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MMA threatens to quit Balochistan coalition govt
RAWALPINDI, July 15: Leaders of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Sunday threatened to quit the Balochistan Assembly if the government did not avoid confrontation with seminaries.... 
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BNP-M demands end to operation
QUETTA, July 15: The Balochistan National Party (Mengal) has demanded that the military operation in the province should be stopped and all detainees, including BNP-M chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal, be released....
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Haj services to go online by Dec
ISLAMABAD, July 15: The Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) has initiated a Rs29 million project to provide online services regarding Haj....
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Peshawar, Swat rocked
PESHAWAR, July 15: An earthquake of mild intensity was felt in Peshawar and Swat districts on Sunday at 17:24 hours....
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Musharraf’s ouster must before polls, says Jhagra
LAHORE, July 15: The All Parties Democratic Movement will dislodge President Pervez Musharraf through a mass struggle even if the electoral process is delayed as a consequence, says PML-N secretary-general Iqbal Zafar Jhagra....
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First-ever plagiarism policy next month: Removal from service proposed
LAHORE, July 15: The first policy on plagiarism will come into force in the country from next month, it is learnt here....
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Joint procession against Hyderabad district govt
HYDERABAD, July 15: Activists and leaders of different political parties staged a procession on Sunday in protest against the district government''s policies with regard to Qasimabad taluka and vowed to resist...
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Two brothers among three dead in roof collapse
LAHORE, July 15: Three labourers, two of them brothers, were killed while two others injured when the rundown roof of an open warehouse collapsed during downpour in Hanjarwal on Sunday morning....
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Windstorm, rain play havoc
SARGODHA, July 15: A child lost his life while about half-a-dozen people were injured, two of them seriously, when billboards, walls and projections of shops fell on them after a strong windstorm followed by heavy rain lashed the city on Sunday....
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Rally against Jamia Hafsa operation
SAHIWAL, July 15: Leaders and activists of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N) on Sunday took out a rally against the government for killing teachers and students in the Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa operation....
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Media team under cloud of gloom after operation
RAWALPINDI, July 15: Most of the mediapersons who spent the nine toughest days of their lives by covering the Lal Masjid siege have been in distress and visibly disturbed especially after...
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Encroachments shrink Pindi’s parking space
RAWALPINDI, July 15: The high rate of traffic growth in the Rawalpindi city and the cantonment areas has become a dilemma for the city administrators and a headache for car owners, who are finding parking spaces shrinking with every passing day....
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Mysterious death
GUJAR KHAN, July 15: A young man died in mysterious circumstances in the Jatli police area, who registered a suicide case on the report of the landlord for whom he worked as a domestic servant....
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Telephone cabinet blown up
QUETTA, July 15: Hundreds of telephones went out of order in Mastung after unknown people blew up a cabinet on the outskirts of the town on Sunday night....
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Police kill accused in ‘encounter’
PESHAWAR, July 15: Police killed a robber, allegedly wanted in over a dozen cases, in an ‘encounter’ near Hayatabad on late Saturday night....
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Girls outshine boys in SSC exams
PESHAWAR, July 15: Girl students outclassed boys in the secondary school certificate (SSC) annual examination-2007 of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Peshawar....
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ADB to provide Rs820m for road projects
ABBOTTABAD, July 15: The Asian Development Bank will provide Rs820 million assistance for two road projects in Abbotabad. The construction work on the projects would start in October this year....
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‘Govt to blame for breaches’
LARKANA, July 15: The vice-chairman of the Sindh National Front (SNF), Amir Bakhsh Bhutto, on Sunday joined the chorus of allegations that the Sindh government was to blame for breaches in...
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Rain in parts of Sindh
NAWABSHAH, July 15: It started raining in the evening on Sunday in Nawabshah, Dadu, Naushahro Feroze and their adjoining towns and villages....
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Dacoits kill accomplice
KOHAT, July 15: Two dacoits killed their accomplice over a dispute on distribution of booty here on Sunday, police said....
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CM summons warring PML groups
TOBA TEK SINGH, July 15: The Punjab chief minister is again going to try reconciliation among various groups in the district PML....
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Two traders shot dead in Kabirwala
KHANEWAL, July 15: Two unknown motorcyclists killed on Sunday two businessmen and injured another in a Kabirwala market....
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Hospital gets a ‘clean bill of health’
DERA GHAZI KHAN, July 15: A Chief Minister’s Inspection Team (CMIT) has found everything in order at the District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) except for the cleanliness and the dilapidated building of the emergency ward’s operation theatre....
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Sheikh Rafiq laid to rest
LAHORE, July 15: A former speaker of the Punjab Assembly and Pakistan Peoples Party’s senior leader Rafiq Ahmad Sheikh, who passed away last night at the age of 85, was laid...
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Kashmiri leader remembered
LAHORE, July 15: Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chief Amanullah Khan on Sunday rejected President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s latest formula on Kashmir, terming it a plan to divide the occupied state into many parts....
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Man injured on offering resistance
LAHORE, July 15: Two men allegedly shot at a citizen on resistance and took away his cell phone in Samanabad on Sunday....
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