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| October 04, 2006 | Wednesday | Ramazan 10, 1427 |
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Hudood law can’t protect women victims, SC told
ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: The Supreme Court was told on Tuesday that the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance 1979 in its present shape cannot protect women victims of ‘Zina-bil-jabr’ (rape).... 
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US asks India to stop blaming Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: The United States on Tuesday advised India not to blame Pakistan for the Mubmai blasts without certain proof and suggested that New Delhi should resolve the issue through a ‘direct contact’ with Islamabad....
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N. Korea plans nuclear test: Unacceptable threat to peace, says US
SEOUL, Oct 3: North Korea said on Tuesday it would conduct its first nuclear test, and Washington warned it would respond to such an ‘unacceptable threat’ to world peace....
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S. Waziristan peace task for Aurakzai
ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: After getting the green light from President Pervez Musharraf, NWFP governor Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai is now working on a peace accord with tribal elders in the volatile...
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3 soldiers killed in Kohlu ambush
QUETTA, Oct 3: Three security personnel were killed and two were seriously injured when their convoy was ambushed in the Bhombor area of Kohlu district on Tuesday....
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Aziz directs FIA to improve performance
ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to expedite efforts to curb human smuggling, apparently taking notice of reports that last year alone 23,000 Pakistanis were deported from various countries....
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Indian N-deal still top priority: US
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3: The White House has said that the nuclear deal with India continues to be ‘a top priority’ for the Bush administration despite the US Senate’s failure to approve it before adjourning....
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India expects ‘London-like’ help from Musharraf
NEW DELHI, Oct 3: India’s chief security official said on Tuesday that President Gen Musharraf has promised to cooperate with New Delhi along the lines of the help he provided to...
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Rs3.5bn budget for AJK council presented
ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: Minister in-charge of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Council Secretariat Major (retd) Tahir Iqbal on Tuesday presented Rs3575.499 million budget of the council for the financial year 2006-07 and revised estimates of Rs2492.227...
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Musharraf expected to hold fair polls: US
ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: US Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker on Tuesday said that President Gen Pervez Musharraf was expected to hold fair and free elections in 2007 so that Pakistan could be put on the path of ‘full democracy’....
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BJP accuses Pakistan of violating pacts
NEW DELHI, Oct 3: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday slammed Pakistan’s ‘unwillingness’ to hand over Mumbai train blast suspects to India and said Islamabad had wiped out the essence of...
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Hijackers with message for Pope surrender
ROME, Oct 3: Two unarmed Turkish hijackers with a message for Pope Benedict XVI surrendered to Italian police on Tuesday after commandeering a plane with 107 passengers aboard....
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Palestine violence leaves 10 dead
GAZA CITY, Oct 3: Palestinian territories teetered on the brink of chaos on Tuesday after unprecedented internecine violence between the ruling Hamas movement and president Mahmud Abbas’s party left 10 dead....
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Two Americans win physics Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM, Oct 3: Two US schientists John C. Mather and George F. Smoot won the 2006 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of...
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South Korean FM set to become UN chief
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 3: South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon, a front-runner in the UN Security Council’s informal polls, is poised to become the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations, diplomats here said on Monday....
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Anti-peace forces to be defeated: Durrani
ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani here on Tuesday said that forces in India and Pakistan which wanted to keep the ongoing peace process hostage were destined to be defeated....
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Rice callls for ‘moderate’ Palestinian government
CAIRO, Oct 3: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Palestinians on Tuesday to form a government that will respect principles set out by world powers in an effort to re-launch the stalled peace process with Israel....
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11 die in South Korea pile-up
SEOUL, Oct 3: Eleven people were killed and dozens injured in a horrific 29-vehicle pile-up on Tuesday as millions of South Koreans headed home for a national holiday, officials said....
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