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| November 03, 2007 | Saturday | Shawwal 21, 1428 |
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Govt undecided over constitutional, extra-constitutional steps ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: An air of uncertainty and apprehension pervaded the federal capital on Friday as reports started filtering through that the government was contemplating taking “extraordinary steps” to wriggle out of an “extraordinary situation”.... 
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Engineers’ en masse medical leave grounds PIA fleet
ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: An unannounced strike by ground engineers of PIA grounded the entire fleet of the national carrier on Friday. A record 92 domestic and international flights were cancelled, leaving thousands of passengers stranded at airports across the country.Chaotic...
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Swat militants free 48 militiamen
SWAT, Nov 2: Militants on Friday released 48 militiamen they had captured a day earlier, after parading them before a media corps in Charbagh....
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Drone missile kills five near Miramshah
MIRAMSHAH, Nov 2: Five people were killed and six others wounded when a missile, allegedly fired from a US drone, hit a suspected militant compound near the Pak-Afghan border in the restive North Waziristan agency on Friday....
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Seven killed in landmine explosions near Sui
QUETTA, Nov 2: Seven people were killed and 15 others injured when two powerful landmines exploded in Nelegh area near Sui in Dera Bugti district on Friday....
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SC speeds up poll petition hearing
ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: A visibly agitated Supreme Court bench on Friday expressed displeasure over the growing public perception that the court was prolonging the hearing of petitions against the eligibility of...
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US wants Pakistan to evolve as democracy: Rice
WASHINGTON, Nov 2: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has refused to speculate if President Gen Pervez Musharraf may decree a state of emergency in the country, but said that the...
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Officials’ apathy fuelled militancy
That Islamabad has perfected the art of developing a headache into a full-blown migraine is now amply clear in Swat....
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Altaf calls for united front against insurgencies, suicide attacks
LONDON, Nov 2: Altaf Hussain has appealed to political and religious parties to put up a united front against what he called the threat posed by insurgencies in Fata, Swat, Northern Areas and Balochistan and suicide attacks....
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‘India trying to resolve issues with Pakistan and China’
NEW DELHI, Nov 2: Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony said on Friday that New Delhi was trying to find amicable solutions to its problems with Pakistan and China and that confrontation in any case was not the answer....
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India punishes 85 soldiers for Kashmir rights abuses
SRINAGAR, Nov 2: Eight-five Indian soldiers have been found guilty of human rights violations in occupied Kashmir in the 18 years since a full-blown campaign against New Delhi’s rule erupted there in 1989, the army said on Friday....
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18 policemen feared killed in ambush
RAIPUR, Nov 2: At least 18 policemen were feared killed in a Maoist rebel ambush on Friday in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, officials said....
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Tariff for 3 power projects enhanced
ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: The government has increased power tariff by 25 per cent to 5.89 cents per unit for three hydel power projects of 300 megawatts capacity....
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Pakistan, China sign accord
BEIJING, Nov 2: Pakistan and China signed here on Friday a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation in scientific, technological and logistic areas in accordance with the principles of the Antarctic Treaty and its Protocol on Environmental Protection....
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Another Afghan district falls to Taliban
HERAT (Afghanistan), Nov 2: Taliban fighters have overrun a second district in western Afghanistan, a district governor said on Friday, warning the militants could be planning to sweep into his own area....
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S. Arabia proposes joint plan for N-fuel
RIYADH, Nov 2: Alarmed by the growing crisis over Iran’s uranium enrichment programme, Saudi Arabia has suggested the setting up of a Gulf consortium in a ‘neutral country’ to take care...
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Political chief of LTTE killed
COLOMBO, Nov 2: The LTTE’s political wing chief, S. P. Thamilchelvan, who was the rebel outfit’s public face, was killed on Friday morning when the Sri Lankan Air Force bombed the...
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US vows to ‘redouble’ efforts against Kurds
ANKARA, Nov 2: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pledged on Friday to “redouble” US efforts to combat Kurdish rebels attacking Turkey from northern Iraq, while warning Ankara against unilateral military action....
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US starts naval exercises in Gulf
MANAMA, Nov 2: US naval forces in the Gulf are conducting exercises to enhance their capacity to respond to crises, the Fifth Fleet said on Friday from its base in Bahrain....
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Bush distances himself from Rumsfeld’s comments
WASHINGTON, Nov 2: The White House on Thursday flatly repudiated then-defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s claim in a May 2004 memorandum that oil wealth has made many Muslims turn “against physical labour”....
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