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| September 10, 2007 | Monday | Sha'aban 27, 1428 |
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Stage set for tense face-off: • Islamabad airport on red alert • Over 2,000 PML-N workers held
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: A major showdown between thousands of riot police and supporters of Nawaz Sharif looked imminent on Monday as a massive security force started to block all entry points to the Islamabad airport...
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Nawaz opts for PIA flight: Arrival expected around noon
LONDON, Sept 9: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to reach Islamabad on Monday morning at 11.50am from London via Muscat, anticipating a historic welcome from his admirers and party...
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Deportation plan ready
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: The security agencies have put in place a plan to deport former prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia when they land at Islamabad airport on Monday morning, highly informed sources said....
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Law to take its course, says PM
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Sunday that the government would act according to law in the case of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif....
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Bush administration must not support one man: Nawaz
WASHINGTON, Sept 9: Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif has urged the Bush administration not to support ‘one man’ against the wishes of the people of Pakistan....
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Fazl rules out talks with Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Sept 9: The Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that there will be no dialogue with the government and struggle for the restoration...
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10 militants killed in clashes
MIRAMSHAH/KHAR, Sept 9: At least 10 militants were killed and seven security personnel were injured in night-long clashes between security forces and militants in the Shawal area of North Waziristan Agency, officials said on Sunday....
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Safi tribe, Taliban reach peace agreement
GHALANAI, Sept 9: The Safi tribe and the local Taliban on Sunday reached an agreement to stop attacks on security forces and government installations in the Mohmand Agency....
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66 Afghans arrested at Taftan
QUETTA, Sept 9: Law-enforcement agencies have arrested 66 Afghan nationals and 17 suspected Taliban from two different border areas....
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Police warning shots cut short Karzai speech
KABUL, Sept 9: Afghan President Hamid Karzai cut short an event on Sunday to mark the 2001 murder by Al Qaeda operatives of resistance hero Ahmad Shah Massoud after police opened fire to control a commotion outside the venue....
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10 Indians feared dead in flyover collapse
HYDERABAD (India), Sept 9: At least 10 people were feared killed and many more injured when a flyover collapsed in southern India, the Press Trust of India reported....
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Crackdown dampens PML-N enthusiasm: All roads to twin cities blocked
RAWALPINDI, Sept 9: Continuing police crackdown and fear of arrest has forced many Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers and leaders to stay away from the preparations being made to accord a...
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Benazir advised to return after mid-Oct
LAHORE, Sept 9: The Punjab leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party is understood to have suggested to party chairperson Benazir Bhutto to return home in the third week of October, preferably on 21st or 22nd of the next month....
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PPP will not strike deal with govt: Aitzaz
HYDERABAD, Sept 9: People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) MNA Aitzaz Ahsan has said that the army was not capable of imposing a martial law in the country as soldiers were being prevented...
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Nawaz’s deportation will amount to contempt of court: Exile agreement has no legal position: experts
LAHORE, Sept 9: Prominent constitutional expert Abid Hasan Minto said on Sunday that deportation of Nawaz Sharif on his return to Pakistan would amount to contempt of court....
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Govt will abide by verdict: AG
LAHORE, Sept 9: The government would abide by the Supreme Court verdict and allow the exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif to return to Pakistan, Attorney-General Malik Mohammad Qayyum said on Sunday....
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PPP says president must shed uniform
KARACHI, Sept 9: Pakistan People’s Party Deputy Secretary-General and Opposition Leader in the Senate Mian Raza Rabbani has said the party will never accept President General Pervez Musharraf in uniform and will oppose his re-election by the sitting assemblies....mblies....
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Heavy police deployment in Lahore
LAHORE, Sept 9: Heavy police contingents have been deployed at important places, buildings, government installations, Allama Iqbal International Airport and all entry and exit points of the city to maintain law...
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