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Women voters in five districts outnumber men
ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: Women voters in four districts of Balochistan and one district in Sindh outnumber men voters, according to figures on the Election Commission website.... 
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Foolproof security for BB in Quetta
QUETTA, Dec 14: Foolproof security arrangements have been made for Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto who is arriving here on Saturday on a two-day visit....
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BHC CJ, four judges to take oath today
QUETTA, Dec 14: The Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court and four other judges will take oath here on Saturday afternoon....
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Green laws to take over Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: The federal capital is likely to come under the virtual control of the environment ministry or other environment protection bodies as the government has decided to turn Islamabad...
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16 more pull out of race
RAWALPINDI, Dec 14: Sixteen candidates on Friday withdrew their nominations filed earlier to run in the January 8 elections on different National and provincial assemblies seats of Rawalpindi, officials said....
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Nisar voices concerns over IRI survey
ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Nisar A. Memon has expressed shock and dismay at the reported results of a public opinion poll conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI)....
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Candidate of JUI-F withdraws poll papers
UPPER DIR, Dec 14: A prominent lawyer, who was a candidate of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) for the PF-92 (Dir-II) seat, withdrew his nomination papers on Friday....
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Mumtaz Bhutto extends support to Ghinwa
LARKANA, Dec 14: The Sindh National Front (SNF) chairman Mumtaz Ali Bhutto on Friday announced his support for Ms Ghinwa Bhutto, chairperson of Pakistan People’s Party (Shaheed Bhutto) who was running for NA-204 (Larkana-I) seat against Benazir Bhutto....
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JUI-F leader clueless why he was ditched
KARAK, Dec 14: Former law minister Malik Zafar Azam said on Friday that he did not know why the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) had not awarded him a ticket for the provincial...
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Ex-PM held responsible for wheat crisis
PESHAWAR, Dec 14: Senator Ilyas Ahmad Bilour has held former prime minister Shaukat Aziz and his economic managers responsible for the current wheat flour crises in the country....
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Nazim using vehicles meant for TB cause: Daughter''s poll campaign
LAYYAH, Dec 14: District Nazim Malik Ghulam Haider Thind is using vehicles donated for a noble cause in the election campaign of his daughter Razia Begum, a PML-Q candidate for PP-266....
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EC’s slackness exposed in Pasrur
SIALKOT, Dec 14: The Election Commission has established 292 polling stations in border villages of Pasrur while some 55 per cent of them lack basic facilities like proper buildings, electricity and toilets....
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‘Tehsil nazims, police running Q’s campaign’
MIANWALI, Dec 14: A Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate has alleged that Isakhel and Mianwali tehsil nazims and police officials are running the election campaigns of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam (PML-Q) candidates....
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Punjab told to comply with code of conduct
LAHORE, Dec 14: The Election Commission of Pakistan has directed the Punjab government to comply strictly with the election code of conduct across the province and ensure speedy disposal of poll-related complaints....
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Bars urge politicians to boycott ‘rigged’ polls
LAHORE Dec 14: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), the Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) and the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) have urged political parties to boycott polls because the Jan 8...
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Nine LHC judges appointed
LAHORE, Dec 14: President Pervez Musharraf on Friday appointed nine additional judges of the Lahore High Court (LHC) for a period of one year and eight of them took oath under the Nov 3 Provisional Constitution Order (PCO)....
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Atypical theft of ghee
RAWALPINDI, Dec 14: In a peculiar theft, a presumably dirt poor man made off with two packs of edible ghee snatched from an aged lady outside G-6/2 Utility Store Thursday evening, an eye-witness said....
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Young man dies of burn injuries
ATTOCK, Dec 14: A young man, who had suffered burn injuries due to gas leakage two days earlier, died at the POF hospital Wah Cantonment on Friday....
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New toll system for motorways planned
ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: The government is introducing a system of prepaid electronic toll collection on all motorways for the convenience of motorists, particularly frequent travellers....
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Skilled manpower offered to Brunei
ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: Pakistan has shown interest in exporting trained manpower to Brunei Darussalam....
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Benazir visits shrine in Sehwan
DADU, Dec 14: Amid very busy and tiring schedule Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto made a three-hour journey from Karachi to Sehwan early on Friday morning to pay respect to the reverend Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar....
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Constable injured in rocket attack
LAKKI MARWAT, Dec 14: A constable was injured when some miscreants fired rockets on a police post in Kot Kashmir area of the Tajori police on Thursday night....
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Candidates asked to follow election code
SWABI, Dec 14: Election authorities on Friday directed district nazim Shahram Khan and two former MPAs of the ANP, Amir Rehman and Mukhtiar Khan, to refrain from violating the code of conduct for the Jan 8 polls....
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Khuhro slams transfers
LARKANA, Dec 14: Former leader of opposition in Sindh Assembly and PPP candidate for PS-36 (Larkana- city), Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, said on Friday that transfers and postings government officers after the...
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Bandits rob passengers
KHAIRPUR, Dec 14: Passengers travelling in a Quetta-bound coach were robbed on Nawabshah-Kumb-Khairpur Road, on Thursday night....
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Girl kidnapped, man shot dead
NAWABSHAH, Dec 14: Unidentified armed men shot a man and kidnapped his daughter in Mir Mohammad village on Thursday....
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Nawab Mansoor starts poll campaign
MUZAFFARGARH, Dec 14: Pakistan Democratic Party Chairman Nawabzada Mansoor Ahmad, the son of late Nawabzada Nasarullah Khan, has said that he will contest the Jan 8 elections from two National Assembly and one Provincial Assembly constituencies....
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Quits PPP, joins PML-N
JHANG, Dec 14: Dr Abu-ul-Hasan Ansari, a Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate in NA-89 (Jhang city), on Friday quit his party and joined the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)....
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Sahiwal lawyer withdraws papers
SAHIWAL, Dec 14: The PML-N Lawyers’ Forum liaison secretary on Friday withdrew his nomination papers from NA-160 besides announcing quitting the politics. Talking to reporters in his office, Shaheed Posswal...
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Two killed in road mishap
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Dec 14: Two persons were killed while another three sustained serious injuries in a mishap on Dera-Quetta Road on Friday....
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Who is targeting whom
LAHORE, Dec 14: The Chaudhrys of Gujrat are the common target of the Pakistan People’s Party and the PML-N leaders’ election-related speeches, while the PML-Q leadership is also attacking both of its rivals....
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PMDC comes to students’ rescue
LAHORE, Dec 14: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC) has directed 15 public and private medical and dental institutions to ‘accommodate’ 168 students of a private medical college, which is not ‘recognised’ by it....
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