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| July 09, 2006 | Sunday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 12, 1427 |
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Ceasefire offer rejected by Israel: Haniya for diplomatic solution
GAZA CITY, July 8: A six-year-old Palestinian girl, her elder brother and her mother were among seven Palestinians killed on Saturday as Israeli forces pursued their Gaza campaign to free a captured soldier and end militant rocket fire.... 
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Work on long-delayed Lowari tunnel starts
CHITRAL, July 8: President General Pervez Musharraf on Saturday emphasised the need for weeding out extremism and terrorism from the country to achieve progress and create a better image of Pakistan in the comity of nations....
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NA body proposes increase in fine: Stock market crash
ISLAMABAD, July 8: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue on Saturday recommended that the penalty imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on people committing...
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Attacks on Rangers’ post, power pylons
QUETTA, July 8: A Rangers soldier was killed and two others were injured in an attack on a checkpost on the Sui-Kashmoor road on Saturday....
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Process for release of women begins
KARACHI, July 8: The process to release over 1,600 women prisoners from 55 jails across the country under the new presidential ordinance began on Saturday with prison authorities preparing necessary documents and submitting particulars of inmates to home departments....
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Punjab barrages past normal life
ISLAMABAD, July 8: The Punjab government has warned that the structural stability of all the barrages and head works in the province is in danger and most of them have completed their expected life....
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Five die in Kashmir shrine attack
SRINAGAR, July 8: A politician and four civilians died and at least 45 others suffered injuries when suspected militants hurled a grenade outside a Muslim shrine in Indian-held Kashmir on Saturday, police said....
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Eight activists of banned group held
PESHAWAR, July 8: Security agencies have arrested eight militants suspected of involvement in sectarian violence, including the assassination of a Shia cleric in Gilgit that had led to sectarian violence in the northern region....
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Non-stop train between Karachi and Lahore
KARACHI, July 8: Within a month after the launch of Margalla and Marvi, Pakistan Railways is going to launch another non-stop train between Karachi and Lahore on July 24....
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Five Taliban killed in Kandahar
KANDAHAR, July 8: The Afghan and US-led coalition pounded a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing five rebels and wounding an Afghan and three foreign soldiers, the coalition said....
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MMA to launch movement with ARD: Fazl
QUETTA, July 8: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rahman has said that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) will launch a joint movement with the ARD and other political parties to end army’s role in country’s politics....
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US ready for talks with N. Korea to defuse tension
WASHINGTON, July 8: America’s chief negotiator for the North Korean missile and nuclear crises has offered to hold direct talks with the communist regime as a US guided-missile destroyer arrived in Japan to lessen the impact of last week’s missile tests....
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7 ‘extremists’ break out of Saudi prison
RIYADH, July 8: Seven extremists escaped from the high-security Malaz prison, it was officially announced here on Saturday....
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Action likely over Iraq deaths
BAGHDAD, July 8: Commanders can expect a ‘day of pain’ once the top US general in Iraq reviews a report that finds they failed to act on complaints their troops killed 24 civilians at Haditha, a military official said on Saturday....
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Qasmi in hospital
LAHORE, July 8: Veteran poet, writer and columnist Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi was hospitalised on Saturday with cardiac and asthmatic problems....
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Germany bag third place
STUTTGART, July 8: Midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger scored two goals and forced the other as World Cup hosts Germany beat Portugal 3-1 to claim third place on Saturday....
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Race for UN chief kicks off on 15th
UNITED NATIONS, July 8: The United Nations Security Council will begin considering candidates for the post of the Secretary-General of the United Nations from July 15, said the president of the UN Security Council for the month of July....
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ANP leaders leave for India tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, July 8: A six-member team of the Awami National Party, led by its president Asfandyar Wali Khan, will leave for India on Monday at the week-long visit on an invitation of the ruling Congress Party....
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