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Lawyers’ protest shifts into high gear as released colleagues join
RAWALPINDI, Nov 26: Lawyers’ protests got a new life after their top leaders joined them after their release, making it clear that the agitation against the state of emergency and ouster of judges would continue despite all odds.... 
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Date for filing papers in troubled areas extended
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: The Election Commission on Monday extended the date for filing nomination papers in the restive districts of Hangu, Swat and Shangla till Dec 1 and in the tribal agencies of Kurram and North Waziristan till Dec 6....
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PPP assails judges’ transfer
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has demanded that transfers of judges notified after the announcement of the election schedule should be reversed and measures should be taken to ensure free, fair, transparent and impartial elections....
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Ali Kurd challenges Rashid in Rawalpindi
QUETTA, Nov 26: Ali Ahmed Kurd, advocate, the detained member of the Pakistan Bar Council, will contest elections from NA-55, NA-56 against former federal minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Rawalpindi constituencies and NA-259 in Quetta....
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Hashmi stands up to Rashid
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Makhdoom Javed Hashmi on Monday filed nomination papers for two National Assembly seats of Rawalpindi city against former minister and six-time winner Sheikh Rashid Ahmed....
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Nawaz files papers amid ‘go Musharraf’ chants
LAHORE, Nov 26: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday filed his nomination papers at Aiwan-i-Adl, creating an option for himself to contest the general elections in contrast to his commitment...
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Political heavyweights to face off in Charsadda PESHAWAR, Nov 26: A number of political heavyweights have filed nomination paper in Charsadda, which was a stronghold of Bacha Khan’s Red Shirt volunteers and a bastion for a brief period of the famous peasant movement....
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Fazl, Asfandyar and others file papers in NWFP
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Nov 26: Former Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman and seven other candidates on Monday filed nomination papers for the National Assembly seat (NA-24) of Dera Ismail Khan....
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Tribes vow to keep militants away
MANSEHRA, Nov 26: A jirga of all the tribes of Kala Dhaka has assured the government that the militants coming from Shangla and Swat will not be allowed to enter the area....
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Over 120 papers submitted in Peshawar
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: A total of 120 candidates, among them former federal and provincial ministers and lawmakers, filed nomination papers for the four National Assembly and 11 provincial assembly constituencies of...
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154 nominations filed in Fata
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: A total of 154 candidates have filed nomination papers in six agencies of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) for the Jan 8 general elections while date for...
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Old guards again in the run
FAISALABAD, Nov 26: Candidates fielded by different political parties thronged the offices of returning officers on Monday to submit their nomination papers for the Jan 8 general elections....
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PPP, PML-Q politics in Kasur turns turbulent
KASUR, Nov 26: Several candidates including four former ministers filed their nomination papers before their respective returning officers here on Monday. A very tough contest is likely at NA-140 where...
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A blow to Leghari-Mazari group
RAJANPUR, Nov 26: Former provincial excise and taxation minister Sardar Zahid Mahmood Mazari, son of former prime minister Sardar Balakh Sher Khan Mazari, former parliamentary advisor to prime minister Sardar Farhat...
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Shujaat invites Nawaz to join PML (Q)
SIALKOT, Nov 26: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam (PML-Q) President Shujaat Husain has said his party’s doors are open for PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and other leaders to join the PML-Q....
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Traditional rivals fight for poll victory in Gujrat
GUJRAT, Nov 26: Candidates of political parties and independents, including arch rivals Pakistan Muslim League (PML) Chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar — submitted their nomination papers for constituencies on Monday....
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PML men switch sides
RAHIM YAR KHAN, Nov 26: PML member and former federal parliamentary secretary for defense Major Tanveer Hussain Syed (retired) joined the Pagara-led PML (Functional) while former provincial parliamentary secretary and elder brother of RYK tehsil nazim, Mian Imtiaz Ahmed, joined PPP....
