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| December 16, 2007 | Sunday | Zilhaj 5, 1428 |
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Amended Constitution restored : •Emergency lifted •Judges take fresh oath •PCO revoked
ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday lifted the emergency, repealed the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO) and revived the 1973 Constitution after effecting amendments through presidential decrees....
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Agitation won’t be tolerated, says Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday said that he was lifting the state of emergency before schedule, but at the same time declared that no agitation would be tolerated....
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— but wounds remain green
ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: Police barricades were still in place on Islamabad’s trouble-prone Constitution Avenue on Saturday even as President Pervez Musharraf lifted emergency but let the wounds inflicted by his extra-constitutional...
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Curbs on media to stay: president
WASHINGTON, Dec 15: President Pervez Musharraf has said that he has no desire to lift curbs placed on the media....
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Five killed in suicide attack
NOWSHERA, Dec 15: Five people were killed and 20 others injured on Saturday when a man riding a bicycle blew himself up at the main gate of a military facility — the Army Services Centre colony — in the Nowshera Cantonment....
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PML-Q confident of winning 150 seats
LAHORE, Dec 15: The Pakistan Muslim League of Chaudhry Shujaat Husain estimates that the party would win about 150 National Assembly seats in the elections and be able to form government...
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All leaders are despots and corrupt: Pirzada
NEW YORK, Dec 15: Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, renowned lawyer and perennial trouble-shooter for most military dictators from Ayub Khan to Pervez Musharraf, has said both civilian and military leaders have acted like despots and were corrupt....
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Qazi foresees massive poll rigging : APDM leaders withdraw poll papers
NOWSHERA/LAHORE, Dec 15: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad has claimed that the government plans massive rigging before and during polling, saying that the government has already formulated the election results....
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Rashid Rauf escapes from custody
ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: A suspected militant, who at one point was blamed by the Pakistani and British authorities of having links to a London-based group that was allegedly planning to blow...
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Bird flu kills first human in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: The authorities on Saturday confirmed the country’s first human death due to bird flu infection. Experts of the World Health Organisation are arriving here on Sunday to assess the situation....
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Aitzaz withdraws nomination papers
LAHORE, Dec 15: Nomination papers of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan were withdrawn by his wife on Saturday in a move set to add more weight to the call to boycott elections....
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Global warming agreement set for 2009
NUSA DUA (Indonesia), Dec 15: A drama-filled 190-nation conference on Saturday set a 2009 deadline for a landmark pact to fight global warming after an isolated United States backed down on last-ditch objections....
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PPP candidate stopped from filing papers
ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: A Pakistan People’s Party candidate was severely beaten up on Saturday morning to prevent him from submitting his nomination papers from Dera Bugti....
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Gas supply suspended
QUETTA, Dec 15: Gas supply to the Sui purification plant was suspended from the Pir Koh gas field after a main pipeline was blown up near Dera Bugti district’s Pash Bogi area on Saturday morning....
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Mukherjee welcomes end of emergency
NEW DELHI, Dec 15: Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee has welcomed the end of emergency rule in Pakistan and India’s national security adviser M.K. Narayanan spoke of respect for President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s struggles against difficult challenges....
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Brown urges level playing field
LONDON, Dec 15: Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged President Pervez Musharraf to allow a level playing field to all political parties in the coming elections and ensure transparency of the...
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Talks with govt futile, says APNS
KARACHI, Dec 15: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has concluded that “engagement with the ministry of information under prevailing circumstances is a futile exercise as the government is consistently curbing the expression of press freedom through arbitrary actions”....
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Amendments assailed
ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chairman Raja Zafar-ul-Haq on Saturday criticised the government for making constitutional amendments through a presidential order, saying only parliament had the authority to amend the Constitution....
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