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| October 16, 2006 | Monday | Ramazan 22, 1427 |
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Nawaz hopes Benazir will deny contacts with govt
WASHINGTON, Oct 15: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Sunday that he would wait for his meeting with Benazir Bhutto to determine if she was really talking to the Musharraf government.... 
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Wapda likely to seek review of award
ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: Water and Power Development Authority is expected to seek a review of the award of Justice Ajmal Mian-led arbitration tribunal on the contention that the tribunal had gone...
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Iraq hit by spate of bombings, revenge killings: Najaf ceremony peaceful
NAJAF, Oct 15: Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims peacefully thronged the Iraqi shrine city of Najaf on Sunday, while suicide bombers struck elsewhere and rival death squads battled north of Baghdad....
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Ban asks Rice to hold talks with North Korea
NEW YORK, Oct 15: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice should hold talks with North Korea, UN Secretary-General designate Ban Ki-moon said on an ABC news programme on Sunday....
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Seven killed in Taliban attacks
KABUL, Oct 15: A series of Taliban-linked attacks across Afghanistan left seven people dead on Sunday, and the Italian government said it believed a missing freelance photojournalist had been kidnapped....
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Registration of Afghan refugees begins
ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: The government began on Sunday to register Afghan refugees and to provide them with official identification during their temporary stay in the country....
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Pakistan playing down Taliban threat: Dafdar
KABUL, Oct 15: Afghan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta on Sunday accused Pakistan of trying to play down the threat of ‘international terrorism’ by labelling the Taliban uprising in Afghanistan an ethnic issue....
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Qatar bans fish imports from Iran, Pakistan
DOHA, Oct 15: Qatar has banned the import of all kinds of fish and seafood from Iran and Pakistan. The ban comes in the wake of reports of high radiation detected in fish and shrimps imported from Iran into Kuwait....
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War boosted militancy, says Australian ex-army chief
SYDNEY, Oct 15: Australia’s defence force chief at the time of the invasion of Iraq said in remarks published on Sunday that he now believes the war has increased the threat of Islamic militancy....
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Foreign aid declines for farm sector
ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: Though agriculture plays a starring role as the most important sector for employment and income generation in Pakistan, foreign aid for agriculture and rural development has continued to decline....
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Massive quake shakes Hawaii
LOS ANGELES, Oct 15: A strong earthquake of 6.3 magnitude jolted the island of Hawaii awake on Sunday, knocking out power and rattling windows, but officials were quick to say no tsunami was expected....
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Iran threatens to limit nuclear inspection if sanctioned
TEHRAN, Oct 15: A heavyweight Iranian lawmaker warned on Sunday that Tehran would limit inspections by the UN of its nuclear sites if slapped with sanctions over its atomic programme, the student ISNA agency reported....
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‘Al Qaeda leader in secret CIA jail’
MADRID, Oct 15: A suspected Al Qaeda leader, accused of being involved in the Sept 11 attacks and planning the 2004 Madrid train bombings, has been imprisoned in a secret US...
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BA flight to Kuwait was ‘Trojan horse’: documentary
LONDON, Oct 15: A group of air passengers who were held hostage as human shields by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein before the 1991 Gulf war after their British Airways flight landed...
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Dr Qadeer back in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, Oct 15: Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan was brought here in a small plane from Karachi and put under house arrest at his E-7 residence in the federal capital....
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Japan urged to debate whether to go nuclear
TOKYO, Oct 15: Japan needs to discuss whether it should possess nuclear weapons in response to North Korea’s claimed nuclear test, the ruling party’s policy chief said on Sunday....
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‘Fair polls not possible under Musharraf’
KUNDIAN, Oct 15: MMA leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that free and fair elections are not possible under President Gen Pervez Musharraf and his alliance will not take part in sham polls....
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Supply of gas to Hub disrupted
QUETTA, Oct 15: Gas supply has been suspended to the industrial estate and other areas of the Hub township after the main pipeline was blown up on Sunday....
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