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PM sees $6bn foreign direct investment this fiscal
ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Sunday that because of liberal, consistent and investment-friendly economic policies of the government, there would be a record direct foreign investment of over $6 billion during the current fiscal year.... 
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Protests against plan to relocate AJK capital
MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 11: Angry youths burnt tyres on a main road here on Sunday in protest against the government decision to relocate the AJK capital....
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Man shot dead at police station
QUETTA, Feb 11: A man was killed and eight others, three of them police personnel, were injured when a man snatched a Kalashinkov from a policeman and opened fire at the Pashtoonabad police station on Sunday....
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Cement price increase hits hard daily wagers
MULTAN, Feb 11: A recent increase in the price of cement has affected the construction sector and rendered a large number of labourers unemployed. Dozens of workers can be seen awaiting...
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Syllabus lacks emergency response issue
RAWALPINDI, Feb 11: Millions of students across the country lack education about safety and natural hazards despite the fact that Pakistan has been ranked among the natural disaster- prone countries....
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Rs6m demanded for expat’s release
GUJRAT, Feb 11: Unidentified kidnappers on Sunday demanded Rs6 million ransom for the release of an expatriate who had been abducted from Head Jaggu, Sara-i-Alamgir, three days ago....
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Seminaries under scrutiny ahead of Musharraf’s visit
FAISALABAD, Feb 11: Police have kept seminaries under surveillance in the district to find the presence of any ‘hardened criminal or militant’ ahead of President Pervez Musharraf’s visit to the city on Feb 17, police sources told Dawn on Sunday....
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Musharraf’s re-election, rigging be resisted: PPP: ARD should host MPC
LAHORE, Feb 11: A PPP think-tank, at its maiden meeting in the metropolis on Sunday, recommended that President Musharraf’s plan to get himself re-elected from the existing assemblies and strategy to...
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16 nazims face disqualification
LAHORE, Feb 11: Scores of district council members, including chairmen of its monitoring committees, are absent from three or more consecutive meetings of the council and stand disqualified from their seats but no action has so far been initiated against them....
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Institutional decay in Mianwali
MIANWALI, Feb 11: The main cause of Mianwali district’s backwardness is the neglect of education. Since independence, there has been a nominal increase in institutions above the middle school level....
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Two escape from lock-up
FAISALABAD, Feb 11: Two prisoners escaped from the lock-up of the Rasheedabad police post on Sunday....
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Cyclist killed
TAXILA, Feb 11: A man was run over and killed by a speeding car in the jurisdiction of Wah Cantonment police station on Sunday....
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Two killed in road accidents
RAWALPINDI, Feb 11: Two persons were killed in separate road accidents in Islamabad on Saturday, police said....
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Scrutiny to identify corrupt policemen
LAHORE, Feb 11: A committee, comprising senior officials, has started scrutinising record of all police officers of lower ranks in Punjab to single out corrupt and inefficient among them....
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Robbers continue to fill coffers
LAHORE, Feb 11: Robbers shot at and injured a man on resistance and took away cash and valuables worth hundreds of thousands of rupees in several strikes in the city on Sunday....
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PML accused of foul play
LAHORE, Feb 11: The PML-N alleged on Sunday that the ruling party was pressuring its Lahore president, Mian Marghoob Ahmad, to change loyalty....
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