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New GHQ plan is not for public eye
ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: Military authorities have submitted the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report of the new General Headquarters (GHQ) in Islamabad to Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) but unlike others it... 
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CSOs launch ‘people’s agenda’ for polls
ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: A network of civil society organisations concerned individuals in a meeting on Wednesday launched a ‘peoples agenda’ as the way to salvage the country from its present desperate...
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Animal seller shot, injured; 8 vehicles taken away
RAWALPINDI, Dec 20: A villager selling sacrificial animals was shot and injured by two robbers near Trate on Wednesday, while eight vehicles were taken away from different parts of the city during the last 24 hours, police said....
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Two killed, 17 injured in road accident
ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: Two persons were killed and 17 critically injured when a passenger wagon overturned at the Islamabad- Peshwar Motorway on Thursday, police and hospital sources said....
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‘Movement of lawyers to continue’
ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: Justice (retd) Tariq Mehmood says he is determined to continue the struggle till the restoration of the pre-emergency judiciary and announced that he will accompany deposed Chief...
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Fida Khan passes away
PESHAWAR, Dec 20: Fida Mohammad Khan, a former governor of the NWFP and a devoted worker of the Pakistan Movement, passed away early on Thursday morning after a protracted illness....
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Musharraf, Soomro lay stress on spirit of sacrifice
ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: President Pervez Musharraf and caretaker Prime Minister Mohammadmian Soomro have urged the nation to stand united, rise above differences, keeping in view the spirit of sacrifice....
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PML-N men resign over party tickets
NAROWAL, Dec 20: District office-bearers of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have resigned in protest against the alleged distribution of party tickets to those who had been working for the erstwhile ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q....
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Flour relegates polls to insignificance
FAISALABAD, Dec 20: Instead of electioneering, shortage of flour is talk of the town as acute scarcity has hit the district despite all ‘arrangements’ of the City District Government-Faisalabad (CDG-F)....
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Destitutes denied allowance
GUJRANWALA, Dec 20: At least 13,000 destitutes were deprived of subsistence allowance by the district zakat committee on the eve of Eidul Azha, Dawn learnt here on Thursday....
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Seven constituencies, seven battlefields : Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib
SHEIKHUPURA, Dec 20: Unlike other parts of the country, Sheikhupura and Nankana Sahib districts have been quick to the Jan 8 poll activities and here candidates and their frontline supporters are...
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Poisonous liquor kills three
MULTAN, Dec 20: Three people died after consuming poisonous liquor here on Thursday in Qutabpur police precincts....
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Workshop
LAHORE, Dec 20: If a chicken is kept for three days in a shop and is still healthy, it is not affected by any form of bird flu, says Pakistan Medical Society president Dr Masood Akhtar Sheikh....
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Robber, villager killed
OKARA, Dec 20: A robber and a villager were killed in an encounter between fleeing robbers and chasing villagers in Renala Sadar police precincts late on Wednesday night....
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PML-Q using public money for polls: ARD
LAHORE, Dec 20: Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy Deputy Information Secretary Munir Ahmad Khan has said state resources are being misused for influencing the results of general elections in favour of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q)....
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12-year-old perishes in slum blaze
LAHORE, Dec 20: A 12-year-old boy and a buffalo died and household items worth thousands of rupees reduced to ashes in a fire erupting in at least seven shanties near Begumkot Chowk, Shahdara, early on Thursday morning....
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Persisting fog hits holiday travel
LAHORE, Dec 20: Fog continued to affect air, rail and road traffic on the second day on Thursday in parts of Punjab, making travel difficult at a time when a large...
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Youth found murdered
LAHORE, Dec 20: Two people were found dead in as many incidents in the city on Thursday....
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Farmer bodies to get 10pc more from abiana
LAHORE, Dec 20: The Punjab government has decided to increase 10 per cent share of farmer organisations in the abiana income....
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Afzal calls on Aitzaz
LAHORE, Dec 20: Caretaker minister for law and parliamentary affairs Syed Afzal Haider called on Supreme Court Bar Association president Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan at his residence on Thursday....
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