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| November 27, 2007 | Tuesday | Ziqa’ad 16, 1428 |
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Musharraf plans farewell visit to GHQ tomorrow: Civilian president to be sworn in on Thursday; ‘Oath under ’73 Constitution likely’
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: General Pervez Musharraf would be sworn in as a civilian president at the Aiwan-i-Sadr on Thursday, presidential spokesman Maj-Gen (retd) Rashid Qureshi said on Monday.... 
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Benazir, Nawaz file poll papers
FORMER prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif filed nomination papers for the coming general election on Monday — Ms Bhutto for the seats NA-204 and NA-207 and Mr Sharif for the NA-120 constituency....
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‘Ghost polling stations’
LARKANA, Nov 26: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto says her party will sweep the coming elections if the emergency is lifted before polls, illegal transfers and postings are cancelled and irregularities in setting up poling stations are reversed....
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‘EC part of problem’
LAHORE, Nov 26: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Monday that the All Parties Democratic Movement did not want to boycott elections, but “if you (the government) push someone against the wall ......
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20 militants, 4 soldiers killed in Swat
MINGORA, Nov 26: Security forces on Monday claimed killing 20 militants and capturing a number of positions on mountains near the Imam Dehri area. Four members of security forces were also killed in clashes....
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More needed to be done, US tells Musharraf
WASHINGTON, Nov 26: The United States said on Monday that President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s government has taken “some encouraging steps” towards returning to constitutional rule but must lift the state of emergency....
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Ex-judges not under detention: minister
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Caretaker Interior Minister Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Nawaz said on Monday that the deposed judges, including Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, were not under detention and they were free to go anywhere in the country....
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Justice Tariq Mehmood complains of maltreatment
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: With former Supreme Court Bar Association president Munir A. Malik already seriously ill, another former SCBA president Justice (retd) Tariq Mehmood has complained of kidney infection....
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Gwadar official shot dead along with guard
QUETTA, Nov 26: The tehsildar of Gwadar and his bodyguard were gunned down here on Monday....
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CDWP clears 31 projects of Rs248bn cost
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: The Central Development Working Party on Monday cleared 31 development projects which would cost Rs248 billion, including a Rs22 billion thermal power project and a Rs455 million scheme to replace the obsolete air-traffic control system....
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Rockets damage Turbat airport runway
QUETTA, Nov 26: A small portion of the Turbat airport runway was damaged by rocket attacks late on Monday night....
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Transition or beginning of drastic transformation?
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: It is finally happening. For the first time in eight years there are clear indications that within the next forty eight hours Gen Pervez Musharraf will bow out as chief of the army and,...
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Girls’ school building destroyed
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: A powerful bomb exploded in the Government Girls Primary School in the village of Sher Bahadur near here on Monday morning, destroying the main gate, windows, doors and boundary wall of the school....
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Demonstration planned in Chakothi
MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 26: An alliance of nationalist organisations of Kashmir has announced to organise a peaceful demonstration on Friday to press the governments in Islamabad and New Delhi not to delay the launch of the proposed Srinagar-Muzaffarabad truck service....
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UK may donate intelligence system
RAWALPINDI, Nov 26: The British government has offered to donate ‘Dfuze Explosives Intelligence Management System’ — a powerful tool for data entry, linking, searching and retrieval — to the Federal Investigation Agency’s Special Investigation Group (SIG)....
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Bustard hunting permits issued to Gulf leaders
KARACHI, Nov 26: The federal government has issued houbara bustard hunting permits to 31 members of the ruling families of four Arabian Gulf states for the 2007-08 hunting season....
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Invitation to historian sparks uproar at Oxford
LONDON, Nov 26: Police were on standby on Monday ahead of planned protests against a Holocaust-denying historian and a far-right politician at Oxford University’s prestigious student debating club....
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21 French policemen injured in clashes with youth
PARIS, Nov 26: Rampaging youths assaulted a police station, set fire to cars and vandalised stores and a McDonald’s restaurant in clashes in a rundown Paris suburb....
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Former banker faces new charges
NEW YORK, Nov 26: A former Credit Suisse investment banker accused of leaking inside information about a string of merger deals intends to plead not guilty to a new indictment, his lawyer said on Monday....
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Israelis, Palestinians nearing accord on peace agenda
WASHINGTON, Nov 26: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators neared an agreement on Monday on a peace agenda as US President George Bush launched a new drive to restart long-dormant talks to create a Palestinian state....
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Rudd congratulated
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: The president and the caretaker prime minister on Monday sent messages to Mr Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister-elect of Australia, expressing heartiest felicitations on behalf of the people and...
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Major’s burial delayed
MANSEHRA, Nov 26: The body of an army officer killed in the Swat operation could not be taken for burial to his hometown of Mansehra because of heavy fighting between militants and law-enforcement personnel....
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