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| April 11, 2007 | Wednesday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 22, 1428 |
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ECC approves price formula: Work on IPI pipeline to begin next month
ISLAMABAD, April 10: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Tuesday approved gas-sharing with India and the gas-pricing mechanism at the Iran-Pakistan border under the $7.4... 
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Senator offers jirga on Hafsa row
ISLAMABAD, April 10: Senator Hamidullah Jan Afridi, who leads a dissident group of four senators from the tribal areas, on Tuesday offered to arrange a grand jirga to resolve the standoff over the Lal Masjid....
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Riot toll in Kurram Agency rises to 50
PARACHINAR, April 10: Despite the presence of security forces, heavy fighting between rival groups in different areas of the Kurram Agency continued for the fifth consecutive day on Tuesday....
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Anti-Uzbek jirga held in Azam Warsak
WANA, April 10: Authorities in South Waziristan on Tuesday declared the Wana region clear of Uzbek militants and said steps were being taken to ensure that they did not return to the area....
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NAB claims busting counterfeiting gang
ISLAMABAD, April 10: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has unearthed a counterfeiting scam and arrested 10 people, including some ex-servicemen and bankers....
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Warming to cause drought, floods and hunger to Asia: report
NEW DELHI, April 10: Food shortages, water scarcity, heat waves, floods and migration of millions of people will occur across Asia as a result of climate change, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN climate panel, said on Tuesday....
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US reiterates its opposition to IPI project
WASHINGTON, April 10: The United States opposes the proposed Iran gas project, but the decision to build or not to build the pipeline will have to be taken by the countries involved, says the US State Department....
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Missing persons: hearing adjourned
ISLAMABAD, April 10: A Supreme Court bench on Tuesday adjourned the identical petitions’ hearing against enforced disappearances till April 20 when Deputy Attorney-General Raja Irshad sought time to file a statement on whereabouts of the missing persons....
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Landmine, bomb blasts in Sui and Khuzdar
QUETTA, April 10: A 75-year-old man was killed and four security personnel and six other people were injured in three landmine explosions in Sui area on Tuesday....
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Zakat on real estate likely
ISLAMABAD, April 10: The government is likely to approve a proposal seeking to extend zakat deduction on real estate assets and the overhaul of the zakat distribution system in order to generate additional funds for poverty alleviation programmes....
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New national savings products proposed
ISLAMABAD, April 10: The government has linked the expected one per cent increase in the interest rates on all national savings schemes and the conversion of the Central Directorate of National...
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Body found in Peshawar is of S. African swimmer
JOHANNESBURG, April 10: The father of a South African swimming champion was preparing on Tuesday to fly to Pakistan to collect the body of his son after he was found murdered and then stuffed in a bin bag....
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Woman bomber kills 17 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, April 10: A woman suicide bomber killed 17 police recruits outside an Iraqi police station northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday in the first major attack on volunteers for local security forces this year....
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S. Africa beat West Indies
South Africa crushed the West Indies by 67 runs in their Super Eight match at St George’s, Grenada, on Tuesday....
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Three bombers kill themselves in Morocco
CASABLANCA (Morocco), April 10: An operation on Tuesday by Moroccan police to track down a suicide bombers’ cell in the port city of Casablanca ended after three of the bombers blew themselves up and a fourth was shot dead....
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11 boys drown in Yamuna
LUCKNOW, April 10: Ten young footballers drowned on Tuesday in an attempt to save a fellow player who also died in a fast-flowing river in northern India, police said....
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Congress okays funds for Abbas forces
WASHINGTON, April 10: The United States will provide nearly $60 million in aid to boost security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas after members of Congress dropped their objections to the deal, officials said on Tuesday....
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Youth injured in clash over mosque
KARACHI, April 10: A young man was shot and wounded and a police vehicle was set ablaze in the Lines Area late on Tuesday night as a shootout between supporters of...
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