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| December 09, 2007 | Sunday | Ziqa'ad 28, 1428 |
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APDM decision on polls today
LAHORE, Dec 8: A crucial meeting of the All Parties Democratic Movement will be held here on Sunday to take a final decision on whether the alliance’s components should boycott or contest the Jan 8 elections.... 
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‘Judges can only be reinstated by parliament’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 8: Pakistan People’s Party Senator Safdar Abbasi has said only parliament can reinstate the judges who had not taken the oath under the Provisional Constitution Order....
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Four killed in attack on PPP election office
QUETTA, Dec 8: Four people, including an attacker, were killed and another was injured when unidentified men opened fire on their rivals in a village near Dera Murad Jamali of the Nasirabad district on Saturday....
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Swat DPs start returning home: Major operation against militants soon
MINGORA, Dec 8: Swat valley is slowly returning to normality with large numbers of displaced people coming back to areas now under the control of security forces....
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Peace efforts hit snag as govt refuses to free militants
TANK, Dec 8: The fragile peace in South Waziristan reached through the release of prisoners in exchange for kidnapped security personnel has run into new problems raising the spectre of violence in the volatile agency....
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US may boost accountability for aid to Pakistan
WASHINGTON, Dec 8: The US administration has decided to change the disbursement procedure for development funds in Pakistan and is also increasing accountability for both economic and military assistance, State Department officials said....
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Election tribunal dismisses appeals against Arbab
KARACHI, Dec 8: An election tribunal on Saturday dismissed appeals against former chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim’s candidature from three national and provincial constituencies....
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MQM finalises candidates from Punjab, Balochistan
LAHORE/QUETTA, Dec 8: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has fielded 112 candidates from Punjab and 21 from Balochistan on general and reserved seats of the National Assembly and provincial assemblies....
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Seat adjustment with Fazl discussed: PPP
HYDERABAD, Dec 8: PPP leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim has said that he and Senator Safdar Abbasi have discussed seat adjustment with JUI (F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman....
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Painful economic decisions await new govt
ISLAMABAD: As the countdown begins for the general election, independent economists, bureaucrats and the intelligentsia have started to worry whether the next civilian administration – regardless of which of the major...
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Musharraf criticised at UK event
LONDON, Dec 8: A number of Pakistani novelists, poets and writers read out pieces from their works here on Friday evening at a two-hour long event organised by the Campaign Against...
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Two judges taken to hospital
ISLAMABAD, Dec 8: Justice Rana Bhagwandas and Justice Ghulam Rabani were taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Saturday morning when they complained of urological problems, sources told Dawn....
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Qayyum explains change of date
ISLAMABAD, Dec 8: President Pervez Musharraf will lift emergency rule and restore the suspended Constitution on Dec 15, Attorney-General Malik Mohammad Qayyum said on Saturday....
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Police claim woman ‘was not a suicide bomber’
PESHAWAR, Dec 8: Police on Saturday claimed to have gathered information which may lead to identify the woman who died in an apparent suicide attack in a cantonment area on the Babar road....
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Nato attacks Taliban bastion
LASHKAR GAH (Afghanistan), Dec 8: US, British and Afghan troops were fighting in a major operation on Saturday to capture Musa Qala, the only sizeable town controlled by Taliban....
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Military may be called in for poll security
KARACHI, Dec 8: Interior Minister Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Nawaz Khan has said police and rangers personnel will be assigned security duties for the general election and the military will also be available if the civil administration seeks its services....
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‘Envoy met Iftikhar to ask about Haj offer’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 8: The Saudi Embassy on Saturday confirmed that the Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Ali Awadh Asseri had met deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday to ascertain about...
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Checkpost attacked
KHAR, Dec 8: A checkpost of the Bajaur Scouts and Levies Force came under rocket and gunfire attack in Siddiqabad area between Friday night and Saturday morning....
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