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Notices issued to millers for not lifting wheat
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: The food department has served show-cause notices on 15 mills operating in the twin cities for not lifting their wheat quota from government godowns for grinding that curtailed the flour supplies and kept the prices rising.... 
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Tunnel reopening for light vehicles
PESHAWAR, Feb 1: The Kohat tunnel, which was extensively damaged during clashes between militants and security forces in Darra Adamkhel, will become fully operational in about a month....
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All major parties violating code of conduct: report
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: Candidates belonging to all major political parties are openly violating code of conduct announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in their election campaign all over the country....
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Caretakers can’t approve education policy
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: Consumer Rights Protection Commission of Pakistan (CRPC) has strongly opposed the interim government’s bid to approve the draft national education policy....
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Nawaz calls for doing away with doctrine of necessity
RAWALPINDI, Feb 1: Former prime minister and leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Mian Nawaz Sharif on Friday called for doing away with doctrine of necessity as in its presence the country could not get real democracy and an independent judiciary....
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UK authorities have not apologised: Shujaat
LONDON, Feb 1: PML-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain who is here to find out facts about the detention of four of his family members and their two friends at Gatwick airport...
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JI opposes changes in NWFP, Fata
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: Deputy chief of Jamaat-i-Islami Senator Prof Khurshid Ahmed has criticised Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani’s statement that the government was considering changes in the administrative system of the NWFP and Fata....
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Warren’s BA degree: LHC ruling after five years
BAHAWALPUR, Feb 1: The Lahore High Court (LHC) declaring the graduate degree of former member of the National Assembly (MNA) Sardar Aamir Yar Warren as fake ruled that his past five years’ tenure as MNA was void....
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Ex-IGP fails to hold ground against PML-Q
GUJRANWALA, Feb 1: A station house officer (SHO) was reprimanded by the returning officer here on Friday on a complaint filed by an independent candidate for the Punjab Assembly slot, Zuhair...
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Candidates share pre-poll rigging stories with EU
SAHIWAL, Feb 1: A European Union (EU) delegation has heard a parade of election-related complaints from candidates for the Feb 18 elections and rights activists allegedly being committed by government and...
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Scholar says overcome ego to overcome intolerance
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: Scholar on religions Karen Armstrong has advised Muslims to use the pluralism and inclusiveness in Islam to overcome the intolerance prevailing in today’s world....
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Six women workers killed in accident
GUJAR KHAN, Feb 1: Six women factory workers were killed and five others injured in a traffic accident on Kahuta-Rawalpindi road on Friday morning....
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Chemists to protest today
RAWALPINDI, Feb 1: The All Pakistan Chemist and Drug Association (APCDA) has announced to hold a protest rally on Saturday against the new drug rules....
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Distancing military from civilian affairs welcomed
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: A group of eminent personalities including retired generals and bureaucrats have welcomed various instructions and steps announced by the new army chief to distance the military from civilian and political domains....
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Naan price back to Rs4
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: Tandoorwalas in the federal capital on Friday withdrew a fresh increase of Re1 in the price of Naan which will be available at Rs4 from Saturday....
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NBP calls trade union federation for talks
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has invited its trade union federation for talks on their charter of demands....
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Bird flu experts due in Karachi
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: The epidemiological response team of the National Institute of Health (NIH) will arrive in Karachi on Saturday to assess the situation in Sindh after the National Agriculture Research...
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BHC takes note of smuggling
QUETTA, Feb 1: The Balochistan High Court on Friday took suo motu notice of wheat and rice smuggling to Afghanistan....
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Minority leader joins MQM
MIRPURKHAS, Feb 1: The convener of Mirpurkhas chapter of the Schedule Caste Ittehad, Dr Heeranand Bheel, has quit the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and joined Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) with his associates....
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Three farmers kidnapped
KHAIRPUR, Feb 1: Three farmers were kidnapped from near Kandwara Dharejo village in the Pir Jo Goth area on Thursday night....
