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| September 25, 2006 | Monday | Ramazan 1, 1427 |
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Country-wide power breakdown: Trippings blamed on technical fault
ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: A massive power breakdown hit the country on Sunday noon as a result of a technical fault in the northern hydropower producing region that triggered cascading trippings across the integrated national grid, officials said....
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Outage sparks coup rumours
ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: A countrywide power outage and reports of President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s unscheduled medical check-up in Texas sparked unusual rumours all over the country about a change of the guard in the capital on Sunday....
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Need to reconcile positions: Singh: ‘No paper given to Musharraf’
NEW DELHI, Sept 24: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has not given any written proposals on Kashmir to President Gen Pervez Musharraf, Indian news reports said on Sunday, pouring cold water...
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Claims about US threat boost book sale
NEW YORK, Sept 24: The advance sale of President Pervez Musharraf’s book In the Line of Fire has been going through the roof on Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble web sites...
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Omar behind Waziristan deal: report
LONDON, Sept 24: The fugitive Taliban commander Mullah Omar has emerged as the key player behind the controversial Waziristan peace deal....
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‘No evidence of Osama’s death’
RIYADH, Sept 24: The Saudi government has distanced itself from reports about Osama bin Laden’s death on or about August 23 somewhere in Pakistan. The news was carried by the French newspaper l’Est Republicain citing Saudi intelligence sources....
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President has check-up in Texas hospital
WASHINGTON, Sept 24: President Gen. Pervez Musharraf underwent routine testing with his doctor on Saturday during an unannounced visit to a small Texas town, Ambassador Mahmud Ali Durrani told Dawn....
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Book’s Hindi version delayed
NEW DELHI, Sept 24: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has ordered a last minute review of the Hindi version of his book In the Line of Fire, particularly the portions that deal...
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Kargil fact-finding commission sought
LAHORE, Sept 24: The Pakistan Muslim League (N) on Sunday called for a fact-finding commission on Kargil conflict, which Gen Pervez Musharraf claims the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif was fully aware of while the latter says he was not....
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Leo’s debut at Bronx Zoo today
KARACHI, Sept 24: Leo, the orphaned snow leopard cub who made headlines last month when he was flown from Pakistan to the US, will make his official debut today at New York’s Bronx Zoo, event organisers told Dawn....
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Minister’s harassment in US irks Venezuela
NEW YORK, Sept 24: United Nations officials are trying to defuse an international diplomatic incident between Venezuela and the United States which blew up following the detention of Venezuela’s foreign minister...
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‘Iraq war stoked radicalism’
NEW YORK, Sept 24: The US invasion and occupation of Iraq have strengthened the forces of global terrorism by fanning Islamic radicalism and providing a training ground for lethal methods that...
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Dozens of Taliban killed, claims Nato
KABUL, Sept 24: Dozens of Taliban insurgents have been killed in the latest clashes in Afghanistan. The Afghan defence ministry said 40 insurgents were killed in a battle with Afghan and Nato forces in the southern province of Helmand on Saturday....
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Four killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Sept 24: Four suspected militants were killed in a gunbattle with soldiers in occupied Kashmir on Sunday, an army spokesman said....
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President’s visit started ‘pro-Pakistan movement’
NEW YORK, Sept 24: President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s current visit to the United States has laid the foundation of a ‘pro-Pakistan movement’ in America and it has by far been the most successful one....
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Vajpayee calls Havana pact a conspiracy against India
NEW DELHI, Sept 24: The anti-terror mechanism recently agreed upon by India and Pakistan in Havana came under a cloud after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned of widening fidayeen attacks across...
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Osama’s death report refuted
ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao on Sunday refuted reports that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had died of typhoid in Pakistan last month....
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5 militants injured in Waziristan blast
WANA, Sept 24: Five suspected militants, including two foreigners, were wounded in a roadside explosion, and a paramilitary soldier suffered injuries in a rocket attack on the Scouts Fort in South Waziristan Agency on late Saturday night....
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