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Local govts offer little to ‘voiceless majority’: System benefits elite
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: The Local Government (LGs) system introduced in the country in 2001 is plagued with the phenomenon of “elite capture” amid a host of chronic administrative and financial issues,... 
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CEC to decide candidate for premiership, says Amin
MIRPURKHAS, Feb 2: The senior vice-chairman of the People’s Party, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, has said that the Central Executive Committee of the party will decide the PPP’s candidate for premiership....
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Punjab shares grief with Sindh: Aitzaz
SUKKUR, Feb 2: President of the Supreme Court Bar Association Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan has said that his motives to visit Sindh were non-political and only wanted to express sympathy with the...
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Faraz asks writers to ‘fill pen with blood’
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: A meeting of writers and poets was held here this evening under the auspices of South Asia Policy Analysis Network (SAPANA) at the South Asian Free Media Association...
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Nine police officials may be indicted: Rashid Rauf’s escape
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: A criminal case is likely to be registered against nine dismissed police officers who were found guilty in an inquiry into the escape of Rashid Rauf, sources told Dawn here on Saturday....
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Suspects’ remand extended: Benazir’s assassination
RAWALPINDI, Feb 2: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Saturday extended the physical remand of two suspects in PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto’s assassination plot for 10 days as the investigators requested more time to extract further information....
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Justice Tariq advised physiotherapy
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: Doctors at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) here on Saturday advised physiotherapy to justice Tariq Mehmood (retired), sources told Dawn....
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Abadgars ask govt to implement decisions
HYDERABAD, Feb 2: The Sindh Abadgar Board at its meeting held here on Saturday has congratulated the caretaker prime minister for calling a report within 10 days for using 185 billion...
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Opposition raps Gujrat police for ‘partiality’
GUJRAT, Feb 2: Hundreds of the activists of Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Saturday staged a protest demonstration and a sit-in in front of the DPO office for `discriminating’ against the candidates of the both mainstream opposition parties....
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Five IJT men held over BZU clash
MULTAN, Feb 2: Five activists of the Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) were arrested on Saturday for injuring four members of the People’s Students Federation (PSF) in a clash at the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) on Friday....
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Pro-democracy students beaten up by guards
LAHORE, Feb 2: Six more pro-democracy activists were assaulted by security guards of the Punjab College’s Branch 7 on Saturday afternoon allegedly at the behest of college principal and Caretaker Punjab Minister for Special Education Sohail Afzal....
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Kin of the missing knock at another door for redress: Delegation sees Nawaz
LAHORE, Feb 2: Losing all hopes in the PCO-dictated judiciary for the recovery of their dear ones allegedly in the custody of agencies for the last five years, relatives of these missing persons have started finding other means for their solicitation....
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New Parco chairman
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2: Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Javed has been appointed chairman of the Pak-Arab Refinery Ltd (Parco), a leading energy company with an asset base close to Rs100 billion, just two...
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Rains lash Sindh
HYDERABAD, Feb 2: Light to moderate rains lashed parts of lower and upper Sindh on Saturday that may affect dates and mango production for the coming season....
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Highway SDO ‘kidnapped’
LARKANA, Feb 2: The SDO of highway working on the World Bank project, Muhammad Yusuf Bhutto, along with his driver Ali Nawaz is missing since January 24....
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PPP-police face-off
THATTA, Feb 2: Hundreds of enraged PPP activists blocked the National Highway on Satur-day after its leader, Zulfiqar Mirza, and Thatta SP investigation Shaukat Shahani, exchanged hot words....
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Man, son murdered
HYDERABAD, Feb 2: A man and his son were murdered in cold blood within the jurisdiction of Jamshoro police station on Saturday under mysterious circumstances....
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Passenger kidnapped near Gambat
KHAIRPUR, Feb 2: One bus passenger was kidnapped while several others were deprived of cash, mobile phones and other valuables by a group of six bandits near Khabri bus stop Gambat taluka late on Friday evening....
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Bail granted to 9 policemen
MIRPURKHAS, Feb 2: The second additional sessions judge of Mirpurkhas has granted bail in a sum of Rs200,000 each to nine dismissed police officials in a kidnapping case, keeping the victim...
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Struggle for independent judiciary to continue
RAWALPINDI, Feb 2: Former vice chairman of Pakistan Bar Council Ali Ahmed Kurd on Saturday said lawyers would not be intimidated by government’s coercive tactics and they would carry on their...
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Medical store owners observe strike
TAXILA, Feb 2: Druggists and chemists of twin cities of Taxila and Wah Cantt on Saturday observed token strike against the enforcement of controversial Punjab Drugs Rules....
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A unique way to avenge ‘political rivalry’
TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 2: The Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) staffers allegedly took away bricks and other building material from outside an under-construction house of PML-N local leader Mian Sarfraz Hussain...
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Customs men using a car illegally
RAHIM YAR KHAN, Feb 2: The District Excise and Taxation Department has detected an unregistered car being used by some Customs officials....
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Fatyana duo loses two supporters
TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 2: Two staunch supporters of Riaz Fatyana and his wife, Ashfa Fatyana, PML-Q candidates for NA-94 and PP-88, on Saturday announced supporting PML-N candidates Chaudhry Asadur Rehman and Nazia Raheel for these slots, respectively....
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LHC to hear Sharifs’ tax pleas tomorrow
LAHORE, Feb 2: A division bench of the Lahore High Court is set to hear 52 identical petitions by the Sharifs and their business concerns challenging assessment of their income tax on Monday (tomorrow)....
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Motorway to have trauma centres
LAHORE, Feb 2: Trauma Centres will be constructed at Chakri and Bhera on Lahore-Islamabad Motorway (M-I) to deal with accident cases while night-vision cameras have been placed to control speeding at night....
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Automated licences
LAHORE, Feb 2: District Nazim Mian Amer says the City District Government was considering issuance of international standard computerised driving licences in cooperation with Nadra. Talking after a briefing by Nadra...
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12 members of a gang arrested
LAHORE, Feb 2: Police have arrested 12 members of a gang allegedly involved in a number of crimes and seized from them a car, cell phones, gold ornaments, cash and illegal weapons....
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