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| September 30, 2006 | Saturday | Ramazan 6, 1427 |
Welcome to DAWN, Pakistan's most widely circulated English language newspaper
Updated round-the-clock, with a major update before 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
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Benazir accuses Musharraf of undermining security
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: In a hard-hitting attack on President Pervez Musharraf’s book, In the Line of Fire, former prime minister Bhutto has described the memoirs as a cheap attempt to gain popularity at the cost of Pakistan’s vital national interests.... 
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Islamabad, Kabul agreed to avoid verbal attacks: US
WASHINGTON, Sept 29: Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to maintain regular contact over the issues that caused verbal spats between their leaders during their two-week stay in the United States, the White House has said....
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World’s help needed to fight terror: Musharraf
OXFORD, Sept 29: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday said Pakistan was fighting terrorism and extremism to the best of its ability but it needed the world’s assistance to combat the...
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America grateful to Pakistan, says Bush
WASHINGTON, Sept 29: US President George Bush on Friday praised Pakistan as a strong and steadfast ally in the war against terrorism and vowed to stand with President Gen Pervez Musharraf....
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‘Reconstruction to take 8 years’: Rs50bn disbursed in quake-hit areas: Erra
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: Reconstruction of 600,000 homes and many other buildings damaged by last year’s earthquake may take eight years, longer than the government predicts, Asian Development Bank Country Director Peter Fedon said on Friday....
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Light plane crashes in Lahore: two killed
LAHORE, Sept 29: A pilot and his friend died when a private, two-seater sports aircraft crashed while landing at the Walton Airport on Friday afternoon....
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Bush failed in war against Al Qaeda: Zawahiri
DUBAI, Sept 29: Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Al-Qaeda number two, in a video posted on the Internet on Friday called US President George Bush a liar who had ‘failed in his war against Al-Qaeda’, Al-Jazeera television reported....
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Wapda relied on trial-and-error methods: Delay in power restoration
LAHORE, Sept 29: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) did not have standard operating procedures for restating the generation system after a major breakdown, which delayed restoration of system last Sunday....
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Aziz asks CMs to beef up security
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday expressed concern over the ‘alarming increase in street crimes’ and issued directives to chief ministers and inspectors-general (IGs) to control the crime...
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Kashmiri leaders demand pardon for Afzal
NEW DELHI, Sept 29: All political outfits in Jammu and Kashmir barring the far right Hindutva groups were united on Friday in seeking the presidential pardon for Mohammed Afzal, a Kashmiri...
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New HC to India named
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: The government on Friday announced the appointment of Shahid Malik as High Commissioner for Pakistan to India, according to an official statement....
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4 held over Mumbai bombings
MUMBAI, Sept 29: Four more people have been arrested in connection with the July 11 Mumbai train bombings that killed 186 people, police said on Friday....
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BD minister sacked over power crisis
DHAKA, Sept 29: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia fired her power minister on Friday amid growing protests over massive electricity shortages across the country....
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‘Israel fired precision bomb on UN post’
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 29: An Israeli air attack on a UN base in south Lebanon in July that killed four peacekeepers involved the use of a precision-guided bomb, the United Nations said on Friday....
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US Congress passes $447bn defence budget
WASHINGTON, Sept 29: The US Congress on Friday approved the defence budget for 2007, which boosts spending to 447.6 billion dollars, including 70 billion dollars for the war in Iraq....
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Bahrain rally denounces ‘passports for votes’ scheme
MANAMA, Sept 29: Several thousand people demonstrated in Manama on Saturday denouncing what they said were government attempts to rig upcoming elections in favour of the ruling Sunni minority by naturalising foreigners....
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Canadian soldier killed
OTTAWA, Sept 29: A Canadian soldier was killed in southern Afghanistan on Friday, a spokeswoman for Canada’s defence department said....
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Nazarbayev in Washington
WASHINGTON, Sept 29: President George Bush praised Kazakhstan as a ‘free nation’ while meeting on Friday with its leader Nursultan Nazarbayev, despite criticism by human rights groups of the Kazakh government’s autocratic ways....
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US schoolboy shoots principal
CHICAGO, Sept 29: A student on Friday repeatedly shot his principal at a secondary school in rural Wisconsin, police said....
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Saddam trial judge’s relative killed
BAGHDAD, Sept 29: Gunmen murdered the brother-in-law of the judge in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial, officials said on Friday, as Al Qaeda threatened to plunge Iraq into even greater bloodshed....
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