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| October 03, 2006 | Tuesday | Ramazan 9, 1427 |
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Talks with India likely to resume after Eid: FO: Baglihar meeting under way in Paris
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2: Pakistan and India appear all set to resume composite dialogue later this month, soon after Eidul Fitr, with a review meeting of foreign secretaries in New Delhi.... 
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No proof of ISI’s involvement received: PM
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Monday rejected Indian allegations of Inter Services Intelligence’s involvement in the Mumbai blasts and said Pakistan had received no evidence so far to support this allegation....
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Two ex-ISI chiefs refute president’s statement
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2: Two former chiefs of the Inter-Services Intelligence have rejected as baseless a statement of President Pervez Musharraf about former officials of the agency abetting Taliban....
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Qadeer’s daughter refutes claim
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2: The daughter of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has described as ‘ludicrous’ claims made by President Pervez Musharraf in his book about an attempt made by the detained nuclear scientist to reveal some nuclear secrets to foreign media....
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Baloch jirga criticises government’s meddling in tribal affairs
QUETTA, Oct 2: A grand Baloch tribal jirga held here on Monday condemned what it called interference of the government in tribal affairs in Balochistan and vowed to resist all attempts against the tribal system....
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BJP calls for snapping ties with Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Oct 2: Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh has called for snapping diplomatic ties with Pakistan, the Times of India reported on Monday....
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AJK unable to run LoC buses
MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 2: The Foreign Office has asked the Azad Kashmir authorities to resume bus services to the Line of Control from Muzaffarabad and Rawlakot but officials here have reportedly expressed inability to follow the directive citing financial and administrative constraints....
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New formula to fix gas tariff
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2: The federal government has decided in principle to replace the existing formula to compute natural gas tariff with the market-based Karachi Inter Bank Offer Rate (Kibor), a government official told Dawn on Monday....
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Alternative track planned between Kotri, Karachi
LAHORE, Oct 2: The Pakistan Railways will lay an alternative 300-km track between Karachi and Kotri to keep the southern port city connected with the rest of the country through rail...
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Govt to review power tariff structure
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2: The government has planned to review the power tariff structure in order to determine the economic viability of the distribution companies (discos) of Wapda....
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British troops in secret truce with Taliban
LONDON,Oct 2: British troops battling the Taliban are to withdraw from one of the most dangerous areas of Afghanistan after agreeing a secret deal with the local people, reports ‘Sunday Times’....
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Pakistan wants UN to act with moral authority
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 2: Pakistan said on Monday that the world needed a United Nations which could stand up for the weak and the powerless and which was a force for...
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Prestigious award for Pakistani organisation
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2: A Pakistani organisation has won the World Habitat Award-2006 for its efforts to improve housing conditions....
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Iraq war to help Democrats: poll
WASHINGTON, Oct 2: An opinion poll released on Monday shows that the unpopularity of the Iraq war may help opposition Democrats take control of the US Senate in the mid-term elections scheduled for next month....
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US scientists win Nobel for work on genes
STOCKHOLM, Oct 2: Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the 2006 Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for their groundbreaking discovery of how to “silence” genes, which has opened up potential new paths to treating disease....
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Oil well in Nigeria attacked, troops die
PORT HARCOURT (Nigeria), Oct 2: Nigerian militants in speed boats attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil pumping station on Monday, killing soldiers and ending a period of relative quiet in the volatile Niger Delta....
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Suicide attack on Nato Afghan convoy injures six
KABUL, Oct 2: A suicide blast hit the Afghan capital Monday, wounding three NATO soldiers and three civilians in the latest in a surge of attacks in Kabul claimed by the extremist Taliban movement....
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Lula fails to get 50pc votes
SAO PAULO (Brazil), Oct 2: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces a month of high-stakes campaigning against an inspired challenger who will try to hammer on corruption scandals to unseat the former metalworker in a run-off vote....
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