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| July 19, 2006 | Wednesday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 22, 1427 |
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Stalling of dialogue serves terrorists’ objectives: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, July 18: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday cautioned that any stalling of the peace process between Pakistan and India would be unfortunate and doing so because of terrorist attacks... 
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Peace moves hit after blasts: Singh
NEW DELHI, July 18: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday India would have to review its relations with Pakistan after last week’s Mumbai blasts but that the two countries needed to live in peace....
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US rejects objections to nuclear, F-16 deals
WASHINGTON, July 18: President George Bush’s concept of ‘de-hyphenation’ plays a pivotal role in the new US approach towards South Asia. The Bush administration defines this ‘de-hyphenation’ as separating its relations...
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Jirga peace drive begins today
PESHAWAR, July 18: An inter-tribal jirga formed to restore peace in North Waziristan will meet Governor NWFP Lt-Gen (retd) Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai on Wednesday (today) before leaving for the restive region....
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100 ‘Taliban’ arrested
QUETTA, July 18: Police arrested another 100 suspect Taliban during raids in different areas of the provincial capital on Tuesday. The raids are part of police’s campaign against illegal immigrants and so far over 200 Afghans have been arrested from Quetta....
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Spotlight on ‘garden city’
CHAMAN: Unfamiliar with the lie of the land, the first-time visitor to Chaman, which literally means a garden in Urdu, is puzzled by the city’s narrow, dusty lanes, howling winds and,...
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Govt delays National Assembly session
ISLAMABAD, July 18: The government has delayed a National Assembly session to August in a move that will spare it, for now, a planned storm of opposition criticism on matters ranging...
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Warrants issued for arrest of Benazir, Asif
ISLAMABAD, July 18: Islamabad District and Sessions Judge Rafiuz Zaman on Tuesday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari in a case pertaining to declaration of their assets....
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MMA to support no-trust motion
ISLAMABAD July 18: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) will support the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) in moving a no-confidence motion against the prime minister but it has “some reservations” on the issue of impeachment of the president....
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2 held after jirga order on infants’ marriage
SANGHAR, July 18: The Shahdadpur police on Tuesday arrested two feudal lords for presiding over a jirga that decided that a peasant would give his two infant daughters in marriage as repayment for a loan of Rs25,000....
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Ruthless raids on civilians: 31 killed in Lebanon
BEIRUT, July 18: Israeli warplanes battered Lebanon on Tuesday, killing 31 people, and more Hezbollah rockets hit northern Israel, killing one, with no sign that diplomacy would halt the week-old conflict any time soon....
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Indonesia tsunami toll rises to 368
PANGANDARAN (Indonesia), July 18: A tsunami that swept through fishing villages and resorts on Indonesia’s Java island killed 368 people and more than 200 others are missing, officials said on Tuesday....
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Khasadar shot dead, arms snatched
WANA, July 18: Suspected militants killed a Khasadar and snatched rifles from scores of others in Serwekai area of South Waziristan on Monday night. Masked men riding a pick-up raided Tanga,...
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‘Call inhuman’
RIYADH, July 18: The Makkah-based Muslim World League has termed inhuman a call by the Rabbis’ Council in the occupied West Bank for the Israeli government to kill civilians in Lebanon and Gaza Strip....
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14 Pakistanis held on Ukraine border
KIEV, July 18: Ukrainian border guards detained 14 Pakistanis, 11 Bangladeshis and an Afghan overnight as they were preparing to cross the border into Slovakia, the border service said on Tuesday....
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Iraqi suicide bomber kills 59 in Kufa market
KUFA, July 18: A suicide bomber killed 59 people in a crowded Iraqi market on Tuesday after luring day labourers aboard his minivan with an offer of casual work....
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Protest against Israel in Muzaffarabad
MUZAFFARABAD, July 18: Activists of Imamia Students Organisation (ISO) and Shia Action Committee staged a demonstration here on Tuesday to condemn Israeli attacks on Lebanon and assassination of a top Shiite leader in Karachi....
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Two injured in grenade attack
QUETTA, July 18: The wife and a daughter of a police officer were injured in a grenade attack in Mastung town, some 50 km south-east of here, on Tuesday....
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