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US urges both sides to behave responsibly: Lal Masjid
WASHINGTON, July 8: US Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte has urged the government as well as the militants holed up in Lal Masjid to “behave in a very responsible” manner.In... 
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Balochistan death toll reaches 160
QUETTA, July 8: The death toll from recent rains and floods climbed to 160 after 24 more bodies were found in different flood-hit areas of Balochistan, official sources said on Sunday....
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Landslides triggered by rain claim 23 lives
MANSEHRA, July 8: At least 23 people were killed when landslides, triggered by heavy rains, struck Dachi Banda and Shishal Kial areas in the Kohistan district on Sunday morning, Kohistan police officers told Dawn....
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Donor bodies offer help: Flood, rain devastation
QUETTA, July 8: A number of international donor agencies, including various United Nations bodies, have offered to provide help to the Balochistan government in providing relief to cyclone- and flood-affected people....
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30 more villages inundated by breaches in RBOD
DADU, July 8: The Right Bank Outfall Drain (RBOD) developed two breaches at Kando Wah and Haji Wah villages of Mehar taluka near Zero Point inundating 30 more villages on Sunday....
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Chenab hits 36 villages
MUZAFFARGARH, July 8: As many as 36 mauzas of Rangpur spreading over 3,000 acres had been hit by land erosion since January 2007 while the government did not take any steps for rehabilitation....
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More than 24 seminary students reunited with families: 152 released from Adiala Jail
ISLAMABAD, July 8: More than two dozen students from the Lal Masjid and Jamia Faridya seminaries, who had been picked up by the security forces, were handed over to their families...
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Lal Masjid a clarion call for Madressah reforms ISLAMABAD, July 8: With the Lal Masjid saga gripping the attention of the whole world media, the importance of madressah reforms in the country has become even more significant whereby the students of religious seminaries could be imparted modern education....
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‘Lal Masjid part of larger challenge’
NEW YORK, July 8: The stand-off at the Lal Masjid in Islamabad is just one part of the far larger challenge facing President Gen Pervez Musharraf, The New York Times said on Sunday....
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Nine die as rain causes collapse of houses
SAHIWAL, July 8: Strong winds coupled with rain caused considerable damage to life and property in Sahiwal and Faisalabad on Saturday night....
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Showdown creating violent trends
RAWALPINDI, July 8: The Lal Masjid standoff is developing violent trends in society, particularly among the youths who are taking keen interest in media coverage of the showdown as an action movie....
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Flour millers fleecing consumers
TAXILA, July 8: The skyrocketing prices of wheat flour here have compounded the miseries of the masses, especially the salaried class, as millers are fleecing consumers while the food department and...
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Flood-hit people seek compensation
PESHAWAR, July 8: People in flood-hit areas of the city, including the Badezai village, have criticised the federal and provincial governments for their “indifferent attitude” towards their suffering....
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Heavy rain destroys bridges, roads in Dir
DIR, July 8: Torrential rains, accompanied by thunder and lightning, played havoc with infrastructure and property in the scenic Usherai Dara area of Upper Dir, inundating roads, destroying bridges, orchards and standing crops on Saturday night....
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Haris seek release of bonded labourers
HYDERABAD, July 8: A large number of Haris, including women, under the banner of Hari Mazdoor Tanzeem and Green Rural Development Organisation staged a demonstration outside the press club on Sunday...
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2 killed, 40 injured in accident
SWABI, July 8: Two people were killed and 40 injured when a vehicle overturned on the Swabi-Topi road on Sunday. It was carrying people returning from a wedding from the Tarbela Right Bank Colony to Kernel Sher Kili....
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Man appeals for justice
NAWABSHAH, July 8: A man has asked the Sindh governor and chief minister to provide him justice as an influential landlord with the help of former District Coordination Officer wants to grab his agricultural land through fake documents....
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Bandits attack village, kill man
LARKANA, July 8: A man was killed and three others suffered injuries when a gang of bandits attacked the Bachal Veesar village near Banguldero, some 18 kilometres from here late on Sunday night.PPP...
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Officials make Layyah a land of opportunity
LAYYAH, July 8: The Layyah housing and physical planning deputy director has filed a suit seeking cancellation of illegal allotment of government’s commercial land to a third party people, Dawn reveals....
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PML groups at loggerheads in Vehari
VEHARI, July 8: The rift between two groups of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) is deepening day by day and a three-member committee formed by Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi a...
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Two brothers killed
TOBA TEK SINGH, July 8: Two brothers were killed and five other people injured in a collision between a trailer and a motorcycle-rickshaw near Pirmahal on Sunday evening....
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Terror reigns supreme at Kabirwala
MULTAN, July 8: Hundreds of residents of Basti Jamusabad, Kabirwala, staged a protest demonstration on Sunday against police for not providing them protection against dacoits who have twice raided the dwelling in three weeks....
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Man held for ‘desecrating’ Holy Quran
SIALKOT, July 8: Badiana police arrested a man for desecration of the Holy Quran on Saturday night....
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Hepatitis-C on the rise in Punjab
LAHORE, July 8: At least 30 districts of Punjab, out of the total 34, are under serious threat of hepatitis C, including the provincial metropolis, Dawn has learnt....
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Three suicides
LAHORE, July 8: Three people committed suicide in separate incidents on Sunday. Ghalib Market police said trader Shujauddin, 42, shot himself to death over financial constraints at T-Block, Gulberg....
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50,000 request for vote registration
LAHORE, July 8: The Punjab establishment of the Election Commission of Pakistan has received more than 50,000 requests for the registration of new voters and seeking the removal of other anomalies,...
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