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| September 16, 2006 | Saturday | Sha'aban 22, 1427 |
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US endorses Waziristan peace deal
WASHINGTON, Sept 15: The United States believes that the agreement the government recently signed with pro-Taliban tribal chiefs in Waziristan has the ‘potential to work’.... 
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NA committee to review amended draft: Hudood law standoff ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League has decided to request the Speaker of the National Assembly Chaudhry Amir Hussain to refer the amended Hudood bill to the NA’s select committee....
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Nawaz, Fahim agree to step up struggle
LAHORE, Sept 15: ARD chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim and Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader Mian Nawaz Sharif on Friday decided to step up the struggle for restoration of democracy and the constitution as it stood on Oct 12, 1999....
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NA, Senate condemn Pope’s remarks: Demand for retraction, apology
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: The National Assembly and the Senate on Friday unanimously condemned remarks of Pope Benedict XVI against the concept of Jihad, Islam as a religion and the Holy Prophet...
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Ambassador of Vatican summoned over remarks
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: The foreign ministry on Friday summoned the Vatican ambassador over the remarks by Pope Benedict XVI linking Islam with violence....
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US criticises Pakistan over ‘discriminatory’ laws
WASHINGTON, Sept 15: The US on Friday blamed Pakistan for failing to protect the right of religious minorities and for allowing discriminatory legislation to continue....
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Mahathir wants nukes for Muslim countries
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: Muslim countries should have nuclear weapons to deter their enemies, Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said here on Friday, but added that his ideal would be global nuclear disarmament....
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PML meeting sought on Balochistan
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: Some senior members of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League, who met at the residence of Lt-Gen (retd) Majeed Malik on Wednesday, have called upon the party president Chaudhry...
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100 Pakistanis arrested in Senegal
DAKAR, Sept 15: Senegal has arrested more than 100 Pakistanis trying to sail to the Spanish Canary Islands, the authorities said on Friday. They were the first non-Africans to be seized...
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3 Pakistanis held in US for fraud
NEW YORK, Sept 15: Two Pakistani brothers, one doctor and other a pharmacist, and a pharmacy employee have been arrested on Wednesday by the US Federal authorities in Brooklyn, charged with...
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NAM summit in Havana begins
HAVANA, Sept 15: Cuba took over the leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement from Malaysia on Friday, and acting President Raul Castro, standing in for his ailing brother Fidel, launched a stream of anti-American rhetoric in his inaugural speech....
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Joint statement not ruled out: Singh
NEW DELHI, Sept 15: As he braced for a widely-watched summit meeting with President Gen Pervez Musharraf in Havana, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday that a joint statement was not ruled out after their talks....
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By-polls for seats vacated by BNP-M on Nov 2
QUETTA, Sept 15: The Election Commission of Pakistan has announced that by-elections on national and provincial assembly seats vacated by the Balochistan National Party (Mengal) will be held on November 2....
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Pipeline project reviewed
DUSHANBE, Sept 15: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Iranian Vice-President Ali Saidu reviewed the gas pipeline project at a meeting held on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit on Friday....
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Accord on boosting ties with China, Russia
DUSHANBE, Sept 15: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao have vowed to strengthen the strategic relationship between the two countries and to expand it in all areas, including defence, security, energy and science and technology....
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Kashmir issue to figure in Musharraf’s UN address
NEW YORK, Sept 15: The Kashmir issue will figure in President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s address to the inaugural session of 61st UN General Assembly here on Sept 19 (Tuesday)....
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Senate panel snubs Bush on terror trials
WASHINGTON, Sept 15: A Senate committee rebelled against President George Bush on Thursday, passing a bill it said would protect the rights of foreign terrorism suspects and repair a US image damaged by harsh treatment of detainees....
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Journalist laid to rest
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Sept 15: Maqbool Hussain Siyal, district correspondent of the Online news agency, who was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Thursday night, was buried in the graveyard of Kotli Hazrat Imam Hussain here on Friday....
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