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| December 10, 2006 | Sunday | Ziqa'ad 18, 1427 |
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President offers amnesty to Baloch fighters: Dialogue option kept open
QUETTA, Dec 9: President General Pervez Musharraf on Saturday announced amnesty in Balochistan for all those willing to surrender arms and said the government was ready for talks on peace and development.... 
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Mengal’s servants get life for kidnapping servicemen
KARACHI, Dec 9: An anti-terrorism court sentenced on Saturday four domestic servants of former Balochistan chief minister Sardar Akhtar Mengal to life imprisonment for holding two army men hostage in April....
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Govt urged to come clean on ‘enforced disappearances’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: Human rights activists staged a protest demonstration here on Saturday to press the government to produce in court what they described as victims of “enforced disappearances” belonging mostly to autonomy-seeking nationalist parties of Balochistan....
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Corruption has risen since ’99 coup: TI
ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: Pakistan has been ranked 142nd in this year’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) by Transparency International....
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Govt rules out devaluation
KARACHI, Dec 9: Dr Salman Shah, the prime minister’s adviser on finance, has ruled out the rupee’s devaluation in view of the widening external current account deficit, over which the State...
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Hatf-III test-fired
RAWALPINDI, Dec 9: A Strategic Missile Group (SMG) of the Pakistan Army’s Strategic Force Command (ASFC) on Saturday conducted a successful launch of short-range ballistic missile Hatf-III (Ghaznavi)....
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Taliban ready to join jirga
SPIN BOLDAK, Dec 9: The Taliban said on Saturday they might join proposed tribal councils aimed at ending mounting violence in Afghanistan, if they were asked....
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Foreign investors seek security
ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: International mining companies operating in Balochistan are seeking adequate security cover and necessary infrastructure facilities in Chagai district to complete their over $1 billion copper projects....
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Women’s law won’t be changed: Musharraf
LAHORE, Dec 9: President General Pervez Musharraf has categorically stated that the women’s rights act will neither be repealed nor changed....
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MQM, ulema discuss women’s rights act
KARACHI, Dec 9: Matters pertaining to the recently approved women’s protection act were discussed when a 17-member delegation of religious scholars representing Majlis-i-Tahafuz-i-Hudoodullah met leaders of Muttahida Qaumi Movement at Nine Zero on Saturday....
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Bush to receive India N-fuel supply bill tomorrow
WASHINGTON, Dec 9: The US Congress on Saturday reopened doors of nuclear commerce with India after a gap of three decades. The bill will now go to President George Bush on Monday....
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Pentagon move on Awacs sale
WASHINGTON, Dec 9: The Pentagon said on Friday it had notified Congress of a possible sale to Pakistan of three P-3 aircraft with airborne early warning systems....
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45 women killed in Russia fire
MOSCOW, Dec 9: A fire that swept through a Moscow drug rehabilitation clinic killed 45 women early on Saturday, officials said, as prosecutors opened a criminal inquiry for arson and fire safety breaches....
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Iran offers to help US over Iraq pullout
MANAMA, Dec 9: Iran is ready, under certain circumstances, to help the United States withdraw its troops from neighbouring Iraq, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday....
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US plans to send more troops to Baghdad
WASHINGTON, Dec 9: The Bush administration plans to send additional troops to Baghdad, contrary to the suggestion of a bipartisan panel which advised it to begin a gradual withdrawal by 2008, US media reported on Saturday....
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Blair softens stance on Muslims
LONDON, Dec 9: Hastening perhaps to reassure Britain’s Muslim community some of whose members must have felt greatly disturbed over his blunt remarks on Friday about those who refuse to integrate...
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Toy bomb kills boy, injures 4
QUETTA, Dec 9: An eight-year-old boy was killed and four others, including a woman and her daughter, were injured seriously in a toy bomb explosion in Panjgur, some 650km south of here, on Saturday....
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Indian airports on alert
NEW DELHI, Dec 9: Indian airports have been put on high alert following intelligence reports that terrorists could hijack a plane to seek the release of a man sentenced to death...
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