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| June 07, 2007 | Thursday | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 21, 1428 |
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Unprecedented press protests in assembly
ISLAMABAD, June 6: A journalists’ protest against new government curbs on the electronic media disrupted the opening of the National Assembly’s last budget session on Wednesday and then put them virtually... 
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PM orders withdrawal of FIR against journalists
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday directed the interior ministry to immediately withdraw a case registered against journalists at the Secretariat Police Station, sources told Dawn....
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Ramday asks why judges who quit become icons
ISLAMABAD, June 6: Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, heading a 13-member larger bench hearing identical petitions challenging a reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, on Wednesday asked a senior counsel to...
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Storm, tidal waves lash Makran coast
QUETTA, June 6: At least 12 houses and a school-building collapsed as giant tidal waves and strong winds whipped up by Cyclone Gonu battered Sur Bandar, a small coastal township in Gwadar, on Wednesday....
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Reply to CJ’s affidavit today
ISLAMABAD, June 6: President Pervez Musharraf said on Wednesday that a rejoinder to Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry’s affidavit would be submitted in the Supreme Court on Thursday and it would be based on facts....
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SC orders production of man in MI custody
ISLAMABAD, June 6: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that a man handed over to the Military Intelligence by Faisalabad police in 2004 be produced in court....
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Inflation to reach 8pc: adviser
ISLAMABAD, June 6: The consumer price inflation will creep up to around eight per cent by the end of June 2007 against the target of 6.5...
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Market buoyancy — reality or just a myth?
ISLAMABAD, June 6: The prevailing resilience of Pakistan’s capital market is unprecedented, if not unnatural, by all standards. The benchmark Karachi Stock Exchange Index that started its voyage from less than...
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Govt must come to terms with free media: US
WASHINGTON, June 6: The United States has urged the government of Pakistan to come to terms with new freedoms emerging in its society and not to use a recent presidential decree for closing media outlets.“The...
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Pemra Ord annulment sought
KARACHI, June 6: Two members of the Sindh Bar Council requested the high court on Wednesday to declare the Pemra ordinance null and void for being repugnant to the Constitution....
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Three held in Quetta raid
QUETTA, June 6: Three suspected Taliban were arrested from a residential complex on the Jinnah Road on Wednesday. Sources said that Anti-Terrorist Force personnel raided a flat in the complex and arrested them after an exchange of fire....
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Taliban want mosques rebuilt in Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH, June 6: The local Taliban warned the government on Wednesday that they would not allow construction of checkpoints of the Khasadar Force and a college for girls in North Waziristan...
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Cyclone hits Oman; oil export disrupted
MUSCAT, June 6: Cyclone Gonu battered Oman’s capital on Wednesday with fierce winds and torrential rains, flooding streets, disrupting oil exports, shutting down air service and forcing thousands from their homes....
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Afghan woman journalist killed
KABUL, June 6: A leading female Afghan journalist was shot dead overnight, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, in the second such killing in a week — crimes that have raised alarm among media rights groups....
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G-8 asked to enhance global partnership
UNITED NATIONS, June 6: Pakistan on the behalf of Group of 77 (developing countries) plus China has asked the G-8 summit of world’s most richest and powerful countries to take “concrete...
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JI activists freed from police custody
CHAKWAL, June 6: Judicial Magistrate Nadeem Abbas and a bailiff appointed by Additional District and Sessions Judge Akram Awan on Wednesday recovered two Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) activists, who were detained by police last night in a crackdown on opposition parties’ workers....
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Lawyers to observe ‘black day’ today: Pemra ordinance
ISLAMABAD, June 6: The lawyers community would observe a country-wide ‘black day’ on Thursday as a mark of protest against the promulgation of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) amendment ordinance....
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Benazir slams media curbs
ISLAMABAD, June 6: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto on Wednesday condemned what she said far-reaching restrictions slammed on private TV channels....
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