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Benazir calls for reining in agencies
ISLAMABAD, June 26: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has expressed concern over what she termed mysterious kidnapping of people by secret agencies and called for bringing the agencies under the ambit of law.... 
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Four die, 300 villages inundated
HYDERABAD, June 26: Four children died and more than 17 people, including women and children, suffered injuries in roof and wall collapse incidents and about 300 villages were marooned in water...
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Jirga lifts restrictions on female NGO staff
MANSEHRA, June 26: Members of the tribal jirga in Allai have decided to lift certain restrictions on the female staff of NGOs and allowed them now to continue their work in...
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95,000 left out of voter lists in Benazir’s constituency
LARKANA, June 26: The government had deliberately left out of new voters’ lists the names of 95,000 voters in the areas in NA-207, which formed the constituency of Ms Benazir Bhutto,...
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Application filed in missing person’s case
MARDAN, June 26: A fresh petition has been filed before the district and sessions’ judge here in a case involving the alleged detention of a man suspected of being involved in the assassination attempt on Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz....
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47 demands for Rs95bn approved by assembly
PESHAWAR, June 26: The NWFP assembly on Tuesday approved 47 demands for grant worth Rs95.144 billion to meet the current expenditures to be borne by different provincial departments till June 30, 2008....
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More adults but less votes in Attock
ATTOCK, June 26: With adult population increasing year on year, the number of registered votes in Attock district has instead declined by at least 39,000 votes compared to the figures recorded five years ago, Dawn has learnt....
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46 more deportees from Turkey arrive
RAWALPINDI, June 26: A batch of 46 Pakistani illegal immigrants, deported from Turkey arrived at Islamabad International Airport on Tuesday, the immigration authorities said....
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Body formed to remove billboards
RAWALPINDI, June 26: Keeping in view the damages caused by collapse of billboards in Karachi, the City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) here on Tuesday constituted a special committee to remove mega billboards all across the city....
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State terrorism in Kashmir must end for promoting peace
ISLAMABAD, June 26: Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday stressed the end to state terrorism in Indian Occupied Kashmir was a necessary to carry forward the ongoing peace process and for...
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US committed to addressing Pakistan’s energy needs
ISLAMABAD, June 26: The US Charge d’Affaires, Peter W Bodde, on Monday reaffirmed the US government’s commitment to addressing Pakistan’s energy needs....
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CNIC mandatory under law: EC
LAHORE, June 26: The Punjab establishment of the Election Commission of Pakistan has clarified that new computerised national identity card is mandatory for the registration of voters in the new electoral rolls and no other identity is acceptable under the law....
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‘Musharraf will have to seek re-election in uniform’
LAHORE, June 25: President Pervez Musharraf will have to get himself re-elected between Sept 15 and Nov 15 while retaining his military uniform, but if he takes the option of going...
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Two ruling MPAs defect to PPP
LAHORE, June 26: In a first of its kind development in the present set-up, two sitting members of the Punjab Assembly belonging to the governing Pakistan Muslim League – Khalid Mahmood...
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MMA supreme body to meet on July 1
LAHORE, June 26: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Qazi Husain Ahmad has called a meeting of the MMA’s supreme council on July 1 at Mansoora, the Jamaat-i-Islami headquarters in Lahore....
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Conflicting claims about LT man’s detention
FAISALABAD, June 26: Babar Ishaq, an activist of the outlawed Laskhar-i-Taiba who was arrested by the Factory Area police and has been in the detention of an intelligence agency for the...
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Justice figures nowhere in police terminology
MUZAFFARGARH, June 26: In what appears to be a dastardly act by any stretch of imagination, a police officer has threatened a gang-rape victim and her parents that he will scare...
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Half a million unregistered voters in Jhang
JHANG, June 26: There are about half a million unregistered voters in Jhang district....
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Demolition of 37 buildings ordered
SIALKOT, June 26: Tehsil Nazim Imtiazuddin Dar has ordered demolition of 37 ancient buildings which had already been declared dangerous....
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Court issues notice to Adiala jail superintendent
RAWALPINDI, June 26: Additional District and Sessions Judge (ASJ) Shaukat Mahmud here on Tuesday served notices on senior superintendent of Central Jail Adiala after an under trial prisoner accused the jail authorise of torture....
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Man sentenced to death for killing friend
RAWALPINDI, June 26: Additional District and Sessions Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed Khan on Monday handed down death sentence to a man for killing his friend....
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Convicted prisoner dies
RAWALPINDI, June 26: A convicted prisoner died on Tuesday, but the jail authorities said he died of heart attack....
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Flour mill looted
RAWALPINDI, June 26: Five armed men looted Rs105,000 from a flour mill here on Monday, police said....
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Indian deputy speaker visits PA
LAHORE, June 26: Indian Parliament’s Lower House Deputy Speaker Charan Jeet Singh witnessed the proceedings of the provincial assembly on Tuesday....
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Rs50m for rain-hit Karachiites
LAHORE, June 26: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi had called Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad and Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim and expressed sorrow over the loss of lives due to recent heavy rains....
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Sahiwal DBA changes strike plan
SAHIWAL, June 26: District Bar Association on Tuesday decided to discontinue the observance of complete strike the lawyers have been resorting to daily for the past 109 days....
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Collapsed basement being rebuild ‘illegally’
TOBA TEK SINGH, Jun 26: The under-construction basement of a plaza, which collapsed in Pirmahal on Saturday, was being reconstructed without the Kamalia Tehsil Municipal Administration’s permission....
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