Eight-hour battle leaves two cops, 2 militants dead
MARDAN, Feb 2: An eight-hour gunbattle between police and militants barricaded in a house left two policemen, two militants and a hostage dead in a village near here on Saturday....
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Aitzaz, Tariq under detention, again
LAHORE / ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: The Punjab government put president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan under detention for a period of 30 days on Saturday, after he...
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US says president can dismiss parliament if judges restored
WASHINGTON, Feb 2: President Pervez Musharraf retains the power to dissolve the next parliament if it restores the previous judiciary, says the US State Department....
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PML-Q admits mistakes
KARACHI, Feb 2: Acknowledging the fact that the current wheat and electricity crises had caused damage to the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, the party’s top leadership conceded on Saturday that they had committed blunders during their five-year term in office....
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TV channels warned of ‘Nov 3-like action’
HYDERABAD, Feb 2: Federal Information Minister Nisar Memon has warned television channels of a reprise of the Nov 3 action if they “continue to flout” the Pemra regulations....
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Govt to regulate poultry sector
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: With fresh cases of bird flu reported in Karachi, the government is planning to regulate the country’s poultry sector comprising about 26,000 farms to make its faltering avian influenza control initiative effective....
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Food panel told to plug loopholes
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday asked the Federal Food Committee to plug loopholes in the system to avoid shortage of flour and other food items in the country and ensure that no such scarcity happened again....
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Rs15 per kg ex-mill price of flour: Sindh
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: The Sindh Food Department (SFD) on Saturday contested the assertion of the Federal Food Committee (FFC) that ex-mills flour price in the province was higher than the rest of the country....
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Pakistan ready to allay fears about Gwadar port
KARACHI, Feb 2: With the ongoing joint exercises of the Pakistani and Saudi navies entering the combat phase, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral M. Afzal Tahir brushed aside his Indian counterpart’s concerns about Gwadar port....
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Workers from bird flu-hit farm doing well
KARACHI, Feb 2: Workers of a farm in Karachi where the outbreak of bird flu was confirmed were said to be doing well, while the results of tests taken from another suspected farm were due by Monday, according to official sources....
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Gas supply to be restored partially
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: Gas supply will be restored to 1,250 small industrial units by Sunday in Punjab and the NWFP....
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Snowfall blocks highways
QUETTA, Feb 2: The provincial capital and its adjoining areas received on Saturday heavy snowfall for a second time in four days....
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Sarkozy marries Bruni
PARIS, Feb 2: French President Nicolas Sarkozy put an end to the rumours on Saturday and did the deed, marrying Italian supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni in an intimate, private ceremony at the Elysee Palace....
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Pakistani and Indian oil ministers to visit Iran
TEHRAN, Feb 2: Iran said on Saturday that the petroleum ministers of India and Pakistan would come to Tehran later this month to discuss a multi-billion dollar project to transport Iranian gas to India via Pakistan....
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Asma seeks ‘a chance’ for politicians
LONDON, Feb 2: Asma Jehangir, Secretary General of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan speaking at the London School, of Economics here on Saturday appealed to those who prefer by implication military...
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Rebels seize Chad capital
NDJAMENA, Feb 2: Rebels seized Chad’s capital Ndjamena on Saturday after intense fighting with government forces, military and rebel sources said, as President Idriss Deby Itno remained holed up in the presidential palace....
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Kurd vows to continue struggle
QUETTA, Feb 2: Ali Ahmed Kurd said on Saturday that lawyers would continue their campaign against the Musharraf regime until the restoration of the deposed chief justice and the pre-Nov 3 judiciary....
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PBC rejects complete boycott call
LAHORE, Feb 2: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has refused to issue a call for a complete boycott of courts before judges who have taken oath under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO)....
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