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| September 13, 2006 | Wednesday | Sha'aban 19, 1427 |
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What made PML turn to MMA: MQM rejects changes in Hudood laws
KARACHI, Sept 12: An influential group in the ruling Pakistan Muslim League scuttled the government’s deal with the Pakistan People’s Party on amendments to the controversial Hudood laws and instead favoured... 
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Parties unite on ideology issue
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: A minority member of the ruling coalition created quite a furore in the National Assembly on Tuesday, prompting both the government and opposition lawmakers to defend the inclusion...
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Taliban bigger threat now than Al Qaeda: Militants brought in by West: Musharraf
BRUSSELS, Sept 12: President Pervez Musharraf has warned that Taliban have overtaken Al Qaeda as the region’s biggest threat to security. The Taliban were more dangerous because they had roots as...
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Kashmir solution ‘within reach’: India’s turn to make concessions: Musharraf
BRUSSELS, Sept 12: President Pervez Musharraf has urged India to make early concessions to resolve the Kashmir dispute, saying that he is optimistic that a solution is within reach....
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Power policy being changed
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: The government has decided to redraft its power policy to remove a number of contradictions and legal complications and to improve it in favour of investors....
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Lack of trust hampers peace process, says Singh
NEW DELHI, Sept 12: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday that trust deficit with Pakistan was hampering bilateral peace talks and asked President Gen Pervez Musharraf to work together with him to defeat terrorism....
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‘US forces not needed to capture Osama’
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Pakistan does not need US-led coalition forces based in Afghanistan to help them capture Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on home soil, an official said on Tuesday....
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Gen Javed replaces Qayyum as PSM chief
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Maj-Gen (rtd) Mohammad Javed has been appointed chairman of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) in place of Lt-Gen (rtd) Abdul Qayyum, sources told Dawn on Tuesday....
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Security around US missions stepped up
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Pakistan stepped up security around US missions and other western interests in the country following an attack on Tuesday on the American embassy in the Syrian capital, officials said....
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Landmine blast injures three soldiers
QUETTA, Sept 12: Three security personnel were seriously injured when a landmine went off in Loti area of Dera Bugti while a bomb blast rocked the Kohlu township on Tuesday....
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Assault on US embassy in Syria; four killed
DAMASCUS, Sept 12: Gunmen launched a brazen daylight assault on the US embassy in Damascus on Tuesday, using grenades, automatic weapons and an explosives-laden van in a foiled ‘terror’ attack that left four people dead....
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Yemen poll stampede claims 50 lives
SANAA, Sept 12: More than 50 people were crushed to death in a stampede on Tuesday at an overcrowded stadium in southern Yemen during an election rally by President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a week ahead of polls already marred by violence....
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12 ‘militants’ killed, 30 held in Afghanistan
KABUL, Sept 12: Afghan forces killed 12 suspected Taliban militants on Tuesday in a shootout south of the capital, while more than 30 suspected insurgents were detained as security forces fought back against a deadly spike in violence, officials said....
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Four found guilty in ’93 Mumbai blast case
NEW DELHI, Sept 12: A special Indian court on Tuesday found four members of a Muslim family of Mumbai guilty in the 1993 serial blasts case that killed over 250 in the city....
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Seven die in accident
FAISALABAD, Sept 12: Seven people, three of them women, were killed and 28 others were injured in a collision between a bus and a mini-bus on the Samundri Road on Tuesday, in the Dijkot area....
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Mukhtaran film shown at Canada festival
TORONTO, Sept 12: Quiet and unsmiling behind a pink headscarf and a brown wool shawl, Pakistani seamstress Mukhtaran Mai is an unlikely icon for women’s rights....
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Three killed in Toronto hotel where Mukhtaran stayed
TORONTO, Sept 12: Three people were killed in a Toronto hotel where Mukhtaran Mai, the Pakistani gang-rape victim, was staying in connection with an international film festival....
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Relief goods from Pakistan reach Beirut today
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Pakistan is despatching another consignment of relief goods for the Lebanese people and it is scheduled to land directly at the Beirut airport on Wednesday....
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