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January 01, 2008 Tuesday Zilhaj 21, 1428   Govt, EC in favour of poll postponement ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: Both the government and the Election Commission on Monday sent out what critics saw as alarms of flight from the date of Jan 8 elections despite insistence by... Govt may seek foreign help in probe: FO ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: The government of Pakistan on Monday declared that if needed it would seek international help for the probe into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and underscored that all efforts would be made to ascertain facts.... Dr Mussadiq denies giving cause of death Dr MUSSADIQ Khan, the principal of the Rawalpindi Medical College, has clarified a news story, “Rawalpindi doctor relives father’s fate”, carried by Dawn in its Monday edition.... Teachers decide to boycott poll duties in Balochistan QUETTA, Dec 31: The Govern-ment Teachers’ Association (GTA) has announced that it will boycott election duties in the province.... BB’s relative killed in accident HYDERABAD, Dec 31: Four people, including wife of Benazir Bhutto’s first cousin Imdad Ali Bhutto, died in a road accident on the Indus Highway near the Cadet College Petaro on Monday.... Rumours keep businessmen in a fix FAISALABAD, Dec 31: Fractional peace returned on Monday in most parts of Punjab with businessmen coming out to open their shops and concerns amid fear. The Pakistan People’s Party activists took out rallies as usual.... Mixed response to Bilawal’s nomination LAHORE, Dec 31: The city’s youth on Monday reacted with mixed emotions to the appointment of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as titular head of the Pakistan People’s Party.... Playing politics on wave of sympathy MUZAFFARGARH, Dec 31: As the nation is struggling steadily to come out of the shock of the tragic murder of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto, different candidates of the general elections are making most of the occasion.... Samjhota Express resumes shuttling LAHORE, Dec 31: The Samjhota Express has started running according to its schedule between Lahore and Atari through Wagah on Monday.... Pakistan tops list with seven: 25 newsmen killed in S. Asia LAHORE, Dec 31: The year 2007 was the bloodiest and most difficult for journalists in South Asia with Pakistan topping the death tally. Media Commission, Pakistan, president I.A.Rehman,... Border situation discussed ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: The Tripartite Commission, comprising senior military representatives from Pakistan, Afghanistan and NATO’s International Sec-urity Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, held its twenty-second plenary meeting on Monday.... Altaf offers condolences to Zardari KARACHI, Dec 31: Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Altaf Hussain called Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and offered condolences on the tragic death of Benazir Bhutto.... Compensation for NBP branch workers KARACHI, Dec 31: The National Bank of Pakistan has decided to pay a compensation of Rs1 million each to the families of its four officers who were killed in an attack by rioters on its Khairpur Mirus main branch.... Bomb blasts QUETTA, Dec 31: Two explosions rocked Dalbandin late on Monday evening.... Police in conflict zones seek the easy way out PESHAWAR, Dec 31: The NWFP government has asked the health department not to grant medical leave to police personnel for minor ailments because the force is already running short of field staff.... ‘Govt version to divide people’: Benazir’s assassination PESHAWAR, Dec 31: The government’s statement holding Waziristan’s tribesmen responsible for the death of Benazir Bhutto is a plot to pitch different nationalities of the country against each other.... Two PHC judges take fresh oath PESHAWAR, Dec 31: Two judges of the Peshawar High Court, Justice Muhammad Raza Khan and Justice Raj Muhammad Khan, took the oath under the 1973 Constitution on Monday.... Unclaimed bodies rot in mortuary PESHAWAR, Dec 31: The authorities have failed to identify decomposed bodies of two men in their 30s which have been lying in the mortuary of the Khyber Medical College for the last six days.... ‘5,000kg of hashish seized in 2007’ PESHAWAR, Dec 31: During 2007, drug traffickers concentrated on smuggling of hashish in the NWFP. In Peshawar district alone, police seized 5,000kg of the drug in the year under review.... Panic in Peshawar PESHAWAR, Dec 31: Rumours about a PPP procession caused panic in the Saddar Bazaar on Monday. As a consequence, shopkeepers immediately started closing their shops and people started running for cover.—APP... Clash with police leaves four lawyers injured: PPP workers try to target Lal Haveli RAWALPINDI, Dec 31: Four lawyers on Monday sustained injuries when police resorted to baton charge on their rally which they had taken out against the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and ouster of judges of supreme and higher courts.... Workers vow to fulfil Benazir’s mission TAXILA, Dec 31: The PPP local leaders on Monday vowed they would continue to work for accomplishing late Benazir Bhutto’s mission for a democratic Pakistan. This pledge was made at the... Independent inquiry into Benazir’s killing sought HUNZA, Dec 31: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) local leaders and workers have condemned the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in a gun-suicide-attack in Rawalpindi last week.... Normality returns to Islamabad ISLAMABAD, Dec 31: Confidence seemed to have taken over fear and uncertainty but not the grief which prevailed in the capital on Monday, as life limped back to normality four days after the assassination of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto.... Braving chill, weariness at railway station LAHORE, Dec 31: Of around 100 passengers stranded in Lahore owing to suspension of rail service to Karachi, the worst affected are 40 people who had been staying either in the... Pervaiz accuses Shahbaz of inciting violence LAHORE, Dec 31: Punjab PML president and central leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has claimed his party has proofs that Shahbaz Sharif ordered PML-N workers to ransack shops and PML offices following the Rawalpindi incident on Dec 27.... No rail service to, from Karachi LAHORE, Dec 31: Rail services to and from Karachi to the rest of the country could not be resumed on Monday while an express train left for Quetta in the evening,... Twine wound leads boy to near death LAHORE, Dec 31: A young medical company employee had his both legs broken after he fell from his motorcycle immediately after he suffered a wound on his neck by twine at North Cantonment on Monday.... Too sad to celebrate New Year Night LAHORE, Dec 31: Amidst the pall of gloom for Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, dance parties arranged in Lahore to celebrate the New Year Night have been cancelled, sources in entertainment world told Dawn on Monday.... People reeling under power loadshedding VEHARI, Dec 31: People in the Vehari district and adjoining areas strongly protested against the unscheduled loadshedding. At least 18 to 20 hours of daily loadshedding is causing a great deal... Back to normalcy KHANEWAL: Life has started returning to normal gradually and government and private offices resumed working on Monday after a three-day countrywide mourning and protests in the wake of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s assassination in Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on Thursday.... PPP workers welcome Bilawal SIALKOT, Dec 31: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) activists are satisfied over the appointment of Bilawal Bhutto as the new PPP chairman and hope that he will continue his family’s ancestral struggle for establishing the sustainable democracy in the country.... PML-Q men take out ‘peace rally’ TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 31: PML-Q candidates on Monday took out a `peace rally’ at Kamalia after the PPP activists had broken their election billboards and burnt banners and posters in the wake of the Rawalpindi incident.... PPP, PML-N activists arrested SHEIKHUPURA, Dec 31: Dozens of activists of PPP and PML-N were rounded up for rioting following the tragic incident in Rawalpindi....

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