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| April 27, 2006 | Thursday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 28, 1427 |
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All reservoirs will be built: Musharraf: Diamer-Bhasha dam project launched
DIAMER, April 26: President General Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday performed the ground-breaking of $6.5 billion Diamer-Bhasha dam and declared that all dams, including Kalabagh, would be built under the ‘2016 Water...
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‘Troops to be pulled out if tribesmen cooperate’: Musharraf addresses jirga
PESHAWAR, April 26: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday hinted at withdrawing troops from tribal areas if tribesmen cooperated with the government in its efforts to eliminate terrorism....
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N-accord with India in July likely
ISLAMABAD, April 26: Pakistan and India on Wednesday wrapped up the fourth round of expert group talks on nuclear CBMs amid optimism that the agreement to reduce risk of nuclear accidents...
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Islamabad will never proliferate: Kasuri
BERLIN, April 26: Pakistan has never proliferated and it will never do so as robust legislative and administrative structures are in place to discourage its occurrence from its territory, says Foreign Minister Khurshid M....
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Afghan hand seen in Balochistan blasts: Centre urged to take up issue
QUETTA, April 26: Balochistan Home Minister Mir Shoaib Ahmed Nausherwani has urged the federal government to lodge protest with Kabul over involvement of Afghan nationals in two bomb explosions in Quetta over the past four days....
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‘Informer’ beheaded
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, April 26: Pro-Taliban militants beheaded a cab driver on suspicion of being an informer for the United States, the fourth such killing in the Waziristan region this month, officials said on Wednesday....
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Iran warns US of retaliation
TEHRAN, April 26: Iran’s supreme leader boldly warned the United States on Wednesday that it would be “harmed” across the globe if it decided to attack the Islamic republic over its disputed nuclear programme....
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‘US-India treaty to encourage proliferation’
WASHINGTON, April 26: The Indo-US deal will initiate a nuclear arms race in South and Central Asian regions with China helping Pakistan and Russia offering more help to Iran’s atomic programme,...
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Exodus from troubled area in Sri Lanka
TRINCOMALEE, April 26: Hundreds of civilians and many humanitarian organisations began moving out of the north and east as fears of war heightened when government warplanes started pounding eastern LTTE bases for the second consecutive day....
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Four troops killed in Kunar
JALALABAD, April 26: Four Afghan soldiers were killed and three were wounded after their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial governor said on Wednesday....
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Two terror suspects freed in Britain
LONDON, April 26: Two men arrested as part of an ongoing terrorism investigation in central Scotland have been released without charge, their lawyer said on Wednesday....
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Man found guilty of training for militancy
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26: A Pakistani-American man was found guilty in a California court on Tuesday of undergoing Al Qaeda training just hours after a mistrial was declared in his father’s trial in the same case....
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Rumsfeld, Rice push for national Iraq govt
BAGHDAD, April 26: Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld flew in to Baghdad on Wednesday in a double push by Washington’s diplomatic and military chiefs to ensure Iraq’s new prime minister forms a national unity government....
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Sherpao leaves for Turkey
ISLAMABAD, April 26: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao left here on Wednesday for Turkey at the head of a four-member delegation to discuss cooperation against terrorism, illegal immigrants and human trafficking....
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Musharraf attack case: two more appeals filed in SC
ISLAMABAD, April 26: Another two convicts of assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf have moved the Supreme Court against the capital punishment awarded to them by a military trial court....
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Boy isolated; bird flu suspected
PESHAWAR, April 26: A 13-year-old boy was quarantined at the Khyber Teaching Hospital on Wednesday after doctors suspected him of suffering from bird flu symptoms. “We received a patient with typical bird flu symptoms....
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Strike in Diamer against dam
GILGIT, April 26: All shops in Diamer remained closed as people observed a strike on the occasion of foundation laying of Diamer-Bhasha dam by President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday....
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Russia rejects US plea to delay supply: N-fuel for India
WASHINGTON, April 26: Russia has delivered fresh nuclear fuel for two Indian reactors, ignoring a US request for a delay until rules are formally changed to allow such transfers, American officials said in recent interviews....
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