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No ‘decision’ on death sentence commutation: Govt tells Supreme Court
ISLAMABAD, July 14: The Supreme Court was told on Monday that the government had not yet approved a decision to commute all pending death sentences to life imprisonment.... 
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‘Bugging devices still in Dr Khan’s house’
ISLAMABAD, July 14: Barrister Iqbal Jaffrey, the counsel of nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, said on Monday that bugging devices remained installed in his client’s residence....
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MCB operations in Karachi hit by protests
KARACHI, July 14: All 120 branches of the MCB Bank in the provincial capital were closed after employees paralysed its operations in protest against what they called ‘forced expulsion of thousands of employees’....
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Altaf for forming defence committees to counter Talibanisation
KARACHI, July 14: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has urged the people of Karachi to form defence committees on the pattern of such bodies established by the Awami National Party in the NWFP to save their city from Talibanisation....
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JUI-F invites Qazi to rejoin MMA
ISLAMABAD, July 14: Deputy secretary-general of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) Malik Sikander Khan on Monday invited Qazi Hussain Ahmed to rejoin the MMA to steer the country out of the present crisis....
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Aitzaz proposes sit-in on Thursdays
LAHORE, July 14: Supreme Court Bar Association president Aitzaz Ahsan has proposed that every bar of the country should stage a sit-in on Thursdays....
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Man killed, wife injured in ‘honour operation’
LAHORE, July 14: An eight-month love-marriage of a medical college girl student and a wagon conductor ended at a bloody note here in Jamal Colony, Hanjarwal, early on Monday....
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Police rescue kidnapped girl
LAYYAH, July 14: Kot Sultan police raided the house of a farmer on Saturday night (July 12) and rescued a 15-year-old girl kidnapped from the shrine of Bibi Pak Daman in Lahore last week....
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Gujrat shows solidarity with Faisalabad traders
GUJRAT, July 14: Traders of Gujrat, a major industrial city of the country and hometown of the minister in-charge for commerce, Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar, have protested the recent inflation in the...
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Three die in accident
LARKANA, July 14: Three people were killed and one was injured in a road accident near Wagan town, on Monday....
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China seeks PPAF assistance: Rebuilding of quake-hit region
ISLAMABAD, July 14: China has invited Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) to share its expertise on conceptualisation and institutionalisation of broad reconstruction strategy in earthquake-ravaged provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi....
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Two killed on road
ISLAMABAD, July 14: Two persons were killed in a road accident here on Monday, police said....
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PO shoots himself to escape arrest
GUJAR KHAN, July 14: A proclaimed offender ended his life while evading arrest on Monday afternoon....
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PM calls for eliminating VIP culture
ISLAMABAD, July 14: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday said the government supported elimination of VIP culture from public departments to ensure discipline based on equity....
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Islamabad boys excel in exams: FBISE declares SSC results
ISLAMABAD, July 14: Five students, including a girl, from Islamabad are among the top eight position holders in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Examinations 2008, conducted by the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE)....
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PCB gets control of Mirpur cricket stadium
MUZAFFARABAD, July 14: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday formally took over the control of Quaid-i-Azam International Cricket Stadium in Azad Kashmir’s lakeside city of Mirpur to promote first class cricket in the region, officials said....
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Student ends life after failing exams
ISLAMABAD, July 14: A student dejected over failure in his matriculation examinations committed suicide at his residence in Sector G-9/3 here on Monday....
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Two sentenced to death for murder
QUETTA, July 14: An anti-terrorism court sentenced on Monday two persons to death and jailed five others for life in a murder case....
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Rallies held over varsity admission criteria
QUETTA, July 14: The Pakhtunkhwa Students Organisation (PSO) and Baloch Students Organisation (BSO) held separate rallies here on Monday, the former seeking admission to higher educational institutions on the basis of merit and the other on quota basis....
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Letters spark protest
MIRPURKHAS, July 14: Religious leaders of Umerkot held a demonstration on Monday in protest against posting of some blasphemous letters to different mosques and prayer leaders of Kunri....
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Growers seek end to black-marketing of fertilisers
HYDERABAD, July 14: Sindh Abadgar Board vice-president Dr Zulfiqar Yousfani appealed to the chief minister and the agriculture minister to end black-marketing of urea and other fertilisers and stop mill owners and dealers from fleecing the poor growers....
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Nawaz urged to stop raising non-issues
MIRPURKHAS, July 14: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl General Secretary Senator Khalid Mehmood Soomro on Monday urged the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Mian Nawaz Sharif to stop raising non-issues because unbearable inflation was more burning issue than restoration of judiciary....
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15,000 to be recruited in Sindh Constabulary
LARKANA, July 14: A Sindh paramilitary force will be raised on the pattern of Frontier Constabulary with an initial induction of 15,000 personnel, said Provincial Police Officer, Sindh, Sultan Salahuddain Babar Khattak....
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PTCL union warns of protests
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, July 14: The central president of PTCL Employees Union, Haji Khan Bhatti, has warned that if the privatisation of PTCL and implementation of new pay scales were not shelved within a week they would launch a country-wide protest movement.He...
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Police inspector’s wife forced to sign papers
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, July 14: A police officer’s wife has claimed that some people are trying to grab her property and she was kept in detention for some time during which she was forced to sign some documents....
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‘20,000 acres of govt land distributed illegally’
KHAIRPUR, July 14: Sindh Minister for Works and Services Manzoor Hussain Wassan has said that more than 20,000 acres of government land in Nara taluka was distributed illegally to different people by the previous government during the past seven years....
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Bank robbery traced after four years
SHEIKHUPURA, July 14: B-division police have arrested three accused out of six involved in the 2004 bank robbery....
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Kidnapped for Rs1m
MIANWALI, July 14: A Health Department employee was kidnapped for ransom from Choorwala, 20 kilometer from Mianwali, on Sunday night....
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Staff crunch adds to loadshedding
MIANWALI, July 14: An incessant unscheduled loadshedding coupled with crunch of Wapda linemen to rectify faults has made the situation worse for the people in Mianwali....
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Woman loses land, houses to ‘extortionists’
SIALKOT, July 14: A gang of alleged extortionists occupied, a haveli, a house and two acres of a woman in Bhaagowal for not paying them Rs500,000 million as Jagga tax, the victim told reporters here on Monday....
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Four accused on judicial remand: Danish citizens’ murder
GUJRAT, July 14: The four accused arrested in connection with the murder of a Danish citizen, Tahira Naheed Tabussum, on the orders of Punjab chief minister were sent on judicial remand to the district jail on Monday....
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Haj policy delay explained
BAHAWALPUR, July 14: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Religious Affairs Maulana Hamid Saeed Kazmi has said the current year’s Haj policy will be announced after July 21....
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Arrested Wasa officers to be produced in court today
LAHORE, July 14: Nine Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) officers booked on Sunday night for ‘causing inconvenience to public’ have also been charged with ‘misappropriation of funds’....
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LHC seeks reply from govt on CNG prices
LAHORE, July 14: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sayed Zahid Husain on Monday sought para-wise comments from the Punjab government over its failure to ensure fixed prices of the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) at various filling stations across the province....
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Sabzazar case accused acquited
LAHORE, July 14: An anti-terrorism court on Monday acquitted all the nine accused in Sabzazar shootout case, giving them the benefit of the doubt....
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Scattered rain forecast
LAHORE, July 14: The Met Office has forecast isolated thunderstorm and rain, along with cloudy and partly-cloudy weather, in the country on Tuesday (today)....
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