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| October 14, 2007 | Sunday | Shawwal 1, 1428 |
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Poll strategy discussed
ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and PML secretary-general Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Saturday discussed the ruling party’s strategy for the next general elections.... 
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Four power pylons blown up in Dera Bugti
QUETTA, Oct 13: Power supply was suspended to Dera Bugti and many other areas after militants blew up four pylons of the transmission line on Saturday....
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Moon panel accused of rejecting evidences
PESHAWAR, Oct 13: The central moon committee turned down at least nine credible evidences of moon sighting received from different parts of Peshawar in its Friday’s meeting held in Islamabad, it is learnt....
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MMA to form alliance with PTI, PML-N, says Qazi
LAHORE, Oct 13: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Pakistan Muslim League-N and Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf will form an electoral alliance for the upcoming general elections, MMA president Qazi Hussain Ahmed said on Saturday....
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Militants kill four in Swat ambush
SWAT, Oct 13: Four people were killed and another was injured when militants ambushed their vehicle in Arkot area of Matta tehsil on Saturday....
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Suicide bomber kills six in Spin Boldak
QUETTA, Oct 13: Six soldiers of the Afghan National Army were killed and seven others, five of them civilians, were injured on Saturday in a suicide attack in Spin Boldak, an Afghan town on the border with Pakistan....
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‘Cases may reopen’
ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: The government on Saturday urged PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto to delay her return until the Supreme Court ruled on a government amnesty on corruption charges against her....
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Ruling PML is ‘afraid’ of my return: Benazir
DUBAI, Oct 13: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said that President Gen Pervez Musharraf has no problem with her return, but the ruling Pakistan Muslim League is “afraid” of it....
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Situation in Iraq is nightmare: ex-general: US leaders criticised
WASHINGTON, Oct 13: The United States is living a nightmare in Iraq and the best it can hope to achieve there is to avoid defeat, says America’s former military chief in Iraq....
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Khamenei asks Muslims to boycott ME conference
TEHRAN, Oct 13: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has urged Muslim nations to boycott a Middle East peace meeting in the US....
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Gates warns Russia against break with arms treaties
RAF MILDENHALL (England) Oct 13: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warned on Saturday that Russia will hurt its position in Europe if it unilaterally breaks with a treaty limiting the deployment of conventional forces in Europe....
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Malaysia plans second space mission
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13: Malaysia, whose first astronaut is at the International Space Station, will send a second citizen into space in the next two years....
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Enmity claims 15 lives
BAHAWALNAGAR, Oct 13: At least 15 members of a family were killed and six others injured on Saturday over an old enmity in the Shakarganj area near Bahawalnagar....
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US urges restraint by Turkey
MOSCOW, Oct 13: Acknowledging ‘a difficult time’ in relations with Turkey, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday appealed to the US ally for restraint against Kurdish rebels in northern...
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Myanmar junta arrests 4 activists
YANGON, Oct 13: Myanmar’s junta arrested four prominent political activists on Saturday, Amnesty International said, as the regime defied UN calls for an end to its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters....
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World Food Day on 16th
RAWALPINDI, Oct 13: As the World Food Day is being observed on October 16, at least 25 per cent of Pakistan’s population remain undernourished, says the latest food security statistics compiled by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)....
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Eid: Nawaz slates govt, Benazir wants quake victims remembered
ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in his message on the occasion of Eidul Fitr criticised the policies of the Musharraf regime in strongest words while PPP chairperson Benazir...
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Lal Masjid to again turn red after Eid
ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: After changing its colour a couple of times since the contentious July 10-11 military operation, the Lal Masjid will be given a fresh coat of red paint after Eidul Fitr, it has been learnt....
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