Committee to examine PPP package
ISLAMABAD, June 3: The Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N have agreed to form a joint committee to examine the constitutional package proposed by the PPP to pave the way...
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Musharraf comes under intense flak in NA
ISLAMABAD, June 3: President Pervez Musharraf came under intense flak from his critics on Tuesday during a noisy debate in National Assembly over a deadly US missile strike in the Bajaur...
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Nawaz says position on Kargil vindicated
LAHORE, June 3: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif claimed on Tuesday that his position had been vindicated by Lt-Gen (retd) Jamshed Gulzar Kyani’s assertion that he had not been taken on board on the Kargil operation....
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Call at UN summit to scrap food export bans, end barriers
ROME, June 3: A United Nations summit on the global food crisis called on Tuesday for reducing trade barriers and the scrapping of food export bans to help stop the spread of hunger that threatens nearly one billion people....
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UAE drops charges against Asif: ambassador
ABU DHABI, June 3: Pakistan Ambassador Ahsan Ullah Khan said here on Tuesday that charges against cricketer Mohammad Asif, detained on arrival at the Dubai airport, had been dropped....
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Five children die in Quetta blast
QUETTA, June 3: Five Afghan children were killed and five others were injured in an explosion in a house on the Sariab Road on Tuesday....
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Provinces asked to lift ban on flour movement
ISLAMABAD, June 3: The Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet asked the provincial governments on Tuesday to lift a ban on inter-provincial movement of flour to improve its supply to areas facing food shortage....
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Shahbaz to take over as CM this week
RAWALPINDI, June 3: Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that the party’s president, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, will take over as chief minister of Punjab as the Election...
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Danish FM leads memorial for Islamabad bomb victims
COPENHAGEN, June 3: Denmark’s foreign minister led a sombre memorial in Copenhagen for victims of a deadly suicide attack that rocked the Danish embassy in Pakistan....
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Pick-up hits roadside bomb; four killed
PARACHINAR, June 3: Four people, two children among them, were killed and six others were injured by a blast in the Kurram tribal region on Tuesday....
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Six die as car falls into river
UPPER DIR, June 3: Five members of a family and their driver were killed when their car plunged into a river in Upper Dir on Monday night....
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US general is new chief of Afghan Nato forces
KABUL, June 3: A new US general took command of Nato forces in Afghanistan on Tuesday, vowing to deal with militants who stood in the way of stability, as new attacks killed around two dozen people including three alliance troops....
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Obama set to clinch nomination
WASHINGTON, June 3: Senator Barack Obama has achieved the delegates required to win the Democratic nomination for the 2008 presidential election, campaign officials of his rival Hillary Clinton conceded on Tuesday....
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Geelani stopped from joining Golden Temple function
NEW DELHI, June 3: Kashmiri hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani was put under house arrest in Srinagar on Tuesday to prevent him from travelling to Amritsar where he was to...
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US tightens entry rules for travellers
WASHINGTON, June 3: Travellers from Japan and Western Europe will face tighter restrictions on coming to the United States beginning in January, according to new rules unveiled on Tuesday by the US government....
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Adm Mullen arrives for anti-terror talks
ISLAMABAD, June 3: Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen arrived here on Tuesday for counter-terrorism talks with military leaders. This is his second visit in three months....
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People affected by dam warn of protests
QUETTA, June 3: An action committee of the people affected by the Mirani dam in Kech district announced on Tuesday its plan for observing a token hunger strike from Wednesday in protest against government’s failure to compensate the affected people....
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Lawyers reject constitutional package
RAWALPINDI, June 3: Lawyers do not accept the proposed constitutional package giving legal status to those judges who have taken oath under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO)....
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