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| September 28, 2007 | Friday | Ramazan 15, 1428 |
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‘Disqualification clause doesn’t hit Musharraf’
ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: Aitzaz Ahsan and Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, appointed amici curiae by the Supreme Court in the petitions challenging President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s eligibility for the Oct 6 election, made their submissions on Thursday.... 
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Top PML-N leaders among 200 freed
ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: The government on Thursday released over 200 political leaders and activists, including top Pakistan Muslim League (N) leaders, who had been rounded up from different parts of the...
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Presidential race: 43 candidates file papers
ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: The controversial process for the election of the country’s next president kicked off on Thursday with 43 people from diversified background filing 71 nomination papers....
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Fazl accepts APDM’s resignation plan
PESHAWAR, Sept 27: The All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) on Thursday announced that all its legislators would resign en bloc from the National and provincial assemblies on Oct 2....
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‘Gujrat ballot cycle’ plot alleged
ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: Chief Election Commissioner Qazi Mohammad Farooq on Thursday turned down requests of presidential candidates Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmed and Makhdoom Amin Fahim to provide them copies of nomination papers of President Pervez Musharraf....
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Govt given time enough to pre-empt dissolution
PESHAWAR, Sept 27: The cat is out of the bag, sooner than the JUI (F) leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman would have liked. The October 2 date set for the MMA to...
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Opposition in NWFP assembly planning no-confidence move ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: The combined opposition in the NWFP assembly on Thursday announced that it would resist the dissolution of provincial assembly by using all options, including moving a no-confidence motion or going to the court....
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Threat to besiege assembly on Oct 6
PESHAWAR, Sept 27: Frontier Lawyers urged MMA leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman and NWFP Chief Minister Akram Durrani on Thursday to dissolve the provincial assembly and warned that they would besiege the...
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People judge judges from judgments: CJ
ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has observed that the public scrutinises judges from their decisions and they are before public eyes at all times....
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Minister defends blockade
ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Durrani said on Thursday that no-one could be allowed to take the law into his own hands and the government...
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Pakistan, Russia ‘vulnerable to N-theft’
WASHINGTON, Sept 27: A new report by a prestigious Washington think-tank claims that Pakistan and Russia are the most vulnerable to nuclear theft, increasing the possibility of additional pressure on Islamabad to open its facilities for international inspection....
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‘Introduction’ not required for opening bank account
KARACHI, Sept 27: The State Bank of Pakistan on Thursday removed the condition of obtaining a reference or introduction for opening a bank account The SBP has amended the Prudential Regulations...
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Japanese among nine dead in Yangon
YANGON, Sept 27: Security forces swept through Myanmar’s main city on Thursday, killing nine people including a Japanese journalist, and arresting hundreds more in a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests....
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Four ICRC workers kidnapped
KABUL, Sept 27: Four Red Cross staffers, two of them foreigners, were kidnapped near the Afghan capital while two Danish soldiers were killed in an attack by Taliban....
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Singh gives grant to kin of held fishermen
NEW DELHI, Sept 27: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has granted a one-time payment of Rs300,000 to the next of kin of each fisherman being held captive in Pakistan, an official announcement said on Thursday....
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Salvation Army official killed
LAHORE, Sept 27: A top official of the Pakistan Salvation Army was shot dead allegedly by his subordinate on Thursday evening....
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Declassification of Indian war records sought
NEW DELHI, Sept 27: Indian Army Chief General J.J. Singh has sought de-classification of records of 1965, 1971 and 1962 wars “so that soldiers and others could draw lessons from these conflicts”....
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Japan urged to extend naval mission
TOKYO, Sept 27: Envoys from 11 countries, including the United States and Pakistan urged Tokyo on Thursday to extend its naval mission in support of US-led operations in Afghanistan, the latest...
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