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PML-N, JI, PTI not to boycott polls: Imran
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Jamaat-i-Islami and Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf have agreed to launch a joint campaign against the government, claiming that it would not hold free and fair polls.... 
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SC wants action in two weeks: Industrial pollution in city
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (PEPA) to find out whether the factories in the capital’s industrial sectors conform to the environmental regulations....
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Erra accused of making false claims
MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 12: An AJK lawmaker belonging to main opposition People’s Party (PPAJK) on Tuesday accused the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) and its affiliate in the AJK, State Earthquake...
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Ex-minister arrested on SC orders
QUETTA, Dec 12: Police arrested Sardar Nisar Ali Hazara, a former provincial minister for education, at Quetta airport on Tuesday evening. According to sources, senior police officer Noor Mohammad took Sardar Nisar Ali Hazara into custody when he arrived from Islamabad....
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New train to Karachi from today
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: A new express train from Rawalpindi to Karachi would be inaugurated on Saturday, Railway Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said. He said Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz would be the chief guest at the inaugural function of Pakistan Express....
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Saarc moot on sustainable development
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: A three-day Sustainable Development Conference (SDC) will be held here on Wednesday to identify areas for promoting trade and cooperation among Saarc member states....
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15 steel bridges to be built in Fata
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: The government has decided to build 10 to 15 steel bridges to provide uninterrupted access to law-enforcement agencies to hunt down terrorists and to curb smuggling in the Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata)....
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19 Dawa men held after baton-charge
FAISALABAD, Dec 12: Police baton-charged and arrested 19 activists of the Jamaatud Dawa when they assembled outside the district council building for a student’s seminar on Tuesday....
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Concern over press regulatory body
LAHORE, Dec 12: A draft bill to set up a Press and Publication Regulatory Authority reportedly prepared by the federal government has been clearly designed to take away from the press little freedom that it has at present....
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Ad hocism reigns supreme in Wapda
LAHORE, Dec 12: Ad hocism seems to be ruling the Water and Power Development Authority with almost half of its top management surviving on `extensions’, blocking the path of many and de-motivating rest of the cadre....
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1,800 teachers without salary
NAWABSHAH, Dec 12: Over 1800 primary school teachers and other staff of Nawabshah and Daur talukas were denied their salary for November due to absence of drawing and disbursing officer....
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More witnesses testify against nazim
HYDERABAD, Dec 12: Affidavits of nine more prosecution witnesses by the counsel of Nadra Parveen, were filed on Tuesday before the District and Sessions Judge Hyderabad, Mr Zafar Ahmed Khan Sherwani,...
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2 killed, 5 injured in separate incidents
ATTOCK, Dec 12: Two persons were killed and five injured in different areas of the district Monday evening. Police said five persons were going to Haji Shah Village on a tonga...
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Call to promote research in medical colleges
RAWALPINDI, Dec 12: University of Health Sciences Vice- Chancellor Prof (Dr) Mubashar Hussain Malik has called for promoting research culture in medical colleges....
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QAU faculty divided on one-grade promotion decision
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: The Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) faculty is divided on the issue of one-grade promotion, with majority seeking implementation of the decision across the board....
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Over 600 Nigerians held since 2001: Drug trafficking
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: Minister for Narcotics Control Ghous Bux Maher on Tuesday said that the Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) had arrested 648 Nigerians on charges of drug trafficking since 2001....
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Daytime robbers kill housewife
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: Armed men barged into two flats in the city in daytime on Tuesday, robbed the housewives in there and stabbed one of them to death before the eyes of her six-year-old son....
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Tourism package for students prepared
ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: Minister for Tourism Nilofar Bakhtiar Tuesday said the government had offered the first ever unique package for school-going children to amuse them with the fascinating tourist sites of the country during the summer vacations....
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Afghanistan, Pakistan launch drive against polio
LANDI KOTAL, Dec 12: Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday launched a joint Dec12-14 anti-polio vaccination campaign along their border. Federal Health Minister Naseer Mohammad Khan and Nangrahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai inaugurated the campaign by administering anti-polio drops to children....
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Afghan DPs facing difficulty in enrolment
KOHAT, Dec 12: A large number of Afghan refuges who could not register during the countrywide census last year, have complained that they are facing difficulties in getting the registration cards in three southern districts of the NWFP....
