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| July 22, 2007 | Sunday | Rajab 06, 1428 |
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Bush terms Sept deal a failure: Report on ‘Al Qaeda havens’ endorsed
WASHINGTON, July 21: US President George W. Bush on Saturday endorsed an intelligence report claiming that Al Qaeda has established a safe haven in the tribal areas of Pakistan.... 
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Jirga members, commanders try to revive agreement
MIRAMSHAH, July 21: Members of the grand inter-tribal jirga held a meeting with militant commanders in Datakhel on Saturday as a tense calm prevailed in the North Waziristan Agency....
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Militants own up to attacks
MIRAMSHAH, July 21: For the first time, militants in North Waziristan have claimed responsibility for suicide bombings and other attacks on security forces in the troubled area, where about 50 soldiers have died in two weeks....
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Govt trying to avert foreign attack: FM
LAHORE, July 21: Pakistan has informed the Western countries that it is trying to control cross-border movement of militants in tribal areas so that no country gets an excuse to go for direct strikes....
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Death toll reaches 48: Govt yet to start relief work in Dir
UPPER DIR, July 21: With rescue work in progress, the local authorities on Saturday put the death toll at 48 from the thunderstorm which hit three hamlets in the remote Usherai Darra area on Friday....
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Opposition may move court on uniform
ISLAMABAD, July 21: Declaring that the real test of the independence of the judiciary is yet to come, the leaders of the All Parties’ Democratic Movement (APDM) have announced that they...
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Villages in competition to stop education of girls
IMAM DERI (Swat), July 21: Seven-year-old Shireena is playing in a stream with some other children at a somewhat unusual pre-noon time on a busy working day....
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Troops to be shifted from educational institutions
PESHAWAR, July 21: The NWFP government has decided to shift army personnel stationed in educational institutions in the Malakand region to the FC Headquarters, Malakand, and Kabal (Swat)....
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US, India close to finalising N-deal
WASHINGTON, July 21: The United States and India are close to a final agreement on civil nuclear cooperation, said a joint statement issued after the conclusion of four-day talks between the teams of two countries on Friday night....
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India gets first woman president
NEW DELHI, July 21: India got its first woman president on Saturday in a victory hailed as a special moment in a country where discrimination against women is often deep-rooted and widespread....
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Fans say a fond farewell to Potter
LONDON/NEW YORK, July 21: The seventh and final Harry Potter book flew off the shelves on Saturday as fans the world over snapped up copies to discover the fate of the boy wizard and his Hogwarts pals....
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CJ constitutes six benches
ISLAMABAD, July 21: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Saturday constituted six benches, over one of which he will preside himself from Monday, marking the first day of formal work from his official residence....
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China thanks Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, July 21: Beijing has conveyed its gratitude to Islamabad for providing security to the Chinese working in Pakistan and expressed confidence in the government’s ability to maintain social stability in the country....
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Pakistani held for smuggling weapons
NEW YORK, July 21: US law-enforcement authorities have arrested a Pakistani national on charges that he illegally exported weapons to Malaysia, according to American newspaper reports....
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‘School for terrorists’ found
ROME, July 21: Italian police on Saturday arrested three Moroccans they suspected of running a ‘terrorist school’ at a mosque, using it to recruit and train militants for attacks abroad....
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‘Violence won’t affect Pakistan-India talks’
TORONTO, July 21: The Azad Kashmir prime minister has said the recent wave of bomb attacks in Islamabad and the NWFP has not derailed the Pakistan-India peace process....
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PPP activist shot dead in Karachi
KARACHI, July 21: An activist of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was shot dead here late on Saturday night. Police said Ghulam Murtaza, 40, who worked for a transport company, was...
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Govt members, opposition hail verdict
QUETTA, July 21: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Yousuf, Balochistan Assembly’s Deputy Speaker Aslam Bhootani and PPP leader Sadiq Ali Umrani on Saturday welcomed the reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary by the Supreme Court....
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