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| February 12, 2007 | Monday | Muharram 23, 1428 |
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Conference urges complete independence of judiciary
ISLAMABAD Feb 11: Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Sunday said terrorism, street crimes, corruption, negligence and misuse of authority were eating into the vitals of society and asked... 
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‘WB expert bases dam decision on technical points’
WASHINGTON, Feb 11: The World Bank-appointed neutral expert for the Baglihar dam dispute between India and Pakistan has based his report solely on technical points, official sources told Dawn....
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Widespread rain, snowfall claim 16 lives
ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: Sixteen people were killed and scores of others injured as heavy rains and snowfall in large areas of Punjab, NWFP and Balochistan continued on Sunday....
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Iran ready for talks to end N-standoff
TEHRAN, Feb 11: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday Iran was ready to negotiate to end the standoff over its nuclear programme but insisted Tehran would never agree to the West''s most critical demand -- a freeze in uranium enrichment....
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Public dissatisfied with governance: survey
ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The government has conceded that more than 64 per cent people in the country are dissatisfied with the standard of basic health services and over 40 per cent have a negative perception about schooling....
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‘US targets Taliban inside Pakistan’
WASHINGTON, Feb 11: American forces in Afghanistan launch artillery rounds into Pakistan to strike Taliban fighters who attack their remote outposts, US officials say....
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Hundreds of Al Qaeda men in Helmand: governor
KANDAHAR, Feb 11: The governor of Afghanistan''s southern province of Helmand said on Sunday hundreds of foreign Al Qaeda fighters had infiltrated his province and were behind regular attacks there....
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Iranian bombs have killed 170 troops in Iraq, says US
BAGHDAD, Feb 11: Sophisticated Iranian-built bombs smuggled into Iraq have killed at least 170 US and allied soldiers since June 2004, senior US defence officials said on Sunday....
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Maqbool’s death anniversary observed
MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 11: Nationalist groups across Azad Jammu and Kashmir observed the 23rd death anniversary of Maqbool Butt, one of the pioneers of the Kashmir freedom struggle, on Sunday with a...
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Strike in occupied Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Feb 11: Occupied Kashmir was hit by clashes between police and protesters on Sunday as a general strike was observed to mark the anniversary of the execution of Mohammad Maqbool...
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Islamabad, N. Areas jolted
ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: A five-magnitude earthquake on Sunday jolted Islamabad, Peshawar and Chitral, officials said....
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Musharraf, Mubarak discuss ME plan
ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: President General Pervez Musharraf on Sunday called Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and apprised him of his discussions with leaders of Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran and Turkey for seeking a...
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Gates rejects Putin’s remarks
MUNICH, Feb 11: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday dismissed a stinging broadside against the United States by Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying: “One Cold War was quite enough.”...
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Putin arrives in Riyadh
RIYADH, Feb 11: President Viladimir Putin reached Saudi Arabia on Sunday evening to a red-carpet welcome on a historical first visit by any Russian president to the kingdom....
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Senate to debate law, order today
ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The debate sought by the combined opposition on law and order will be wound up by the interior minister when the Senate meets on Monday afternoon after a two-day recess....
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Benazir condemns attack on sister-in-law
ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: Pakistan People’s Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has condemned the attack on her sister-in-law Azra Fazal Pacheho during polling in by-election in Jamshoro on Saturday and asked the government...
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New train to have coaches built indigenously
RAWALPINDI, Feb 11: Pakistan will enter into an era of self- reliance when indigenously-built air-conditioned coaches will be added to a new passenger train to be launched in early March....
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Hunger strike of prisoners enters 6th day
RAWALPINDI, Feb 11: The huger strike of Adiala Jail inmates staged in protest against denying them permission to offer collective prayers and free movement on the Jail premises entered its sixth...
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