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| June 21, 2007 | Thursday | Jamadi-us-Sani 05, 1428 |
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SC summons defence, interior secretaries: Denial of counsel’s access to court martial convict
ISLAMABAD, June 20: The Supreme Court on Thursday summoned the secretaries of interior and defence on June 25 to explain non-compliance with a court order regarding legal counsel’s access to one... 
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‘Court cannot be manipulated’
ISLAMABAD, June 20: Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, heading a 13-member larger bench hearing a reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, on Wednesday observed that nobody could manipulate the court to seek judgment of his liking....
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Move against Imran triggers NA boycott
ISLAMABAD, June 20: The National Assembly speaker on Wednesday sent two disqualification references against Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan to the Election Commission, provoking an opposition boycott of the budget...
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MQM wants autonomy bill tabled in NA
ISLAMABAD, June 20: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has asked the government to introduce a bill on provincial autonomy submitted by the party to the National Assembly last month, during the...
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Benazir demands Ijaz’s dismissal
ISLAMABAD, June 20: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has demanded dismissal of a federal minister who has justified ‘suicide attacks on a British citizen’ and called for investigating his links with suicide bombers....
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Britain rules out apology over Rushdie honour
LONDON, June 20: Britain will not apologise for giving writer Salman Rushdie a knighthood, despite protests in the Muslim world, a minister said on Wednesday. Home Secretary John Reid said the...
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‘Electricity shortfall declines to 163MW’
ISLAMABAD, June 20: The electricity shortfall in the country has declined to about 163MW mainly because of increase in hydel generation and fall in temperatures, an official statement said on Wednesday....
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Power riots continue in Karachi
KARACHI, June 20: Riots against power load shedding broke out late Wednesday night on the Sharea Faisal and the Korangi Road in which protesters pelted a food outlet, two banks and public property with stones besides suspending traffic....
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Nilofar serves legal notice on Lal Masjid
ISLAMABAD, June 20: Former tourism minister Senator Nilofar Bakhtiar has served a legal notice on the head of the ‘Sharia court’ established by Lala Masjid administration, seeking an apology from him...
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‘Waziristan compound was not a seminary’
MIRAMSHAH/PESHAWAR, June 20: The death toll from Tuesday’s missile strike on a compound in North Waziristan has reached 34 as reports received on Wednesday belie claims that the place hit was a seminary....
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When one’s house is not a sanctuary
THE scene in Awaran village near Mashkay district in Balochistan is one of mourning. Almost every home wears a pall of grief. A young Ali Akber sits in the hostile heat...
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China wants 22 rebels handed over
ISLAMABAD, June 20: Beijing has asked Islamabad to locate and hand over 22 Chinese rebels who are believed to be hiding somewhere in tribal areas in Pakistan, a source in the interior ministry told Dawn on Wednesday....
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World Bank calls for consensus on Kalabagh
ISLAMABAD, June 20: The World Bank has declined to finance large dams because of its financial constraints and unresolved environmental and resettlement issues attached to them....
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Fishermen protest against Sonmiani port
QUETTA, June 20: Hundreds of fishermen demonstrated in Lasbela’s Winder area on Wednesday against the proposed construction of Sonmiani port which, they claimed, would deprive the local population of their legitimate rights....
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Pakistanis in police disguise held in Spain
MADRID, June 20: Spanish police arrested at least 21 people, most of them from Pakistan and Iran, accused of disguising themselves as police and robbing tourists of cash, cameras and cell phones in the northeast Catalonia region, news reports said....
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‘Osama’s hand in exit of family from US’
WASHINGTON, June 20: Osama bin Laden may have chartered a plane that carried his family members and Saudi nationals out of the United States after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, according to FBI documents released on Wednesday....
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Three Canadian troops killed
KANDAHAR, June 20: A series of roadside bombings in Afghanistan on Wednesday killed eight people, including three Canadian Nato soldiers. A district chief in Kandahar said police had killed 21 Taliban who attacked late Tuesday....
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Rocket hits girls school
KHAR, June 20: A rocket hit the building of a girls’ school on Tuesday in the Gang Tangi area of the Bajur Agency, residents said....
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