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Terrorist acts feared on Sept. 11

Benazir files nomination for reserved women's seat

PPP to challenge rejection of Benazir's papers

Judge refuses to hear case

MMA leaders hold late-night meeting

Benazir to file plea against disqualification

A top organiser of the September 11 terrorist strikes in the U.S. is one of the five suspected Al Qaida militants, arrested in the port city of Karachi in a bloody shootout three days ago, Pakistani security officials said yesterday.

Five held for plotting to kill Musharraf

The Election Commission of Pakistan yesterday rejected former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's nomination papers on the remaining two National Assembly seats, triggering a wave of protests from her party workers in various parts of the southern Sindh province.

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf yesterday vowed he would not allow corrupt politicians who looted the country to return to power and urged the people to elect honest and good representatives in the October 10 elections.

Former premier Benazir Bhutto's lawyers will file an appeal today before a tribunal, set up by the election commission, challenging her disqualification from the October 10 elections, her party spokesman said.

\An alliance of Pakistan's main Islamic parties urged the people yesterday to use what they called the "ballot bomb" in the October 10 elections to defeat the pro-U.S. military government and its allied politicians.