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Altaf says Nawaz ‘misleading’ people
KARACHI, March 1: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief, Altaf Hussain, has criticised former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for ‘misleading’ the masses on the issue of judiciary as he was talking about... 
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PPP-MQM talks come under fire
HYDERABAD, March 1: The central committee of the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party has described the Pakistan People’s Party’s holding talks with Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) at the party’s headquarter as an insult to people’s mandate....
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Politicians urged to seize opportunity
HYDERABAD, March 1: Intellectuals and political leaders on Saturday called for seizing the opportunity offered by Feb 18 elections and put the country back on rails....
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Lawyers to step up protest if Aitzaz not released
SUKKUR, March 1: Supreme Court Bar Association Vice-President and Sindh High Court Bar Associations President Imdad Ali Awan has warned the government of protests, hunger strikes and arrests by lawyers if...
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PML-N raps Musharraf for ‘illegal meetings’
LAHORE, March 1: Alleging that independent MPs-elect are being forced not to join the PML-N by President Pervez Musharraf and the state institutions under his influence, the party has criticised the...
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Aitzaz’s detention order lapses tonight: Release won’t be a courtesy: Bushra
LAHORE, March 1: The restraining order for the Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan lapses here on Sunday night amid calls for his release linked closely to his stance on the deposed judges....
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‘Entertainment sector given industry status’
LAHORE, March 1: The cabinet has granted industry status to the entertainment sector, including studious and production and animation houses, and allowed duty free import of equipment related to this industry, a caretaker federal minister said here on Saturday....
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SCBA schedule for ‘black flag week’
LAHORE, March 1: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has issued a detailed schedule for the lawyers’ ''black flag week''....
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Compensation ordered for flawed Umrah package
LAHORE, March 1: The District Consumer Court has ordered a Kasur-based travel agency owner to pay Rs405,000 as litigation cost and compensation for causing inconvenience and agony to 14 persons his firm sent for performing Umrah....
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Prayers for Mingora carnage victims
MINGORA, March 1: Funeral prayers for the victims of Friday’s suicide attack were offered here in different localities of Swat as the death toll rose to 46 on Saturday....
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Protest against suspension of BISE officials
LARKANA, March 1: Protest-ing the suspension of seven employees of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Larkana, the board employees did not turn up to offices and locked the gates to prevent anyone from entering into building on Saturday....
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Dadu DCO cancels postings, transfers
DADU, March 1: Dadu DCO Aijaz Ahmed Mangi has cancelled all the postings and transfers made by the executive district officer of education and recommended the provincial government to take action against the official....
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Arbab’s brother laid to rest
MITHI, March 1: The elder brother of former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, who was killed in a road accident on Friday near Talhar, was laid to rest in his native village Khetlari on Saturday....
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Two women kidnapped
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, March 1: Two women were kidnapped from Korey Ja Bhaan village near Mithiani on Saturday....
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Education staff call for ‘full payment’ of salaries
MUZAFFARGARH, March 1: Teachers and staffers of the education department serving in Kot Adu tehsil have protested the indifference of officials concerned for not paying them full salary for the month of January 2008 despite the passage of over one month....
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SHO, five others penalised for criminal’s escape
LAHORE, March 1: The Punjab police chief on Saturday suspended the station house officer and fiver other policemen of a Mianwali police station after an alleged criminal fled from their custody....
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Two brothers shot dead
SIALKOT, March 1: Two brothers were shot dead over a marriage dispute in Kotli Behram locality here on Saturday....
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Man killed on resistance
TOBA TEK SINGH, March 1: A man was killed for resisting a robbery in his house in a village near Kamalia late on Friday night....
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PU asked to establish chair at Iran varsity
LAHORE, March 1: Esfahan Mayor Saqaiyan Nejad has asked the Punjab University vice-chancellor to establish a PU chair at the University of Esfahan....
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Man held for killing girl after rape
SAHIWAL, March 1: A man was arrested for killing a nine-year-old girl after subjecting her to rape here on Friday night....
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Man travels to life’s last port of call
MUZAFFARGARH, March 1: A man lost his life after jumping from the train which did not make a halt at his destination – the Budh railway station – on Saturday....
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Increase in oil prices slammed
LAHORE, March 1: The Jamaat-i-Islami staged a demonstration at Mansoora on Multan Road on Saturday to condemn the raise in POL prices and power tariff....
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Two houses catch fire
LAHORE, March 1: Valuables were reduced to ashes when a fire broke out in a house near the Madhu Lal Hussain shrine in Baghbanpura area on Saturday....
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Operations SSP replaced
LAHORE, March 1: The Punjab government has appointed senior superintendent of police, Dr Tariq Ahmad Khokhar, as acting SSP (operations)...
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Two killed in road accidents
LAHORE, March 1: Two persons were killed in road accidents here on Saturday....
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Millers raise flour price
LAHORE, March 1: The Pakistan Flour Mills Association, Punjab branch, on Saturday announced a Rs5 increase in the price of a 20kg flour bag in view of hike in production cost due to upward revision of POL rates and electricity tariff....
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