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| March 18, 2006 | Saturday | Safar 17, 1427 |
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Indo-US accord termed threat to security: Discrimination unacceptable: FO
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Pakistan on Friday cautioned that grant of waiver by the US Congress to the agreement with India on civilian nuclear cooperation would have serious implications for the security... 
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Conversion of quake loans into aid sought
ISLAMABAD, March 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said here on Friday that he would request donor countries to convert the loans pledged or given in the wake of last year’s earthquake catastrophe into financial assistance....
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Khushhal Pakistan Fund launched
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Pakistan has decided to start the $5 billion pipeline project to import gas from Turkmenistan provided Ashgabad confirms availability of sufficient reserves....
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‘Cabinet to be reshuffled in two weeks’
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday said that the federal cabinet would be reshuffled in two weeks. He told journalists that negotiations were under way with coalition partners to fill vacant cabinet portfolios....
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Military operations opposed
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Members of the Senate on Friday severely criticised the continuing military operations in Balochistan and tribal areas and called for promoting dialogue and jirgas to resolve the problems...
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Tribal areas to be developed: PM
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Friday that the government was committed to socio-economic development of tribal areas and had been increasing its share in uplift funds to improve facilities of health, education, roads, etc.,...
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‘Seven Pakistanis in Guantanamo’
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Seven Pakistani prisoners are still languishing in Gauntanamo Bay jail, says Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao. The minister was speaking with media persons after inaugurating a radio-cab service in here on Friday....
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Man jailed in UK for terror links
LONDON, March 17: A British man, who bought equipment which might have been used in attacks on coalition troops in Afghanistan, was jailed for eight years on Friday after he admitted being a “terrorist quartermaster”, UK police said....
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Outsiders in Gwadar won’t vote: Shujaat
LAHORE, March 17: People from other provinces working in Gwadar will not be allowed to vote or contest elections for a period of 15 years, says president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain....
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Villager killed by landmine
QUETTA, March 17: A man was killed by a landmine which exploded in a village in Jaffarabad district on Friday. Four other people were injured in a bomb blast in Mach....
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Afghan bandits kill 22 in Iran
TEHRAN, March 17: Afghan bandits with links to US and British security services have killed 22 people in Iran and seized an unknown number of others in an ambush that also left a senior official critically wounded, officials said on Friday....
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Taliban chief warns of suicide attacks
KANDAHAR, March 17: A statement attributed to leader of the defunct Taliban Mullah Omar says that large numbers of Afghan youths are signing up as suicide bombers for “a wave of bloody attacks” in coming months against foreign and Afghan troops....
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$67bn for US military operations
WASHINGTON, March 17: The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly endorsed a Bush administration request for $92 billion more for Iraq and Gulf Coast hurricane relief, despite bipartisan worries about the ballooning costs of the war and the recovery effort....
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Russia, China near deal on Iran row: Tehran terms issue non-negotiable
VIENNA, March 17: Diplomats in Vienna said on Friday that Russia and China’s softening stance had allowed the UN Security Council to inch towards agreement on a Franco-British statement urging Iran to halt nuclear enrichment....
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German on trial over Libya’s N-plan
MANNHEIM (Germany) March 17: A German engineer went on trial on Friday accused of supplying Libya with nuclear weapons technology through the smuggling network of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan....
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Forces find few rebels in Iraq assault
AL DAWR (Iraq), March 17: Under the watchful eye of drone spy planes, joint US-Iraqi patrols on Friday surrounded and entered hamlets near Samarra on the second day of a major operation to root out insurgents....
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US Congress urged not to approve N-deal unconditionally
WASHINGTON, March 17: The US State Department’s former non-proliferation guru is urging Congress not to give an unconditional approval to the Bush administration’s nuclear deal with India....
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Immolation threat by stranded Pakistanis
DHAKA, March 17: The Pakistanis stranded in Bangladesh have threatened self-immolation on March 23, if the Bangladesh government fails to initiate a ‘tripartite meeting’ by March 22 to sreolve their long-standing problems....
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Paramilitary post attacked
WANA, March 17: Tribal militants exchanged fire with security forces on Friday in the tribal region, officials said. Armed men attacked a paramilitary post in Khamranz....
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Trial bus goes to Jalalabad
PESHAWAR, March 17: A bus of the Pakistan-Afghanistan friendship service left Peshawar for Jalalabad on Friday on trial run. The bus painted with Pakistan and Afghanistan flags started its three-hour run from Peshawar to Jalalabad at 9am from the press club....
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