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| January 28, 2007 | Sunday | Muharram 08, 1428 |
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Police chief, 12 others killed in Peshawar blast: Second suicide attack in two days
PESHAWAR, Jan 27: A suspected suicide bomb attack — the second such incident in the country in two days — near a mosque in the Qisakhawani bazaar killed at least 13 people, including the Peshawar police chief, here on Saturday night....
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Kashmir solution in sight, says Mirwaiz
LAHORE, Jan 27: A three-member delegation of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) returned to India on Saturday feeling "satisfied" with the outcome of the 10-day visit that ''promises'' the participation of...
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PAC accuses military of misusing land
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly on Saturday took a serious notice of the Ministry of Defence’s failure to pay compensation to owners of land acquired...
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PPP-PML talks on MPC fruitless
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The fourth round of talks between the People''s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on the proposed multi-party conference to be held in London ended...
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Official claims dam consensus
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The government has achieved consensus on building five major dams by 2016 at a cost of $25 billion, claimed a senior official. “Certainly this is a breakthrough as...
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US team lauds Pakistan’s role in ‘war on terror’
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: A seven-member high-powered US Congressional delegation led by House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on President Gen Pervez Musharraf at the Army House on Saturday evening and affirmed the strategic importance of US-Pakistan relations....
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Investigators look at Taliban role in hotel bombing
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: Investigators probing a suicide blast at the Marriat hotel in Islamabad said on Saturday they were looking at possible links to pro-Taliban extremists....
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Two die in Balochistan firing
QUETTA, Jan 27: Two people were killed and two others injured when armed men fired on a jeep near the Babar Kach area, some 200km north-east of here, on Saturday....
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Kashmir killings fall by two-thirds
SRINAGAR, Jan 27: The number of daily militancy-related killings in occupied Kashmir has fallen by more than two-thirds -- from 10 to three -- since 2001, a top official said on Saturday....
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Iran starts installing centrifuges, says MP
TEHRAN, Jan 27: Iran has started installing 3,000 nuclear centrifuges, a senior Iranian parliamentarian said on Saturday, in a new sign Tehran was defying UN calls to halt a programme the West fears is being used to make atomic bombs....
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Taliban warn of summer offensive, suicide attacks
KABUL, Jan 27: The Taliban are gearing up for a massive summer offensive, with more than 2,000 suicide bombers ready for action and even more getting ready, a senior commander claimed on Saturday....
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Saudi king says Iran endangering region
RIYADH, Jan 27: Saudi Arabia told an Iranian envoy this month that Tehran was putting the Gulf region in danger, in a reference to Iran''s conflict with Washington over Iraq and nuclear policy, a newspaper said....
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Tens of thousands at anti-war demo in US
WASHINGTON, Jan 27: Anti-war slogans echoed in the US capital on Saturday as tens of thousands of people marched to the Pentagon to show their rejection of the Bush administration’s Iraq strategy....
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Four US troops shot dead after kidnapping
BAGHDAD, Jan 27: Gunmen speaking English, wearing US military uniforms and carrying American weapons abducted four US soldiers last week at the provincial headquarters in Karbala and then shot them to death....
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Shaukat Sultan transferred
| ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: Inter-Services Public Relations director-general Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan has been posted out from his present high-profile position and transferred to a professionally important command post as the GOC Lahore....
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Russia queries US military role in ME
| MOSCOW, Jan 27: Russia expects the United States to explain its growing military presence in the Middle East when the countries next meet to discuss the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russian news agencies on Saturday....
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Sindh disputes claim on consensus over dams
| KARACHI, Jan 27: The Sindh government has distanced itself from a report that it had consented construction of five major dam projects, including the controversial Kalabagh dam....
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Former ISI official produced in court
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: Civil Judge, Islamabad, Irfan Ahmed Sheikh on Saturday granted a three-day remand in the case of a former official of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Khalid Khawaja, when...
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