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| September 29, 2006 | Friday | Ramazan 5, 1427 |
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Jirga accord at White House: ‘Sometimes tense, sometimes soft’ talks between Musharraf, Karzai
WASHINGTON, Sept 28: At a two-and-a-half-hour dinner hosted by US President George W. Bush at the White House on Wednesday, Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to hold two loya jirgas along their border for involving tribal elders in the fight against terror.... 
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Hairy saga ends as Inzi cleared of ball-tampering
LONDON, Sept 28: Inzamam-ul-Haq and Pakistan achieved the best result they could have expected at The Oval hearing when the Pakistan captain was cleared of ball-tampering but found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute....
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Row over role of ISI defused: UK
LONDON, Sept 28: President Pervez Musharraf accepts that Britain is not accusing Pakistan’s intelligence service of backing religious extremism, Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Thursday, seeking to defuse a row....
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UK distances itself from intelligence report
LONDON, Sept 28: Britain’s Ministry of Defence on Wednesday distanced itself from an intelligence report published by the BBC that said the US-led war in Iraq had fuelled Muslim radicalism around the world....
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‘Osama alive in Afghanistan’
LONDON, Sept 28: Leader of Al Qaeda terror network Osama bin Laden, reported last week to have died, is alive and hiding in Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview published in The Times on Thursday....
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‘Hundreds kidnapped as part of terror war’
LONDON, Sept 28: Pakistani authorities abducted hundreds of people as part of the US-led war on terror, often secretly holding them for months while they were interrogated, the human rights group Amnesty International (AI) said on Friday....
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Heavens open up on Thar but just
NAGARPARKAR: Unusually articulate for a female member of the minority Hindu community, Naazo Kohli has a point when she insists that the recent monsoon rains may have recharged the ever-lowering water...
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Country’s image restored: Aziz
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Thursday said the Pakistan Muslim League government had restored the country’s diplomatic, economic and political image and it would contest the next year’s general election on the basis of its performance....
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22 die in accident near Moro
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Sept 28: Twenty-two people, six of them children and four women, were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a passenger van near the Sabeel stop on the Dadu-Moro road on Thursday....
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‘US spy’ killed in Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH, Sept 28: An Afghan man was shot dead in the Mirali area of North Waziristan Agency on suspicion of spying for the US, officials said....
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Gas rate cut won’t benefit consumers
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has reduced prescribed prices of natural gas for all categories, but the decision will not effect any reduction in consumer tariff...
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EC may extend voter registration deadline
KARACHI, Sept 28: The Election Commission (EC) is considering to extend the deadline for registration of voters from September 30 to mid-October, in response to requests made by the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), sources told Dawn....
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KSE given time for risk management measures ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: At the request of Karachi Stock Exchange, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has revised the implementation schedule of the risk management measures to be taken by the KSE....
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‘Easy visa’ policy excludes Indians
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Pakistan will be issuing visas on arrival to visitors from more than 20 countries, but not from neighbouring India, Tourism Ministry officials said on Thursday, clarifying a report by the state-run news agency a day earlier....
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Nato to operate all over Afghanistan
PORTOROZ (Slovenia), Sept 28: Nato agreed on Thursday to take command of peacekeeping across all of insurgency-hit Afghanistan next month after the United States pledged to transfer an extra 12,000 troops to its force....
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Rs11bn given to Punjab for Taunsa Barrage repair
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Several ‘mechanical problems’ dogging the Taunsa Barrage have forced the federal authorities to provide Rs11.2 billion to the Punjab government for undertaking emergency repair work, also proposed by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)....
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87 immigrants found captive in warehouse near Athens
ATHENS, Sept 28: Greek police said on Thursday that they had found 87, mainly Pakistani and Bangladeshi, illegal immigrants who were being held captive by their traffickers in a warehouse near Athens....
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Two rockets fired in Quetta
QUETTA, Sept 28: Unknown persons fired two rockets here on Thursday night. One rocket landed at an isolated place in the Brewery area, and the other fell in the foothills of Murdar mountains in Marriabad....
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