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| April 5, 2006 | Wednesday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 6, 1427 |
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APHC rejects division of Kashmir
ISLAMABAD, April 4: All Parties Hurriyat Conference chief Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said on Tuesday he felt winds of change blowing across Kashmir and the APHC was seeking to build a consensus (among Kashmiris) for a settlement of the issue.... 
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India talks aimed at conflict resolution: Dialogue being held through various channels: FO
ISLAMABAD, April 4: Pakistan on Tuesday declared that peace talks with India were being pursued through various channels and expressed the hope that the dialogue would lead to forward movement, particularly on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir....
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7 soldiers killed by landmines: Bugti
QUETTA, April 4: At least seven personnel of Frontier Corps were killed and 11 injured in two landmine blasts in Loti and Ghori area of Dera Bugti district on Monday and Tuesday, according to Nawab Akbar Bugti....
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Crop yield falling below target
ISLAMABAD, April 4: The yields of wheat, cotton and sugarcane in the country have remained short of target in the current fiscal year, says the Federal Committee on Agriculture (FCA)....
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MPAs seek ban on alien trawlers in Balochistan waters
QUETTA, April 4: The Balochistan assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution against exploitation of precious marine life by domestic and international trawlers operating within the coastal limits of the province....
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Boucher told package approach on N-energy vital
ISLAMABAD, April 4: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri told the visiting US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Richard Boucher, on Tuesday that a package approach by the...
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Protests and poll boycott force Thai PM to quit
BANGKOK, April 4: Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Tuesday he would step down to reunite the country, following weeks of mass protests demanding his resignation and a controversial election which the opposition boycotted....
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‘Flying boat’, new missile tested by Iran
TEHRAN, April 4: Iran successfully tested a “super-modern flying boat” on Tuesday and the land-to-sea Kowsar missile that military analysts say is designed to sink ships in the Gulf, state media reported....
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Accord with Netherlands to boost defence ties
ISLAMABAD, April 4: Pakistan and the Netherlands have agreed to boost defence cooperation, particularly in the areas of intelligence sharing and deployment of crisis response missions, and enhance coordination efforts in Afghanistan to bring stability to that country....
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India’s Iran ties not to affect N-deal: US
WASHINGTON, April 4: The US State Department has confirmed reports that two Iranian ships recently visited Indian ports but indicated that it will not affect a US nuclear deal with India....
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Pakistan eyeing UN body membership
NEW YORK, April 4: Pakistan and 20 other UN member states have announced their candidacies for next month’s election to the new 47-member Human Rights Council that replaces the much discredited and defunct Human Rights Commission, UN officials said on Monday....
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Kadima-Labour coalition takes shape
JERUSALEM, April 4: Israel’s new government began to take shape on Tuesday as acting premier and Kadima party leader Ehud Olmert announced he would seek a coalition with Labour to fix the borders of the Jewish state....
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Kuwaiti women contest polls
KUWAIT, April 4: Women made history in Kuwait on Tuesday by voting and running for office for the first time in a local by-election after the conservative, US-allied Gulf state granted them suffrage last year....
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Protests banned in Kathmandu
KATHMANDU, April 4: Nepal’s royalist government on Tuesday indefinitely banned protests in Kathmandu, two days ahead of a general strike and a series of protests against King Gyanendra’s seizure of power....
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Vietnamese minister held in graft case
HANOI, April 4: Vietnam’s transport minister has offered to resign over a multi-million dollar bribery and gambling scandal and a deputy was arrested on Tuesday over the same case, government officials and witnesses said.—Reuters...
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Saddam faces trial on Kurd genocide charge
BAGHDAD, April 4: Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein will stand trial on new charges of genocide against Kurds in the late 1980s, the court trying him for crimes against humanity said on Tuesday....
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Tremor jolts northern Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, April 4: A tremor measuring 5.2 injured about a dozen people in northern parts on Tuesday, almost five months after a huge earthquake devastated the region, police said....
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Pakistani gets jail term for Taliban link
WASHINGTON, April 4: A Pakistani citizen has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for his alleged role in a plot to obtain and sell Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to the Taliban and Al Qaeda....
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