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Minister defends jirga system
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Care taker Federal Minister for Information Nisar Memon on Monday defended the existence of jirgas at the launch of the United Nations Development Fund for Women’s (Unifem) - end violence against women - campaign....
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Lawyers boo Moonis Elahi
LAHORE, Nov 26: Supporters of Moonis Elahi and lawyers pelted each other with stones, chanted slogans and hurled abuses at Aiwan-i-Adl, say eyewitnesses. Moonis Elahi had come to the courts for submission of his nomination papers for PP-152....
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Qayyum stripped of LHCBA membership
LAHORE, Nov 26: The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) in its much-awaited general house meeting on Monday cancelled membership of Attorney General Malik Muhammad Qayyum....
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CAA to privatise airports running in loss
LAHORE, Nov 26: The Civil Aviation Authority has decided to privatize airports which have been running in loss since long. In the first phase, the CAA plans to hand...
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Arbab, Qaim, others file papers
HYDERABAD, Nov 26: Former chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, Pakistan People’s Party leaders Qaim Ali Shah, Aftab Shaban Mirani and Sassui Palijo and Syed Sadaruddin Shah Rashidi of PML-F were...
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STP to boycott elections
HYDERABAD, Nov 26: Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi said on Monday that his party would boycott the general elections, which were being held under emergency with constitution and fundamental human rights suspended and judiciary and media under curbs....
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CDA told to bear half of project cost: Parade ground
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: The Planning Commission (PC) on Monday directed the city managers to bear 50 per cent cost of the military parade ground and expo centre being established near Faizabad at a cost of Rs500 million, sources told Dawn....
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S&T ministry to be restructured
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: The Senate’s standing committee on education, and science and technology was informed Monday that the ministry of science and technology (MoST), and its attached departments, would be restructured...
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Unconscious girl remains unidentified
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: A young girl who was found in an unconscious state near Zero Point on Saturday night, has still not regained consciousness and is lying in the intensive care...
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Sikh pilgrims swamp Gurdwara Punja Sahib
TAXILA, Nov 26: The Gurdwara Punjab Sahib in Hassanabdal on Monday echoed with the slogans of “Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh” as thousands of the Sikh devotees swamped...
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Forest fire extinguished after three days
UPPER DIR, Nov 26: Police, forest officials and local people succeeded on Monday in extinguishing a fire in Junkai and Darak forests after three days of efforts....
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Amendments to Bar Councils Act rejected
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: Lawyers on Monday criticised amendments to the Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act saying that their movement could not be fizzled out through such tactics....
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Candle-lit walk speaks for rights
LAHORE, Nov 26: Scores of lawyers and civil society activists participated in a candlelit march from the Lahore Press Club to the offices of GEO Television on Monday evening....
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Minister’s squad nabs man with grenade
LAHORE, Nov 26: A suspect with a hand-grenade was caught by the police squad of a federal minister outside a food restaurant on MM Alam Road and handed over to the Ghalib Market police....
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30 activists freed
LARKANA, Nov 26: Over 30 political activists arrested for violating Section 144 while protesting the suspension of Constitution and imposition of emergency were released from the Central Prison Larkana, on Monday....
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Thatta PPP members’ threat
THATTA, Nov 26: The members of the Save Thatta PPP Action Committee have decided in principle to quit the party if the status of a number of former office-bearers of the...
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Toba lawyers still on strike
TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 26: Lawyers observed a complete strike on the 21st consecutive day on Monday in protest against the imposition of emergency and promulgation of the Provisional Constitution Order....
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Guard killed
KASUR, Nov 26: Three robbers on Monday shot dead a guard on offering resistance and took away Rs2 million from two cashiers of a private bank on Quaid-i-Azam Road, Pattoki....
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‘Kairas with PPP’
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Qamar Zaman Kaira, former PPP MNA, has denied a news report from Gujrat that the Kairas are now seriously considering joining the PML-N....
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