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| August 06, 2007 | Monday | Rajab 21, 1428 |
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Re-election likely on Sept 15: Musharraf
KARACHI, Aug 5: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Sunday flew down to Karachi to brief his staunch ally, the Muttahida Quami Movement, on the ruling coalition’s secretly planned move towards his... 
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Deal may work if parliament empowered, says Benazir
WASHINGTON, Aug 5: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said on Sunday she believed that a power sharing deal with President Gen Pervez Musharraf could work if he ceded sufficient power to parliament....
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Intelligence report on Pakistan was altered: Post
WASHINGTON, Aug 5: The Bush administration deliberately altered an intelligence document to show that Pakistan has allowed Al Qaeda to establish a safe haven in Pakistan, The Washington Post reported on Sunday....
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Republicans reserve right to strike inside Pakistan
WASHINGTON, Aug 5: Top Republican 2008 White House hopefuls on Sunday reserved the right to launch US strikes against Al Qaeda in Pakistan, and insisted on victory in Iraq, in a feisty fourth televised debate....
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PPP urges Nawaz to let ARD remain intact
LAHORE, Aug 5: The Pakistan People’s Party is learnt to have contacted the PML-N leadership in London last week to ‘remove certain misunderstandings’ which surfaced recently, straining relationship between the two major opposition parties....
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Paramilitary base comes under rocket attack
KHAR, Aug 5: A Bajaur Scouts’ camp came under rocket attack in the Mamond tehsil early on Sunday morning, officials said. They said that five rockets were fired on the camp in the Katkot village from surrounding hilltops....
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Troops can be reduced in Kashmir: army chief
NEW DELHI, Aug 5: The Indian army is ready to relocate troops from the “hinterland” of Jammu and Kashmir if the state government feels confident about police keeping law and order in rural areas, India’s army chief Gen J.J....
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Separated twins doing well
LAHORE, Aug 5: Conjoined twins Khaula and Khansa, who were separated two weeks ago in what surgeons say the third such successful operation in the country, have been sent home....
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Javed assails ‘deviation’ from Charter of Democracy
GUJRANWALA, Aug 5: PML-N acting president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, who was released from the Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore on Saturday, was warmly welcomed when he passed through Gujranwala on his way to Islamabad on Sunday....
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Chaudhry brothers are history, says Jamali
QUETTA, Aug 5: Former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Sunday that “Chaudhry brothers” were history. He would make no compromise with them because they had conspired to bring his rivals into the party, he added....
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Electricity charges for Karachi increased
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: Fretting about power shortages and breakdowns in hot and humid conditions, consumers in Karachi will have to pay 29 paisas more for each unit of electricity they consume from now on....
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Flu vaccine never made it to quake victims
CHICAGO, Aug 5: Flu vaccine that the US state of Illinois donated to Pakistan never made it to earthquake victims it was intended to help, according to a newspaper report....
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Kashmiri militants vow not to target civilians
SRINAGAR, Aug 5: Militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir vowed on Sunday not to attack civilians in busy places. “Mujahideen will not carry out strikes in crowded places and they...
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Malaysia not a theocratic state: PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 5: Muslim-dominated Malaysia is neither a secular nor a theocratic state, the prime minister said in an apparent bid to make amends after his deputy upset minorities by describing the country as Islamic....
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MNA Abdul Aziz freed
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: The government on Sunday released Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) MNA from Karak, Shah Abdul Aziz, who was arrested three weeks ago under 16 MPO for allegedly supporting Lal Masjid clerics....
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46 more deportees arrive from Turkey
RAWALPINDI, Aug 5: A batch of 46 illegal immigrants, deported by Turkish authorities, arrived at the Islamabad International Airport on Sunday. According to immigration authorities, the deportees arrived from Turkey on...
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Journalists manhandled
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: Two DawnNews TV cameramen were manhandled by security staff of the United Nations House as they filmed here on Saturday. The DawnNews team was on a shoot when...
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PMDC bans faculty migration
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has banned the migration of faculty members from one medical or dental college to another during the academic year....
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