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Nadra to sign MoU with SNGPL ISLAMABAD, April 16: National Database & Registration Authority (Nadra) would sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sui Southern Gas Pipelines Limited...		‘PPP to give strike call’ ISLAMABAD, April 16: The People’s Party Parliamentarians has decided to call a strike to protest against ‘police brutality’ and arrests of a large number of PPP parliamentarians and workers on the...
Three barrages in Sindh vulnerable at 93 points HYDERABAD, April 16: Sukkur Barrage chief engineer Mohammad Nawaz Memon has said 93 points of Sindh’ three barrages are vulnerable....		PM asks PIA to improve service ISLAMABAD, April 16: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Saturday asked the senior management of the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (PIAC) to redouble its efforts for...
Asif urges unity against dictatorship ATTOCK BRIDGE, April 16: People’s Party Parliamentarians leader Asif Ali Zardari has urged “genuine” political forces to...		Talks with opposition to continue, says PM ISLAMABAD, Apr 16: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the government would continue talks with all political parties to seek consensus on national issues....
Many AJK citizens still in Indian jails MUZAFFARABAD, April 16: Two Kashmiris, arrested from the southern district of Kotli in Azad Kashmir in an unexpected raid and taken across the Line of Control by Indian troops about four...		Police action against journalists condemned ISLAMABAD, April 16: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Information Secretary Taj Haider has criticized, what he termed, brutal action of the Punjab police against mediapersons...
CIIT, UK varsity sign collaboration accord ISLAMABAD, April 16: Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Queen Mary College, University of London, for active collaboration between the two institutions....		Corporatization of fisheries opposed ISLAMABAD, April 16: The People’s Rights Movement (PRM) and its constituent member Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) have condemned the government’s continuation of a policy of corporatizing the fisheries sector....
‘Efforts on to exploit human resources’ ISLAMABAD, April 16: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli has said the government is taking every possible step to exploit the tremendous human resource capital of the...		PPP apprises UN body of legislators’ arrests ISLAMABAD, April 16: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Saturday apprised the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) about the police action against...
Unicef for provision of clean water ISLAMABAD, April 16: United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has expressed concern over the tragedy of Qambar Ali Khan in Sindh and...		Avalanche kills three brothers in Gilgit GILGIT, April 16: A speedy avalanche killed three brothers in Haramoush village, some 35km east of here, on early Saturday, also killing their 57 goats...
Research on breast cancer LAHORE, April 16: The University of Health Sciences has launched a research project to identify markers for early diagnosis of breast cancer in Pakistan....		Govt lacks respect for rights: HRCP LAHORE, April 16: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Chairperson Asma Jehangir has said the brutal treatment meted out to thousands...
Spurious beverages seized LAHORE, April 16: The City District Government Lahore food squad seized some 840 bottles of spurious beverages and 650 litres of syrup during a raid on an indigenous bottling plant in...		Delegates arrive for WPC LAHORE, April 16: The 12th World Punjabi Conference will start here on Sunday (today) as delegates from India, Canada, Britain, Australia and America have started reaching the city....
Sherpao visits Central Jail institute LAHORE, April 16: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao paid a visit to the Central Jail Staff Training Institute on Saturday....		Wasa sell-off opposed LAHORE, April 16: Rajput Supreme Council Chairman Rao Khalid has said that the poor will be deprived of clean drinking water...
Scores of PPP men released on bail FAISALABAD, April 16: Scores of PPP leaders and activists, who were taken into custody across the Punjab in the last couple of days, were...		‘MMA bargained protest rally’ OKARA, April 16: JUI-F central secretary-general and MNA Mulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidri has said that after an assurance given by the Punjab chief minister...
Court witness shot dead KASUR, April 16: A court witness was shot dead on Saturday by some unknown assailants at Pattoki. Rashid alias Boota of Gujjarpura, Lahore, came to Pattoki to record his statement in...		Transport shortage SIALKOT, April 16: Hundreds of people, including women and children, remained stranded at bus and wagon stands on Saturday as administration impounded public transport....
Punjab’s GDP likely to grow by 7.5-8pc LAHORE, April 16: The Punjab’s overall GDP is likely to grow by 7.5-8 per cent this financial year as compared to 4.7 per cent in 2002-03, says a senior official....		PML-N MPA booked BAHAWALPUR, April 16: An MPA of the PML-N was booked on Saturday by Cantonment police allegedly for attacking and injuring two people....
Minister criticizes Western media PESHAWAR, April 16: Provincial Senior Minister Sirajul Haq has criticized the role of the Western media and held it responsible for the US invasion on Afghanistan and Iran....		35 members of city district council resign in protest PESHAWAR, April 16: Thirty-five members of the city district council tendered resignations on Saturday in protest against the...
Pakistan did not help Taliban:ex-diplomat PESHAWAR, April 16: Sultan Amir Imam, Pakistan’s former counsel-general in Heart of Afghanistan, has said that Pakistan has neither trained Taliban nor helped them form their government in Afghanistan....		MPA’s right to vote in by-poll defended PESHAWAR, April 16: Known lawyer Qazi Mohammad Anwar has rejected a demand made by Pakistan Muslim League leader Salim Saifullah Khan for preventing MPA Malik Imran from casting vote in the...
Karak faces acute water shortage PESHAWAR, April 16: People are facing numerous difficulties due to the persisting shortage of drinking water in the Karak district as the underground water has become increasingly brackish in the recent...		Thai envoy says NWFP has tourism potential PESHAWAR, April 16: Ambassador of Thailand Pisanu Chanvitan has said that the NWFP has a potential to attract foreign tourists as it has several historical places and its people are hospitable....
Six robbers in police guise loot official PESHAWAR, April 16: Six robbers in police uniform have looted the house of an irrigation department official in Pubbi town....		Raise in fares of transport slated RAWALPINDI, April 16: Commuters of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad have expressed concern over the increase in inter-city transport fares....