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| April 19, 2007 | Thursday | Rabi-us-Sani 01, 1428 |
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CJP challenges reference in Supreme Court: New twist to raging controversy
ISLAMABAD, April 18: Chief Justice Mr Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Wednesday filed a constitutional petition in the Supreme Court challenging President Pervez Musharraf''s move to file a reference against him....
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Countrywide protests
ISLAMABAD, April 18: Lawyers, supporters of various opposition parties and representatives of civil society organisations held demonstrations and rallies across the country on Wednesday to express solidarity with Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry....
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PML chief sets condition for deal with PPP
ISLAMABAD, April 18: Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that his party is ready for a deal with the Pakistan People’s Party provided Ms Benazir Bhutto accepts President Gen Pervez Musharraf in uniform....
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Bombings kill 172 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, April 18: An avalanche of car bomb attacks in five districts of Baghdad killed 172 people on Wednesday and delivered a savage blow to the credibility of a two-month-old US security plan....
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Hasina Wajed exiled
DHAKA, April 18: Bangladesh''s military-backed emergency government on Wednesday exiled opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed as it stepped up a massive purge of the crisis-wracked country''s political hierarchy....
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No deal with Musharraf, Benazir assures PML-N
ISLAMABAD, April 18: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto on Wednesday talked to Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Senator Ishaq Dar by telephone in Dubai, assuring him that her party would not...
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Only full court can call CJ to account: counsel
ISLAMABAD, April 18: The defence counsel for Chief Justice Mr Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Wednesday argued before the Supreme Judicial Council that only a full court comprising all judges of the Supreme Court could call the chief justice to account....
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Aitzaz says his team does not trust SJC
ISLAMABAD, April 18: Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, chief defence lawyer of Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, made it clear on Wednesday that his team had filed the 132-point petition in the Supreme Court because `we don’t trust the Supreme Judicial Council’....
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Multi-polar world can guarantee peace, says PM
BEIJING, April 18: Pakistan on Wednesday welcomed the re-emergence of a multi-polar world system with the strengthening of Chinese economic and military power, saying the same was necessary for global peace and security....
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‘India may spin out of US influence’
WASHINGTON, April 18: A recent study for the US Army warns that nuclear cooperation with India could make the Asian nation so powerful that it may spin out of US sphere...
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Success of Doha Round possible, says Lahore communiqué
LAHORE, April 18: The Cairns Group’s ministerial meeting has called for action to save the Doha Development Round from failure as this would represent ‘a major blow for development, for agricultural trade reform and for the multilateral trade system’....
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Local body leaders resign
SWABI, April 18: The nazim, naib nazim and members of the Yar Hussain West union council have resigned in protest against persistent loadshedding in the area....
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Lawyer to challenge ‘rendition’
ISLAMABAD, April 18: A lawyer for a Pakistani man, who his family say was abducted from South Africa as part of the US-led war on terrorism, said on Wednesday he would...
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Mirwaiz urges India to hold talks with AJK leaders
NEW DELHI, April 18: The All-Parties Hurriyat Conference on Wednesday urged Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to invite leaders of Azad Kashmir to a third round of roundtable talks he wants to hold on April 24....
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Farmers, CSOs reject accord
LAHORE, April 18: Over 100 farmers and civil society organisations on Wednesday signed a memorandum rejecting the potential agreement by the Cairns Group and termed it anti-farmer and anti-Pakistan....
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Landmine blast kills man in Dera Bugti
QUETTA, April 18: A man was killed after he stepped over a landmine planted by some unknown people in Pathar Nullah area of the Dera Bugti on Wednesday....
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BSO holds protest against operation
QUETTA, April 18: The activists of the Baloch Students Organisation held a demonstration at the end of their three-day token hunger strike against the military operation, arrests of political workers and students, and police raids on the houses of Baloch youths....
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Two get death sentence in kidnapping case
RAWALPINDI, April 18: The Anti-terrorism court here on Wednesday handed down death sentence on two persons, life imprisonment on their accomplice and released two others in a kidnapping for ransom case....
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