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| October 18, 2007 | Thursday | Shawwal 5, 1428 |
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Sharifs’ was not a forced exile, says SC
ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday its detailed judgment in the exile case of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif.... 
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SC rejects plea for full court: Petitions against re-election
ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry turned down on Wednesday a request to constitute a full court to hear petitions challenging the eligibility of Gen Pervez Musharraf to run for the office of president....
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Benazir homecoming: security blanket all over Karachi
KARACHI, Oct 17: Bhutto loyalists kept streaming into Karachi late into Wednesday night to welcome the People’s Party chairperson upon her arrival after eight years in self-exile....
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Special squad to cover arrival: PPP seeks chopper for taking Benazir to mausoleum
ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: The government will provide a special security squad to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto who has received threats from militant commander Baitullah Mehsud....
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President orders speedy efforts to get troops released
ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday asked the authorities concerned to speed up efforts to get the soldiers kidnapped by militants safely freed....
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Deployment of troops in Fata challenged
ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: Sahibzada Haroon Rashid, a leader of Jamaat-i-Islami and a former member of the National Assembly, has challenged in the Supreme Court the deployment of armed forces in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata)....
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Jirga sincere in peace efforts, administration told
MIRAMSHAH, Oct 17: A jirga on Wednesday assured the tribal administration about the sincerity of its efforts to restore peace in North Waziristan....
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Contempt plea filed against CEC
ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmed on Wednesday filed a contempt of court petition in the Supreme Court against Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Qazi Mohammad Farooq for ‘flouting court orders’ by declaring results of the presidential election....
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World War III if Iran develops N-arms: Bush
WASHINGTON, Oct 17: President George W. Bush on Wednesday warned Iran must be barred from nuclear weapons to avoid the prospect of “World War III,” and dismissed suggestions of a US-Russia rift on the crisis....
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India blames ISI for blasts on the eve of CBM talks
NEW DELHI, Oct 17: As a Pakistani delegation arrived here to resume the dialogue with India on nuclear and conventional confidence building measures (CBMs) and a flagging anti-terror mechanism, New Delhi...
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UK denies role in Musharraf’s deal with PPP
LONDON, Oct 17: Sidestepping a query about UK’s presumed role in nudging Gen Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto into a power-sharing agreement, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Pakistani politics was...
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Six soldiers released by militants
BANNU, Oct 17: Six paramilitary soldiers, who had been kidnapped by militants from the Rocha checkpoint along with 16 others on Oct 2, have been released....
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Four die as Kashmiris end truce
SRINAGAR, Oct 17: Three militants and a policeman were killed in separate incidents in occupied Kashmir after militants ended a brief unilateral truce, police said on Wednesday....
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Road closure
KARACHI: The Sindh police have decided to close Sharea Faisal at 10am on Thursday, a few hours before Benazir Bhutto’s arrival....
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100 to arrive from UK with PPP chief
LONDON, Oct 17: Nearly 100 people, mostly belonging to international media, left here for Dubai on Wednesday to join former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on her flight to Karachi on Thursday....
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Benazir’s criticism of SC termed ‘unfortunate’
LONDON, Oct 17: PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif has termed Benazir Bhutto’s criticism of the Supreme Court in her Dubai press conference “unfortunate” wherein she had chosen to cite her ethnicity as a reason for discrimination by the apex court....
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Arbab assails publicity drive of PPP
KARACHI, Oct 17: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has accused the Pakistan People’s Party of initiating a corruption drive even before coming into power, by spending a huge sum of money on a publicity campaign....
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New York Bar to bestow membership on Chief Justice
ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: The honours committee of the New York Bar Association has decided to bestow honorary membership on the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, in recognition of his contribution to the independence of the judiciary....
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