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| August 30, 2007 | Thursday | Sha'aban 16, 1428 |
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Differences over key issues delaying deal: Benazir seeks ‘upfront gesture of reciprocity’
LONDON, Aug 29: Negotiations between Gen Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto are understood to have met a seemingly un-surmountable hurdle in what is said to be adamant insistence of the former that... 
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Alternative plan ready: Rashid
ISLAMABAD: Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Wednesday said that an alternative plan was ready in case a deal with the Pakistan Peoples Party chairperson did not get through....
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Guarantor has ‘asked Nawaz to honour commitment’
PIND DADAN KHAN, Aug 29: President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had been asked by an ‘eminent personality’, who is a friend of Pakistan, to...
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Sharifs likely to land on Sept 8
LONDON, Aug 29: The PML-N central executive committee which met here on Wednesday with former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in chair has decided that the party’s exiled leaders would return home...
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SC admits Qazi’s petition
ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside orders of its registrar to return a petition of Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain challenging President Pervez Musharraf’s tenure as army chief and ordered regular hearing of the case....
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MQM chief urges amnesty also for party workers
LONDON, Aug. 29: Tariq Aziz, secretary-general of the National Security Council (NSC), called on MQM leader Altaf Hussain at the Edgware offices of the party on Wednesday to brief him on...
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‘US watching but not participating’
WASHINGTON, Aug 29: The US State Department said on Wednesday that American officials had discussed the government-opposition contacts with some folks in Pakistan and expect to hear more from the parties involved....
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Reshuffle in bureaucracy
ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: In a fresh pre-election reshuffle in the bureaucracy, the Establishment Division here on Wednesday promoted and/or transferred seven senior officers, including the NWFP chief secretary and an additional secretary in the prime minister secretariat....
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Taliban release 12 Korean hostages
GHAZNI, Aug 29: Taliban freed 12 South Korean hostages in Afghanistan on Wednesday, a day after reaching a deal with Korean and Indonesian negotiators on the release of the 19 Christian volunteers....
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3 troops hurt in rocket attack
MIRAMSHAH, Aug 29: Three soldiers suffered injuries when a rocket fired by suspected militants hit a paramilitary base near Miramshah in the North Waziristan Agency on Wednesday, officials said....
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New move to check rise in flour price
ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: The government on Wednesday banned export of wheat flour, maida, suji and baisan through sea and rail routes with immediate effect and provided a list of hoarders to...
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Asylum seekers held in Austria
VIENNA, Aug 29: Austrian police said on Wednesday that they had dismantled a group that apparently smuggled some 250 Indians and Pakistanis from Slovakia to Italy via Austria....
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Taj Mahal closed after riots
AGRA, Aug 29: The world-famous Taj Mahal was closed to tourists on Wednesday after officials in the Indian city of Agra imposed a curfew following riots that left one person dead and 50 injured....
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India levels fresh allegations
NEW DELHI, Aug 29: Pakistan’s diplomatic missions in several countries have been indulging in anti-India propaganda and facilitating terrorists, Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told parliament on Wednesday....
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Iranian smuggler killed
QUETTA, Aug 29: An Iranian smuggler was killed in an encounter with Frontier Corps personnel in the Mashkal area on Wednesday. Officials said the FC personnel tried to intercept some suspects...
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250,000 flood-affected people need help: UN
RAWALPINDI, Aug 29: The humanitarian situation in Balochistan and Sindh remains critical for an estimated 250,000 displaced people, two months after a cyclone hit the southern part of the country, says a new UN report....
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Time for Musharraf to make deal: Post
WASHINGTON, Aug 29: A compromise between President Pervez Musharraf and former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif may offer the best chance to check extremism and mounting instability in Pakistan,...
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Hearing in Lal Masjid cases deferred
RAWALPINDI, Aug 29: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Wednesday deferred hearing in cases related to Lal Masjid issue until September 11 as the lawyer of Maulana Abdul Aziz did not turn up in the court....
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