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| April 18, 2006 | Tuesday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 19, 1427 |
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Talks on Wullar barrage deferred: No US guard at any nuclear site: FO
ISLAMABAD, April 17: Pakistan-India talks on Wullar Barrage scheduled for April 18-19 in Islamabad have been postponed and new dates will be announced soon.... 
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Uniform issue may be decided by apex court: Acting CEC
ISLAMABAD, April 17: Acting Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice Javed Iqbal said on Monday that divergent views and opinions had complicated the issue of election of a uniformed president for the...
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Price hike, travels abroad criticized: Poor attendance mars NA session
ISLAMABAD, April 17: The government came under severe criticism from one of its own lawmakers in the National Assembly on Monday for extravagant expenses on foreign tours made by the prime minister, the National Assembly speaker and parliamentarians....
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Pir Koh gas plant pipeline blown up: Rockets fired on FC checkposts
QUETTA, April 17: Tribesmen blew up a pipeline of the Pir Koh gas plant, causing suspension of gas supply for some time on Monday....
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Three killed for helping US forces
MIRAMSHAH, April 17: Suspected militants have killed an Afghan national and two local tribesmen for spying for US forces and supplying food to them in three different parts of the North...
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‘Al Qaeda man’ handed over to Turkey
ISLAMABAD, April 17: An alleged Al Qaeda militant of Turkish origin captured two months back in South Waziristan was handed over to his home country on Monday....
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Three Afghan suspects arrested
PESHAWAR, April 17: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) arrested three Afghan nationals on the Kohat Road here on Monday over their suspected links with Afghanistan’s Taliban....
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Militants ambush Kashmir politician
SRINAGAR, April 17: Suspected separatist rebels ambushed the motorcade of a former speaker of Jammu-Kashmir state legislature on Monday, badly wounding the politician, killing his bodyguard and injuring two other people, police said....
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Delhi not to commit on stopping nuclear tests
NEW DELHI, April 17: India said on Monday it would make no explicit commitment to the United States not to conduct fresh nuclear tests as part of a landmark civilian atomic cooperation agreement....
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India fitting fighter jets with cruise missiles
NEW DELHI, April 17: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has begun work to arm its frontline fighter jets with supersonic cruise missiles being developed jointly with Russia, a report said on Monday....
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Bird flu: emergency at PIMS
ISLAMABAD, April 17: An emergency has been declared at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences after the outbreak of bird flu was confirmed in a poultry farm in Sihala near here....
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Exercise begins for new budget
ISLAMABAD, April 17: The government has started its budget-making exercise to finalise next year’s development programme by April 24 for approval by the Annual Plan Coordination Committee (APCC) which is expected to meet in the first week of May....
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Nine killed in Tel Aviv suicide attack
TEL AVIV, April 17: A Palestinian suicide bomber killed nine people and wounded 60 others in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Monday in an attack a spokesman for the Hamas called an act of ‘self-defence’....
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Bomb blasts in Lanka leave eight dead
COLOMBO, April 17: At least eight people were killed and many more wounded in a spate of blasts in Sri Lanka on Monday, hours after Tiger rebels suspended their participation in ceasefire talks, the military said....
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US-India talks on curbing terror
WASHINGTON, April 17: The US and India will hold talks in Washington from Wednesday on stepping up cooperation to combat global terrorism....
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Mosque hit by missiles
KHAR, April 17: A mosque was partially damaged in the Dabbar village of Mamond subdivision when it was hit by two missiles fired from nearby mountains, on Sunday night....
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Baloch lawyers demand due representation in judiciary
QUETTA, April 17: Former Balochistan Bar Association vice-president Mohammad Sadiq Raisani has demanded that Baaloch lawyers should be given due representation in the judiciary....
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Musharraf to watch match in Abu Dhabi
ABU DHABI, April 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf arrived here on Monday to watch the first of two one-day cricket matches between India and Pakistan....
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