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| September 29, 2007 | Saturday | Ramazan 16, 1428 |
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The day of the General: •Musharraf to run for president in uniform •Petitioners, lawyers’ leaders livid
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed on technical grounds petitions against Gen Pervez Musharraf holding two offices, giving a legal boost to the president to contest the election for the second term in uniform....
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Verdict disappointing, say opposition parties
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Leaders of major opposition parties described the Friday’s Supreme Court verdict in favour of President Pervez Musharraf as ‘disappointing’ but said the question of his eligibility to contest the October 6 presidential election was still open....
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Wajih takes re-election case to CEC
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Presidential candidate Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmad has challenged before the chief election commissioner (CEC) the nomination papers of General Pervez Musharraf seeking re-election for another term as president under different clauses of the Constitution....
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MQM advises president to contest without uniform
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Terming the Supreme Court’s verdict in favour of the president ‘historic’, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, a partner in the ruling coalition, on Friday urged Gen Pervez Musharraf to doff his uniform before the Oct 6 presidential election....
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Musharraf not out of woods yet: Benazir
WASHINGTON, Sept 28: President Pervez Musharraf is not out of the woods yet and the real challenge to him will come after the scrutiny of his nomination papers, says former prime minister Benazir Bhutto....
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‘President respects ruling’
The spokesman for the President, Maj-Gen (retd) Rashid Qureshi on Friday said the President respects and honours the judgment of the Supreme Court....
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Nomination papers’ scrutiny today
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: The Election Commission is to scrutinise nomination papers of presidential candidates on Saturday amid tight security and in the background of threat of protests by the lawyers’ community....
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Ruling seems recipe for more battles
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: What came as a rare good news for General Pervez Musharraf in his most difficult times, the Supreme Court ruling on Friday dismissing challenges to his dual position...
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Verdict based on constitution, says US
WASHINGTON, Sept 28: The United States said on Friday that the Supreme Court’s decision to allow President Gen Pervez Musharraf to continue to hold two offices is based on the Constitution and the existing laws of Pakistan....
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Two lawmakers not to resign
SWABI, Sept 28: MNA Maulana Khalil Ahmad, chief of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Haqiqi), and MPA Dr Mohammad Salim of the Swabi Qaumi Mahaz on Friday said they would not follow the All Parties Democratic Movement’s decision to resign from assemblies....
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Deportation: senior officials summoned
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Annoyed by government’s defiance of its earlier decision, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the national airlines and the aviation regulators to explain on whose orders former prime...
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Indian army sees early Kashmir troop cut
NEW DELHI, Sept 28: Indian Army Chief Gen J.J. Singh sees the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir as ripe for an early withdrawal of troops from civilian areas, Press Trust of India said on Friday....
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‘Benazir may import bullet-proof vehicle’
KARACHI, Sept 28: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has been allowed to import a bullet-proof vehicle for travel in Pakistan, Deputy Attorney-General Rizwan A. Siddiqui informed the Sindh High Court...
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Spy drone crashes near Miramshah
MIRAMSHAH, Sept 28: An unmanned surveillance plane crashed on Friday in Land Momedkhel area of North Waziristan....
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SHC seeks findings of Multan crash
KARACHI, Sept 28: Justice Nadeem Azhar Siddiqui of the Sindh High Court has ordered the secretary of the ministry of defence to place in the court the findings of inquiry into Multan Fokker crash in sealed cover....
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‘Bhagat’s books rotting in Lahore’
NEW DELHI, Sept 28: Scores of books belonging to the great revolutionary Bhagat Singh that were confiscated and used as evidence to award capital punishment to the freedom fighter in the...
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Soldier killed in bomb attack
PESHAWAR, Sept 28: A bomb blew up as a convoy of security forces was passing near the town of Tank on Friday killing one member of the force and wounding 19, police said....
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3 PHC judges appointed
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has appointed three additional judges of the Peshawar High Court as regular judges of the court....
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PIA lays off 22 senior employees
NEW YORK, Sept 28: Pakistan Airlines laid off on Thursday 22 employees working in its offices in New York and Chicago in what the PIA management said was an effort to downsize the airline which was losing money....
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Negotiators in contact with kidnappers
GHAZNI, Sept 28: Afghan negotiators worked on Friday to secure the release of four Red Cross workers, two of them foreigners, who were captured during a mission to free a German kidnapped by Taliban....
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Ahmadinejad joins hands with Chavez
CARACAS, Sept 28: The leaders of Iran and Venezuela on Thursday cemented an alliance aimed at countering the United States while the Iranian president reached out to a new ally in Bolivia and declared that together, “no one can defeat us”....
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Crowds taunt troops in Myanmar
YANGON, Sept 28: Crowds taunted soldiers and police who barricaded central Yangon on Friday to prevent more mass protests against Myanmar’s 45 years of military rule and deepening economic hardship....
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Ukraine braces for election
KIEV, Sept 28: Ukraine’s main parties staged final rallies on Friday ahead of parliamentary elections on Sunday pitting the victors of the ‘Orange Revolution’ in a tight race against their pro-Russian rivals....
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Bush, Brown criticise crackdown
WASHINGTON, Sept 28: US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown led renewed calls on Friday for the Myanmar junta to end its violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters....
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