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| February 10, 2007 | Saturday | Muharram 21, 1428 |
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Musharraf opens Rs3bn ‘signal-free’ corridor
KARACHI, Feb 9: President Pervez Musharraf inaugurated on Friday the city’s first `signal-free corridor,’ comprising six major projects – three underpasses and three flyovers – and completed at a cost of over Rs3 billion by the City District Government....
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Perennial quorum issue hits lawmaking
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: Absenteeism cut short National Assembly proceedings on Friday for the third day running, blocking a long-delayed key media bill in what has become a usual disgrace for the...
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Six activists of PPP shot dead in Attock
ATTOCK, Feb 9: Six activists of the People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP), three of them brothers, were shot dead and two others injured on the Sanjwal-Attock road on Friday....
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Police defuse 12 bombs found near army base
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Feb 9: Police on Friday defused 12 bombs containing about 120 kilograms of explosives near a military base here on Friday....
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World Bank’s Baglihar verdict may not end dispute, say experts
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: The decision of the World Bank-appointed neutral expert for the Baglihar dam may not end the dispute between Pakistan and India as the report he is expected to release on Feb 12 favours both....
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Bhasha dam in seismic zone, says minister
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: Federal Minister for Water and Power Liaqat Jatoi on Friday informed the National Assembly that the Diamer-Bhasha dam was located in the seismic zone — at the boundary of the Asian tectonic plates....
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Third one-dayer washed out
PORT ELIZABETH, Feb 9: Mohammad Yousuf scored a stylish 79 and Pakistan’s tail gave their team a late boost before rain washed out the third one-day international against South Africa at St George''s Park on Friday....
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LPG prices drop by Rs2.5 per kg
LAHORE, Feb 9: Prices of LPG have started falling due to a price war between importers and local producers following decrease in demand....
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Widespread rain across country
LAHORE, Feb 9: Widespread rains lashed most parts of the country on Friday, lowering temperature in many areas....
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PML-N assails govt over disappearances
LONDON, Feb.9: The Pakistan Muslim League (N) has condemned what it called the increasing incidents of forced disappearances of, and torture against, Baloch and Sindhi nationalists....
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Villagers ‘taken away by Nato’ return
QUETTA, Feb 9: Eleven Pakistani tribesmen who were allegedly taken away by Nato and Afghan forces to Afghanistan from a Pakistani village, Haji Qamar, along the border and in Zhob district, returned home on Friday....
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Nato chief to visit Pakistan: Contact with Islamabad to be upgraded
SEVILLE (Spain), Feb 9: Nato Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is to visit Pakistan in a bid to upgrade political ties with Islamabad, a move which officials hope will help the alliance’s increasingly uphill struggle against a resurgent Taliban....
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London court remands three in custody
LONDON, Feb 9: As a bitter debate whether the UK has become a police state for the Muslims continued to rage here, three of the nine British nationals of Pakistani origin,...
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Minister refutes findings on trained teachers
ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: Federal Education Minister Lt-Gen (R) Javed Ashraf Qazi has contested the findings of finance division that 100 per cent teachers in the country’s public sector primary and middle schools are trained....
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Think-tank urges US to pull out of Iraq
WASHINGTON, Feb 9: An US think-tank urged the Bush administration on Friday to pull out troops from Iraq because it believes that the United States can no longer win the war....
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Washington will extend troop buildup in Afghanistan
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE (Germany), Feb 9: The Pentagon plans to extend its buildup of combat troops in Afghanistan, initially announced as lasting until late spring, well into next year, a senior US military official said on Friday....
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India releases 13 Pakistanis
LAHORE, Feb 9: The Indian authorities set free 13 Pakistanis who crossed the border mistakenly while hunting on Thursday....
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Demand for royalty
QUETTA, Feb 9: Opposition leader in the Balochistan Assembly Kachkol Ali Baloch on Thursday warned that if Balochistan was not paid royalty for the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, no one would be able to guarantee the success of the project....
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