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| November 09, 2006 | Thursday | Shawwal 16, 1427 |
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Suicide attack on army base: 40 troops dead; search on for bomber’s aide
PESHAWAR, Nov 8: At least 40 soldiers were killed and 20 others wounded when a suicide bomber struck a military base in Dargai, 100kms north of here, on Wednesday morning, officials said....
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Anger over Iraq war humbles Bush: Severe poll setback for Republicans
WASHINGTON, Nov 8: The opposition Democrats captured the House of Representatives in Tuesday’s mid-term elections, came tantalisingly close to winning the Senate as well and immediately called for a change of direction in Iraq....
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Israeli blitz kills 18 in Gaza
BEIT HANUN (Gaza Strip), Nov 8: Eighteen Palestinians, most of them women and children, were killed on Wednesday as Israeli shells slammed into their Gaza homes in an attack that drew worldwide condemnation and vows of renewed suicide attacks....
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46 killed in Iraq as curfew lifted
BAGHDAD, Nov 8: At least 46 Iraqis were killed in attacks on Wednesday as violence returned to Baghdad and other flashpoint regions of the country after the lifting of a curfew for the Saddam Hussein verdict....
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Opposition holds govt responsible for attack
LAHORE, Nov 8: Both the major opposition alliances, the ARD and the MMA, hold the government responsible for the killing of 35 troops in the Malakand area on Wednesday and 82 people in a seminary in Bajaur a few days ago....
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Musharraf for joint action
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: President General Pervez Musharraf has called upon the nation and political forces to work unitedly for eliminating terrorism from society. He was chairing a meeting of ministers and a select group parliamentarians from the four provinces on Wednesday....
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Militants up the ante
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The Dargai attack, because of its sheer enormity and the chosen target, has suddenly taken the bloody conflict between the Pakistani security establishment and the Fata-based militants to a new and, perhaps, a more dangerous level....
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Rumsfeld out
WASHINGTON, Nov 8: US President George W. Bush conceded on Wednesday that a general dissatisfaction with his administration’s Iraq policy contributed to the Republican defeat in congressional elections and announced that his controversial Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was stepping down....
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First Muslim elected to US Congress
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 8: Keith Ellison, a Democratic candidate from Minnesota, on Tuesday became the first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress. With results from 99 per cent...
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US condemns Dargai blast
WASHINGTON, Nov 8: The White House on Wednesday condemned the suicide attack in Malakand that killed 42 soldiers and praised Islamabad for its determination to fight terrorism....
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India halts border goose-stepping
WAGAH, Nov 8: Indian troops guarding the country''s only land transit point to Pakistan have halted an aggressive military ceremony ahead of a resumption of talks next week, officials said on Wednesday....
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Pakistan-origin trio jailed in UK
LONDON, Nov 8: Three Pakistani-Scottish men were jailed for at least 22 years on Wednesday for kidnapping and murdering a white schoolboy whom they stabbed repeatedly and set alight in a racist attack that shocked Britain....
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Students at home, chickens enrolled
HYDERABAD, Nov 8: District education monitors who inspected a government school here on Tuesday found chickens and breeding cages, instead of children and teachers. The school was being used as a...
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Iqbal Day today
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The nation will celebrate on Thursday the 129th birth anniversary of poet-philosopher Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Social, cultural, educational and literary organisations have chalked out various programmes to...
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Aziz arrives in New York
NEW YORK Nov 8: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz arrived in New York on Wednesday morning to present the report of a high-panel set up by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to give more coherence to UN''s system of operational activities for development....
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No let-up in war on terror: Durrani
ISLAMABAD Nov 8: The government condemned the Dargai suicide attack and declared that such incidents would not deter it from taking pre-emptive actions, such as the Oct 30 air strike on a Bajaur seminary, and from the war on terrorism....
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Trade with France rise $1billion
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: Pakistan has been receiving increasing attention in France as a partner in the global struggle to eradicate terrorism and as a state that offers economic opportunities....
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Sikh yatrees want flexible visa policy
TAXILA, Nov 8: Sikh yatrees who are currently visiting Pakistan have called upon the Pakistan government to issue flexible visa to the yatrees who intend to visit Pakistan....
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