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| July 17, 2007 | Tuesday | Rajab 01, 1428 |
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Misconduct charge against CJ withdrawn: Lawyer wants entire reference dropped
ISLAMABAD, July 16: The federal government on Monday withdrew the charge of judicial misconduct against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. The once voluminous reference with annexure is now reduced to just... 
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More troops for NWFP okayed
ISLAMABAD, July 16: The government on Monday decided to send reinforcements to the North West Frontier Province and tribal areas in the wake of an alarming rise in attacks on security agencies’ personnel across the region....
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‘Resignations may lead to emergency’
LAHORE, July 16: PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Husain says emergency can be imposed and general elections delayed for a year if 50 per cent members of any major opposition party represented at parliament tender en bloc resignations....
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Militants approached to save peace deal
MIRAMSHAH, July 16: Back-channel negotiations were under way on Monday to keep the peace deal between the government and militants in the North Waziristan Agency intact....
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CM wants forces’ mobility restricted: Centre-NWFP row over deployment
PESHAWAR, July 16: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has taken exception to the deployment of army in the Malakand region and asked the federal government to restrict security forces to specific areas....
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US to give $750m for Fata development
WASHINGTON, July 16: The Bush administration plans to provide $750 million to Pakistan for the development of Fata in a bid to end influence of Al Qaeda and Taliban militants in the area....
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SC seeks details of charges
ISLAMABAD, July 16: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to provide details of allegations against 165 accused detained during the Lal Masjid operation and to hand over the bodies...
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Lal Masjid action not taken to appease US, says FO
ISLAMABAD, July 16: The Foreign Office on Monday termed absurd the notion that the government had taken action against the Lal Masjid-Jamia Hafsa administration to appease the United States....
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Hasina sent to jail in extortion case
DHAKA, July 16: Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina was arrested at her home in the capital on Monday and sent to jail to face extortion charges, her party and court officials said....
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Carrot policy did not work in tribal belt: US
WASHINGTON, July 16: The White House said on Monday that the ‘carrot approach’ did not work in the tribal areas, forcing Pakistan to send in more troops to the region to control the situation....
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Lawson new Pakistan coach
KARACHI, July 16: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday named former Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson as the new national coach to succeed Bob Woolmer, who died during the World Cup in the Caribbean in March....
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Nepra divided over wind power tariff increase
ISLAMABAD, July 16: A rare opposition from the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) to an increase in tariff allowed to a wind power project has triggered a debate whether all...
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85 dead in Iraq suicide bombing
BAGHDAD, July 16: At least 85 people were killed on Monday by a suicide truck bomb in the volatile Iraqi city of Kirkuk, some of them trapped on a bus where they burned to death, a witness said....
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Japan quake kills seven; radioactive matter leaks
KASHIWAZAKI (Japan), July 16: Nearly 8,000 people spent an anxious night in evacuation centres in north-western Japan after a strong earthquake flattened hundreds of houses and killed at least seven people....
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Bush plea to Arabs
WASHINGTON, July 16: US President George W. Bush on Monday urged Arab nations, which have still not made peace with Israel, to open a dialogue “ending the fiction that Israel does not exist”....
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Will Harry Potter die?
LONDON, July 16: Does Harry Potter die? Fictional or not, the question of what happens to the boy wizard at the end of `Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’, the seventh...
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Arms cache seized near Chaman
QUETTA, July 16: The Frontier Corps personnel on Monday seized a huge quantity of illegal arms and ammunition near Chaman. According to sources, the FC troops raided the hilly area of Roghani and launched a search operation....
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Strike observed against manhandling of official
QUETTA, July 16: Several thousands employees of the Civil Secretariat Balochistan, including officers and secretaries, observed a strike in protest against the manhandling of population welfare secretary Anis Ahmed Gola allegedly by armed guards of a former provincial minister on Monday....
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