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| September 16, 2007 | Sunday | Ramazan 03, 1428 |
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Musharraf asks PML to hold talks with PPP : Papers for re-election to be filed after SC ruling
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvaiz Elahi and party secretary-general Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Saturday discussed with President Pervez Musharraf issues relating to power-sharing talks with Benazir Bhutto and the president’s re-election.... 
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President’s aide meets CJ; judges appointed
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Friday established his first contact with the presidency since being restored in office on July 20 when he called in the President’s Chief of Staff Hamid Javed to discuss judicial matters....
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1m tons of wheat to be imported
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: The government has decided to import one million tonnes of wheat to make a reasonable buffer stock in order to meet any shortages in future.During...
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SC to hear request for full court
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: A nine-member Supreme Court bench constituted by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to hear petitions against holding of two offices by President Pervez Musharraf, will also hear the...
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Wafaqul Madaris VP shot dead
PESHAWAR, Sept 15: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a prominent religious scholar in a busy Peshawar area on Saturday. Maulana Hassan Jan, a leader of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl group) and vice-president...
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Pact signed with tribe
GHALANAI, Sept 15: The Mohmand Agency political administration and Safi tribesmen on Saturday signed a formal agreement to restore lasting peace in the agency.According to the agreement, which was signed at...
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Musharraf urges US to show ‘understanding’: Anti-terror war discussed with congressional team
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: President Pervez Musharraf told a visiting US Congressional delegation on Saturday that the US must avoid negative elements as proposed in the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations which placed conditions for cooperation with Pakistan....
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Benazir to get different treatment: US
WASHINGTON, Sept 15: The United Sates has said that it does not expect Benazir Bhutto to receive the same treatment meted out to Nawaz Sharif when he attempted to return to Pakistan earlier this month....
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Blast case registered
HARIPUR, Sept 15: The FIR of Thursday’s suicide attack on a Special Services Group mess at Tarbela Dam was registered by Ghazi police station on Saturday.Ghazi...
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Is this the endgame?
THIS Monday marks the beginning of what can best be described as the ‘endgame’. The following couple of weeks, if not the next few days, are likely to see a chain...
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Saarc fund to be made operational
NEW DELHI, Sept 15: The member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) have agreed to expedite efforts to make the regional Development Fund operational through urgent finalisation of its agreement....
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Six Taliban linked to abduction killed
GHAZNI, Sept 15: Afghan and US-led troops on Friday raided the hideout of a Taliban commander linked to the July abduction of 23 South Koreans, killing six militants, police said....
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S. Africa win
SOUTH Africa beat Bangladesh by seven wickets in their World Twenty20 match at Newlands on Saturday....
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Treatment of minorities needs improvement, says US
WASHINGTON, Sept 15: Pakistan has taken some steps to improve the treatment of religious minorities in the country, but serious problems remained, observes the US State Department....
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Pakistanis in UK hold anti-Saudi protest
LONDON, Sept 15: A group of around 50 Pakistanis and Britons of Pakistan origin demonstrated for two hours here on Saturday near the Saudi embassy against what they called Riyadh’s...
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PIA hotel: Senator’s rejoinder
ISLAMABAD, Sept 15: Apropos a news item which appeared in Saturday’s Dawn titled ‘Sale of profitable PIA hotel in New York opposed’, Senator Syed Dilawar Abbas has clarified that he had...
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School damaged in bomb attack
BANNU, Sept 15: An explosive device partially damaged a missionary public school here on Friday night, residents and officials said.The bomb was planted outside the John Basco Public School in the...
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2 women killed
SWABI, Sept 15: A woman who had turned down a jirga request to pardon her husband’s killers was shot dead on Saturday along with her sister in the Shahmansoor village.Ms...
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