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| January 23, 2007 | Tuesday | Muharram 03, 1428 |
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Suicide bomber kills five in N. Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH/PESHAWAR, Jan 22: A suicide bomber on Monday rammed his explosives-laden car into a military convoy near Mirali, North Waziristan Agency, killing four security personnel and a woman, and injuring 23, including 20 soldiers, officials and eyewitnesses said....
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Pakistan post hit by rockets
MIRAMSHAH: One paramilitary soldier was killed and two others were wounded when helicopters of the coalition forces in Afghanistan fired rockets at a Pakistan border checkpoint in Shawal region on Monday, an ISPR statement said....
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Iraq bombings leave 100 dead
BAGHDAD, Jan 22: Bombs ripped through markets killing at least 100 people in and around Baghdad on Monday as US and Iraqi forces prepared for a large-scale assault on insurgents and militias in the violent capital....
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Coalition attack condemned
ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The government on Monday condemned a deadly attack on a Pakistani post in the North Waziristan tribal area by US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan earlier in the day and told the Senate such violations would not be tolerated....
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SC seeks report on Gwadar allotments
ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Balochistan government to submit a detailed report about large-scale illegal allotments of land in Gwadar to ministers, politicians and bureaucrats....
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Basant: SC turns down Punjab’s request
ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a Punjab government’s request to approve its decision of briefly lifting the ban on kite flying during the upcoming spring festival...
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Govt lawyer taken to task over missing people
ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The Supreme Court on Monday expressed disappointment over the government’s failure to trace 18 persons who have been missing for many years, summoning the chief government lawyer to explain his position on Feb 6....
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PML-N agrees to delay MPC
ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) on Monday accepted People''s Party Parliamentarians’ suggestion to delay the multi-party conference (MPC), convened by PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif in London next month,...
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APHC has no hidden agenda: Mirwaiz
ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: All-Parties Hurriat Conference (APHC) chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has said that the alliance has no hidden agenda on Kashmir and will formulate proposals in light of discussions with leaders of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir....
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Kashmir report amendments
LONDON, Jan 22: The European Labour Party on Monday moved a comprehensive set of amendments to overturn the ‘divisive’ and ‘controversial’ Liberal Democrat report on Kashmir prepared by Emma Nicholson, Lib Dem’s Member of the European Parliament....
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Need to break ME deadlock, says FO
ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: Pakistan on Monday declared that the main purpose of President Pervez Musharraf’s current tour of the Middle East was to discuss with Arab leaders the way forward on...
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Mideast peace process discussed
CAIRO, Jan 22: The presidents of Egypt and Pakistan held talks on Monday on the presence of Arab militants on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and on a role for Muslim nations in supporting the Israeli-Arab peace process....
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‘Near-consensus’ reached on Pukhtunkhwa: Durrani
PESHAWAR, Jan 22: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani said on Monday that his government was striving to achieve consensus on giving the name of Pukhtunkhwa to the province....
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Councillor hurt in acid attack
HYDERABAD, Jan 22: A woman councillor of UC-6, Latifabad, belonging to MQM-backed Haq Parast Group, received 35 per cent burn, after a man threw acid on her as she opened the door in Block-C of Latifabad-10 on Monday....
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SC orders ministry to take action: Polluting industries
| ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the environment ministry to act against all industrial units found polluting the federal capital’s environment....
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Uproar in Senate over razed mosques
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: Religious parties staged a noisy protest in the Senate on Monday against the razing of two mosques in Islamabad for being unauthorised but were strongly countered by government...
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‘Human trafficking gang busted’
| PESHAWAR, Jan 22: Security officials are reported to have busted an international human trafficking gang and seized forged passports, stamps and certificates of various universities....
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11 of a family die in accident
| RAJANPUR, Jan 22: Eleven members of a family were killed and 26 others injured after a van collided with a Peshawar-bound passenger coach on the Indus Highway near here on Monday....
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