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| March 06, 2007 | Tuesday | Safar 16, 1428 |
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Bomb devastates Iraq’s oldest book market: 30 killed, 65 wounded
BAGHDAD, March 5: A suicide car bomber devastated Baghdad’s historic booksellers’ district on Monday, killing 30 people and setting shops and cars ablaze in defiance of a US-backed crackdown on violence in the Iraqi capital....
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‘Hot pursuit’ will meet effective response: FO
ISLAMABAD, March 5: Amid an international clamour over hot pursuits inside its territory, Pakistan on Monday sent out a stern warning that any aggression across its borders or across the Line of Control would be countered effectively....
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Global stock crisis affects KSE
KARACHI, March 5: Stock prices at the Karachi Stock Exchange slipped on Monday in sympathy with the global equity meltdown. The KSE-100 index fell by 234 points, or two per cent,...
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Pakistan paying the price for US policies, jurists told
ISLAMABAD, March 5: Leading human rights activists, lawyers, academics and politicians told a panel of eminent jurists from the International Commission of Justice at a public hearing here on Monday that...
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US military erases attack footage
KABUL, March 5: The US military in Afghanistan on Monday defended the erasing of media photographs and video after an incident which left up to 10 civilians dead, saying this was allowed in ‘extreme circumstances’....
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Probe into ‘oil firms racket’ ordered
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly has directed the Ministry of Petroleum to mount a probe to unearth the ‘racket’ of certain oil companies minting millions of rupees in the name of inland freight margins....
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Twin leaders puzzle Poles
WARSAW, March 5: Poles have finally been given a political game they enjoy: an online test in which they have to spot the difference between the country''s identical twin leaders, President Lech Kaczynski and his prime minister brother Jaroslaw....
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US, Pakistan to take stock of their bitter-sweet ties
WASHINGTON, March 5: The second session of the US-Pakistan strategic dialogue will be held in Islamabad next week at a time when relations between the United States and one of its...
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MPC without Benazir won’t achieve objectives, says Qazi
ISLAMABAD, March 5: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said the multi-party conference in London will not achieve its objectives if Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto does not attend it....
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Second-hand refineries being imported
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The government has framed rules to facilitate import of three second-hand refineries amid opposition from within the government that the move will discourage investments in new refineries, it is learnt....
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Ghauri’s statement causes stir in capital
ISLAMABAD, March 5: Whether it was mere slip of tongue or a calculated move, Federal Minister for Shipping Babar Khan Ghauri’s statement seeking one-year extension in the tenure of assemblies has...
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Opposition stays away from meeting
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The National Disaster Management Commission (NDMC), set up through a presidential ordinance in December, held its first meeting here on Monday and took some decisions about its working....
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Nobel laureate proposes Saarc passport
ISLAMABAD, March 5: The Nobel laureate and pioneer of micro-credit movement, Professor Mohammad Yunus, on Monday floated the idea of Saarc passport to broaden the regional bloc’s citizenship....
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Multi-nation naval exercise begins today
KARACHI, March 5: Warships from Britain, France, China, Malaysia and Bangladesh arrived here on Monday to participate in the multi-national AMAN 07 exercise, commencing on Tuesday in the North Arabian Sea....
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Two killed for ‘spying’
MIRAMSHAH, March 5: Suspected militants shot dead two tribesmen in the restive North Waziristan Agency on the charge of spying for the United States, sources said....
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Railway track blown up
QUETTA, March 5: Parts of a railway track near the Mach railway station were blown up on Monday by a bomb blast. The train service was affected for a couple of hours....
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EU imposes ban on all but seven PIA planes
BRUSSELS, March 5: The European Union on Monday banned almost the entire Pakistan International Airlines'' (PIA) fleet from flying to the 27-nation bloc, and lifted restrictions on two other carriers that had previously been on the EU''s “blacklist”....
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Allow Geelani to go abroad, India urged
OCCUPIED SRINAGAR, March 5: Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Geelani is suffering from cancer in his sole kidney, an aide said on Monday, urging India to allow him to go abroad for treatment....
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US envoy for fair polls
LAHORE, March 5: US Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker stressed America’s commitment to supporting Pakistan in holding free and fair elections during his farewell visit here on Monday....
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Bomb blast disrupts gas supply to many areas
KHAIRPUR, March 5: Supply of natural gas to Nawabshah, Sanghar, Sukkur, Khairpur, Nausharo Feroze and some other areas was disrupted after the main gas line was blown up near village Khenyari by a home-made bomb early on Monday morning....
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