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| July 07, 2007 | Saturday | Jamadi-us-Sani 21, 1428 |
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Ghazi, militants vow to fight till bitter end
ISLAMABAD, July 6: Security forces persisted in their plan of softening their target in Lal Masjid on the fourth day on Friday with heavy firing and tear-gas shelling amid indications that the besieged cleric, Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi, and his hardcore lieutenants had decided to fight till the end, and not to surrender.... 
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Rashid Ghazi ignores Bilqees Edhi’s plea
ISLAMABAD, July 6: Begum Bilqees Edhi visited the localities around Lal Masjid in Islamabad on Friday and appealed over the megaphone to Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi to hand over to the...
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MMA women appeal for hostages’ release
ISLAMABAD, July 6: An eleven-member women delegation of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal on Friday night met the Lal Masjid cleric, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, to persuade him to surrender and save the lives...
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Mystery over shots fired from rooftop: Rocket not fired on president’s plane: official
RAWALPINDI, July 6: Over two dozen shots were fired from a machine-gun with a telescope from the rooftop of a Rawalpindi house located right beneath the flight path of planes taking off from the Islamabad airport....
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Major among four killed in bomb blast
TIMERGARAH (Lower Dir), July 6: Four army personnel were killed and another was critically wounded when a military jeep leading a convoy was hit by a roadside bomb near Dargai on the Peshawar-Swat highway on Friday....
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4 security men hurt in ambush
MINGORA, July 6: Four security personnel were injured when their vehicle was ambushed near Matta police station on Friday. The injured, Deputy Superintendent Abdur Rasheed, Sub-Inspector Shehzad Khan, Constable Azam Khan and FC Sepoy Tariq Javed, were taken to Saidu Hospital....
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Bid to kidnap army officer: six dead
MIRAMSHAH, July 6: Four outlaws and two tribal volunteers were killed and a military officer and five other people wounded in a clash between a lashkar and a gang of criminals here on Friday....
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38 parties likely to attend London conference
LONDON, July 6: The much awaited and once postponed multi-party conference (MPC) will open here on Saturday against the backdrop of reports of a new attempt on President Musharraf’s life, the...
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Immediate relief of Rs15,000 for each family: President visits Turbat
QUETTA, July 6: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has announced Rs15,000 as immediate relief for each flood-affected family in Balochistan to be provided by the federal government....
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UN plans flash appeal for flood relief
RAWALPINDI, July 6: The United Nations has deployed its Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team to support its Resident Coordinator’s office in Pakistan and to finalise the ‘flash appeal’ for the...
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‘Extremists a threat to both US and Musharraf’
WASHINGTON, July 6: A senior US official has said that the extremists are as much a threat to President General Pervez Musharraf as they are to others in the region or to the US....
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30 civilians, 30 Taliban killed
KABUL, July 6: Air and ground strikes killed around 30 Taliban in southern Afghanistan on Friday, the defence ministry said, as Nato’s force announced it had lost two more soldiers in the fight....
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‘UK getting to bottom of bomb plot’
LONDON, July 6: Britain said on Friday it was “getting to the bottom” of a militant cell behind last week’s failed attacks, amid tight security ahead of the anniversary of London’s July 2005 suicide bombings....
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Dismantling of relief camps criticised
QUETTA, July 6: Baloch Students Organisation chairman Mohinuddin Baloch has criticised what he termed dismantling of a relief camp jointly set up by the BSO and the BNP-M in Khuzdar to collect donations and relief goods for flood victims....
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Protest held against operation
QUETTA, July 6: The students of a madressah of Pashtoonabad took out a procession on Friday under the leadership of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s MNA Maulana Noor Mohammad in protest against the siege of Lal Masjid in Islamabad....
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‘Govt trapped Ghazi brothers’
ISLAMABAD, July 6: Opposing the method, the cleric brothers of Lal Masjid have adopted to challenge writ of the government, Asif Luqman Qazi, special assistant to Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Qazi Hussain...
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MQM condemns attack
KARACHI, July 6: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has condemned Friday’s rocket attack on the aircraft of President Gen Pervez Musharraf. According to a press release, he said that the perpetrators did not deserve to be called Pakistanis....
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‘Pakistan committed to war on terror’
KARACHI, July 6: The Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Mohammad Afzal Tahir, has said that Pakistan is committed to the war on terrorism along with the international community....
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