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| July 01, 2006 | Saturday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 4, 1427 |
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Centre in bid to ease Karachi’s power misery: Immediate steps by KESC urged
ISLAMABAD June 30: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday directed the ministry of water and power and the Karachi Electric Supply Company to take immediate steps to bring an end to power breakdowns in Karachi.... 
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Early warning system stressed
ISLAMABAD, June 30: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday emphasised the need for an effective international early warning system about natural disasters and a global fund to meet emergency requirements in catastrophic situations....
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Deployment of more troops ruled out: Afghan border
ISLAMABAD, June 30: Pakistan would not deploy additional security forces along the Pakistan-Afghan border as already deployed 80,000 troops were sufficient to check the cross-border movement of terrorists, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao said on Friday....
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Murder accused executed in public
MIRAMSHAH, June 30: A man who allegedly killed two people was executed under Taliban’s shariah system in a village near North Waziristan’s regional headquarters of Miramshah, on Friday....
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Pakistan, India free 57 prisoners
LAHORE, June 30: Pakistan and India exchanged 57 civilian prisoners on Friday amid warming ties between the South Asian neighbours, officials said....
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Visa rules relaxed for Indian citizens
ISLAMABAD, June 30: Pakistan on Friday relaxed visa policy for Indian citizens offering them a maximum two-year staying facility....
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Benazir and Nawaz to meet ARD allies in London
LAHORE, June 30: Former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Mian Nawaz Sharif, away from the country for eight years and five and a half years respectively, will be seeing their junior...
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Duty on foreign travel deferred
ISLAMABAD, June 30: The Central Board of Revenue has delayed implementation of the levy of 15 per cent federal excise duty (FED) on international travel to Aug 1....
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Oil prices unchanged
ISLAMABAD, June 30: Prices of petroleum products will remain unchanged for the next 15 days, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority announced on Friday....
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Nine-year-old bride rescued
JACOBABAD, June 30: A nine-year-old girl, married off to a 70-year-old man to settle a debt in the Bhagat village of Thul area, early this week, has been rescued by police....
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Israel bombs Gaza; peace move by Egypt
GAZA, June 30: Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes on Friday in a widening military effort to secure the release of an Israeli prisoner of war while an Egyptian report said the ruling Palestinian party had approved his freedom....
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India deal to affect NPT, says senator
WASHINGTON, June 30: The Indo-US nuclear leaves India’s military programme unchecked and improperly rewards a country which has not signed the non-proliferation treaty, say US lawmakers opposed to the agreement....
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14 killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, June 30: Fourteen people, including 11 suspected militants, were killed in a surge of violence on Friday in held Kashmir, the army and police said....
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Osama says Iraq fight to continue
PARIS, June 30: Osama bin Laden has warned that jihad will go on in Iraq despite the death of local Al Qaeda chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to a new message attributed to the Al Qaeda network on Friday....
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Women fail to win a single seat in Kuwait
KUWAIT, June 30: Powerful Islamic and reformist candidates swept Kuwait’s elections but women failed to win a single seat in their first attempt to run for parliament, results showed on Friday....
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Five children drown
QUETTA, June 30: The bodies of five children who were swept away by rainwater in the Kingri area of the Musakhel district on Thursday evening were recovered from a nearby area on Friday....
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Italy storms into semis; Argentina out
HAMBURG, June 30: Luca Toni struck twice in the second half as Italy beat Ukraine 3-0 on Friday to set up a World Cup semi-final against hosts Germany....
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Bush seeks help to keep tribunals
WASHINGTON, June 30: Republican leaders in the US Congress are drafting a legislation to grant the Bush administration the authority to try prisoners at Guantanamo Bay before a military tribunal despite a Supreme Court ruling that such tribunals are illegal....
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