Musharraf allies face voters’ wrath: •PPP, PML-N on a roll •19 killed in poll-related violence
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: After being sidelined for more than eight years by army intervention, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) seemed headed for a shock comeback as...
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Winners will be allowed to form govt: president
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: President Pervez Musharraf has said that the parties winning majority will be asked to form governments at the centre and in the provinces....
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PML-Q ‘ready’ to sit in opposition
ISLAMABAD: A PML-Q spokesman said on Monday that early results from parliamentary elections showed a “big gain” for the opposition....
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ANP regains its stronghold
PESHAWAR, Feb 18: The Pushtun nationalist Awami National Party (ANP) has emerged as the largest single party in the NWFP assembly, followed in strength by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) which...
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MQM claims 17 seats in Karachi
KARACHI, Feb 18: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement claimed on Monday night that its candidates were leading in 17 out of the 20 National Assembly seats in Karachi and 36 of the city’s 42 provincial assembly seats....
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19 killed, 157 injured in violence, says minister
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: Nineteen people were killed and 157 others were injured in countrywide election-related violence on Monday, caretaker Interior Minister Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Nawaz told Dawn....
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Women stopped from voting in several parts of NWFP
PESHAWAR, Feb 18: Women voters were barred from casting their votes in several parts of the NWFP on Monday although, in a sharp contrast, they exercised their right to vote in South Waziristan for the first time in the region’s history....
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Heavyweights knocked out
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: Monday’s vote saw collapse of several heavyweights of former ruling PML-Q, including party president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and a number of former ministers in their hometowns, according to unofficial results declared till late in the night....
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US hopes polls lead to ‘civilian democracy’
WASHINGTON, Feb 18: The United States on Monday welcomed the holding of an “important” election in Pakistan and hoped that it would lead to an elected civilian democracy in the country....
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Women and militants vote in Wana; Fata calm
PESHAWAR, Feb 18: Polling was held peacefully in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) although there were apprehensions that militants might try to obstruct the electoral process....
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Afghan suicide blast kills 37
SPIN BOLDAK, Feb 18: A Taliban suicide car bomb aimed at Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan killed 37 civilians on Monday, a day after another suicide blast left 100 dead in the country’s deadliest such attack....
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PM congratulates nation
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: Caretaker Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro on Monday felicitated the nation on the peaceful holding of elections and said that “enthusiastic participation of people” reflected their confidence in the democratic process....
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EC fulfils duty, says Farooq
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Qazi Muhammad Farooq has said that the EC has fulfilled its duty of holding free, fair and transparent general elections across the country in a peaceful environment....
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Border with Afghanistan sealed for election
KABUL, Feb 18: The two main border posts between Afghanistan and Pakistan were closed as a security measure for the general election on Monday, officials said....
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300 Kashmiris killed in custody, says report
SRINAGAR, Feb 18: More than 300 people have been killed in police custody in occupied Kashmir since an insurgency began in 1989, according to a police report obtained on Monday....
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Indian official warns over Pakistan nukes: report
NEW DELHI, Feb 18: India should be deeply concerned about the possibility of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of extremists, a top official was reported as saying on Monday....
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‘Vital clues’ in Samjhota case
NEW DELHI, Feb 18: Indian agencies have claimed finding some ‘vital clues’ to the Samjhota express bombing, which left 68 passengers dead last year. Most of the victims were Pakistanis....
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Intelligence warns of terror strike in Delhi
NEW DELHI, Feb 18: Security here was stepped up on Monday after police received intelligence reports that unnamed militant outfits were planning a major terror strike in the city, Press Trust of India said....
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