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| November 07, 2006 | Tuesday | Shawwal 14, 1427 |
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Need stressed to vitalise OIC: Call to strengthen economy, promote trade
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Monday called for restructuring the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) urgently which he said was “the only way forward for socio-economic uplift” of its 57 member countries....
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Bar on NAB convicts’ remission removed
KARACHI, Nov 6: A full bench of the Sindh High Court on Monday struck down Section 10 (D) of the National Accountability Bureau Ordinance, 1999 which disallows jail remissions to those convicted under the ordinance....
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It’s time to move ahead, India told
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: Sending out a strong message to India, Pakistan on Monday declared it was now time for the two countries to move forward on crucial issues, especially the Jammu and Kashmir dispute....
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Sugar cartel jacks up prices
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: The price of sugar will rise in the wake of a recent agreement between the government and sugar mill owners....
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Lawyers and journalists manhandled on way to Bajaur
PESHAWAR, Nov 6: A fact-finding team of lawyers went to the village of Chingai in Bajaur Agency on Monday after tribesmen thwarted an attempt by the political authorities to stop them from visiting the area....
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Death penalty for BLA man
LAHORE, Nov 6: An anti-terrorism court on Monday convicted Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) activist Jan Maqbool of carrying out two blasts in the city last year and sentenced him to death on 11 counts....
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Anti-terror cooperation discussed
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher, who is here for routine bilateral consultations called on Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri on Monday and also met foreign secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan....
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Seven killed in accident
GUJAR KHAN, Nov 6: Seven people, including a brigadier and his wife, were killed and three others were critically injured when an over speeding Rawalpindi-bound car collided head-on with another car...
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Pakistani held in Greece
ATHENS, Nov 6: A prominent member of Greece’s Pakistani community, who earlier denounced alleged abductions of Pakistanis by Greek intelligence services, was arrested on Monday for trafficking illegal immigrants, police said....
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Vani victim rescued
MIANWALI, Nov 6: A 20-year-old victim of vani — a tribal practice of giving the hand of a girl, even an infant, in marriage to settle a dispute — has taken...
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Old US foe Ortega winning
MANAGUA, Nov 6: Former Marxist revolutionary and US Cold War enemy Daniel Ortega headed back towards power on Monday in Nicaragua’s presidential election 16 years after voters threw him out to end a war against US-trained rebels....
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Saudi investment invited in energy, mining sectors
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Monday said that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are strategic partners and enjoy a deep rooted relationship based on shared history and culture....
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‘Briton plotted blasts in UK, US’
LONDON, Nov 6: A suspected Al Qaeda operative watched impassively in a British court on Monday as prosecutors played shaky hand-held video of the New York Stock Exchange and other US financial targets he has admitted planning to bomb....
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Troops kill two in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Nov 6: Indian troops killed two suspected militants in occupied Kashmir and arrested four others as they sought to cross into the Pakistani zone of the region, police said....
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PM leaves for US today
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will leave for New York on Tuesday to attend the meeting of a high-level panel of Secretary General of United Nations working to improve the UN system.—APP...
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Clarification
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: In response to a news reported in a section of press about arrest of a few PAF officers in connection with last month’s Islamabad-Rawalpindi rockets case, Pakistan Air...
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Tribesmen continue protest
KHAAR, Nov 6: Tribesmen held protest rallies in the Bajaur Agency on Monday against last week’s attack on a seminary which claimed the lives of over 80 students....
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Violence against journalists condemned
KARACHI, Nov 6: The standing committee of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE), in a meeting held in Karachi strongly condemned the incidents of kidnapping, violence and assassination of journalists....
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