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| April 05, 2007 | Thursday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 16, 1428 |
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Dozens killed as tribesmen attack foreign militants
WANA, April 4: Tribal volunteers inflicted heavy casualties on Uzbek militants in the restive South Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday, killing at least 44 of them.... 
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Accord to pursue pipeline project: Pakistan, India to carry forward peace process
NEW DELHI, April 4: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz had a 50-minute bilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at his residence here on Wednesday morning during which they agreed to...
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NAB wing targeting Benazir wound up
ISLAMABAD, April 4: The government has wound up the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) Special Operation Wing, which was mainly focusing on cases relating to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari, government officials told Dawn on Wednesday....
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PPP to take re-election issue to court, says Benazir
LARKANA, April 4: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has opposed re-election of the president by the present assemblies and said her party will go to the court if such an attempt is made....
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Saarc states vow to combat terrorism: India supports dispute resolution
NEW DELHI, April 4: The 14th Saarc summit in 22 years ended here on Wednesday with a call to combat terrorism that dogs all its member states and Indian Prime Minister...
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Action against seminary not imminent
ISLAMABAD, April 4: The government has decided to avoid using force against the administration and students of Madressah Hafsa and try to resolve through dialogue the issue of illegal occupation of...
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Tehran frees UK sailors after 13-day crisis
TEHRAN, April 4: Iran released 15 British sailors on Wednesday as a “gift” to the people of Britain in a dramatic end to a 13-day crisis that had triggered a new diplomatic standoff between Tehran and the West....
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Seven officials indicted for manhandling CJ
ISLAMABAD, April 4: The Supreme Court on Wednesday indicted senior administration and police officials of Islamabad for committing contempt of court by roughing up “non-functional” Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to...
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The game is up for Uzbeks
THE clock has come full circle for the Uzbek militants in South Waziristan. They are, in all probability, making their last stand – capping an eventful journey that brought them first to Afghanistan and eventually to Pakistan from their homes in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan....
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Power shortfall surges to 1,100MW
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD, April 4: With the domestic power shortage surging to 1,100 megawatts, the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) decided on Wednesday to correspondingly increase the quantum of load-shedding....
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Congressmen hold talks with PPP leaders
LAHORE, April 4: A delegation of US Congressmen met PPP information secretary Sherry Rehman and Senator Enver Baig in Islamabad on Tuesday and discussed the current political situation in Pakistan....
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Indians held in US for selling missile parts
WASHINGTON, April 4: Two Indian nationals have been arrested in the US for illegally exporting American missile technology to India but the State Department says this will not affect the India-US nuclear deal....
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‘Govt won’t withdraw reference’
RAWALPINDI, April 4: Railways Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmad on Wednesday said the government was not withdrawing the presidential reference filed against Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry....
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Inquiry into lawyers’ manhandling
ISLAMABAD, April 4: The Supreme Court ordered an inquiry on Wednesday into the alleged manhandling of a government lawyer during protests against the suspension of the chief justice, officials said....
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Constable killed in attack on police van
QUETTA, April 4: A police constable was killed and another critically injured when unknown men opened indiscriminate fire on a police pick-up in Killi Shabo, a locality in the outskirts of Quetta city, late on Wednesday night....
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Avalanche kills four in Chitral
ISLAMABAD, April 4: An avalanche hit a mountainous village on Wednesday killing at least four people and burying nine, taking the toll from a week of killer avalanches to nearly 50, government officials said....
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Lanka beat England
ST JOHN''S (Antigua), April 4: Sri Lanka beat England by two runs in their Super Eight match here on Wednesday....
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US envoy seeks BD election timetable
DHAKA, April 4: Bangladesh should announce a timetable for elections so the people can see a path back to democracy from a state of emergency declared in January, US Ambassador Patricia A....
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