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| May 21, 2006 | Sunday | Rabi-us-Sani 22, 1427 |
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Pakistan asks West to engage with Iran: Mediatory role offered
SHARM-AL-SHAIKH, May 20: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Saturday the world needed to engage with Iran to end its controversial nuclear standoff with the West and Pakistan was willing to play a role in a peaceful settlement of the dispute.... 
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Internal party elections termed must for poll participation
LAHORE, May 20: All political parties must prepare for the next general elections, which will be the “fairest ever”, says Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani....
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Defence to get Rs273bn
ISLAMABAD, May 20: The government is likely to allocate Rs273 billion for defence budget in 2006-07 to help the armed forces to begin their $9 billion military procurement programme over the next five-year period....
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Four die in Waziristan clashes
MIRAMSHAH, May 20: Two paramilitary soldiers were killed and another was wounded in a grenade attack whereas an attacker and a civilian were shot dead in subsequent action in Mirali bazaar in the North Waziristan Agency on Saturday, sources said....
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13 killed in accident near Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, May 20: Thirteen people were killed and six others injured when a speeding passenger van overturned at Barakahu near here on Saturday....
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8 killed, dozens hurt in clash
ABBOTTABAD, May 20: At least eight people were killed and dozens injured on Friday night when a gun-battle involving two rival tribes of Mansehra district erupted in an unsettled area of Kala Dhaka, a locality in Hazara....
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Governors’ power to appoint VCs withdrawn
ISLAMABAD, May 20: Higher Education Commission Chairman Dr Attaur Rehman has said that the discretionary power of provincial governors to appoint universities’ vice-chancellors has been taken back on the directives of President Musharraf....
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Geelani not to attend Kashmir roundtable
SRINAGAR, May 20: A Kashmiri separatist on Saturday rejected an invitation to attend peace talks planned by India’s premier and called a two-day protest strike instead....
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Taliban reject reports of Pakistan roots
KANDAHAR, May 20: The Taliban dismissed on Saturday charges by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that their insurgency was rooted in Pakistan and described reports that a top commander was captured as “propaganda to hide defeat”....
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Era of sanctions is over: US officials: Pakistan to get $1.5bn for uplift
ISLAMABAD, May 20: Senior US officials on Saturday announced the end of the “era of sanctions” against Pakistan and beginning of “a strategic partnership” as part of which the country would get more than $1.5...
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US willing to close Guantanamo jail
WASHINGTON, May 20: Reacting to a UN report which urged the US to close its prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Bush administration has said it is willing to do so once legal questions about the detainees’ status are resolved....
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Experts to visit Guantanamo Bay
PESHAWAR, May 20: Counterterrorism experts and government officials will soon travel to Guantanamo Bay to see the conditions under which Pakistanis are detained at the high-security US detention prison, a Cabinet minister said on Saturday....
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Iraqi cabinet formed after lengthy squabbles
BAGHDAD, May 20: Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to rein in violence and heal Iraq’s sectarian wounds after parliament approved his national unity government on Saturday to end months of stalemate that raised fears of civil war....
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Afghan fighting leaves 31 dead
KANDAHAR, May 20: Suspected Taliban rebels ambushed two Afghan army convoys in the country’s south, sparking gunbattles that killed 25 militants, five Afghan soldiers and a civilian, the Afghan military said on Saturday....
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It’s not UK govt’s policy, says envoy
ISLAMABAD, May 20: The British High Commission here on Saturday clarified that a British colonel, who accused Pakistan of letting Taliban militants infiltrate Afghanistan to carry out attacks, had commented in...
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Musharraf to attend SCO summit
ISLAMABAD, May 20: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will represent Pakistan at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit to be held in China next month, a Foreign Ministry source said on Saturday....
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‘Ties with Egypt to get a boost’
SHARM-AL-SHAIKH, May 20: Pakistan and Egypt on Saturday agreed to increase cooperation in trade, investment, agriculture and political fields with a joint pledge to bring the people of the two countries closer in all spheres....
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Pakistan’s role against terrorism lauded: Joining coalition forces
KARACHI, May 20: Pakistan Navy’s strategic profile has been enhanced since it joined the coalition navies in the global war against terrorism and there have been no maritime terrorist incident in the North Arabian Sea region during the past two years....
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