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MMA accuses Benazir of harming movement
ISLAMABAD March 26: MMA’s deputy parliamentary leader in the National Assembly Hafiz Hussain Ahmed has said that the PPP, a major component of ARD, is a hurdle in the way of launching an all-out campaign against Gen Musharraf and his allies.... 
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legislators deny horse-trading charge
PESHAWAR, March 26: Three of the four MPAs expelled from the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam have rejected horse-trading charges and vowed to challenge a notification regarding their purported resignations from the NWFP assembly....
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‘Islamabad, Kabul share common interests’
ISLAMABAD, March 26: Pakistan and Afghanistan were mutually indispensable and both the countries had common interests, said Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri. In an interview with the BBC Radio, he said...
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‘Hamas will not abandon jihad’
PESHAWAR, March 26: Hamas leader and former Imam of Al Quds Mosque Shaikh Mohammad Mehmood Al Siyam has said Hamas will not abandon the path of jihad despite its sweeping victory in the Palestinian general elections....
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RYK tenants protest ‘harassment by police’
RAHIM YAR KHAN, March 26: Hundreds of tenants have taken to roads to stop their ‘forceful ejection’ from the land they have been ploughing since 1940s....
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Musharraf promises medical care at grassroots level
RAWALPINDI, March 26: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Sunday said the government was following a comprehensive policy to provide medical care at the grassroots level. Addressing at the silver jubilee celebrations...
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People at mercy of over 42,000 ‘paramedics’: Bogus certificates
LAHORE; March 26: Nine ministerial staff members of the Punjab Medical Faculty (PMF) are involved in the Dec 2004 paramedical examinations scam as well as mismanagement in documentation and issuance of certificates since 1996....
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Chief of coalition force named
ISLAMABAD, March 26: Rear Admiral Shahid Iqbal has been named commander of the multi-national Task Force-150 of the Coalition Maritime Security Campaign Plan, as Pakistan braces up to take over its command....
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Two killed in accident
NOWSHERA, March 26: Two people were killed in a car-truck collision near Jalozai refugee camp on Cherat road here on Sunday. The victims were identified as Haji Tor Gul and his driver Pervez....
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Downpour damages wheat crop
TOBA TEK SINGH, March 26: Wheat crop over hundreds of acres was damaged as a result of Saturday night downpour and windstorm. Agriculturists told this correspondent that the grain was yet...
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Four killed in road accident
MULTAN, March 26: Four people were killed and six injured in a collision between a car and a bus on Khanewal Road on Sunday. The bus was going to Lahore when...
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Department shows ‘inability’ to reopen schools SIALKOT, March 26: The district education authorities have expressed their inability to re-open the several closed local government girls primary schools in Bajwat’s far-off villages along the working boundary....
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Newsman’s attacker at large
NAROWAL, March 26: Narowal police have failed to arrest a man who stabbed a local journalist on Saturday morning. An addict, Mazhar Husain alias Bablo had stabbed Arif Mahmood, a local daily correspondent, for refusing to give him money for drugs....
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Rain proves fatal for two
FAISALABAD, March 26: Two persons, including a girl, were killed in rain-related incidents in different parts of the city here on Saturday night. Uzma, 10, daughter of merchant Riaz Ahmad, was...
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Capital’s lion king dies
ISLAMABAD, March 26: The main attraction at the Marghzar Zoo, the lion king, has died at the age of 20. “The animal died of prolonged illness as he was suffering from arthritis,” the Zoo Director, Raja Javed said....
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New Al Qaeda check for US-bound Pakistanis
RAWALPINDI, March 26: The US government has asked Pakistan to convey it full information about the Pakistani nationals travelling to the US as soon as they book their flight....
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Traffic police told to obey law, not VIP
ISLAMABAD, March 26: Traffic police officers piloting the VIP motorcades have been directed not to violate speed limits despite pressure from the top officials. Talking to Dawn Sultan Azam Taimuri, Senior...
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Convention mirrors PML success: Pervaiz
LAHORE, March 26: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi said on Sunday a large turnout of people from all the four provinces at the centenary convention on March 23 had given force to the PML re-organisation process....
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