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| April 23, 2006 | Sunday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 24, 1427 |
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Iran-India gas deal almost agreed: Only technical issues to be resolved: Pakistan
DOHA, April 22: Iran, India and Pakistan are close to signing a gas pipeline deal, Iranian and Pakistani oil ministers told Reuters on Saturday, defying US opposition to the project.... 
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Benazir to meet Nawaz tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, April 22: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto arrived in London on Saturday where she would hold talks with Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif on Monday, PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar said here....
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US wants ‘free and fair’ elections: Rice
WASHINGTON, April 22: The United States has again lent support to the ‘democratic process’ in Pakistan, saying that it hopes the 2007 elections in the country would be ‘free and fair’....
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Kalabagh dam at all costs: President
ISLAMABAD, April 22: President General Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday that Kalabagh dam would be constructed at all costs because of the acute shortage of water in the country....
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Trans-Kashmir trade talks on May 2
ISLAMABAD, April 22: Pakistan and India have agreed to hold talks on trans Kashmir trade and establishing new links in another major step towards reviving old Kashmiri links and facilitating greater...
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Rocket fire triggers fierce counter-attack
MIRAMSHAH, April 22: Suspected militants on Saturday fired six rockets at the Thall check-post on the Eisha-Razmak road, 15 kilometres from the agency headquarters....
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S. Arabia, China to cooperate in defence
RIYADH, April 22: Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in the Saudi capital here on Saturday at the start of a landmark visit aimed at strengthening ties between the two countries at political, strategic and economic levels....
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Four Canadian soldiers killed
OTTAWA, April 22: Four Canadian soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan on Saturday. The explosion struck an armoured vehicle carrying the soldiers to a remote base near Gumbad.—AFP...
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Iraq asks Maliki to form govt
BAGHDAD, April 22: Tough-talking Jawad al Maliki, a Shia, was tasked to form a coalition government on Saturday when Iraqi leaders ended four months of political paralysis and vowed to halt sectarian strife and avert any slide to civil war....
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ECNEC approves 22 projects
ISLAMABAD, April 22: The Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet (ECNEC) headed by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has approved 22 development projects which will cost Rs53.7billion....
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Signing of PS sale on 24th
ISLAMABAD, April 22: The signing ceremony of the sale of a 75 per cent strategic stake in the share capital of Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation will be held here on Monday....
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Aruna, Moazzam return home
HYDERABAD, April 22: Aruna Moazzam and her husband Moazzam Ali, who reached home here on Saturday from Okara, have appealed to the government to send them abroad, saying they still feared her parents could cause harm to their lives....
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Earthquake survivors protest for relief
MUZAFFARABAD, April 22: Angry protesters burnt tyres and laid obstacles on roads as the city observed a crippling strike on Saturday on relief and reconstruction related issues....
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Resignation of nazim accepted
QUETTA, April 22: The Balochistan government has accepted the resignation of Khuzdar District Nazim Sardar Naseer Mosyani. According to official sources, the provincial local government department issued the notification on Saturday after the chief minister accepted the resignation....
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PM calls for improving country’s image abroad ISLAMABAD, April 22: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday stressed the need of bridging the gap of misunderstanding about Pakistan’s image in the world and expressed the hope that PTV’s new...
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PN to lead coalition task force
ISLAMABAD, April 22: Pakistan will become the first non-Nato country to lead the Task Force-150 of the Coalition Maritime Campaign Plan (CMCP) after the Pakistan...
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New Delhi seeks transit facility: India-Pakistan-Afghan trade urged
PESHAWAR, April 22: India on Saturday said that if Islamabad provided New Delhi with the transit facility for trade with Afghanistan then it would also benefit Pakistan as Peshawar would become a hub of economic activity....
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Khar to meet jailed ARD leaders, activists
ISLAMABAD, April 22: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar has decided to meet all the jailed leaders and workers of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD)...
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