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| August 19, 2006 | Saturday | Rajab 23, 1427 |
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Hudood bill put on hold: Most coalition legislators stay away from NA session
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The government failed on Friday to move a vaunted bill to amend two controversial Islamic Hudood laws as absence of most of its friends and foes left the National Assembly far short of quorum to do any business.... 
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Six held for attack on US consulate
KARACHI, Aug 18: An intelligence agency has handed over six suspects, belonging to a proscribed jihadi outfit, to police in connection with the March 2 suicide attack outside the US consulate....
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‘Son-in-law of Zawahiri was mastermind’
PESHAWAR, Aug 18: A son-in-law of Al Qaeda No 2 Dr Ayman Al-Zawahiri is believed to be the mastermind of the plot to blow up transatlantic flights and he met one...
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Hezbollah pays cash for lost homes
BEIRUT, Aug 18: Hezbollah on Friday began distributing tens of thousands of dollars to residents in battered southern Beirut whose homes were hit during Israel’s month-long offensive targeting the Shia militia....
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Father of UK suspect in custody
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The government has detained the father of British airline bomb plot suspect Rashid Rauf, making him the third member of the family in custody worldwide, security officials said on Friday....
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British plane makes emergency landing
ROME, Aug 18: A British passenger plane made an emergency landing on Friday in Brindisi, southern Italy, after the pilot reported that a bomb was suspected to be on board, the Italian air traffic agency said....
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Mastermind of UK plot in Afghanistan, US told
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: Pakistan has sought US help to capture an Arab Al Qaeda terrorist who allegedly masterminded the foiled plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners and operates out of Afghanistan’s...
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‘Troops for UN force only if all parties agree’: Participation to be considered: Kasuri
DUBAI, Aug 18: Pakistan will mull a possible participation in a UN force in south Lebanon but will only send troops if they will be ‘welcomed’ by all parties to the conflict, Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said on Friday....
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Musharraf says cities purged of terrorists
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday declared that the country’s cities had ‘generally’ been cleansed of terrorists but stressed that a strategy was needed to deal with extremism because it required a change in the mindset....
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Musharraf in ‘most serious’ political bind, says NYT
NEW YORK, Aug 18: President Gen Pervez Musharraf finds “himself squeezed from many directions, leading to one of the most serious political binds of his nearly seven-year tenure” says the New...
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Govt pays Rs5bn to oil firms
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The government has released Rs5 billion dues to the oil marketing companies and refineries following their threat to disrupt supplies, Dawn has learnt....
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Treasury senators stage walkout
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The Senate session on Friday witnessed a slanging match between the opposition and the treasury when Privatisation Minister Zahid Hamid wound up the four-day debate on the privatisation...
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Provinces likely to get more power
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The federal government has decided to transfer subjects and functions which can best be performed by the provincial governments....
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Washington to continue wiretapping
WASHINGTON, Aug 18: The US administration said on Friday it would “do everything possible” to continue wiretapping citizens suspected of involvement in terrorist activities despite a court order to immediately halt the practice....
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4 Russian climbers feared dead
GILGIT, Aug 18: Four Russian climbers are feared dead after being swept away by an avalanche on the world’s second highest mountain K2, Pakistani officials and their tour operator said on Friday....
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‘Pakistani heritage of woman caused alarm’
CEREDO (US), Aug 18: A Pakistani woman whose daughter’s carry-on luggage caused an airport in the United States to shut down for more than nine hours says it was her ethnic...
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Musharraf’s Kashmir remarks criticised
ISLAMABAD Aug 18: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s Senator Prof Khurshid Ahmed has criticised President Pervez Musharraf’s overtures to India on Kashmir....
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Peace process to remain on track, says minister
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Durrani on Friday stressed the need for keeping the peace process between India and Pakistan on track and said it...
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