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| March 22, 2007 | Thursday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 2, 1428 |
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Bhagwandas back home: Oath as ACJ likely on Saturday
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD, March 21: Rana Bhagwandas, the most senior judge of the Supreme Court, returned home on Wednesday after a private visit to India. He refused to comment on the judicial...
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US govt expects Musharraf to quit army post
WASHINGTON, March 21: The United States has said that it expects President Gen Pervez Musharraf to give up the army chief’s post by the end of this year, indicating a major change in the US policy....
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Quetta lawyers baton-charged; acting CJ takes notice
QUETTA, March 21: Police used baton and teargas to stop a procession of lawyers, taken out on Wednesday in protest against suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, from reaching the...
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Waziristan clash toll rises
PESHAWAR, March 21: Fighting between tribespeople and Uzbek militants in the restive South Waziristan tribal region escalated on Wednesday, raising the total death toll to 110, government and security officials said....
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Benazir, Nawaz see bid to put off polls
LONDON, March 21: Former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif met here late Wednesday evening against the backdrop of the ongoing judicial crisis in Pakistan, reviewed the political situation in...
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Foul play in Woolmer’s death suspected
KINGSTON, March 21: A police investigation into the death of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer continued on Wednesday while the team was playing its last World Cup match....
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Govt offers talks to lawyers
ISLAMABAD, March 21: The government on Wednesday offered dialogue to the legal community to resolve the judicial crisis currently gripping the country. "I invite lawyers to discuss the issue as constitutional...
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Lawyers, politicians hold separate protests
ISLAMABAD, March 21: Hundreds of lawyers who had gathered for a third time outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday to protest against the “suspension” of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry kept...
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Manhandling ‘witnesses’ summoned
PESHAWAR, March 21: Peshawar High Court judge Mr Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, who is holding an inquiry into the manhandling of the Chief Justice of Pakistan by police, issued on Wednesday...
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Chief Justice to address bar associations
ISLAMABAD, March 21: “Suspended” Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry will go on a countrywide lecture circuit from Wednesday next. “To test government’s claim that the non-functional chief justice is a free...
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Sir Creek survey maps to be exchanged today
ISLAMABAD, March 21: Pakistan and India will exchange on Thursday signed maps of the recently-concluded joint survey of the Sir Creek and its adjoining areas that was conducted to determine its current location....
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India rules out redrawing of borders
NEW DELHI, March 21: India remains open to “cooperative and consultative mechanism” with Pakistan on Kashmir issue, but there “is no chance of redrawing of boundaries”, said a Defence Ministry’s annual report placed before Indian parliament....
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Keti Bandar project may be revived
KARACHI, March 21: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday hinted at reviving the Keti Bandar project to develop a third port in Sindh. “If found feasible, the third port will be...
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Ceremony in Kamra to greet JF-17 aircraft
KAMRA (Attock), March 21: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday said that Pakistan had no offensive designs against any country and its armaments were for peace and self-defence....
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Tribes fighting foreign extremists, says Rice
WASHINGTON, March 21: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged on Wednesday that local tribesmen in Waziristan were fighting the extremists hiding there. Ms Rice told a congressional hearing here that...
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Five FC men killed in ambush
QUETTA, March 21: At least five personnel of the Frontier Corps were killed and four others, including a senior officer, seriously injured in an armed attack on Wednesday on an FC...
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US against gas deal: Bodman
NEW YORK, March 21: The United States told the Indian government on Wednesday that it is opposed to plans to build a natural gas pipeline from Iran to India through Pakistan,...
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Prisoners to get remission
ISLAMABAD, March 21: The federal government on Wednesday directed the provinces to grant special remission in the sentences of prisoners on the occasion of the Pakistan Day to be observed on Friday....
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Ex-Irish cricket chief dies
KINGSTON (Jamaica), March 21: Former Irish Cricket Union president Robert Kerr died of a suspected heart attack on Wednesday, the second fatality in four days at the World Cup....
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Lanka trounce Bangladesh
RAIN stopped play in Pakistan’s match against Zimbabwe at Kingston, Jamaica, on Wednesday. Zimbabwe were in trouble on 30 for three in the 11th over when showers forced the players off the field....
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