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| October 01, 2006 | Sunday | Ramazan 7, 1427 |
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ISI behind Mumbai bombings, says India
NEW DELHI, Sept 30: Indian police on Saturday accused the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of masterminding the Mumbai train bomb blasts in July which killed nearly 200 people.... 
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New Delhi’s charge baseless, says FO
ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: The Foreign Office on Saturday rejected as baseless an Indian charge that Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was behind the July 11 Mumbai train bomb blasts and termed it highly irresponsible....
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Cellphone jamming system implemented
KARACHI, Sept 30: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority on Saturday implemented the cellphone set jamming system following growing incidents of snatching and theft of cellular phone sets across the country....
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Ban on institutional investment in savings schemes lifted
ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: The government on Saturday lifted its ban on institutional investments in National Savings Schemes (NSS) after bringing its rate of return on a par with open market....
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Pakistan West’s main ally, says Musharraf
LONDON, Sept 30: The United States and its allies will fail in the so-called war on terror without the support of Pakistan and its intelligence service, President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday....
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Miramshah ‘Taliban’ office closed: govt
PESHAWAR, Sept 30: The Taliban office in Miramshah has been closed in line with the spirit of the peace accord, according to a government spokesman. He denied media reports about the...
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Karzai says Osama not in Afghanistan
KABUL, Sept 30: Afghan President Hamid Karzai insisted on Saturday that Osama bin Laden is not in his country....
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12 killed in Afghan suicide blast
KABUL, Sept 30: A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the interior ministry in the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing 12 people and wounding more than 50....
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Quetta-Chaman rail traffic suspended
QUETTA, Sept 30: Railway traffic was suspended for some time on Saturday after a blast slightly damaged a bridge linking the provincial capital and the border town of Chaman....
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155 feared dead in Brazil plane crash
BRASILIA, Sept 30: Airborne searchers found the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane on Saturday that crashed a day earlier in Amazon jungle with 155 people on board and the chances of anyone surviving were slight, officials said....
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Separatists blow up gas pipeline in Assam
ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: Separatist guerillas have blown up a natural gas pipeline in the Indian northeastern state of Assam, the latest in a string of attacks after New Delhi called off a six-week ceasefire last week....
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Israel to complete pullout today
BEIRUT, Sept 30: Lebanon said on Saturday that it had been informed by UN peacekeepers that Israel was finally poised to complete its promised pullout from the south, weeks after a...
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Baghdad under curfew
BAGHDAD, Sept 30: Iraqi security forces locked down their strife-torn capital on Saturday in a largely successful attempt to ward off attacks by suicide bombers against the country’s embattled government....
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BD opposition to hold reform talks with govt
DHAKA, Sept 30: Bangladesh’s main opposition party said on Saturday it had accepted a government offer for talks aimed at defusing a major row over electoral reforms ahead of looming parliamentary elections....
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Czech beauty wins Miss World contest
WARSAW, Sept 30: Czech beauty Tatana Kucharova on Saturday won the Miss World title, in a glitzy finale of the beauty pageant broadcast to more than 200 countries from the Polish capital....
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US warning
NEW YORK, Sept 30: The United States has warned Iraqi leaders that it may have to cut financial aid to Iraqi police because of a law that prohibits the financing of foreign security forces that commit gross violations of human rights.—AFP...
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When roads pave way for plunder
PARINAGAR: With a hostile sun beating down on their heads, two operators of an excavator digging a road were recently beside themselves with joy when they chanced upon what looked like a very old clay pitcher filled with gold jewellery....
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Irregularities: PAC summons 6 secretaries
ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: Taking strong exception of the financial irregularities in six ministries and divisions during the tenure of the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the special committee of the Public...
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