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| January 24, 2007 | Wednesday | Muharram 04, 1428 |
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Protest lodged over air strike: FO summons US, UK envoys
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: Pakistan Foreign Office on Tuesday summoned American Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker and lodged a strong protest over an air strike by the US-led coalition forces in North Waziristan... 
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Govt-opposition accord on pre-budget session
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: In a show of rare consensus, the treasury and opposition benches in the Senate on Tuesday agreed on an innovation in the country’s parliamentary traditions to hold a...
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Role of agencies in appointment, promotion assailed
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: Acting Senate Chairman Jan Mohammad Jamali on Tuesday criticised the role of intelligence agencies in the promotion and appointment of officers in the civil services and called for a system based on merit....
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Opposition should be taken on board: Mirwaiz
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: The government should take the opposition into confidence on initiatives it has taken regarding the Kashmir issue, according to Mirwaiz Umar Farooq....
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Checkposts attacked in Balochistan
QUETTA, Jan 23: Security checkposts came under rocket attack in Kohlu, Wadh and Khuzdar areas and a house was badly damaged in a rocket attack in a village near Bakhtiarabad area of Sibi district on Tuesday....
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IPI pricing formula to be discussed in Tehran today
NEW DELHI, Jan 23: Officials from India, Iran and Pakistan will meet in Tehran on Wednesday (today) to discuss the price of the gas to be supplied through the $7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline....
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Rs2 billion medical complex for the elite
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has called for world-class medical facilities in all four provinces. He was speaking on Thursday at the groundbreaking ceremony of the first of the two elitist medical towers being built in the country....
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MQM delegation calls on Aziz
ISLAMABAD, Jan 23: A delegation of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Tuesday met Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to discuss with him issues relating to Sindh and to vent their grievances, sources said....
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Pakistan, Jordan agree to broaden security cooperation
AMMAN/DAMASCUS, Jan 23: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and King Abdullah of Jordan on Tuesday agreed to broaden security cooperation between the two countries to combat the spread of Muslim militancy, and called for fresh talks to end the Arab-Israeli conflict....
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Warehouses planned in Gwadar
QUETTA, Jan 23: The Balochistan government has allotted land for the construction of warehouses in Gwadar and directed the authorities concerned to complete construction work along with all required facilities before making the Gwadar port operational....
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142 handed over to Kabul
QUETTA, Jan 23: Pakistan on Tuesday handed over 142 Afghan nationals to Afghanistan. According to official sources, law-enforcement agencies had arrested the persons from Turbat, Chaman and other areas of Balochistan for having entered into Pakistan without legal documents....
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30 die in Afghan violence
KHOST, Jan 23: More than 30 people were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday in violence blamed on the Taliban Ten people died when they were caught up in a suicide blast among labourers queuing for work at a Nato base....
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Tribe offers apology for attack on Wana jirga
PESHAWAR, Jan 23: NWFP Governor Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai on Tuesday pardoned a fine and returned Rs5 million imposed on the Ahmadzai Wazir tribe after its elders presented rams as an...
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US plans putting more money, men into Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, Jan 23: Insurgents in Afghanistan have always used summer for expediting their activities but this year the United States fears a major offensive and wants to use the opportunity to crush the Taliban militia....
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AJK superior courts get new judges
| MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 23: An ad hoc judge of the AJK Supreme Court was appointed as a permanent judge while two senior lawyers were inducted as judges of the AJK High Court....
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CAA to set up ‘airport cities’
| KARACHI, Jan 23: The Director-General of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Mr Farooq Rehmatullah, on Tuesday unveiled a plan to develop two commercial and residential projects, to be called the ‘Airport City’, near Karachi and Lahore airports....
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China confirms anti-satellite weapon test
| BEIJING, Jan 23: China publicly confirmed for the first time on Tuesday that it had tested a satellite-destroying weapon, but insisted its space programme was of no threat to the rest of the world....
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Five terror suspects held in UK
| LONDON, Jan 23: British police on Tuesday arrested five men under anti-terror laws, in dawn raids reportedly linked to the escape of a terror suspect and the distribution of Islamist propaganda....
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