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| August 23, 2006 | Wednesday | Rajab 27, 1427 |
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‘One-dish’ meal of six items allowed: Parliament approves bill
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: In a rare show of urgency and consensus in one house, both houses of parliament passed a private bill on Tuesday to allow what the draft called ‘one-dish’... 
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No-confidence move against PM today
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: With the opposition all set to bring its no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday, the National Assembly is highly likely to witness stormy proceedings....
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Breakthrough in Waziristan
PESHAWAR, Aug 22: The government and militants in the restive North Waziristan agency are close to signing a peace agreement on Friday, according to credible sources....
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Muttahida leader held in Kasur, released
ISLAMABAD/KASUR, Aug 22: Enraged leaders of the Muttahida Quami Movement cried foul when police baton-charged a meeting of their newly inducted activists in Kasur and cast deputy convener Dr Farooq Sattar into a lock-up on Tuesday....
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Dr Qadeer has cancer: spokesman
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has been found to be suffering from prostrate cancer, the government said on Tuesday. In a routine medical examination of the architect...
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Lightning kills six of a family
BASHAM, Aug 22: Six people of a family were killed when lightning hit a house in Kot Madakhel in the early hours on Tuesday. Sources said the incident took place in...
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PM condemns MMA action
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday condemned what he described as “desecration committed by the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) MNAs” on Monday when they tore to pieces the copies...
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Russian plane crashes, 170 feared dead
KIEV, Aug 22: A Russian airliner with 170 passengers and crew on board crashed on Tuesday in eastern Ukraine, Russian and Ukrainian officials said. The reason for the crash was not...
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Tehran replies without sign of freezing
TEHRAN, Aug 22: Iran handed over on Tuesday its formal response to a nuclear incentives offer from major powers and said it contained ideas that would allow serious talks about its standoff with the West to start immediately....
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Pakistan, Jordan call for pullout
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: President General Pervez Musharraf and King Abdullah of Jordan on Tuesday called for an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon and restoration of its sovereignty, stressing that...
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Senate session prorogued amid boycott by opposition
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The Senate was prorogued after a 19-day session as the combined opposition continued its boycott for the second day on Tuesday. Conciliation efforts made by Chairman Mohammedmian Soomro...
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Deal on gas pipeline in final stages
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan envisage development of complete energy corridor under multi- billion dollar TAP project including two parallel gas and crude oil pipelines, railway track, road and...
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Afghanistan’s objections over gate at Torkham
LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Aug 22: The design of a gate to be built at the Torkham border has become a bone of contention between the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan and the latter has expressed reservations over its design....
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India claims killing Pakistani ‘terrorist’
MUMBAI, Aug 22: Indian police claimed on Tuesday that it had foiled a possible terrorist attack in the financial hub of Mumbai after they shot dead a person suspected to be...
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Khatami invited to speak in Washington
WASHINGTON, Aug 22: Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has been invited to give a public address at the Washington National Cathedral next month, church officials said on Tuesday....
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Rumpus in NA over shredding of bill copies
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The National Assembly witnessed four protest walkouts, including one by a party in the ruling coalition, on Tuesday amid a heated exchange of words between the treasury and...
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Combined opposition determined not to return to house
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22:The combined opposition in the Senate on Tuesday vowed to continue boycotting the session unless the government apologised for its behaviour in the house on Monday....
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DIG’s office sealed on police chief’s orders
PESHAWAR, Aug 22: A bitter controversy over what has been described as an unfair murder inquiry conducted by a deputy inspector general of police took an unusual turn when his office...
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