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| August 16, 2007 | Thursday | Sha’aban 2, 1428 |
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Concerns conveyed to US official
ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Richard A. Boucher, said on Wednesday that the United States was committed to a long-term strategic relationship... 
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SC orders arrest of jirga members: Handing over of minor girls to victim’s family
ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of 11 members of a jirga, including PPP MNA Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, for handing over five minor girls to...
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Musharraf for peaceful polls, smooth transfer of power
ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said here on Wednesday that the three pillars of the state must work in harmony within their constitutional limits to ensure political stability and sustained economic growth....
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250 Iraqis die in series of suicide attacks
BAGHDAD, Aug 15: Rescuers dug through the muddy wreckage of collapsed clay houses in northwest Iraq on Wednesday, uncovering at least 250 bodies from suicide truck bombings, making it the deadliest attack since the war began....
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Gwadar port may be fully operational next month
ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: The Singapore Port Authority (SPA) which is to run the Gwadar Port has overcome its teething problems and the port is likely to be made fully operational from next month with three berths handling the arriving ships....
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Benazir wants govt action in 3 weeks
NEW YORK, Aug 15: Saying that she has staked her political future in holding talks with President Pervez Musharraf, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Wednesday asked the general to put...
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‘Safe haven will be hit, but not at cost of ties’
WASHINGTON, Aug 15: The US State Department has said that Washington will not hesitate to hit ‘high-value’ Al Qaeda targets inside another country, but will do so in a way that it does not harm America’s relations with that state....
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Opposition slams govt apathy towards flood victims
ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: The opposition in the National Assembly on Wednesday came down on the government for its alleged apathy towards the sufferers of recent rains and floods in Sindh, Balochistan and the NWFP and called for prompt and adequate relief....
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Govt claims foiling assaults in capital
ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: The Interior Ministry has claimed that it thwarted a series of suicide attacks in Islamabad and other parts of the country....
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Supreme Court orders ‘torture’ probe
KARACHI, Aug 15: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into allegations that police forced a group of prisoners in a robbery case to bite each other as if they were bears and dogs....
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SC rejects bail plea of landlord in Bheel case
ISLAMABD, Aug 15: The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected bail application of a landlord from Sindh, Abdur Rehman Marri, involved in the kidnapping of a nine-member peasant family missing since 1998....
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Militiamen must be freed unconditionally: official
PESHAWAR, Aug 15: Authorities in the restive South Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday sounded optimistic about the release of 14 Frontier Corps militiamen being held captive by a militant group....
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Veteran poet Khalid Alig passes away
KARACHI, Aug 15: Veteran poet and journalist Khalid Alig died of lung cancer in the early hours of Wednesday. He was 82....
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India celebrates Independence Day amid tight security
NEW DELHI, Aug 15: India celebrated its 60th Independence Day on Wednesday amid customary tight security, but unlike the previous year when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke of improving ties with...
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Kabul jirga: tribal chiefs threatened
KHAR, Aug 15: Tribal elders in Pakistan have been threatened with reprisals for attending last week’s talks in Kabul aimed at ending support for Al Qaeda and Taliban militants, officials said on Wednesday....
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ADB plans $12-15bn package
ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has decided to provide $12-15 billion assistance to Pakistan over the next three years to improve infrastructure and utilities, deepen governance reforms and create better investment conditions....
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US threatens to scrap India N-deal
WASHINGTON, Aug 15: The United States is threatening to scrap its nuclear cooperation deal with India if New Delhi conducts a nuclear weapons test....
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Two soldiers killed
QUETTA, Aug 15: Two army personnel were killed in an ambush at a checkpoint in Pat Feeder area, near Dera Bugti district’s Sui tehsil, on Wednesday....
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German held
BERLIN, Aug 15: A man accused of recruiting a German citizen in Pakistan for terrorism was arrested as he re-entered Germany, Munich prosecutors said on Wednesday....
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Two die in blast
SWABI, Aug 15: Two people were killed when a bomb went off in a private education centre in Turlandi, some 25 kilometres off here, on Wednesday....
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3 ‘gangsters’ killed
KARACHI, Aug 15: A key figure in the Lyari gang war and two other gangsters were killed and two people, including a police official, were injured in an exchange of fire in Kalakot on Wednesday, police and witnesses said....
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US-Afghan offensive on Tora Bora
KABUL, Aug 15: Hundreds of US and Afghan soldiers attacked Al Qaeda positions in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday as a bomb blast claimed by the Taliban killed three German nationals in the capital, officials said....
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