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| January 17, 2007 | Wednesday | Zilhaj 26, 1427 |
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20 ‘militants’ killed in Waziristan army blitz
PESHAWAR, Jan 16: Pakistan Army helicopter gunships struck a suspected militant hideout in the restive South Waziristan tribal region early on Tuesday morning, killing at least 20 militants, a senior security official said....
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Progress on Waziristan deal reviewed
PESHAWAR, Jan 16: As tension hovered over the tribal areas, Governor Ali Mohammed Jan Aurakzai held separate meetings with members of the grand jirga who brokered a peace deal in North...
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Five-day week, trade till dusk under study
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: The government on Tuesday considered staggering industrial holidays, closing businesses after sunset, two official weekly holidays and subsidising energy-saving electrical appliances to manage energy crisis, but asked the...
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Emergency landing by Russian jet at Lahore
LAHORE, Jan 16: A Russian flight, carrying 155 passengers, made an emergency landing at the Allama Iqbal Airport here on Tuesday after two of its tyres reportedly burst soon after take-off from Thailand''s Pattaya airport....
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Terrorism to be crushed: Musharraf
RAWALPINDI, Jan 16: President General Pervez Musharraf has said that any hideout or sanctuary being used by terrorists or miscreants will be knocked out wherever found....
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US praises Pakistan role against terror
WASHINGTON, Jan 16: The United States on Tuesday acknowledged Pakistan was trying to prevent terrorists from creating safe havens inside its territory hours after an air raid killed several suspected militants in the tribal area....
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700 air-to-air US missiles bought
TUCSON (Arizona), Jan 16: Pakistan is buying 700 air-to-air missiles made by US defence group Raytheon for $284 million, the company said on Monday. Pakistan is purchasing 500 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air...
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Senate opposition on offensive
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: The opposition went on the offensive with two protest walkouts at the start of the new year''s first Senate session on Tuesday, scoring a moral victory over the...
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Altaf calls for reopening Bhutto case: Maps termed ominous
KARACHI, Jan 16: Altaf Hussain has called for reopening the Bhutto case as he was executed `immorally and illegally’. The chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was addressing a gathering in Malir over telephone from London on Monday night....
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Students, teachers among 65 killed in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Jan 16: Sixty-five people, including students and teachers, were killed on Tuesday in the most devastating Iraq attack this year as a suicide bomber and a car bomb wreaked havoc outside a Baghdad university....
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Inquiry into overcharging by LPG firms urged
ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: The Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Distributors Association of Pakistan has demanded of the government to hold a judicial inquiry into the affairs of LPG companies for what it...
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Production rate of sugar fixed at Rs31 per kg
LAHORE, Jan 16: A meeting between the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock’s technical committee and the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association on Tuesday agreed to keep the production price of sugar Rs31 a kilogram....
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9 ‘Taliban’ arrested
QUETTA, Jan 16: Police arrested nine suspected Taliban militants in Kuchlak, some 25 kilometres from here, on Tuesday night. A senior police official said the militants – believed to be from...
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‘Taliban spokesman held at Torkham’
KABUL, Jan 16: Afghan intelligence agents arrested one of the top spokesmen for the Taliban at the Torkham border post on Monday as he crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistan, the intelligence agency claimed on Tuesday....
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4 refugee camps to be closed
| WASHINGTON, Jan 16: Pakistan has decided to close four Afghan refugee camps near its border with Afghanistan to prevent insurgents from seeking shelter there, Ambassador Mahmud Ali Durrani....
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Zeba told to leave India
| NEW DELHI, Jan 16: Indian authorities have asked actress Zeba, widow of actor Mohammad Ali, to leave the country after she arrived at Ajmer without a visa....
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N. Areas representatives to get constitutional powers
| ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas Maj (retd) Tahir Iqbal has said that a reform package granting fundamental constitutional powers to representatives of the Northern Areas...
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Restructuring of CAA approved
| ISLAMABAD, Jan 16: The board of directors of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) here on Tuesday approved the restructuring of the authority into three units -- regulatory wing, airport services and air traffic control....
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