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| September 06, 2006 | Wednesday | Sha'aban 12, 1427 |
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Autonomy bill tabled in NA: Call to abolish concurrent list
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: Pressed by events in Balochistan, the government agreed to the tabling of an opposition constitution amendment bill for more provincial autonomy in the National Assembly on Tuesday, calling the widely backed move “the need of the hour”.... 
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Waziristan accord signed
MIRAMSHAH, Sept 5: Militants in the restive North Waziristan tribal region on Tuesday signed a peace agreement, pledging to halt cross-border movement and stop attacks on government installations and security forces....
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MMA links quitting assemblies to Hudood bill
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Tuesday decided not to quit the Balochistan coalition government and the assembly, but threatened to quit the ‘national and Balochistan assemblies’ if the government continued its efforts to get the amended Hudood bill passed....
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Musharraf calls for ending ‘cycle of confrontation’
ISLAMABAD, Sep 5: President Pervez Musharraf has called for settlement of the Kashmir dispute to end a ‘cycle of confrontation and conflict in the subcontinent’ and ensure sustained peace in South Asia....
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Resignations of BNP MPAs accepted
QUETTA, Sept 5: The resignations of BNP-Mengal members Mohammad Akbar Mengal and Akhtar Hussain Lango from their Balochistan Assembly have been accepted....
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Singh warns of more terrorist attacks
NEW DELHI, Sept 5: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that terrorist attacks in the country could increase in the days ahead, an issue he is likely to take up with President Gen Pervez Musharraf in Havana this month....
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Rs100bn employment scheme launched
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Durrani has said that Rs100 billion will be disbursed among two million people in five years under the President’s Rozgar Scheme through the National Bank of Pakistan....
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Doubts over Turkmen pipeline
ASHGABAT, Sept 5: Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov said Tuesday he saw no immediate prospect for a gas pipeline to the West and cast doubt on another pipeline project across Afghanistan, saying that Russia and China were priority partners....
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60 Taliban killed, claims Nato
KABUL, Sept 5: Nato forces claimed killing 60 fighters in artillery and air strikes and ground battles on Tuesday in a major offensive to crush a revitalised Taliban in southern Afghanistan....
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Musharraf due in Kabul today
KABUL, Sept 5: Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf will visit Kabul on Wednesday for anti-terror talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the Afghan Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday....
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Afghanistan arrests six foreigners
KABUL, Sept 5 : Afghan security forces have arrested six foreign nationals on suspicion of training Taliban militants, the defence ministry said on Tuesday....
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Tehran tests laser bombs
TEHRAN, Sept 5: Iran said on Tuesday that it successfully tested laser-guided bombs during recent large-scale military exercises throughout the country, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported....
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New US strategy focuses on Iran, small terror groups
WASHINGTON, Sept 5: The White House has released a report featuring a new strategy for combating terrorism that focuses more on decentralised networks of extremists than on Al Qaeda, and singles...
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Pakistan beat England
SOUTHAMPTON (England), Sept 5: Pakistan beat England by two wickets in the third one-day international at Southampton on Tuesday....
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Peace deal: back to square one!
History repeats itself but in Pakistan’s case, it perhaps repeats itself rather too often. And so the government and militants in the volatile North Waziristan tribal region have signed a peace...
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Appeal for strike on Sept 6, 12
QUETTA, Sept 5: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, the Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement and the Awami National Party have called for a strike in Balochistan on September 6 and 12....
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Shujaat to meet Fazl today
LAHORE, Sept 5: Ruling PML President Chuadhry Shujaat Husain will meet MMA secretary-general and leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday (today)....
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Surviving pilgrims to arrive on 11th
ISLAMABAD, Sept 5: Fifteen Pakistani survivors of a terrorist attack in Iraq will return to the country on Sept 11-12 via Dubai....
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