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US should tell Musharraf to negotiate return to democracy: NYT
NEW YORK, Aug 11: Reflecting on the political crisis in Pakistan, the New York Times said in an editorial in its Saturday issue that “telling General Musharraf not to seize still more power is not enough.... 
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Benazir says she has answer to president’s problems
NEW YORK, Aug 11: Former prime minister Ms Benazir Bhutto “sees herself as the solution to President Pervez Musharraf’s problems” provided he concedes to some of her demands, says the Wall Street Journal....
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NWFP govt to hold talks with Taliban
KOHAT, Aug 11: The NWFP government has decided to hold talks with Taliban of Darra Adamkhel to maintain law and order in the area, a senior official told Dawn on Saturday....
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PML leaders refute NAB report on sugar scam
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: Two federal ministers and a former president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League on Saturday ‘refuted’ the report on sugar scam submitted by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to the Supreme Court on Thursday....
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Prices of life-saving drugs cut by 30-40pc
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: The Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PPMA) on Saturday announced a 30-40 per cent reduction in the prices of life-saving drugs....
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HEC reduces varsity’s grants over plagiarism
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has withheld Rs100 million from Punjab University’s budgetary grants and warned of similar steps until the university sacks five faculty members who were found involved in plagiarism....
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Hashmi says his aim is to end mly role in politics
LONDON, Aug 11: Describing PML’s acting president Javed Hashmi as the most tenacious of President Musharraf’s enemies, the Daily Telegraph on Saturday quoted him as saying that he would fight the regime until it is finished....
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Hashmi leaves for Dubai today
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: Acting president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Makhdoom Javed Hashmi is leaving for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday where he will meet former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif....
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Lawyers boycott courts over colleagues’ arrests
RAWALPINDI, Aug 11: Lawyers here on Saturday boycotted courts in protest against kidnapping and torturing of some of their colleagues. They were thought to be picked up by the law enforcing...
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Pakistan needs Musharraf: columnist
RIYADH, Aug 11: A Saudi analyst said in a newspaper column on Saturday that Pakistan needed President Pervez Musharraf now more than at any other time....
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Lawyer freed from illegal police detention
GUJRANWALA, Aug 11: A bailiff of the district and sessions court recovered on Saturday a District Bar Association member who had been illegally detained at the Aimanabad police station....
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49 camel jockeys await relatives
MUZAFFARGARH, Aug 11: Muzaffargarh is on top among Punjab districts in terms of children’s smuggling as 149 children have been smuggled from here to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the...
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PU asked not to go for medical college: Governor counsels judicious spending
LAHORE, Aug 11: Governor Khalid Maqbool has disallowed the Punjab University to establish its own medical college and attached teaching hospital as well as an agriculture college....
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Musharraf wants safe exit, says Abida
LAHORE, Aug 11: The Abu Dhabi meeting between President Musharraf and Ms Benazir Bhutto was held on the general’s asking, PPP leader Begum Abida Husain said here on Saturday....
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Governor lauds special persons’ courage
RAWALPINDI, Aug 11: Punjab Governor Lt-Gen (retired) Khalid Maqbool has said that the government is extending all facilities to the physically and mentally challenged persons whose determination and courage to lead a respectable life is commendable....
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Youth asked to attain academic, moral growth
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: President General Pervez Musharraf has urged the youth to reform their personalities by attaining intellectual, moral and social development in order to steer the country towards further glory....
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Wind energy: 84 sensors installed
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: The Pakistan Meteorological Department has installed 43 wind sensors along coastal areas of Sindh and Balochistan and 41 others in the Northern Areas to collect data in order...
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Woman booked for drawing pension under fake name
ATTOCK KHURD, Aug 11: A woman and her husband have been booked for allegedly obtaining pension from Bait-ul-Mal by using the pension book of a deceased woman....
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43 selected for SOs’ course
ISLAMABAD, Aug 11: The federal government on Saturday selected 43 candidates out of 87 short-listed for section officers’ course. The remaining 44 candidates have decided to consult the tribunal service against what they said the discriminatory decision....
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Murderer’s family lives with stigma
GUJRANWALA: The blank looks of murder convict Maulvi Sarwar’s 12-year-old son, agony hidden in the wrinkles of his ageing mother, tearful eyes of his wife and silence of his brothers reveal...
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Case against MPA for harassing ex-SP
BAHAWALPUR, Aug 11: Saddar police on Saturday registered a case against 15 people, including a PML-N MPA, for allegedly hurling threats at a retired SP. Former SP Muhammad Iqbal Noon...
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Protest against Wapda official
KASUR, Aug 11: Over 100 residents of Rakh union council of Chunian staged a protest demonstration against a Wapda official who charged Rs8,000 from them for repair of a transformer which...
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Kidnapped youth found in tribal area
GUJRANWALA, Aug 11: The police claimed on Saturday to have recovered a private hospital chairman’s son who was kidnapped for ransom a week ago near Kamoki....
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2 workers’ death sparks protest
FAISALABAD, Aug 11: Scores of Christians staged a protest demonstration against the City District Government Faisalabad (CDGF) over deaths of two sewer men due to suffocation during the cleanliness of main lines in Shadab Colony on Saturday....
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MS, medical officer suspended
MIANWALI, Aug 11: On the orders of a division bench of the Supreme Court, Punjab health secretary Raees Abbas Zaidi on Saturday suspended DHQ hospital MS Dr Muhammad Farooq Khan and medical officer Dr Zafar Iqbal with immediate effect....
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Arrested
GUJRANWALA, Aug 11: The FIA on Saturday arrested another human smuggler in Lahore. A team arrested Raja Adnan from a Shahra-i-Quaid-i-Azam building. He was brought to Gujranwala for further investigation....
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Minorities seek fair field and no favour
LAHORE, Aug 11: Minorities on Saturday held two meetings and demanded equal rights and opportunities. In its meeting at Minar-i-Pakistan, the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) issued a clarion call...
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Robbers make millions
LAHORE, Aug 11: Five robbers took away cash, jewellery and a car worth millions from a house in Defence area on Saturday. Fazeelat Bibi told police that armed men barged into...
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Four killed in road accidents
LAHORE, Aug 11: Four people, including a woman, were killed in separate incidents in the city on Saturday. In Baghbanpura, a speeding truck knocked down and killed 30-year-old Shahnaz when she was crossing Bund Road near Mehmood Booti....
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Bar accuses Qayyum of creating divisions
LAHORE, Aug 11: Punjab Bar Council has accused Attorney General Justice Malik Muhammad Qayyum (retired) of attempting to sow seeds of contention among lawyers by announcing controversial free legal aid programme....
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