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| August 29, 2007 | Wednesday | Sha’aban 15, 1428 |
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PPP spells out terms for backing Musharraf: ‘Doff uniform, seek election from new assemblies’
LONDON, Aug 28: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto is understood to have made it clear to the high-powered government emissaries who met her here on Monday that her party would... 
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Govt jolted by dissent in PML
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: The Musharraf government and the ruling Pakistan Muslim League appear to have been rocked by the recent show of dissent by a number of legislators, some of whom...
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18 kidnapped soldiers freed
WANA, Aug 28: Militants freed on Tuesday 18 Frontier Corps militiamen, including a senior officer, and a political tehsildar in the Sam area of the troubled South Waziristan tribal region after...
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Larger bench to hear PLF plea
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered constitution of a seven-member larger bench to hear a petition filed by the Pakistan Lawyers’ Forum (PLF) for restraining President Pervez Musharraf from getting re-elected from the present assemblies....
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India floats biggest ever tender for warplanes
NEW DELHI, Aug 28: India on Tuesday floated its biggest ever global defence tender for purchase of 126 multi-role combat aircraft, in a deal which would run up to a staggering Rs42,000 crores, approximately $10 billion....
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Gul elected Turkey president
ANKARA, Aug 28: Turkish parliament on Tuesday elected Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul as president, making him the secular republic’s first head of state with an Islamist past....
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Coalition retracts border strike claim
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: After a strong reaction from Pakistan, verbally and in writing, the coalition forces in Afghanistan on Tuesday retracted their earlier statement that Islamabad had permitted their strike in...
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Pilgrims flee Karbala as 28 die in gunbattle
KARBALA, Aug 28: Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave Karbala on Tuesday after a fierce gunbattle between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near two of the shrines....
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Petition seeks SC action against top officials: Lal Masjid-Jamia Hafsa operation
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: Wafaqul Madaris Al Arabia Pakistan on Tuesday pleaded before the Supreme Court that Gen Pervez Musharraf as army chief and other civil and military officers should be sued...
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PML-N denies talks with government
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader Ahsan Iqbal has denied reports of a meeting between PML-N leadership and government functionaries in London. He termed the reports part of a disinformation campaign launched by the government....
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Bush accuses Iran of backing militants
RENO (USA), Aug 28: The US president said on Tuesday that Iran end any support for militants in Iraq “at once” and raised the spectre of a “nuclear holocaust” in the Middle East if Tehran gets atomic weapons....
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Coalition claims killing over 100 Taliban
KABUL, Aug 28: US-led and Afghan troops battled suspected Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, calling in air strikes, leaving over 100 insurgents dead and three coalition soldiers wounded, a coalition statement said....
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Soldier among 4 hurt in clash
MIRAMSHAH, Aug 28: One soldier and three tribesmen were injured in a clash between security forces and militants near Miramshah on Tuesday morning....
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Plan for govt doctors shelved
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: The federal cabinet has shelved a plan for institution-based private practice of doctors in government hospitals owing to an expected adverse reaction from the country’s doctors’ community ahead of elections, it is learnt....
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Talks aimed at averting martial law: Fahim
LAHORE, Aug 28: The PPP is holding talks with the emissaries of President Gen Musharraf to avert another martial law and abrogation of the Constitution, party president Makhdoom Amin Fahim says....
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PPP talks with govt ‘treason’, says Imran
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan on Tuesday criticised Pakistan People’s Party for holding negotiations with President Gen Pervez Musharraf. He said the PPP’s move was against all democratic norms....
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Govt to seek $16bn from foreign banks: Dam, power projects
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: The government plans to borrow $16 billion from international banks to build Bhasha and Kalabagh dams and the Neelum-Jhelum hydroelectric power project....
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Govt claims busting terrorist network
ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: The government on Tuesday claimed to have busted a network of terrorists linked to suicide attacks on lawyers’ convention and Aabpara market in Islamabad....
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