Make-or-break vote today: • Decisive battle to be fought in Punjab • High turnout likely to help PPP, PML-N
ISLAMABAD, Feb 17: After going through a bloody campaign, Pakistan goes to polls on Monday amid hopes for a political change as well as fears of vote-rigging and violence that could bring more turmoil....
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Musharraf predicts majority seats for PML-Q, MQM
LONDON, Feb. 17: President Pervez Musharraf who has been rejecting all recent polls showing him and the PML-Q losing popularity has predicted that on Monday the former ruling party and its coalition partner MQM will “certainly have the majority”....
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Peace agreement revived in North Waziristan
PESHAWAR, Feb 17: Authorities and tribal elders in the volatile North Waziristan have reached an agreement to revive a controversial peace deal which had brought the government under severe criticism for capitulating to the militants....
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Kosovo declares independence
PRISTINA (Kosovo), Feb 17: Kosovo declared independence from Serbia on Sunday, ending a long chapter in the bloody break up of Yugoslavia....
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Assassination was planned, financed by Baitullah: police
RAWALPINDI, Feb 17: A senior investigator said on Sunday that the suspects arrested in Ms Bhutto’s assassination were part of a team instructed to kill her and Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud was mastermind of the plot....
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Military alone can’t win war on terror: Admiral Mullen
WASHINGTON, Feb 17: Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael G. Mullen, while talking about his recent visit to Pakistan, has stressed that the military is only part of the solution in the war on terror....
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Polls put off as Parachinar bombing toll rises to 47
PARACHINAR, Feb 17: The tribal administration and candidates contesting for the NA-37 seat agreed on Sunday to postpone the polls because of the Saturday’s devastating bomb attack in Parachinar....
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Polling officer killed
THATTA, Feb 17: A primary school teacher, who was to serve as assistant presiding officer at the Arbab Bhai Khan polling station, was shot dead and two people were injured when a constable opened fire on them in Makli on Sunday....
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Policeman killed, candidate injured in separate attacks
QUETTA, Feb 17: A police officer was killed and eight other people, including an MQM candidate and two police personnel, were injured in different attacks on Sunday night.According...
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Four security personnel killed in Balochistan
QUETTA, Feb 17: Four security personnel were killed and another was injured when a landmine exploded in the Pir Koh gas field area of Dera Bugti district on Sunday....
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Army should be visible, say poll observers
ISLAMABAD, Feb 17: Chief Election Observer of the European Union Michael Gahler has expressed hope that the elections would take place peacefully. “I hope that the elections will be conducted in...
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Lawyers give new govt March 7 deadline for restoring judges
LAHORE, Feb 17: The president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Mr Aitzaz Ahsan, has given the next government till March 7 to restore the deposed judges....
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Nostalgia for poll fanfare
THE philistines have taken over. They are out to deprive me and all like me of the few pleasures of social life that we can have to reduce the dreariness of our wretched existence....
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Indian troops kill 20 Maoists after police carnage
BHUBANESWAR (India), Feb 17: Indian troops killed at least 20 Maoist guerrillas on Sunday in clashes following the killing of 13 policemen by the insurgents in the eastern state of Orissa, officials said....
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Rising food prices hit the poor in Asia
HONG KONG, Feb 17: Rising food prices have hit Asia’s poor so hard that many have taken to the streets in protest, but experts see few signs of respite from the growing problem....
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Five held for firing during rally
ISLAMABAD, Feb 17: The city police have arrested five supporters of a National Assembly candidate for opening fire during his election rally in Saidpur village, police said on Sunday....
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PPP fears bloodshed on polling day
ISLAMABAD, Feb 17: Fearing bloodshed in many areas on the polling day, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Sunday asked Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retired) Qazi Mohammad Farooq to seek deployment...
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High hopes run on low turnout
ISLAMABAD, Feb 17: Political and administrative circles both see a tough Election 2008 fight in the federal capital on Monday but also a lower turnout of voters than in the past....
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