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| March 22, 2006 | Wednesday | Safar 21, 1427 |
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Sui gas supply to Punjab, Frontier suspended
QUETTA, March 21: The gas supply to Punjab and the NWFP was suspended from the Sui gas plant after a gas pipeline was blown up in Doli, some 20km from the Sui township, in the early hours of Tuesday.... 
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Nepra partially revives power policy of ’94
ISLAMABAD, March 21: In partial revival of 1994’s power policy, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has approved an upfront tariff for new thermal independent power producers (IPPs), ranging between 5.9...
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N-capable cruise missile test-fired
ISLAMABAD, March 21: Pakistan on Tuesday successfully test-fired a cruise missile which can carry a nuclear warhead and hit targets within a range of 500 kilometres....
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Bird flu in 2 farms confirmed
ISLAMABAD, March 21: Officials on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of any more bird flu infections in the country after laboratory tests confirmed the presence of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in two poultry farms in Charsadda and Abbottabad....
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US military’s relief operations end
ISLAMABAD, March 21: The chairman, United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace, on Tuesday announced the conclusion of the longest-ever US military disaster relief operations in Pakistan....
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N-capability a must: PM
ISLAMABAD, March 21: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan’s nuclear programme is meant to keep a minimum credible deterrence, necessary for peace in the region, and it will also be utilised to meet energy requirements....
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Indian N-deal won’t affect ties with Pakistan: Bush
WASHINGTON, March 21: US President George W. Bush has rejected the suggestion that concluding a nuclear deal with India would strain America’s relations with Pakistan. In a speech delivered in Cleveland...
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Tehran assured of diplomatic help
ISLAMABAD, March 21: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Tuesday assured his Iranian counterpart Manocher Mottaki of Pakistan’s full diplomatic support on Tehran’s nuclear issue with the counsel that it must exercise restraint and cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency....
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Bush sees troops in Iraq till ’08 at least
WASHINGTON, March 21: President George W. Bush hinted on Tuesday that US troops may stay in Iraq at least through 2008 and the decision to withdraw troops from that country will fall to future US presidents and Iraqi leaders....
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Talks held with India to curb crime, smuggling NEW DELHI, March 21: Top investigators from India and Pakistan met on Tuesday for the first time in 17 years in a bid to check crime and smuggling, officials said....
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Four soldiers injured in rocket attack
MIRAMSHAH, March 21: Militants attacked two checkposts early on Tuesday morning, wounding four paramilitary soldiers, sources said. They said that the militants fired rockets on Ghusha and Thall pickets near Miramshah....
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Jirga seeks withdrawal of troops
ISLAMABAD, March 21: A jirga of the North Waziristan Agency on Tuesday demanded that the government initiate a process of dialogue and immediately withdraw troops from the tribal areas to restore permanent peace....
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Progress slow on major projects
ISLAMABAD, March 21: A total of 23 mega projects under the current year’s development programme are problematic and moving slow and another 23 per cent of the projects with over Rs100 million cost do not have independent project directors....
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Swedish foreign minister resigns over cartoons STOCKHOLM, March 21: Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds quit on Tuesday after a row over the closure of a website with cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), embarrassing Prime Minister Goran Persson six months ahead of elections....
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Quake jolts part of Balochistan
QUETTA, March 21: A moderate earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted the towns of Sibi, Harnai and Lehri in Balochistan on Tuesday but there were no reports of casualties or damage....
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Soldier injured in landmine explosion
QUETTA, March 21: A soldier of the Frontier Corps identified as Abdul Qayyum was seriously injured in a landmine explosion in the Nal area of Kohlu district on Tuesday....
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