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| November 12, 2007 | Monday | Ziqa’ad 01, 1428 |
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Polls before Jan 9, says Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11: President Gen Pervez Musharraf announced on Sunday that general elections would be held in the first week of January, but refused to give a date for lifting the emergency rule....
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Benazir wants emergency lifted, gag laws repealed
LAHORE, Nov 11: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto has called for withdrawal of emergency, repeal of draconian laws curbing civil liberties and gagging the media and demanded fair, free and transparent elections....
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PML-N, JI to boycott polls under emergency
LAHORE, Nov 11: The Pakistan Muslim League (N), Jamaat-i-Islami and the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf have decided not to take part in elections held under emergency and vowed to resist the polls without...
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A positive step, but emergency must go: US
WASHINGTON, Nov 11: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday described Gen Pervez Musharraf’s decision to hold elections before Jan 9 as a positive step, but said the emergency must go as well....
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Deposed CJ rejects allegations
LAHORE, Nov 11: Deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has rejected allegations levelled against him and higher judiciary by President Gen Musharraf during his press conference on Sunday....
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Asma assails changes in Army Act
LAHORE, Nov 11: The Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Ms Asma Jahangir, on Sunday condemned the amendments made to the Army Act and said that granting military courts...
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‘US develops plan for Pakistan N-weapons’
WASHINGTON, Nov 11: The United States has developed contingency plans to safeguard Pakistani nuclear assets if the current political turmoil allows extremists to get hold of the weapons, The Washington Post reported on Sunday....
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IFJ condemns British reporters’ expulsion
BRUSSELS, Nov 11: The world’s biggest group representing journalists has condemned the Pakistani government’s decision to expel three British newspaper reporters, saying such acts will only encourage instability....
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Democrats prod Bush to revisit strategy
WASHINGTON, Nov 11: Top Democratic senators have urged President George W. Bush to seek a “more effective” strategy for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Al Qaeda, following the “deeply disturbing” actions of Gen Pervez Musharraf....
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Indian PM in Russia to boost trade, military ties MOSCOW, Nov 11: India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Russia on Sunday for a visit focused on boosting economic and military ties between the two nations....
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Militants capture ‘spy’ cleric
SWAT, Nov 11: Armed supporters of Maulana Fazlullah captured a ‘radical’ cleric, took control of his FM radio station and seized 36 AK-47 rifles from his compound in the Bara Bandi area of Swat on Sunday morning....
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Bomb explodes in internet café
PESHAWAR, Nov 11: A man was injured in a bomb blast in an internet café on the Ishrat Cinema Road in Gulbahar-4 on Sunday....
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Three die in Kashmir gunbattle
SRINAGAR, Nov 11: Two suspected Kashmiri militants and one soldier died as scores of government troops ended a four-day hotel siege in occupied Kashmir on Sunday, officials said....
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Associate of Arbab aide shot dead
HYDERABAD, Nov 11: The man in-charge of the office of Ms Nuzhat Pathan, adviser to the Sindh chief minister, was shot dead in Doomro village under the Bhittai Nagar police station....
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Doctors hold protest rally in London
LONDON, Nov 11: Hundreds of physicians of Pakistani origin staged a two-hour long protest rally in front of the Pakistan High Commission here on Sunday which was later joined by big...
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Ministers’ plea to extend assembly tenure ignored
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11: President Gen Pervez Musharraf announced dates for dissolution of the national and provincial assemblies on Sunday, ignoring pleas by all but three ministers of the 71-member federal cabinet...
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Reform plan failing to meet objectives: ADB
ISLAMABAD, Nov 11: The Asian Development Bank-funded $1.8 billion governance-related reform programme is failing to meet its objectives owing to the government’s waning interest. But the nation will continue to pay...
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Massive oil spill as tanker splits in two
ROSTOV-ON-DON (Russia), Nov 11: Massive waves split a Russian oil tanker in two during a fierce storm, spilling at least 2,000 metric tons of fuel into a strait leading to the Black Sea....
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