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| August 11, 2006 | Friday | Rajab 15, 1427 |
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World airports boost security Plot to blow up flights to US foiled
PARIS, Aug 10: Security was increased at airports across the globe on Thursday after British police announced they had foiled a plot to blow up flights to the United States with explosives hidden in hand baggage....
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UK citizens held in Pakistan swoop
KARACHI, Aug 10: Pakistani authorities on Thursday arrested an unspecified number of British nationals, believed to be Muslims, in a closely coordinated intelligence swoop that was said to be simultaneous with...
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Israel seizes key town: Hezb destroys advancing tanks
MARJAYOUN, Aug 10: Hezbollah guerrillas fought Israeli troops who seized a key town in south-eastern Lebanon on Thursday, and France said a breakthrough could come soon in diplomatic efforts to end the four-week-old war....
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Suicide bomber kills 35 near Hazrat Ali’s shrine
NAJAF, Aug 10: A suicide bomber killed 35 people near one of Islam’s holiest shrines on Thursday, in what Iraqi leaders branded an attempt to sow sectarian hatred and destroy a fragile peace process....
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Demand for debate on PSM
ISLAMABAD, Aug 10: Demanding resignation of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, the opposition on Thursday blocked the National Assembly proceedings to press for a debate on the Supreme Court ruling that has scrapped the sale of Pakistan Steel Mills....
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FIR planned against Aziz in PSM sell off case: opposition
ISLAMABAD, Aug 10: Leaders of combined opposition parties on Thursday said they were considering lodging an FIR against Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz for his ‘involvement’ in corruption....
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Nawaz, Fazl join hands to remove Musharraf
LAHORE, Aug 10: Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif and opposition leader Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman on Thursday agreed to launch a “joint struggle for the restoration of 1973 Constitution and removal of the military dictator.”...
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MQM assured of issues’ redressal
KARACHI, Aug 10: A monitoring mechanism to oversee the performance of the Sindh coalition government and attempt to address their grievances at provincial and federal levels was in the offing on the orders of President Gen Pervez Musharraf....
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Pakistan has no offensive designs: President launches submarine
KARACHI, Aug 10: President Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan follows a strategy of defensive deterrence and does not have offensive designs against anyone. He was speaking at the launching ceremony of the indigenously-built Agosta 90-B submarine, now called ‘Hamza’....
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Blast damages bridge
QUETTA, Aug 10: Suspected renegade tribesmen blew up a bridge on a major road in Balochistan province on Thursday, disrupting traffic between the province’s capital and Karachi, an official said....
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Pakistan, India shrug off doomsday projections ISLAMABAD, Aug 10: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Thursday sounded cautiously optimistic about the future of the Pakistan-India peace process and shrugged off the doomsday scenario being projected in the media....
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Security alert declared for Aug 14
ISLAMABAD, Aug 10: A red alert has been declared in the country after the government received intelligence reports that sabotage activities can take place on the Independence Day in reaction to...
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Pakistan turned down bus links, says India
NEW DELHI, Aug 10: Pakistan has rejected India’s proposals for bus links between Jammu and Sialkot and Kargil and Skardu, Minister of State for External Affairs E....
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Election of PML office-bearers on 12th
ISLAMABAD, Aug 10: Stage is set for the election of president, secretary general and other central office-bearers of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) by the party’s General Council which will meet here on Saturday....
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Hafiz Saeed put under house arrest
LAHORE, Aug 10: The Punjab government has put Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed under house arrest for one month at his house, two days ahead of a public meeting he was scheduled to address in the city....
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Turkman trainer held in NWFP
PESHAWAR, Aug 10: A security agency here has detained a Turkman leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan comprising militants from the Muslim Central Asian Republics in the restive North Waziristan tribal region....
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HRC’s session on Lebanon in Geneva today
ISLAMABAD, Aug 10: On the emphatic call of the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Geneva the UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session on the deteriorating situation in Lebanon on Friday....
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4 policemen remanded in custody
NAWABSHAH, Aug 10: Former in-charge of the Lyari Task Force, suspended SP Chaudhry Aslam, and three other police officials were remanded in police custody for five days by the judicial magistrate...
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