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| December 20, 2007 | Thursday | Zilhaj 9, 1428 |
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50 Eid passengers die in train crash : Over 200 hurt as Karachi Express derails
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Dec 19: At least 50 people were killed and 203 others were injured when the Lahore-bound Karachi Express carrying most of holiday travellers derailed near Mehrabpur, some 55km from here in the early hours of Wednesday....
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Schoolchildren among 14 killed on road near Pattoki
LAHORE, Dec 19: Fourteen people died in an accident involving a trailer and a rickshaw carrying schoolchildren near Pattoki, 80km from here, on Wednesday....
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Art icon Gulgee, wife murdered
KARACHI, Dec 19: Artist Abdul Mohammad Ismail, better known as Gulgee, wife Zareen Gulgee and a maidservant were found murdered in their Clifton residence on Wednesday afternoon....
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US Senate clears all but $50m of aid package
WASHINGTON, Dec 19: The US Senate has approved a $785 million aid package for Pakistan without conditions but has placed some restrictions on a small portion of military assistance for fiscal 2008....
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‘Citizenship Act discriminatory’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: The Federal Shariat Court has declared the Pakistani Citizenship Act, 1951, to be discriminatory against women and asked the president to amend it within six months so that...
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Bomb kills two pro-govt tribesmen
QUETTA, Dec 19: Two pro-government Bugti tribesmen were killed and five injured, three of them seriously, when a vehicle was blown up with a remote-control bomb in Bekar area, some 122km from Dera Bugti town, on Wednesday....
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Three-day release for Aitzaz
LAHORE, Dec 19: The Punjab government released Supreme Court Bar Association President and Pakistan People’s Party leader Aitzaz Ahsan for three days on Wednesday night....
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Rauf’s escape case of ‘criminal collusion’: report
RAWALPINDI, Dec 19: An inquiry report is learnt to have disputed claims of Islamabad police that Rashid Rauf escaped while he was being taken to Adiala jail and termed the ‘mysterious disappearance’ story totally ‘concocted’....
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Retired officials can face action: LHC : Overstay in official residence
LAHORE, Dec 19: A Lahore High Court bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry, on Wednesday ruled that there was no legal bar for taking action against a judge or...
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US cautioned against aid conditionalities
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: The government on Wednesday cautioned Washington against attaching any conditionality to the US assistance programme for Pakistan, saying that such a move would be detrimental to bilateral relations....
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Fair polls not possible, says HRW
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: Fair and free elections in Pakistan are ‘impossible’ following the dismantling of an independent judiciary and a crackdown on critics by President Pervez, a rights group said on Wednesday....
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Karzai due on 26th
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: Afghan President Hamid Karzai will be coming to Pakistan next week on a two-day official visit. During the visit, he will discuss key bilateral matters, including security cooperation, with the top Pakistani leadership....
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Asif to return ‘soon’
NAWABSHAH, Dec 19: PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s husband Asif Ali Zardari is expected to return to the country to celebrate Eid in his native town, family sources said here on Wednesday....
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Election diary : Nawabshah poll an affair of grandees
NAWABSHAH: Dr Azra Fazal is disarmingly candid. The diminutive politician, whose brother is married to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, concedes that the Pakistan People’s Party is in a bind in Nawabshah....
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Polls meant to overshadow lawyers’ movement : Deposed PHC judge speaks
RAWALPINDI, Dec 19: The forthcoming general elections will in no way be fair and transparent and the ‘show’ is being staged just to overshadow the ongoing struggle of the lawyers for independence of judiciary....
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Musharraf confers medals
ISLAMABAD, Dec 19: President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday conferred Nishan-i-Imtiaz (Military) on Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and Chief of Army Staff at a special investiture ceremony held at Aiwan-i-Sadr....
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Guantanamo inmates freed
LONDON, Dec 19: Three British residents detained in the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay were released and due back in Britain on Wednesday, the Foreign Office and police said....
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Hizb vows end to random grenade attacks
SRINAGAR, Dec 19: Kashmir’s Hizbul Mujahideen on Wednesday announced a complete ban on militant grenade attacks in public places....
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