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| May 15, 2006 | Monday | Rabi-us-Sani 16, 1427 |
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Benazir & Nawaz sign Charter of Democracy
LAHORE, May 14: The long-awaited Charter of Democracy (CoD) was approved and signed by former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Mian Nawaz Sharif late on Sunday night after several hours of...
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Oil firms threaten to close business
ISLAMABAD, May 14: The oil marketing companies and refineries have threatened to pull out their $1 billion investment of the country if the government accepts National Accountability Bureau’s proposal to recover Rs4.5...
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Banks told to share profits
KARACHI, May 14: The State Bank has asked scheduled banks to share profits with depositors as the banking spread has gone up to 7.75 per cent and increase the real return to depositors....
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PPP expels two women MPAs
PESHAWAR, May 14: The People’s Party Parliamentarians has expelled two women MPAs from the party on the charge of horse trading in the recent Senate elections....
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Kidnapped official’s body found
QUETTA, May 14: The bullet riddled beheaded body of the naib tehsildar of Sui, kidnapped at gunpoint on Saturday, was found in a village in the Nasirabad district on Sunday morning....
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Official killed in Jandola
TANK, May 14: An official of the South Waziristan Agency political administration was gunned down at his residence in the Jandola area on Saturday, officials said....
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13 killed as buses collide near Jhang
JHANG, May 14: Thirteen people were killed and several others injured on Sunday when two buses collided with each other on the Jhang-Chiniot road near here....
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Heatwave toll rises to 84
LAHORE, May 14: A searing heatwave in Punjab has killed at least 84 people with temperatures as high as 50 degrees Celsius in the past week, officials said on Sunday....
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41 killed in Iraq attacks
BAGHDAD, May 14: A string of deadly attacks ripped through the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 26 people and wounding nearly 70, police said....
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Bali summit to boost ties, says PM
ONBOARD SPECIAL AIRCRAFT, May 14: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday foresaw increased cooperation among D-8 countries in defence, security and economic fields after its summit on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali....
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New Delhi’s longest-range missile ready for test launch
NEW DELHI, May 14: India’s longest-range ballistic missile is ready for a test launch, the country’s top military scientist announced on Sunday....
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Bandits gun down 12 in Iran
TEHRAN, May 14: Armed bandits operating on a busy highway in Iran’s restive southeast have killed 12 people and injured one other, official media reported on Sunday....
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Mahar group wins Ghotki elections
SUKKUR, May 14: The Mahar group swept 25 out of 39 union councils, in the local government elections held in district Ghotki on Sunday. Polling at one union council was postponed as a result of an armed clash between two groups....
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PM leaves on four-nation visit
ISLAMABAD, May 14: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz left here on Sunday on his visit to Greece, Libya and Morocco. He will be also representing Pakistan at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East in Egypt....
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Former governor passes away
QUETTA, May 14: A former governor, chief minister and chief justice of the Balochistan High Court, Justice (retd) Khuda Bakhsh Mari, died in Switzerland on Sunday. He was 80....
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Call to sever ties with Germany
PESHAWAR, May 14: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal lawmakers have urged the federal government to end diplomatic ties with Germany in protest over the death of a Pakistani student in German police custody....
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Thousands throng Bari Imam’s shrine
ISLAMABAD, May 14: Thousands of people thronged the shrine of Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif, better known as Bari Imam, on the first day of annual Urs at Noorpur Shahan Village here on Sunday....
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Elections under UN, EU demanded
MIRPURKHAS, May 14: The All-Parties Action Committee has demanded that the next elections should be held under the supervision of the Amnesty International, United Nations and the European Union....
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