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| September 12, 2007 | Wednesday | Sha'aban 29, 1428 |
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Suicide attack in D.I. Khan: Two FC personnel, 2 policemen among 18 killed
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Sept 11: Eighteen people, four of them security personnel, were killed and 17 others suffered injuries when a teenaged boy detonated explosives wrapped around his body in a passenger pick-up near Bannu Chungi on Tuesday....
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‘Schedule for presidential polls soon’
ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Qazi Muhammad Farooq said on Tuesday that the schedule for election to the office of the President of Pakistan would be announced in a few days....
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Contempt petition filed in SC
ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: Piqued by his forced deportation to Saudi Arabia in exile, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his Pakistan Muslim League (N) on Tuesday filed a petition in the...
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APDM slams deportation
ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: Admitting their failure to mobilise the people and prevent the deportation of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia, leaders of the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM)...
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Lawyers up in arms
LAHORE, Sept 11: Lawyers boycotted courts across the country on Tuesday in protest against the murder of Advocate Raja Riaz in Karachi, the storming of Sindh High Court by workers of...
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Buddha images survive blasts in Swat
MINGORA, Sept 11: In a grim reminder of destruction of world famous Buddha statues in Bamiyan by the Afghan Taliban, blasts in Swat’s Buthgarh Jehanabad historical site on Tuesday damaged rocks engraved with Buddha’s images....
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‘Deportation to pave way for deal with Benazir’
NEW YORK, Sept 11: President Pervez Musharraf’s strong move against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif “would enable him to stand up to Mr Sharif’s allies in Pakistan” and go ahead with...
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Exile accord applies to whole family, says Qayyum
LAHORE, Sept 11: Will the government allow Begum Kulsoom Nawaz to return to Pakistan after deporting her husband Mian Nawaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia?...
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Indian media’s word of caution for Musharraf
NEW DELHI, Sept 11: Even as India officially declined to comment on the second exile of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, most newspapers in New Delhi on Tuesday had a word...
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No military solution in Iraq: US envoy
WASHINGTON, Sept 11: There will be no single point in time when America can claim victory in Iraq, the US envoy to Baghdad told a Senate panel on Tuesday....
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Steps approved to keep prices under control
ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: The government has conceded that slow and belated wheat release by the provincial governments has caused an unprecedented hike in flour prices ahead of Ramazan and the prime...
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Amount for Zakat deduction is Rs15,020
ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: The government on Tuesday fixed Rs15,020 as Nisab for Zakat deduction on bank deposits from the first of Ramazan....
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Quaid’s death anniversary observed
ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: The death anniversary of the father of the nation, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was observed with reverence across the country on Tuesday....
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South Africa beat Windies
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 11: South Africa defeated the West Indies by eight wickets in the opening match of the inaugural Twenty20 world championships at the Wanderers on Tuesday....
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UK, C’wealth assail action against Nawaz
LONDON, Sept 11: Reacting sharply to the deportation of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia by the government, the British government and the Commonwealth have severely criticised the action in separate statements....
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Govt denies US role in deportation
ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: Information and Broadcasting Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani has rejected as baseless reports that the United States played a part in sending former prime minister Nawaz Sharif back to...
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New round of dialogue with US begins today
ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: Pakistan and the US are all set to open the much delayed second round of their strategic dialogue here on Wednesday to consider new proposals and review bilateral cooperation in diverse fields, including energy, security, education and development....
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Opposition stays away from Saudi reception
ISLAMABAD, Sept 11: Saudi ambassador Ali Awadh Asseri threw the usual reception on his country’s national day here on Tuesday but the event was unusual too in some ways....
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