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Policemen suspended for booking MMA leaders
ATTOCK, July 23: The local police on Sunday withdrew a case against the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leaders, while Central Police Office (CPO) Lahore transferred the SP Investigation Attock Syed Zahid Hussain Shirazi... 
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FIA ‘identifies’ seven human traffickers
GUJRAT, July 23: The FIA Gujranwala circle claims to have identified seven agents and lodged 57 FIRs against them and 57 illegal immigrants who had recently been deported by Spain....
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912 diarrhoea cases in 10 days
SIALKOT, July 23: As many as 912 cases of diarrhoea have been reported in various parts of the district, besides 12 dog-bite cases, during the last 10 days, according to the local health authorities....
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PPP workers’ case hearing today
ISLAMABAD, July 23: The case against PPP activists accused of attacking the Parliament House eight years ago will be heard in the court of civil judge and judicial magistrate Islamabad on Monday....
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Army team treats 30,000 Indonesian patients
ISLAMABAD, July 23: The team of Pakistan Army doctors and paramedics, which returned home after their seven-week long stay in Indonesia, treated over 30,000 patients and operated upon another 3,500 for...
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WSC rejects govt charge of links with terrorists LONDON, July 23: The World Sindh Congress (WSC) has denied allegations levelled against it by an unnamed Pakistani government official, as reported by Dawn in its July 20 issue....
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India-Iran gas pipeline deal in trouble: minister
NEW DELHI, July 23: An ambitious deal to build a gas pipeline between India and Iran through Pakistan has run into trouble, Iran’s foreign minister was quoted as saying on Sunday....
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Smooth sail for Pervaiz, Zaheer in PML polls
LAHORE, July 23: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi and Chaudhry Zaheeruddin stood re-elected, without contest, president and secretary-general of the Punjab PML on Sunday as no other candidate filed nomination papers against the two till the time set for the purpose....
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Qazi asks Muslim states to quit UN
LAHORE, July 23: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) president and Jamaat-i-Islami amir Qazi Hussain Ahmad on Sunday asked Muslim countries to quit the United Nations if it failed to stop Israeli aggression....
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ARD eyes London office
LAHORE, July 23: The ARD has decided in principle to have its brief organisational setup in London for coordination with the British MPs and media....
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Demand for arrest of ‘killer’ policemen
HYDERABAD, July 23: Activists of different political parties along with relatives of Ghulam Rasool Brohi, a labourer allegedly killed in a so-called police encounter in Karachi, blocked the Kotri railway crossing on Sunday....
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Show cause notice served on AJK MP
MUZAFFARABAD, July 23: The Jammu Kashmir People’s Muslim League (JK PML) convener Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry has served a showcause notice on a newly-elected lawmaker of his party for allegedly voting...
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Man, two sons shot dead in Haripur
HARIPUR, July 23: A man, his two sons and another relative were shot dead on Sunday, allegedly over a love affair, in village Kag located some 15 km off here....
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Sialkot potable water supply project soon
SIALKOT, July 23: On the directions of the Punjab chief minister, the Public Health Engineering Department will soon launch a master plan for ensuring the supply of clean drinking water to the people in Sialkot....
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Two tehsil councils refuse audit
GUJRANWALA, July 23: The audit department has started audit of almost all union and tehsil councils while two TCs have declined to hand over their record to the respective teams, it is learnt here....
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Flood warning for Uch Sharif
BAHAWALPUR, July 23: Several villages and localities near Panjnad headworks in Uch Sharif sub-tehsil limits, about 70km from here, were facing flood threat following rise in water level in Chenab river....
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Computerisation of land records faces resistance
ISLAMABAD, July 23: A task given to the National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) to computerise land and revenue record in Islamabad is facing resistance from the capital city’s bureaucracy, Dawn learnt on Sunday....
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CAA revenue to touch Rs10.2bn in 2006
RAWALPINDI, July 23: Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Maj (retired) Tanveer Hussain Syed has said the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will generate record revenue of Rs10.2 billion this year....
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Man electrocuted
ISLAMABAD, July 23: A labourer was electrocuted here on Sunday, police said....
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Hazardous pesticides in agriculture dept stores LAHORE, July 23: Tons of obsolete and hazardous pesticides have been lying in agriculture department’s stores in 28 districts of Punjab for years posing threat of air, soil and groundwater contamination...
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