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| February 24, 2007 | Saturday | Safar 6, 1428 |
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Accord reached on gas-sharing formula for IPI
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: Pakistan and India will get an equal share from the 2.1 billion cubic feet (BCF) of gas which the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project will provide on a...
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Indian train blast probe takes bizarre turn
NEW DELHI, Feb 23: A police investigation into this week''s explosions aboard the Delhi-Attari border train had acquired the characteristics of a non-stop farce on Friday as one news report spoke...
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‘India declines to shift unidentified bodies’
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: India has declined to shift the bodies of unidentified victims of the Attari Express terrorist attack to Pakistan, contending that the nationality of the victims had not been determined....
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Long-range missile test-fired
RAWALPINDI, Feb 23: Pakistan on Friday successfully test fired a long-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile Hatf VI (Shaheen II). The missile test was part of continuous process of validation and technical improvement to consolidate and verify Pakistan’s various land-based strategic missile systems....
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NA adopts new rules
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: The National Assembly ended one of its most disorderly sessions on Friday after passing new rules, which dissenters said were aimed to browbeat the opposition, on a day...
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Basant kites claim three lives
LAHORE, Feb 23: Three people, two of them children, were killed and over four dozen others were injured in kite-flying accidents in Punjab on Friday....
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Girls dragged in streets, hacked to death
SANGHAR, Feb 23: The cruel custom of ‘karo-kari’ claimed another two lives when two village girls were dragged in the streets and hacked to death by their uncles, accusing them of having tarnished the family’s honour....
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Peace deal in Bajaur soon, says Aurakzai
PESHAWAR, Feb 23: A peace agreement similar to the one struck with militants of the North Waziristan Agency in September last year was being finalised and efforts were being made to...
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Pact signed with IAEA on nuclear power plant
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: Pakistan on Thursday signed the CHASHMA-2 nuclear power plant-related “Safeguards Agreement” with the International Atomic Energy Agency at a ceremony held in Vienna....
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PC to start process of privatising major state sector units in June
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: The Privatisation Commission (PC) plans to undertake from June this year a process of privatising some major units, including PIA, Pakistan Railways, Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), ports and airports....
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‘EU to ban most PIA planes’
BRUSSELS, Feb 23: The European Union is set to ban most of Pakistan International Airlines’ fleet from flying to the 27-nation bloc because of safety concerns, an EU source said on Friday....
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Ties strategic with both India, Pakistan: US
WSHINGTON, Feb 23: US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns told a joint briefing with Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon on Friday that the United States and India do not have a joint approach towards Pakistan....
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India worried about infiltration: Kalam
NEW DELHI, Feb 23: India wants better ties with Pakistan but the peace process will only bear fruit if Islamabad fully curbs “cross-border terrorism”, the Indian president said on Friday, days after Samjhota Express was bombed....
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Amnesty for suspected war criminals urged
KABUL, Feb 23: Tens of thousands of former Mujahideen, including top government figures, rallied on Friday to show support for a proposed amnesty for Afghans suspected of war crimes and some...
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Waste water in rivers puts 2.6m lives at risk
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: A severe form of water pollution caused by disposal of waste water into the Ravi and Chenab rivers has put lives of over 2.6...
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Mastung rocked by powerful explosion
QUETTA, Feb 23: The Mastung township, about 50km from here, was rocked by a powerful bomb explosion, late on Friday night....
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3 held for dismantling railway track
HAFIZABAD, Feb 23: Three suspected saboteurs were arrested on Friday while they were dismantling nuts and bolts of the railway track on the Sem Nullah Bridge near Batairay village on the Faisalabad-Wazirabad railway section....
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Asfandyar calls on Benazir in Dubai
ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: Awami National Party President Asfandyar Wali called on Pakistan People''s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto in Dubai, says a spokesman for Ms Bhutto. Mr Asfandyar is on a visit to the UAE....
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