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| December 17, 2006 | Sunday | Ziqa'ad 25, 1427 |
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Singh gives cautious welcome to Kashmir proposals
NEW DELHI, Dec 16: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that he welcomed all new ideas that could help resolve the Kashmir dispute and also stressed that Delhi had... 
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Provinces to get CVT from next year
LAHORE, Dec 16: Inter-provincial coordination ministers on Saturday took a clutch of crucial decisions on provincial autonomy including the transfer of the capital value tax to the provinces within a year....
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Taliban ‘havens’ along border: US
WASHINGTON, Dec 16: Key members of the US establishment — from Secretary of State to the national intelligence chief — are now backing claims that the Taliban have set up safe havens along the Pakistan-Afghan border....
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PPP, PML-N reject IRI report
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: The People’s Party Parliamentarians and the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) on Saturday rejected as `baseless’ the observation of a survey conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI) that...
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Long battle over Hasba bill
KARACHI, Dec 16: The NWFP government on Saturday braced itself for a long-drawn legal battle with the centre over the controversial Hasba bill as human rights activists said a prompt grant...
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WB for lenient labour rules: Temporary workers get 36pc of job market
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: Pakistan has one of the largest populations of temporary workers in the world, who experienced a 3.5 per cent decline in real earnings between 1997-98 and 2003-04, according to a World Bank report....
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First IPP to achieve financial closure under 2002 policy
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: The Orient Power Company Limited here on Saturday achieved the financial closure of its 225-megawatt thermal power plant to be located at Balloki near Lahore....
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Aziz rules out poll alliance with PPP
ISLAMABAD Dec 16: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has ruled out the possibility of an electoral alliance between the ruling Pakistan Muslim League and the People’s Party Parliamentarians....
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Hamas, Fatah clash as Abbas plans early polls
RAMALLAH (West Bank), Dec 16: President Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for Palestinian elections, throwing down the gauntlet to his Hamas rivals after days of factional violence that has sparked fears of civil war....
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Karzai’s charges rejected
KABUL, Dec 16: The Taliban on Saturday rejected accusations made by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that Pakistan was supporting them in their insurgency in Afghanistan....
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Indian coffee chain to open outlets
KARACHI, Dec 16: The franchise partner of Café Coffee Day, an Indian coffee chain, plans to open two more outlets in the upcountry in the next three to four months after...
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Chosen voters cast ballots in first UAE polls
ABU DHABI, Dec 16: Hand-picked voters cast ballots on Saturday to elect members of the United Arab Emirates’ advisory assembly in the first elections since the Gulf Arab state was created in 1971....
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Violence mars Bangladesh independence celebrations
DHAKA, Dec 16 Celebrations to mark Bangladesh’s independence on Saturday were marred by clashes between rival political parties and police ahead of parliamentary elections due next month....
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Chinese military team arrives
RAWALPINDI, Dec 16: A Chinese military delegation led by Lt-Gen Lu Dengming, chief of staff of the Chengdu Military Command, arrived here on Saturday to observe the ongoing Pak-China Friendship exercises 2006....
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PoWs could have solved Kashmir issue: Advani
NEW DELHI, Dec 16: The Pakistani prisoners of war taken by Indian forces in former East Pakistan should have been traded for a pro-Delhi solution to the Kashmir dispute, BJP leader L.K....
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PML-N to initiate dialogue on provincial autonomy
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Chairman Raja Zafarul Haq on Saturday said his party had decided to initiate national dialogue on the issue of provincial autonomy in an effort to develop consensus on this important national issue....
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Ex-envoy counsels caution on Kashmir
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: Former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Chairman Institute of Strategic Studies Ambassador Inamul Haq has observed that President General Pervez Musharraf’s proposals on Kashmir must be re-examined to avoid any pitfalls and traps in the future....
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PM inaugurates Pakistan Express
RAWALPINDI, Dec 16: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said the role of railways cannot be neglected in the economic and social development of the nation and the government is focusing to improve the standard of railways system....
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