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| August 23, 2007 | Thursday | Sha’aban 9, 1428 |
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Govt submits copy of ‘exile agreement’
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The government on Wednesday presented in the Supreme Court photocopies of an agreement it said the Sharif brothers had signed with a ‘friendly country’, preferring a 10-year exile to a jail term in Pakistan.... 
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Shahbaz says accord signed at gunpoint
LONDON, Aug 22: PML-N President Mian Shahbaz Sharif has reiterated his earlier claim and that of his brother former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that the two did not leave the country...
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Benazir unveils details of deal with Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Former premier Benazir Bhutto has detailed for the first time a plan to keep President Gen Pervez Musharraf in office under a power-sharing deal she said would strengthen the fight against terrorism....
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Lawyers move court against Musharraf’s re-election
LAHORE, Aug 22: The Pakistan Lawyers Forum (PLF) on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court to restrain President Gen Pervez Musharraf from getting himself re-elected “because he suffers from inherent pre-election disqualification”....
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Musharraf’s re-election to be blocked, says Fazl
QUETTA, Aug 22: The supreme council of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal announced on Wednesday that the alliance would work out a plan in consultation with parties in the All Parties Democratic Movement...
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APDM says it won’t accept Musharraf as president
QUETTA, Aug 22: The All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) adopted a resolution at a public meeting here on Wednesday, saying that it would never accept Gen Pervez Musharraf as president, either in uniform or without it....
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Pakistan can’t afford to antagonise US: Kasuri
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri said in Senate that Pakistan could not afford to make the United States its enemy, but said that the country had never compromised...
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SC moved for early decision on Sanad case
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: An application was moved in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, seeking an early decision on a petition challenging ‘Sanads’ (seminary degrees) of 68 Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal members of parliament and provincial assemblies....
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Local Taliban kill four paramilitary personnel
BANNU/MIRAMSHAH, Aug 22: Local Taliban militants killed four paramilitary soldiers in two rocket attacks on a checkpoint and an army camp in the volatile tribal zone, officials and witnesses said....
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16 injured in grenade attacks
QUETTA, Aug 22: At least 16 people, including two women, were injured in two grenade attacks here on Wednesday. In the first attack, six people in a barber shop were injured...
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Gas supply to Mastung, Kalat disrupted
QUETTA, Aug 22: Gas supply to Mastung and Kalat districts was disrupted after a pipeline was blown up on Wednesday night....
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No extension in assemblies’ tenure: Shujaat
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: There is no proposal under consideration to extend the assemblies’ tenure and President Pervez Musharraf is not considering the option of imposing martial law, according to president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain....
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Japan wants Pakistan to sign NPT: minister
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Japanese Defence Minister Yuriko Koike on Wednesday said Japan wanted to strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) internationally....
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Report blames top CIA men for failure to prevent 9/11 attacks
WASHINGTON, Aug 22: The CIA never developed an overall strategy for confronting Al Qaeda nor made an effective use of US intelligence resources to combat the terrorist threat from Al Qaeda...
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Curfew in six Bangladesh cities after student unrest
DHAKA, Aug 22: The government of Bangladesh has imposed curfew in six cities, including Dhaka, and closed all universities....
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Ramazan package approved
ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The federal cabinet on Wednesday approved the Ramazan package to be implemented through the Utility Stores outlets in the country....
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Nine killed in Hangu
HANGU, Aug 22: Nine people were killed and 12 others injured when two groups exchanged fire during a jirga in the Zargari village here on Wednesday....
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2 killed in clash in AJK
MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 22: Two people were killed and two others were injured in an armed clash between two groups in the southern Kotli district of Azad Kashmir on Wednesday evening....
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