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| July 30, 2007 | Monday | Rajab 14, 1428 |
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Uniformed president not acceptable: Benazir: ‘Extremists plotting to overthrow government’
ISLAMABAD, July 29: President Gen Pervez Musharraf must quit his military post if he is to continue as the country’s ruler, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said on Sunday, after officials... 
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Jamali’s ‘high-profile’ role
ISLAMABAD, July 29: In a significant development, former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has become suddenly active and held a series of high-profile meetings, creating an impression that he may...
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Govt braces for stormy NA session
ISLAMABAD, July 29: The government, already reeling from disastrous events in the country, is likely to face the music in the National Assembly meeting on Monday but will still have the opportunity to laugh at the opposition’s divided house....
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British media rife with speculation: Musharraf-Benazir meeting
LONDON, July 29: The details of what went right and what went wrong at the still-to-be-officially-confirmed Musharraf-Benazir meeting in Abu Dhabi on Friday are being kept under such tight wraps that...
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‘Worst is over’ for Musharraf, says India
NEW DELHI, July 29: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has overcome a major domestic crisis and India finds in him a credible interlocutor for peace talks that are on course, though a bit slow, India’s National Security Adviser M.K....
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‘Lal Masjid’ in Mohmand Agency
GHALLANAI, July 29: Gunmen have forcefully occupied a mosque and an adjacent shrine in Mohmand Agency’s Lakaro tehsil and announced that they will continue the ‘mission’ of late Maulana Ghazi Abdur Rashid and establish a madressah at the place....
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Pakistan festival held in London
LONDON, July 29: A cultural extravaganza was held here on Sunday to mark the 60th anniversary of the independence of Pakistan....
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Gas prices to remain unchanged
ISLAMABAD, July 29: On the recommendations of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), the natural gas tariff for all consumers will remain frozen until January 1, 2008, it is learnt....
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Six die in Kashmir bus blast
SRINAGAR, July 29: Six people, including three young girls, died and more than a dozen were wounded on Sunday in an explosion aboard a tourist bus here....
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Bomber’s identikit released
ISLAMABAD, July 29: The Islamabad police have released an identikit of the man thought to have blown himself up at Aabpara Market on Friday evening....
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Japan PM to stay in power despite crushing defeat
TOKYO, July 29: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged on Sunday to stay in power despite a crushing election defeat for his ruling coalition, saying he believed voters still backed his conservative ideas....
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Taliban threaten to kill hostages
GHAZNI, July 29: Taliban militants threatened on Sunday to start killing their 22 South Korean hostages if the government did not accept by noon Monday their demand for the release of jailed rebels....
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Microbe harvests light energy
ISLAMABAD, July 29: The Yellowstone National Park in the United States has yielded a new marvel, an unusual bacterium that converts light to energy....
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Nine killed in road accidents, armed attack
QUETTA, July 29: Nine people, including three women, were killed and 38 others were injured in two road accidents and a firing incident in Hub, Kalat and the Rakhni area of Balochistan on Sunday....
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Baloch women to observe hunger strike
QUETTA, July 29: The newly-formed Baloch Women Panel on Sunday announced that it would observe a token hunger strike from July 30 till August 14 for the recovery of missing youths....
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Three held for grenade attacks
QUETTA, July 29: Police on Sunday arrested three suspects in connection with grenade attacks in Khuzdar....
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‘Blasts suspects to be arrested soon’
ISLAMABAD, July 29: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the people involved in suicide attacks and other bomb blasts would be arrested and given exemplary punishment....
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Indian charged with rape, murder of British girl
LONDON: A 39-year-old man extradited from India was on Sunday charged in England with the kidnap, rape and murder of a British teenager more than four years ago....
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