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PPP candidate booked in firing case
MITHI, Feb 1: The Chhachhro police have registered a case on the complaint of a PML activist against the PPP candidate for PS-62 seat, Nagarparkar, Sharjeel Inam Memon, and others for firing in Sakrio village of Chhachhro taluka....
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Students baton-charged
NAWABSHAH, Feb 1: Three students were injured when police baton-charged a group of students staging a sit-in on the Sakrand road here on Friday....
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Five die in accident
HYDERABAD, Feb 1: Five passengers were killed and 31 othes, including women and children, were amongst the injured when a bus collided head-on with a trailer on National Highway near Hala on Friday....
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Case against six cops for death in custody
KHANEWAL, Feb 1: Police registered a case against six police officials and two others on Friday for torturing a man to death at Nawan Shehr police station on Jan 24....
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Sharaqpuri’s nephew to back PML-N
SHEIKHUPURA, Feb 1: Mian Walid Ahmed Sharaqpuri, an independent candidate for PPP-165, on Friday announced his withdrawal from the electoral contest....
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Boy kidnapped for Rs4m
SARGODHA, Feb 1: Unidentified criminals have kidnapped a school student and demanded Rs4 million from his father for his release....
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Police take up UK national’s death
GUJRANWALA, Feb 1: The Kotwali police have started investigation into mysterious death of a British nationality holder girl, Sobia Wali, and recorded the statements of around a dozen people, including doctors...
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Rs114m scam in livestock dept
OKARA, Feb 1: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has traced an embezzlement of Rs114 million in the livestock department’s pilot project to revamp civil veterinary dispensaries (CVDs) in this district and registered a case against seven officials of the ancillary departments....
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Preparations of PPP
LAHORE, Feb 1: A PPP meeting held here on Friday reviewed arrangements for party’s co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari’s Punjab tour after Feb 7....
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Lahore to have 3,211 polling stations: 13 NA, 25 PA seats
LAHORE, Feb 1: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced that there will be 3,211 polling stations and 7,987 polling booths in the Punjab capital to facilitate 3,671,089 voters on Feb 18....
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Raise in interest rate opposed
LAHORE, Feb 1: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and the Pakistan Industrial Associations Front (PIAF) have slated the State Bank of Pakistan’s decision to raise the interest rate on the pretext of controlling fast increasing inflation....
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PU signs MoU with UK varsity
LAHORE, Feb 1: The Punjab University and the University of Glasgow have signed a memorandum of understanding on promotion of research and exchange of academics. PU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran...
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Pro-democracy activist assaulted by college guard
LAHORE, Feb 1: A pro-democracy activist was slapped by the security guard of a private college on the canal in Muslim Town while distributing anti-government flyers among students, witnesses said....
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May 26 action against Imran ‘unlawful’
LAHORE, Feb 1: Lahore High Court’s Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi has declared unlawful the Punjab government order of May 26, 2007, under which the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf chairman was restrained from leaving the Lahore city for three days....
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Jamiat does it again!
LAHORE, Feb 1: Three Punjab University (PU) students claim they were assaulted by Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) members after Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid on the PU campus on Friday....
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JI to stage rally on 5th
LAHORE, Feb 1: The Jamaat-i-Islami will hold a rally on The Mall on Feb 5 to show solidarity with the Kashmiris struggling to get their right to self-determination....
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Aitzaz to Figure in CCP rally
LAHORE, Feb 1: Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan is set to participate in the rally which will be taken out from Nasser Bagh by the Concerned Citizens of Pakistan, lawyers, political parties and people from all walks of life....
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Shahbaz calls on Aitzaz
LAHORE, Feb 1: PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif met Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan at his Zaman Park residence here on Friday....
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Robbers kill labourer
LAHORE, Feb 1: Robbers shot dead a labourer and injured his cousin in Shafiqabad on Friday....
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