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PML to discuss Balochistan situation today
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The central executive committee of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League will meet here on Monday to discuss the overall political situation, including issues related to Balochistan, party sources told Dawn.... 
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Pakistan tops UN peacekeepers’ list
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 3: With Pakistan topping the list of troop contributors, the UN peacekeeping deployment reached a historic high at the end of October, the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) has reported....
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FTA talks with GCC under way: Kasuri
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: Negotiations are continuing with the Gulf Cooperation Council on a framework of the Free Trade Agreement, Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri said on Sunday....
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PPP scents winds of change
LAHORE, Dec 3: The Punjab PPP president claims that winds of change have started blowing, and the voters will throw the ruling PML out of power in the next election....
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Drugs worth Rs45m looted: 12 gunmen storm warehouse
LAHORE, Dec 03: Robbers in over two dozen successful strikes on Sunday took away cash and valuables worth millions, including drugs worth Rs45 million from the warehouse of a multinational pharmaceutical company in Sabzazar....
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Misbah case: LHC to take up appeal today
LAHORE, Dec 3: A Lahore High Court division bench is scheduled to take up on Monday the intra-court appeal through which Sajjad Ahmad Rana, the father of 12-year Scottish Muslim girl...
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Backlog slashed by two-third, says SC
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: A number of administrative changes, reshuffling, curtailing of vacations by judges and suo motu actions by the chief justice improved the performance of the Supreme Court last year,...
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PM pledges more funds for Attock
ISLAMABAD Dec 3: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday said the government would allocate additional funds for the provision of electricity, roads, gas, clean drinking water, and better education and health facilities to the residents of Attock....
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Lips stitched to malign jail staff: inquiry
LAHORE, Dec 3: An under-trial prisoner in Kot Lakhpat jail, who appeared lip-stitched before a local court the other day, had done it on his own to malign the jail staff, an official inquiry team found out on Sunday....
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Bank official jailed
QUETTA, Dec 3: An accountability court has convicted a former manager of the Sibi branch of the United Bank Ltd in a corruption case and sentenced him to five-year imprisonment....
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Blast victim’s mother dies of shock
QUETTA, Dec 3: The mother of Nushki’s bomb blast victim died when her son’s body was brought home on Sunday. Mohammad Younus died when a powerful bomb blew up a pylon in Nushki on Saturday....
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WB team in Abbotabad
PESHAWAR, Dec 3: A five-member Tax Administration Reform Project Supervision Mission of the World Bank, along with four senior officers from the Central Board of Revenue (CBR), visited the Regional Tax Office in Abbotabad.—APP...
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Balochistan varsity gets vehicles
Quetta, Dec3: Two companies have donated three buses and a van to Balochistan University which lost its 18 buses in riots after the killing of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti....
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A historic temple in ruins
MULTAN, Dec 3: The historic Perhaladpuri temple to the north of the shrine of Hazrat Bahauddin Zakariya has become a chapter of history as the Evacuee Trust Property Board, which looks...
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Toba property record ‘not in safe hands’
TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 3: No adequate arrangements are in place for the protection of the district’s important property record at the district headquarters in the DCO office....
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Plea to provide subsidy to LPG consumers
BAHAWALPUR, Dec 3: The LPG distributors association has urged the government to recover Rs7 billion `undue’ profit earned by LPG producers and provide subsidy with this recovered amount to consumers....
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Police fail to arrest six accused in rape case
MULTAN, Dec 3: Lodhran police have failed to arrest six accused of raping a minor girl and could not get her medical examination conducted even after a lapse of three weeks....
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Wagon accident leaves four dead
GUJRANWALA, Dec 3: Four passengers were killed while another 15 suffered injuries when a wagon rammed into a roadside tree on Sialkot Road near Sodara on Sunday night....
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Land acquired for Multan DHQ hospital
MULTAN, Dec 3: City district nazim Mian Faisal Mukhtar said on Sunday land had been acquired at a cost of Rs 53.5 million for the Rs500 million new district headquarters hospital at Hassan Sawali Chowk here....
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Timber mafia thriving
GUJRAT, Dec 3: Timber mafia allegedly with the connivance of some forest officials, illegally cut down trees worth Rs2 million from Daffar forest in Mandi Bahauddin during the last three days....
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‘Foul play’ in chamber election
OKARA, Dec 3: Federation of Chambers of Commerce & Industries Pakistan (FCCI) presidential candidate Mian Misbahur Rehman visited the offices of Okara chamber here on Sunday....
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Loadshedding of gas decried
BAHAWALPUR, Dec 3: Consumers have lodged a strong protest with the SNGPL management against the unannounced gas loadshedding and low pressure, particularly, during peak morning hours....
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MMA leader
OKARA, Dec 3: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif will have to decide soon whether his party will continue to support PPP which is in contact with Musharraf or it is ready to quit assembles to `save democracy’....
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Now computerised arms licences
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: After computerising passports and driving licences, the government is introducing Computerised Arms Licence (CAL) to check misuse of weapons and keep complete data of licence holders, Dawn learnt on Sunday....
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Cut in HEC budget: several programmes scrapped
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has closed down a number of programmes due to a Rs4 billion cut in its budget by the Ministry of Finance....
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Fast food comes too fast for some
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: McDonalds, the international fast food chain, has opened its first outlet in Islamabad in haste - to beat a court action that some citizens were contemplating, it seems....
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Container of liquor seized
ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The Shalimar police on Sunday seized a container suspected of carrying a huge quantity of liquor booked from Karachi for an embassy in Islamabad....
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Fund-raising walk by SOS children
LAHORE, Dec 3: Efforts are being made to provide better health and education facilities to children because future leaders in every walk of life will come forward from among them....
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31,478 acres of land declared controlled area
LAHORE, Dec 3: The Punjab Housing and Town Planning Agency has declared 31,478 acre land between Lahore Ring Road, Mominpura, River Ravi and BRB Canal controlled area for the proposed lake...
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HRCP to organise week of protests
LAHORE, Dec 3: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) will organise a week of protests against `enforced disappearances’, to highlight the situation of the hundreds of people `picked up’ across the country....
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Light rain in plains of Punjab
LAHORE, Dec 3: The plains of Punjab on Sunday received light rain owing to a westerly system which also generated snowfall in the Northern Areas....
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‘Country in dire straits’
LAHORE, Dec 3: The country is facing internal and external conflicts and heading towards a dead-end, says MMA vice-president Prof Sajjad Mir....
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