PPP’s rivals behind riots, says minister: No unannounced loadshedding after two days
ISLAMABAD, Jan 3: Water and Power Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has appealed to the nation to remain calm and support efforts to end the power crisis as violent riots continued to hit parts of the country on Saturday....
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Faisalabad traders observe strike against loadshedding
FAISALABAD, Jan 3: Traders observed a complete strike on Saturday in protest against electricity and gas loadshedding, petrol shortage and high rate of mark-up on a call by the Anjuman-i-Tajiran....
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Petrol prices to be cut at ‘appropriate’ time: Tarin
KARACHI, Jan 3: Pakistan has met all targets set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), says adviser to the prime minister on finance Shaukat Tarin said on Saturday....
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Zardari urges Iran, China role in anti-terror efforts
ISLAMABAD, Jan 3: President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday urged the international community to play its role in ending brutal attacks against unarmed and innocent Palestinians in Gaza and said that Israeli attacks violated the UN Charter....
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Country can’t afford mid-term polls: Gilani
ISLAMABAD, Jan 3: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Saturday that the country could not afford mid-term elections and stressed the need for joint efforts by all political parties to overcome national challenges....
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Quake hits parts of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Jan 3: An earthquake of moderate intensity jolted many parts of the country, including Islamabad, in the early hours of Sunday causing panic among people....
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OIC calls for UN action
JEDDAH: The Organisation of the Islamic Conference on Saturday urged the UN Security Council to take action to halt Israel’s “brutal and sustained aggression” against the Gaza Strip....
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Singh hopes Pakistan will hand over Mumbai masterminds
NEW DELHI, Jan 3: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed to Pakistan on Saturday to have the “sense to root out terrorism from its soil” and also hoped that Islamabad would...
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Israeli tanks roll into Gaza Strip
GAZA CITY, Jan 3: Israeli troops clashed with Hamas fighters as they advanced into Gaza Strip on Saturday in the first ground combat of an eight-day offensive on the Palestinian enclave, witnesses and the Israeli army said....
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Bush blames Hamas for Gaza violence
WASHINGTON, Jan 3: US President George W. Bush on Saturday blamed Hamas for the current crisis in Gaza, ignoring tens of thousands of protesters who marched across world capitals to demand a halt to Israeli bombings....
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The human dimension
JERUSALEM: Israel’s deadly offensive on Hamas targets in Gaza Strip entered its second week on Saturday, with truce efforts stalled....
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US hands over military base to Iraqi officials
BAGHDAD, Jan 3: The US military took a step towards pulling combat troops from Iraqi cities on Saturday, moving out of a Baghdad base that Iraqi officials said would be dismantled and converted back into a shopping mall....
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Demonstrations across UK against Israeli excesses
LONDON, Jan 3: Thousands of demonstrators converged on central London on Saturday afternoon in protest against what their high-pitched slogans screamed the “massacre of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza by Israeli bombers”....
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Battle begins for Tigers’ military headquarters
COLOMBO, Jan 3: Sri Lankan troops advanced on Saturday on the military headquarters of the Tamil Tigers and engaged the rebels in fresh gunbattles, a day after capturing their de facto capital....
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Richest German families have lost billions: report
BERLIN, Jan 3: Germany’s 20 wealthiest families have lost about 40 billion euros ($55 billion) in the economic crisis in share values alone, the financial magazine WirtschaftsWoche reported on Saturday....
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Nasreen to live in Paris
PARIS, Jan 3: Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, under threat from religious groups which accuse her of blasphemy in her writings, is to take up residence in Paris, the city hall said on Saturday....
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Bosnians hold ‘shoe protest’
SARAJEVO, Jan 3: A few hundred Bosnians on Saturday vented their spleen at political leaders in a shoe-throwing protest in Sarajevo inspired by an Iraqi journalist’s footwear attack on George W....
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Mumtaz Bhutto arrested: Attack on newspaper’s office
KARACHI, Jan 3: Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, a leader of the Sindh National Front and former chief minister, was shifted to Karachi on Saturday following his arrest in Mirpur Bhutto town, near Larkana....
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