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| December 14, 2006 | Thursday | Ziqa'ad 22, 1427 |
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Child mortality 500,000 a year in Pakistan: Millennium goal to be missed: Unicef
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has painted a bleak picture of the state of Pakistani children, saying some 0.5 million of them die annually before reaching the age of five, mostly from preventable causes.... 
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Terror charges against Briton dropped
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday dropped charges against a British man suspected of being a key figure in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners....
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SBP chief rejects devaluation advice
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: State Bank Governor Dr Shamshad Akhtar said here on Wednesday that Pakistan would never devalue the rupee on the advice of the World Bank and the International Monitory...
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Industry refuses to follow Ogra orders
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: A unilateral increase in the prices of compressed natural gas (CNG), made early this week, has put the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) in an awkward situation...
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US firm’s mandate questioned: KSE crash probe
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Finance was informed here on Wednesday that Diligence, which conducted investigations into the March 2005 stock market crash, was in fact a consultancy firm and had nothing to do with forensic probes....
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SHC annuls ban on teachers’ unions
KARACHI, Dec 13: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday voided the ban imposed on the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association and the Government Secondary Teachers Association and quashed the consequential actions taken against their members....
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Frustrated Karzai again lashes out at Pakistan
KANDAHAR, Dec 13: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday lashed out at Pakistan for the third time this week, accusing the neighbouring country of trying to enslave the Afghan people....
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Hasba stalemate lingers
PESHAWAR, Dec 13: While it has been exactly a month since the NWFP assembly passed a watered-down version of the controversial Hasba bill, the provincial governor still has a week to decide whether or not to sign the bill into law....
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SC curious about ‘Qarz Utaro’ fund
ISLAMABAD, Dec 13: The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the credibility of Pakistani governments, saying the court might ask the authorities to explain where the money collected by the Nawaz Sharif administration under the “Qarz Utaro, Mulk Sunawaro” scheme had gone....
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IB employee refuses to confess
PESHAWAR, Dec 13: A naib-qasid in the Intelligence Bureau, accused of planting explosives near the Chief Minister’s Secretariat, was sent to judicial lock-up on Wednesday after he refused to make a confession before a local court....
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Abdullah and Aziz vow to deepen strategic ties RIYADH, Dec 13: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday vowed to deepen their multifaceted and strategic relations to new heights by enhancing cooperation in the war on terror and increasing collaboration in defence, security, trade and investment....
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Boy immune to pain helps quest for new drugs PARIS, Dec 13: A Pakistani child who earned a living by stabbing himself with knives as a street performer before he met a tragic death may have helped open the way to a new generation of smarter anaesthetics....
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Kashmir draft ‘flawed’: UK group
LONDON, Dec 13: UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Kashmir (PPGK) unanimously agreed on Tuesday to support amendments to Baroness Nicholson’s draft report to European Parliament calling it ‘fundamentally flawed’....
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Bush says he won’t be rushed into Iraq decision
WASHINGTON, Dec 13: President George Bush said on Wednesday he would not be rushed into deciding how to change his Iraq policy after putting off his speech on the subject from next week to next month....
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Gateways along border planned
QUETTA, Dec 13: Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani has said the government is opening three more gateways along the Afghan border to promote trade with Afghanistan....
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Extradition delayed
ATHENS, Dec 13: Greece has told Pakistan that it needs more information before ruling on a request by Islamabad to extradite a Pakistani, Javed Aslam, for alleged people trafficking, judicial officials said on Wednesday....
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Workers protest against downsizing
QUETTA, Dec 13: Hundreds of members of the Pakistan Workers Federation, Balochistan, staged a demonstration in front of the Quetta Press Club on Wednesday to press for their demands....
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Nato troops kill Afghan
KANDAHAR, Dec 13: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation troops in Afghanistan killed a civilian motorcyclist who failed to stop at a checkpoint during a visit to Kandahar by President Hamid Karzai, the force said on Wednesday....
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