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| September 19, 2007 | Wednesday | Ramazan 06, 1428 |
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Musharraf to hang up uniform…if re-elected
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: In a significant move, President Gen Pervez Musharraf through his counsel declared before the Supreme Court on Tuesday that he would step down as army chief if he... 
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Mutilated bodies of 15 soldiers brought to Miramshah
MIRAMSHAH, Sept 18: Bodies of 15 soldiers who had gone missing during recent clashes with militants in the Shawal area of the North Waziristan Agency were brought to Miramshah on Tuesday....
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It’s a political response to a legal challenge
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: President Pervez Musharraf seemed to have given a political response to a legal challenge to his power when he promised to the Supreme Court on Tuesday to give...
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Uniform issue internal matter: White House
WASHINGTON, Sept 18: The Bush administration on Tuesday refused to take any position on whether President Pervez Musharraf should quit the military before or after his re-election, although in previous statements...
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DawnNews reporter kidnapped, released
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: A DawnNews TV reporter, who had covered the recent suicide attack on SSG commandos in Tarbela, was kidnapped from outside his residence in Rawalpindi on Saturday and released...
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Mangla dam reservoir slowly ‘dying’: Water, power crisis looms
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: The Mangla Dam’s reservoir is slowly ‘dying’ due to sedimentation, posing a serious threat to land and water resources in the Indus plain, one of the largest irrigation systems in the world, it is learnt....
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‘Military to resist move to end its control over govt’
WASHINGTON, Sept 18: The military may counter any move that prevents President Gen Pervez Musharraf from seeking re-election by imposing martial law, warns I. A. Rahman, a leading Pakistani intellectual....
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Nawaz to return soon, lead party in polls: Shahbaz
LONDON, Sept 18: PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif announced here on Tuesday that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif would soon return to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia and lead his party in the forthcoming general election....
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C’wealth chief due today
LONDON, Sept 18: Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon will pay a three-day visit to Islamabad at the invitation of the Pakistan government from Wednesday, Commonwealth Secretariat has announced....
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Wheat crop estimates lowered to 22.2m tons
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: In the wake of the government’s inability to check the continued surge in flour prices, its agencies have started to confirm that the earlier wheat crop estimates were...
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Trekkers going to Siachen stopped in Mumbai
NEW DELHI, Sept 18: Indian trekkers heading for Siachen were turned back from Mumbai airport after the Defence Ministry halted the expedition, apparently in response to Pakistan’s protest, The Indian Express said on Tuesday....
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Oil prices hit record high, exceed $81
LONDON, Sept 18: The price of New York crude surged to a new high of $81.80 a barrel on Tuesday ahead of a US interest rate call and as traders fretted over tight energy supplies in the United States....
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MMA yet to decide on assembly dissolution issue: Qazi
PESHAWAR, Sept 18: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has not taken a final decision regarding dissolution of the NWFP Assembly but it may use the option....
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Benazir due in US on 26th, Zardari moving to Dubai
NEW YORK, Sept 18: PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto is expected to arrive in Washington around Sept 26 while her husband Asif Ali Zardari would leave New York later this month to live in Dubai, informed sources told Dawn on Tuesday....
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Pakistan urges members to avoid confrontation: UNSC reform UNITED NATIONS, Sept 18: Pakistan on Monday called upon all member states to avoid confrontation on all issues relevant to the reform of the 15-member UN Security Council if further concrete...
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Indian troops kill nine Kashmiris
SRINAGAR, Sept 18: Indian troops killed nine militants in occupied Kashmir, the army and police said on Tuesday....
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India, Pakistan among major drug producers, says report
WASHINGTON, Sept 18: India and Pakistan are among the 20 major drug producing countries listed in a US report, which also lists Afghanistan and Columbia as the world’s top producers of narcotics....
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An exhilarating comeback
PAKISTAN’s convincing victory over Australia at Johannesburg on Tuesday, coming after a year of unfailingly bad cricket news, and in the middle of uncertain political times, has triggered a feel-good wave that has rippledacross the country....
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Kabul rejects preconditions for talks
KABUL, Sept 18: The Afghan government strongly rejected on Tuesday any conditions for peace talks with the Taliban after the militants demanded the withdrawal of Western troops as a prerequisite for dialogue....
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Senate body expresses anger over price hike
ISLAMABAD, Sept 18: The chairman of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Interior, Senator Muhammad Talha Mehmood, has expressed concern over skyrocketing prices of kitchen items that greeted Ramazan....
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