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| June 12, 2006 | Monday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 15, 1427 |
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Saifullah calls for maximum autonomy
QUETTA, June 11: Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination Saleem Saifullah Khan has called for maximum provincial autonomy to help the provinces run their own affairs.... 
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Opposition to form ‘shadow cabinet’
ISLAMABAD, June 11: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal have agreed in principle to enhance their cooperation in the upper house of parliament and to nominate a consensus candidate for the leader of opposition....
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Provinces’ water share likely to be reduced
ISLAMABAD, June 11: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) is likely to reduce the provincial water share on Monday owing to an overall decline of 173,000 cusec in four rivers during the last 20 days....
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Israel threatens to target Haniya
AL QUDS, June 11: Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya could become a target of Israeli military if he approves attacks by Palestinian militants, a leading member of Israel’s governing Kadima party said on Sunday....
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Congress pushes for democracy with aid cut
WASHINGTON, June 11: Expressing disappointment with the government for “failing to do enough” to improve democracy and human rights in Pakistan, the US House of Representative has reduced aid to Islamabad in the current fiscal year to $300 million....
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Sugarcane, cotton targets achieved
ISLAMABAD, June 11: The government says it has achieved this year’s cotton and sugarcane sowing targets, made possible by high temperature that melted down snow on mountains and occasional rains over...
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Suicides strengthen demand for closing Guantanamo
WASHINGTON, June 11: Human rights bodies on Sunday blamed prolonged and ‘lawless’ incarceration of prisoners as the cause of three suicide-deaths at the Guantanmo Bay prison camp and urged US authorities to end this practice....
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Team to be sent to Guantanamo
ISLAMABAD, June 11: Islamabad would send a delegation to Guantanamo Bay by the end of this month to get Pakistanis languishing in the prison facility released, a senior government official told Dawn on Sunday....
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Al Qaeda warns of new attacks in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 11: Al Qaeda in Iraq on Sunday warned of fresh attacks to avenge the killing of the group’s leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as US military doctors completed an autopsy on his body....
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4 Pakistanis killed in Afghanistan
QUETTA, June 11: Afghan officials handed over the bodies of four Pakistanis to the Pakistani authorities at Spin Buldak border post, who had been killed near Lashkar Gah in the Afghan province of Hilmand on Sunday....
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Arms, drugs seized in Chagai area
QUETTA, June 11: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF), Balochistan, has seized a huge quantity of arms and drugs and destroyed three drug-producing laboratories in the Malgai area of Chagai district, adjacent to the Pak-Afghan border....
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New Delhi test-fires Prithvi-1
BHUBANESHWAR, June 11: India on Sunday successfully tested a nuclear-capable missile fired from a mobile launcher in the eastern coastal state of Orissa, a defence ministry official said....
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Pulses, sugar prices decline, claims Aziz
ISLAMABAD, June 11: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday claimed that measures taken to control prices of commodities of daily use were bearing fruit and prices of pulses and sugar have registered a downward trend....
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BD strike leads to clashes
DHAKA, June 11: Clashes between opposition activists and the law enforcers at different places here on Sunday and elsewhere in Bangladesh left several hundred people injured, including some opposition lawmakers, newsmen and policemen....
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Portugal beat Angola 1-0, fail to impress fans
COLOGNE, Germany, June 11: Portugal had a harder time than expected against World Cup newcomer Angola. The Portuguese were still happy to come away with a 1-0 win on Sunday in their opening Group D match....
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Two die in protest over World Cup ban in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU, June 11: Hardline religious courts shut cinema halls and barred residents of the Somali capital from watching the football World Cup, prompting scores of people to protest the ban in...
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Rich nations cheated developing countries: WTO Doha round
ISLAMABAD, June 11: Rich countries led by the United States have cheated the developing countries under the garb of the Doha Development Round of WTO....
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Stronger ties with Kabul stressed
ISLAMABAD, June 11: Pakistan and Afghanistan have a deep rooted relationship based on shared history, culture, common faith and economic interdependence....
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