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| August 28, 2006 | Monday | Sha'aban 3, 1427 |
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Bugti’s killing sparks riots: Three shot dead, 600 arrested; Quetta schools closed for 3 days
QUETTA, Aug 27: Three people were killed and over 50 others injured and a curfew was imposed on Nushki town as riots erupted in various parts of Balochistan on Sunday in...
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Writ at all costs: Musharraf
MURREE, Aug 27: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Sunday said the government would take ‘every step’ to ensure its writ in Balochistan and other parts of the country....
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Body still in bunker’s rubble: minister
ISLAMABAD, Aug 27: Federal Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani said on Sunday that the body of former Balochistan governor and chief minister Nawab Akbar Bugti had not yet been taken out...
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Funeral prayers tomorrow
QUETTA, Aug 27: The family of Nawab Akbar Bugti and his Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) have decided to hold the funeral prayers for the late Baloch leader in the Sadiq Shaheed Ground here at 10am on Tuesday....
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Grandsons alive
QUETTA, Aug 27: Nawabzada Baramdagh Bugti and Nawabzada Aali Bugti grandsons of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, are alive and safe....
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$500m Thar coal firm planned
ISLAMABAD, Aug 27: The government has decided to set up a $500 million Thar Coal Mining Company (TCMC) run by the private sector to develop the country’s largest deposit after having...
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Call for strike today in Balochistan
QUETTA, Aug 27: The Baloch Alliance has given a call for a general strike in Balochistan on Monday to condemn the killing of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti....
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Nawaz asks PML to leave Musharraf
LAHORE, Aug 27: Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif said on Sunday that brains behind the killing of JWP president Nawab Akbar Bugti had sown seeds of hatred, adding that further...
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Army urged to keep out of politics
NEW YORK Aug 27: Calling on the Pakistan armed forces to disengage itself from the body politics of Pakistan and allow democracy to function unfettered, speakers at an event held here...
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Stormy NA sitting likely today
ISLAMABAD, Aug 27: The government is expecting a stormy National Assembly sitting on Monday on account of the killing of former Balochistan chief minister and chief of Bugti tribe Nawab Muhammad Akbar Khan Bugti in a military operation in Kohlu....
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91-word NYT report on Bugti’s death
WASHINGTON, Aug 27: Sunday’s newspapers in the US paid little attention to the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti and his supporters in Balochistan although some did carry news agency stories on their Internet editions....
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49 die in US plane crash
WASHINGTON, Aug 27: Forty-nine people were killed in southern United States on Sunday when a passenger plane crashed shortly after the take-off....
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Eight killed in highway accident
SARGODHA Aug 27: Eight people, including five women, were killed and 13 wounded when two passenger buses collided head-on on the GT Road, a few kilometres from here, on Sunday....
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Two barred from returning to US
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 27: The US government has barred two relatives of Hamid Hayat, a Pakistani-American convicted of supporting terrorists from returning to the country after a long stay in Pakistan....
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Iran determined to produce N-fuel
TEHRAN, Aug 27: Iran underscored on Sunday its determination to produce nuclear fuel just four days before a UN Security Council deadline to freeze the sensitive work or face the risk of sanctions....
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Karzai orders probe
KABUL, Aug 27: One of seven suspected Al Qaeda facilitators killed by troops was a key operative who helped move Arab fighters into Afghanistan, the US-led coalition said on Sunday....
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Bombings, shootings kill 59 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Aug 27: A series of deadly suicide bombings and shootings across Iraq killed at least 59 people on Sunday in a brutal response to premier Nuri Al-Maliki’s attempts to stitch his wounded country back together....
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Three killed in Gaza attack
GAZA, Aug 27: Israeli forces killed three Palestinians overnight in Gaza and wounded 17 others, including two journalists in an air strike on a Reuters vehicle that the army said it failed to identify....
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