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• Screening of Indian movies only way to revive Pakistan cinema industry

  Published: September 16, 2007, 5:33 am

  Tags: Bollywood News, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Quetta, Gujranwala, Sukkar, Multan, Sialkot, Cinemas

  Critics have suggested that the screening of Indian movies is the only way to revive Pakistan’s cinema industry. They said the illegal screening of Indian films on cable TV channels and CDs has reduced audiences at the cinema halls by 60 per cent. Cinema owners are of the opinion that the government should allow them to screen [...]

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• Dozens Die As Pakistani Troops Battle Insurgents

  Published: November 2, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Dozens, Die, Pakistani, Troops, Battle, Insurgents, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, Maulana Fazlullah, Farhatullah Babar, Dubai, Karachi, Mingaora, Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, The Taliban, United Arab Emirates, United States

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 1 -- Pakistani forces fought pitched battles with insurgents Thursday in a scenic northwestern valley, leaving dozens dead. The violence came on a day when the Supreme Court indicated that President Pervez Musharraf's election to a new term would remain in legal limbo fo...

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• Indian Gay Sex Workers Confident They Cannot Contact HIV

  Published: November 6, 2007, 8:57 pm

  Tags: Rawalpindi, Confident, Contact, Desire, Disembarking, Dusk, Falls, Gauges, Gay Sex Workers, Glance, Health, Indian, Life, Pakistan, Pakistani, Passengers, Plies, Responsive, Shujaat, Slender, Suggesting, Virus, Wadhai, Wink

  "Shujaat plies his trade well. read more

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• Keeping Pakistanis in the Dark

  Published: November 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Keeping, Pakistanis, The, Dark, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, Hasan Khan, Islamabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Aaj Television, British Broadcasting Corporation, Cable News Network Lp Lllp, Facebook Inc, Hamid Mir, Imtiaz Ali, Karachi, Liaqad Ali, Peshawar, Qasim Nauman, Shahzad K

  LAHORE, Pakistan, Nov. 8 -- At a popular neighborhood tea shop, day laborers, bricklayers and rickshaw pullers rushed in after work Thursday to talk with friends over tin cups of steaming, milky chai. But something was missing from their twilight ritual: the evening news.

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• Bhutto under house arrest in Pakistan

  Published: November 9, 2007, 8:41 am

  Tags: Rawalpindi, Address, Armored, Arrest, Barbed, Batons, Benazir, Bhutto, Chase, Defy, Dozens, Emergency, Friday, Gatherings, Hands, Hundreds, Hurled, Islamabad, Leader, Minister, Musharraf, Muslims, Nearby, Opposition, Pakistan, Peshawar, Planned, Police, Politics, Protest, Rally, Report

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• Benazir Bhutto Is Permitted to Leave Home

  Published: November 10, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: Rawalpindi, Activity, Benazir Bhutto, Blocked, Brief, Building, Carried, Corps, Diplomatic, Flurry, Given, Government, Independent, Islamabad, Journalists, Justice, Minister, Nearby, Officers, Opposition Leader, Ousted, Pakistan, Pakistani, Parliament, Planned, Police, Politics

  Finally, a democratic change is in the wind for Pakistan..... read more

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• Bhutto under `virtual house arrest` - spokeswoman

  Published: November 11, 2007, 10:54 pm

  Tags: Rawalpindi, Arrest, Attack, Benazir, Bhutto, Bomb, House, Islamabad, Karachi, Killed, Leader, Militancy, Musharraf, Nuclear Armed, Opposition, Pakistani, Pervez, Police, Politics, President, Rehman, Sherry, Spokeswoman, Suicide, Virtual

  "A senior police official said an order placing Bhutto under house arrest had been prepared. read more

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• For Pakistani Students, a Reawakening: 'We Can't Just Sit Idle'

  Published: November 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: For, Pakistani, Students, Reawakening, Can T, Just, Sit, Idle, Imran Khan, Lahore, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Fayaz Tahir, Islamabad, Peshawar, Samad Khurram, Ashar Hussain, Fatima Barbar, Imtiaz Ali, Malik Aman, Mardan, Rawalpindi, Zia Ul Haq, Harvard Univ

  LAHORE, Pakistan, Nov. 11 -- The accounting majors at the elite Lahore University of Management Sciences have rarely demonstrated against anything, preferring Punjabi pop music to protest songs. Cynicism about Pakistan's parade of autocratic and corrupt leaders had replaced civil disobedience, they...

