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| January 01, 2007 | Monday | Zilhaj 10, 1427 |
Welcome to DAWN, Pakistan's most widely circulated English language newspaper
Updated round-the-clock, with a major update before 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
There is no issue of DAWN, on Wednesday January 03, 2007 due to newspaper holiday in Pakistan. However we will continue to update the latest news
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Air pollution kills 22,000 every year, says study
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: Increased urbanisation and a growing number of vehicles on the country’s roads are causing extensive damage to the environment, with over 22,000 people losing their lives to air... 
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Saddam buried at Awja in the dead of night
TIKRIT, Dec 31: Saddam Hussein was buried privately and in the dead of night on Sunday, one day after swinging from the gallows....
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A year of triumph & tragedy
KARACHI: It was a year of triumph and tragedy. Pakistan’s legislature pulled off a feat of sorts when the ruling Pakistan Muslim League and the Pakistan People’s Party sank their differences...
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Flights, trains, traffic hit by fog
LAHORE, Dec 31: Thick fog blanketed Lahore and several other cities of Punjab on Sunday, badly affecting air, road and rail traffic, and intensifying winter....
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Bomb scare forces plane landing
ATHENS, Dec 31: A Greek aircraft bound for New York made a dawn emergency landing on Sunday in Ireland after a telephone caller said there was a bomb on board “for Saddam (Hussein)”....
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WB calls for reduction in port staff, charges
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: The World Bank has asked Pakistan to reduce port charges by 15 per cent and fire 25 to 40 per cent staff employed at its two major ports...
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Video shows Saddam traded taunts with guards
BAGHDAD, Dec 31: “The tyrant has fallen,” a witness shouted after Saddam Hussein dropped through the trap door of the gallows, his neck broken in an instant by the rope moments after exchanging sectarian taunts with onlookers....
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15 feared dead as boat sinks
QUETTA, Dec 31: A speedboat carrying 16 Pakistani fishermen capsized in the Arabian Sea, some 30 nautical miles from the Iranian coast, on Sunday....
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Annan bows out as UN struggles with image
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 31: Kofi Annan leaves behind a global organisation far more aggressively engaged in peacekeeping and fighting poverty, but struggling to restore its tarnished reputation....
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Police claim foiling Delhi bombing
NEW DELHI, Dec 31: Two suspected Islamic militants have been arrested with explosives hidden inside toys which they planned to blow up at a busy market here, Indian police said on Sunday....
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2.3m continue Haj rites
MINA, Dec 31: More than 2.3 million pilgrims here on Sunday continued the stoning of Jamarat. Official figures put the number of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia at 2.378...
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Eidul Azha today
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: Eidul Azha will be celebrated throughout the country on Monday with religious fervour....
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President, PM discuss law, order
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has stressed the need for maintaining consistency in economic policies to build on the progress achieved in the last seven years....
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Call to remember poor on Eid
ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have felicitated the nation and the Muslim Ummah on the auspicious occasion of Eidul Azha....
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Thousands of quake victims still without homes
| ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: International aid agencies say thousands of families are still without permanent homes in earthquake-hit parts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the NWFP....
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Musharraf promulgates trade ordinance
| ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: President Pervez Musharraf on Sunday promulgated the `trade organisations ordinance’ to regulate the working and registration of commercial organisations....
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No objection to contest polls under Musharraf: Fazl
| MINA, Dec 31: Opposition leader in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Sunday said that he had no objection to contest elections in the presence of President Musharraf....
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Two soldiers hurt near Mand
| QUETTA, Dec 31: Two security personnel were seriously injured when armed men opened fire at a vehicle of Makran Scouts near Mand on Sunday while two electricity pylons were blown up, suspending power supply to Dera Bugti....
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