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| March 01, 2007 | Thursday | Safar 11, 1428 |
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No direct military strikes inside Pakistan, says US
WASHINGTON, Feb 28: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Peter Pace have indicated that the US will not launch direct military strikes at suspected Al Qaeda targets inside Pakistan’s tribal region.... 
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FO ‘calls’ US envoy over Cheney’s remarks
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan on Wednesday disclosed that the Foreign Office had ‘called’ the US envoy over reports of US Vice-President Dick Cheney’s remarks to a group of journalists at the US embassy here....
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Stocks in Asia, Europe tumble: Concern over possible slowdown in Chinese, US economies
LONDON, Feb 28: Shares in Europe and Asia fell for a second day on Wednesday amid jitters about possible slowdowns in the Chinese and US economies....
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ADB help sought on water losses
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) has sought Asian Development Bank''s help to ascertain water losses in Pakistan''s irrigation system and a new computerised system for regulating provincial water shares, it is learnt....
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$600m plan to explore and mine uranium
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: The government has prepared a $600 million extensive plan for exploring and mining uranium deposits in the country to fuel future nuclear power plants (NPPs)....
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Big rise in Indian defence budget
NEW DELHI, Feb 28: Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday announced a 6.8 trillion rupee federal budget for fiscal 2007-08 (April-March) with defence allocation taking up 14 per cent of the total outlay, which itself is 2.4...
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Democracy established by general: Musharraf
KARACHI, Feb 28: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday took a symbolic trip to the Bhutto stronghold of Larkana and said that ‘genuine democracy’ had been established firmly in Pakistan by a uniformed serviceman....
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Foreign ministry faces PAC’s wrath over scams ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly on Wednesday admonished the foreign affairs ministry for failing to upgrade its system even after the detection of financial scams in Pakistani missions abroad and cases of passport loss....
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Islamabad, Kabul urged to work together
WASHINGTON, Feb 28: The United States is trying to persuade Pakistan and Afghanistan to work together to beat back the much-talked about Taliban spring offensive, says the White House....
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Musharraf warns outsiders
LARKANA, Feb 28: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday warned ‘outsiders’ hiding in the mountains of the NWFP to at once leave the country....
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MMA urged to quit coalition
QUETTA, Feb 28: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leaders Hafiz Hussain Ahmed and Maulana Noor Mohammad have called upon the alliance leadership to quit the coalition government in Balochistan and work for forging a...
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Five Iranian smugglers arrested
QUETTA, Feb 28: Pakistani security forces on Wednesday launched an operation in Mand and Tump areas of Turbat district, close to the Pakistan-Iran border, and after a heavy exchange of fire arrested five suspected Iranian drug smugglers....
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Decapitated body found
TANK, Feb 28: Decapitated body of a man stuffed in a sack was found near Jandola in the Tank frontier region on Tuesday. A note in Urdu was stuck to the...
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New ISPR chief takes charge today
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: Maj-Gen Arshad Waheed would take over as the new director-general of the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Thursday....
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Barrage-hit people reject WB chief’s claim
ISLAMABAD, Feb 28: Continuing their hunger strike outside the World Bank office for the third successive day, here on Thursday, the victims of the World Bank-funded Taunsa Barrage project criticized the...
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Blast in Quetta
QUETTA, Feb 28: A powerful explosion rocked the city on Wednesday. Law-enforcement agencies launched a search but failed to find the site of the blast....
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112 Afghan nationals held
QUETTA, Feb 28: Police on Wednesday arrested 112 Afghan nationals in different areas of the city. Sources said that police conducted raids on several localities and hotels in the city and apprehended scores of Afghans living in the country illegally....
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Life term for Pakistani upheld
COPENHAGEN, Feb 28: Denmark’s highest court on Wednesday upheld a life sentence against a Pakistani man for plotting the death of his teenage daughter because she married without her family’s consent, the court announced....
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