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Experts call for focused strategy to resolve crises
ISLAMABAD, June 2: Speakers at a conference here on Monday stressed the need for steps that provided maximum relief to the poor in the forthcoming budget and called for cut in unnecessary expenditures.... 
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Iran can help Pakistan in energy sector
TAXILA, June 2: Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Mashallah Shakri has said his resource rich country can help Pakistan address its energy crisis in the long run....
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Constitutional package attempt to protect NRO: speakers
ISLAMABAD, June 2: Speakers, representing non-parliamentary opposition, on Monday rejected the proposed constitutional amendment package, terming it farce, meant to maintain status quo and protect the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) that provided indemnity to corrupt politicians....
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Policemen occupy flats in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD, June 2: Policemen assigned to protect government flats in Islamabad from illegal occupation, have themselves occupied them and are refusing to vacate the apartments....
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Call to enshrine right to food in Constitution
ISLAMABAD, June 2: Experts have urged the government to incorporate people’s right to food in the constitution, saying that the unprecedented surge in food prices has made millions of people vulnerable....
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Sher Ali Mazari was not at jirga
KARACHI, June 2: After the publication of a news item in Dawn on May 31 titled “Minor girls engaged to settle feud”, it has come to our attention that Mr Sher...
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Uzbeks say they killed Taliban commander
TANK, June 2: A foreign militant group has claimed responsibility for killing a local Taliban commander and his associate in the Frontier Region of Dara Zenda on Sunday....
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Parts of Balochistan hit by power failure
QUETTA, June 2: Northern and central parts of Balochistan, including Quetta, plunged into darkness after power supply from the Guddu power plant was suspended on Monday evening....
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Raisani Qaumi Ittehad chief acquitted
QUETTA, June 2: A division bench of the Balochistan High Court has acquitted the chief of Raisani Qaumi Ittehad, Mir Wadood Raisani, and set aside the verdict of the Anti-terrorist Court No....
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Water shortage poses threat to paddy sowing
HYDERABAD, June 2: Serious shortage of water in the command area of Kotri Barrage recorded somewhere near 75 per cent, contrary to the irrigation secretary’s earlier statement putting it at 28...
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Flour price rises in Mirpurkhas
MIRPURKHAS, June 2. Flour price has risen in the district after an increase in wheat prices in the open market which is being sold at the rate of Rs800 to Rs820 per 40kg....
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Robber dies, another hurt as gun goes off
HYDERABAD, June 2: A bandit was killed and another was injured when his weapon went off accidentally while escaping with Rs200,000 they had snatched from two men in Hirabad in the jurisdiction of Market police station on Monday....
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Under-trial prisoner commits suicide
FAISALABAD, June 2: An under-trial prisoner allegedly committed suicide in District Jail here on Monday....
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Seven arrested for stealing oil from Parco supply line
SHEIKHUPURA, June 2: Farooqabad Sadar police on Monday caught red-handed seven people while stealing petro-oil after fitting a pipe in the main supply line coming from Pak Arab Oil Refinery, Karachi, to Macheki depot....
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Shopkeepers scuffle with raiding cops
SAHIWAL, June 2: A scuffle erupted between shopkeepers and Jaranwala police personnel when they raided two shops of cellular phone sets here on Sunday to arrest their owners for their alleged involvement in a robbery....
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Outlaws deprive trader of Rs2.2m
MIANWALI, June 2: Two nonchalant outlaws on a motorcycle deprived a businessman of Rs2.2 million at the busy GPO Chowk on Kutchery Road, a few yards away from police emergency Rescue 15 office....
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Case against four for selling rape clips
GUJRANWALA, June 2: Ahmadnagar police have registered a case against four people for allegedly raping a married woman and recording its clips on a mobile phone set which were later put on for sale....
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Double Shah’s case shifting plea rejected
GUJRANWALA, June 2: Anti-Terrorism Court-II on Monday rejected the plea of Sibtul Hasan alias Double Shah for shifting his case from ATC to a civil court, besides refusing an acquittal plea of his accomplice Akram in the same case....
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Prisoner ‘tricks’ police escort
VEHARI, June 2: An under-trial prisoner escaped from the police custody on the premises of a local court on Monday....
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A signal-free route
FAISALABAD, June 2: The City District Government of Faisalabad (CDGF) and the University of Agriculture Faisalabad have decided to make Jail Road a signal-free route, and the UAF will provide land for this purpose....
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Girl raped in mosque
LAHORE, June 2: A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by unidentified youth in a Gawalmandi area mosque on Monday....
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No major change in defence budget: Mukhtar rules out parliamentary debate
LAHORE, June 2: Pakistan can export Al-Khaled and Zarrar tanks, armoured personnel carriers (APCs), small planes used for training purposes and small arms to countries wanting to purchase them, says Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar....
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Pepco move saves 700 megawatt: CAA neon signs switched off
LAHORE, June 2: The Pakistan Electric Power Company (PepCo) on Monday disconnected power supply to neon signs installed at the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) precincts and made the administration agree to close the Fortress Stadium market by 9pm....
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Memorial for Benazir
LAHORE, June 2: Punjab Senior Minister Raja Riaz Ahmad says a memorial will soon be built at the site of fatal attack on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi....
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