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| November 15, 2007 | Thursday | Ziqa’ad 04, 1428 |
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All-out assault to put down Swat revolt
SWAT, Nov 14: Security forces, backed by helicopter gunships, mounted severe attacks on Wednesday on positions of militants who are in control of the Shangla district headquarters Alipur....
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Benazir in move to unify opposition
LAHORE, Nov 14: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto has stepped up her efforts to forge a united front of all opposition parties for a struggle to oust President Gen...
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JI students’ wing hands over Imran to police
LAHORE, Nov 14: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan was arrested from outside the Punjab University’s new campus on Wednesday after he had been manhandled and detained in the campus allegedly by activists of the Islami Jamiat Talaba....
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Musharraf says he considered quitting
LONDON, Nov 14: In what appears to be a quick response to Benazir Bhutto’s call on Tuesday asking President Gen Pervez Musharraf to step down, the beleaguered general said on Wednesday...
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PPP leaders arrested
FAISALABAD, Nov 14: Punjab PPP President Shah Mehmood Qureshi and three other party leaders, Dr Asad Moazam, Hassan Murtaza and Raja Riaz Ahmed, were arrested in Rajewala on Wednesday....
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Bush urges Musharraf to lift emergency
WASHINGTON, Nov 14: US President George W. Bush has added his voice to the demand that General Pervez Musharraf should lift the state of emergency and then hold elections....
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1999-like situation necessitated emergency, SC told
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: Chief of Army Staff Gen Pervez Musharraf, in his reply to petitions filed in the Supreme Court against his proclamation of emergency, submitted on Wednesday that the situation...
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Deposed CJ seeks help over ‘govt plan’
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, who has been under house arrest since Nov 3, approached the Supreme Court registrar on Wednesday to express his apprehension that he might be forcibly shifted to Quetta by the Islamabad administration....
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EU reluctant to cut aid
STRASBOURG, Nov 14: The European Union urged caution about cutting off aid to Pakistan on Wednesday while stepping up calls for President Pervez Musharraf to lift emergency rule....
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Swiss govt halts arms delivery
BERN, Nov 14: Switzerland has indefinitely postponed the delivery of anti-aircraft systems to Pakistan because of the current situation in the South Asian country, the economics ministry said on Wednesday....
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US looking for alternative supply routes
WASHINGTON, Nov 14: The US military has begun making contingency plans in case its supply lines to US forces in Afghanistan are disrupted by the continuing turmoil in Pakistan, a Pentagon spokesman said on Wednesday....
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Poll schedule soon after dissolution of assemblies: EC
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: The Election Commission decided on Wednesday to issue the schedule for general elections soon after the dissolution of national and provincial assemblies....
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Chaudhry Shujaat forms Parliamentary Board
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: President Pakistan Muslim League Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Wednesday formed the parliamentary board to decide about party tickets for the general elections....
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Harvard to award Medal of Freedom to Justice Iftikhar
WASHINGTON, Nov 14: The Harvard Law School, one of the world’s most prestigious legal institutions, has decided to award Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry its highest honour....
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Blast suspends supply to Sui plant
QUETTA, Nov 14: Gas supply from half a dozen wells to the main Sui purification plant was suspended after a pipeline was blown up in Dera Bugti district late on Wednesday night....
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‘Kasuri richer than Aziz’
Islamabad: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri is the richest member of the National Assembly, according to an analysis of the declaration of assets submitted by MNAs....
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Dignity deficit marks NA’s demise
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: A big deficit of dignity marks the demise of a decimated National Assembly right on the due date on Thursday, along with the civilian cabinet of the military-led...
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India lodges protest against ‘break-in’
NEW DELHI, Nov 14: India said on Wednesday it has lodged an official complaint over a break-in at the Islamabad residence of its top envoy to Pakistan....
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