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| August 01, 2006 | Tuesday | Rajab 5, 1427 |
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Talks with India ‘positive’: Peace process revived; terse exchange over Safta
DHAKA, July 31: India and Pakistan boosted their stalled peace process with “positive” informal talks on the sidelines of a regional forum late on Monday. The countries’ foreign secretaries met for... 
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MI director put on notice: JWP leaders’ detention case
KARACHI, July 31: The Sindh High Court on Monday asked the local chief of Military Intelligence to appear on Wednesday and state whether three Jamhoori Watan Party leaders were being detained by his agency in Karachi....
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Rail link not restored; buses for passengers
KARACHI/HYDERABAD, July 31: Stranded passengers faced a nightmare ordeal of catching upcountry and down-country buses and getting ticket refunds as it emerged on Monday that train traffic to and from the port city would remain suspended for another 48 hours....
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Lebanon: 28 bodies found in rubble: Bush rejects call for immediate ceasefire
TYRE (Lebanon), July 31: Rescuers recovered 28 bodies on Monday at the start of the gruesome task of digging up dozens of bodies from the rubble of south Lebanon during a 48-hour suspension of Israeli air attacks....
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UNSC gives Tehran Aug 31 deadline
UNITED NATIONS, July 31: The United Nations Security Council on Monday passed a watered down resolution which urged Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment by Aug 31 or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions....
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US blocks UN call for end to hostilities
UNITED NATIONS, July 31: The UN Security Council on Sunday expressed “extreme shock and distress” over the killing of Lebanese civilians by Israeli airstrikes in Qana, but United States succeeded in...
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Six killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, July 31: Six people were killed in shootings and 10 wounded in a grenade attack on a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims in occupied Kashmir, police and the army said on Monday....
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Eight die in Afghan blast
JALALABAD, July 31: A provincial governor survived a bomb blast that ripped through a parked police car near a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing five policemen and three passers-by....
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Cement price
LAHORE, July 31: Accepting the appeals of 18 cement factories, the Lahore High Court on Monday set aside a decision of the Monopoly Control Authority (MCA) to break the cartel and lower the price by Rs60 per bag....
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26 kidnapped in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, July 31: Armed men in Iraqi national police uniforms kidnapped 26 people on Monday from the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry and from a neighbouring company, officials said....
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Ex-chief of Wapda faces corruption reference
ISLAMABAD, July 31: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday arrested former corps commander and ex-chairman of Wapda Zahid Ali Akbar and filed a reference against him in an accountability court...
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Outrage over Qana massacre
BEIRUT, July 31: Shock and fury at an Israeli air strike that killed 52 Lebanese civilians, mostly sleeping children, rippled across the world from the United Nations to the streets of Arab capitals on Monday....
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35 LTTE fighters, seven soldiers killed
COLOMBO, July 31: Buddhist monks added fuel to the ongoing war between government troops and the LTTE, by refusing to move out of the volatile eastern region until the army captured...
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Nato takes command in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, July 31: Nato took command on Monday of security operations in southern Afghanistan, embarking on its most ambitious mission and hoping a new approach would break a grinding Taleban insurgency....
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13 die in Afghan flood
JALALABAD, July 31: Flashfloods caused by heavy rains have killed at least 13 people with another 19 feared dead in eastern and southeastern provinces of Afghanistan, officials said on Monday....
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UN authority at risk, says Kasuri
ISLAMABAD, July 31: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri warned on Monday the UN risks losing its moral and legal authority because the Security Council has not called for an unconditional ceasefire in Lebanon....
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CCI to hold meeting tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, July 31: The first meeting of the Council of Common Interests in about eight years will be held on Aug 2, one day ahead of schedule, as Prime Minister Shaukat...
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France to help set up engg varsity in Karachi
ISLAMABAD, July 31: An engineering university to be set up in Karachi with French collaboration is likely to be operational by October 2007. The university would be set up on the pattern of the University of Technology, Troyes, (UTT) in France....
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