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| February 02, 2007 | Friday | Muharram 13, 1428 |
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40-year tax relief for Gwadar port operators
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Thursday granted 40-year tax exemptions to the proposed operators of Gwadar port, making it a virtual tax-free port to the extent of its development and operations.... 
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Malaysia backs idea of forum for Mideast
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 1: Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has welcomed the idea of a Muslim grouping that would find ways to resolve the issues of Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon,...
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Mirwaiz asks India to consider Musharraf proposals
NEW DELHI, Feb 1: Hurriyet leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq called on the Indian army and armed militants fighting New Delhi’s rule in Kashmir to make room for a political solution of the dispute....
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Substantial water shortage feared
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) and various stakeholders on Thursday feared substantial water shortages at the end of the current Rabi season owing to 20 per cent...
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Suicide bombers’ group in Karachi 11 militants arrested
KARACHI, Feb 1: Intelligence agencies have arrested 11 militants, including one linked to a Taliban commander, and hope they can lead to a group of suicide bombers operating in Karachi, officials said on Thursday....
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Handing over of Rauf to UK ruled out
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: Pakistan on Thursday informed Britain that Rashid Rauf, a main accused of London terror plot, could not be handed over to it till his case, being tried in Pakistan, was decided, interior ministry sources say....
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Benazir, Asif at White House breakfast
WASHINGTON, Feb 1: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday attended the White House prayer breakfast together....
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Fazl undergoes angioplasty
LAHORE, Feb 1: The Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, was operated upon on Thursday at a private hospital and doctors said he was stable....
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Three officials killed
MIRAMSHAH, Feb 1: Three government officials were killed and two others wounded when unidentified assailants attacked their car in the Naurak area of North Waziristan Agency on Thursday, witnesses said....
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Curfew relaxed
HANGU, Feb 1: The district administration on Thursday relaxed the curfew in Hangu for two hours from 12 noon to 2pm, as the town remained calm but tense after two days of violent incidents....
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Afghan amnesty covers Omar, Hekmatyar
KABUL, Feb 1: Afghanistan’s parliament has granted immunity to all Afghans involved in the country’s 25 years of conflict, lawmakers said on Thursday....
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38 Afghans deported
KHAAR (Bajaur Agency), Feb 1: The political administration of the Bajaur Agency on Thursday deported 38 Afghan nationals who were living illegally in the Loisum area....
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Intensive search of homes across Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM, Feb 1: British detectives investigating a suspected plot to kidnap and kill a Muslim British soldier quizzed nine men and searched properties across Birmingham, central England, on Thursday....
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Non-conformist views cost lecturer her job
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has terminated the contract of Dr Ghazala Anwar, reportedly because of her views on sexual orientation which were found objectionable by some students and a section of the media....
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Rs8m looted, guard killed
KARACHI, Feb 1: Three gunmen killed a security guard and looted Rs8 million, meant to be deposited in a bank located on the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) premises here on Thursday....
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Gujarat DPs yet to return home
AHMEDABAD, Feb 1: Five years after their loved ones were brutally killed and they were forced to flee, thousands of Muslim victims of one of India''s worst religious riots have pleaded for help to return home....
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Body of ‘disappeared’ Kashmiri exhumed
SRINAGAR, Feb 1: Angry villagers on Thursday hurled stones at police in occupied Kashmir as they exhumed the body of a man believed to be a carpenter who authorities had claimed was a militant killed in a gunbattle....
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Babies’ mouths taped shut
MOSCOW, Feb 1: Prosecutors said on Thursday they were investigating allegations that workers at a Russian hospital taped infants'' mouths shut in order keep them from crying, in a scandal that has sparked outrage in the country....
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