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| July 23, 2006 | Sunday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 26, 1427 |
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Israel takes Lebanon town after clashes
MARJAYOUN (Lebanon), July 22: Israel claimed ousting Hezbollah guerillas from a stronghold just inside Lebanon on Saturday after several days of fierce fighting....
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Pakistan to work for OIC response
ISLAMABAD, July 22: In the wake of relentless Israeli aggression Pakistan has decided to step up diplomatic efforts to urgently cobble a joint OIC response to contain the catastrophic situation in Lebanon....
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US rushes delivery of bombs to Israel
UNITED NATIONS, July 22: The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets...
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Ex-generals, MPs want military out of politics
ISLAMABAD, July 22: A group of retired generals, sitting and former parliamentarians and academics have called for disengagement of military from political power by separating the offices of the president and army chief....
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Militants extend truce
MIRAMSHAH, July 22: Militants in North Waziristan on Saturday extended their conditional ceasefire by another month to give an inter-tribal jirga a chance to help restore peace, a militant commander said....
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Donors approached for dam
ISLAMABAD, July 22: The government has approached international donor agencies to provide sizable funding for the 4,500 megawatt Diamer-Basha dam, planned to be built at a cost of $6.4 billion....
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India gave proposals on Kashmir: Kasuri
NEW DELHI, July 22: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has told an Indian news channel that New Delhi had given Pakistan rare written proposals on Kashmir just before the Mumbai blasts...
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Balochistan talks doors open: govt
ISLAMABAD, July 22: The government has said that doors for talks are open to all ‘miscreants’ in Balochistan, including tribal leaders Akbar Bugti, Attaullah Mengal and Khair Baksh Marri....
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US Congress to okay F-16 deal soon: Boucher
WASHINGTON, July 22: The proposed $5.1 billion US arms package for Pakistan, which also includes 36 F-16 aircraft, will get congressional approval soon. US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher told reporters....
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Resolution introduced against F-16 sale
WASHINGTON, July 22: Co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on India has introduced a joint resolution in the House of Representatives disapproving the proposed sale of F-16 fighter jets and other weapons to Pakistan in a $5.1...
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‘Man caught in Kenya not Indian terrorist’
NEW DELHI, July 22: The man arrested in Kenya on Thursday and hailed in India as the capture of a key suspect in several bomb blasts in Indian cities, was not the one authorities in New Delhi were looking for....
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Two western soldiers killed in Kandahar
KANDAHAR, July 22: Two suicide attacks struck Kandahar about an hour apart on Saturday, killing two western soldiers and six Afghan civilians....
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Fokker crash probe to take 3 months
KARACHI, July 22: The Civil Aviation Authority will complete the inquiry into the PIA Fokker crash in two and a half to three months....
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House arrest
NEW DELHI, July 22: All-Parties Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani was on Saturday placed under house arrest in the Indian occupied Kashmir, official sources said.—APP...
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Strike observed in Srinagar
SRINAGAR, July 22: Shops and schools closed in Srinagar on Saturday in a strike called by a Hurriyat leader to condemn Israeli strikes against Lebanon....
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Protests against Israeli attacks
LONDON, July 22: Thousands of demonstrators marched through London and hundreds more gathered in Amsterdam and Chicago on Saturday to protest Israeli attacks in Lebanon and the refusal of the US and British governments to condemn them....
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Seven killed in accident
MULTAN, July 22: Seven people, including five women and a child, were killed while four others were injured when an oil tanker hit a motorcycle-rickshaw near the Karamdad Qureshi village in the Muzaffargarh district on Saturday....
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Non-practicing allowance of doctors raised
ISLAMABAD, July 22: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday approved substantial increase in the non-practicing allowance of doctors serving in the federal government....
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