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| November 07, 2007 | Wednesday | Shawwal 25, 1428 |
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Emergency to be lifted in three weeks: Shujaat ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: Ruling Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said that the state of emergency should not last more than three weeks.... 
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Benazir calls for street protests
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday called upon the people to come out on streets for the restoration of democracy....
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‘Martial law imposed in garb of emergency’
LAHORE, Nov 6: The director of the Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday that President Gen Pervez Musharraf had imposed martial law disguised as emergency....
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Iftikhar urges uprising to save Constitution
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: Deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry urged the nation on Tuesday to rise up for the restoration of the Constitution. He dismissed the proclamation of emergency as illegal....
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Order against PCO reversed
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: An eight-member Supreme Court bench headed by newly installed Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar on Tuesday overruled a seven-judge decision that had struck down the Provisional Constitutional Order...
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Lawyers maintain pressure on govt
LAHORE, Nov 6: Lawyers continued their countrywide protest campaign and boycott of courts for a second day on Tuesday against the imposition of emergency and arrest of judges....
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US starts process of reviewing aid
WASHINGTON, Nov 6: The United States has started the process of reviewing its economic and military assistance to Pakistan, the State Department said on Tuesday, but cautioned that the process would not be ‘hasty’....
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Musharraf won’t be abandoned, says White House
WASHINGTON, Nov 6: The White House has made it clear that it is not willing to abandon President Pervez Musharraf but it does expect some clarification from him later this week about his decision to impose an emergency rule in Pakistan....
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Third town in Swat falls to militants
PESHAWAR, Nov 6: Militants seized the town of Madyan in Swat on Tuesday and hoisted their flags over buildings after security forces surrendered, police and residents said....
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Ban on Pindi meeting
LAHORE: The government of Punjab has endorsed a decision of the Rawalpindi district administration to ban a public meeting the Pakistan People’s Party plans to hold on Friday....
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Kasuri briefs cabinet about foreign pressure
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri briefed the federal cabinet on Tuesday on apprehensions expressed by the West and some other countries over the proclamation of emergency....
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Only coalition legislators to attend NA session
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: An opposition-less National Assembly will meet on Wednesday for a session that could see some last-gasp rubberstamping before its scheduled demise on Nov 15....
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Protest lodged with UN
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 6: Pakistan on Tuesday lodged a protest with the Secretary General of the United Nations against his statement on internal developments in Pakistan, said a press statement issued here....
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‘US weapons should not be used against protesters’
WASHINGTON, Nov 6: The Amnesty International has asked the United States to ensure that weapons provided to Pakistan are not used to commit human rights violations against peaceful demonstrators protesting emergency rule....
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Four soldiers kidnapped
MIRAMSHAH, Nov 6: Four paramilitary soldiers were kidnapped in the Razmak area of the North Waziristan Agency on Tuesday....
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Six Afghan MPs among 50 killed
KABUL, Nov 6: At least 50 people, including six lawmakers, were killed or scores others wounded in a suicide bombing on Tuesday at a sugar factory in northern Afghanistan....
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Deer kills 2 Pakistani caretakers in Greece
ATHENS, Nov 6: A male red deer in a farm in central Greece killed its two Pakistani caretakers in an apparent mating frenzy when they ventured into the pen it shared with two females, Greek media said on Tuesday....
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Sikh’s ashes brought from held Kashmir
MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 6: Seven relatives of a 100-year-old Kashmiri Sikh who died in September and was cremated in occupied Kashmir have arrived here with his ashes, which they will throw into Jhelum River on Wednesday in fulfillment of his last wish....
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Sugarcane crushing delayed
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: The government and the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) have differed over the estimate of sugarcane output this season and an agreement for start of crushing season is...
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4 civilians injured in blasts
QUETTA, Nov 6: Four people were injured seriously in bomb and landmine explosions in Sibi and in the Sui area of Dera Bugti, on Tuesday....
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