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• Dissident Leader, Ex-Envoy Are Arrested in Pakistan

  Published: November 15, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Dissident, Leader, Ex Envoy, Are, Arrested, Pakistan, Imran Khan, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Abida Hussain, Hafeez Niazi, Lahore, Nawaz Sharif, United States, George W Bush, The White House, The Associated Press, Gordon Johndroe, Rawalpindi, Robin Wright, Al Qaeda

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 14 -- Pakistani authorities on Wednesday arrested former cricket star Imran Khan, one of the last major opposition leaders to remain at large since the military-led government declared emergency rule and began widespread detentions. A former ambassador to the United States,...

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• Dissident Leader, Ex-Envoy Are Arrested in Pakistan

  Published: November 15, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Dissident, Leader, Ex Envoy, Are, Arrested, Pakistan, Imran Khan, Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Abida Hussain, Hafeez Niazi, Lahore, Nawaz Sharif, United States, George W Bush, The White House, The Associated Press, Gordon Johndroe, Rawalpindi, Robin Wright, Al Qaeda

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 14 -- Pakistani authorities on Wednesday arrested former cricket star Imran Khan, one of the last major opposition leaders to remain at large since the military-led government declared emergency rule and began widespread detentions. A former ambassador to the United States,...

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• Pakistan's Lawyers On the Front Lines

  Published: November 19, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Pakistan S, Lawyers, The, Front, Lines, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Pervez Musharraf, Islamabad, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, Rawalpindi, Abdul Rehman, Asad Abbasi

  RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- They inhabit a world of shabby, obscure respectability, meeting clients in mazes of open-air cubicles with old typewriters and frayed files, conferring in narrow alleys around crumbling courthouses and appearing in dim, chairless chambers whose hand-scrawled schedules are...

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• Suicide Bomb Explosion Nr Headquarters Pakistan Army

  Published: November 23, 2007, 10:48 pm

  Tags: Islamabad, Pakistan, Rawalpindi, Victoria, Army, Blog, Bomb, Emergencies, Explosion, Politics, Suicide, Vinny

  " ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives near the headquarters of the Pakistan army on Saturday, causing an unspecified number of casualties, a military spokesman said.The blast occurred in a busy street near the army base in Rawalpindi, a...read more

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• At Least 35 Die in Twin Attacks in Headquarters City of Pakistani Army

  Published: November 24, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Least, Die, Twin, Attacks, Headquarters, City, Pakistani, Army, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Islamabad, Lahore, Mohammed Afzal, Sadique Al Farooq, Pakistan Muslim League, Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence, Saudi Arabia, United States

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Suicide bombers hit a bus carrying intelligence agency employees and a checkpoint near the headquarters of the Pakistan army on Saturday, killing at least 35 people, officials said.

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• Political Talk Defies Ban in Pakistan

  Published: November 25, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Political, Talk, Defies, Ban, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Hamid Mir, Islamabad, Imran Khan, Talat Hussain, Dubai, Ayaz Amir, Mohsin Raza, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, United Arab Emirates

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Nov. 24 -- Pakistan's popular TV talk shows, once touted by the government as proof of democratic progress but now banned from broadcasting, took to the streets this week, drawing enthusiastic crowds around a sidewalk stage that replicates a studio set and engaging politicians...

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• Musharraf Says Farewells Ahead of Quitting as Army Chief

  Published: November 28, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Musharraf, Says, Farewells, Ahead, Quitting, Army, Chief, Pervez Musharraf, Nawaz Sharif, Ashfaq Kiyani, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

  RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Nov. 27 -- President Pervez Musharraf said farewell to his fellow generals Tuesday, a day before stepping down from his post as army chief in a bid to ease mounting domestic and international pressure to restore civilian rule.

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