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| July 31, 2006 | Monday | Rajab 4, 1427 |
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Israeli air strike kills 37 children: Displaced people’s shelter flattened
QANA (Lebanon), July 30: An Israeli air strike on a shelter for displaced people killed more than 60 civilians, including at least 37 children, on Sunday, fuelling world pressure for a ceasefire in Israel’s war in Lebanon against Hezbollah guerillas....
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‘UNSC authority at stake’
UNITED NATIONS, July 30: Strongly condemning Israeli attacks on Lebanon, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told an emergency session of the UN Security Council on Sunday to immediately demand an end to hostilities in the region....
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India wants results from peace process
KOLKATA, July 30: India remains committed to making peace with Pakistan but the effort will mean little if it does not help curb the movement of militants across the border, India’s defence minister said on Sunday....
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Arbab ‘re-elected unopposed’
KARACHI, July 30: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim and Nadir Akmal Leghari claimed on Sunday they were re-elected unopposed as president and secretary-general of the provincial chapter of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League....
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Monsoon rains play havoc
KARACHI, July 30: At least five people lost their lives in rain-related accidents as heavy storms with thunder and lightning struck many parts of the country on Sunday....
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Rainwater hits bridge; trains suspended
HYDERABAD / KARACHI, July 30: Hundreds of passengers were stranded when railways authorities suspended the operation of upcountry trains and halted down-country trains at Hyderabad and Kotri following reports that three...
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PML hawks ‘fed up’ with MQM demands: CM’s ouster won’t be sought
ISLAMABAD, July 30: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is unlikely to seek replacement of Sindh Chief Minister Dr Ghulam Arbab Rahim at Tuesday’s meeting of its leaders with President Gen Pervez Musharraf, party sources say....
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Muslim world enraged by Qana massacre
CAIRO, July 30: Muslim leaders worldwide fiercely condemned a bloody Israeli raid in southern Lebanon on Sunday and called for international action against the Jewish state....
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Man faces trial for attack on Jewish centre
WASHINGTON, July 30: The man accused of barging into the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and killing one woman and wounding five others is a young American of Pakistani origin....
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3 security men killed in Kohlu explosion
Quetta, July 30: Three security men were killed and three others seriously injured in a landmine explosion in the Karmo Wadh area of Kohlu district on Sunday....
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16 Indian workers die in Bahrain fire
Al-KHOBAR, July 30: Sixteen Asian labourers were killed in the early hours of Sunday when a fire broke out in their three-floor residential building in downtown Manama, Bahrain....
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20 Taliban killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, July 30: US-led coalition troops and Afghan security forces killed 20 militants and foiled a Taliban-led ambush in southern Afghanistan ahead of the scheduled expansion of NATO’s presence in the restive region, the US military said on Sunday....
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Nine dead as jeep falls into ravine
ABBOTTABAD, July 30: Nine people, four of them women, were killed and three others injured when the jeep they were riding skidded off the road and fell into a ravine near Sirian village, 35 kilometres from here on Sunday afternoon....
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Islamabad condemns aggression
ISLAMABAD, July 30: Pakistan on Sunday condemned the Israeli aggression against the Lebanese town of Qana....
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US cuts anti-narcotics grant by 20 per cent
ISLAMABAD, July 30: The United States has slashed by 20 per cent its grant for Pakistan’s Narcotics Control Programme (NCP) and would reduce it further in the coming years, sources in the Ministry of Narcotics Control told Dawn on Sunday....
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Cultural ties with China to be strengthened
BEIJING, July 30: Pakistan and China held ministerial-level talks here and discussed a plan to push forward their culture ties and strengthen people-to-people contacts....
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‘No harm in slapping governor’s rule on Balochistan’
ISLAMABAD July 30: Federal Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination Salim Saifullah Khan has said that the MMA’s threat of pulling out from Balochistan government will end up at dissolution of the provincial assembly and slapping of governor’s rule....
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Pakistan yet to take stand on failure of trade talks
ISLAMABAD, July 30: Pakistan has not take a position in the wake of the Doha trade talks’ suspension. No tangible reason has been given for the stalemate....
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