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| July 26, 2006 | Wednesday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 29, 1427 |
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War may engulf region, warns Saudi Arabia
RIYADH, July 25: Saudi King Abdullah warned on Tuesday that a full scale war may engulf the entire region if the Israeli aggression against Lebanon and Palestinians continued.... 
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Planes continue to pound Beirut: Israel threatens buffer zone BEIRUT, July 25: Israeli warplanes blasted Beirut on Tuesday and troops battled Hezbollah guerillas as Israel effectively ruled out any chance of a rapid ceasefire to end the two-week-old Lebanon conflict,...
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Aziz sees PC’s enhanced role
ISLAMABAD July 25: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said the government would transform the Planning Commission into an overarching professional and multi-dimensional organization with expertise in contemporary disciplines....
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Defence impregnable, says president
KARACHI, July 25: President Pervez Musharraf said on Tuesday that the country’s defence was impregnable and nobody should even dare think of taking any punitive action against Pakistan....
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Forward bloc in Sindh PML formed; meets Musharraf today
KARACHI, July 25: A forward bloc was formally formed in the ruling Pakistan Muslim League in Sindh against Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim which also announced to take up their...
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Assemblies’ term can be extended: Tariq
ISLAMABAD, July 25: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Tariq Azeem Khan has hinted that the term of present assemblies can be extended to one more year in case of emergency....
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Turabi’s assassin identified; three held
KARACHI, July 25: Three suspected militants believed to have been behind the July 14 assassination of Allama Hasan Turabi were arrested in a pre-dawn raid on Tuesday....
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Mengal’s nephew offloaded from plane
KARACHI, July 25: A teenage nephew of former Balochistan chief minister Sardar Akhtar Mengal was offloaded on Tuesday from a Dubai-bound flight, apparently because the boy’s name is on the Exit Control List....
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7 fishermen drown as boat capsizes
KARACHI, July 25: At least seven fishermen are feared to have drowned while 10 are still missing when their fishing launch capsized off the Karachi coast, near Cape Monz, early Tuesday morning....
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Reactor not to affect arms deals: US official
WASHINGTON, July 25: The reported construction of a nuclear reactor in Khushab will not affect the $5.1 billion arms deal the Bush administration has offered to Pakistan despite demands from lawmakers to cancel the same, a US government official told Dawn....
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Report on India-Iran N-ties delayed
WASHINGTON, July 25: The US State Department has acknowledged that it has delayed sending a report to the Congress which critics say shows India helped Iran build its nuclear programme....
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Six dead as rain lashes Lahore
LAHORE, July 25: Six people, including an infant and a special person, died and over a dozen others were injured when heavy rain lashed the Punjab capital on Tuesday....
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4 UN observers killed in Israeli air strike
TYRE, July 25: A UN observation post in south Lebanon was destroyed in an Israeli air raid that caused casualties on Tuesday, a UN spokesman told AFP....
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Sharp rise in ghee prices before Ramazan likely
ISLAMABAD, July 25: The producers of ghee and cooking oil have warned the government of a considerable increase in the prices of vegetable ghee and cooking oil before Ramazan due to...
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Kabul blast kills US soldier, nine suspects
KABUL, July 25: A roadside bomb along a busy Kabul road killed two Afghans on Tuesday as fighting in the eastern provinces left a US soldier and seven suspected Taliban dead, officials said....
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Kabul invited to Saarc meetings
ISLAMABAD, July 25: Afghanistan, which has been given green light for South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation membership, will attend forthcoming meetings of Saarc standing committee and council of ministers in Dhaka next week....
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Bush meets Maliki
WASHINGTON, July 25: US President George Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday kicked off talks focused on efforts to secure Baghdad and ultimately pave the way for the withdrawal of US troops.—AFP...
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PAF swoops on Hingol National Park
AGHORE (Lasbela district): The government is all set to slice land off the Hingol National Park, the country’s largest, as the Pakistan Air Force and another defence-related organisation eye the prized...
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