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JI plans campaign against by-poll
KHAAR, Dec 12: The Bajaur Agency chapter of the Jamaat-i-Islami has announced that it will launch a campaign in protest against holding of by-poll in NA-44 scheduled to be held on Jan 10....
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ANP rules out alliance with pro-govt parties
PESHAWAR, Dec 12: Awami National Party president Senator Asfandyar Wali Khan on Tuesday announced that his party would never enter into any alliance with pro-Musharraf parties in the upcoming elections....
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Water projects inaugurated
LAKKI MARWAT, Dec 12: Provincial Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Sardar Mohammad Idrees has said that the MMA has taken practical steps to improve the life standard of the people and foil designs of anti-Islam forces....
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Upsurge in kidnap for ransom: Gujranwala 2006
GUJRANWALA, Dec 12: Gujranwala region has become a hunting field for kidnappers, who, despite being arrested in most incidents, have been causing a serious concern among the moneyed people in the area throughout the current year....
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Heads of nationalist parties summoned
MULTAN, Dec 12: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday summoned leaders of 19 nationalist parties on a petition. Ghazi Ahmed Hassan Khokhar had filed a petition on Sept 14, 1998, in the Lahore High Court, Multan Bench....
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Suspended patwari takes away record
KASUR, Dec 12: The anti-corruption establishment has registered a case against a patwari who fled along with the office record. Reports said Amjad Husain of Azraneepur, Chunian circle was suspended on charges of corruption....
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Man does ‘justice’ to son
MULTAN, Dec 12: Police have arrested a man who confessed to killing his son for trying to rape his second wife in Khangarh, Muzaffargarh. Khadim Hussain from Mauza Kabirpur said that...
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Youth falls prey to ‘doctors’ greed’
KASUR, Dec 12: A young man fell prey to reported doctors’ greed on Monday evening at Al Shafa Medical complex here. Sadar police on Tuesday booked four doctors....
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Ex-nazim, nephew killed
NAROWAL, Dec 12: Unidentified people killed on Tuesday a former union council (UC) nazim and his 11-month-old nephew and injured his son and two cousins in Chanderke Mangolay village in the jurisdiction of Baddo Malhi Police Station....
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Moviemaker killed in jubilation fire
GUJRANWALA, Dec 12: Aerial firing at the wedding of a youth claimed the life of a moviemaker in Tetley on Tuesday while a guest suffered injuries....
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Enough to mock ‘Parha Likha’ Punjab claims
SIALKOT, Dec 12: Hundreds of boy and girl students of two government-run primary schools in Sambrial are getting education without basic facilities contrary to the claims of the Punjab Chief Minister’s Education Sector’s Reforms Programme....
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‘MMA struggling for grand alliance’
LAHORE, Dec 12: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) is trying to form a grand alliance to dislodge the military dictatorship in the country, claims Qazi Husain Ahmad on Tuesday....
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Singapore college to train govt officers
LAHORE, Dec 12: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi says the standard of services is being improved through administrative reforms to enable the people to benefit from economic progress....
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Three more die from burns
LAHORE, Dec 12: Three more children who had sustained burns in a road accident in the Ferozwala area on Monday succumbed to their injuries in Mayo Hospital on Tuesday....
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Robbers kill tailor
LAHORE, Dec 12: Robbers shot dead a man on resistance in the city on Tuesday. Six robbers, in police uniform, intercepted Suzuki rider Allah Ditta of Chowinda, Sialkot, on Bund Road...
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PPP leaders to call on CEC
LAHORE, Dec 12: The Punjab PPP Executive Committee has alleged the task of preparing new voters’ list has been awarded to a close relative of PML chief Shujaat Husain....
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Bid to kidnap girl foiled
SUKKUR, Dec 12: A girl sold for Rs20,000 by her father when she was only three years old under an agreement that she would be given in marriage refused to accept...
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Four get bail in Dadu constable murder case
DADU, Dec 12: Four police personnel nominated in the murder FIR of the district jail constable Gul Mohammad Jatoi, were granted bail by the district and session’s judge, Dadu, on Tuesday....
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