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| August 22, 2006 | Tuesday | Rajab 26, 1427 |
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MMA up in arms over women’s rights bill: • All-party select committee proposed
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: A government bill seeking to protect women from misuse of Islamic Hudood laws met a tearing resistance from its bitter opponents on Monday when it was tabled in... 
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Former England players blast Hair, ICC for spoiling Test
LONDON, Aug 21: Pakistan may have forfeited the fourth Test match but they most certainly have won the media war. In a sharp contrast to previous controversies involving the two nations,...
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Row in Senate over ‘replacement’ of Quaid’s portrait
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: The combined opposition walked out of Senate on Monday when treasury lawmakers stood up in protest against the reported replacement of the official portrait of Quaid-i-Azam with that...
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Allegation of portrait replacement ‘unfounded’ ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: Leaders of the combined opposition in the Senate on Monday termed government’s allegations about replacement of Quaid-i-Azam’s portrait as unfounded and a deliberate attempt to divert attention from real issues....
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Agreement with Nato soon: FO
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: A Nato delegation is here to firm up an Afghanistan-specific agreement with Pakistan on the same lines as the understanding that the government has with the ISAF for...
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Balochistan reduces royalty on coal
QUETTA, Aug 21: The Balochistan government has reduced royalty on coal from Rs100 to Rs60 per ton and decided to review royalty and taxes on various minerals for the development of resources of the province....
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Resolution of key issues essential for peace: Aziz
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has reaffirmed country’s commitment to promote peace and stability in the region and said that Pakistan does not have any aggressive designs against any country nor want to engage in an arms race....
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Shehnai wizard Bismillah Khan passes away
NEW DELHI, Aug 21: Shehnai wizard Bismillah Khan, who introduced the humble north Indian reed pipe to the concert stage, died in his home city of Benaras on Monday, highly decorated...
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80 killed as trains crash in Egypt
QALYOUB (Egypt), Aug 21: A collision between two trains killed 80 people and injured 131 on Monday in a Nile Delta town north of Cairo, a security source said, in Egypt’s worst rail disaster since 2002....
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2 Al Qaeda suspects arrested
KARACHI, Aug 21: The car used in the attack on the US consulate on March 2 had come fitted with explosives from Waziristan. This was disclosed by the Sindh police chief, Jahangir Mirza, at a press conference on Monday....
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Four of a family die as house collapses
LAHORE, Aug 21: An elderly woman, her daughter and two granddaughters were buried alive when their house collapsed in the old city area on Monday. This is the seventh incident of...
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Need stressed for early accord on gas price
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: Officials within the government are raising questions over the shift in policy from bilateral discussions on Iran-to-Pakistan gas pipeline to appointment of an independent consultant to determine the price of imported gas....
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SC orders Punjab IGP to investigate terror case
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Punjab police chief to personally investigate and report on booking a terrorism case instead of producing a detainee before the court...
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Two held with explosives
QUETTA, Aug 21: Security forces arrested two people from Barmcha area near Pak-Afghan border in Chaghai district on Monday and seized explosives found in their possession....
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‘6 Pakistanis being kept in Guantanamo Bay prison’
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: Interior Secretary Syed Kamal Shah has said that six Pakistanis are currently under detention at the US Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba. Talking to reporters here on Monday,...
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Work on 100MW project for Gwadar to start soon
QUETTA, Aug 21: The government will soon start work on a project for supply of 100MW power to Gwadar from Iran. This was stated by Qesco Chief Executive Brig Tasadduq Hussain while briefing Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani here on Monday....
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SC accepts appeals of govt employees
QUETTA, Aug 21: A two-member bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice Javed Iqbal and Raja Fayyaz Ahmed has accepted the appeals of eight employees of the provincial government and set...
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Two killed, 11 injured as bus falls into ravine
SHANGLA, Aug 21: Two people were killed and 11 others suffered severe injuries as a bus plunged into a ravine here near Olander the other day....
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