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| July 13, 2007 | Friday | Jamadi-us-Sani 27, 1428 |
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Seminaries’ use as terror haven won’t be allowed: Musharraf says operation was inevitable
ISLAMABAD, July 12: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday defended the Lal Masjid operation and declared that no mosque or seminary would be allowed to be misused like Jamia Hafsa.... 
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Charred remains speak of fierce battles
ISLAMABAD, July 12: Bullet-pocked rooms and blood-stained walls served as grim reminders of ferocious gunbattles when the government opened on Thursday the Lal Masjid-Jamia Hafsa complex to journalists for the first time since the operation there....
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‘Al Jihad’ slogans at Ghazi’s burial: Aziz leads prayer
ROJHAN MAZARI (Rajanpur), July 12: Lal Masjid cleric Adbul Rashid Ghazi was laid to rest on Thursday in the courtyard of Jamia Abdullah bin Ghazi seminary in the Abdullah Ghazi village...
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Supreme Court stays PSO sale
ISLAMABAD, July 12: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the sale of Pakistan State Oil and hinted at forming a larger bench to take up the privatisation process on a challenge...
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Suicide bomber kills four in Miramshah
MIRAMSHAH, July 12: A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the political agent’s office in the restive North Waziristan Agency’s Miramshah area on Thursday, killing four people and injuring three others, officials said....
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3 policemen killed in suicide attack
MINGORA, July 12: Three police personnel were killed when two suspected suicide bombers rammed an explosives-laden car into a police vehicle in the Takhtaband bridge area here on Thursday....
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Six suffocated by gas in coalmines
QUETTA, July 12: Six workers, three of them Afghan nationals, suffocated in two coalmines in the Mach and Aab-i-Gum areas of Bolan district, some 70 kms east of here, on Thursday....
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SC suspends over 77,000 Haj quotas
ISLAMABAD, July 12: The Supreme Court on Thursday suspended over 77,000 Haj quotas for private tour operators and ordered formation of an independent committee to scrutinise provisional allotment of quotas and their reallocation....
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Banks to receive Haj applications from 16th
ISLAMABAD, July 12: At least 159,500 Pakistanis will perform Haj this year, of which 79,500 pilgrims will travel under the government scheme and the remaining 80,000 under the private tour operators’ scheme....
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Rising extremism threatens state’s existence: Benazir
LONDON, July 12: PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto said on Thursday she was now more worried about country’s future than about democracy because, according to her, the rising extremism in Pakistan was threatening the very existence of the state....
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US working with Musharraf to defeat Al Qaeda, says Bush
WASHINGTON, July 12: President George W. Bush said on Thursday that he was working with President Gen Pervez Musharraf to ensure that Al Qaeda does not spread its influence in Pakistan....
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Operation likely in tribal areas
TANK/PESHAWAR, July 12: The army started deploying troops in NWFP’s southern districts, adjoining the Waziristan region, amid reports that an operation to curb militancy and extremism was imminent....
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Chinese trade team due on 17th
ISLAMABAD, July 12: A Chinese trade mission, led by Deputy Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng, will arrive here on July 17. The team’s visit is considered important because it is taking place...
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US-India N-talks from 16th
NEW DELHI, July 12: India''s National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan will lead a high-ranking delegation to Washington next week in an “all-out effort” to clinch a controversial civilian nuclear deal with the United States, reports said on Thursday....
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Govt counsel gives up on ‘scandalous’ material
ISLAMABAD, July 12: A government counsel on Thursday again requested the Supreme Court to allow him to rely on the material submitted along with the presidential reference against the chief justice,...
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110 more villages inundated in Sindh
DADU, July 12: Ten breaches which had occurred in the Main Nara Valley drain, Sim Shakh and Dhamrah wah could not be plugged on Thursday and 110 more villages were inundated in Khairpur Nathan Shah and Mehar talukas....
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Situation in Jaffarabad, Jhal Magsi still serious QUETTA, July 12: The situation in the Jaffarabad and Jhal Magsi districts remained serious on Thursday as over a dozen villages in the Gandakha tehsil were inundated, washing away hundreds of homes....
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ISPR clarifies operation’s name
ISLAMABAD, July 12: The ISPR on Thursday clarified that the operation conducted in Jamia Hafsa and Lal Masjid had no particular name....
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