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| November 10, 2007 | Saturday | Shawwal 28, 1428 |
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Govt besieges Benazir’s house to thwart Pindi rally
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: Hundreds of policemen on Friday laid a virtual siege to Benazir Bhutto’s residence in Islamabad and around Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh, frustrating the People’s Party’s plan to hold a...
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Suicide attack in minister’s house: Amir Muqam escapes unhurt
PESHAWAR, Nov 9: Three people were killed and two others, including a former provincial minister, were critically injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the house of Federal Minister...
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House arrest ends
The government on Friday withdrew a house-arrest order for PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, a senior interior ministry official said....
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Militants free 60 militiamen in Swat
SWAT, Nov 9: About 60 paramilitary soldiers taken hostage by militants on Thursday were released, while two security personnel were killed and 14 others injured in a blast in Swat on Friday....
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Police power overwhelms PPP show
RAWALPINDI, Nov 9: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s plan to show her party’s street power in the city on Friday lost utterly to police power. Police blocked all roads — even...
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Blast disrupts Quetta rail link
QUETTA, Nov 9: Rail link of Quetta with the rest of the country was disrupted for the second time in 24 hours as the main tracks were blown up in Dashat area of Mastung district on Friday....
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Ousted CJP to be moved out of Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: The government has decided to shift the deposed chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, to Quetta or Murree to remove him from the picture because his presence is a constant headache for the administration, sources told Dawn....
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UN wants political prisoners freed
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on the Pakistan government to release all political prisoners....
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Nawaz, Fazl call detained ANP chief
PESHAWAR, Nov 9: Pakistan Muslim League chief Nawaz Sharif and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman have held separate talks over the telephone with Awami National Party (ANP) president Asfandyar Wali Khan, who is detained at his native village residence....
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US calls for end to emergency
WASHINGTON, Nov 9: The White House on Friday demanded an early end to the state of emergency in Pakistan while the State Department noted that house arrest orders for former Prime...
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Mandela condemns emergency
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 9: A group of former world leaders, including Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter, has denounced President Pervez Musharraf for imposing emergency and suspending the Constitution....
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4 troops among 9 killed in Kashmir gunfight
SRINAGAR, Nov 9: Five suspected militants and four Indian soldiers were killed in a long gunbattle in occupied Kashmir, officials said on Friday. The militants and soldiers, including an army officer,...
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A replay of ’92 drama
CALL it the irony of Pakistani politics, but the more you try to change it for the better, the more it looks the same. The striking similarities between the events outside...
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PM stresses need for raising deterrence
KARACHI, Nov 9: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Friday Pakistan, being a peaceful country, needed to maintain a deterrent capability to defend its borders, air space and territorial waters....
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ADB to invest in Fauji Foundation’s power plant: Extra 2,000MW needed annually
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: The Asian Development Bank will become an investment partner with the Fauji Foundation through a combination of $47 million investment and loan to set up a 171MW gas-based combined cycle power project at Daharki in Sindh’s Ghotki district....
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Supply of wheat to Afghanistan stopped
LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Nov 9: Wheat supply to Afghanistan was suspended on Friday as personnel of Khyber Rifles posted at the Torkhum border impounded dozens of trucks loaded with the commodity, sources said....
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Suu Kyi hopeful of reconciliation
YANGON, Nov 9: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday that she is ‘very optimistic’ about the UN-promoted effort to start a dialogue between the military government and pro-democracy forces, but appeared reconciled to remaining under house arrest....
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Widespread concern over Musharraf’s tactics
LONDON, Nov 9: The recent happenings in Pakistan seem to have caused widespread concern and resentment among various sections of people here as a number of organisations, including those of lawyers,...
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