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| October 20, 2007 | Saturday | Shawwal 7, 1428 |
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‘Zia remnants’ blamed for Karachi carnage: Benazir vows to confront militants, fears more attacks
KARACHI, Oct 19: Former prime minister and Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto on Friday condemned the suicide attack on her rally and blamed it on what she termed ‘Zia remnants’....
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Suicide bomber used 14-kg RDX explosives
KARACHI, Oct 19: Doctors at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre undertook the facial reconstruction of the bomber whose severed head was found from the site of the twin blasts that rocked...
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Musharraf, Benazir vow to fight terrorism
ISLAMABAD, Oct 19: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday called Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto and condemned attack on her rally. President Musharraf and Ms Benazir are reported to have expressed their resolve to combat extremism and terrorism....
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Elections on time, US assured
WASHINGTON, Oct 19: Pakistan has assured the United States that Thursday’s blasts in Karachi will not affect the forthcoming parliamentary elections which will be held as planned....
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Karachi terror attack condemned by world leaders
WASHINGTON, Oct 19: World leaders on Friday condemned the suicide bombing targeting former premier Benazir Bhutto, saying it served as an urgent reminder of the need for a concerted global response to terrorism....
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Hearing in Nawaz cases adjourned: ‘Nawaz will return next month’
RAWALPINDI, Oct 19: An accountability court on Friday adjourned till November 8 hearing in three corruption cases against Mian Nawaz Sharif and his family after the prosecution sought a new date...
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Deadlock over IPI gas price plan
ISLAMABAD, Oct 19: Pakistan and Iran could not agree on Friday on the pricing of a gas import plan on Friday but decided to finalise the draft of an agreement by...
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Nuclear CBM talks held
NEW DELHI, Oct 19: India and Pakistan on Friday held another round of expert-level talks on nuclear and missiles-related confidence building measures (CBMs). The daylong meeting, part of the Composite Dialogue,...
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Shujaat suggests rally ban during poll campaign
LAHORE, Oct 19: Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has advised Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to ban rallies during the coming general elections to obviate the possibility of suicide bombings....
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Kasuri in Herat for ECO meeting
ISLAMABAD, Oct 19: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri left for Afghanistan aboard a special aircraft on Friday to attend the 17th Meeting of the Council of Ministers of Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) in Herat....
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India assails attack on Benazir
NEW DELHI, Oct 19: India on Friday strongly condemned the assassination attempt on a former prime minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in separate letters to her...
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Iraqi Kurds vow to fight off attack on their region
ARBIL, Oct 19: Iraq’s Kurds vowed on Friday to fight off any attack on their region as pressure mounted on Baghdad and Washington to act against Kurdish rebels and stave off a threatened Turkish incursion....
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Bush certifies S. Arabia as anti-terror ally
WASHINGTON, Oct 19: US President George Bush certified Saudi Arabia as an anti-terrorism ally on Friday, weeks after a top US Treasury official sharply criticised the government’s record....
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Kabul says no proof Iran arming Taliban
HERAT, Oct 19: Afghanistan said on Friday it had no evidence the government of Iran was behind a shipment of weapons to Taliban insurgents. The commander of Nato-led troops in Afghanistan...
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FC man hurt in D.I. Khan blast
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Oct 19: Three people, including a Frontier Constabulary man, were wounded when a remote-controlled explosive device went off near the office of the Intelligence Bureau here on Friday....
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Kashmiris to observe strike
SRINAGAR, Oct 19: Separatists in revolt-hit Kashmir have called a strike on October 27, the 60th anniversary of the day Indian troops first arrived to take control of the Muslim-majority region....
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EU seals new treaty ending two-year deadlock
LISBON, Oct 19: EU leaders broke more than two years of political deadlock on Friday morning by approving a new treaty of reforms filling the void left by the bloc’s aborted constitution....
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Russia made no nuclear proposal: Iran
TEHRAN, Oct 19: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denied his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had made a proposal over the Iranian atomic programme, contradicting Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, media reported on Friday....
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