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| March 26, 2006 | Sunday | Safar 25, 1427 |
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Army not to be deployed in Fata: Other options for peace available: Sherpao
PESHAWAR, March 25: Army has no direct role in the ongoing operation against terrorists in North and South Waziristan agencies and its presence there is aimed at assisting the political administrations and law-enforcing agencies in maintaining of law and order.... 
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Elections will be held next year, vows Musharraf: ‘Democracy stems from empowerment, progress’
JHELUM, March 25: President Pervez Musharraf vowed on Saturday that elections would be held on schedule next year and said the government remained committed to the principles of empowerment and democracy....
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Benazir says will return before polls
LAHORE, March 25: Pakistan People’s Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said she will return to Pakistan ahead of next elections whether or not the rulers allow her to participate in them....
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CJ criticises delay in ATC cases’ proceedings
LAHORE, March 25: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Saturday said that the performance of anti-terrorism courts had been far from satisfactory because of inordinate delay in deciding cases....
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Four MPAs expelled from JUI
PESHAWAR, March 25: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazlur Rehman group) on Saturday said that it had cancelled the party membership of four members of the NWFP Assembly for not casting votes in favour of party candidates in the recent Senate polls....
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Explosives-laden truck slips into ravine
KOHAT, March 25: Security personnel have temporarily suspended an operation to stop an explosives-laden truck from falling deeper into a ravine and retrieve it before it could cause major damage, officials said here on Saturday....
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Four Khasadars injured in ambush
MIRAMSHAH, March 25: Four Khasadar personnel were injured, two of them critically, when suspected local Taliban ambushed their jeep near Mirali, 25 kilometres east of here, in the North Waziristan Agency on Saturday....
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Maris say their men nabbed
QUETTA, March 25: Anjuman Ittehad Marri has alleged that dozens of Marri tribesmen and children were arrested on Friday night and Saturday morning during a raid on the New Kahan suburb...
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‘Expelled’ Bugtis reach Sui
KASHMOR, March 25: Some 1,800 members of Rahija and Masoori clans of Bugti tribe — including men, women and children — in a convoy of 130 vehicles entered Balochistan at Dera...
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China gives satellite system to Pakistan
BEIJING, March 25: China has provided meteorological satellite data reception equipment to Pakistan to help manage natural disasters. This is a part of on-going cooperation in the field of space technology for its peaceful use, at bilateral and regional levels....
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Indian team coming with MFN, transit demands: Delegation due today for trade talks
ISLAMABAD, March 25: Pakistan will discuss with Indian authorities a list of proposals to facilitate trade, including elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers (NTBs), and enhance commercial and economic relations between the two countries....
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Rs2.8bn package for Balochistan: District govts to utilise funds
QUETTA, March 25: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday announced a special package of 56 per cent of total funds of the Khushhal Pakistan Programme for Balochistan to be utilised by the district governments for development projects....
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Sindh seeks Rs3.7bn more
ISLAMABAD, March 25: Sindh has sought Rs3.7 billion special funding from the Centre to urgently rehabilitate the province’s weakening physical and social infrastructure....
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Deadlock persists in UNSC over Iran
UNITED NATIONS, March 25: As the American and European diplomats voiced alarm that Iran’s uranium-enrichment program was advancing, the United Nations Security Council remained deadlocked on Friday over a statement on the issue....
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Iran can make bomb in three years: report
WASHINGTON, March 25: Iran is moving faster than expected toward enriching uranium and could manufacture enough of it to build a bomb within three years, The Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday....
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US soldier dies in clash with Taliban
KANDAHAR, March 25: US and Afghan troops backed up by American aircraft fought suspected Taliban in Helmand on Saturday, leaving one US soldier and an unknown number of militants dead, officials said....
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Afghan govt discusses fate of convert
KABUL, March 25: Afghan authorities met on Saturday to discuss the fate of an Afghan man who faces a possible death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity, while a senior official said he could be freed shortly....
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Govt trying to break up PML-N: Nawaz
LAHORE, March 25: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif opened a two-day meeting of his party’s central working committee on Saturday in London with a bitter denunciation of the...
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