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| August 05, 2007 | Sunday | Rajab 20, 1428 |
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Army repels raid; suicide bombing rocks Parachinar: Four troops, 10 militants among 23 dead
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Fresh violence left 23 people, four of them soldiers, dead on Saturday in the tribal areas. The military said militants fired a barrage of rockets at security checkpoints...
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PML wants Musharraf re-elected in uniform
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League on Saturday decided to get President Gen Pervez Musharraf re-elected in uniform from the present assemblies. The decision was taken at a meeting...
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Benazir to move courts for relief
LONDON, Aug 4: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has decided to approach the courts in Pakistan to seek relief in what she claims to be concocted cases of corruption against her....
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Javed freed, seeks ‘freedom’ for parliament
LAHORE, Aug 4: Hundreds of PML-N workers welcomed their acting-president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi when he was released from Kot Lakhpat Jail here on Saturday evening....
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Tribal elders boycott jirga briefing
PESHAWAR: Tribal elders from North and South Waziristan Agencies, who were nominated on the Pakistan-Afghanistan grand jirga, on Saturday boycotted a briefing here at the Governor’s House and left the premises....
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N-deal won’t affect ties: US
WASHINGTON, Aug 4: A senior US official has assured Pakistan that the civilian nuclear energy deal between the United States and India would not fuel a nuclear arms race in South Asia....
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‘Erroneous’ results of HBL panic investors
KARACHI, Aug 4: Fifteen minutes before the close of trading on Friday, investors heard with disbelief as the Karachi Stock Exchange announced over its Public Address System results of Habib Bank Limited for the first half of 2007....
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Selection criteria for dept heads changed
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: A high-level meeting here on Saturday decided to change the recruitment system for heads of public sector organisations so transparency could be ensured in the bodies....
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Hostage pleads for help; Kabul adamant
GHAZNI (Afghanistan), Aug 4: A purported South Korean hostage made an emotional plea for help in a telephone call with AFP on Saturday as an Afghan negotiator again ruled out freeing Taliban prisoners in exchange for the 21 captives....
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Parties told to submit account statements
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Chief Election Commissioner Qazi Mohammad Farooq has reminded the political parties to submit consolidated statements of accounts by Aug 29, failing which they would not be allotted election symbols....
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Pakistani beheaded
RIYADH, Aug 4: Saudi Arabia on Saturday beheaded a Pakistani national convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry said. The man was executed in the eastern city of Dammam for smuggling...
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Mars probe to dig for clues to life
WASHINGTON, Aug 4: A US space probe named Phoenix Mars Lander was successfully launched early on Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and began its nine-month journey to Mars, where it will dig for clues to past and present life....
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SC moved against Lal Masjid operation
MULTAN, Aug 4: The Wafaqul Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan, (WMAP) has moved the Supreme Court against the “bloodshed” during the Lal Masjid operation and sought registration of cases against the president, interior...
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SC takes suo motu notice of karo-kari case
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has taken a suo motu notice of a karo-kari incident and directed the IGP Sindh to submit a report....
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US sending mixed signals to Pakistan
WASHINGTON, Aug 4: The United States continues to send mixed signals to Pakistan on its performance in the `war against terror’ as a senior State Department official assured Islamabad that Washington...
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Maleeha recalls meetings with Armitage after 9/11
NEW YORK, Aug 4: Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Maleeha Lodhi, in an interview with the New York Times has recollected the events which unfolded in Washington on...8....
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Ex-minister’s bail plea hearing put off
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Additional Sessions Judge Mirza Nisar Baig on Saturday put off the hearing of ‘after-arrest bail’ plea of former state minister Mohammad Shahid Jamil Qureshi, charged with the murder of Canadian national Kafila Siddiqui, till September 8....
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Lal Masjid: hearing in six cases deferred till 17th
RAWALPINDI, Aug 4: Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) No. 2 Special Judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahot on Saturday put off till August 17 the hearing in six cases against former Lal Masjid cleric Maulana...
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