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| August 25, 2007 | Saturday | Sha’aban 11, 1428 |
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Suicide attacks on convoy; six soldiers killed
MIRAMSHAH, Aug 24: Cobra helicopters attacked suspected locations of militants in North Waziristan’s Qutabkhel area on Friday after two suicide attacks had been carried out on a military convoy, killing six soldiers and injuring 37 others, an army spokesman said....
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Illegal for man in uniform to seek election: Benazir
KARACHI, Aug 24: The former prime minister and self-exiled chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party, Benazir Bhutto, reiterated on Friday that her party would not accept a president in uniform and...
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Qayyum, Tarar differ on sentence remission
LAHORE, Aug 24: Attorney-General of Pakistan Justice (retd) Malik Mohammad Qayyum says the remission in sentence was conditional on Nawaz Sharif’s adherence to the exile agreement, and that President Pervez Musharraf...
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Saudi govt should be left alone, says Nawaz
LAHORE, Aug 24: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif says that Saudi Arabia should not be dragged into issues which it regards as sensitive....
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Show-cause notice issued to Afgan: Contempt of court
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The Supreme Court on Friday served a contempt of court notice on Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Sher Afgan Niazi for his outburst against its decision allowing the Sharif brothers to return to the country....
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Presidential poll
ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Justice (retd) Malik Muhammad Qayyum said on Friday that the presidential election would be held around September 15, instead of October. The election would not be delayed till October, a TV channel quoted Malik Qayyum as saying....
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PIA family silver to go for half its price
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The government has decided to go ahead with the sale of Roosevelt Hotel in New York’s upscale Manhattan district despite sustained opposition from the property’s owner, Pakistan International Airlines Investments Limited (PIAIL)....
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Two injured; rail traffic suspended
QUETTA, Aug 24: Two children were injured in two explosions here and the rail link between Quetta and rest of the country was disrupted when a portion of the main railway...
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PPP, PML-N discussing plans for leaders’ return
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: Executive committees of the People’s Party Parliamentarians and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz will hold separate meetings in the next few days to devise...
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‘PML prefers Nawaz to Benazir’
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The top leadership of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League feels more comfortable with the PML-N than the PPP and is upbeat after the Supreme Court’s judgment which could...
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Musharraf to quit army by year-end: official
WASHINGTON, Aug 24: Gen Pervez Musharraf will honour a pledge to step down as army chief shortly after presidential elections, a senior Pakistani official told the US media....
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Reconciliation efforts under way, says Durrani
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: The government has started the spadework, through discrete contacts, for a consensus of all political parties on national issues, particularly a code of conduct for the upcoming elections....
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Khar is no more PPP member: Badr
LAHORE, Aug 24: Pakistan People’s Party secretary-general Jehangir Badr says Ghulam Mustafa Khar is no more a member of the party....
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‘Repatriation of prisoners’ treaty with UK signed
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: Pakistan and the United Kingdom on Friday inked a treaty on repatriating their nationals serving prison terms in each other’s prisons....
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Talks on Wullar Barrage on 30th
NEW DELHI, Aug 24: A two-day Pakistan-India meeting on Wullar Barrage under the composite dialogue process will commence here on Aug 30....
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University teachers held in BD
DHAKA, Aug 24: Bangladesh security forces on Friday arrested four university professors who were allegedly active in protests that erupted into clashes with police and prompted a curfew in six cities, officials said....
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Aziz asks PIA to improve perfomance
ISLAMABAD, Aug 24: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has called for professionalism in the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) which continues to be mired in financial woes....
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Talal seeks travel ban on killers of Bugti
QUETTA, Aug 24: Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti, chief of his own faction of the Jamhoori Watan Party, has appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to impose a foreign travel ban on people involved in the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti....
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