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There is no issue of DAWN today on account of newspaper holiday in Pakistan.
However, the Latest News section will be updated round the clock online.
Candidates on tenterhooks as NA convened to elect PM
ISLAMABAD, March 20: President Pervez Musharraf on Thursday called a special session of the new National Assembly for Monday to let his political opponents elect their first prime minister after eight-and-a-half...
Suicide attack near brigade headquarters; 5 soldiers die
WANA, March 20: A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a military vehicle in front of the brigade headquarters at Zari Noor in South Waziristan on Thursday, killing five soldiers and wounding 11 others, officials said....
PPP to head Balochistan government, says JUI-F
ISLAMABAD, March 20: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is set to head the coalition government in Balochistan after its partner JUI-F on Thursday withdrew its claim to the offices of the chief minister and speaker of the provincial assembly....
India launches probe into prisoner’s death
NEW DELHI, March 20: Authorities in India have launched an investigation into the mysterious death in prison of a Pakistani man who Islamabad says came here to watch a cricket match, a report said on Thursday....
Days of martial law over, Iftikhar tells lawyers
LAHORE, March 20: Deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry said on Thursday there was no room now for imposition of martial law and abrogation of the Constitution in the country....
New govt will be ‘good friends’, says Cheney
KABUL, March 20: US Vice President Dick Cheney said on Thursday that Pakistan’s new government had a duty to battle extremists and that he was confident they would, as he made a surprise visit to Afghanistan....
Pope behind new crusade: Osama
CAIRO, March 20: Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden accused Pope Benedict XVI of helping in a ‘’new Crusade’’ against Islam and warned in a new audiotape of a ‘’severe’’ reaction for Europeans’ publication of blasphemous cartoons....
UK officials clueless about Asif’s degree
LONDON, March 20: British officials responsible for maintaining record of all educational institutions in the country have failed to find any trace of the institution in London from where Pakistan People’s...
‘Chinese plane attack suspects came from Pakistan’
BEIJING, March 20: Militants who tried to attack a Chinese domestic flight early this month came from Pakistan and Central Asia, sources said, adding that the apparent bungled assault had international backing....
Three Indian soldiers killed in wargames
NEW DELHI, March 20: At least three Indian soldiers were killed during military manoeuvres near its border with Pakistan, officials said on Thursday....
Religious minorities in India feel unsafe: Asma
NEW DELHI, March 20: Unacceptable delays in delivering justice to victims of communal violence across India, the state’s occasional culpability in fomenting intolerance and exploitation of religious fault lines for politics...
Senators may replace Lords in Britain
LONDON, March 20: The 748-member House of Lords in the United Kingdom is likely to be replaced by about 400, mostly elected, senators....
Karzai greets NA speaker
KABUL, March 20: Afghan President Hamid Karzai welcomed on Thursday appointment of a woman as speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan for the first time in the country’s 60-year history, his office said....
Chinese TV runs Tibet riot footage
BEIJING, March 20: China on Thursday broadcast a special report on violence in Tibet showing monks and other rioters marauding through the region’s main town of Lhasa as it reiterated that the Dalai Lama was behind the unrest....
Kashmir bomb blast victim dies
SRINAGAR, March 20: A victim of Wednesday’s bomb attack in occupied Kashmir has died in hospital, police said on Thursday, as troops tightened security in the disputed territory....
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Editor: Abbas Nasir
