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| March 16, 2007 | Friday | Safar 26, 1428 |
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Govt in talks with CJ as way out of crisis
KARACHI, March 15: Shaken by spontaneous outpourings of public support for the chief justice, the government has nervously initiated talks with Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry for a mutually acceptable resolution of... 
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Musharraf says he will accept SJC verdict
GUJRANWALA, March 15: President Pervez Musharraf has said that the government will accept the verdict of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) on the reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry....
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SJC takes up Iftikhar’s objections today: SHC CJ ‘wants to be excused’ from proceedings
ISLAMABAD, March 15: Amid extraordinary security measures here, the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) is meeting today to take up preliminary objections of Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to the composition of the council....
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Crisis needs careful handling: Boucher
ISLAMABAD, March 15: US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher on Wednesday described the current judicial crisis in Pakistan as ‘sensitive’ and said it needed to be handled carefully....
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Petition in SC on Bhagwandas
ISLAMABAD, March 15: A petition has been filed with the Supreme Court, asking it to direct the government to declare the whereabouts of the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Rana Bhagwandas....
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PPP objects to Nisar’s statement
ISLAMABAD, March 15: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) on Thursday lodged a protest with the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chief over a statement of his party’s acting parliamentary leader Chaudhry Nisar...
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TV show banned
KARACHI, March 15: The government on Thursday placed a ban on a popular TV show for its coverage of the March 13 meeting of the Supreme Judicial Council....
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Govt urged not to block protest
KARACHI, March 15: The Human Rights Watch has urged the government not to block or use violence against peaceful demonstrators protesting over the action against the Chief Justice of Pakistan....
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Qatar gas pipeline project shelved
ISLAMABAD, March 15: The $3.5 billion plan for importing natural gas from Qatar through a 1,830-kilometre-long pipeline has been put on hold because of “non-availability of required gas quantities”....
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Harbour pollution costs navy $1bn a year
ISLAMABAD, March 15: Severe pollution in Karachi harbour, caused by untreated industrial affluent and municipal waste, is not only taking its toll on marine life and civilian population but also causing...
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Islamabad sealed off to enforce ban on gathering
ISLAMABAD, March 15: The government on Thursday decided to seal off the capital, call in extra police force and take strict action against people violating a ban on public gatherings outside...
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SHC takes up plea against SCBA chief today
KARACHI, March 15: A division bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) will take up on Friday a petition against Supreme Court Bar Association President Munir A....
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Resolution restricting aid not passed by Senate WASHINGTON, March 15: The US Congress now has only one binding legal provision which calls for restricting US military assistance to Pakistan as a softer version proposed in the Senate is now dead, congressional staffers say....
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Khalid Sheikh ‘confesses’ to masterminding 9/11
WASHINGTON, March 15: Senior Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has apparently confessed to masterminding the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States during a military hearing at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, US officials said on Thursday....
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Big-6 agree on Iran sanctions package
UNITED NATIONS, March 15: The five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany on Thursday reached agreement on a package of new sanctions against Iran....
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BNP-M plans Baloch MPC
QUETTA, March 15: Balochistan National Party (Mengal) secretary-general Habib Jalib Baloch has said that a multi-party conference of Baloch political parties will be convened soon to determine future course of action to protect resources and coastal belt of Balochistan....
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Poor parents give child to clear hospital bill
HYDERABAD, March 15: A poor couple has given away their new-born baby to a childless couple because they could not pay the hospital bill for the birth, the mother said on Thursday....
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Eight die in accident
QUETTA, March 15: Eight people were killed and nine others injured when a passenger wagon collided with a truck at the RCD highway near Winder, some 550km off here, on Thursday....
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8 men not presented in court one month after detention
HYDERABAD, March 15: The Hyderabad police have not produced eight detainees in a court even though one month has elapsed since their arrest. The eight men were picked up from different places on allegations of links to militant outfits....
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Lanka trounce Bermuda
Sri Lanka recorded the second highest victory margin in World Cup history when they crushed debutants Bermuda by 243 runs after skittling them out for 78 in a Group B match at Port of Spain, Trinidad, on Thursday....
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