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| January 05, 2007 | Friday | Zilhaj 14, 1427 |
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Barbs fly at Kabul meet: •Aziz agrees to set up jirga commission •Karzai complains about aid to Taliban
KABUL, Jan 4: Negotiations between Islamabad and Kabul turned out to be unproductive when Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday that the help resurgent Taliban militants received on the Pakistani side of the border soured relations between the estranged neighbours....
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Mukherjee’s agenda for talks cleared
NEW DELHI, Jan 4: The Indian government on Thursday cleared Foreign Minister Pranab Mukhejee’s agenda for talks in Pakistan this month and the chief minister of the disputed state of Jammu...
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Inflation to exceed target, says SBP governor
KARACHI, Jan 4: The State Bank fears that inflation is likely to inch past – at least by one percentage point – the annual budgetary target set for the year 2006-07....
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Qazi wants to quit as MMA president: Supreme council meeting on 11th
PESHAWAR, Jan 4: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Qazi Hussain Ahmad has expressed the desire of relinquishing his post and electing another suitable person with consensus of component parties of the alliance....
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LPG price goes up by Rs7.62
ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The average price of an 11.8kg cylinder of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) will surge by more than Rs90, affecting several million people who use it as an alternative fuel for cooking and heating, especially in rural areas....
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Govt mulls arranging $1bn through credit, bonds: Neelum-Jhelum power plan
ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The government is contemplating arranging $1 billion foreign exchange through a mix of buyer''s credit and issuance of bonds to fund 969MW Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower project in Azad Kashmir...
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Acting chief of BNP-M arrested
QUETTA, Jan 4: Acting president of the Balochistan National Party (Mengal group) Mir Nooruddin Mengal and seven other activists were arrested near Khuzdar....
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Ban on kite flying lifted
LAHORE, Jan 4: The Punjab government has decided to lift a ban and allow ‘strictly regulated’ kite flying and allied business in the province. According to an official announcement, Basant, an...
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Fahim heads for Dubai amid reports about deal
KARACHI, Jan 4: People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) chief Makhdoom Amin Fahim is heading for Dubai on Friday amid reports of contacts between the military-led government and the PPP....
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107 ‘quiet’ legislators in NA
ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: As many as 107 members in the National Assembly, out of the total 342, did not speak a single word during assembly sessions in the 2006 year....
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Four hurt in blast
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Jan 4: A bomb blast here on Thursday left four people, one of them a woman, injured. The bomb had been planted beneath the seats of a motorcycle rickshaw.—Correspondent...
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Four killed in court firing
KHAIRPUR, Jan 4: Four people were killed and two others injured when a policeman on court duty reportedly opened fire outside the office of an assistant sessions judge Khairpur on Thursday....
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US united on ‘new direction’ in Iraq: Pelosi
WASHINGTON, Jan 4: Nancy Pelosi, a California liberal who helped engineer the Democratic takeover of the US Congress from President George Bush''s Republicans, on Thursday became the first woman to lead the US House of Representatives....
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Negroponte quits as spy chief
WASHINGTON, Jan 4: In an unexpected move, the US intelligence chief John Negroponte is leaving his post to move to the State Department. He will take up position as deputy secretary...
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Execution of Saddam’s aides postponed
| BAGHDAD, Jan 4: The Iraqi government postponed executing two of Saddam Hussein''s henchmen on Thursday amid international pressure following the last week’s bungled and much criticised hanging....
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Guards who filmed execution identified: UN rapporteur sees violation of human rights
| BAGHDAD, Jan 4: Investigators have identified two guards who illicitly filmed Saddam Hussein''s execution, an official said on Thursday as the Iraqi government sought to dampen growing outrage from Sunnis over the unruly hanging....
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Four Palestinians die in Israeli raid
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RAMALLAH (West Bank), Jan 4: Israeli forces mounted a rare raid into the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, killing four Palestinians and detaining four men, hours before an Israeli-Egyptian summit on peacemaking....
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Afghan DPs registration resumes
| ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The government on Thursday resumed registration of Afghan refugees in the country. Officials said that the registration process started in the October last was scheduled to end on December 31....
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