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| March 17, 2006 | Friday | Safar 16, 1427 |
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Largest US air attack in Iraq since invasion
BAGHDAD, March 16: The US military said on Thursday it launched its biggest air offensive in Iraq since the 2003 invasion to root out guerillas near a town where recent violence raised fears of civil war....
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Iran now is main enemy, says US
WASHINGTON, March 16: Making no apologies for the invasion of Iraq, the United States on Thursday reaffirmed its strike-first policy of pre-emption and warned that Iran may pose the biggest threat to US national security....
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Polls to be fair and on time, says CEC: Justice Farooq takes oath of office
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The new Chief Election Commissioner, Justice (rtd) Qazi Mohammad Farooq, has said that holding free, fair and transparent elections is his prime responsibility....
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$37-40bn FDI in energy sector sought
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Pakistan is trying to attract $37-40 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the energy sector to offset looming energy shortages as a result of 10 per cent annual increase in energy needs....
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Opposition blasts govt for failing to control prices
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Opposition members in the Senate severely criticised the government on Thursday for its failure to control prices of sugar, petroleum products and essential commodities which, they said, was causing immense suffering to the common man....
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Sugar price increases by Rs2 per kg
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Sugar prices are going up despite the withdrawal of a NAB ‘inquiry’ into the sugar crisis. Market sources said on Thursday that prices had registered a fresh increase of Rs2 both at wholesale and retail levels....
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Power supply to Quetta, other areas disrupted
QUETTA, March 16: Power supply to Quetta and several other parts of Balochistan was disrupted after three pylons of the Quetta-Sibi power transmission line were blown up in the Mach area...
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Next round of pipeline talks on April 30
TEHRAN, March 16: Talks between India, Iran and Pakistan on building a new gas pipeline to Southeast Asia ended on Thursday without any agreement and a new round of negotiations scheduled for late April....
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Danish PM cancels India visit
NEW DELHI, March 16: Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called off his visit to India because of fears of renewed protests over cartoons insulting to Islam, Indian news reports said on Thursday....
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Steps against targeting Muslim states urged
UNITED NATIONS, March 16. Pakistan on Wednesday stressed that the new Human Rights Council created to replace the much-criticized Human Rights Commission should build safeguards against arbitrary and discriminatory targeting of developing countries, especially Muslim states....
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Two Afghan TV channels banned
QUETTA / ISLAMABAD, March 16: Pakistan on Thursday banned two Afghan TV channels and stopped cable operators from airing their content because they had blamed Pakistani security forces for trying to kill an Afghan politician, an official said....
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Two held in Afghanistan with letter of Zawahiri JALALABAD, March 16: Afghan police said they arrested on Thursday two suspected Taliban insurgents carrying letters from the movement’s fugitive leader and Al Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri....
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Pakistani in Guantanamo files petition
WASHINGTON, March 16: A former Pakistani businessman is petitioning a federal appeals court over his detention at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying the mastermind of the Sept...
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Syrian in custody for terror links
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Pakistan is holding a Syrian-born man with suspected terrorism links, a Pakistani official said on Thursday. The official gave no further details, including when or where the man was detained....
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Military build-up of China worries US
SYDNEY, March 16: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put pressure on China over its military build-up and praised Indian democracy on Thursday ahead of controversial security talks with Japan and Australia....
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US defends India N-deal
WASHINGTON, March 16: US Under-Secretary of State Nicholas Burns said on Thursday that if the US Congress approved the Indo-US nuclear deal, India can be brought into the mainstream of the non-proliferation regime....
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Progress on Sir Creek, Siachen termed vital: Kashmir key to peace: Kasuri
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Thursday said that it would be easier to move forward on the Kashmir issue if progress could be achieved on Sir Creek and Siachen....
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Pakistan has 5th largest stockpile of landmines ISLAMABAD, March 16: Pakistan has fifth largest stockpile (six million) of anti-personnel landmines in the world, says the Land Mine Monitor Report, 2005. The findings of the report, jointly worked out...
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