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| September 11, 2007 | Tuesday | Sha'aban 28, 1428 |
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 Force and guile behind new exile
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: In a display of power and wiles, the government on Monday managed to send former prime minister Nawaz Sharif back to exile in Saudi Arabia with an unexpected... 
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Nawaz moves to ‘Sharif Palace’
JEDDAH, Sept 10: A number of Saudi officials, understood to be from the protocol department, received former primer minister Nawaz Sharif who landed at the Royal Terminal here on Monday on...
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From London to Jeddah via Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: “I am happy to be back in my country,” said Nawaz Sharif after he stepped for the first time onto the tarmac of the Islamabad airport....
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He was given a choice: Shujaat
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: Ruling Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Monday that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was given a choice between going back to Saudi Arabia and...
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MQM workers mass at SHC during May 12 hearing
KARACHI, Sept 10: The Sindh High Court adjourned on Monday the suo motu inquiry into May 12 events for a week because of a massive gathering of workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement....
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Institutions have failed to help the aggrieved: CJ
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Monday observed that the Supreme Court would continue to play its role as it could not sit idle when institutions failed to give succour to the aggrieved party.Addressing...
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Benazir plans October return
LONDON, Sept 10: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto aims to return from exile in October to contest national elections, a spokesman said on Monday.“Ms Bhutto has decided to travel to Pakistan,” spokesman Wajid Hassan told Reuters Television in an interview....
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Contempt petition
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: PML-N leader Khawaja Mohammad Asif on Monday filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking its direction to produce and prevent deportation of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif...
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Flight change blamed for poor turnout: APDM calls for protests today
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: It was the first real opportunity in years for the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) to demonstrate its street power, but despite tall claims by its leaders about bringing...
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Lawyers to observe strike today
 ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: The National Action Committee (NAC) of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) and the Supreme Court Bar Association on Monday called for a countrywide lawyers’ strike on Tuesday to...
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Baitullah aide’s death sparks clashes
WANA/TANK, Sept 10: Supporters of Baitullah Mehsud clashed with security froces in the Makin area of South Waziristan on Monday soon after four militants were killed in the area.Sources...
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Taliban ‘ready for talks’
KANDAHAR, Sept 10: The Taliban said on Monday they were ready for talks with the Afghan government after President Hamid Karzai offered negotiations in a bid to end the rebels’ nearly six-year bloody insurgency.Mr...
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Plan was decided during meeting with prince
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who was deported to Saudi Arabia in a dramatic turn of events on Monday, will be made to fulfil all requirements of the...
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FO distances itself from deportation of Nawaz
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: The Foreign Office on Monday distanced itself from the controversial episode of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s forced exile to Saudi Arabia and declared that it had no role in the matter.“Well,...
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US denies role in exile arrangement
WASHINGTON, Sept 10: The United States has strongly reacted to Islamabad’s decision to deport former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, calling it a violation of an earlier order of the Supreme Court, which forbade the government from doing so.“The...
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Kulsoom plans to return on 20th
LAHORE, Sept 10: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif knew two days before his departure from London to Islamabad that he would be deported immediately after his arrival in Pakistan, a London-based PML-N leader told Dawn on Monday on condition of anonymity....
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Pro-Nawaz sentiments echo on police radio
RAWALPINDI, Sept 10: Even policemen could not help but shout “Nawaz Sharif Zindabad” slogans on knowing that the exiled former prime minister’s plane had landed at Islamabad airport Monday morning, Dawn has learnt....
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NAB issued arrest warrant before exile
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday issued an arrest warrant of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif before he was sent on exile, government sources said....
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