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| June 22, 2007 | Friday | Jamadi-us-Sani 06, 1428 |
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Reference filed against Aziz: Steel mills sale, stock market crash
ISLAMABAD, June 21: The opposition in the National Assembly on Thursday hit back strongly at the government with a disqualification charge-sheet, or reference, against Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, which overshadowed final... 
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Legality of first SJC meeting questioned
ISLAMABAD, June 21: The counsel for Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Thursday said that events of March 9, appointment of the Acting Chief Justice and convening of the Supreme Judicial...
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US envoy-designate sees no plan for emergency
WASHINGTON, June 21: The United States is confident that the Pakistani government does not plan to declare a state of emergency in the country, says the US ambassador-designate to Islamabad, Anne Woods Patterson....
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Rs63.08 billion Balochistan budget presented
QUETTA, June 21: Balochistan Finance Minister Syed Ehsan Shah presented in the provincial assembly on Thursday a Rs63.08 billion budget with a deficit of Rs10.27 billion....
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No new tax in Rs25.32bn AJK budget
MUZAFFARABAD, June 21: A Rs25.32 billion tax-free but deficit budget for Azad Kashmir was presented in the Legislative Assembly here on Thursday. Finance Minister Raja Nisar Ahmed Khan informed the house the 2007-08 budget proposed Rs17.52...
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Some F-16s delivered by US, says Kasuri
WASHINGTON, June 21: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri has said that the United States has already delivered an unspecified number of F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan but declined to say how many....
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‘Pakistan expanding N-plan’
ISLAMABAD, June 21: Satellite images show that Pakistan is building a new nuclear reactor that can produce weapons-grade plutonium, an American watchdog group alleged on Thursday, warning that it could contribute to an atomic arms race with India....
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Rahim renounces elders’ British titles
KARACHI, June 21: Enraged over British government’s decision to give a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim on Thursday renounced the titles bestowed on his elders by the British rulers of India....
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Ijaz hits out at Benazir
ISLAMABAD, June 21: Federal Religious Affairs Minister Ijazul Haq had said that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto should understand that the Muslims all over the world are very sensitive about the Salman Rushdie issue....
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Congregation in Bannu attacked
BANNU, June 21: One person was killed and 21 others were injured in a grenade attack at a religious gathering here on Thursday night, police said....
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3 die in Kurram Agency blast
PARACHINAR, June 21: Three people, two of them brothers, were killed when their tractor hit a roadside bomb in Lower Kurram Agency’s Khapianga village on Thursday, officials said....
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Pre-monsoon shower in Sindh
KARACHI, June 21: The recent spell of hot weather was broken on Thursday as Karachi experienced the first rainfall of the season at around 8pm. Further scattered showers and cloudy weather...
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Girl crosses LoC to escape unwanted groom
SRINAGAR, June 21: An 18-year-old girl of Azad Kashmir disliked her husband-to-be so much that she fled to occupied Kashmir in a high-altitude trek across one of the world’s deadliest borders, reports said on Thursday....
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Waiting for sunrise on year’s longest day
A GIRL spins a plastic hoop during the summer solstice celebrations at Britain’s ancient Stonehenge monument in Wiltshire as a large number of people wait for sunrise on the longest day of the year on Thursday....
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Rs10m offered for killing Rushdie
ISLAMABAD, June 21: A traders’ association here on Thursday announced a reward of Rs10 million for anyone beheading novelist Salman Rushdie following Britain’s decision to award him a knighthood....
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Ulema Council honours Osama
ISLAMABAD, June 21: The Pakistan Ulema Council on Thursday awarded its highest honour to Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, saying it was in reaction to Britain’s knighthood for writer Salman Rushdie....
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Kafeela’s body to be exhumed
ISLAMABAD, June 21: A report prepared and released by the chemical examiner, Punjab, on Thursday night showed that Kafeela Siddique, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin who had reportedly been living...
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Aziz to visit Netherlands
ISLAMABAD, June 21: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will be visiting the Netherlands in the first week of July at the invitation of his Dutch counterpart, it is learnt.“It...
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