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| August 13, 2007 | Monday | Rajab 28, 1428 |
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Accord to deny sanctuaries to terrorists: Joint jirga in Kabul agrees to push for reconciliation with Taliban
KABUL, Aug 12: Afghanistan and Pakistan pledged on Sunday to eliminate terrorist sanctuaries in their respective tribal regions....
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US withdrawal key to peace, says Fazl
LAHORE: The Joint Pakistan-Afghan jirga was convened at the behest of the United States and if Gen Pervez Musharraf was pressurised by US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to go to...
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Presidential poll: Shujaat, Aziz may also file papers
LAHORE, Aug 12: The ruling PML fears that a difficult situation may emerge in the event of rejection of nomination papers of Gen Pervez Musharraf for another term as president by the relevant authority....
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Amendment not needed, says PML
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Pakistan Muslim League (PML) president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Sunday insisted that President Musharraf could be re-elected in uniform for the next term in accordance with the 17th amendment....
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Uniform issue may go to court: Benazir
NEW YORK, Aug 12: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has said that the nagging uniform issue will eventually go to the court, since there is a disagreement on the matter....
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Nawaz says no case pending against him
LAHORE, Aug 12: Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif says there is no case pending against him in any court and reports that the National Accountability Bureau has approached the accountability...
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3 policemen shot dead in Hangu
HANGU, Aug 12: Three policemen were killed and two passersby were injured when gunmen opened fire on a police patrol near Togh Sarai on Saturday night, officials said....
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Bomb blasts in Hub, attacks in Quetta, Sui
QUETTA, Aug 12: Nine people, including police and Levies personnel, were injured in two powerful bomb blasts and hand-grenade attacks in Quetta, Sui and the industrial town of Hub on Sunday night....
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Afghan clash leaves 2 Pakistanis hurt
Quetta, Aug 12: Two Pakistanis were injured in a gunbattle between Taliban and allied forces in Shorawak area of the Helmand province of Afghanistan close to Pakistani border....
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Two ‘spies’ beheaded
MIRAMSHAH, Aug 12: Militants beheaded two Afghan nationals on spying charges in the North Waziristan Agency on Sunday....
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Early madressah reform sought
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: The cabinet has directed the ministries of religious affairs and education to speed up madressah reforms programme to avoid repeat of a Lal Masjid-like situation in any part of the country....
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US hardliners seek unilateral military action: report
WASHINGTON, Aug 12: Hard-line officials in the Bush administration are seeking unilateral military action inside Pakistan to take out the extremists, a media report said on Sunday....
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Four foreign troops among 29 killed
KABUL, Aug 12: A wave of Taliban attacks across Afghanistan killed 29 people, four of them foreign soldiers and nearly two dozen militants, military officials said on Sunday....
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100 Indian fishermen released
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Pakistan on Sunday released 100 Indian fishermen, including...
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Kasuri to lead delegation at SCO summit
ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri will represent Pakistan at the summit meeting of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) being hosted by Kyrgyzstan this week....
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Musharraf in tight corner, says US paper
WASHINGTON, Aug 12: The United States should tell President Gen Pervez Musharraf to negotiate a rapid return to democracy, before it is too late, says International Herald Tribune....
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Muzaffarabad-Srinagar link urged
MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 12: The Prime Minister of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, has claimed that there is consensus in the international community on the settlement of Kashmir issue in consultation with the Kashmiri people....
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Wapda office ransacked in Bannu
BANNU, Aug 12: Enraged by unrelenting spell of power outages, people on Sunday afternoon ransacked Wapda’s local office and reduced all the record and furniture to ashes....
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