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| November 09, 2007 | Friday | Shawwal 27, 1428 |
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Elections by Feb 15: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday that general elections would be held by February 15. After presiding over a meeting of the National Security Council at the... 
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Benazir wants pre-emergency judiciary to decide cases
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: Pakistan People’s Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto on Thursday upped the ante on the issue of sacked judges by saying that she wanted the pre-emergency judiciary to decide all...
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US welcomes poll pledge
WASHINGTON, Nov 8: The White House, which has been pressing President Pervez Musharraf to commit to elections he had long promised, on Thursday praised his announcement that polls will be held in February as a welcome signal....
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Iftikhar ready to meet president for judiciary’s cause
KARACHI, Nov 8: Deposed chief justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, has said he is willing to meet Gen Pervez Musharraf for the cause of the judiciary....
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Bizenjo faces treason charge
KARACHI, Nov 8: National Party’s secretary-general Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, arrested on Monday from outside the Karachi Press Club while he was attending a rally against imposition of emergency, was remanded in judicial custody on Thursday....
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Overseas investors pull $235m from KSE
KARACHI, Nov 8: In four trading days of the current week on the Karachi Stock Exchange, foreign investors withdrew around $185 million from equity and $50 million from government bonds....
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‘Iron hand’ warning for PPP meeting
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: The government has decided to deal with leaders and workers of the Pakistan People’s Party ‘with an iron hand’ if they defied a ban on public meetings and tried to gather at Liaquat Bagh on Friday....
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Shujaat shrugs off long march threat
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Thursday that the assemblies would complete their term and expressed the hope that President Pervez Musharraf would fulfil his promise of hanging up his uniform by November 15....
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Militants occupy more installations
SWAT, Nov 8: Armed militants captured more government installations in Swat on Thursday and announced a punishment of 15 lashes for anyone not offering prayers in Matta tehsil....
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$1.5bn annual aid for a decade suggested
WASHINGTON, Nov 8: Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joseph R. Biden, urged the United States on Thursday to triple non-security aid to Pakistan to $1.5...
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1,600 containers cleared from port on fake documents
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: Customs officials have no clue to the whereabouts of more than 1,600 goods containers reported to have been cleared on fake documents through an automated clearance system at the Karachi port....
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Sugar prices up by Rs100 per bag
ISLAMABAD, Nov 8: Sugar prices shot up by Rs100 per 100kg bag over the last four days despite sufficient carryover stocks and a record new sugarcane crop of 62.3...
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India plans to tap Chenab water
JAMMU, Nov 8: The chief minister of occupied Kashmir has asked for a plan to tap the water of River Chenab in the parched region of Jammu, and Pakistani officials said...
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Seven die as Dubai bridge collapses
DUBAI, Nov 8: At least seven construction workers were killed on Thursday when a bridge being built in an upmarket district of Dubai collapsed, police said....
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Pakistani beheaded
RIYADH, Nov 8: A Pakistani convicted of trafficking heroin into Saudi Arabia was beheaded by the sword on Thursday, the interior ministry announced....
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US senators demand Aitzaz’s release
LAHORE, Nov 8: US senators have demanded immediate release of Supreme Court Bar Association president Aitzaz Ahsan....
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Russian envoy warns of threat
MOSCOW, Nov 8: A senior Russian diplomat warned the United States on Thursday that the threat from Pakistan if extremists came to power in Islamabad would be far greater than the potential danger from Iran....
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Unesco calls for free media
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8: The Director-General of Unesco, Koïchiro Matsuura, on Thursday expressed concern for freedom of expression in Pakistan and expressed the hope that President Pervez Musharraf would lift restrictions on the media....
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