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| April 27, 2007 | Friday | Rabi-us-Sani 09, 1428 |
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Govt’s double retreat in NA: Minister backs demand for curbs on burqa play
ISLAMABAD, April 26: The National Assembly on Thursday tasted a Taliban-like move taking a summary cultural toll as the government seemed making a double retreat -- over a drama featuring the... 
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Kabul losing war against Taliban, says Musharraf
MADRID, April 26: President Pervez Musharraf has accused the Afghan government of “doing nothing to fight terrorism” and said that it is ‘losing the war’ against Taliban....
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Iftikhar wants full court to hear his petition
ISLAMABAD, April 26: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Thursday requested the Supreme Court to constitute a full court and hear from next week his petition challenging the President Pervez Musharraf’s...
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Handling of judicial crisis criticized: Threat to constitutional order: ICJ
ISLAMABAD, April 26: The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) observed on Thursday that the current judicial crisis could worsen and cause irreversible damage to the constitutional order in Pakistan....
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7 fleeing prisoners killed in encounter
GUJRANWALA, April 26: Police on Thursday killed seven of the nine under-trial prisoners who had escaped after killing two constables....
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SC questions police officer’s promotion
ISLAMABAD, April 26: The Supreme Court on Thursday wondered how a person got promoted contrary to the recommendation of a state department for being allegedly corrupt while the prime minister himself...
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ADB set to release $80m for judicial plan
ISLAMABAD, April 26: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will soon release a much-delayed $80 million last tranche of the Pakistan’s Access to Justice Programme....
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Al Rasheed Trust gets relief from SHC
KARACHI, April 26: The Sindh High Court allowed the Al-Rasheed Trust to retrieve perishable edibles and medicines from its sealed premises for distribution in the earthquake-hit areas under the supervision of the Earthquake Relief and Rehabilitation Authority....
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China to take Olympic torch to Taiwan and Everest
BEIJING, April 26: Beijing unveiled on Thursday the route for the 2008 Olympic torch relay, including politically charged visits to Taiwan and Tibet, where it will be carried to Mount Everest....
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Transporters threaten to stop Nato supplies
PESHAWAR, April 26: Pakistan-Afghan transporters on Thursday threatened to suspend from Friday transport of goods to Nato forces in Afghanistan if collection of “illegally levied taxes and extortion money” across the border by so-called commanders was not stopped....
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Curfew in D.I. Khan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, April 26: Following the killing of two more people, the local administration late on Thursday night imposed a curfew in the district....
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Karzai shrugs off Musharraf barbs
KABUL, April 26: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday he was going into a meeting with President Pervez Musharraf to ‘find solutions’ to mounting Taliban unrest even after Gen Musharraf appeared to call him a ‘liar’....
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Troops trade fire along border
QUETTA, April 26: Pakistan and Afghanistan forces exchanged heavy fire in Sambaza area along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, some 400kms north of here on Thursday....
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US Congress sets pullout date
WASHINGTON, April 26: Both chambers of the US Congress have passed legislation that would require the administration to start withdrawing troops from Iraq by Oct 11, setting the stage for a historic showdown with President George W....
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Anti-polio campaign thwarted by clerics
PESHAWAR, April 26: Parents of about 4,000 children in the district of Swat are said to have refused to let their children be administered polio drops during a three-day anti-polio campaign which ended on Thursday....
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Laloo’s pledge
ISLAMABAD, April 26: Indian Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav has expressed his determination to make peace between India and Pakistan his mission....
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Rs375 million educational projects completed
ATTOCK, April 26: District Government Attock has completed 227 schemes worth Rs375 million in education sector reform programme initiated by Chief Minister Punjab Ch Pervaiz Elahi....
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Arms seized, 5 arrested
TAXILA, April 26: Police have foiled a bid to smuggle arms from NWFP to Punjab and arrested five persons....
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