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Call to give up policy of confrontation QUETTA, Feb 12: The Pukhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party and Balochistan National Party (Mengal) have asked the government to abandon its policy of victimizing the Baloch and Pukhtuns, warning that a confrontational...		Security forces suffered losses: Bugti QUETTA, Feb 12: Jamhoori Watan Party leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti has claimed that security forces suffered heavy losses in recent clashes with tribesmen in Dera Bugti and Kahan areas....
38 more Senate nomination papers filed ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: The total number of candidates who filed nomination papers till Sunday reached 63 after 38 more candidates from Punjab, Sindh, NWFP and the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) filed their papers for Senate seats....		Duty-free access: Dhaka’s list not received ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: Pakistan has not received any list of 73 items for which Bangladesh wants duty-free access to Pakistani markets....
Most aid pledges yet to be met ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: President Gen Pervez Musharraf is reported to have expressed dissatisfaction over ‘slow-paced efforts’ by the Foreign Office in getting funds pledged by countries and agencies for rehabilitation and reconstruction of quake-ravaged areas....		3 police tents outside UN compound gutted MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 12: Three tents used by local police guarding the United Nations compound here were gutted when a five broke out on Sunday night....
Strike observed MINGORA, Feb 12: A strike was observed here on Sunday on the call of local traders’ organizations in protest against the publication of blasphemous caricatures by some European newspapers....		Three blast victims buried KOHAT, Feb 12: Bodies of three unidentified victims of the Hangu blast were buried in Sherkot on Sunday. The burnt bodies were kept in the Hangu hospital for three days, but...
Mob damages four cinemas in Okara: No let-up in protests OKARA, Feb 12: Participants in a rally jointly taken out here on Sunday by religious parties and traders’ bodies turned violent and damaged four cinema houses, besides pillaging two petrol pumps....		Case registered for attack on officer MULTAN, Feb 12: A senior officer of the Pakistan Air Force was shot and injured in his ancestral village in Kabirwala tehsil of Khanewal district reportedly over a property dispute....
Widow, children kidnapped SAHIWAL, Feb 12: A widow and her three children were kidnapped by six armed men in Chak 15-WM on Sunday. Reports said that Wahid Bibi, her seven year daughter and two...		Police station attack: case against nazim, supporters MIANWALI, Feb 12: District Naib Nazim Malik Tariq Masood Kund and his several supporters were booked for provoking people to attack the police station, blocking a road and misusing loudspeaker....
Mandi riot: ‘police initiated assault’ MANDI BAHAUDDIN, Feb 12: Religio-political party leaders on Sunday expressed concern over turmoil at the railway station, blaming the police for making inadequate security arrangements....		Sewer gas ‘kills’ five SAHIWAL, Feb 12: Sewer gas claimed five lives here on Sunday near Chak 103/7-R while two others fell unconscious. Reports said Talim and his brother Amjad entered the sewerage tube-well to repair its motor....
Cell-phone firm suffers wrath RAHIM YAR KHAN, Feb 12: Religious parties representing different schools of thought, political parties and the Markazi Anjuman-i-Tajraan held a demonstration here on Sunday to protest against the publication of blasphemous caricatures....		Train mishaps scare away passengers RAWALPINDI, Feb 12: The two tragic incidents of derailment of trains in January have drastically cut the number of passengers travelling from Rawalpindi, sources in the railway reservation office told Dawn....
12 mills behind sugar crisis: PML-N ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has accused the owners of 12 sugar mills, majority of whom belonged to the ruling party, of robbing the masses of Rs60 billion during the ongoing sugar crisis....		‘Behaviour change must to protect women rights’ ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: Chairperson National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Women Development Mehnaz Rafi on Sunday said she would shortly table in the house a bill on prevention of domestic violence and workplace harassment against women....
Demotion of 400 doctors criticized RAWALPINDI, Feb 12: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has condemned the demotion of about 400 doctors, promoted seven years ago under the devolution plan, by the Punjab government and demanded their reinstatement....		Sultan calls for ‘political high alert’ ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: Leader of the House in the AJK Legislative Assembly Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry has given a call for ‘political high alert’ to the party activists to ensure a stunning victory in the forthcoming AJK polls....
Kidnapped girl still untraceable RAWALPINDI, Feb 12: A teenage girl, who was kidnapped along with her eight-year-old brother from Dhoke Chaudhrian on February 3, is yet to be recovered by the police, the family of the missing girl said....		ILO staff send clothes for quake victims ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: Thirty-three tons of warm clothes will reach here soon for distribution among the quake affected people of seven districts of Azad Kashmir and NWFP....
Man killed RAWALPINDI, Feb 12: One person was shot dead and two others were injured during a highway robbery in the Sihala police area on Sunday....		ECC rejects CBR’s proposal: Levy on Gur export ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the federal cabinet has dropped the summary proposal of the Central Board of Revenue (CBR), seeking levy of 15 per cent regulatory duty on export of ‘Gur’ to Afghanistan....
Education census report in May LAHORE, Feb 12: Data about 90,000 or so educational institutions of all categories in the public and private sector in the country has been collected so far under the first National Education Census....		Nankana to Amritsar bus service from 24th LAHORE, Feb 12: The regular bus service between Nankana Sahib and Amritsar will start on Feb 24. PTDC bus terminal in-charge Arshad Ali told APP here on Sunday....
Demo by PML-N, PPP LAHORE, Feb 12: The PPP and PML-N leaders and workers demonstrated outside Lohari Gate on Sunday against the rising prices of essential items, sugar in particular, publication of blasphemous cartoons and growing violence in society....		Work on hospital abandoned due to lack of funds PESHAWAR, Feb 12: The city district government has abandoned work on an under-construction hospital because of non-availability of funds, officials said....
Kabul relaxes permit rule for a few days LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Feb 12: Afghan authorities on Sunday allowed about 300 vehicles stranded here because of lack of route permits to enter Afghanistan after negotiations with the Landi Kotal political administration....		Senate poll by show of hands urged: Govt promoting horse-trading: Fazl DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Feb 12: Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman has accused the government of promoting horse-trading in the upcoming Senate elections....
Cartoons: protesters block road LAKKI MARWAT, Feb 12: Protesters on Sunday blocked the Lakki-Mianwali Road for over an hour during a demonstration against the publication of blasphemous caricatures in some European newspapers....		PML’s stand on Bajaur incident, cartoons clear, says Shujaat NOWSHERA, Feb 12: Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Sunday said that the PML had adopted a clear stand on the Bajaur incident, Hangu blast and the publication of sacrilegious cartoons by some European newspapers....
‘Situation in Hangu improving’ ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao has said that the security situation in Hangu is improving and firing in the area has stopped....		Quake-hit areas exempted from property taxes ABBOTTABAD, Feb 12: NWFP Local Government Minister Sardar Mohammad Idrees has directed the excise and taxation department not to send property tax notices to people in the districts affected by earthquake....