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| October 24, 2007 | Wednesday | Shawwal 11, 1428 |
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Constitutional package for N. Areas
GILGIT, Oct 23: President General Pervez Musharraf unveiled on Tuesday a political, administrative and development reforms package for the Northern Areas....
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New ‘Al Qaeda’ assassination threat for Benazir
KARACHI, Oct 23: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has received assassination threats from a terrorist while there were reports on Tuesday that the government has put her name on the...
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Constitution doesn’t allow candidate in uniform: Aitzaz
ISLAMABAD, Oct 23: A counsel for presidential candidate Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmed on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that although he was not seeking prosecution of any person, the violation of...
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Deployment of police in plain clothes illegal: CJ
ISLAMABAD, Oct 23: Terming the deployment of policemen in plain clothes to quell demonstrations an illegal practice, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Tuesday wondered who would be blamed in case of serious mishap....
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PPP’s terms for joining caretaker set-up
KARACHI, Oct 23: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto said on Tuesday that the October 18 terrorist attack on her rally should not be made a pretext for cancelling or postponing the general elections....
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Musharraf sends aide to calm Shujaat
ISLAMABAD, Oct 23: Reportedly upset over the ongoing war of words between Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, President Pervez Musharraf sent his top aide Tariq Aziz to Lahore this week for detailed talks with the PML president....
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PPP denies blaming CMs, IB chief
LAHORE, Oct 23: In what appears to be a shift in Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) stand, Benazir Bhutto’s security adviser Rehman Malik said on Tuesday that the party had not accused...
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Bush seeks $60m for Fata uplift zones
WASHINGTON, Oct 23: US President George W. Bush has asked Congress for $60 million for the development of tribal areas in Pakistan....
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Govt urged to stop intimidating SC
NEW YORK, Oct 23: The Pakistani government should end attempts to intimidate the Supreme Court as it hears legal challenges to General Pervez Musharraf’s controversial October 6 re-election, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday....
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Free, fair polls key to ending Balochistan insurgency: ICG
ISLAMABAD, Oct 23: The ongoing ‘insurgency’ in Balochistan will only subside when free, fair and transparent elections establish a legitimate government to replace the ‘current military dictatorship’, says a report of the International Crisis Group (ICG) released on Tuesday....
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Political change won’t affect economic policies
WASHINGTON, Oct 23: Economic advisers to the country’s two main political parties – the PPP and the PML (N) – have told an international financial organisation that if elected, they will...
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Aziz likely to contest from Kashmore
JACOBABAD, Oct 23: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said he will contest the general elections from Kashmore, if the ruling PML gives its approval....
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Agenda of talks with Taliban to be discussed
ISLAMABAD, Oct 23: A committee of the Pakistan-Afghan Joint Peace Jirga Commission (JPJC) will meet here in the first week of November to finalise the agenda of talks to be initiated with Taliban....
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S. Asian terror database proposed
NEW DELHI, Oct 23: Member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation on Tuesday proposed the creation of a database among them for a coordinated action against terrorism, drug trafficking, cyber crimes and financial frauds....
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Reforms plan ‘an eyewash’
FOR over six decades the country’s Northern Areas, commonly known as Gilgit-Baltistan, have been given step-motherly treatment by successive governments. So even if the ‘constitutional package’ unveiled by President Gen Pervez...
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11 of Afghan family killed in air raid
PUL-I-ALAM (Afghanistan), Oct 23: Eleven members of an Afghan family have been killed in an air strike by western forces near Kabul, the head of a provincial council said on Tuesday....
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Scottish student ‘suicide bomber’ jailed
GLASGOW, Oct 23: A Scottish college student who declared that he intended to become a suicide bomber after scouring extremist Islamic sites on the Internet was sentenced on Tuesday to eight years in prison....
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Homeless protest in front of SC
ISLAMABAD, Oct 23: The poor, deserving and homeless people of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad protested in front of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday and appealed to Chief Justice of Pakistan to provide them ownership rights....
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