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Coordinated efforts needed to deal with terrorism: PM
KUALA LUMPUR, July 9: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday stressed the need for coordinated efforts by Pakistan, India and Afghanistan to deal with the problem of terrorism in an effective manner.... 
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Qureshi, Spanta meet ahead of UNSC meeting
UNITED NATIONS, July 9: Describing the recent incidents of terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan as unfortunate, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said his meeting with his Afghan counterpart Rangeen Dadfar...
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July 19 convention to decide about long march: Aitzaz
LAHORE, July 9: Supreme Court Bar Association president Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan said on Wednesday that the Bush administration, not the American public, was against reinstatement of the judges deposed on Nov 3 last year....
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APDM to launch movement
ISLAMABAD, July 9: The All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) has decided to launch a protest movement to pressurise the government to fulfil its promises of reinstating the deposed judges and initiating impeachment proceedings against President Pervez Musharraf....
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Proposal to raise prices of 100 life-saving drugs
ISLAMABAD, July 9: The health ministry is reported to have prepared a proposal to increase prices of about 100 life-saving drugs. The proposal will be presented at a meeting of the advisory committee on drug prices on Thursday....
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NAB prepares two fresh references
ISLAMABAD, July 9: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has prepared two fresh references involving Rs59 million....
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PML-N backs demand for national languages
WASHINGTON, July 9: PML-N leader and former federal minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that the PML-N accepts the rights of Punjabi, Sindhi, Siraiki, Pushto and Balochi languages and would support giving them national languages status....
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Fazl assails ‘US drive against religious parties’
QUETTA, July 9: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that his party will continue its struggle for enforcement of Islamic laws and will never compromise on principles....
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Shahbaz seeks gang-rape case report
GUJRANWALA, July 9: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken notice of gang-rape with a 17-year-old girl of Mohallah Faisalabad and has called for a report from Gujranwala DIG Zulfiqar Ahmad Cheema on Wednesday....
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President has no right to amend NFC award: Marri
HYDERABAD, July 9: Sindh Minister for Information Shazia Marri said on Wednesday that the president had no right to amend the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award because it was an exclusive right of people as enshrined in the 1973 Constitution....
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Authority set up for Thar coal mining
ISLAMABAD, July 9: The federal government has set up a provincial coal authority by abolishing two federal and provincial agencies to expedite mining and development of Thar and other coal deposits in Sindh....
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Electrification of Balochistan villages urged
ISLAMABAD, July 9: A Senate sub-committee has called for immediate utilisation of a Kuwaiti loan for electrification of 700 villages in Balochistan....
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‘Resolving power crisis a priority’
LONDON, July 9: The coalition government has undertaken a series of initiatives to steer the country out of the debilitating power crisis and the country will overcome electricity shortage within a couple of years....
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11,000 flour bags seized; notices to six millers
GUJRANWALA, July 9: The Food Department on Wednesday foiled an attempt to smuggle around 11,000 flour bags weighing 20kg each to tribal area and issued notices to six millers for allegedly getting fake permits....
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Three Killed as vans collide
NAROWAL, July 9: A man and two women were killed and 35 others sustained injuries when two vans collided head-on near Qila Kalarwala on Narowal–Muridke Road on Wednesday....
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Man kills aunt, two cousins
KASUR, July 9: A man stabbed his paternal aunt and two teenaged cousins to death over a domestic dispute in Kot Sardar village in Khudian police precincts on Wednesday....
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UC nazim, son gunned down
FAISALABAD, July 9: Criminals gunned down a union council nazim and his son in Khurrianwala on Wednesday....
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Demo against police for illegal detention
LAHORE, July 9: The area people and the Anjuman-i-Tajiran Autoparts, Misri Shah, staged a demonstration on Wednesday against the Misri Shah police for illegally detaining three people....
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DSP taken ‘hostage’ in anti-encroachment drive
JHANG, July 9: Traders and shopkeepers took Traffic DSP Taseer Dar and some policemen ‘hostage’ during an anti-encroachments drive in the city’s busiest Rail Bazaar on Wednesday....
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IJT protests students’ reinstatement
FAISALABAD, July 9: Scores of students of the Government College University and Punjab Medical College on Wednesday staged a protest rally and a sit-in in front of the district nazim office...
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MPA joins PML-N, eyes ministry
MUZAFFARGARH, July 9: Newly-elected Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) Haroon Sultan Bukhari has joined the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N)....
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Family protests girl’s autopsy
LAHORE, July 9: Heirs to an 18-year-old girl protested at the city mortuary on Wednesday after Gulberg police turned down their request to avoid autopsy....
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Two women die in accident
SIALKOT, July 9: Two women were killed and more than 15 passengers injured in a collision between two vans near Kot Gondal, Qila Kalarwala, on Wednesday....
