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| January 16, 2007 | Tuesday | Zilhaj 25, 1427 |
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Petrol, diesel prices cut
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: The government on Monday slashed petrol and diesel prices by 6.93 and 2.66 per cent (i.e. Rs4 and Rs1.03 per litre) respectively as the international crude prices declined by over 35 per cent to $50.24... 
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FO warns against pre-emptive strike
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: Pakistan on Monday sent out a stern warning against any attempt of a pre-emptive strike inside its territory on the pretext of combating terrorism.“As...
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‘Mukherjee visit successful’
NEW DELHI, Jan 15: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s first visit to Islamabad as successful, but he also indicated on Monday that it would be...
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Six kidnapped employees of PAEC freed: Shootout leaves four dead
KOHAT, Jan 15: Six employees of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), who had been kidnapped by armed men on Sunday night from their camp office near a uranium mining field...
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150 PIA employees sacked
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: The Pakistan International Airlines, has sacked nearly 150 employees in the first phase of a retrenchment plan. “The national flag carrier has prematurely retired 43 regular employees...
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Grenade blast near home of Mirwaiz
SRINAGAR, Jan 15: Suspected militants threw a grenade near the house of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman of a faction of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, here on Monday but no one was hurt, Indian police said....
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Effective screening ordered along Afghan border
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday called for installation of the state-of-the-art system to record all movements across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and documentation of all those who cross the frontier legally and for right reasons....
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‘All DPs should be repatriated’
KARACHI, Jan 15: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan wants repatriation of all Afghan refugees to their country. The repatriation from one or two camps would start very soon,...
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Firemen among 5 killed in factory blaze
KARACHI, Jan 15: Five people, including three fire-fighters, were killed and 18 injured on Monday when a four-storey garment factory caved in after a devastating blaze in the Site area....
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Four die in refugee camp blast
NOWSHWERA, Jan 15: A powerful blast in the Jalozai refugee camp here destroyed a mud-house late on Sunday night, killing four people and injuring five others....
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Instant progress not possible, IG tells SC: Recovery of peasant family
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: The Sindh police chief informed the Supreme Court on Monday that ‘the centuries-old decadent culture’ of bonded labour in the province was behind the disappearance of a nine-member...
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Saddam aide decapitated during hanging
BAGHDAD, Jan 15: Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and the chief of Iraq’s disbanded Revolutionary Court were hanged on Monday — two weeks after the Iraqi president’s bungled execution provoked worldwide condemnation....
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Seven die in accident
GHALLANAI (Mohmand Agency), Jan 15: Seven people died and several others suffered injuries on Monday in a head-on collision between a Peshawar-bound passenger coach and a truck at Dhand area, some 10 km east of here....
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Pakistan keen to sign extradition treaty: PM
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Monday that Pakistan valued its multi-faceted relationship with Australia and was keen to further consolidate cooperation in a broad spectrum of areas, particularly trade, investment, education, agriculture, agribusiness and livestock....
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MPs come to Kashmiri quake victims’ rescue: ‘Illegal’ occupation of flats
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: The intervention of some AJK Legislative Assembly members on Monday forced the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and district administration to abandon an operation launched to vacate some 200...
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Projects on rent: Wapda clarifies report
| ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: A Wapda spokesman on Monday said that arrangements for second-hand thermal projects on rent had been made on the basis of international competitive bidding........
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Border security steps lauded
| ISLAMABAD, Jan 15: The visiting vice-foreign minister of Japan on Monday appreciated the measures being taken by Pakistan for border control with Afghanistan. Masakazu Sekiguchi expressed these views during a meeting with Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri....
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Six die of cold
| SIALKOT, Jan 15: Six people, including two women, died of cold in the district as the mercury dipped to 1 degree Celsius on Monday....
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