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| November 30, 2006 | Thursday | Ziqa'ad 8, 1427 |
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Relief for victims of under-age marriage: New bill to amend family laws
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: The federal cabinet on Wednesday approved a draft bill seeking amendments to the country’s family laws with a view to enabling women who are married as minors to settle long-running family feuds to obtain divorce upon reaching puberty.... 
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Polls under Musharraf acceptable: Fahim
NEW YORK, Nov 29: People’s Party Parliamentarians chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim has said his party will participate in the general election under an independent election commission and interim set-up in the presence of President Gen Pervez Musharraf....
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PML-N rejects PPP stance
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: The PML-N on Wednesday took strong exception to a statement of Makhdoom Amin Fahim, president of PPP Parliamentarians and chairman of the ARD, that elections under a caretaker...
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N-capable Hatf 4 test-fired
RAWALPINDI, Nov 29: As part of the ongoing exercises of the Pakistan Army’s Strategic Force Command (ASFC), the troops of a Strategic Missile Group (SMG) on Wednesday conducted a successful launch of the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Hatf 4 (Shaheen-I)....
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Note of caution over draft Kashmir report
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: Pakistan on Wednesday cautioned that the European Parliament’s draft report on Jammu and Kashmir, currently being debated by European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee in Brussels, must take into account the sentiments and struggle of the Kashmiri people....
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Shujaat, Gen Ehsan visit Mahar brothers
SUKKUR, Nov 29: PML President Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain and Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhary Pervaiz Ilahi visited Ghotki on Wednesday and held talks with former chief minister of Sindh Ali Mohammad Mahar...
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Dr Qadeer ‘unwell’, says sister
KARACHI, Nov 29: Nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan is unwell and needs 24-hour medical care, his sister said on Wednesday, dismissing official claims of his recovery from cancer surgery.Razia...
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Poor man loses wife, baby and hope
KARACHI, Nov 29: At the time of admitting his pregnant wife to a private hospital, Mohammad Iqbal didn’t have the slightest of the idea that his to-be-born baby would be kidnapped...
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Karo-kari: four women killed
SUKKUR, Nov 29: Four women of a family have been killed in what has been described as ‘karo-kari’ murders in the Abdoo village under the Chak police station of the Shikarpur district....
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Ban on rallies in Punjab
LAHORE, Nov 29: The Punjab home secretary has said that processions, public meetings and rallies are banned in all districts of the province under section 144 of the CrPC....
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Ecnec likely to approve 32 projects
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) is expected to give approval to 32 projects worth Rs80 million when its meets here on Thursday....
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Court orders girl back to UK
LAHORE, Nov 29: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday ordered that Misbah Iram Rana, a 12-year-old British-Pakistani national, must return to her mother and said that the British High Commission should make arrangements for her travel to Scotland....
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Nato sets up rapid action force
RIGA, Nov 29: Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) on Wednesday declared the military alliance’s flag-ship response force, a 25,000-strong contingent to be sent to the world’s hot spots, to be fully operational and ready for action....
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700 held so far, alleges BNP-M
QUETTA, Nov 29: At least hundred more leaders and workers of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) have been arrested from Makran and other areas of the province, party sources said on Wednesday....
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Sadr boycotts govt
BAGHDAD, Nov 29: Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s parliamentary bloc suspended its participation in the Iraqi government on Wednesday in protest at Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s meeting with US President George W....
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Protests in US over offloading of Imams
WASHINGTON, Nov 29: America can''t become a country so locked by fear that those who unfurl a prayer rug automatically become suspects, warns the Washington Post in an editorial published on Wednesday....
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India reiterates allegations of terrorism
NEW DELHI, Nov 29: Nine Pakistan-based Jihadi terrorists were involved in the attacks on Mumbai`s commuter trains in July, India''s National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan said on Wednesday....
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Aziz, Shujaat discuss resignations
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Wednesday discussed the prospects and consequences of probable resignations of MMA from the National Assembly seats....
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