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| February 25, 2007 | Sunday | Safar 7, 1428 |
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Electricity to cost more, gas lesser: Govt’s balancing act
ISLAMABAD, Feb 24: The government on Saturday decided to increase electricity tariff by 10 per cent, with effect from Feb 24, for all categories of consumers except those who consume 50 units per month or less.... 
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3 ‘would-be attackers’ die in explosion
MULTAN/SAHIWAL, Feb 24: Three people died when the explosives they were carrying on a bicycle exploded accidentally in Chichawatni, Sahiwal district, on Saturday morning....
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Mass Islamic burial for unclaimed bodies of Samjhota inferno NEW DELHI, Feb 24: The charred remains of the bodies still unclaimed after a train bombing that killed 68 people in an Indian village nearly a week ago were given Islamic burials on Saturday, an official said....
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Export of major items down by 20pc
ISLAMABAD, Feb 24: Exports of traditional domestic items like rice, carpets, sports goods, surgical instruments, leather, and footwear declined by more than 20 per cent during the first seven months (July...
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‘OIC states to sever ties with Israel’
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 24: Malaysia, the chair of the 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), said on Saturday the grouping had agreed to sever ties with Israel over its works at the Al Aqsa mosque, according to the state media....
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Preparatory meeting for Makkah summit today
ISLAMABAD, Feb 24: A one-day consultative meeting of the core group of seven Muslim countries takes place here on Sunday to prepare an agenda for the proposed Makkah summit aimed at...
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Basant festivities pick up in Lahore
LAHORE, Feb 24: Basant festivities picked up in Lahore on Saturday and the sky was dotted with colourful kites but the event lacked public enthusiasm because of certain restrictions imposed on kite-flying....
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Man kills wife, five children
MARDAN, Feb 24: A man slaughtered his wife and five stepchildren in the Guli Bagh area here on Friday night. The accused, Iftikhar Khan, escaped after the murders....
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Student’s death triggers violence
HYDERABAD, Feb 24: Seven vehicles, including some point buses, were burnt down and 19 others damaged when a mob went on the rampage at the Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, on Saturday...
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AJK landslide claims 14 lives
MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 24: Fourteen people, 10 of them women, were killed and five others were critically injured in southern Poonch district of Azad Kashmir on Saturday after a public transport vehicle was buried under a landslide, police and eyewitnesses said....
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Rocket attack causes power breakdown
QUETTA, Feb 24: A rocket attack on a grid station triggered an extensive power failure in Quetta on Saturday. The rocket struck a transformer, which caught fire....
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Two cops killed in ambush
PESHAWAR, Feb 24: Two policemen were shot dead in Khazana village near Peshawar on Saturday. Police sources said head constable Rozi Khan and constable Ghuffar Khan were on routine patrolling in...
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Fuel tanker bomb kills 37 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Feb 24: A fuel tanker rigged with explosives killed 37 people when it blew up near a mosque in western Iraq on Saturday, a day after the mosque''s Sunni imam had criticised Al Qaeda militants, police and residents said....
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16 police die in rebel ambush in India
GAUHATI (India), Feb 24: Suspected rebels ambushed a police patrol in India’s remote northeastern Manipur state, killing 16 officers on Saturday, officials said....
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Iran kills 17 on border with Turkey
TEHRAN, Feb 24: Iran''s elite Revolutionary Guards said they killed 17 rebels in northwestern Iran on the border with Turkey and quickly accused the United States and its allies of seeking to provoke tensions along the country’s borders....
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Protest against killing of Hindu by police in Kashmir
OCCUPIED SRINAGAR, Feb 24: Teargas was fired on Saturday to disperse thousands of angry villagers protesting after police allegedly battered to death a Hindu man, witnesses said....
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Tehran brushes off Cheney threat
TEHRAN, Feb 24: Iran said on Saturday the United States was not in a position to take military action against it and urged Washington and its allies to engage in dialogue....
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Peshawar police to grill suspects
PESHAWAR, Feb 24: Two teams of the NWFP police will interrogate some alleged terrorists recently arrested in Sukkur and Rawalpindi so as to trace out elements involved in the recent spate of suicide bombings in the province....
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