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| November 17, 2006 | Friday | Shawwal 24, 1427 |
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New bill on women’s rights submitted
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: The government on Thursday kept up the momentum of legislation against anti-women laws by submitting a draft bill to the National Assembly seeking an end to practices like... 
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Pakistan tests N-capable missile
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: Pakistan on Thursday conducted a successful launch of the intermediate range ballistic missile Hatf V (Ghauri) and was witnessed by the Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz....
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MMA to ‘resign’ in December
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Thursday announced that it would implement its decision of resigning from the National Assembly in protest against the passage of the Protection of Women’s...
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Hafiz Hussain announces resignation
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s parliamentary leader in the National Assembly Hafiz Hussain Ahmed has announced his resignation from the lower house of parliament....
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Musharraf inaugurates Mirani Dam in Turbat
TURBAT, Nov 16: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday inaugurated the Mirani Dam and sought support of the people of Balochistan against `anti-development and retrogressive elements’ to steer the province into a new era of prosperity....
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India urged to move on Siachen issue
BRUSSELS, Nov 16: Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman Gen Ehsanul Haq said on Thursday India had to move to solve the stand-off over the Siachen glacier, a day after Pakistan suggested a possible interim solution....
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Death-row Briton gets reprieve: Driver’s family to move SC
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: Family members of a taxi-driver killed 18 years ago by a British national have expressed outrage at President Pervez Musharraf’s decision to commute his death sentence and said they would challenge the decision in the Supreme Court....
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Hasil Bizenjo missing
QUETTA, Nov 16: Secretary General of the National Party Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, who was being taken to Karachi from Ormara, has gone missing, said a party spokesman here on Thursday....
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Railway line blown up near Mach
QUETTA, Nov 16: The train link between Quetta and the rest of the country was suspended when suspected militants blew up the main rail track near Mach, some 70km east of here, late on Thursday night....
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Pakistan, Russia agree to expand relations
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: Pakistan and Russia have decided to expand and intensify political as well as economic cooperation as a step towards their common goal of developing a strategic partnership....
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TDAP board members notified
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: The federal government has announced the names of 25 members of the board of newly formed Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) with the federal minister of commerce as its chairman....
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Hearing in oil contract case adjourned
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16: A two-member bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned till December the hearing of an appeal against delay in awarding contracts for development of two oil and gas fields in Sindh....
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Iran tells US to give clear signals on Iraq
TEHRAN, Nov 16: Iran''s top national security official on Thursday urged the United States to give a clear indication as to whether it wanted to ask the Islamic republic for talks over stabilising Iraq....
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CIA wants US to back Karzai for a decade
WASHINGTON, Nov 16: The United States will have to support the Karzai government for at least a decade to ensure that the Taliban and their allies do not overrun Kabul, says CIA chief....
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Palestinian leaders threatened with death
AL QUDS, Nov 16: An Israeli cabinet minister said on Thursday that the Palestinian prime minister should not be immune as he urged stepped up “targeted killing” operations against Palestinians involved in rocket attacks....
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US agents arrest 33 in visa fraud scam
WASHINGTON, Nov 16: US immigration agents arrested 33 people in 10 cities in connection with a visa fraud scheme that helped illegal migrants enter the US under a programme for religious workers, immigration authorities said on Wednesday....
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Quetta paralysed by strike
QUETTA, Nov 16: A shutter-down strike and a black day were observed in the provincial capital and others parts of Balochistan on Thursday on a call of the National Party to...
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175 illegal immigrants arrive from S.Arabia
RAWALPINDI, Nov 16: A batch of 175 Pakistani illegal immigrants arrived at Islamabad International Airport from Saudi Arabia on a scheduled flight on Thursday. The authorities said they were over-staying in the Saudi Kingdom after their Umra visas expired....
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