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| April 21, 2008 | Monday | Rabi-us-Sani 14, 1429 |
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Input subsidy, price control answer to flour crisis: UAF deliberations
FAISALABAD, April 20: The University of Agriculture Faisalabad has recommended to the government to give subsidy to farmers on fertilisers, herbicides and insecticides and take effective control over sale and distribution of wheat flour to fight the crisis.... 
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‘Criminal’ guns down DSP
TOBA TEK SINGH, April 20: A proclaimed offender (PO) and his accomplice allegedly shot Sangla Hill Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ashiq Marth dead apparently over enmity in Chak 429-JB, Marthanwala, in Gojra Sadar police precincts on Sunday....
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CNG buses disappear in a haze
ISLAMABAD, April 20: A consortium which launched a CNG bus service between the twin cities in February with 10 buses has folded up the service in protest....
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Masses suffer as flour hoarding, smuggling continue
TAXILA, April 20: Wheat flour prices have struck all-time highs in the cities of Taxila and Hassanabdal, as authorities are proving helpless against hoarding, profiteering and smuggling....
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Legendary Abdullah Malik remembered
ISLAMABAD, April 20: Legendary left journalist and political historian Abdullah Malik who died this month five years ago was remembered by a galaxy of his peers at a well attended seminar at the Pakistan Academy of Letters on Saturday evening....
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Fantastic fotos on display
ISLAMABAD, April 20: Local amateur and professional photographers put some of their best works of the unusual, the beautiful and the memorable at an exhibition here on Sunday....
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LG set-up to get ‘colonial blend’
LAHORE, April 20: After finding it not viable, the Punjab government intends to rehash the local government system by reducing powers of nazims and equipping the field administrative machinery with management...
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Robbery
KASUR, April 20: Three robbers deprived a motorcyclist of Rs79,000 and a cell phone in Changa Manga police precincts on Sunday....
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Will Khosa cure an ailing hospital?
DERA GHAZI KHAN, April 20: Even though the city is proud to be the hometown of Punjab Chief Minister Dost Muhammad Khosa, this political development has not brought about any positive...
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Four of family killed as car hits trolley
BAHAWALNAGAR, April 20: Four family members were killed while as many sustained serious injuries in an accident on Bahawalnagar-Minchinabad Road near Mauza Kabootri on Sunday....
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One killed in accident
ISLAMABAD, April 20: A pedestrian was killed and another suffered multiple injuries when a speeding vehicle hit them on Saturday, police said....
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Drive to ban cell-phone use on wheels
RAWALPINDI, April 20: Mobile phones and driving have never gone well together and across the world police are keen to clamp down on drivers who chat on their hand sets while at the wheel....
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Cancer patient commits suicide
ISLAMABAD, April 20: A cancer patient committed suicide by tying himself with the ceiling fan in a house at G-10/2 on Sunday, police said....
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Another six senior officers transferred
LAHORE, April 20: The Punjab government on Sunday transferred and posted six senior officials....
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