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| August 10, 2006 | Thursday | Rajab 14, 1427 |
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No-trust move on 23rd
ISLAMABAD, Aug 9: The combined opposition on Wednesday announced that it would submit a no-trust motion against Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz with the National Assembly Secretariat on Aug 23 after compilation of a charge-sheet against the government.... 
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Jamali to run for party office: PML leadership stunned
ISLAMABAD, Aug 9: Former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Wednesday stunned the top leaders of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League by announcing his candidature for the party secretary-general’s office in the August 12 intra-party elections....
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Israeli troops enter Lebanon: Hezb says 11 enemy soldiers killed in pitched battles
BEIRUT, Aug 9: A column of Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles crossed into southern Lebanon on Wednesday evening from the Israeli town of Metulla, invading under cover of artillery fire and...
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US, France at odds over draft resolution
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 9: Differences have emerged between France and United States over key provisions in a compromise resolution to end hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, prompting intense diplomatic activities, diplomats here said....
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‘Lebanon to become graveyard of Israelis’
BEIRUT, Aug 9: A defiant Hezbollah chief vowed on Wednesday to turn south Lebanon into a ‘graveyard’ for invading Israeli troops, hours after the Jewish state ordered an expanded ground offensive....
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12 villages inundated in Sindh
THATTA, Aug 9: About a dozen villages in Thatta district and at least 100 houses in Dadu district came under water on Wednesday as authorities in Sindh announced a number of steps to counter the growing flood threat....
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Bank loans: uproar in Senate
ISLAMABAD, Aug 9: The upper house on Wednesday came to life in the dying moments after an otherwise dull sitting when opposition PPP lawmakers confronted the minister of state for parliamentary...
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Wordy clashes in NA over MNAs perks
ISLAMABAD, Aug 9: The National Assembly speaker complained on Wednesday of ‘many conspiracies’ being hatched against the lower house amid a bizarre controversy over its costs when a thunder of a minister’s invective also targeted the media....
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Senate slates US ‘designs’ against Muslim countries
ISLAMABAD, Aug 9: Lawmakers in the Senate on Wednesday criticised the ugly role of the United States as sole world power in backing Israel to massacre the people of Lebanon and to destroy peace in the whole region....
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Natwar gets back at Manmohan
NEW DELHI, Aug 9: Former Indian Foreign Minister Kunwar Natwar Singh, suspended by the Congress party for breach of discipline, has hit back by calling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a “weak...
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Mumbai blasts verdict likely today
NEW DELHI, Aug 9: The city of Mumbai has barely recovered from its month-old trauma of the serial bombing of commuter trains and now it is tensely bracing for the court...
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LJ ‘militant’ hanged
MULTAN, Aug 9: Convicted in a murder case, an alleged militant of the outlawed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi was hanged here on Wednesday morning at the central jail....
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Nagasaki warns against N-arms
TOKYO, Aug 9: The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Wednesday mourned the 61st anniversary of the world’s second and last nuclear attack, with its mayor voicing anger that non-proliferation efforts were “collapsing”....
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APNS holiday on 14th
Karachi, Aug 9: The All-Pakistan Newspapers Society on Wednesday announced that its member publications would observe Aug 14 as a holiday on account of the Independence Day.—PPI...
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AJK television to go on air from today
MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 9: Azad Kashmir’s regional television station, which was destroyed by a massive earthquake last year, will return to the airwaves on Thursday, officials said....
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Rs100,000 for each flood victim in N.As
ISLAMABAD, Aug 9: Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas Tahir Iqbal has said that Rs100,000 each would be given to the families of those who perished during the recent rains...
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Two awarded death sentence
QUETTA, Aug 9: The Anti-Terrorism Court, Quetta, has awarded death sentence to two accused in a murder case....
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Pamphlet identifies suicide bomber
TANK, Aug 9: A pamphlet purportedly written by tribal militants of South Waziristan has identified the suicide bomber who had struck the Shakai rest-house on Aug 4 as a fellow tribesman....
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