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| June 25, 2007 | Monday | Jamadi-us-Sani 09, 1428 |
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Storm leaves Karachi in chaos: Death toll mounts to 200
KARACHI, June 24: The death toll from driving rains and gale-force winds that battered the city on Saturday evening rose to 200 on Sunday....
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CJ calls for probe into rain havoc
MULTAN, June 24: Expressing sympathy with families affected by rains in Karachi, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry called for a probe to ascertain why the rains wrought so much devastation and claimed the lives of so many people....
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ARD, MMA not to boycott polls
LAHORE, June 24: Although parties in the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) do not want to see Gen Pervez Musharraf at the helm at...
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Nato admits to killing civilians in Pakistan
KABUL, June 24: The Nato-led force in Afghanistan admitted on Sunday that civilians in Pakistan had been killed in recent strikes against militants who had been seen near the border preparing for an attack....
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Tribe asked to expel foreign militants
MIRAMSHAH, June 24: Political agent Pirzada Khan on Sunday issued a warning to the Utmanzai tribe to expel foreigners from the area....
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Man lost nine members of family in Nato strike; kills himself
WANA, June 24: An elderly man has committed suicide following the death of nine members of his family in the recent Nato bombing in the Mandi Zawar area of the mountainous Shawal region near the Afghan border, local people said....
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Three army personnel kidnapped
KOHAT, June 24: Three army personnel have been kidnapped from the Kachai area in the jurisdiction of Ustarzai police station where they had gone to get amulets from a shrine on Saturday....
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Aziz prepares for talks on poll code
ISLAMABAD, June 24: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz says he will begin contacting opposition politicians from Monday to exchange views with them on a proposed code of conduct for the general election....
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US to move market access bill in Congress in July
ISLAMABAD, June 24: The United States is expected to move a bill in the Congress next month to allow duty- and tax-free imports from Pakistan’s tribal region and Azad Kashmir....
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‘Chemical Ali’, 2 others sentenced to death
BAGHDAD, June 24: An Iraqi court on Sunday condemned “Chemical Ali,” the most notorious of Saddam Hussein’s former henchmen, to death by hanging for genocide over the systematic slaughter of ethnic Kurds in 1988....
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2 Pakistanis killed in US
WASHINGTON, June 24: Twenty-one years old Moeen Raja was shot dead in Baltimore this weekend, the second Pakistani to be murdered in this industrial town near Washington this month....
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Eight killed in held Kashmir
SRINAGAR, June 24: Indian troops shot dead eight suspected Muslim militants on Sunday as they reportedly tried to cross the LoC, a military spokesman said....
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US officer tells how Daniel Pearl was murdered
WASHINGTON, June 24: The US security officer who investigated the Daniel Pearl murder case absolves al-Fuqra leader Sheikh Gilani of involvement in the murder of the American journalist....
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Five foreigners arrested
QUETTA, June 24: Border security authorities on Sunday arrested five foreign suspected terrorists in Taftan, a small town near the Pak-Iran border....
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Taliban seize 18
KABUL, June 24: Taliban fighters have seized 18 Afghan mine clearing experts and threatened to kill them if investigations suggest they are working for US-led forces in the country, officials and the insurgents said on Sunday....
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Quintuplets born to Afghan woman
QUETTA, June 24: An Afghan woman gave birth to five children, four boys and one girl, in the Bolan Medical College Hospital early on Sunday morning....
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PTI proposes price regulatory body
ISLAMABAD, June 24: The Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI) has expressed concerns over the sky-rocketing increase in prices of 15 kitchen items during last week in the light of the weekly price data released by the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS)....
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Ex-governor of Balochistan passes away
QUETTA, June 24: Former governor of Balochistan Brigadier (retd) Abdul Rahim Durrani died of cardiac arrest here on Sunday. He was 85....
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