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PPP Secy-General arrested
Islamabad, August 21
Pakistan People’s Party secretary-general and former Federal Minister Jehangir Badar was today arrested from Lahore on the charges of corruption. This is the first incident of arrest of a senior political leader after the military regime announced the roadmap for the General Elections in October 2002. UNI

6 die in pre-poll violence in B’desh
Dhaka, August 21 
Six persons were killed in clashes during campaigning for the October elections in Bangladesh even as the country’s caretaker government vowed to step up its efforts to tackle terrorism and announced deployment of the army at sensitive places. PTI