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| October 27, 2007 | Saturday | Shawwal 14, 1428 |
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Militants behead law-enforcement men in public
SWAT, Oct 26: Militants on Friday publicly executed four law-enforcement personnel in a village, 16km west of Mingora, the district headquarters, and exchanged heavy gunfire with security forces in a nearby sub-district....
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JUI-F to contest polls from MMA platform: Fazl
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman said here on Friday that his party would contest the general elections from the platform of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal.Speaking...
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Judges not answerable to any group: Justice Javed
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: Mr Justice Javed Iqbal, who heads an 11-member bench of the Supreme Court hearing petitions challenging the acceptance of Gen Pervez Musharraf’s nomination papers for the presidential election,...
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$60bn income likely from mega projects
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: Pakistan expects to earn $60 billion a year from transit trade after completion of the national trade corridor, a couple of shipyards and improvement of the North-South road network....
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13 private power projects by 2010
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: Thirteen private power projects with a total generation capacity of 2,456 megawatts will be commissioned by the year 2010....
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Benazir sends ‘defamation’ notice to Arbab
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has sent a legal notice to Sindh Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim demanding cash compensation of Rs100 million for allegedly defaming her by “levelling baseless, malicious, concocted and fabricated allegations” against her....
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Benazir reiterates call for US, UK role in probe ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto on Friday formally requested the government to seek assistance from the US and the UK in carrying out investigations in the Oct 18 bomb attack on her rally in Karachi....
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Ambassador rejects Benazir’s charge
NEW YORK, Oct 26: Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States Mahmud Ali Durrani has rejected former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s charge that some current and former government officials could be involved in the recent attempt on her life....
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PPP chief calls for restructuring of ISI
KARACHI, Oct 26: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto on Friday called for concerted efforts to eradicate terrorism and extremism....
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Benazir to land in Sukkur today
KARACHI, Oct 26: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto is booked on PIA’s Sukkur-bound flight which takes off at 0820 hours on Saturday....
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Sanctions on Iran push oil prices to record high
WASHINGTON, Oct 26: The Bush administration’s attempt to impose sweeping sanctions on Iran met its first major hurdle on Friday when oil reached a new all-time record high of above $92 a barrel in New York....
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‘Sanctions won’t affect Iran’
TEHRAN, Oct 26: Iran’s new chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili on Friday brushed aside the latest US sanctions saying they would have no effect on the country’s nuclear policies, the ISNA news agency reported....
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430 Afghans, Uzbeks held
QUETTA, Oct 26: Around 430 Afghan and Uzbek nationals were arrested from the border town of Chaman and some other areas of Balochistan on Friday....
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Corporation staff not civil servants: SC
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: The Supreme Court on Friday maintained its earlier ruling that employees of government-owned corporations, companies and organisations whose terms and condition of service were not regulated by statutory rules could not be categorised as civil servants....
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Lal Masjid cleric denies links with Fazlullah
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: The Naib Imam of Lal Masjid has said that he supported the Swat-based militant cleric Maulana Fazlullah ‘only ideologically’ and had no organisational links with him....
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Population census next year
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Economic Affairs and Statistics was informed on Friday that the next population census would be conducted from Oct 10 to Oct 30 next year....
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Blasts rock Hub, Kohlu
QUETTA, Oct 26: Bomb blasts rocked the industrial town of Hub and Kohlu on Friday night. Police sources said some people had planted an explosive device near the house of a headconstable of special breach police in Hub....
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Membership of five legislators restored
ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: The Election Commission on Friday restored the membership of five legislators after they submitted their annual statements of assets and liabilities....
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