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| December 05, 2007 | Wednesday | Ziqa'ad 24, 1428 |
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Unanimity on most issues: Rabbani : ‘Charter of demands’ panel meets
ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: A committee formed by former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif to iron out differences on the issue of the Jan 8 election began its deliberations here on Tuesday.... 
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PML(N) finalises candidates
ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The parliamentary board of the Pakistan Muslim League (N), which is still undecided whether to take part in the January 8 elections or boycott them, met here on...
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Burqa-clad ‘bomber’ smiles her way to death
PESHAWAR, Dec 4: A suspected woman suicide bomber blew herself up at a checkpoint in the high-security military cantonment area on Babar Road on Tuesday, police and security officials said....
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24 judges of high courts ‘cease to hold office’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The federal government has notified that 24 judges of the High Courts of Sindh, Punjab and NWFP have ceased to hold office with effect from November 3, the day emergency was proclaimed in the country....
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Major Asian cities face risk of catastrophic floods
PARIS, Dec 4: Asia’s massive delta cities have most to fear from catastrophic storm floods driven by climate change, according to an OECD report published here on Tuesday....
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Iran still poses N-threat: Bush : Tehran hails US intelligence report
WASHINGTON, Dec 4: US President George W. Bush declared on Tuesday that Iran still has the potential to make a nuclear weapon, disregarding a joint report by his own intelligence agencies that Tehran abandoned its weapon programme in 2003....
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‘230 militants killed, 90 held in Swat operation’ ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: Security forces killed over 230 militants and arrested 90, including some foreign nationals, since the start of operation in Swat, according to interior ministry spokesman Brig (retd) Javed Iqbal Cheema....
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Nawaz calls it ‘save the country’ struggle
HARIPUR, Dec 4: Former primer minister Mian Nawaz Sharif says he is trying to persuade Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto to boycott the election....
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Candidates to withdraw poll papers on 15th: JI chief
PESHAWAR, Dec 4: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad said on Tuesday that candidates of all parties in the Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal, except the JUI (F), would withdraw their nomination papers on Dec 15....
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Six security personnel kidnapped
KHAR, Dec 4: Six security personnel were kidnapped and their checkpost in Loi Sam area was blown up by armed men on Monday night....
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Media curbs petition returned
ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The Supreme Court on Tuesday returned a petition seeking scrapping of amendments made to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Ordinance 2002 on Nov 3 with the...
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‘Cantonment in Matta planned’
MINGORA, Dec 4: Security forces fully secured on Tuesday the militant stronghold of Matta town, about 35kms from here....
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Soldier, militant killed
QUETTA, Dec 4: A soldier and a militant were killed and three militants were injured in Dashat area of the Turbat district and in Quetta on Tuesday....
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’97 attack on SC: larger bench to hear pleas
ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The Supreme Court hearing petitions for review of the verdict given in 2000 in the case of attack on the apex court and hooliganism said on Tuesday that...
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Four professors jailed over BD student unrest
DHAKA, Dec 4: Four Bangladeshi academics were sentenced to two years in jail each on Tuesday for fuelling student unrest in August that prompted the country’s emergency government to impose a curfew, police said....
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15 students held: BSO
QUETTA, Dec 4: The Baloch Students Organisation (BSO) has alleged that police have arrested 15 students of the Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences in Uthal for organising a...
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Paramilitary soldier killed
QUETTA, Dec 4: Security forces arrested over 50 suspects in the Monojan area after one soldier was killed and another injured in an attack on a joint checkpost of the Frontier Corps and Balochistan Constabulary on Tuesday night....
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Blast suspect arrested
QUETTA, Dec 4: Police arrested a suspect in connection with a bomb blast that killed six people in a seminary near Qila Saifullah on Monday, police said on Tuesday....
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