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| July 14, 2006 | Friday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 17, 1427 |
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President can’t run party’s election campaign :CEC
ISLAMABAD, July 13: Chief Election Commissioner Qazi Mohammad Farooq has said that President Pervez Musharraf cannot run the election campaign of any political party, though he can meet members of parliament any time.... 
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Veiled Indian warning for Pakistan: Mumbai blasts
NEW DELHI, July 13: The familiar but inevitably unnamed official sources went into business in New Delhi on Thursday, planting suggestions, ideas or even veiled warnings that Pakistan could yet be...
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Rain havoc; 17 killed in Punjab
RAWALPINDI, July 13: Seventeen people, including five members each of two families, died in rain-elated incidents during heavy monsoon showers that wrecked havoc in Jhelum, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Gujrat and other parts of upper and central Punjab on Thursday, hospital officials said....
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Israel blockades Lebanon, bombs Beirut airport: 53 civilian killed; Haifa hit by rockets
BEIRUT, July 13: Israel blockaded Lebanese ports and struck Beirut airport and two military airbases on Thursday, expanding reprisals that have killed 53 civilians in Lebanon since Hizbollah captured two Israeli soldiers a day earlier....
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Fears of flood as rivers rise
ISLAMABAD, July 13: River flows have started rising at an unusual pace forcing irrigation authorities to make heavy and uncontrolled discharges due to capacity constraints at two major reservoirs....
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PM rules out amnesty in Balochistan
ISLAMABAD, July 13: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has ruled out general amnesty for “miscreants” in Balochistan....
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Nawaz was not briefed on Kargil, says PML-N: Musharraf accused of misleading nation
ISLAMABAD, July 13: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal has accused President Gen Pervez Musharraf of misleading the nation by distorting of facts about the 1999 Kargil incident....
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Blasts aimed at harming peace process: Kasuri WASHINGTON, July 13: The perpetrators of the Mumbai blasts wanted to derail the peace process between India and Pakistan, Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said on Friday....
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Help in probe offered
ISLAMABAD, July 13: Pakistan said on Thursday it was ready to help India’s investigation into the Mumbai bomb blasts and rejected Indian accusations that an “infrastructure of terrorism” existed on Pakistani soil....
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Al Qaeda claims network in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, July 13: A man claiming to represent Al Qaeda said the network had set up a wing in Kashmir and appealed to Indian Muslims to take up jihad, an Indian news agency reported on Thursday....
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Four killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, July 13: Four Hindus were killed before dawn on Thursday by suspected militants in held Kashmir, the latest in a regular stream of attacks on civilians in the restive region, police said....
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Tourists flee Kashmir
SRINAGAR, July 13: Holidaymakers are fleeing held Kashmir after a series of attacks by militants on tourists in the Himalayan region killed eight visitors, tour operators and officials said on Thursday....
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Mumbai blast probe; 350 detained
MUMBAI, July 13: Indian police have detained about 350 people in connection with the Tuesday’s Mumbai train bombings, as the government vowed to wipe out terrorism and catch those behind the carnage....
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Congressional hearing on F-16 deal delayed
WASHINGTON, July 13 A key congressional panel on Thursday postponed a hearing to review the $5.1 billion US arms package offered to Pakistan....
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Arab FMs meeting tomorrow
RIYADH: In the wake of Israeli incursion into Lebanon, killing at least 48 civilians, a flurry of diplomatic activity is taking place in the Arab world....
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Iraqis take partial charge of province’s security
SAMAWA (Iraq), July 13: Iraqis on Thursday took charge of security in the southern province of Muthanna, replacing British and Australian forces in the first such transfer of responsibility in Iraq, even as violence continued elsewhere....
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UN team to help defuse ME crisis
UNITED NATIONS, July 13: As the crisis in the Middle East degenerated into a major conflict, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday decided to send a three-person team, led by his...
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Oil price above $76
LONDON, July 13: Crude oil prices breached $76 for the first ever time on Thursday as Israel pressed on with an offensive in Lebanon while key producer Iran remained defiant in...
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