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| December 24, 2007 | Monday | Zilhaj 13, 1428 |
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Four soldiers among 10 killed in suicide attack
MINGORA, Dec 23: A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into an army convoy, killing four soldiers and six other people on the Shahdara Road on Sunday evening.... 
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Nine killed in clashes in Kurram Agency
PARACHINAR, Dec 23: Nine people were killed and several others wounded in fresh clashes between security forces and tribesmen in the Kurram Agency on Sunday after a group of armed men...
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Charsadda mosque blast: four arrested
CHARSADDA, Dec 23: Two Afghan refugees are among four suspects picked up for questioning in connection with the Charsadda mosque suicide attack on Eid day which left at least 56 people dead and over a hundred others injured....
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PML-N, PPP in accord for three Karachi seats
KARACHI, Dec 23: In an interesting development which may have a bearing on pre-election alignments among major political forces in the country, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Karachi chapter, and Pakistan...
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Govt failed to combat militancy: Benazir
LARKANA, Dec 23: PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto on Sunday demanded of President Pervez Musharraf to keep his words and hold free and fair elections....
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No impeachment if fair polls held, says PPP leader
HYDERABAD, Dec 23: Senior vice-chairman of PPP Makhdoom Amin Fahim has said there will be no move to impeach President Pervez Musharraf if elections are held in a free and fair manner....
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Nawaz ineligible to contest polls for life: Qayyum
LAHORE, Dec 23: Nawaz Sharif cannot contest any election or cannot be a candidate for any public office for life because of his conviction in the hijacking case, according to Attorney-General Malik Mohammad Qayyum....
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No restrictions on sale of F-16, TOW missiles, says US
WASHINGTON, Dec 23: The United States has said that there are no restrictions on the sale of F-16 aircraft, TOW missiles or P-3C surveillance planes to Pakistan....
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Cross-border attacks down by 40pc, says Gates
WASHINGTON, Dec 23: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has, for the first time, conceded that there has been a 40 per cent decrease in the number of Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters crossing into Afghanistan from Pakistan....
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Aitzaz in high fever after Eid day ordeal
LAHORE, Dec 23: Supreme Court Bar Association president Aitzaz Ahsan whose three-day release order was withdrawn prematurely on Friday morning was “suffering from high fever” after he was made to travel...
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Level playing far afield
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: With 15 days left for the Jan 8 general election and after a blood-stained Eidul Azha, Pakistan seems far from a level playing field President Pervez Musharraf had...
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Of militancy, nationalism and Land Cruiser Mullahs : Election diary
WALI BAGH (Charsadda): Begum Nasim Wali is both angry and depressed. Angry because at a time when the Awami National Party’s ability to push back the rising tide of political Islam...
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Pakistani pleads guilty to killing US companion
NEWARK, Dec 23: A Pakistani man on Thursday admitted he killed his live-in companion on a trip to Pakistan in January, buried his body in a field, and then tried to collect the assets of the man’s estate....
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Hottest run between Sheikh and Hashmi
RAWALPINDI, Dec 23: The contest between Sheikh Rashid Ahmad of Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and Javed Hashmi of Nawaz League (PML-N) for NA-55 is being considered as the ‘hottest’ as it serves...
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Caretakers sacrifice decency on Eid
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: For the deposed judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and their chief, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, it was an Eidul Azha like none in the lives — locked up inside their houses with their families....
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NYT doubts Musharraf’s commitment
NEW YORK, Dec 23: President Pervez Musharraf’s “friends in Washington need to tell the former general and the Pakistani military — no matter what the polls say about his unpopularity —...
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Hindu icon Narendra Modi sweeps back to power
NEW DELHI, Dec 23: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, admired by corporate India as a model politician and feared by Muslim and Christian minorities as a messianic Hindu icon not averse...
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Realtor shot dead, Iraqi national killed
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: A property dealer was shot dead allegedly by his business partners while an Iraqi national was killed in a hit-and-run accident, police said on Sunday....
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