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| March 07, 2007 | Wednesday | Safar 17, 1428 |
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17 die as foreign militants clash with tribesmen
TANK, March 6: Fierce clashes erupted between local tribesmen and foreign militants in Azam Warsak area of the South Waziristan Agency on Tuesday, leaving 17 people dead, sources said....
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Terror dossier given to India
ISLAMABAD, March 6: The first round of the inaugural meeting of Pakistan-India joint anti-terrorism mechanism established last year to tackle the issue that has for long bedevilled relations between the two...
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Dawn advertisement ban challenged
KARACHI, March 6: The Pakistan Herald Publications Limited has challenged in the Sindh High Court the withholding of advertisements by the federal government from Dawn....
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ICJ to take up issue of ‘disappearances’
ISLAMABAD, March 6: A panel of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) will take up with Pakistani authorities the issue of alleged disappearances of over 137 persons, besides other problems...
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Major reshuffle in bureaucracy
ISLAMABAD, March 6: The government on Tuesday announced a major reshuffle in bureaucracy and appointed new chief secretaries of Sindh and the NWFP....
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Islamabad restricts citizens’ right to change govt: US report
WASHINGTON, March 6: Restrictions on citizens’ right to change their government is the first on a list of human rights violations in Pakistan cited in a State Department report released on Tuesday....
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Militants in Iraq kill 118 pilgrims
BAGHDAD, March 6: Militants slaughtered at least 118 pilgrims in a surge of attacks across Iraq on Tuesday that included a double suicide bombing on a crowded street that claimed 90 lives....
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Massive gas shortfall forecast
ISLAMABAD, March 6: Pakistan is likely to face major gas shortfall, starting with 778 MMCFD (million cubic feet per day) by 2009 and rising to more than 11,000 MMCFD by 2025, with continuously declining domestic supplies and growing economic needs....
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More taxes for better literacy rate: president
ISLAMABAD, March 6: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said here on Tuesday the government had decided to spend 4 per cent of GDP for improving literacy rate in the country....
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PIA to get aircraft on wet lease
KARACHI, March 6: Pakistan International Airline (PIA) will acquire aircraft on wet lease to support its operation in the 27-member European bloc which has been badly hampered after the European Union...
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A long March to nowhere
LAHORE, March 6: Any idea what the whistle-blower, a certain general by the name of Ziaul Haq, would have said now? He was always a difficult one to call, but how...
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China to solve border issue with India
BEIJING, March 6: Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing voiced confidence on Tuesday that a decades-old border dispute with India would eventually be resolved....
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Nato on spring offensive
KABUL, March 6: Nato began its spring offensive against the Taliban on Tuesday, launching its biggest attacks since the 2001 war on Taliban militants and Afghan drug lords....
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Clarification
ISLAMABAD, March 6: The Indus Refinery Limited has clarified that it is in the process of relocation of Oakville Refinery owned by PetroCanada and has not purchased a refinery from Caltex-Chevron....
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‘Attack on Iran to spell disaster for region’
ISLAMABAD, March 6: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday warned that there would be serious consequences of a US attack on Iran because this would plunge the whole region into a serious sectarian strife....
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Two killed in Attock road accident
ATTOCK, March 6: Two persons were killed and four women injured in an accident on Khor road Monday night, the Pindigheb police said....
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Court seeks record on Rauf’s detention
RAWALPINDI, March 6: Special Judge Anti-Terrorist Court-II Malik Safdar Hussain Tuesday directed superintendent Adiala Jail to send a responsible person to the court along with complete record on the detention of...
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Afghan national killed in blast
QUETTA, March 6: An Afghan national was killed while another was injured after a device exploded in scrap yard in Chaman town on Tuesday....
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