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| October 12, 2007 | Friday | Ramazan 29, 1428 |
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Road opened in N. Waziristan: 50 foreigners among militants killed: ISPR
MIRAMSHAH, Oct 11: Authorities on Thursday opened the Miramshah-Bannu road at the Esha checkpoint as a tense calm prevailed in North Waziristan after four days of heavy fighting between security forces and militants.... 
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Govt not serious about troops’ release: militants
PESHAWAR: Tribal militants have said that the government is showing little urgency in securing the release of some 280 soldiers captured by them in South Waziristan more than a month ago, according to a BBC report....
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Musharraf’s popularity at all-time low: US survey: Majority of respondents against govt-PPP deal
ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: A majority of people in Pakistan think that the country is heading in a wrong direction and the present government does not deserve to be re-elected because of its poor performance....
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Benazir rejects call to delay return
LAHORE, Oct 11: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has rejected President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s call to delay her return to Pakistan and decided to land in Karachi on Oct 18 as scheduled....
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Supreme Court asks govt to regularise ‘disappearances’
ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Thursday gave a concession to the government, allowing it to regularise the ‘disappearance’ of all the missing persons, but reiterated that the...
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NAB comments sought on Benazir’s plea
RAWALPINDI, Oct 11: Four accountability courts on Thursday issued notices to the relevant authorities following petitions filed by Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari and others seeking acquittal in 11 different cases...
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Eid today in most Gulf states
MAKKAH, Oct 11: Shawwal moon was sighted in Saudi Arabia and most of the Arab Gulf states on Thursday and Eidul Fitr will be celebrated on Friday....
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Moon sighted in Mardan village
PESHAWAR, Oct 11: Eid will be celebrated on Friday in some villages of Mardan district in the NWFP....
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Review of US policy on Pakistan urged
WASHINGTON, Oct 11: The United States needs to review its policies towards Pakistan because even $10 billion of US assistance has failed to arrest the spread of extremism in that country, says chairman of the House Armed Services Committee....
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Unicef closes seven girls’ schools
QUETTA, Oct 11: Unicef on Thursday closed its seven girl schools in Huramzai area of Pishin after receiving threats from militants....
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Ajmer shrine blast kills 3
NEW DELHI, Oct 11: A bomb explosion at the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer killed three people on Thursday and injured at least 17 during the peak hour of Iftar, officials said....
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Two soldiers, five militants killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Oct 11: Suspected Kashmiri militants lobbed hand- grenades and sprayed bullets as they forced their way into a paramilitary camp in Srinagar on Thursday, officials said....
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UK novelist wins Nobel
STOCKHOLM, Oct 11: British writer Doris Lessing on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for five decades of epic novels that have covered feminism and politics, as well as her youth in Africa....
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Muslim-Christian dialogue urged
LONDON, Oct 11: In an unprecedented open letter signed by 138 leading scholars from every sect of Islam and sent to the Pope and other Christian leaders on Thursday, the signatories...
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Militants kill six ‘criminals’ in Mohmand
GHALANAI, Oct 11: Local militants shot dead on Thursday six alleged criminals to avenge the death of their four associates killed in the Pandialai tehsil....
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MMA legislator meets Aziz
ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: MNA Qari Gul Rahman of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal met Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Thursday....
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Catch the big fish too, says SC
ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: The Supreme Court has said it would not countenance the country’s bureaucracy hooking the small fish but leaving the big ones off the hook....
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Gas cylinder blast causes panic
RAWALPINDI, Oct 11: A gas cylinder explosion at the bustling Super Market in Islamabad sent a wave of panic and fear across the city and concern among security agencies on Thursday night....
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