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| December 13, 2007 | Thursday | Zilhaj 2, 1428 |
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15 soldiers killed, 38 injured in Waziristan attacks
MIRAMSHAH, Dec 12: Fifteen soldiers were killed and 38 others injured in an attack and in roadside explosions in different areas of North Waziristan on Wednesday, officials and local people said.... 
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Cabinet raises power tariff : Neelum-Jhelum hydel project cost revised
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: The caretaker cabinet approved on Wednesday an increase in electricity tariff by 10 paisa per unit....
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Unilateral strike still an option, but no plans to send troops: US
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates has said that the United States can act ‘unilaterally’ to strike at terrorists hiding inside Pakistan’s tribal areas, but has no plans to send troops inside the country....
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90 minutes of daily load-shedding
LAHORE: Facing a deficit of 1,500 megawatts because of a shortfall in hydel and gas-fired power generation, the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) on Wednesday started loadshedding for one and a half hours throughout the country....
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MMA ceases to be an electoral alliance: Qazi
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has fallen apart as an electoral alliance, but remains an ‘ideological coalition’, according to Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed....
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Aitzaz to withdraw poll papers
LAHORE, Dec 12: Pakistan People’s Party leader and Supreme Court Bar Association president Aitzaz Ahsan has decided to withdraw his nomination papers for the NA-124 Lahore seat....
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Benazir calls for foiling ‘poll rigging’ plan
PESHAWAR, Dec 12: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has called upon the people to frustrate what she called the king’s party’s plans to rig the January 8 elections....
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20 militants in Swat killed: govt
PESHAWAR, Dec 12: Troops killed 20 militants in an ongoing offensive against supporters of a militant cleric in Swat, officials said on Wednesday....
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2 security men shot dead
Police sources said Mohammad Yaqoob and Mohammad Ismail came under fire when they were on a patrol duty. One of them died on the spot and the other in hospital....
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Gwadar police official killed in grenade attack
QUETTA, Dec 12: A Gwadar police official was killed and two personnel were injured in a hand-grenade attack in the Hub industrial town on Wednesday night....
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Hostel attacked in Khuzdar
QUETTA, Dec 12: A hand grenade was hurled on a hostel of the Midwife Training School in Khuzdar and a vehicle of the Frontier Corps escaped a bomb attack in Pir Koh area of Dera Bugti district on Wednesday....
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Missile defence shield to be ready in three years: India
NEW DELHI, Dec 12: India expects to have its missile defence shield ready in three years, a development that would help secure the country’s ‘high value assets’ and major cities like...
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Policy on Israel unchanged: FO
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: The Foreign Office on Wednesday said Pakistan’s policy on Israel and India remained unchanged....
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500,000 bales of Indian cotton to be imported
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: The government on Wednesday allowed import of 500,000 bales of short staple cotton from India through land route (Wagah) to overcome domestic shortage, it is learnt....
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Afghanistan closes border at Chaman
QUETTA, Dec 12: The Afghan government closed on Wednesday its border with Pakistan at Chaman after Pakistan officials had stopped a large number of trucks carrying flour and wheat to Afghanistan....
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Top general assassinated in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Dec 12: A top Lebanese army officer and his bodyguard were killed on Wednesday in a powerful car bomb that further destabilised the country as it grapples with a presidential vacuum....
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Missile talks
BUDAPEST, Dec 12: Russia and the United States will hold talks in Budapest on Thursday on plans to install parts of a missile defence system in central Europe, which Moscow has sharply criticised, the US embassy said.—AFP...
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PPP sees coalition without Musharraf
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto expects her Pakistan People’s Party to pick up additional seats in the January election but will have to enter into a coalition to create a ruling majority, The Washington Times reported on Wednesday....
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