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| September 04, 2007 | Tuesday | Sha'aban 21, 1428 |
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Govt yielding to pressure; 100 tribesmen freed: Troops held hostage number about 300
PESHAWAR/TANK, Sept 3: Militants holding hundreds of soldiers hostage have demanded withdrawal of forces from the restive South Waziristan tribal region and release of 15 alleged would-be suicide bombers in government custody, an official told Dawn.... 
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Sherpao hopeful
ISLAMABAD: A power-sharing deal between President General Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto will materialise before Sept 14, and she may return before the presidential election, says Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao....
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Govt’s last-ditch effort for deal with PPP: Talks likely in Dubai today
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto and two close aides of President Pervez Musharraf reached Dubai on Monday to make what is being termed here a last-ditch effort...
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MMA rejects move to bail out Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has taken notice of reports about its secretary general Maulana Fazlur Rahman being in contact with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League and unanimously decided that...
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SC rejects Bijarani’s plea for bail
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected two requests for bail before arrest, one of them filed by PPP MNA Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani who is charged with playing...
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Ex-minister not arrested
ISLAMABAD: Former minister of state for defence Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani was not arrested on Monday even after the Supreme Court had rejected his bail before arrest plea....
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Organs trade ordinance issued
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: The 15-year-long wait for a law for curbing the thriving kidney trade and regulating the transplantation of human organs came to an end on Monday when the government promulgated the Transplantation of Human and Tissues Ordinance 2007....
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Married woman ‘sold’ for Rs120,000
PESHAWAR, Sept 3: Mr Justice Jehanzeb Raheem of Peshawar High Court on Monday denied bail to a man charged with selling his married sister to another man, and observed that the accused did not deserve any leniency....
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Khaleda Zia charged with graft, sent to jail
DHAKA, Sept 3: Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia and her son Arafat Rahman were arrested on Monday on charges of corruption and abuse of power during her term in office between 1996 and 2001....
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Sabakzai Dam in Zhob inaugurated: Musharraf urges people to combat militants
QUETTA, Sept 3: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has urged the people of Balochistan to resist militants who were opposing development in the province and hindering the country’s progress....
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Speculations about safety of N-assets rejected
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3: Pakistan on Monday dismissed all international concerns about the security of its nuclear weapons and reiterated that the highest-level of institutionalised protection was accorded to the country’s strategic assets....
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Bush hints at reducing troops in Iraq
AL-ASAD AIR BASE (Iraq), Sept 3: President George W. Bush said during a surprise visit to Iraq on Monday that a reduction in US troops in the war-ravaged nation was possible, as he prepared for a showdown with Congress....
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Woman dies as militants, security forces trade fire
MIRAMSHAH, Sept 3: Clashes between local Taliban militants and security forces on Monday left a woman dead, while another woman and her three children were injured when a mortar shell hit...
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3 kidnapped in N. Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH, Sept 3: Three people — including a professor and an accountant of the Cadet College, Razmak — were kidnapped in the Assadkhel area of Dosali tehsil in North Waziristan Agency on Monday, officials and residents said....
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Eight killed as coach overturns
QUETTA, Sept 3: At least eight people were killed and 30 others injured, four of them seriously, when a coach overturned near the Zero Point on the Coastal Highway on Monday....
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‘Pollution causing 50,000 deaths, Rs356bn loss a year’
LAHORE, Sept 3: Environmental pollution causes deaths of over 50,000 people, most of them poor, and costs the country at least six per cent of its GDP (around Rs356 billion), says a World Bank report released here on Monday....
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IAEA chief warns Iran
BERLIN, Sept 3: If Iran fails to resolve its nuclear dispute by the end of the year, it may be passing by its last chance to do so, the UN atomic energy agency head said in an interview on Monday....
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Power supply to Kohlu area suspended
QUETTA, Sept 3: Electricity supply to large parts of the Mawind town in Kohlu was suspended after a power pylon was blown up on Monday. Another explosion rocked the town of Mastung....
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