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Security alert after threat to bomb Islamabad courts
ISLAMABAD, July 9: Security was beefed up in the twin cities on Wednesday when another red alert was sounded amid threats of suicide bombings in the federal capital....
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3,200 teachers’ posts lying vacant in Pindi
RAWALPINDI, July 9: The number of vacant teachers posts in Rawalpindi city schools has swelled to 3,200 while 145 schools out of 266 in the district are still without headmaster/headmistress for the last seven months....
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Sherpao acquitted in three corruption references
ISLAMABAD, July 9: The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted former interior minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao in three corruption references by giving benefit of the National Reconciliation Ordinance 2007 (NRO)....
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5 ‘kidnappers’ booked
RAWALPINDI, July 9: Westridge police here on Wednesday booked five persons including a woman for kidnapping a man and keeping him in wrongful confinement on the complaint of an old woman....
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GHQ asked to comment on contempt charges
RAWALPINDI, July 9: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench here on Tuesday issued notices to the director-general of Housing Directorate of GHQ’s Adjutant General Branch and the local station commander,...
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Jamia Hafsa spirit rises again
ISLAMABAD, July 9: Students of the demolished Jamia Hafsa of Lal Masjid demanded on Wednesday that the government rebuild their seminary at its original site, APP reported....
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NWFP, AJK to have skill development centres
ISLAMABAD, July 9: International Labour Organisation (ILO) has offered Rs41 million to the NWFP and Azad Kashmir for establishing skills development centres and employment information centres in Muzaffarabad and Balakot....
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‘Judges issue more important than impeachment’
LAHORE, July 9: A Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader says his party will not lay an equal stress on the impeachment of President Musharraf but the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and...
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Demo against death sentence commutation
LAHORE, July 9: The Action Committee of the Heirs to the Murdered staged a demonstration and a walk against the government’s decision to commute the death sentence of 700 murderers....
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Seven Mayo doctors suspended for neglect: Death of a girl
LAHORE, July 9: The Punjab Health Department on Wednesday suspended seven doctors, including a senior registrar of the Mayo Hospital, from service for their ‘gross negligence’ in treating a female patient that resulted in her death....
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‘Open-door’ policy puts secretariat at risk
LAHORE, July 9: Has the security of the Punjab Civil Secretariat, housing top provincial bureaucracy and the cabinet members, has been compromised by keeping its gates wide open to everybody?...
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‘Audit of local govts politically motivated’
LAHORE, July 9: The Punjab government has outsourced audit of local governments to a firm that Ishaq Dar – the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader – owns, alleged Amina Ulfat of the PML-Q while addressing a press conference here on Wednesday....
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Sharaqpuri joins PPP ‘to avoid no-trust’
LAHORE, July 9: Sheikhupura District Nazim Mian Jalil Ahmed Sharaqpuri who is facing a no-trust motion for the fourth time, has joined the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Wednesday.He...
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Inquiry to decide minor ‘wives’ fate
SHIKARPUR, July 9: Two Ameens (organisers)of a Jirga, Rano Shar and Qalandar Bux Shar, and two daughters of Arbab Shar, eleven-year-old Waziran and nine-year-old Noorjehan, victims of the Jirga decision, were...
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Rs1.9bn budget presented
LARKANA, July 9: Qambar-Shahdadkot District Nazim Nawab Shabir Ahmed Chandio on Wednesday presented Rs1.983 billion budget for 2008-09 with a surplus of Rs534,000....
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Govt to name new medical varsity after BB
LARKANA, July 9: The Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Medical University would be established in Larkana and the local administration has been asked to identify a plot of 200 acres for the purpose, so that the Sindh government could pay its price....
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Police nab kidnapper
SUKKUR, July 9: Police arrested a man on Wednesday morning and found in his captivity a minor boy who had been kidnapped from Badami Bagh area of Lahore a week ago....
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Appeal to Railways
SUKKUR, July 9: People of Sukkur have strongly condemned the reduction of three coaches from the Sukkur Express and demanded of the Railways authorities to increase the number of coaches in...
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Tribute paid to Sufi singer
KHAIRPUR, July 9: Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation Khairpur and Sindhi Adabi Sangat paid tributes to renowned Sufi singer late Faqir Azizullah Maitlo at condolence meetings here on Wednesday....
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Dogar invitation sparks protest
SUKKUR, July 9: Differences have emerged among lawyers’ fraternity of Sukkur upon inviting Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar to address the district bar association on July 14....
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Three fall victim to vengeance
SUKKUR, July 9: Three people were killed and three others suffered injuries in clashes between Mahar and Gabol tribesmen in Mangan Mahar village in the limits of Khanpur Mahar police limits early on Wednesday....
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