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| December 17, 2007 | Monday | Zilhaj 6, 1428 |
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More than 10,000 on final EC list
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: Over 10,000 candidates would contest the Jan 8 election for the National Assembly and four provincial assemblies, Election Commission sources told Dawn on Sunday.... 
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Bhagwandas, Rabbani get warm welcome
KARACHI, Dec 16: Justice Rana Bhagwandas has challenged the validity of judges who have taken a fresh oath under the amended 1973 Constitution following the lifting of the state of emergency....
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Rashid Rauf’s escape: two policemen detained
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: The government on Sunday set up a four-member committee headed by an additional secretary to investigate the escape of Rashid Rauf, allegedly involved in a London terror plot to blow up transatlantic flights in August 2006....
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ANP manifesto stresses autonomy
PESHAWAR, Dec 16: The Awami National Party has reiterated that it will strive for provincial autonomy and rename the NWFP as Pukhtunkhwa....
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India awaits peace process resumption
NEW DELHI, Dec 16: India hopes President Pervez Musharraf would sort out his domestic difficulties soon so that he could resume the bilateral peace process for which several issues look ready for a decision, India’s National Security Adviser M.K....
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7 ‘militants’ held in Swat
MINGORA, Dec 16: Security forces arrested seven suspected militants in Kuza Banda, a village near Maulana Fazalullah’s native area of Imam Dehri, on Saturday night....
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Ahmadinejad among Haj pilgrims
MAKKAH, Dec 16: Hundreds of thousands of people from around the world gathered in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, making final preparations for Haj....
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Chief secretary’s son found dead
KARACHI, Dec 16: A son of the chief secretary of Balochistan and former CS of Sindh, K.B. Rind, was found dead with a bullet hole in his head on Sunday morning in the Defence Housing Authority....
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USC cuts prices of 500 items
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: The Utility Stores Corporation (USC) has announced reduction in prices of 500 basic household items by three to 10 per cent under an Eidul Azha package....
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Canal closure plan approved
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) has approved a canal closure plan prepared by the provinces for about 20 days, official sources told Dawn....
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Baloch protest rally in London
LONDON, Dec 16: A large number of Baloch people living here and their sympathyisers staged a two-hour long rally in front of 10 Downing street on Sunday demanding release of Hyrbyair...
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Osama hiding around Bajaur: Musharraf
WASHINGTON, Dec 16: President Pervez Musharraf has for the first time identified an area where he thinks Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden may be hiding....
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300 inmates flee in India
RAIPUR, Dec 16: Nearly 300 communist rebel supporters escaped from an understaffed jail in eastern India in a dramatic mass breakout on Sunday, police said....
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Turkish jets bomb targets in Iraq
ANKARA, Dec 16: Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq early on Sunday, Turkey’s military said, the first such confirmed attack since the US-led invasion of Iraq....
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Three soldiers injured in blast
MIRAMSHAH, Dec 16: Three paramilitary troops were injured when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb on Sunday....
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Cotton-picking women exposed to pesticide poisoning
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: Pakistan’s cotton-picking women are exposed to chronic pesticide poisoning with symptoms ranging from mild headache and skin allergies to cancer of internal organs, a study shows....
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Whose Kasur is it?
he young sardar who along with his comrades had taken on the might of the British in the 1920s looks at the visitor from the various souvenirs the owner of the house has been presented....
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New parliament may impeach Musharraf: PPP
ISLAMABAD, Dec 16: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has said that after the Jan 8 general election, the new parliament will review all amendments made to the Constitution during President Pervez Musharraf’s rule....
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