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| December 18, 2007 | Tuesday | Zilhaj 7, 1428 |
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President seeks vote for people who backed him: Parties urged to ensure peaceful polls
VEHARI, Dec 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf urged people here on Monday to vote for candidates who had been with him in the past.... 
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‘Musharraf wants PML-Q govt with a PPP premier’
WASHINGTON, Dec 17: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said that she believes while the government would like the Pakistan Muslim League-Q to win the elections it would want a prime minister from her party....
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12 army recruits killed in Kohat suicide blast
KOHAT, Dec 17: At least 12 army recruits were killed in a suicide attack in the heart of the Kohat cantonment area near the Army Public College on Monday morning....
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LHC stays plan for federal high court
LAHORE, Dec 17: The Lahore High Court on Monday restrained the federal government from setting up a federal high court in Islamabad under the Provisional Constitution Order No. 1 of 2007....
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‘Rashid Rauf escaped with his uncle’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Rashid Rauf, the Briton suspected of a plane bombing plot who escaped from custody in Islamabad, got away after police let his uncle drive him back to jail following a court appearance, a security official said on Monday....
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‘Ceasefire’ in Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH, Dec 17: Militants announced on Monday a unilateral ceasefire till January 1 in North Waziristan....
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EC takes notice of nazims’ role
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The Election Commission has taken up opposition’s complaints about some nazims campaigning for PML-Q candidates and directed the sessions judges concerned to take action against violation of rules....
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PBC asks lawyers to continue court boycott
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The Pakistan Bar Council on Monday declared the 42-day emergency rule as the darkest-era in the constitutional history of the country and resolved to continue the boycott of superior courts....
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‘Provincial autonomy law soon’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Caretaker Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination Dr Muhammad Amjad said on Monday that a draft legislation on provincial autonomy was likely to be put before the cabinet soon for approval....
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‘Opposition, media have key role’
WASHINGTON, Dec 17: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the White House have both said that the forthcoming elections in Pakistan can only be fair and free if the opposition...
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Osama not in Pakistan, say Taliban
TANK, Dec 17: Local Taliban militants on Monday denied that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden might be hiding inside or near the tribal areas of the country....
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Storm in US kills Pakistani woman, three daughters
WASHINGTON, Dec 17: Four members of a Pakistan family, returning from a condolence visit, were trapped in a snowstorm near Indianapolis and died, the local media reported....
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EU to send 50 observers
BRUSSELS, Dec 17: The European Union will send a 50-member team to monitor parliamentary elections in Pakistan on Jan 8 if the country can ensure that observers can operate safely and freely, officials said on Monday....
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7 immigrants drown
ANKARA, Dec 17: Seven bodies were recovered on Monday after a boat carrying illegal immigrants sank off southwest Turkey....
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Row over Thar power tariff: $5 trillion indigenous resource project
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Caretaker Prime Minister Mohammadmian Soomro is pushing for an expeditious decision on upfront tariff for the Thar coal-based power projects, but his adviser on energy is opposing such a mechanism, terming it ‘impracticable’, Dawn has learnt....
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ELECTION DAIRY: A domain of Bachanis, Magsis and Pittafis
TANDO ALLAH YAR: Holding the tri-coloured flag of the Pakistan People’s Party, sixty-something Zawwar Khan Vikio does not remember how old he is. But he vividly remembers how at a public...
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5 injured in Parachinar clashes
PARACHINAR, Dec 17: Five people, including a security officer, were injured and several houses were set on fire in fresh clashes here on Monday....
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Explosion kills boy in Quetta
QUETTA, Dec 17: A boy was killed and seven other people, including a police officer, suffered injuries in an explosion in a parking lot along the Abdul Sattar road on Monday....
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