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| October 13, 2006 | Friday | Ramazan 19, 1427 |
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US softens draft resolution against N. Korea
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 12: The United States circulated a draft resolution on North Korea at the UN Security Council that softens language on cargo inspection and financial sanctions in a move aimed at addressing Russian and Chinese opposition.... 
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‘Last chance’ for Benazir, Nawaz
ISLAMABAD, Oct 12: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chairman Raja Zafarul Haq indicated on Thursday that there were differences on certain issues between former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif and...
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‘Pakistan not behind blasts’
WASHINGTON, Oct 12: Experts quoted in a US think-tank report have rejected claims that Pakistan’s intelligence agencies were involved in the Mumbai or London blasts....
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Top Wapda officials blamed for breakdown
ISLAMABAD, Oct 12: Two inquiry reports of the government have accused Wapda’s top brass of being negligent about system reliability and stability and held two officials responsible for the September 24 countrywide power breakdown....
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‘Only CNICs to be used in ’07 poll’
ISLAMABAD, Oct 12: President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday declared that only the Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) would be valid for casting vote in the general elections scheduled to be held next year, according to a Nadra press release....
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27 protesters detained in Lahore
LAHORE, Oct 12: Police on Thursday arrested 27 Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) activists, seven of them women, for violating section 144 that prohibits processions on the Mall Road....
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Israelis kill 8 Palestinians in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Oct 12: Eight Palestinians, including a teenage boy and three Hamas militants, were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as troops mounted a fresh incursion as part of a four-month offensive....
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11 die in attack on Iraq TV
BAGHDAD, Oct 12: Gunmen stormed a television station in Baghdad on Thursday and shot dead 11 staff in the biggest attack yet on media in Iraq....
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Move to revive Thar power plan: China’s help sought
ISLAMABAD, Oct 12: Pakistan has urged China to intervene and bring Shenhua Group back to the negotiating table to help revive a $1 billion project involving coal mining and setting up of a 600-megwatt power project in Thar....
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Guantanamo prison unacceptable: UK
LONDON, Oct 12: Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett launched one of the British government’s sharpest attacks on Guantanamo Bay on Thursday, saying the US prison camp was ineffective and damaging....
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16 Afghans return home from Camp X-Ray
KABUL, Oct 12: Sixteen Afghans held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for four years were released as free men on Thursday, alleging they had suffered mental torture at the hands of their US military jailors....
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Two kidnapped Pakistanis freed
KANDAHAR, Oct 12: Two Pakistani engineers kidnapped here five days ago have been released following a jirga....
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Literature Nobel for Turkey’s novelist
STOCKHOLM, Oct 12: Turkey’s best-known novelist Orhan Pamuk, who faced trial this year for insulting his country, won the Nobel prize for literature on Thursday in a decision some critics called politically charged....
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Denying ‘genocide’ of Armenians a crime: French parliamentary bill stirs protest in Turkey
PARIS, Oct 12: France’s lower house of parliament approved a bill on Thursday making it a crime to deny Armenians suffered genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks, provoking anger in Turkey and raising fresh doubts about its EU ambitions....
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US, China agree on ‘strong measures’
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Oct 12: US President George W. Bush met on Thursday a top Chinese official who agreed on the need for “strong measures” against North Korea following Pyongyang’s nuclear test announcement, US officials said....
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Hundreds attend funeral of Kashmiri youth
SRINAGAR, Oct 12: Hundreds of Kashmiris chanting anti-India slogans attended the funeral on Thursday of a youth found dead in mysterious circumstances in New Delhi....
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Pilot had 80 hours’ flying experience: New York plane crash
NEW YORK, Oct 12: US transportation authorities are investigating Wednesday’s single-engine plane crash into a high-rise condominium here which claimed the lives of two people and injured 21 others....
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Faster repatriation of refugee ordered
ISLAMABAD, Oct 12: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on States and Frontier Regions (Safron) on Thursday took serious notice of slow repatriation of Afghan refugees to their country....
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