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| January 06, 2007 | Saturday | Zilhaj 15, 1427 |
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Wapda facing Rs84 billion shortfall
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: Electricity-deficient Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) is facing a cash shortfall of Rs84 billion (1.16 per cent of the GDP) this year which will eventually be bridged... 
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Budgetary cuts force HEC to delay projects
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) will not be able to complete its development projects in time because of budgetary cuts brought in by the finance ministry....
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17 feared dead in AJK landslide
MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 5: At least 17 people were feared dead when a van carrying around 20 passengers was hit and buried beneath a huge landslide on the main road linking AJK’s Kotli district with Punjab on Friday....
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Kashmiris seek early dispute resolution
MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 5: Kashmiris on Friday staged rallies and demonstrations to mark the day as “right to self-determination day” and remind the international community, especially the UN, that a resolution pledging...
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Basant move questioned
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Punjab government to explain its decision to lift the ban on making, selling and flying kites despite the restraint order issued on the subject in October 2005....
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‘Ban relaxed for 24 hours’
LAHORE, Jan 5: The Punjab government said on Friday that the ban on kite flying would remain in place and it had allowed celebration of the Basant only for 24 hours from the night of Feb 24....
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PSO ready for sell-off: PM
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that the Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has become a prime asset ready for privatisation as a result of its corporate transformation, innovative products and services....
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MQM chief withdraws decision to renounce leadership
KARACHI, Jan 5: Muttahida Quami Movement chief Altaf Hussain on Friday night changed his mind about renouncing the leadership of his party when thousands of stunned workers flocked to the party headquarters and pleaded with him to reverse his decision....
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Pakistani journalists get chilly reception in Kabul
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: The Pakistani journalists who visited Kabul this week, as part of the prime minister’s entourage, saw that an uncertainty about the future possessed the average Afghan’s mind....
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Bush changes team before unveiling Iraq strategy
WASHINGTON, Jan 5: US President George W. Bush is reshuffling his military, diplomatic and intelligence teams days before the expected announcement of a new strategy for Iraq....
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Delay in sugar stocks release burdens exchequer
ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: Delay in offloading sugar stocks of over 600,000 tons lying with the Trading Corporation (TCP) will result in a loss of Rs240 million per month to the national...
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Initial learning in mother tongue proposed
KARACHI, Jan 5: Contradicting the federal education ministry’s recently announced policy, a White Paper, obtained by Dawn, strongly recommends that the medium of instruction for the first three years of the child’s education should be the mother tongue....
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79th birth anniversary of Bhutto celebrated
LARKANA, Jan 5: The 79th birth anniversary of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was celebrated across the country on Friday under the auspices of different factions of the Pakistan People’s Party....
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Mirwaiz reminds Ban of Kashmir dispute
NEW DELHI, Jan 5: Chief of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Mirwaiz Maulvi Umar Farooq said on Friday that he had written to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon expressing his deepest...
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Commander among 18 Taliban killed
| KANDAHAR, Jan 5: Afghan forces, backed by Nato-led troops, fought Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan killing 15, including a regional commander, while three more died planting a bomb, police said on Friday....
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Loudspeaker misuse penalty increased
| LAHORE, Jan 5: The Punjab government has decided to increase punishment for the misuse of places of worship. The misuse of loudspeaker (at the places of worship) will now entail a punishment of three-month jail and Rs1,000 fine....
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Ex-serviceman charged with cheating army out of land
| ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: City police is taking a retired army officer and his two accomplices to a civil court on Saturday to seek their remand for playing fraud with the army....
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Rauf to get all facilities in jail
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RAWALPINDI, Jan 5: Civil judge Rawalpindi Muhammad Hakeem Khan has directed Adiala Jail superintendent to provide all the facilities as per jail manual to the accused Rashid Rauf arrested in London plane plot case....
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