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PPP to contest SC move against Gilani

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Saturday, 04 February 2012 00:00
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ISLAMABAD, FEB 3: The ruling Pakistan Peoples Party’s top leadership has decided to contest the Supreme Court’s move to frame contempt charges against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani while not seeking any sort of confrontation with the judiciary, according to a media report on Friday.

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Suu Kyi postpones major election rally

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Saturday, 04 February 2012 00:00
Author / Source : AFP
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YANGON, Feb 3: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has postponed a major political rally in the central city of Mandalay because the venue offered by the authorities is too small, her party said Friday.

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Priyanka hits campaign trail in UP

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Saturday, 04 February 2012 00:00
Author / Source : pti
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Amethi, Feb 3: Hitting the campaign trail in Uttar Pradesh, Congress’ star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi Friday asked the electorate to realise the strength of their vote and exercise their franchise for a change in the state where politics over the last 22 years has become totally “religion and caste-based”.

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Indian SC poses questions to govt on Army Chief's age row

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Saturday, 04 February 2012 00:00
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New Delhi, Feb 3: Army Chief Gen V K Singh seems to have won the first round in the legal battle on the age row with the Supreme Court on Friday saying the manner in which his statutory complaint was rejected by the Government “appears to be vitiated“.

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Taliban modernising, says former anti-vice enforcer

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Saturday, 04 February 2012 00:00
Author / Source : AFP
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KABUL, Feb 3: Sitting cross-legged on a blood-red Afghan carpet in a house perched on a Kabul hillside, the bearded man gazes out across the sprawling city where he was once one of the most feared men in town.

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