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| May 11, 2006 | Thursday | Rabi-us-Sani 12, 1427 |
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Mills blamed for sugar crisis: PAC forms probe committee
ISLAMABAD, May 10: The Public Accounts Committee constituted on Wednesday a committee to probe into what it termed wrongdoings of the sugar cartel, including profiteering and tax evasion by sugar mills on import of 400,000 tons of duty-free raw sugar.... 
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Non-productive sectors eating up remittances: Lenders’ warning at PDF
ISLAMABAD, May 10: International lenders on Wednesday said that Pakistan’s economy had started showing signs of ‘overheating’ and an inequitable distribution of assets was depriving common people from sharing the benefits of higher growth....
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Move to facilitate investment urged
RAWALPINDI, May 10: President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday emphasised fast-track facilitation of foreign investment and early removal of impediments in the way of higher levels of international investment to ensure the country’s rapid industrial development....
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Millennium goals being achieved, says Aziz
ISLAMABAD, May 10: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Wednesday that poverty had declined from 32.1 per cent to 25.4 per cent and the per capita income was expected to reach $800 by the end of June this year....
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‘Defaming of religions to be curbed’
ISLAMABAD, May 10: Pakistan expects the newly established UN Human Rights Council to play a pivotal role in preventing defamation of all religions as well as forging cultural and religious harmony across the globe....
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Court summons Benazir, Asif
ISLAMABAD, May 10: The Islamabad district and sessions judge on Wednesday summoned former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari for allegedly filing fake declarations before the Election Commission in 1995....
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Tunisian held in Waziristan
ISLAMABAD, May 10: Security forces arrested three suspected militants, including a Tunisian believed to belong to the Al Qaeda terrorist organisation, in North Waziristan, a senior official said on Wednesday....
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JF-17’s test flight successful
CHENGDU (China), May 10: The fourth prototype of JF-17 Thunder aircraft, jointly manufactured by Pakistan and China, completed its maiden test flight here on Wednesday, proving its credibility to meet the needs of both the countries....
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Benazir says Musharraf won’t arrest Osama
DUBAI, May 10: PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said that capturing Osama bin Laden is not in President General Pervez Musharraf’s interest because that will deprive him of the justification for his rule....
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‘India ready to resolve all issues’
LAHORE, May 10: A six-member PPP delegation returned from a two-day goodwill visit to India on Wednesday, assured by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that New Delhi wanted to resolve all outstanding...
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‘Iran may keep civil N-plan’
WASHINGTON, May 10: The United States said on Wednesday that its European allies were working on a new proposal that would allow Iran to keep its civil nuclear programme....
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Foul play ruled out in Cheema’s death
BERLIN, May 10: A post-mortem on a Pakistani man who died in a German jail as he awaited trial for assaulting a newspaper editor over sacrilegious cartoons has proved that he committed suicide, prosecutors said here on Wednesday....
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19 killed across Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 10: Nineteen people were killed in violence in Iraq on Wednesday, including 12 in an ambush near a restive city north of Baghdad....
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Aziz calls for rain prayer
ISLAMABAD May 10: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has urged the nation to hold countrywide “Namaz-i-Istisqa” and pray to the Almighty for rains....
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Pakistani held for murdering Thai woman
BANGKOK, May 10: A Pakistani man has been arrested on suspicion of smothering a Thai woman he met through an internet chat room and then chopping up her body, police said on Wednesday....
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‘3,400 British visa applicants submitted forged papers’
ISLAMABAD, May 10: The High Commission of the United Kingdom in Islamabad received over 3,400 visa applications with forged documents last year, the commission’s visa service director Alex Pond said on Tuesday....
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Jihadi groups term talks with India futile
MUZAFFARABAD, May 8: An alliance of guerrilla groups fighting Indian rule over the divided region of Kashmir on Monday termed talks with India futile and warned the moderate All-Parties Hurriyat Conference that “fruitless talks” with India would spoil Kashmiris’ sacrifices....
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Swiss visa scam mastermind in FIA custody
ISLAMABAD, May 10: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has again obtained physical remand of Swiss visa official Ashir Francis, the main character in a visa scam, for further investigation, a senior FIA official told Dawn on Wednesday....
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