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Complaint against SHC CJ sent to SJC
KARACHI, May 7: Senior lawyer and former advocate general of Sindh Anwar Mansoor Khan has sent a complaint to the Supreme Judicial Council against Sindh High Court Chief Justice Mohammad Afzal Soomro seeking his removal from office for his alleged misconduct.... 
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Asif suggests scrutiny by parliament for new CJ
KARACHI, May 7: Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said that his party makes no distinction between PCO and non-PCO judges and believes that an increase in the number of judges of the Supreme Court will make no difference....
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Judges issue to decide Aitzaz’s fate
ISLAMABAD, May 7: Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan will be one of the most celebrated candidates in the coming by-elections for the National Assembly but the award of ticket to him by his...
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US rejects Pakistan’s ‘war funds’ request
WASHINGTON, May 7: The Pentagon has rejected or deferred millions of dollars in military aid requests from Pakistan while at the Congress Democrats were questioning a US programme that reimbursed Pakistan’s military for anti-terrorism operations in the tribal area....
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Serum from S. Arabia found ineffective
ISLAMABAD, May 7: Federal health ministry on Wednesday asked provinces to withdraw all stocks of ineffective snakebite serum being sold in the market....
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Killing of trader sparks protests in Quetta
QUETTA, May 7: Local businessmen observed a strike here on Wednesday in protest against the killing of a trader in a robbery bid....
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Four mills sealed for Flour smuggling
GUJRANWALA, May 7: Four flour mills were sealed after a joint raiding team of the food department and Rangers seized over 100 tons of flour being smuggled to tribal areas besides arresting five truck drivers here on Wednesday....
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180 vehicles retrieved from provincial depts
LAHORE, May 7: The Punjab government has ‘recovered’ 180 vehicles being used by different departments on one pretext or another despite a warning by the chief secretary....
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IGP told to follow Police Order: DPOs’ appointments
LAHORE, May 7: A full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday ordered the Punjab IGP to adhere strictly to the Police Order 2002 in appointing district police officers (DPOs) and making transfers and postings....
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Gardaizi new Islamabad IG
ISLAMABAD, May 7: A grade-20 officer from Multan has been appointed as Inspector General of Police Islamabad....
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Man stabbed to death
GUJAR KHAN, May 7: Two persons stabbed a man to death on Tuesday during a brawl at a roadside hotel located in the jurisdiction of Mandra police station....
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Aijaz takes over as PIA MD
KARACHI, May 7: Captain Mohammad Aijaz Haroon assumed the charge of managing director, Pakistan International Airlines, on Wednesday....
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CGA calls on Balochistan chief minister
QUETTA, May 7: The Controller General Accounts, Mohammad Mohsin Khan, called on Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani here on Wednesday....
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EDO issued notice over job interview complaints
DADU, May 7: The regional director of the Sindh Ombudsman’s Dadu office issued notice to the EDO health of Dadu on Wednesday, taking notice of complaints of irregularities in job interviews for lower-grade posts in the health department....
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Factories defy PM’s orders, says leader
HYDERABAD, May 7: The president of National Labour Federation, Sindh chapter, Rana Mehmood Ali Khan, has said that the workers of biscuit factories of Hyderabad have been deprived of all legal...
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Kidnapped girls recovered
SUKKUR, May 7: Two minor girls kidnapped about 45 days ago, were recovered on Wednesday morning after an encounter with the police near RD-36 in the jurisdiction of Bhittai colony police station located in border area of Sindh and Balochistan....
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Fate of education project hangs in the balance
LARKANA, May 7: The Decentralised Elementary Education Project (DEEP), initiated two year beyond schedule in 2005 at a cost of Rs5,880 million to improve public elementary system in rural and urban...
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Govt told to expose ‘conspirators By-poll delay’
HYDERABAD, May 7: Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has said that the government is raising hue and cry about conspiracies but it should explain to the masses who...
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Coal to revolutionise Thar economy, hopes adviser
HYDERABAD, May 7: Adviser to the Sindh government, Khatumal Jeevan has said that the Sindh government will bring about an economic revolution in Tharparkar district through the use of coal....
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No decision to contest for NA-207, says Ghinwa
LARKANA, May 7: Chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party PPP (Shaheed Bhutto) said that her party had yet not decided about a candidate for NA-207....
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Man assaults daughter
SHIKARPUR, May 7: A man criminally assaulted his 16-year-old daughter in Gharibabad Mohalla in the limits of Lakhi Gate police station on Tuesday....
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A city of murky water, decaying lives
KASUR, May 7: Amid tall claims by the government regarding better healthcare, tanneries fearlessly keep polluting subsoil water reservoirs here in the city. The Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) has failed to...
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CM orders probe against doctors: MPA’s death in accident
SIALKOT, May 7: Chief Minster Sardar Dost Muhammad Khosa on Wednesday ordered an inquiry into the alleged non-availability of doctors and paramedical staff at the emergency ward of Allama Iqbal Memorial...
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DBA member kidnapped
TOBA TEK SINGH, May 7: A senior district bar association member was allegedly kidnapped for Rs10 million ransom at Mardan in the NWFP on Tuesday....
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Police kill dacoit in ‘encounter’
SAHIWAL, May 7: Harrapa police on Wednesday killed a dacoit in an encounter....
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Fisher-folk in troubled waters
DERA GHAZI KHAN, May 7: The Sindhu Bachao Tarla (an organisation of indigenous people to initiate struggle to save the Indus River and its ecology) has demanded that the chief minister replace the existing contractual fishing with license system....
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Wheat target doubled all over Punjab
SAHIWAL, May 7: The Punjab Food Department has doubled the wheat procurement target for the districts most of which are well short of even the previously set target....
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Vani case complainant claims house attacked
TOBA TEK SINGH, May 7: The father of an alleged vani victim girl has approached the police complaining that the village council head and his accomplices attacked his house on Tuesday....
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Four bogies of Rukn-i-Alam Express derail
RAHIM YAR KHAN, May 7: Five people were injured when four coaches of Karachi-bound Shah Rukn-i-Alam Express were derailed here on Wednesday. The Rescue-1122 staffers provided emergency treatment to the injured....
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Fresh postings hard to digest for ruling MPAs
LAHORE, May 7: MPAs from Rawalpindi, Sargodha and Gujranwala divisions belonging to the ruling coalition partners in provincial government, the PPP and the PML-N, expressed their reservations about the ongoing process...
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NAB gets notice on Hamesh’s plea against removal
LAHORE, May 7: An accountability appellate bench of the Lahore High Court issued a notice to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in a petition challenging Hamesh Khan’s removal as Bank of Punjab president and proceedings against him for financial irregularities....
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Pakistan non-entity in film scene
LAHORE, May, 7: “It’s a pity that Pakistan does not have a film archive for it has a treasure of films especially from 1950s and 60s”, Philippe Jalladeau, the French creative festival director said....
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KC official admits unfair fee raise
LAHORE, May 7: Kinnaird College Board of Governors’ vice-chairman Eric Messy has agreed with the protesting students that the ‘massive’ increase in BBA programme fee is unfair and said the matter would be put before the BoG....
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Govt may not levy new taxes: minister
LAHORE, May 7: Punjab Finance, Planning and Development (P&D) Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira says the government will try its utmost not to levy any new tax in the forthcoming budget....
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Dud bomb
LAHORE, May 7: A dud bomb was found during digging at a brick kiln in Batapur area on Wednesday....
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Computerisation of land record to cost $51m
LAHORE, May 7: The land record in all the 35 districts of the province will be computerised at a cost of 51 million dollars by 2012 with the World Bank assistance....
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