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| June 13, 2007 | Wednesday | Jamadi-ul-Awwal 27, 1428 |
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Re-election by new assemblies, hopes US: Musharraf should ‘put aside the uniform’
WASHINGTON, June 12: The US State Department has said that it believes President Musharraf will seek re-election from the parliament formed after the forthcoming elections.... 
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Ramday questions sending of judge on forced leave
ISLAMABAD, June 12: Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, heading a 13-member larger bench of the Supreme Court hearing petitions challenging a presidential reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, on Tuesday hinted...
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Minister resigns; 10 held in Kafila’s death case
ISLAMABAD, June 12: Minister of State for Communications Mohammad Shahid Jamil Qureshi, facing charges of illegally detaining Kafila Siddiqui, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin who died under mysterious circumstances last Saturday night, resigned from the cabinet on Tuesday....
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Woolmer died of natural causes, say Jamaica police
MONTEGO BAY (Jamaica), June 12: Former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was not murdered but died of natural causes, Jamaican police said on Tuesday in a bombshell announcement three months after his death rocked the World Cup tournament....
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MQM files reference against Imran
ISLAMABAD, June 12: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday filed a reference against Tehrik-i-Insaaf chief Imran Khan to National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain, seeking disqualification of the TI leader....
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Imran, Nawaz team up against Musharraf, Altaf LONDON, June 12: The proposed Multi-Party Conference (MPC) being hosted here by the ARD on July 7 and 8 is likely to discuss modalities of launching a countrywide political struggle against the military-led government of President Gen Pervez Musharraf....
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Opposition assails govt as NA begins budget debate
ISLAMABAD, June 12: The opposition assailed President Pervez Musharraf''s economic and political policies on Tuesday as the National Assembly began a general debate on the present government''s last budget, which both...
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Over 2,000 activists of banned groups on watch list
ISLAMABAD, June 12: The government has placed the names of over 2,000 activists of 18 outlawed organisations on a watch list, effectively barring them from leaving their hometowns without permission of...
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UBL global share launch from today
ISLAMABAD, June 12: The Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCoP) on Tuesday allowed the launch of 25-30 per cent Global Depository Shares (GDS) of the United Bank Limited (UBL) in London from Wednesday....
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No relief for NSS investors
KARACHI, June 12: The federal budget announced on Saturday spells out no relief or incentives for investors in National Savings Schemes (NSS). Omar Ayub Khan, Minister of State for Finance, who...
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Duststorm breaks hot spell
LAHORE, June 12: A duststorm followed by rain here on Tuesday evening broke a four-day spell of oppressive heat....
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Dud cheque case against petitioner
KARACHI, June 12: Police arrested on Tuesday civil rights campaigner Syed Mohammad Iqbal Kazmi, who had gone missing for two days last week and was released by his captors on condition that he left Karachi within five days....
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Kabul says rockets fired from across border
LAWARA (Afghanistan), June 12: Rockets fired from Pakistan at a US and Afghan military base in south-eastern Afghanistan landed on civilian houses and wounded a family of five, an Afghan governor claimed on Tuesday....
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25 injured as bus rams into truck
MURREE, June 12: Twenty-five people were injured, five of them critically, when a bus rammed into a truck after hitting the guard rail near 22 Meel on Tuesday....
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Detainee shot, injured on court premises in Taxila
TAXILA, June 12: An under trail prisoner was shot injured allegedly by a rival at the Tehsil Court Complex here on Monday....
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Heatwave, power cuts test people’s patience
RAWALPINDI, June 12: Relentless heat and around seven hours long power outage in some areas of the twin cities tested the patience of the people to its limits here on Tuesday....
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Grand jirga of tribal legislators
ISLAMABAD June 12: A grand jirga of all tribal legislators, elders, engineers, doctors, and tribal representatives from civil society is being held at Peshawar on June 14....
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Punjab told to produce detention orders: Arrest of PPP activist
RAWALPINDI, June 12: Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench Judge Justice Syed Sajjad Hussain Shah here on Monday directed the Punjab home department to produce the detention orders of a senior...
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