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| February 20, 2008 | Wednesday | Safar 12, 1429 |
Polls free, legitimate and credible, say US senators
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: A delegation of three US senators has described the general election as “free, legitimate and credible”, advising the winners and President Pervez Musharraf to help form a coalition government....
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‘PML-Q to cooperate with new govt’
LAHORE, Feb 19: Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said the PML-Q will sit in the opposition and extend full cooperation to the new government for the country’s progress....
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Aitzaz shows ‘safe exit’ to Musharraf, Shujaat
LAHORE, Feb 19: Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan has advised President Pervez Musharraf and PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain to resign from their respective posts in the wake of what he called a humiliating defeat of the King’s party....
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People’s Verdict is clear: HRCP
LAHORE, Feb 19: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has praised the people for “overcoming obstacles despite pre-poll rigging and giving a clear verdict in the favour of democratic governance”....
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Long-term reform stressed: Electoral process
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: A coalition of 40 prominent NGOs working for free and fair elections has called for long-term electoral reform in the country....
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PML-N sweeps in Pindi, Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: The Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) never did so good electorally as on Monday when it won both the National Assembly seats in the capital and six of the seven seats in the Rawalpindi region....
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Results of two seats in D.G. Khan withheld
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Feb 19: The district returning officer (DRO) has withheld results of NA-171 and NA-172 on Tuesday for alleged rigging and other malpractices. He has recommended to the Election...
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‘Results a Referendum against Musharraf’
LAHORE, Feb 19: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan has said election results are a referendum against President Pervez Musharraf and a clear indication that people have rejected the policies of Musharraf and his allies....
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Poll-related violence claims four lives
SHIKARPUR, Feb 19: Two people were killed and several others were injured in the post-election violence in different parts of interior of Sindh on Tuesday. Two other people, who had suffered serious injuries in Monday’s violence, died in hospitals on Tuesday....
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Lunar eclipse tomorrow
KARACHI, Feb 19: A total lunar eclipse will occur early on Thursday morning....
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Affected persons demand compensation: Karakoram Highway expansion
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: The would-be affected people of Karakoram Highway upgradation project in the Northern Areas have called upon President Pervez Musharraf not to repeat the injustice meted out to them...
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Two labourers killed
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: Two labourers were killed, when an under- construction shed fell on them here on Tuesday, police said....
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IHC starts with over 9,000 backlog cases
ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: With a suggestion to focus attention on weaker segments of society, Chief Justice of Pakistan Abdul Hameed Dogar on Tuesday opened the Islamabad High Court to finally commence function with an inherited backlog of over 9,000 cases....
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Fate of mega projects hangs in balance: Rashid’s rout
RAWALPINDI, Feb 19: Monday’s general elections sealed the fate of Sheikh Rashid Ahmed for sure but what future awaits the development projects begun by his PML-Q government in the city remains to be seen....
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Haider sees many legal complications: Pre-emergency judiciary
LAHORE, Feb 19: Federal Law Minister Syed Afzal Haider sees many legal and constitutional complications in the removal of the president and the restoration of the pre-emergency judiciary....
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Rumblings of revolt heard in Zahoor Palace
GUJRAT, Feb 19: Pakistan Muslim League-Q head Chaudhry Shujaat Husain’s crushing defeat in his home town Gujrat is being seen as a major upset as political pundits try to figure out where things went wrong for the party’s “best bet”....
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PPP win raises a million-dollar question
FAISALABAD, Feb 19: Having heaved a sigh of relief over the Pakistan People’s Party rejuvenation in rural areas of the national assembly, many people have wasted no time in asking whether...
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Black Monday for PML-Q
LAYYAH, Feb 19: It was a Black Monday for PML-Q candidates in the district, which had turned out to be a bastion of the party after the 2002 general and 2005 local body polls....
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Public-shy women win Toba bout
TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 19: Two women candidates – one from NA-92, Gojra and other from PP-88, Kamalia - won their respective seats without personally joining the electioneering in the district....
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Time for Cheema to chew the cud
BAHAWALPUR, Feb 19: The only causalty of the 2008 elections in the district is the Cheema group, led by District Nazim Tariq Bashir Cheema, which has been routed by rivals....
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Surrenders
TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 19: Mian Tahir Pervaiz Anjum, an independent candidate who lost the Feb 18 polls at PP-86, on Tuesday courted arrest before Sadar police in murder case of a union council naib nazim....
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