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| July 03, 2007 | Tuesday | Jamadi-us-Sani 17, 1428 |
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SC throws out ‘scandalous’ report on CJ: •Intelligence men barred from courts •State lawyer’s licence cancelled
ISLAMABAD, July 2: A visibly disturbed and angry Supreme Court bench on Monday severely criticised government lawyers and suspended the licence of the state-appointed advocate-on-record after finding some highly ‘scandalous’ material... 
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Over 100,000 displaced in Sindh district
LARKANA/DADU, July 2: Ten more deaths were reported on Monday from the flood-hit areas of Qambar-Shahdadkot district where 800 villages were submerged and over 100,000 people displaced....
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Musharraf orders survey of flood-hit areas
ISLAMABAD, July 2: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Monday directed the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to carry out an overall damage assessment exercise in flood-hit areas within four weeks to adequately compensate the affected people....
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Balochistan’s Kachhi plains devastated
QUETTA, July 2: At least 20 more deaths were reported from the flood-affected districts of Balochistan on Monday. Continuing heavy rains and floods in the eastern Kachhi plains have rendered tens...
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Govt decides to privatise Steel Mills
ISLAMABAD, July 2: The government has decided once again to privatise Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation (PSMC), says Federal Minister for Privatization and Investment Mr Zahid Hamid....
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Reinforcement around Lal Masjid
ISLAMABAD, July 2: In a bid to tighten noose around the Lal Masjid administration, the government on Monday reinforced the Rangers force deployed near the mosque with another two wings, each...
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‘40,000 marooned in mining areas’
QUETTA, July 2: Pakistan Coal Mines Owners Association president Ghulam Sabir Khan said on Monday that 40,000 labourers were marooned in the flooded mining areas. Speaking at a press conference here,...
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Makran Coastal Highway in tatters
PHOR (Balochistan), July 2: Two sections of the recently built Makran Coastal Highway were washed away during last week’s torrential rains, snapping the road communication between Sindh and Balochistan....
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Rs35m scam detected in NHA
ISLAMABAD, July 2: A financial scandal involving millions of rupees has been detected in the National Highway Authority. According to the auditor general’s report for 2000-01, which was discussed in a...
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Interest-based private loans banned in NWFP
PESHAWAR, July 2: The provincial assembly on Monday adopted a private member’s bill banning all interest-based private loan related transactions across the NWFP. The adoption of the NWFP Prohibition of Interest...
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Tourists among nine killed in Yemen suicide blast
SANAA, July 2: Seven Spanish tourists and two Yemeni drivers were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into their convoy at an ancient temple in Yemen on Monday, officials said....
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International help offered for flood relief
ISLAMABAD, July 2: Pakistan has not sought international assistance for the flood relief efforts but the country has been approached by a number of countries and the UN regarding the kind of assistance that the government required....
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Soldier killed in Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH, July 2: A soldier was killed and his friend was kidnapped by unidentified people in Mirali town of the North Waziristan Agency on Monday. The deceased soldier was identified as Farmanullah....
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PPP starts registering voters
ISLAMABAD, July 2: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has set up an emergency control room in Islamabad for registration of eligible voters to include their names on the voters’ list....
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Kafila’s body to be exhumed tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, July 2: The body of Kafila Siddiqui will be exhumed on Wednesday for another postmortem in order to ascertain the actual cause of her death, sources told Dawn here on Monday....
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Model code of conduct for polls proposed
ISLAMABAD, July 2: A model code of conduct has been proposed for the forthcoming elections for consideration by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), political parties and other stake-holders...
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Steps taken to improve education quality: PM
ISLAMABAD, July 2: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Monday said the government was striving to promote education with an aim to meet the global challenges in the field of science and technology....
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Alleged bomber confesses to crime
MARDAN, July 2: An alleged militant, who was injured when an explosive device went off before he could plant it outside a women vocational centre, confessed to crime in a local court on Monday....
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