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| February 04, 2007 | Sunday | Muharram 15, 1428 |
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Suicide bomber hits convoy: 2 army soldiers killed, seven injured
TANK, Feb 3: Two soldiers were killed and seven others wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his jeep into a military convoy in the Barakhel area of Tank on Saturday, police and witnesses said....
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Man dies ‘planting bomb’
LAKKI MARWAT, Feb 3: A man was killed when an explosive device went off outside a video shop in Lakki Marwat, 70 km off Dera Ismail Khan in the NWFP, early on Saturday....
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135 die in Baghdad market blast
BAGHDAD, Feb 3: A suicide bomber killed 135 people on Saturday in the deadliest single bombing in Iraq since the US invasion in 2003, driving a truck laden with one ton...
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Fresh thinking on Kashmir urged
NEW DELHI, Feb 3: As authorities in Srinagar took custody of senior police officers involved in the cold-blooded murder of Kashmiri civilians, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday called for...
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MPC fate to be decided at Nawaz-Fahim talks today
LAHORE, Feb 3: The fate of the Multi-Party Conference (MPC) of opposition parties proposed to be held in London is likely to be decided when People’s Party Parliamentarians president Makhdoom Amin...
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Senate session requisitioned
ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: The opposition sent a notice to Senate Chairman Mohammedmian Soomro on Saturday to call an upper house session to discuss three issues, including what it called a "total...
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Victim seeks hanging of rapists
SUKKUR, Feb 3: A 16-year old girl who was allegedly raped and forced to walk naked through a village near Ubaro, wants her attackers to be hanged....
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Nato fears Afghanistan will become terror haven
MADRID, Feb 3: Afghanistan will become an exporter of terrorists if the Nato mission in the country fails, said organisation’s Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Saturday, stressing that the...
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US takes Nato command in Afghanistan today
WASHINGTON, Feb 3: The United States takes command of more than 33,000 Nato troops in Afghanistan on Sunday amid talks of a new Taliban offensive this summer, the Pentagon said....
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Afghan panel to be invited
ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: The Pakistan Jirga Commission has decided to invite the Regional Peace Jirga Preparatory Commission of Afghanistan to visit Islamabad during the current month for discussions to explore ways and means to bring peace to Afghanistan....
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Riyadh arrests 10 for terror links
RIYADH, Feb 3: Saudi security agencies have arrested 10 people accused of collecting donations and luring militants to troubled spots, the Saudi interior ministry spokesman announced here on Saturday....
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Aziz to fight polls from Attock
ATTOCK, Feb 3: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has announced that he will contest the election from the same Constituency of NA-59 Attock III in the next general elections....
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Kashmir deaths: cops held
SRINAGAR, Feb 3: Two top police officers were arrested in occupied Kashmir on Saturday on murder charges after a carpenter was allegedly falsely identified as an insurgent and shot dead, an official said....
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Tehran shows nuclear plant to foreign delegates
ISFAHAN, Feb 3: Iran opened the doors to its uranium conversion plant on Saturday in a bid to show its good intentions amid mounting international pressure for halting its controversial nuclear programme....
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Indonesian floods displace100,000
JAKARTA, Feb 3: At least five people were killed in floods in Jakarta with more than 100,000 others forced to camp out at roadsides and in emergency shelters after days of torrential downpours, officials said on Saturday....
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PIA flight cancelled
KARACHI, Feb 3: A PIA flight from Karachi to Panjgur, Balochistan, which was scheduled to operate on Thursday (Feb 1), had to be cancelled due to non-availability of fire-fighting facility at the Panjgur airport provided by the Civil Aviation Authority....
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Altaf calls for true democracy
KARACHI, Feb 3: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has said that true democracy alone can save Pakistan and help it join the race for progress....
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DPs’ registration stepped up
ISLAMABAD, Feb 3: The process of registration of an estimated over 2.4 million Afghan refugees has been stepped up as two million of them have been registered by Nadra so far and issued special identification cards, official sources said on Friday....
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