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| May 6, 2006 | Saturday | Rabi-us-Sani 7, 1427 |
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Opposition batters govt on oil prices
ISLAMABAD, May 5: The opposition battered the government during a debate in the National Assembly on high petroleum prices on Friday, but failed to make a dent in a situation the treasury benches said was beyond their control.... 
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Sindh PML leaders told to shun differences
ISLAMABAD, May 5: President General Pervez Musharraf has asked PML leaders from Sindh to shun their internal differences, strengthen the party in the province and prepare for next year’s elections....
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Aziz proposes ECO free trade area
BAKU (Azerbaijan), May 5: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday called for establishing an ECO free trade area, inter-regional oil and gas pipelines and said that an energy grid could create inter-linkages necessary for making the Economic Cooperation Organisation more effective....
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Negotiated settlement of Iran issue urged: Pakistan-Turkey talks
BAKU (Azerbaijan), May 5: Pakistan and Turkey on Friday joined voice against use of force against Iran, saying they favoured a negotiated, peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue....
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Pakistani student found dead in Berlin prison
BERLIN, May 5: A Pakistani student who allegedly tried to attack a German newspaper editor for reprinting blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has hanged himself in jail here, a Pakistani diplomat said on Friday....
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Speaker defends Musharraf’s meetings in NA chamber
ISLAMABAD May 5: National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain on Friday defended President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s meetings with lawmakers in his chamber in Parliament House and said that the president was...
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Magical musician Naushad dies
NEW DELHI, May 5: Veteran music director of Indian cinema, Naushad Ali, whose songs regaled South Asia’s grandparents and their grandchildren for more than six decades, died in Mumbai on Friday of illness and old age, family sources said....
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Experts call for land transfer to poor
ISLAMABAD, May 5: Economic experts on Friday urged the government to initiate land reforms and said the government should give away 2.7 million acres of state-owned land to alleviate poverty....
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Straw axed in UK cabinet shake-up
LONDON, May 5: Britain’s Tony Blair overhauled his government on Friday after one of the worst local election defeats of his premiership in a bid to reassert his authority and signal he has no plans to step down as yet....
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Porter Goss quits as CIA chief
WASHINGTON, May 5: CIA chief Porter Goss, assigned to rebuild the US spy agency after huge intelligence lapses over the 9/11 attacks and Iraq, abruptly quit on Friday after less than two years on the job....
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Pakistan not a failed state: US official
ISLAMABAD, May 5: A senior US official said on Saturday that Pakistan could not be called a failed state because its economy was booming and performing well on all fronts and had the potential of strengthening further in the days ahead....
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Pakistan to take charge of ECO secretariat
ISLAMABAD, May 5: Pakistan’s Additional Foreign Secretary Khurshid Anwar has been appointed the new secretary-general of the 10-member Economic Cooperation Organisation....
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Militants kill sepoy, wound another
KHAR (Bajaur Agency), May 5: Suspected militants attacked a levy force checkpost with two missiles in the Nakhtar area in Mamond sub-division, on Thursday night, killing a sepoy and wounding another....
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Six held for sectarian attacks in Karachi
KARACHI, May 5: Police arrested six suspected militants from an Al Qaeda-linked group over a string of sectarian attacks in Karachi, security officials said on Friday....
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FIR lodged on toxic waste dumping after child’s death
KARACHI, May 5: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency lodged an FIR with the Site police on Friday over the dumping highly toxic industrial waste in an open area, which claimed the...
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Iftikhar Rao gets rank of vice admiral
ISLAMABAD, May 5: The government on Friday announced the promotion of Rear Admiral Iftikhar Ahmed Rao HI (M) to the rank of vice admiral....
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Development of Punjab forum begins
LAHORE, May 5: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi here on Friday inaugurated the third two-day Punjab Development Forum....
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UK assured of fair polls, says envoy
FAISALABAD, May 5: British High Commissioner Mark Lyall Grant says President Pervez Musharraf has assured the British government that the 2007 general elections would be transparent and the uniform issue would be resolved in the light of ‘constitutional decorum’....
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