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Zardari vows to fight back, says only his 'dead body' would be lifted from Presidency

Karachi News.Net Sunday 20th December, 2009 Lahore, Dec. 20 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is undeterred by the present turmoil in the country and the wide scale demand for his resignation, and has made it clear that he would fight it out come what may.

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Related Topix: World News, Pakistan, Pakistan People's Party, Benazir Bhutto

Sat Dec 19, 2009

Daily Times

Japanese Special Economic Zone in Karachi lauded

KARACHI: Japan's ambassador Chihiro Atsumi complimented Pakistan Japan Business Forum for its pioneering efforts in promoting establishment of Japanese Special Economic Zone in Karachi, which will be effective tool to enhance trade relations between both countries.

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Daily Times

Biggest bank robbery of Pakistan: Poor footage impeding bank heist investigation

Biggest bank robbery of Pakistan: Poor footage impeding bank heist investigation * Shahid Mehmood's CNIC was used by the mastermind to get hired by the security company By Faraz Khan KARACHI: The cameras installed at most banks are of inferior technology and do not provide much help to police in their investigations regarding the country's biggest ...

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The News

KARACHI 10 years back

Release of Hamoodur Rehman Commission report demanded Thursday, December 17, 2009 Karachi, December 17, 1999 Commemorating the Fall of Dhaka day on Thursday, various organizations demanded repatriation of stranded Pakistanis from Bangladesh and making public of the Hamoodur Rehman Commission report to expose the persons involved in the conspiracy ...

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Fri Dec 18, 2009

The Hindu

Pakistan in a tizzy as NRO verdict is implemented

ISLAMABAD: Two days after Pakistan's Supreme Court annulled the National Reconciliation Ordinance, the Pakistan People's Party government was in complete turmoil as its Ministers faced possible arrest, summons from accountability courts and restrictions on travel abroad.

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The News

Karachi's oldest police station in a shambles

Friday, December 18, 2009 By Salis bin Perwaiz Karachi Karachi currently has more than 100 police stations in various parts of the city.

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Chowk

NRO and Karachi businessmen

The writer says that Karachi based businessmen were treated particularly nicely, but this is fallacious as the list for Karachi includes Lahore and Sindh.

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Thu Dec 17, 2009

Karachi News.Net

Pakistan defence minister stopped from leaving country

Karachi News.Net Thursday 17th December, 2009 Pakistan Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar was Thursday stopped from leaving the country at the airport here, a media report said.

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Daily Times

TTP commander held in Karachi

KARACHI: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan commander for the Naugolai area in Swat has been arrested, police said on Monday.

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The Tocqueville Connection

French victims of Pakistan blast accuse Sarkozy ally

A report commissioned by France's state naval construction firm, leaked in June, alleged that Balladur's political committee was to have received a cut on corrupt commissions on the sale of French submarines to Pakistan.

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Daily Times

PML-Q stages 'Long Live Pakistan' rally in Karachi

KARACHI: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-e-Azam staged a 'Long Live Pakistan' rally on Sunday to renew its pledge to make Pakistan stable, independent and sovereign.

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Wed Dec 16, 2009

The News

France to give visa to leather exporters for 4 years

Thursday, December 17, 2009 By our correspondent KARACHI: Leather export to France, Germany and Switzerland totalled around $170 million, only one per cent of total leather imports by these countries.

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The News

'Karachi is home to 10 million drug addicts'

Thursday, December 10, 2009 By our correspondent Karachi There are some 10 million drug addicts in Karachi, and about 50 million in the entire country, according to Anti-Narcotics Force Pakistan statistics.

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Southeast Asia News

Now, Pak religious scholars declare praying behind terror endorsing imams "haram"

Karachi, Dec. 16 : A fatwa issued by religious scholars has prohibited people from offering prayers behind any imam who endorses terrorism and suicide attacks on Muslims and mosques, and has declared doing so as ' haram' . "Suicide bombings and terrorist attacks in Pakistan are haram.

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Tue Dec 15, 2009

Gulf Times

Security firms under probe after bank heist

The Sindh Home Department has ordered the All Pakistan Security Agencies Association to investigate all security agencies operating in Karachi, sources said yesterday.

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Clover Herald

Americans arrested in Pakistan accused of planning attack

The five young American men detained in Pakistan were seeking jihad, or holy war, and were planning a big attack when arrested, local authorities in central Punjab charged Thursday.

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AndhraNews

Geneva Convention prohibits arrest of foreign diplomats: Malik

Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said foreign diplomats cannot be apprehended in the country, as doing so would violate the Geneva Convention.

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Chowk

Napaak Paki Kuttey Handlers

Pak officers working with jihadis, Headley confirms to FBI Sachin Parashar, TNN 14 December 2009, 02:03am IST Text Size: Topics: * Pakistan * FBI NEW DELHI: The FBI interrogation of David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani has, for the first time, confirmed what India has always known: A Twitter Facebook Share Email Print Save Comment Related ...

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Daily Times

'No Muslim involved in suicide attacks in country'

'The US wants international control on the Pakistani nukes, and terrorism is just a pretext to achieve that target,' said JI's chief Munawar Hassan at a one-day training congregation held at Nishtar Park on Sunday.

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Mon Dec 14, 2009

The Nation

Rs311m looted in Karachi bank heist

In one of the biggest bank heists in Pakistan, a security guard and his accomplices allegedly looted a private bank in the jurisdiction of Methadar Police Station of Sadr Town and decamped with approximately Rs 311 million.

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