court was informed on Monday that in accordance with its orders, all websites displaying sacrilegious cartoons had been blocked....
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PIA Jumbo’s take-off aborted after accident ISLAMABAD, March 13: A Boeing 747 of Pakistan International Airline, with 113 people aboard, was grounded after a Shaheen Airport Service coach rammed into it and damaged one of its engines at the Islamabad International Airport on Monday....
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UK commits £80m for poverty reduction
ISLAMABAD, March 13: Britain has pledged £80 million grant assistance for Pakistan Poverty Reduction Support Programme to be disbursed in three years. A memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed...
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