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| May 9, 2006 | Tuesday | Rabi-us-Sani 10, 1427 |
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Election schedule after assemblies complete term: Musharraf reaffirms dam plan
RAWALPINDI, May 8: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that the schedule for 2007 elections will be announced on completion of the constitutional tenure of assemblies in November next year... 
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PML(N) briefs diplomats on charter of democracy
ISLAMABAD, May 8: Leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League(N) on Monday briefed senior diplomats from eight countries on salient features of the charter of democracy to be signed by former prime...
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US planes violate Pakistan airspace
WANA, May 8: US fighter planes on Monday fired three missiles on the Khwaja Khizar mountains near Angoor Adda in South Waziristan on Monday. According to official sources, three tribesmen were seriously injured....
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Afghan terms for energy corridor
ISLAMABAD, May 8: Afghanistan on Monday agreed to allow export of electricity from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzystan to Pakistan on the condition that it was paid a transit fee and the transmission line went through Kabul and not through the Wakhan corridor....
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PPP team in India, meets Singh today
NEW DELHI, May 8: A six-member delegation of the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians, headed by Makhdoom Amin Fahim, arrived here on Monday for informal talks with Indian leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday....
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Uplift plan for backward dists
ISLAMABAD, May 8: President Pervez Musharraf told a Pakistan Muslim League delegation on Monday that a special development programme would be introduced in the budget for 2006-7 for effectively uplifting the...
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7 of a family among 13 killed over feuds
SHEIKHUPURA/LAHORE, May 8: Thirteen people, seven of them members of one family, were killed in two incidents of violence, one in a village in Sheikhupura, and the other in Raiwind....
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31 fall victim to heatwave
MULTAN, May 8: At least 31 people have died as a searing heatwave brought temperatures of nearly 47 degrees Celsius to Punjab, officials said on Monday....
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N-crisis: Ahmadinejad writes to Bush
TEHRAN, May 8: Iran’s president sent an unprecedented letter to US President George Bush on Monday, suggesting ways to ease tension over Tehran’s nuclear programme, but it was not clear if it offered any compromise....
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Kashmir women protest dispersed
SRINAGAR, May 8: Police in occupied Kashmir used water canon to disperse dozens of women, many wearing black veils, during a new protest on Monday over a suspected prostitution ring involving politicians....
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Wapda offers to waive 50pc of Fata dues
ISLAMABAD, May 8: Wapda has offered to write off half of the Rs55 billion dues outstanding against consumers in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) provided the rest of the arrears are paid....
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3 killed in Afghan clash
KABUL, May 8: Taliban militants ambushed a patrolling police vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing two policemen and losing one of their own fighters, an official and the group said....
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Militant shot dead in Delhi
NEW DELHI, May 8: Indian police shot dead a suspected Muslim guerilla on Monday in the Indian capital, a police spokesman said. The armed guerilla was killed in South Delhi following an encounter, he said.—AFP...
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Lightning kills 5 boys in BD
DHAKA, May 8: At least five children were killed by lightning while playing cricket on a school pitch near the northern Bangladesh town of Gafargaon, police said on Monday....
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14 die in Iraq violence
BAGHDAD, May 8: Fourteen people were killed in guerilla attacks on Monday as Iraqi leaders discussed the final line-up of a new government that aims to curb raging sectarian bloodshed....
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‘Pakistan a committed anti-terror partner’
WASHINGTON, May 8: No country has caught more members of Al Qaeda or lost more soldiers and policemen in the fight against the group than Pakistan, the United States said on...
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Berlin gives Amir’s suicide note to FO
ISLAMABAD, May 8: Germany on Monday shared with Pakistan the purported suicide note of Amir Cheema, who was found dead in a Berlin prison while he faced a trial for allegedly trying to attack an editor over publication of sacrilegious cartoons....
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Swiss team arrives for visa scam probe
ISLAMABAD, May 8: A team of Swiss investigators has arrived in Islamabad to join a probe into the Swiss Embassy visa scam, Dawn learnt on Monday....
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