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| April 17, 2007 | Tuesday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 28, 1428 |
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PPP, government make conflicting claims over ‘deal’
ISLAMABAD, April 16: The government and the People’s Party made conflicting statements on Monday about a ‘deal’ between them. The PPP poured scorn over claims that the party had agreed to... 
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Justice Iftikhar still CJ, govt tells SC
ISLAMABAD, April 16: The government conceded before the Supreme Court here on Monday that it still considered Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to be the Chief Justice of Pakistan....
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Understanding in country’s interest, says Benazir
KARACHI: In the interview with The Sunday Times of London that is now at the centre of a fresh controversy over a possible deal between the People’s Party and Gen Pervez...
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Change is imminent, claims Nawaz
DUBAI, April 16: Mian Nawaz Sharif has challenged President Gen Pervez Musharraf to stop his return, vowing to land in Pakistan at the ‘right time’. In an interview with Dubai’s Khaleej...
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Extremism greatest threat: president
RAWALPINDI, April 16: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that internal threat is posing the greatest challenge to the country’s integrity. Addressing a conference of formation commanders here, he alluded to...
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Clerics suspend talks after ‘surveillance’
ISLAMABAD, April 16: The administration of Lal Masjid and Madressah Hafsa on Monday suspended dialogue with the government following what it called aerial surveillance and spraying of suffocating gas on the mosque by a military helicopter....
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Trust needed for success in war on terror: FO
ISLAMABAD, April 16: In a pointed message to the US and other members of the international coalition against terrorism, the government on Monday warned them against deflecting criticism from their own...
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No plan to attack Iran, says Mullen
ISLAMABAD, April 16: A senior US naval officer declared here on Monday that the United States and its coalition partners had no plan to attack Iran because diplomacy would hopefully succeed in preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons....
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W.Z. Ahmed passes away
LAHORE, April 16: W.Z. Ahmed, 91, one of the most outstanding film directors of the subcontinent, passed away at a local hospital late on Sunday night....
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‘India yet to decide on IPI project’
NEW DELHI, April 16: India has yet to take a final decision on the proposed $7 billion gas pipeline from Iran via Pakistan, junior external affairs minister Anand Sharma said on Monday....
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India accuses Pakistan of backing terror
NEW DELHI, April 16: India’s defence minister on Monday accused Pakistan of continuing to support cross-border terrorism in occupied Kashmir. “There is no change in Pakistan''s support to cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir,” Defence Minister A.K....
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Taslima refutes Rahul’s claim
NEW DELHI, April 16: Visiting radical activist and exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen on Monday added a new dimension to a recent controversy surrounding her country’s independence in 1971, saying it...
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33 killed in worst campus shooting in US history
SPRINGFIELD (Virginia), April 16: As many as 33 people were killed and 20 injured at Virginia Tech University on Monday in the biggest mass killing on a college campus in American history....
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Health scheme changed without homework
ISLAMABAD, April 16: The health ministry has decided to add haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine to the children’s immunisation programme from next year without ascertaining the exact burden of Hib pneumonia in the country....
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Couple’s interview sparks attack on TV office
MUMBAI, April 16: The staff of an Indian news channel was attacked on Monday and its offices were ransacked by dozens of Hindu protestors after it broadcast an interview with a...
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Three killed, four injured as grenade explodes PESHAWAR, April 16: Three children were killed and four other people, including two women, sustained injuries when a hand grenade exploded inside a house in the Badhbare village in the outskirts of Peshawar on Monday morning....
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Security man killed in ambush
DARRA ADAM KHEL, April 16: An official of the Khasadaar Force was shot dead and two others were seriously injured by masked motorcyclists near a Khasadaar post on Kohat-Peshawar road here on Monday evening....
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Missile firing exercise concludes
ISLAMABAD, April 16: A three-day live missile firing exercise conducted by Pakistan Air Force concluded successfully at Sonmiani range on Monday. All types of fighter aircraft and surface-to-air missile units of PAF participated in the exercise....
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Blasts cut power supply
QUETTA, April 16: Power supply to Guddu power plant from Uch was suspended on Monday as two towers of the transmission line were blown up near Dera Allahyar....
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Australia beat Sri Lanka
Australia beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets on Monday in a World Cup Super 8s match at Grenada National Stadium....
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