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| July 28, 2006 | Friday | Rajab 1, 1427 |
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MQM decides to quit govt: •Protest against Dr Arbab’s approach •Cooperation with Musharraf to continue
KARACHI, July 27: Muttahida Qaumi Movement ministers on Thursday decided to pull out of the government in the centre and in Sindh, after a three and half-year stint, due to alleged...
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Musharraf unhappy
ISLAMABAD, July 27: President Gen Pervez Musharraf soon after arrival in Islamabad from Karachi presided over a meeting with his special advisers Tariq Aziz and Hamid Javed to discuss the latest...
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Conspirators did it, says Altaf
KARACHI, July 27: Leader of the Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM), Altaf Hussain told a big gathering of workers on Thursday night that his party was forced to quit the government at...
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Aziz discusses MQM issue with PML: High-level meeting to review crisis today
ISLAMABAD July 27: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz had a brief meeting with the Pakistan Muslim League leadership on Thursday to discuss fallout of Muttahida Qaumi Movement decision to withdraw its ministers from federal and Sindh cabinets....
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ARD & MMA agree on joint no-trust move
ISLAMABAD July 27: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Friday agreed in principle to jointly move a no-trust motion against Prrime Minister Shaukat Aziz in the National Assembly....
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The unanswered question
KARACHI, July 27: As major parties flexed their rarely used muscles on Thursday evening to create a storm of sorts in the country’s political teacup, one question that remained unanswered was...
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US Congress okays India N-deal
WASHINGTON, July 27: The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a controversial US-India nuclear deal, rejecting amendments that aimed to put limits on New Delhi’s atomic weapons programme....
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India warns against changes in N-deal
NEW DELHI, July 27: India said on Thursday it would not accept any changes by the US Senate to a controversial US-India nuclear energy agreement, a day after the US House of Representatives approved the deal....
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F-16 deal set to get Congress approval
WASHINGTON, July 27: The $5.1 billion US arms package for Pakistan seems all set for an automatic approval by Friday afternoon as so far US lawmakers have raised no objection to the proposed deal....
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US lawmaker seeks to block F-16 sale
WASHINGTON, July 27: A leading Democrat in the US Congress introduced legislation on Thursday to block President George W. Bush administration’s proposed sale of up to 36 combat aircraft to Pakistan....
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Five soldiers, six smugglers die in shootout
QUETTA, July 27: At least 11 people were killed, including five paramilitary troops, and several others were injured in a gunbattle between security forces and drug smugglers in the Baracha area of Chagai district, some 400 kilometres west of here....
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2 soldiers killed in convoy blast
MIRAMSHAH, July 27: Two soldiers were killed and two injured when a military vehicle hit an improvised explosive device near Machikhel in the Mirali area, North Waziristan Agency, on Thursday....
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Zulqarnain elected AJK president
MUZAFFARABAD, July 27: Raja Zulqarnain Khan of the ruling Muslim Conference on Thursday won the presidential election in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, beating his rival Sardar Qamaruz Zaman of the People’s Party by 32 votes....
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Israel sees Rome talks failure as green light to press on
BEIRUT, July 27: Israel insisted on Thursday it had been given the green light from the world to press on with its deadly assault on Lebanon and called up three divisions...
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27 civilians die as bombs rip through Baghdad
BAGHDAD, July 27: Bombs and shells ripped through a bustling district of central Baghdad on Thursday, killing 27 civilians in a bloody riposte to a pledge from the Iraqi prime minister to halt the violence....
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12 Pakistanis return from Lebanon
RAWALPINDI, July 27: A group of 12 Pakistanis evacuated from Lebanon arrived at the Islamabad International Airport on Thursday morning, immigration authorities said....
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3 killed in Bagh house collapse
MUZAFFARABAD, July 27: Two women and an infant were killed and four other people were injured when their house collapsed due to torrential rain in the southern Bagh district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Thursday....
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BrahMos missile export planned
NEW DELHI, July 27: India is planning to export missiles, particularly the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile developed jointly with Russia, to ‘friendly countries’, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee told parliament on Thursday....
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