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Rs26bn irregularities detected: Defence ministry accounts
ISLAMABAD, April 11: Mismanagement and irregular payments worth over Rs26.822 billion in the accounts of various departments under the Ministry of Defence, including Military Land and Cantonments, Military Engineering Services and Defence Production Division, have been detected.... 
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Kurram Agency wracked by fierce clashes
PARACHINAR, April 11: Fierce clashes which erupted in the Kurram tribal region last week continued on Thursday night and Friday and the administration appears to be powerless to do anything ti end the fighting....
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Ruling coalition committed to restoration of judges: Hashmi
RAWALPINDI, April 11: Ruling coalition of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) and Awami National Party (ANP) is committed to the restoration of deposed judges in 30 days according to the Murree Declaration....
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Govt vows to provide justice to NAB victims
ISLAMABAD, April 11: The government on Friday informed the National Assembly that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) could not be dissolved without a constitutional amendment because it was protected under the 6th schedule part of the 17th Amendment....
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Flour quota of five mills cancelled: Ban on wheat movement lifted
RAWALPINDI, April 11: The City District Government here on Friday cancelled wheat quota of five flour mills for their alleged involvement in flour smuggling and also took their record in possession, reports APP news agency....
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26 kiln workers freed
HYDERABAD, April 11: Justice Abdul Rehman Faruq Pirzada of the Sindh High Court on Friday set at liberty 26 workers who had been detained allegedly by the owner of a brick kiln....
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Case against 21 for setting fire to bar room, offices
MIANWALI, April 11: The City police have registered a case against 21 people who allegedly set on fire 14 lawyers’ chambers and the bar room and ransacked the bar library....
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Lawyers mourn deaths, seek arrest of culprits
HYDERABAD, April 11: Lawyers demanded arrests of people involved in Wednesday’s violence in Karachi as they observed a day of mourning across the province on Friday over the deaths of their colleagues....
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Axe also falls on 57 education officials: BISE, PTBB heads among them
LAHORE, April 11: The provincial education department on Friday sacked 57 re-employed officials, including DPI (Colleges), the Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education and the Punjab Textbook Board chairmen, on the directions of the Punjab government....
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Sacked officials given 14 days to vacate houses
LAHORE, April 11: The Punjab government on Friday issued notices to 12 sacked re-employed army and civil officers to vacate their official residences in the GOR-I in 14 days....
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Quake victims’ rehabilitation promised
ISLAMABAD, April 11: Deputy Chairman Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) Lt-Gen Nadeem Ahmed has promised comprehensive rehabilitation of the persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the quake-affected areas....
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Two fraudsters on run after ‘intoxicating’ police guards
ISLAMABAD, April 11: Two persons, who were brought to the city courts for hearing in separate fraud cases, escaped from police custody after rendering their guards unconscious by offering them food mixed with some intoxicants here on Friday, police said....
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No PMDC law to change course duration: MBBS programme
RAWALPINDI, April 11: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday observed that the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) had no provision for changing the duration of MBBS programme....
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Businesses given 15 days to install CCTVs
ATTOCK, April 11: District Police Officer (DPO) Tariq Hanif Joiya has asked banks, jewellers, money changers and other traders to install surveillance cameras in their offices/centres within 15 days....
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Two shot dead; clinic looted
RAWALPINDI, April 11: Two people, including a widow, were shot dead in separate incidents in the city, police said on Friday....
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Woman handed over to husband
RAWALPINDI, April 11: A bailiff appointed by district and sessions judge on Friday recovered a woman from her parents’ house and handed her over to her husband....
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May 12 killers behind recent violence, says STP
HYDERABAD, April 11: Activists of Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party staged a rally here on Friday in protest against killings of innocent people including lawyers in Karachi, attack on City and Malir bar offices and torching of scores of vehicles and buildings....
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Woman accuses in-laws of torture
HYDERABAD, April 11: The in-laws of a woman cut her hair on charges of her ‘objectionable activity’ in their home in Tando Hyder area in presence of her husband within the jurisdiction of Husri police station late on Thursday night....
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Varsity sought in Shikarpur
SHIKARPUR, April 11: The Shikarpur chapter of the Sindhi Adabi Sangat, a literary organisation, has decided to launch a campaign for establishment of a university in Shikarpur to enable students of...
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Mills may face shortage as traders buy wheat
SANGHAR, April 11: Dissatisfied over the price of Rs 625 per 40 kg fixed by the provincial government for wheat procurement, the growers have started to sell the commodity to Karachi-based...
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Protest against killing on charge of blasphemy
MIRPURKHAS, April 11: Scores of activists of civil society organisations and nationalist parties staged a demonstration outside the press club on Friday in protest against the killing of a Hindu youth from Mirpurkhas in Karachi on the pretext of blasphemy....
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Four men, woman fall victim to old feuds
SHIKARPUR, April 11: A man, his son and a woman fell victim to an old feud between Shar and Khosa tribes over a piece of land in Maee Jamri village and...
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Three shot dead in botched robbery
HYDERABAD, April 11: Three people including a policeman were killed when bandits opened fire after meeting resistance in a robbery attempt in a shop in Makki Shah late on Friday night....
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Master plan for BZU Sahiwal sub-campus
SAHIWAL, April 11: The National Engineering Services of Pakistan (Private) Limited has approved the master plan for the construction of the Bahauddin Zakariya University’s sub-campus in Sahiwal....
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Burnt alive
SARGODHA, April 11: A woman and her minor son were reportedly burnt alive in a kitchen fire here on Friday....
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Ghost CCBs eat up millions
KHANEWAL, April 11: Ghost Citizen Community Boards (CCBs) have allegedly misused millions they received from the district government in 2006, Dawn has learnt....
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Policemen penalised for breach of duty
JHANG, April 11: The Kotwali police have registered a case against six policemen after three alleged criminals fled from their custody on Thursday....
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Homeo doctors illegally appointed in Narowal
NAROWAL, April 11: Officials of the district health department have allegedly committed malpractices in recruiting five homeo doctors after minting money and issued appointment letters to candidates other than the ones...
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Tension mounts onOkara mly farms: Killing of youth
OKARA, April 11: Tension mounted in the military farm villages after a Christian youth was shot dead and another injured at Chak 10/4-L late on Thursday night....
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Police kill two for shooting PML-N men
HAFIZABAD, April 11: The two killers, who shot dead the PML-N’s city secretary-general and his private secretary, were later done to death in a shootout with the police here on Friday....
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Shoemakers’ rally for a raise
TOBA TEK SINGH, April 11: Scores of shoemakers took out a protest rally against factory owners for refusing a raise in their wages here on Friday....
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Hailstorm hits wheat crop
MUZAFFARGARH, April 11: A hailstorm reportedly damaged/affected wheat crop in different parts of the district on Friday....
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Nazim briefs Shahbaz on uplift projects
LAHORE, April 11: District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood called on PML-N President Mian Shahbaz Sharif at Model Town here on Friday....
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DIG Cheema on goodwill visits
LAHORE, April 11: Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Zulfikar Cheema is likely to grab a key post in the Lahore police set up, sources say....
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13 jail Heads shuffled
LAHORE, April 11: The Punjab government on Friday shuffled 13 superintendents of jails whereas notifications of two sacked re-employed deputy inspectors general (DIGs) were also issued....
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