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MQM will nominate own PM in 2013: Altaf
KARACHI, Feb 15: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain said on Friday that the message of his party was spreading across the country and it would be in a position to... 
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Violence feared in Thatta, Badin during election
ISLAMABAD, Feb 15: The Citizens Group on Electoral Process (CGEP) has warned of election day violence in Sindh’s Badin and Thatta districts if the army is not deployed at polling stations....
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SHC issues notices on Asif’s plea
KARACHI, Feb 15: The Sindh High Court has issued notices to the federation and the National Accountability Bureau for Feb 29 in a petition moved by Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif...
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Zardari promises change in system
GUJRAT, Feb 15: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has vowed to take the revenge of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination by “changing the current system democratically, according to the wisdom of former prime minister.”...
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Mukhtar booked again
GUJRAT, Feb 15: The Gujrat police registered yet another case against Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar and Chaudhry Nasir Samman, the Pakistan People’s Party candidates for NA-105 and PP-111 and PP-110, respectively, along with other party workers on Thursday....
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Gilani’s plea against his ineligibility rejected
BAHAWALPUR, Feb 15: A full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday dismissed a writ petition filed by a PML-N candidate Makhdoom Syed Ali Hasan Gilani challenging the rejection of his nomination papers for NA-183 by a returning officer....
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Former AG Questions ‘SC haste’
LAHORE, Feb 15: Former law minister and attorney-general Syed Iqbal Haider has expressed surprise over the way the Supreme Court issued its judgment in favour of the Nov 3 emergency rule...
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Judges urged to take note of lawyers’ detention
LAHORE, Feb 15: A senior lawyer of the Supreme Court has written a letter to the judges of the superior courts to take notice of the prolonged detention of Supreme Court...
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Will Justice Chaudhry and family cast votes?
LAHORE, Feb 15: Will the deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry be allowed to cast his vote on the day of elections - Feb 18? Will other eligible members of his...
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Aitzaz Concerned at prevailing situation
LAHORE, Feb 15: Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan on Friday bemoaned the disarray in the state of affairs and expressed his hope “the ongoing war against the alliance of the civil and military bureaucracy will succeed”....
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Channels, SMS give poll campaign boost
LAHORE, Feb 15: This time cable channels and short multimedia messages (SMS) are also being used as election campaign tools, with almost all parties and independent candidates taking advantage of this direct-to-home campaign....
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Ballot boxes delivered at Pindi polling stations
RAWALPINDI, Feb 15: Election authorities on Friday delivered all necessary materials including ballot boxes at 2034 polling stations in Rawalpindi....
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It is a battle of survival and revival in Rawalpindi
RAWALPINDI, Feb 15: It is a battle of political survival and revival in Rawalpindi and Monday’s election will decide who captures what in the city that can lay claim to be the country’s conspiracy capital....
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PPP shocked over disclosure
KARACHI, Feb 15: The Pakistan People’s Party on Friday expressed shock over the latest report of the Human Rights Watch saying that Attorney-General Malik Abdul Qayyum was aware of a plan for poll rigging, as evident from a taped telephone conversation....
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PFUJ fears new curbs
ISLAMABAD, Feb 15: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has said it fears more restrictions on media, particularly on TV news channels, on the ‘polling day’ as government is reported...
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Denmark warns nationals
COPENHAGEN, Feb 15: The Danish foreign ministry on Friday advised its nationals to avoid unnecessary travel to Pakistan in view of anger in the country over the reprinting of a sacrilegious cartoon....
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Economic policies emerge as major issue
ISLAMABAD, Feb 15: As electioneering enters the final stages, economic discontent on the back of skyrocketing prices and decline in employment in the formal sector has emerged as a major issue for the leading political parties....
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Lower Sindh: PPP likely winner in rural areas, MQM in urban ones
WITH “the mania of counting noses” (as the celebrated philosopher Nietzsche has described elections and democracy) only a couple of days away, the election campaign in lower Sindh has yet to gather steam....
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Rabwah sits it out
THE dusty, uneven and broken roads in Rabwah, a town at a distance of 150km from Lahore in the district of Jhang, are no different from those in other tehsils and zilas of the area....
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Voter turnout and rigging in Punjab
To rig or not to rig? This is perhaps no longer the question agitating people about the forthcoming elections. By all accounts, significant pre-poll rigging has already taken place....
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Woman kills nephew
GUJRANWALA, Feb 15: Visiting a father’s sin on his son, a woman on Friday ‘slaughtered’ her nephew to exact revenge from his father over a monetary dispute at Rahwali....
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Who will have the last laugh in Faisalabad?
FAISALABAD, Feb 15: There will be a triangular competition in most constituencies of the district while a few constituencies will witness one-on-one or quadruple fight....
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Passerby hurt
SHEIKHUPURA, Feb 15: A man was shot at and injured in an exchange of fire between two candidates in PP-169, Farooqabad city, on Friday evening. Rana Waheed of PMLQ and an independent aspirant, Sabir Bhatti, took out rallies....
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Tiger rides bicycle in political circus: Brandishing arrow in public
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Feb 15: In an odd move of its kind, two candidates belonging to archrival political parties, PML-Q and PML-N, are sailing their electioneering boat jointly yet smoothly, astonishing the electorate in Jaampur tehsil of Rajanpur district....
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Long queues may not mean big turnout
LAHORE, Feb 15: The number of new polling stations set up vis-a-vis the new registered voters for the Feb 18 election is far less than the ratio between the voters and...
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Demo against caricatures
LAHORE, Feb 15: The Islami Jamiat Tulaba activists on Friday staged protest demonstrations in front of Masjid-i-Shuhada and outside the Punjab University against the publication of blasphemous caricatures in European newspapers....
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A rude awakening for minorities
LAHORE, Feb 15: The joint electorate system, which was taken as a boon by the minorities in Pakistan in the 2002 general election, is now being seen as a bane in the Feb 18 polls....
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Strangled man’s body found in sack
LAHORE, Feb 15: Unidentified criminals tortured and strangled a father of two and threw his body in the open in Baghbanpura on Friday, police said....
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Bomb scare at LHC
LAHORE, Feb 15: Judges, lawyers and visitors were told to leave the Lahore High Court (LHC) premises after a bomb hoax created panic here on Friday....
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