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| December 03, 2006 | Sunday | Ziqa'ad 11, 1427 |
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Musharraf seeks end to gas pricing row: Contact with Ahmadinejad
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: President Gen Pervez Musharraf stepped in on Saturday to resolve the gas pricing issue that has emerged as a threat to the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline project earlier this week.... 
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SBP chief warns banks of action: Measly returns on deposits
KARACHI, Dec 2: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will intervene for providing higher returns to the depositors if the banks fail to reduce the banking spread and provide better yield on deposits....
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Polls a battle between dictatorship, democracy: Nawaz
LONDON, Dec 2: In what sounded like an urgent call to his party leaders to start preparing for the next election, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif told a PML (N) delegation...
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Independent judiciary strengthens democratic institutions: Musharraf
RAWALPINDI, Dec 2: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that he believes in independent and strong judiciary which strengthens democratic institutions, ensures good governance and stability in the country....
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Mixed response to BNP-M strike call
QUETTA, Dec 2: The shutterdown strike call given by the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) against the arrest of its leaders and workers received a mixed response in Quetta and other parts of the province on Saturday....
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Boy killed in Nushki blast
QUETTA, Dec 2: A boy was killed and three other people were injured when a bomb exploded in Nushki, some 160km southwest of here, on Saturday....
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Accused appears in court lip-stitched
LAHORE, Dec 2: A local court on Saturday ordered the Kot Lakhpat jail authorities to conduct an inquiry into the alleged lip-stitching of a murder accused by some jail staff....
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Mangla Dam raising to be completed next year ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Saturday work on the Mangla Dam raising would be completed by December 2007, which would give additional capacity of 2....
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33 killed as bridge falls on Indian train
NEW DELHI, Dec 2: Thirty-three people were killed when a 140-year-old bridge toppled on an inter-city passenger train in eastern India on Saturday, a spokesman for the state-run rail company said....
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3 Baghdad explosions claim 50 lives
BAGHDAD, Dec 2: Three massive car bomb blasts rocked the centre of the Iraqi capital on Saturday, killing at least 50 people and wounding another 87, security officials said....
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Protest paralyses Beirut, again
BEIRUT, Dec 2: Thousands of supporters of Lebanon’s Hezbollah-led opposition paralysed parts of central Beirut on Saturday on the second day of a campaign to topple the US-backed government....
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139 ‘militants’ detained in Saudi Arabia
RIYADH, Dec 2: Saudi Arabia, fighting a violent campaign by Al Qaeda supporters, has detained 139 suspected militants, including a would-be suicide bomber, Al Arabiya television said on Saturday....
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Israel ‘violates’ ceasefire
GAZA CITY, Dec 2: Palestinians accused Israel of violating a fragile Gaza Strip ceasefire on Saturday as Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas met European diplomats in a string of meetings aimed at reviving stalled peace talks....
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US troops’ prey turns out to be Afghan cop
KABUL, Dec 2: US troops operating under the Nato-led force mistakenly shot dead an Afghan policeman and injured a second officer in southern Afghanistan, Nato and Afghan officials said on Saturday....
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Raul Castro seeks talks with US
HAVANA, Dec 2: Cuba’s communist interim leader Raul Castro, in a shift from the tack of his ailing brother Fidel Castro, on Saturday pushed for negotiations with the United States to end decades of tense ties....
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Japan urged to set up technical varsity
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Dr Mohammad Akram Sheikh has urged the Japanese government to set up a technical university in Pakistan to help it in developing highly skilled manpower and promote industrial growth in the country....
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Prices of 13 items show rising trend
ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: The price of 13 items witnessed an average growth of three per cent during the week ending on November 30 putting more pressure on the low income people....
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Safe drinking water supply ordered
RAWALPINDI, Dec 2: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has directed the departments concerned to speed up installation of water purification plants throughout the country for the supply of safe drinking water to the masses....
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