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| April 15, 2007 | Sunday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 26, 1428 |
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Absolute power leads to abuse: Iftikhar
SUKKUR, April 14: The ‘suspended’ chief justice, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, on Saturday called for upholding supremacy of law and the constitution by ensuring that none of the three pillars of the state dominated the other two.... 
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Joint drive with US ruled out
WASHINGTON, April 14: President Pervez Musharraf has ruled out a joint Pakistani-US military operation against insurgents trying to hide on the Pakistani side of the Afghan border....
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SC takes up cases on SJC tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, April 14: The Supreme Court will take up on Monday identical petitions, challenging formation of the Supreme Judicial Council and sending of a reference by President Pervez Musharraf against ‘non-functional’ Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry....
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40 killed in Kerbala car bombing
KERBALA, April 14: A suicide car bomber killed at least 40 people and wounded scores at a crowded bus station in the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Saturday, police and hospital sources said....
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14 killed as bus falls into ravine
GILGIT, April 14: Fourteen people were killed and 11 others seriously injured when a bus fell into a deep ravine near Sazin village in Diamer district at around 8am on Saturday....
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Abdullah Shah dies of cancer
KARACHI, April 14: Former Sindh chief minister and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Syed Abdullah Shah died here on Saturday after protracted illness. He was 73....
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Blasts leave 13 dead in Afghanistan
KHOST, April 14: At least 13 people, seven of them policemen and two soldiers, were killed in Afghanistan on Saturday in a series of explosions, one targeting a police headquarters, officials said....
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PPP may shun opposition panel
ISLAMABAD, April 14: The People’s Party Parliamentarians seems to be reluctant in accepting the proposal of Pakistan Muslim League (N) chief Nawaz Sharif to form a joint action committee (JAC) of opposition parties on the issue of judicial crisis....
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Commanders to discuss security tomorrow
RAWALPINDI, April 14: President Pervez Musharraf will preside over a four-day Formation Commanders conference commencing from April 16 at the General Headquarters....
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NA body seeks report on ZTBL retrenchment
ISLAMABAD, April 14: The issue of the termination of 700 employees of the Zari Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) took a new turn on Saturday when the National Assembly Standing Committee on...
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Two planes damaged in accident
ISLAMABAD, April 14: Two Boeing 777 aircraft of the PIA were damaged in the early hours of Saturday after a wing of one of them clipped the other’s tail before its departure for Islamabad from Karachi airport....
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Need to fight terror stressed
RIYADH, April 14: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz stressed on Saturday the necessity of battling and eliminating all forms of terrorism. Addressing the opening session of the Saudi Shura...
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Wolfowitz’s fate hangs in balance
WASHINGTON, April 14: World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz may resign within the next 24 hours, the Bank Information Centre said on Saturday. The centre, which monitors the World Bank and other...
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French hostages’ plea
KABUL, April 14: Two French aid workers kidnapped by Taliban in Afghanistan have made a tearful appeal to Paris for help, saying otherwise they will be beheaded and their heads returned to France....
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Karzai visits Bacha Khan mausoleum
PESHAWAR, April 14: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday inaugurated the renovation work of the Bacha Khan’s mausoleum in Jalalabad and recalled the services of the great freedom fighter for fighting against the British imperialism in the subcontinent....
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Double Shah sent on police remand
GUJRANWALA, April 14: An Anti-Terrorism Court on Saturday granted a seven-day police remand of Syed Sibtul Hassan Shah, aka Double Shah, and his 16 accomplices....
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Kiwis 172-3
ST GEORGE''S (Grenada), April 14: New Zealand were 172-3 after 42 overs in reply to South Africa’s 193-7 in their Super Eights match on Saturday....
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First women cadets get commission in army
ISLAMABAD, April 14: For the first time 36 women cadets were commissioned in the Pakistan Army as Captain in various branches other than Medical Corps on Saturday....
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