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| April 8, 2006 | Saturday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 9, 1427 |
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Suicide blasts at mosque in Iraq kill 79
BAGHDAD, April 7: Three suicide bombers, two of them disguised as women, killed on Friday at least 79 people and wounded 164 as worshippers left a popular Baghdad Shia mosque after... 
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Ban on contacts with Indians criticised: Walkouts, early adjournment mark NA session
ISLAMABAD, April 7: The government was caught napping in the National Assembly session on Friday as the opposition came out strongly against what it called “a wrongful directive to MPs” not to make direct contact with Indian diplomats....
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Tribesmen want troops moved to Afghan border
MIRAMSHAH, April 7: Hundreds of armed tribesmen took out a demonstration in Mirali bazaar on Friday in protest against the alleged killing of civilians by security forces and continued presence of army checkposts in the North Waziristan Agency....
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US urges India to lead for N-stability
NEW DEHLI/WASHINGTON, April 7: The US urged India and Pakistan on Friday to work out a mutual understanding for building confidence in both conventional and nuclear fields....
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Balochistan highway blocked again
QUETTA, April 7: Hundreds of activists of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) resumed on Friday morning a blockade of the National Highway at several key points, cutting off road links between Quetta and Karachi for a second day....
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Cherie meets quake victims
ATTOCK, April 7: Cherie Blair, the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, visited on Friday Ashiana, a tent village for earthquake survivors at Ghazi-Barotha Colony in Hattian, some 25km from here....
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Pakistan open to N-freeze
ISLAMABAD, April 7: Pakistan on Friday indicated it was open to the question of a South Asian moratorium on nuclear weapons production and reiterated its proposal of strategic restraint regime in the region....
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ADB predicts 6.3pc GDP growth this year
ISLAMABAD, April 7: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has forecast a 7.3 per cent GDP growth rate for Pakistan in 2006-7 and says the country would achieve only 6.3...
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Pakistan, Spain stress inter-faith talks: Aziz meets Zapatero
MADRID, April 7: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and his Spanish counterpart Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Friday jointly made a passionate plea for promoting dialogue among civilizations and religions....
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‘N-package essential for Pakistan’
ISLAMABAD, April 7: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri said on Friday that Pakistan was endeavouring to convince the United States to enter into a package deal on civil nuclear energy as...
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5 injured as army vehicles attacked
QUETTA, April 7: Five army personnel, including two senior officers, were injured in an armed attack on army vehicles on the RCD Highway in the Wadh area, some 400kms south-east from here, on Friday evening....
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Don’t push Islamabad too far, ex-CIA official tells govt
WASHINGTON, April 7: A former head of CIA’s Al Qaeda unit, and now a political analyst, has warned the Bush administration not to push Pakistan too much to do things that...
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US, EU freeze aid to Palestine
BRUSSELS, April 7: The United States and the European Commission on Friday stepped up pressure on the new Hamas-led Palestinian government by announcing a suspension of aid payments....
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Six Palestinians killed in Israeli attack
GAZA, April 7: Israeli aircraft fired missiles on a car carrying Palestinian militants in southern Gaza on Friday and possibly a second car with civilians inside, killing six people including a small girl....
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Five held in India over defence leak
NEW DELHI, April 7: Five people have been arrested, including three retired naval officers, over the alleged leak of military secrets to help international arms firms clinch Indian defence deals, reports said on Friday....
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Hundreds more held in Nepal
KATHMANDU, April 7: Hundreds more protesters were arrested on Friday in Nepal on the second day of a general strike amid violent demonstrations demanding King Gyanendra restore democracy....
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High alert in Kashmir after vehicle theft
SRINAGAR, April 7: Suspected militants stole an SUV in Kashmir on Friday, raising fears of a car-bomb attack on the first anniversary of the historic cross-border bus service between occupied and Azad Kashmir, police said....
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India to retire Mig-25s
NEW DELHI, April 7: The Indian Air Force (IAF) will mothball its 30-year-old Soviet-era spy planes and show them to the public for the first time, a spokesman said on Friday....
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45 feared dead as bus plunges into river
JAMMU, April 7: Up to 45 people are feared to have died after a bus skidded off a mountainous road in the state of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday and plunged into a fast-moving river, a senior government official said....
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Lenin’s tomb: debate begins over closure
MOSCOW, April 7: Historians in Russia are proposing to close Lenin’s mausoleum on Moscow’s Red Square, where the preserved body of the head of the Bolshevik revolution is still held, daily Kommersant reported on Friday....
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Kuwait Amir in hospital
KUWAIT, April 7: Kuwait’s Amir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah entered a hospital for “ordinary” tests on Friday, the official news agency KUNA reported. Sheikh Sabah, in his mid-70s, had a pacemaker installed in 1999.—Reuters...
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2,340 Indian prisoners released: Kasuri
ISLAMANAD, April 7: Minister for Foreign Affairs Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri told the National Assembly that Pakistan released 2,340 Indian nationals during the past three years as compared to 547 Pakistanis set free by India....
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