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| August 22, 2007 | Wednesday | Sha’aban 8, 1428 |
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Two on list of ‘missing persons’ released
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: Two people, till now on the list of ‘missing persons’ and about whom the authorities had been giving vague statements, were released on Tuesday on a Supreme Court order....
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Jirga decisions will be implemented: president ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday said that Pakistan would take all possible follow-up steps to implement the decisions taken at the Pak-Afghan Joint Peace Jirga held recently in Kabul....
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Govt claims foiling Aug 14 terror plot
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: The government claimed on Tuesday to have foiled a terrorist plan to disrupt Independence Day celebrations and busted a gang of radicals involved in two suicide attacks that claimed 33 lives in the capital last month....
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Celebrated novelist Qurratulain Hyder dead
NEW DELHI, Aug 21: Celebrated Urdu novelist Qurratulain Hyder, 80, died here on Tuesday following complications from an old breathing problem. A throng of grieving admirers laid her to rest at...
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Shares tumble at KSE
KARACHI, Aug 21: Investors at the Karachi Stock Exchange dumped shares on Tuesday, pulling KSE-100 index down by 4 per cent, mainly on the scare of “something” sinister that might happen on the political front....
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Minister blasts pro-US foreign policy
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Sher Afgan Niazi on Tuesday stunned both the treasury and opposition senators when he roundly criticised the foreign policy, describing it as...
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Mushahid in NY for talks with PPP leaders
NEW YORK, Aug 21: Secretary-General of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Senator Mushahid Hussain has arrived in New York, fuelling speculations that talks between the leaders of Pakistan People’s Party and...
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Shujaat says ready to be led by Fazl
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvaiz Elahi on Tuesday held a 25-minute meeting with Leader of the Opposition in the National...
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‘PML ready for talks on poll alliance’
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League was ready to talk to any political party or politician for an alliance in the upcoming general elections, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, federal Minister for Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis, said here on Tuesday....
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Two blasts rock Quetta
QUETTA, Aug 21: A powerful explosion shook a residential colony in the Brewery Road area here on Tuesday night, police said....
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Musharraf lays stress on stability for progress
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday called for maintaining a stable political environment for continuity and sustainability of development policies pursued by the government....
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EU promises ‘reward’ for fair polls
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: The European Union (EU) plans to increase its economic assistance three-fold after Pakistan’s transition to full democracy through the upcoming general elections, the EU ambassador in Islamabad told Dawn on Tuesday....
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Turkish PM says army should stay out of politics
ANKARA, Aug 21: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned the influential army to keep out of politics, following the start of a presidential election that a former Islamist is set to win, Anatolia news agency reported on Tuesday....
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Group of Indian Muslims visiting Israel attacked
NEW DELHI, Aug 21: A mysterious delegation of Indian Muslims, invited on a rare visit to Israel, was apparently attacked with rockets by the Hamas group in the Gaza Strip, Press Trust of India said on Tuesday....
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Official fined for delay in filing comments on NA-207
LARKANA, Aug 21: The Sindh High Court’s circuit bench on Tuesday fined the provincial secretary of the Board of Revenue Rs10,000 for delay in filing comments on the rationale behind the...
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Japan minister heads to Pakistan
TOKYO, Aug 21: Japan’s defence minister headed on Tuesday to Pakistan for talks on Tokyo’s role in the “war on terror,” which has come under criticism at home....
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Leaders in Quetta for opposition meeting
QUETTA, Aug 21: Leaders of the All-Parties Democratic Movement have started arriving here for the public meeting to be held here on Wednesday. They were warmly received at the airport by the local APDM leadership....
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Dhaka pulls troops out of campus after clashes
DHAKA, Aug 21: The Bangladesh government ordered soldiers to leave a university campus on Tuesday, after two days of clashes between student protesters and police left more than 150 injured, officials and news reports said....
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Four Pakistanis convicted in US
NEW YORK, Aug 21: Four men of Pakistani origin were convicted on Monday by a New York State Supreme Court for breaking into a house and attacking the owner last August...
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Court acquits three men charged in prison mutiny case
PESHAWAR, Aug 21: A local court on Tuesday acquitted three men charged in the Peshawar central prison mutiny case about seven years ago in which more than a dozen prisoners and...
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