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| April 4, 2006 | Tuesday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 5, 1427 |
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Controversial PA session held: Two women MPs take oath
PESHAWAR, April 3: Two women MPAs of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) took oath on Monday at an assembly session hastily called by the speaker amid a row between the NWFP governor and the ruling alliance.... 
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Governor-CM row defused, says Aziz
ISLAMABAD April 3: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz announced on Monday that a row between NWFP Governor Khalilur Rahman and Chief Minister Muhammad Akram Durrani over the convening of a provincial assembly had been defused....
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Moratorium on cement exports
ISLAMABAD, April 3: The cement industry and the government have reached an agreement to put a moratorium on cement exports for 25 days to contain its rising prices....
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President vows to establish govt writ: Commanders discuss situation in Balochistan, Waziristan
ISLAMABAD, April 3: President Gen Pervez Musharraf declared on Monday that no one would be allowed to damage national assets, and expressed the hope that development work in Balochistan would go on uninterrupted....
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10 killed in van-truck collision
THATTA, April 3: Ten people were killed and 15 others injured when a Karachi-bound van collided head-on with a truck near the Sakro roundabout on the Gharo Highway on Monday evening....
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Seven civilians killed in North Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH, April 3: Seven civilians were killed and eight people, including five soldiers, injured in a renewed wave of violence in different parts of North Waziristan Agency on Monday, officials and witnesses said....
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Govt makes contacts with PPP, PML-N
ISLAMABAD, April 3: The government is reported to have made fresh contacts with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) through “middlemen”, a senior PPP leader told Dawn on condition of anonymity....
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Pakistan, Oman oppose use of force against Iran
ISLAMABAD, April 3: Foreign Minister Khurshid M. Kasuri said on Monday that Pakistan opposed the use of “coercive measures” against Iran over its controversial pursuit of a uranium enrichment programme....
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Crown Prince Abdulaziz due on 15th
RIYADH, April 3: Saudi Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz will make an official visit to Pakistan at the invitation of President Pervez Musharraf from April 15 to 16....
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BD protests to India over water
DHAKA, April 3: Bangladesh registered a formal protest with India on Monday that the former has so far received much less water from Ganges than is stipulated in the 30-year water-sharing treaty with the latter....
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Indian trooper kills colleagues
NEW DELHI, April 3: India’s security woes in disputed Kashmir were heightened on Monday when a trooper of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) killed three fellow colleagues after his leave application was refused, news reports said....
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Key evidence in Al Qaeda trial came from Pakistan
WASHINGTON, April 3: The key evidence against the only person convicted in the US for his connection to the 9/11 attacks came largely from a senior Al Qaeda leader arrested in Pakistan, US and diplomatic sources told Dawn....
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Gorbachev criticises policies of Bush
NEW YORK, April 3: Accusing the United States of being “intoxicated” by its power, the last leader of Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, said on Monday that the talk of pre-emptive strikes...
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NA to meet on Friday
ISLAMABAD, April 3: President General Pervez Musharraf has summoned the session of National Assembly on Friday at 4pm in the Parliament House. The session which will continue till the end of...
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US military plane crashes
WASHINGTON, April 3: A C-5 transport cargo plane with 17 people on board crashed early Monday near a airforce base in the northeastern US city of Dover, Delaware, military officials said....
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Sonia bypoll on May 8
NEW DELHI, April 3: A by-election which India’s ruling Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi is to contest will take place on May 8, the election commission announced on Monday....
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Unrest in Adiala Jail ends
RAWALPINDI, April 3: Many of the prisoners who went on hunger strike in Adiala Jail over the weekend ended their protest on Monday evening after talks with Punjab’s Inspector General of Prisons Sarfraz Ahmed Mufti but some persisted in the protest....
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Three killed in Panjgur
QUETTA, April 3: Armed men gunned down three members of a family, including a couple, in Panjgur area on Monday, police said. Police said two armed men barged into the house...
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