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| October 21, 2007 | Sunday | Shawwal 8, 1428 |
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Northern Areas to have elected local govts: President okays devolution package
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Saturday approved a draft empowerment package for the Northern Areas, giving enhanced political, administrative and financial powers to a region now administered by the federal government.... 
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Fazl condemns ‘media trial’
KOHAT, Oct 20: The chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, has condemned what he called media trial of his party and categorically denied any secret deal or negotiations with President Gen Pervez Musharraf....
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Five Bugti tribesmen killed in bomb blast
QUETTA, Oct 20: At least five Bugti tribesmen riding in a passenger wagon were killed and 16 others were injured, four of them seriously, after a bomb, planted in a white pick-up parked near the wagon, exploded on Saturday....
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Head of ‘another bomber’ found
KARACHI, Oct 20: Police have found evidence suggesting that the suicide bomber who targeted the Pakistan People’s Party leadership on Thursday was not alone but was accompanied by four or five...
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White House opposes ‘undemocratic’ steps
WASHINGTON, Oct 20: The United States has said that it does not want Pakistan to take any action that will undermine the democratic process in the country....
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Grief keeps Sindh at a standstill
HYDERABAD, Oct 20: Trade and civic activities in Sindh remained at a standstill for the second consecutive day on Saturday to mourn the people who were killed in Thursday’s terrorist attack...
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Parties to work out poll code of conduct: PM
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the government would contact all political parties to work out a code of conduct for the general election....
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Survey shows Benazir more popular than Musharraf
NEW YORK, Oct 20: A poll taken in the weeks before Pakistan People’s Party leader Benazir Bhutto’s return to Pakistan finds that a plurality of Pakistanis (50 per cent) approve of her return, while one in three are opposed....
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Bush administration having second thoughts about PPP deal: NYT
NEW YORK, Oct 20: The Bush administration concluded over the summer that a power-sharing deal with Pakistan People’s Party leader Benazir Bhutto “might be the only way that could keep General Pervez Musharraf from being toppled”....
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Grand jirga after polls, Karzai told
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Pakistan will host the next meeting of the Joint Peace Jirga with Afghanistan after the general election in the country and Peshawar is being considered as a possible venue....
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Kidnapped Japanese now in Pakistan: Iran
TEHRAN, Oct 20: A Japanese student kidnapped by bandits in Iran 12 days ago is healthy but has been taken by his kidnappers across the border to Pakistan, an Iranian government spokesman said on Saturday....
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2 pro-govt tribal elders shot dead
KHAR, Oct 20: Two pro-government tribal elders were killed in separate incidents in Bajaur Agency on Saturday....
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BLA claims 12 tribesmen killed by security men
QUETTA, Oct 20: The outlawed Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed that at least 12 tribesmen were killed by security forces in an operation...
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Protests in Kashmir after Indian army kills teacher
SRINAGAR, Oct 20: Thousands of angry Kashmiri villagers torched government vehicles in street battles that injured 30 police after army soldiers allegedly shot dead a schoolteacher in occupied Kashmir, officials and villagers said on Saturday....
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Threat of terrorist attack Iraq embassy under tight security
ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: Law-enforcement agencies have tightened security at the Iraq embassy and its ambassador’s residence in Islamabad after intelligence of a terrorist attack, Dawn has learnt....
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ECO must tackle terrorism: Karzai
HEART, Oct 20: Afghanistan and its neighbours must launch a regional campaign against terrorism in order to make the most of their natural resources and develop trade, President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday....
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Iran’s N-negotiator Larijani resigns
TEHRAN, Oct 20: Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani has resigned, officials announced on Saturday....
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Sonia calls Benazir
NEW DELHI, Oct 20: India’s Congress party president Sonia Gandhi spoke to Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto by telephone on Saturday and expressed sorrow over the recent attack on her procession in Karachi....
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Yangon curfew lifted
YANGON, Oct 20: Military-run Myanmar on Saturday lifted a curfew in the main city of Yangon that was imposed on the eve of the junta’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests, a local official said....
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Gorbachev founds ‘movement’
MOSCOW, Oct 20: Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev founded a new “political movement” on Saturday aimed at fighting democratic abuses in Russia, but not at challenging President Vladimir Putin’s rule....
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