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| January 12, 2007 | Friday | Zilhaj 21, 1427 |
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Rising crime graph worries Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Jan 11: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday took serious notice of the worsening law and order situation in the country, and directed the federal and provincial governments to take... 
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Chaman border crossing closed
QUETTA, Jan 11: The Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Chaman was closed on Thursday after a large number of Afghans living in Vesh, a business centre across the border, stoned the newly-built Friendship...
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Pakistan helped to contain insurgency: Isaf general
RAWALPINDI, Jan 11: Pakistan’s anti-militant policy has been lauded by the head of the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) Commander in Afghanistan, Gen David Richards. He did not mince words in...
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Troops attack militants in North Waziristan
ISLAMABAD, Jan 11: Pakistan army attacked supply trucks used by suspected insurgents for cross-border attacks in Afghanistan, a military spokesman said on Thursday....
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Refugee camps in Balochistan to close in March
ISLAMABAD, Jan 11: Pakistan has decided to close down the two Afghan refugee camps in Balochistan by March. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said that the refugee repatriation would begin by March 2007....
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Emergency in Bangladesh; president quits, polls put off
DHAKA, Jan 11: Bangladesh''s President buckled to massive opposition and international pressure on Thursday by quitting his role as head of an interim government and agreeing to postpone disputed national elections....
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WB offers funds for improving public sector performance
ISLAMABAD, Jan 11: The World Bank has told Pakistan it could arrange foreign funding for the organisational and institutional capacity-building of the country''s public sector but first it must reform its civil services....
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SC may take up petition against Qazi today
ISLAMABAD, Jan 11: The Supreme Court is likely to take up on Friday a petition against Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) president Qazi Hussain Ahmed for allegedly selling party tickets for last Senate...
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150 ‘militants’ die in Nato raid
KABUL, Jan 11: Forces led by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) unleashed air and ground strikes on a group of ‘insurgents’ spotted infiltrating into Afghanistan from Pakistan, killing up to 150 of them, officials said on Thursday....
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US attacks Iranian mission in Iraqi city
ARBIL (Iraq), Jan 11: A diplomatic row erupted on Thursday after US forces arrested six people described by Iraqi and Iranian officials as the staff of an Iranian consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil....
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Pentagon recommends 92,000 more troops: Long-term ‘fight against terror’
WASHINGTON, Jan 11: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates called on Thursday for a permanent boost in the size of the Army and Marine Corps, the military branches most strained by Iraq, at a likely cost of $15 billion a year....
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Four bodies brought to Miramshah
PESHAWAR, Jan 11: Bodies of four people who were killed in coalition forces’ action in Afghanistan on Thursday, were brought to Miramshah in North Waziristan Agency, sources said....
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Mastung rocked by two blasts
QUETTA, Jan 11: The Mastung township was rocked when two rockets exploded near the fort of the Frontier Corps in the early hours of Thursday. According to sources, some people fired...
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Indian couple being tried in Dubai
DUBAI, Jan 11: An Indian couple has gone on trial charged with trafficking children between Mumbai and Paris, a daily in the UAE reported on Thursday....
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Britain to give £1 million for quake areas: LG restoration
| ISLAMABAD, Jan 11: The United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) will contribute one million pound ($2 million) to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-administered “Building enabling governance and institutions for...
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Diplomats visit Gwadar
| GWADAR, Jan 11: A group of ambassadors, high commissioners and other diplomats based in Islamabad visited the Gwadar Port on Thursday to ascertain investment opportunities there....
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Worldwide protests against Guantanamo
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LONDON, Jan 11: Demonstrators -- some wearing Guantanamo-style orange jumpsuits -- staged protests from Melbourne to Washington on Thursday demanding closure of the US military prison in Cuba, where terrorism suspects have been held for years without trial....
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Abbas to prevent clashes with Hamas
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan 11: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas assured tens of thousands of supporters on Thursday that he was determined to prevent further factional clashes with rival Hamas after weeks of internecine bloodshed....
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