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| June 16, 2006 | Friday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 19, 1427 |
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Sugar mills offer to release stocks at import price: No loans for sugar hoarders: Aziz
LAHORE, June 15: The Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) has offered to sell its stocks to the government at the price at which sugar is being imported to end the crisis believed to have been created largely by hoarders.... 
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Sindh budget proposes salary, pension raise
KARACHI, June 15: Provincial Senior Minister Syed Sardar Ahmad presented in the Sindh Assembly on Thursday Rs193.1 billion budget for the year 2006-07 that shows a small surplus of Rs302.24 million....
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Contacts initiated with Bugti through MMA
QUETTA, June 15: Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani, the provincial president of MMA, a partner in the ruling coalition, has sent a message to JWP Chief Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti in connection...
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Jail official, associates shot dead in Karachi
KARACHI, June 15: Senior prison official Amanullah Khan Niazi and his three associates were gunned down in a daring ambush on a busy downtown road on Thursday afternoon....
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SC seeks veracity of cabinet role in PSM pre-bidding
ISLAMABAD, June 15: A Supreme Court judge on Thursday wondered whether or not the pre-bidding approval of the cabinet committee on the sale of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) was against the privatisation laws....
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Hudood laws petition filed
ISLAMABAD, June 15: The Federal Shariat Court was moved on Thursday to declare certain provisions of the controversial Hudood Ordinance as repugnant to Islam. Moved under Article 203-D of the Constitution, Dr M....
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PM rules out rupee devaluation
ISLAMABAD, June 15: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told the National Assembly on Thursday that there would be no compromise on national defence and ruled out rupee devaluation as the government came...
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Pakistan-China bus service inaugurated
GILGIT, June 15: Federal Communications Minister Shamim Haider Siddiqui on Thursday inaugurated a bus service between Gilgit and Kashgher, China. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, the minister said the bus service...
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Three killed in Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH, June 15: Three people, including a woman, were killed and 11 soldiers wounded in various incidents in the North Waziristan Agency on Wednesday night and Thursday....
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Housing grant ‘inadequate’
BALAKOT (Hazara Division): Displaying boyish curiosity, nine-year-old Khizar asks visitors to the tomb of 19th century leader Ahmad Shah Barelvi Shaheed where they are from. Relieved to find the green-tiled monument...
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Acid-soaked ginger on sale in Lahore, Karachi
ISLAMABAD, June 15: ‘Acid-soaked’ ginger is on sale not only in Islamabad but also in Karachi and Lahore, traders said here on Thursday. They said Karachi and Islamabad were the two...
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64 killed as mines hit Lankan bus
ANURADHAPURA(Sri Lanka), June 15: Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed 64 people in a mine attack on a bus in Sri Lanka on Thursday, the worst violence since a 2002 truce, prompting a wave of air strikes on rebel positions....
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104 killed in Iraq operation
BAGHDAD, June 15: Iraq said on Thursday Al Qaeda’s reign of terror was nearing its end, as the US military announced the killing of 104 rebels since the slaying of the group’s leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi....
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Sweden beat Paraguay 1-0
BERLIN, June 15: Fredrik Ljungberg scored with a header in the 89th minute on Thursday, giving Sweden a 1-0 win over Paraguay in Group B. Sweden dominated the match and substitute...
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China asked to help set up technical varsity
ISLAMABAD, June 15: The Higher Education Commission is discussing with the Chinese government the establishment of an engineering university in Pakistan....
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‘Pakistan-China bus service to boost development’
ISLAMABAD, June 15: Pakistan-China bus service will open new vistas of development between the two countries, and help enhance activities in the spheres of tourism, trade and culture to usher in prosperity in the region....
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Joint assistance programme to be launched in quake-hit areas
ISLAMABAD, June 15: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the government of Pakistan have agreed on a joint programme of assistance in quake-affected areas of Azad Kashmir and the NWFP....
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Wapda offers to waive surcharge
PESHAWAR, June 15: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has announced that it will waive late payment surcharge levied till May 2006 for the federal/ provincial government departments, including...
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