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| April 26, 2006 | Wednesday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 27, 1427 |
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Key portfolios changed in shake-up: Durrani replaces Rashid as information minister
ISLAMABAD, April 25: Four new faces were inducted into the federal cabinet on Tuesday while some portfolios changed hands the most prominent among them being the ministry of information and broadcasting....
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Pact to reduce risk of N-accidents discussed: Meeting on conventional CBMs tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, April 25: The fourth round of Pakistan-India expert level talks on nuclear confidence-building measures that began here on Tuesday focused mainly on a proposed agreement to reduce risk of nuclear accidents with the draft going back and forth....
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10 killed as chairlift cable snaps
PESHAWAR, April 25: Ten people were killed when a cable of a chairlift used for crossing a river at Gijbori village in Battagram district snapped on Tuesday....
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Two soldiers, three militants killed
MIRAMSHAH, April 25: Two soldiers and three assailants were killed and 14 troops injured when an army convoy was ambushed in the Paikhel area, 15 kilometres from here on Monday evening....
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Gas pricing talks with Iran on 28th
ISLAMABAD, April 25: Iran is sending a team of experts to hold talks with Pakistani officials on technical issues and gas pricing of $7.4 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline....
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Six killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, April 25: Six people were killed on Tuesday in separate shooting incidents in occupied Kashmir while 28 people, including eight children, were hurt in a landmine explosion and a grenade attack, police said....
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Chinese investment sought in energy projects
ISLAMABAD, April 25: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday invited China to invest in large refineries, storages and pipelines to help develop Gwadar as an ‘energy and trans-shipment port’ to ensure secure and reliable supplies to Central Asia and western China....
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N-concessions for India to disturb regional security: Kasuri
BERLIN, April 25: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri has stressed the need for a ‘package approach’ towards Pakistan and India on transfer of civilian nuclear technology and said that unilateral concessions for India would disturb the regional security balance in South Asia....
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No plan to use Pakistan against Iran, says US
MINA SULMAN, (Bahrain), April 25: The commander US Naval Forces Central Command has said that America has no plans to use Pakistan against Iran....
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Strategic talks with Washington begin today
WASHINGTON, April 25: Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan arrives in Washington later on Tuesday for the inaugural meeting of the US-Pakistan strategic dialogue, initiated during President Bush’s visit to Islamabad last month....
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Diamer-Bhasha project work begins today
GILGIT, April 25: President Gen Pervez Musharraf is expected to visit the proposed Diamer-Bhasha dam site on Wednesday and inaugurate the project....
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Lankan army chief injured in suicide attack
COLOMBO, April 25: A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber pretending to be pregnant blew herself up on Tuesday, seriously wounding Sri Lanka’s army chief and killing 10 others....
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Quetta blast was caused by bomb, say police
QUETTA, April 25: Police investigators said on Tuesday that a blast which destroyed a house in Baloch Colony and killed five members of a family was caused by a powerful bomb....
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Mistrial declared in terror case
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25: A US federal judge declared a mistrial on Tuesday in the case of a Pakistani-American accused of covering up his son’s alleged Al Qaeda training....
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‘Reshuffle in national interest’
ISLAMABAD, April 25: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Tuesday that the expansion and reshuffle in the federal cabinet had been made in the best national interest....
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Pakistani goes on trial in US
NEW YORK, April 25: A police informer told a US Federal District court in Brooklyn on Monday that a Pakistani immigrant, angered by the war in Iraq and the Abu Ghraib...
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Troops called in Astore, woman killed during protests
GILGIT, April 25: A woman was killed and two women and a police official were injured on Tuesday in cross firing between police and people in Astore where a dispute over...
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Master plan for AJK capital finalised
MUZAFFARABAD, April 25: The Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) has completed the most difficult phase of a master plan for the devastated capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the administrator of Municipal Corporation Muzaffarabad said here on Tuesday....
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