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| July 15, 2006 | Saturday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 18, 1427 |
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New Delhi freezes peace process
NEW DELHI, July 14: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused unnamed elements in Pakistan on Friday for playing a role in the train blasts that killed about 200 people in Mumbai this week.... 
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Bomber kills Hasan Turabi
KARACHI, July 14: The Sindh chief of the Tehrik-i-Islami and provincial vice-president of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Allama Hasan Turabi, and his young nephew were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the religious leader’s Gulshan-i-Iqbal house on Friday....
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Indian allegations unfounded: FO
ISLAMABAD, July 14: The Foreign Office on Friday challenged Indian charges of a ‘Pakistani hand’ in the deadly Mumbai bombings and underscored the need for the two countries to carry forward...
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PAC seeks inquiry into OEC affairs
ISLAMABAD, July 14: The Public Account Committee on Friday directed the ministry of labour and manpower to initiate an inquiry against a manager of the Overseas Employment Corporation (OEC) for extracting money from the people seeking jobs abroad....
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Former chief of SECP quits two other posts
ISLAMABAD, July 14: Former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), Dr Tariq Hassan, has resigned from the posts of commissioner and member Company Laws Review Commission (CLRC) of the SECP, reliable sources told Dawn on Friday....
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Israel bombs Hezbollah leader’s home
BEIRUT, July 14: Israel bombed the home of Hezbollah’s leader here on Friday as part of a widening assault on Lebanon since Shia fighters captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight....
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Israeli ship hit by ‘Hezb plane’
BEIRUT, July 14: The chief of Lebanon’s Hezbollah vowed all-out war against Israel on Friday, hinting of attacks deep inside the Jewish state shortly after he survived an air raid that destroyed his home....
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‘Hezbollah can hit Tel Aviv’
LONDON, July 14: The Hezbollah movement in southern Lebanon possesses about 100 missiles with a range of 150km enabling it to hit Tel Aviv, according to the London specialist magazine Jane’s defence weekly....
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Fazl hints at joint campaign against govt
ISLAMABAD, July 14: The Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, on Friday said all opposition parties would cooperate in the “decisive anti-Musharraf government movement.”...
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Fear, tension in Muslim areas
MUMBAI, July 14: It appears like any other day in Bhendi Bazaar, one of Mumbai’s predominately Muslim quarters. But three days after a series of bomb attacks in India’s financial capital, all is not quite as normal as it seems....
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India widens hunt for Mumbai bombers
MUMBAI, July 14: India broadened its search for the Mumbai bombers with police tracing calls made to Pakistan and Bangladesh as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in India’s biggest city on Friday to meet people wounded in the attacks....
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MC names Attique as AJK PM
MUZAFFARABAD, July 14: The Muslim Conference parliamentary party has nominated Sardar Attique Ahmad Khan as its candidate as prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The election is likely to be held on July 24....
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Seven die as rains continue
BISHAM, July 14: Four members of a family were killed by a landslide in Tatira, Kohistan district, and three youths fell prey to roof collapse in Danga as torrential rains wrecked havoc in the quake-hit areas of Azad Kashmir on Friday....
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India-Pakistan cooperation important: US
WASHINGTON, July 14: The United States on Friday declined to comment on the Indian decision to postpone upcoming secretary-level talks with Pakistan but indicated that Washington considers the dialogue important for long-term peace in the region....
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Bush accepts restrictions on his authority
WASHINGTON, July 14: In a compromise worked out by the US Senate, President Bush has agreed to change the way his administration prosecutes prisoners of terror war and allow court review of government eavesdropping on terror suspects....
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All Maris ‘under a cloud’
SIBI: Historians concur that British imperial ambitions in pre-partition Balochistan were thwarted, albeit temporarily, by the warlike Maris who regarded restrictions on pillage and plunder as curtailment of their civil liberties....
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Protest with a difference
BILIN, July 14: It was a protest with a difference, by a newly-wed couple (pictured right). Palestinian Mansoor Mansoor, 29, and Iman Hammad, 24, American of Palestinian origin -– held shortly...
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Quake hits Muzaffarabad
MUZAFFARABAD, July 14: An earthquake of low intensity rocked Muzaffarabad and its suburb areas at 9:13am on Friday. People came out of their houses and camps, but no loss of life and property was reported.—Online...
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Amnesty seeks terror suspect handover probe
JOHANNESBURG, July 14: Amnesty International on Friday called on South Africa to probe the handover last year of a Pakistani terror suspect to his home country and help in securing either his release or trial....
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Marriage in prison on court orders
KOHAT, July 14: A couple booked under the Hudood Ordinance were married in the district prison on the orders of district and sessions judge Syed Yahya Gillani on Friday, and later released....
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