S. Arabia steps in to seek safe exit for Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: Political activities surrounding the impeachment of President Pervez Musharraf became feverish as a special committee of the ruling coalition announced on Friday it had finalised the draft of...
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Balochistan Assembly votes against Musharraf
QUETTA, Aug 15: The Balochistan assembly unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday asking President Pervez Musharraf to seek a vote of confidence from his electoral college or quit....
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35 killed as exodus from Bajaur continues
KHAR, Aug 15: At least 35 people were killed when helicopter gunships attacked militants in several areas of Bajaur Agency on Friday....
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Kurram warring factions given 72-hour ultimatum
PARACHINAR, Aug 15: After another 35 people were killed in fierce clashes in the Kurram tribal agency, the government on Friday set a 72-hour deadline for warring factions to stop fighting and warned them of ‘strong action’ if the bloodshed continued....
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Govt writ to be established at all costs: PM
ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: Sounding firm amid a raging power struggle in Islamabad, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told the National Assembly on Friday his government would establish its writ in the...
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Resignation can avert impeachment, says Asif
ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Friday that President Pervez Musharraf had only two options — quit or face impeachment....
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Singh says terrorists harming friendship with Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Aug 15: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday that terrorist incidents such as the attack on Delhi’s embassy in Kabul were intended to harm friendship with Pakistan,...
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US may be distancing itself from Musharraf
WASHINGTON, Aug 15: The White House has said that President George W. Bush believes only Pakistanis should decide who they want to lead their country, sending a clear signal that he will not rescue President Pervez Musharraf from an impeachment move....
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Govt office, school and 46 shops blown up in Swat
MINGORA, Aug 15: Militants blew up the office of a tehsildar, a girls’ school and 46 shops in Swat on Friday while security forces pressed ahead with their operation....
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Afghan forces lose control of district
KABUL, Aug 15: Afghan security forces withdrew on Friday morning from an eastern district after days of fighting with Taliban, allowing the militants to move in and capture the area, officials said....
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Lawyers set new deadline, threaten agitation
RAWALPINDI, Aug 15: Lawyers on Friday set another deadline, of Sept 15, for the reinstatement of judges after the date set earlier passed unnoticed on Thursday....
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Govt urged to stop Bajaur operation
ISLAMABAD, Aug 15: Jamaat-i-Islami’s NWFP Amir Sirajul Haq has claimed that several hundred men, women and children have been killed and about 300,000 people rendered homeless during the ten-day military operation in the Bajaur agency....
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Speakers call for withdrawal of forces from disputed areas
GILGIT, Aug 15: Leaders of nationalist and left wing parties have demanded immediate dissolution of the Northern Areas Legislative Assembly (NALA) and holding of fresh elections for a constituent assembly that...
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Attorney mum on Aafia’s children whereabouts
NEW YORK, Aug 15: Elizabeth Fink, the attorney for Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman charged by the US authorities with trying to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan, says that Aafia was tortured but keeps quiet on the whereabouts her children....
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Politicians insist on Musharraf’s exile
LONDON, Aug 15: Anne Patterson, the US ambassador, and a few British diplomats, tried to negotiate a deal on behalf of Musharraf, but the politicians were no longer prepared to play...
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Musharraf finds unlikely supporter in Fatima Bhutto
LONDON, Aug 15: General (retd) Pervez Musharraf has found a most unlikely supporter in this hour of trial in Fatima Bhutto, niece of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, trashing the...
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Kashmiris burn Indian flag on independence day
SRINAGAR, Aug 15: Thousands of Muslims protested on Friday against New Delhi’s rule in Kashmir, with some of them burning the Indian flag on independence day, witnesses and officials said....
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Maoist chief elected Nepal’s new premier
KATHMANDU, Aug 15: Lawmakers elected a Maoist who led a decade-long insurgency against the Hindu monarchy as Nepal’s new prime minister on Friday, marking the Himalayan nation’s radical change into a democratic republic....
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