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| August 04, 2006 | Friday | Rajab 8, 1427 |
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OIC urges truce, UN force for Lebanon
PUTRAJAYA, Aug 3: Leaders from the Muslim world on Thursday condemned the Israeli aggression and demanded an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire in Lebanon, release of all Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners and called for deployment of United Nations peacekeeping force.... 
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Pakistan may join peace force: Aziz
PUTRAJAYA, Aug 3: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Thursday said that Pakistan would consider contributing troops to an international peacekeeping force in Lebanon, if such a request was made....
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Decision on PSM questioned
KARACHI, Aug 3: Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) are bringing out detailed documents in the next couple of weeks on privatisation with particular reference to the scandalous deal of Pakistan Steel on March 31....
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Govt under fire on ‘disappearances’: Ord for women’s release tabled in Senate
ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: The government on Thursday came under severe criticism in Senate on what the opposition described as mysterious disappearance of a large number of political workers belonging to Balochistan....
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Landslides, flash floods leave 19 dead
ABBOTTABAD, Aug 3: At least 19 people were killed and 10 others wounded in landslides and flash floods caused by torrential rains in various areas of Mansehra and Batgram districts on Thursday....
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Explosion kills 3 soldiers in Lahore
LAHORE, Aug 3: Three army men were killed and another 10 sustained injuries in a cylinder blast at a canteen of an army unit in south cantonment area here on Thursday evening....
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US finds N-reactor report exaggerated
NEW YORK, Aug 3: The Bush administration officials have taken issue with a private arms-control group which had recently claimed that a new reactor being built in Pakistan is unusually large...
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Experts asked to resolve Iran gas price issue
NEW DELHI, Aug 3: Officials of India, Iran and Pakistan appointed an expert committee Thursday to resolve their disagreement over the price of Iranian gas to be sold to the South Asian nations through a multi-billion dollar pipeline....
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Irregularities alleged in PML polls
ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: The recent intra-party elections in the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) were held without fulfilling certain requirements of the party constitution and the Political Parties Ordinance (PPO) 2002, party sources told Dawn....
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‘Coalition will work for welfare of people’
KARACHI / ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan has said that the coalition government will continue to work for the welfare of people and the country....
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12 Israelis killed by Hezbollah guerillas: Tel Aviv orders seizure of S. Lebanon
BEIRUT, Aug 3: Hezbollah guerillas killed eight people in a rocket barrage on Israel and four Israeli soldiers in fighting in Lebanon on Thursday — the deadliest day of the war for Israel....
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Four Nato soldiers die in attacks: Kandahar blast claims 21 lives
KANDAHAR, Aug 3: A suicide car bomber on Thursday killed 21 people while four soldiers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and 10 Taliban died in other violence in Afghanistan....
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Musharraf may meet Singh next month
NEW DELHI, Aug 3: Pakistan will welcome a meeting between President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Havana in September, Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri has said....
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Delhi police raid rooms of rights activists
NEW DELHI, Aug 3: Indian sleuths raided hotel rooms of leading human rights activists from South Asia on Tuesday night, including Asma Jehangir and I.A. Rehman, reports and witnesses said on Thursday....
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23 fishermen rescued, 42 still missing
KARACHI, Aug 3: Volunteers of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum have saved 23 fishermen along with seven boats while six other boats and 42 fishermen were still missing in the Arabian sea....
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Bounty offered for grenade attackers’ arrest
SRINAGAR, Aug 3: Police in occupied Kashmir on Thursday announced rewards and government jobs for people who help capture militants involved in grenade attacks....
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‘Offensive against LTTE to continue’
COLOMBO, Aug 3: The Sri Lankan government on Thursday rejected peace facilitator Norway’s call for an end to the current hostilities in north-eastern Sri Lanka claiming it was waging a ‘humanitarian operation’....
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Pakistan hands over 5 buses to Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: Pakistan handed over five buses to Afghanistan on Thursday which would be used for educational institutions of the country....
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