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| December 02, 2007 | Sunday | Ziqa’ad 21, 1428 |
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Nawaz contacts BB amid party rethink on poll: Meeting slated for tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, Dec 1: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader Nawaz Sharif are expected to meet in Islamabad on Monday to discuss the poll boycott... 
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Turkey strikes at Kurds in N. Iraq
ANKARA, Dec 1: Turkey said it inflicted heavy casualties on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq on Saturday in an ‘intense intervention’ involving helicopters, artillery and a cross-border raid by its special forces....
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Soldier held for blowing up music shops
KOHAT, Dec 1: Police on Saturday formally arrested a soldier of the Swat Scouts for allegedly blowing up music and CD shops in Kohat on Friday, reinforcing fears that some extremists...
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‘Joint force’ for nuke safety
WASHINGTON, Dec 1: The US military should work jointly with the Pakistan Army to protect the country’s nuclear weapons if the constitutional government in Islamabad is ever under siege, says the man who devised the Bush administration’s Iraq troop surge policy....
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Rigging to harm country’s integrity: Benazir
PESHAWAR, Dec 1: Rigging in the elections will harm the federation’s integrity and it is the duty of all patriotic elements to foil the designs of the “pro-dictatorship lobby”, Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto said here on Saturday....
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Shahbaz’s papers rejected
LAHORE, Dec 1: A returning officer on Saturday rejected nomination papers of former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif for one National Assembly and two provincial assembly seats....
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Families start returning home in Shangla
MINGORA, Dec 1: The displaced people of Shangla have started returning to their homes as the administration resumed functioning in Alpuri, the district headquarters, on Saturday....
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Shujaat ready to help allay rigging fears
LAHORE, Dec 1: Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Saturday that his party was willing to discuss reservations about the electoral process with the Pakistan People’s Party and...
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Judge serves ‘contempt notice’ on court registrar
LAHORE, Dec 1: Justice M. A. Shahid Siddiqui of the Lahore High Court, who did not take oath under the Provisional Constitution Order, has issued a ‘contempt notice’ to the court registrar for asking him to vacate his official residence....
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MMA defers boycott decision to 15th
ISLAMABAD Dec 1: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has deferred a decision on election boycott to Dec 15 in the face of Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s determination to contest the elections....
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Authorities asked not to tolerate agitation
ISLAMABAD, Dec 1: President Pervez Musharraf has asked the governors and caretaker chief ministers to ensure fair, free and transparent elections. He was addressing governors and chief ministers of the four provinces who called on him here on Saturday....
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HR activists to keep vigil outside Aitzaz home
LAHORE, Dec 1: Two members of an American human rights group, Global Exchange, has denied the government’s claims that lawyers arrested under the emergency laws have been released....
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Shelling kills four people
MIRAMSHAH, Dec 1: Two women and two children were killed while 15 others injured after security forces pounded residential compounds in two villages in North Waziristan Agency on Saturday....
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Three militants killed in Bajaur
KHAR, Dec 1: Three militants were killed and three others injured in two encounters between the local Taliban and Bajaur Scouts personnel here on Saturday. Officials said a group of armed Taliban went to a market in Khar in a pick-up....
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Hekmatyar calls for interim govt
PESHAWAR, Dec 1: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the chief of his own faction of Hizb-i-Islami, has called for the formation of a neutral caretaker government to hold elections in Afghanistan....
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Singh greets Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Dec 1: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday greeted President Pervez Musharraf on his re-election and expressed the hope that ties between two countries would get better....
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US president advised to seize N-assets, says paper
LONDON, Dec 1: The husband-and-wife team of journalists which had made sensational disclosures about Pakistan’s nuclear journey, focusing mainly on the so-called clandestine network of Dr A.Q....
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US envoy to meet Nawaz tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, Dec 1: US ambassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson will be meeting former prime minister and PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif on Monday, it is learnt....
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