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| April 30, 2006 | Sunday | Rabi-us-Sani 1, 1427 |
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PM wants hunt for culprits to continue: Nishtar Park bombing
KARACHI, April 29: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday said the government was determined to get to the bottom of the Nishtar Park tragedy, “which by all available indications was caused... 
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Hatf VI missile test-fired
RAWALPINDI, April 29: Pakistan on Saturday test-fired nuclear-capable, surface-to-surface ballistic missile Hatf VI (Shaheen II), an upgraded version of a missle system capable of hitting targets 2,000 kilometres away with high accuracy....
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324 militants killed in nine months: 39 operations conducted in Waziristan: ISPR
MIRAMSHAH, April 29: The army is in full control in the troubled region of Waziristan, where 324 militants have been killed in operations over the past nine months, officials said on Saturday....
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3 policemen, 2 Taliban killed
KANDAHAR, April 29: Three Afghan policemen were killed, while security forces shot dead two Taliban rebels in separate incidents on Saturday in southern Helmand province, officials said....
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Tehran reaffirms nuclear plan
TEHRAN, April 29: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed on Saturday to never give up Iran’s nuclear drive as western powers pushed for tough Security Council action against the country....
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‘Pakistan to respect UN sanctions against Iran’
WASHINGTON, April 29: As a UN member, Pakistan would have to honour any sanctions imposed on Iran but such restrictions could do more harm than good, Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammed Khan told journalists in Washington....
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Protocol to be signed on Iran pipeline
ISLAMABAD, April 29: Pakistan and Iran decided on Saturday to sign a protocol of understanding on agreed points of the proposed $7 billion gas pipeline project on the conclusion of three-day technical level talks....
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Wapda, KESC come under fire in NA: Power outages in Karachi
ISLAMABAD, April 29: The Water and Power Development Authority and the new management of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation came under fire in the National Assembly on Saturday for crippling power cuts in the Sindh capital....
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Wapda denies reducing supply to KESC
LAHORE, April 29: The Water and Power Development Authority has not reduced supply to the KESC and it will continue to provide the facility above its agreed quota despite huge backlog...
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Zawahiri calls for removal of govt
WASHINGTON, April 29: Al Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged its followers to bring down the ‘pro-US government’ in Pakistan, says a monitoring report issued here on Saturday....
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Taliban tell Indians to leave Afghanistan
NEW DELHI, April 29: India on Saturday condemned the kidnapping of its worker by the Taliban militants in the Afghan province of Zabul on Friday and indicated that New Delhi would...
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15 captives found dead in India
RAIPUR, April 29: Fifteen people kidnapped by Maoist rebels have been found dead in a forest in a Maoist-hit region of central India, police said on Saturday....
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26 Asians die in Saudi bus crash
RIYADH, April 29: Twenty-six Asians were killed and 19 injured when a bus transporting them to the Saudi holy city of Medina swerved off a bridge, a Saudi daily said on Saturday without specifying their nationalities....
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Proposal to give UN chief more powers blocked
UNITED NATIONS, April 29: Developing nations on Friday blocked proposals to give the UN secretary-general more powers over staff and finances, a move that could provoke a budget crisis and possibly...
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US, EU in discord on Iran action
BRUSSELS, April 29: The United States and the European Union struck different tones on Saturday on how to respond to Iran’s nuclear defiance while insisting they were in full agreement....
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Landmines defused
QUETTA, April 29: Police on Saturday defused two powerful anti-tank landmines planted on the road near Radio Pakistan’s high-power transmitter in Khuzdar....
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Defence accord signed with UAE
ABU DHABI, April 29: Chairman of Pakistan Armed Forces’ Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Ehsanul Haq, who is on a three-day official visit to Abu Dhabi, signed a defence cooperation agreement with the UAE....
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New airport to be completed in 3 years
ISLAMABAD, April 29: The construction of new Islamabad International Airport would begin by the end of this year and the project would be completed in three years at a cost of Rs18 billion....
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