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Five dams to be completed by 2016: PM
MIANWALI, Dec 23: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Saturday that the construction of Kalabagh and four other dams would be completed by 2016 with consensus to meet the water reservoirs and electricity needs of the country.... 
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Iran pipeline project at all costs: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that no pressure will be tolerated on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project....
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Baby made ‘hostage’ for want of payment
RIYADH, Dec 23: A hospital in Riyadh is holding up new-born son of Pakistani driver Tahir Akram Mohammad because he is unable to cough up the bill, a Saudi daily Arab News reported on Saturday....
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Democrats panel wins KPC polls
KARACHI, Dec 23: Sabihuddin Ghausi and Imtiaz Khan Faran of The Democrats panel have been elected as president and secretary of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) in the annual election held here on Saturday....
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Sialkot jail incident: two convicted
GUJRANWALA, Dec 23: An anti-terrorism court has sentenced assistant superintendent jail Raja Mushtaq Ahmad and head warden Abdul Hafiz to a jail term of 35 years and six months....
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PPP rally on Jan 14
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: The People’s Party Parliamentarians has decided to hold a public meeting at the historical Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on Jan 14 as part of its mass mobilisation campaign against the government....
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Only gaseous glass in buses: LHC
LAHORE, Dec 23: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday directed the Punjab and the city district government to ensure that gaseous glass is fixed in windowpanes of buses and other...
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Priceless radio archives rendered useless
LAHORE, Dec 23: The Classical Music Research Cell (CMRC) of Radio Pakistan’s Lahore station, despite having priceless archives comprising recordings and portraits of legendary singers, has long been lacking funds and...
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Programme for early detection of breast cancer launched
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: Federal Minister for Health Mohammad Nasir Khan on Saturday said the government had initiated a “National Programme for Early Detection and Treatment of Breast Cancer” worth Rs2.55...
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Seven killed as bus rams school van
RAWALPINDI, Dec 23: Six schoolchildren and an armyman were killed while nine others injured after a passenger coach rammed into a school van on Rawalpindi-Talagang road, some 70 kilometres from here on Saturday afternoon, police sources said....
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Disaster management ord promulgated
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday promulgated the...
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Excise, ACE officials clash
KARACHI, Dec 23: Officials of two law-enforcement agencies on Saturday came to blows, resulting in broken bones and aerial firing near the excise director’s office in the Sindh Secretariat....
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Thar Express
KARACHI, Dec 23: Operation of Thar Express will remain suspended till February 28, 2007, says an announcement of the Pakistan Railways quoting a communiqué from the Indian Railways....
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Gas pipeline blown up
DERA BUGTI, Dec 23: A gas pipeline near the Loti gas field in Dera Bugti district was blown up by unidentified people on Saturday, disconnecting supply to the area....
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LJ man held
KARACHI, Dec 23: Police on Saturday arrested an activist of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi who had come to Karachi for `reactivating the party’....
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Not so happy Christmas for some
As the clock strikes the midnight hour on Christmas Eve, the majority of Christians, who form 1.5 per cent of Pakistan’s population, will attend the Midnight Mass, held at various parishes, to celebrate Jesus Christ’s birth....
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Youth killed, another hurt in accident
LAHORE, Dec 23: A youth was killed while another was injured critically when a water-tanker hit their motorcycle in the Batapur area on Saturday....
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Hospital’s view on news report
KARACHI, Dec 23: In response to a news-item captioned “Eye hospital that plunges patients into darkness” that appeared in the Dec 21, 2006, issue of Dawn, the Layton Rehmatulla Benevolent Trust...
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Pervaiz for promoting brotherhood
LAHORE, Dec 23: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Saturday stressed the need for promoting brotherhood and condemning those fanning religious hatred in society....
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Qureshi’s predictions
LAHORE, Dec 23: Pakistan People’s Party Punjab President Shah Mahmood Qureshi has predicted two developments in the coming year: one, PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto will return to Pakistan; and people will defeat the Chaudhrys in the next elections....
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LPG body threatens to suspend supply
LAHORE, Dec 23: The LPG Distributors Association has criticised the Economic Coordination Committee’s decision to fix liquefied petroleum gas price and threatened a countrywide suspension of sales from January 3....
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70 Indian prisoners freed
LAHORE, Dec 23: Pakistan released 70 Indian prisoners, including 50 fishermen, from Kot Lakhpat Jail and handed them over to the Indian authorities at the Wagah Border on Saturday....
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Efforts on to include Pindi in capital
RAWALPINDI, Dec 23: Railway Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said efforts are underway, on political level, for the inclusion of Rawalpindi in Islamabad which would bring revolutionary changes in the city....
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Call to end political influence in local govt system
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) Chairman Daniyal Aziz has underlined the need for eliminating political influence in the local government system....
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Doctor commits suicide after killing man
RAWALPINDI, Dec 23: A medical professor at the Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC) committed suicide after killing the secretary of a housing society and injuring another person apparently over a property dispute on Saturday....
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Probe into promotions in SECP sought
ISLAMABAD, Dec 23: Employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) have appealed to prime minister, president, finance ministry officials and leaders of the ruling party and opposition in...
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