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| December 08, 2006 | Friday | Ziqa'ad 16, 1427 |
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Economy facing major risks: WB: Average inflation 7-7.5pc forecast
ISLAMABAD, Dec 7: The World Bank has identified some ‘major risks’ to Pakistan’s economy in the long and short terms owing to continuously rising fiscal and current account deficits and structural bottlenecks.... 
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Musharraf hits out at long march politics
QUETTA, Dec 7: President General Pervez Musharraf has said that he wants to bring progress and development to Balochistan and asked the people of the province, particularly youths, to support his efforts for a prosperous future....
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MMA puts on hold resignation decision
ISLAMABAD, Dec 7: The parliamentary party of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has decided that its legislators will not resign from the National Assembly now, and referred the issue back to the...
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Terror affecting ties: Karzai
KABUL, Dec 7: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday that attacks perpetrated by “terrorists” infiltrating Afghanistan from Pakistan were severely undermining relations between the two countries....
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Dozens held during Balochistan protest
QUETTA, Dec 7: Almost all major shopping and trading centres in the provincial capital’s main market remained open on Thursday despite a strike call given by the Balochistan National Party (Mengal)....
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Talks re-open on treaty with EU
ISLAMABAD, Dec 7: Negotiations between Pakistan and the European Commission (EC) on the proposed re-admission treaty have re-opened after three member states of the European Union (EU) pointed out recently that...
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Donors ask govt to raise social sector spending ISLAMABAD, Dec 7: The World Bank and the Department for International Development (DFID) of the United Kingdom have asked Pakistan to substantially increase the social sector spending as over 38 million...
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$510m ADB loan for renewable energy
MANILA, Dec 7: The Asian Development Bank is lending Pakistan $510 million to develop renewable energy sources. Pakistan was highly dependent on oil imports and expected to tap coal, oil and...
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‘Quetta airport closed twice recently’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 7: The Senate Standing Committee on Defence was informed here on Thursday that Quetta airport was recently closed twice during the arrival of two senior military officers in violation...
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Greater market access for Pakistan backed
ISLAMABAD, Dec 7: Britain’s shadow foreign secretary William Hague on Wednesday said that the Conservative Party would support enhanced market access for Pakistan in the European Union....
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Bush, Blair agree Iraq unrest tied to ME conflict
WASHINGTON, Dec 7: US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday endorsed a bipartisan panel’s conclusion that any resolution of the Iraq conflict is tied to reducing...
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Two security men killed outside Jeddah prison RIYADH, Dec 7: Two Saudi security personnel were killed and a few others injured when extremists opened fire on a guard post outside a prison in Jeddah on Thursday....
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‘Ex-KGB agent embraced Islam’
LONDON, Dec 7: In a new twist to the on-going spy thriller involving the mysterious death of a former KGB agent, one of his friends and neighbour has claimed that Alexander...
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US to scan six overseas ports for radiation
WASHINGTON, Dec 7: US-bound cargo at six overseas ports will be screened for nuclear and radiological material in an expanded effort to prevent terrorist bombs from entering American waters, federal officials said on Thursday....
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LHC order in Misbah case challenged
ISLAMABAD, Dec 7: The father of a British-born girl here on Thursday moved the Supreme Court to annul the Lahore High Court''s order to return his daughter to her Scottish mother....
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Nawaz determined to return before polls
LONDON, Dec 7: President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s recent warning to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif not to contemplate returning home before the end of his 10-year entry ban seems to have...
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Four killed in Afghanistan violence
KANDAHAR, Dec 7:A suicide car bomb targeting a Nato convoy in Afghanistan killed two civilians on Thursday, while elsewhere a district chief and a senior policemen were killed by Taliban gunmen....
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Rocket emerges dud after 18 years
ISLAMABAD, Dec 7: A dud rocket was found from a green area of the city on Thursday, police said. Police believe that this was one of the rockets from the huge...
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