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| October 31, 2007 | Wednesday | Shawwal 18, 1428 |
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Suicide attack in top security zone: Seven killed, 31 injured
RAWALPINDI, Oct 30: A suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint in the high security zone of Rawalpindi, less than a kilometre from President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s camp office on Tuesday, killing seven people, three of them policemen, and injuring 31 others....
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Deportation plane was ordered by PM, court told
ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that he had been asked by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz by telephone to arrange a special aircraft...
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Swat calm but tense
SWAT/TIMERGRA, Oct 30: People in large numbers continued to leave their homes as tension persisted in the Matta tehsil and other areas around Mingora on Tuesday despite a ceasefire in effect...
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High-level meeting on law, order breakdown
ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: President Gen Pervez Musharraf held meetings on Tuesday with the civil and military leadership against the backdrop of a blast in Rawalpindi, about 2km from his official residence....
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Generals making all decisions: counsel
ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The counsel for a petitioner told a Supreme Court bench on Tuesday that President Gen Pervez Musharraf had allowed the armed forces to interfere in civilian affairs and...
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Terrorists feeling the heat, says US official
WASHINGTON, Oct 30: Pakistan’s efforts to fight terrorism is causing the militants to step up violence, says a US official, adding that the United States does not see a sudden increase...
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Benazir to go ahead with Pindi meeting
KARACHI, Oct 30: Expressing concern over the bomb blast in Rawalpindi and the deteriorating law and order situation in Swat, Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto accused the government on Thursday of having failed to apprehend culprits involved in terrorist attacks....
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Explosion in Battagram NGO office: six injured
MANSEHRA, Oct 30: Six people were injured, two of them critically, when an explosive device went off in the office of a non-governmental organisation in Battagram on Tuesday morning....
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Plan for utilising Thar coal being sabotaged: Arbab
KARACHI, Oct 30: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Rahim lashed out on Tuesday on what he called some “vested interests” in the federal government who, he said, were obstructing the plan...
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Military opposes privatisation of PSO over security concerns
ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The armed forces of Pakistan have opposed the privatisation of the Pakistan State Oil (PSO) for security considerations, and have asked the government to review the decision....
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Provincial govts asked to ensure Benazir’s safety
ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The interior ministry has directed the four provincial governments to make “foolproof security arrangements” for the chief of the People’s Party after the federal government received intelligence reports that an attempt on Benazir Bhutto’s life was a “possibility”....
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Pakistan calls for consensus on NPT
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30: Pakistan on Monday called on the international community to evolve “a new consensus on disarmament and non-proliferation, which would encompass the new framework for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy”....
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Election Commission to post electoral rolls on internet
ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The Election Commission will place the computerised electoral rolls 2007 on its website, according to Chief Election Commissioner Justice Qazi Muhammad Farooq....
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JWP faction to boycott polls: Jamil Bugti
QUETTA, Oct 30: Nawabzada Jamil Bugti, son of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, has said the Baramdagh faction of the Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) will not take part in the elections held with President Gen Pervez Musharraf at the helm of affairs....
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Abu Dhabi to set up $5bn refinery
ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Abu Dhabi will set up an oil refinery in Gwadar at a cost of $5 billion, according to Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Ihsanullah Khan....
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US has no plan to attack Iran: White House
WASHINGTON, Oct 30: The White House assured the international community on Tuesday that the United States is not about to attack Iran. The assurance followed mounting tensions between the United States and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear programme....
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UK mosque body working on code of conduct
LONDON, Oct 30: In what is seen here as the first attempt by British Muslims to set the core standards and constitutions for Britain’s 1,350-plus mosques, the year-old Mosques and Imams...
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Four soldiers wounded in explosion
MIRAMSHAH, Oct 30: Four soldiers were wounded in a roadside explosion in Mirali tehsil in North Waziristan Agency on Tuesday....
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Largest Iraq dam in danger of collapse
WASHINGTON, Oct 30: Iraq’s largest dam is in danger of collapse and hundreds of thousands of people are at risk from a massive inundation in Mosul and Baghdad, according to US documents released on Tuesday....
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Japanese hostage still held outside Iran
TEHRAN, Oct 30: Kidnappers holding a Japanese student taken hostage in Iran are still holding him outside the Islamic republic in the border zone between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the judiciary said on Tuesday....
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