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| December 02, 2006 | Saturday | Ziqa'ad 10, 1427 |
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Apex court raps govt over the missing
ISLAMABAD, Dec 1: The Supreme Court has expressed disappointment that only 20 of a total of 41 people missing for several years have so far been found.... 
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Petrol price expected to be lowered by 10pc on 15th
ISLAMABAD, Dec 1: The government on Thursday hinted at reducing petroleum prices in the next quarterly review due on Dec 15 if international market remained stable, saying its losses for the current year stood recovered....
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Consensus on IPI gas tariff likely, says official
ISLAMABAD, Dec 1: Pakistan believes that a “consensus” will emerge in the forthcoming tripartite meeting in Teheran to finalise the $7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project, said a senior official....
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Energy resources will be developed fast: Musharraf
RAWALPINDI, Dec 1: President General Pervez Musharraf on Friday vowed to develop the energy resources of the country on fast track basis to help meet the needs of the fast expanding industrial sector and sustainable economic development of the country....
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BNP’s acting chief among 150 held: Cut in power supply to coastal areas
QUETTA, Dec 1: Police on Friday arrested over 150 leaders and workers of the Balochistan National Party (Mengal group) and National Party. BNP’s acting president Sajid Tareen, former speaker Akram Baloch and Dr Yasin Baloch are among those arrested.Sources...
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Man killed in Peshawar blast
PESHAWAR, Dec 1: A bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded in the Defence Officers Colony on Friday evening, killing one person. It was not clear if the man died was a...
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Musharraf signs women’s bill
ISLAMABAD, Dec 1: President Gen Pervez Musharraf signed into law the Protection of Women Bill, 2006, which amended the widely criticised Hudood laws in the teeth of fierce criticism from religious parties that held protest demonstrations throughout the country on Friday....
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Punjab cabinet expanded
LAHORE, Dec 1: Five ministers, an equal number of advisers to the chief minister were inducted in the Punjab cabinet on Friday. Besides, five special assistants were also appointed....
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OGDCL shares sale to yield $813m
ISLAMABAD, Dec 1: Minister for Privatization and Investment Zahid Hamid has said that the government has completed the institutional offering of the Oil and Gas Development Company’s Global Depository Receipts (GDR) that would yield gross proceeds worth $813 million....
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Kasuri leaves for Oman to bolster economic ties
ISLAMABAD, Dec 1: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri left for Oman on Friday on a three-day official visit to shore up Pakistan’s economic and political ties with its key maritime neighbour which has close relations with both the US and Iran....
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Pakistan calls for ‘visionary’ diplomacy for Middle East
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 1: Pakistan on Thursday called for "a determined and visionary diplomacy, especially by those who wield power and influence with principal parties in the Middle-East is essential if...
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Indian troops kill Delhi ‘bombing suspect’
SRINAGAR, Dec 1: Indian troops have shot dead four suspected militants in the held-Kashmir, including a commander believed to have been involved in last year''s bombings in New Delhi, officials said on Friday....
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14 Kurds killed
MOSUL, Dec 1: Iraqi police found 14 Kurdish farmers murdered in a field near the Syrian border, a government official said on Friday. The farmers from the town of Sinjar were...
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Mild tremors in north
PESHAWAR, Dec 1: A mild tremor of 5.1 magnitude on the Richter scale jolted Peshawar, Islamabad and other neighbouring parts of the country at 6:12pm on Friday....
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Army handed over air defence missile carriers
TAXILA, Dec 1: Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee chairman General Ehsanul Haq has said the government is determined to provide a credible defence with all possible means at its disposal....
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US groping for exit from Iraq
WASHINTON: "This business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all," President Bush said on Thursday after meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki....
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Iraqi PM’s refusal to meet Abdullah raises sectarian divide
CAIRO: Iraq’s Shia leader was firm, his aides say -- he would not talk to US President George W. Bush with Jordan’s Sunni king listening. That startling show of mistrust in...
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Hezbollah puts US power to test
BEIRUT: The Hezbollah-led opposition''s challenge to the Beirut government is a blow to US Middle East policy and shows Washington has limited options to head off Syrian and Iranian influence in Lebanon....
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