Assembly passes first budget, expands SC
ISLAMABAD, June 22: The National Assembly on Sunday easily passed the troubled coalition government’s first budget with a Finance Bill that also provided for a controversial expansion of the Supreme Court...
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15 killed in fighting between militant factions
LANDI KOTAL, June 22: Clashes between two militant groups, Lashkar-i-Islam and Ansarul Islam, continued in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency on Sunday as the toll from two days of fighting rose to 15 dead and dozens wounded....
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PPP man from Sindh will be president soon: Asif
NAWABSHAH, June 22: Asif Ali Zardari has said the day is not far off when a People’s Party man from Sindh will be in the President’s House....
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New tax measures to fetch Rs80bn
ISLAMABAD, June 22: The National Assembly on Sunday approved the Finance Bill envisaging a string of new taxation measures to mobilise more than Rs80 billion in revenue to meet rising expenditure and sustain a steady economic growth....
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Saudis act to ease oil price crisis
JEDDAH, June 22: Saudi Arabia has announced an increase in oil production and a contribution of one billion dollars to an Opec fund for developing countries hit by the galloping prices....
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Rockets from Pakistan side killed four, claims Kabul
KHOST, June 22: Rockets fired from Pakistan hit a residential area in eastern Afghanistan killing four civilians, Afghan officials said on Sunday....
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‘Kashmiris from both sides to be consulted’
ISLAMABAD, June 22: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that the Kashmiri leadership from both sides of the Line of Control will be consulted before the next round of talks with India....
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Rice terms Afghan threats ‘not wise’
WASHINGTON, June 22: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview aired on Sunday that threats by Afghanistan to pursue Taliban insurgents across the border into Pakistan were “not wise.”...
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Pakistan among states to get Iraqi contract
BAGHDAD, June 22: Iraq will award contracts to 41 foreign oil firms in a bid to ramp up production that gives multinationals a potentially lucrative foothold in the nation’s huge oil fields, an official said on Sunday....
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Woman bomber kills 15 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 22: A female suicide bomber struck near a government compound northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 40 others, police said....
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BB strived for amity with India: Gujral
NEW DELHI, June 22: Former Indian prime minister I.K. Gujral has said that the late Benazir Bhutto was a champion of Pakistan-India friendship....
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Four militants killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, June 22: Indian forces shot and killed four suspected militants in clashes in occupied Kashmir on Sunday, while a policeman died in a raid on a home, police said....
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Tsvangirai pulls out of Zimbabwe election
HARARE, June 22: Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of a run-off election against President Robert Mugabe on Sunday, saying a free and fair poll was impossible in the current climate of violence....
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Whites consider Obama a risky choice: survey
WASHINGTON, June 22: More than half of America’s white majority voters consider presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama a ‘risky’ choice for the White House, whereas two-thirds believe Republican candidate John McCain is a ‘safe’ pick, a new survey has revealed....
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Hundreds feared dead after Philippine ferry sinks
MANILA, June 22: Hundreds are feared dead after a ferry carrying more than 700 passengers and crew sank in rough seas and at least 229 people are confirmed dead and at...
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Medvedev condemns ‘rewriting’ of history
BREST (Belarus), June 22: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in remarks aimed at some former Soviet republics, condemned on Sunday what he described as attempts to rewrite wartime history....
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Malaysia frees Sri Lankan in nuclear parts case
KUALA LUMPUR, June 22: Malaysia has set free a Sri Lankan businessman suspected to be the middleman in a nuclear parts network allegedly run by Dr A.Q....
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Thai premier resists pressure to quit
BANGKOK, June 22: Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej defended himself and his administration on Sunday in the face of thousands of demonstrators camped outside Government House calling for his resignation....
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