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| December 13, 2006 | Wednesday | Ziqa'ad 21, 1427 |
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All dams to be built, says president
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Tuesday that all major water reservoirs, including that of Kalabagh dam, would be built to overcome an imminent water shortage in the country.... 
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Pakistan deflects ICG attack
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: Pakistan on Tuesday defended a peace pact reached with militants in North Waziristan, terming statements against it part of a propaganda campaign. It added that the signatories had...
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Bomb attacks kill 71 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Dec 12: Insurgents set off two bombs in a main square of central Baghdad where scores of Iraqis were waiting for jobs as day labourers on Tuesday, killing at least 71 people and wounding 151, police said....
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Lockheed gets $144m to build F-16s for Pakistan
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: The Lockheed Martin Corporation of the US has received a $144 million contract to begin production of 18 F-16C/Ds for Pakistan, as part of a $5.1...
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Govt looking into oil prices, SC told
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: Contrary to its public stand on oil prices, the government told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that it was reviewing the price....
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SC’s concern over private practice of doctors
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed concerns over the trend of private practice by doctors working for public hospitals and said it seemed to be discriminatory for the patients....
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SHC allows shifting of 60 Quaid relics
KARACHI, Dec 12: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday allowed the shifting of 60 memorabilia belonging to the founder of the nation from the Quaid-i-Azam House (formerly Flagstaff House) in Karachi to the National Museum in Islamabad....
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NA committee to take up KSE crash report
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: The National Assembly’s standing committee on finance is going to reopen the issue of forensic report on last year’s stock exchange crash and discuss the delayed Anti-Money Laundering...
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Karzai accuses Islamabad of being Taliban’s boss
KANDAHAR, Dec 12: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday accused Pakistan of being “the boss” of the Taliban and said resolving difficulties with Pakistan would put an end to terrorism in Afghanistan....
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Infiltration continues on Afghan border: US
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: Insurgents continue to cross the Pakistan-Afghanistan border to carry out attacks inside Afghanistan, says the US State Department while urging Islamabad and Kabul to work together to beat the insurgency....
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Balochistan, Sindh set to remove irritants
KARACHI, Dec 12: The governments of Sindh and Balochistan have decided to settle all issues, including water and settlement claims, and set up a committee comprising representatives of irrigation and power, finance and public health engineering departments....
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Agreement with China comes into force
BEIJING, Dec 12: Pakistan and China on Tuesday exchanged Instruments of Ratification of Agreement on Cooperation in combating terrorism, secessionism and extremism....
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Four accords signed with Yemen
SANAA, Dec 12: Pakistan and Yemen on Tuesday signed four agreements and one Memorandum of Understanding to promote cooperation in various fields between the two countries....
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Aziz, Alwaleed meet
RIYADH, Dec 12: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on Tuesday discussed investment opportunities in Pakistan....
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Wolfowitz under fire as WB faces exodus
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: His role in the Iraq war and the practice of appointing cronies from the Republican Party to senior positions is catching up with World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz who faces an unprecedented rebellion inside his own office....
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Suicide bomb targets Afghan governor
KANDAHAR, Dec 12: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a governor’s house in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing eight people, in the latest bloodshed linked to a spiralling insurgency....
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‘Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to US resigns’
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: Saudi Arabia''s ambassador to Washington Prince Turki al-Faisal abruptly resigned and flew out of the United States after only 15 months on the job, a report said on Tuesday....
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BD president appoints four advisers
DHAKA, Dec 12: The president and chief adviser to the caretaker government, Iajuddin Ahmed, on Tuesday inducted four advisers to the interim cabinet following the resignation of four of its members, who quit on Monday....
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Mukharjee due on Jan 13
NEW DELHI, Dec 12: Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukharjee will arrive here on Jan 13 to attend the bilateral foreign ministers’ talks....
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Enough to mock ‘Parha Likha’ Punjab claims
SIALKOT, Dec 12: Hundreds of boy and girl students of two government-run primary schools in Sambrial are getting education without basic facilities contrary to the claims of the Punjab Chief Minister’s Education Sector’s Reforms Programme....
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