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| November 02, 2007 | Friday | Shawwal 20, 1428 |
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Govt says over 60 militants killed in Swat : Militants claim capturing 44 militiamen
SWAT, Nov 1: Militants on Thursday claimed to have captured 44 militiamen in the Khwazakhela sub-district after day-long heavy fighting in which the government said over 60 militants had been killed.... 
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Seven PAF officers among 11 dead in suicide attack
SARGODHA, Nov 1: A suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a PAF bus, killing seven officers of the Pakistan Air Force and three civilians on the Faisalabad Road on Thursday morning....
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Seven officials get suspended terms : Manhandling of chief justice
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: The Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced Islamabad’s seven senior administration officials and police personnel to suspended jail terms for committing contempt of court by manhandling Chief Justice Iftikhar...
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Benazir goes to Dubai
KARACHI, Nov 1: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto left for Dubai on Thursday afternoon only a few hours after postponing the planned trip....
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Court won’t be intimidated, says Justice Javed
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: Justice Javed Iqbal, heading an 11-member Supreme Court bench hearing petitions challenging Gen Pervez Musharraf’s candidature for the office of president, observed on Thursday that threats of martial law or emergency would not intimidate the court....
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Abdullah holds talks with Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: Jordan’s King Abdullah, who arrived here on a brief visit on Thursday, held important consultations with President Gen Pervez Musharraf on revival of peace efforts in the troubled Middle East....
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SC seeks report on Karachi blasts
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the interior minister, Sindh chief secretary and the provincial police officer to submit in a week a report on the Oct 18 Karachi carnage....
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Rs7.6bn rail project to link Quetta with Peshawar
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: The government will lay a broad-gauge railway track at an approximate cost of Rs7.6 billion to link Balochistan with the North-West Frontier Province....
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Kasuri to represent Pakistan at SCO summit
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri, and not the prime minister, will represent Pakistan at the meeting of the council of heads of government of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) that opens in Tashkent on Friday, it is learnt....
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Bangladesh separates judiciary from executive
DHAKA, Nov 1: Bangladesh formally declared its judiciary free from executive control on Thursday as part of legal reforms aimed at ensuring justice for all....
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Centcom chief in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: US Central Command chief Admiral William Fallon arrived here on Thursday for talks with Pakistani officials, the military said....
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Rumsfeld kept bogey of terror alive to rally Americans for war
WASHINGTON, Nov 1: Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld wanted his staff to “keep elevating the threat” of terrorism to make the American people rally behind the Bush administration in the Iraq war....
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Movement of people through Wagah-Attari border declines
NEW DELHI, Nov 1: Movement of passengers between Pakistan and India through the Wagah-Attari checkpost dropped by 20 to 25 per cent in 2006-07 after reaching a high point in 2005-06....
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Six die in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Nov 1: Five Muslim militants and a policeman have died in fresh clashes in insurgency-hit occupied Kashmir, officials said on Thursday....
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Arrests in Sistan-Baluchestan
QUETTA, Nov 1: Iranian security forces launched a crackdown in the port city of Chahbar in Sistan-Baluchestan and arrested a large of number of people after armed men kidnapped the chairman of the port authority....
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Kidnapped ‘orphans’ say they have parents
ABECHE (Chad), Nov 1: International aid agencies on Thursday rejected the war orphan label attached to 103 children at the centre of a child abduction scandal involving a French charity in Chad....
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Three troops among five injured in blasts
QUETTA, Nov 1: Three security personnel and two civilians were injured by landmine in Dera Bugti area on Thursday night....
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Russia, China blocking curbs against Iran: US
VIENNA, Nov 1: The United States said on Thursday Russia and China had been blocking tough UN sanctions against Iran for months and pledged a drive to impose them if Iran did not halt nuclear activity within two weeks....
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Reactivation of biometric system postponed
CHAMAN, Nov 1: Pakistan’s Border Security Forces have extended the date of reactivating the biometric system on the Pak-Afghan border till November 10, FC official Col Masood told journalists on Thursday....
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US dispels notion about favoured states
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: The American Embassy in Islamabad hastened to counter the notion created by an observation made by a senior US defence official this week that in the long-term perspective India was more important for Washington than Pakistan....
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