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| March 16, 2006 | Thursday | Safar 15, 1427 |
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Aziz urges coordinated rehabilitation efforts: Trouble-makers in Balochistan warned
ISLAMABAD, March 15: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday assured his government’s full support for rehabilitating people affected by last year’s earthquake in the NWFP.... 
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‘Govt writ to be established’: Aliens must be ousted: Musharraf
RAWALPINDI, March 15: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday pledged to establish the writ of the government in tribal areas and go ahead with the socio-economic development projects....
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US, Russia press for N-regime under UN: Proliferation threat
MOSCOW, March 15: The United States pressed on Wednesday for a new UN-supervised regime to allow the spread of atomic power while impeding nuclear weapons proliferation, joining Russian calls for an international atomic network....
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Bus on trial run from Jalalabad arrives
PESHAWAR, March 15: A trial run of the Pakistan-Afghanistan friendship bus service was carried out on Wednesday, signalling resumption of bus links between the two neighbouring states after 27 years....
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Seminary used as ‘den by terrorists’ blown up
MIRAMSHAH, March 15: A seminary abandoned a few years ago but now being allegedly used as a terrorist den was blown up by security forces here on Wednesday....
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14 injured in Quetta blast
QUETTA, March 15: Fourteen people, a number of women and children among them, were injured in a bomb explosion on the Brewery Road here on Wednesday....
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Farooq named CEC
ISLAMABAD, March 15: President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday appointed Justice (retd) Qazi Mohammad Farooq as the Chief Election Commissioner for a three-year term....
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Opposition agrees to attend Senate
ISLAMABAD, March 15: The combined opposition in the Senate on Wednesday agreed to return to the house after a reconciliation meeting with government senators. Both the sides agreed that continued boycott...
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India’s claim on Gilgit, Baltistan rebutted
ISLAMABAD, March 15: Pakistan Foreign Office on Wednesday rebutted a statement made by the Spokesperson of Indian Ministry of External Affairs claiming that Gilgit-Baltistan “is an integral part of India”....
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Delhi invited to join TAP gas project
ISLAMABAD, March 15: Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan have formally asked India to become a partner in the $5 billion TAP gas pipeline project and take a decision to this effect latest by May 15....
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Indian troops kill two Kashmiris
SRINAGAR, March 15: Indian soldiers on Wednesday shot dead two suspected militants in occupied Kashmir whose bodies were later carried shoulder-high by supporters shouting anti-India slogans, police said....
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Effective action by Afghan and coalition forces urged
UNITED NATIONS, March 15: Saying that a comprehensive approach is required to address the challenges of terrorism and criminal violence and insurgency in Afghanistan, Pakistan on Tuesday asserted “the failure to do so cannot be externalised.”....
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Kabul calls for policy ‘consistency’
KUALA LUMPUR, March 15: Afghanistan’s foreign minister urged Pakistan on Wednesday to demonstrate consistency and sincerity in its policy of helping defeat Taliban and Al Qaeda militants....
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Presence of bird flu in Afghanistan confirmed
KABUL, March 15: Afghan authorities said on Wednesday tests had shown it was 99 per cent certain that the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu is present in Afghanistan....
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UN votes for rights body
UNITED NATIONS, March 15: The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to create a new Human Rights Council, replacing the Geneva-based Human Rights Commission over the objections by the United States....
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Editor fired in US over cartoons
WASHINGTON, March 15: The editor who chose to publish in a student-run university newspaper six of the cartoons that sparked uproar in the Muslim world has been fired, the publisher of the newspaper said....
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Attack on Musharraf: petition withdrawn
ISLAMABAD, March 15: Mushtaq Ahmed, a convict in the case relating to an attempt on President Pervez Musharraf’s life in 2003, withdrew his writ petition on Wednesday from the Supreme Court....
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‘Defence cooperation with China being strengthened’
ISLAMABAD, March 15: China will provide advanced military technology to Pakistan to help improve its weaponry in terms of ‘value addition, accuracy and range,’ sources told Dawn on Wednesday....
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