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Punjab govt barred from interfering in LG affairs: LHC issues interim order
RAWALPINDI, July 23: Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Wednesday directed the Punjab Government not to interfere into the functioning of local governments.... 
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Pakistan, Iran agree to extradite criminals
ISLAMABAD, July 23: A agreement signed by Iran’s acting interior minister Seyed Mehdi Hashemi and adviser to the prime minister on interior Rehman Malik on Tuesday provides for extradition of criminals after meeting legal requirements....
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Review plea in Khan case rejected
ISLAMABAD, July 23: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday rejected on technical grounds a petition filed by Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan’s lawyer seeking review of its judgment of July 21 which had placed curbs on his interaction with the media....
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SC directs govt to formulate new Haj policy
ISLAMABAD, July 23: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the government to formulate a new Haj policy and produce it before the court by the end of the month....
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Afghans’ repatriation to resume soon: UNHCR
ISLAMABAD, July 23: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has said that registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan will be repatriated by October 2009....
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Japan to give $42m for water project
ISLAMABAD, July 23: Japan will provide help for a drinking water project in Faisalabad. Under the $42 million project, water supply installations will be set up in the city....
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Nepra to scrutinise KESC affairs
ISLAMABAD, July 23: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has decided to scrutinise the working of the Karachi Electric Supply Company, including its investment plans and system improvement programmes....
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Traders, flour millers observe strike in N.As
SKARDU, July 23: Traders observed strike against what they said the misbehaviour of assistant commissioner Skardu with their representatives, while the flour mill owners closed down their mills after talks with the authorities of the food department and local administration failed....
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Punjab providing 9,800 tons atta to Balochistan, NWFP
ATTOCK, July 23: Punjab is providing 9,800 tons of wheat flour (atta) to Frontier and Balochistan daily....
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AJK govt’s performance criticised
MUZAFFARABAD, July 23: Opposition People’s Muslim League (PML) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir has charged Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan''s government with utter failure in providing any relief to the masses notwithstanding its tall claims about every issue....
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Breach exposes official claims
NAWABSHAH, July 23: James Minor canal of Nusrat Irrigation Division developed a breach on Wednesday, lending considerable weight to growers’ allegations of unfair distribution of water, mismanagement and large-scale corruption, leading to nagging problem of water shortage in tail-end areas....
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Protest at PTCL headquarters today
HYDERABAD, July 23: Pakistan Telecommunication Employees Union (PTEU) CBA president Ziauddin has said that the union has asked PTCL workers from Punjab and the NWFP to assemble outside the company headquarters...
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Girls detained on panchayat orders allege gang-rape
VEHARI, July 23: On the orders of sessions court, police on Tuesday night recovered two girls, detained at an outhouse of a landlord on the orders of a panchayat (jury), who alleged they were gang-raped during their week-long detention....
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Assef suggests a ‘workable coalition’
LAHORE, July 23: Pakistan People’s Party leader Sardar Assef Ahmed Ali has said the PPP and the PML-N should part ways to allow a new workable coalition to run the government smoothly....
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220 ‘corrupt’ officials removed: Swift action on CM’s orders
LAHORE, July 23: The Punjab government on Wednesday removed 220 petty police and revenue officials facing corruption cases from their posts, implementing the order of Chief Minster Shahbaz Sharif and declaring the action a warning for the big dirty fish....
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Two killed by trailing rivals
ISLAMABAD, July 23: Two persons were killed over old enmity in separate incidents in the capital, police said on Wednesday....
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Joint struggle a must for social change: historian
ISLAMABAD, July 23: Eminent historian and scholar Dr Mubarak Ali has said that emergence of a political party from the lawyers’ movement can lead to a social change and help resolve the problems confronting the people....
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Two get life term in kidnapping for ransom case
RAWALPINDI, July 23: An anti-terrorism court here on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to two men in a kidnapping for ransom case....
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Contractors asked to expedite work on REIP
RAWALPINDI, July 23: The newly-appointed project-director of Rs5.14 billion Rawalpindi Environment Improvement Project (REIP) Aslam Ali Sabzwari on Wednesday directed the contractors to expedite work on the project by using more manpower and increasing resources....
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Pindi RPO suspends 12 policemen
RAWALPINDI, July 23: Regional Police Officer (RPO) DIG Nasir Khan Durrani on Wednesday carried out surprise inspection of Waris Khan police station and suspended 12 sub-inspectors (SIs) and assistance sub-inspectors (ASIs) on charges of poor investigation and failure in checking crimes....
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Minor girls married off to settle dispute
SANGHAR, July 23: Two minor girls of Magsi tribe have been married to underage boys of Chandio tribe as settlement of a dispute over an affair involving the girls’ father....
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CAA control may revert to PAF
ISLAMABAD, July 23: The top office of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is likely to return to Pakistan Air Force which has traditionally ruled the aviation regulator, after the first director...
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Call for strike
QUETTA, July 23: The Baloch Republican Party has given a call for a general strike in Balochistan on Friday in protest against what he called the killing of 50 arrested tribesmen...
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PML-Q plans workers’ conventions
ISLAMABAD, July 23: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that the government has failed to fulfil the promises the parties in the ruling coalition...
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Job-seekers take EDO, IBA official to court
LARKANA, July 23: The Larkana circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Wednesday gave two days to the Kandhkot-Kashmore EDO of education to file comments on a petition, accusing him...
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Robbers strike at women’s religious gathering
JACOBABAD, July 23: Robbers looted gold ornaments from a large number of Hindu women attending a religious ceremony in a house on Quaid-i-Azam Road, the busiest area of the city, on Wednesday....
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Clash
SUKKUR, July 23: A man was killed, another injured and yet another kidnapped in an armed clash between two groups of Solangi community over a karo-kari dispute at Khaderi village near Pano Akil on Wednesday....
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Court frees 18 bonded labourers
MIRPURKHAS, July 23: Police on Wednesday recovered 18 bonded labourers, including children and women, on the orders of district and sessions judge who was directed by the Sindh High Court’s Hyderabad circuit bench to ensure recovery of labourers.Khaan...
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Witnesses in Mannu Bheel case called
MIRPURKHAS, July 23: Additional Sessions Judge-I Mohammad Yamin issued notices to prosecution witnesses in Mannu Bheel case on Wednesday, directing them to appear in the court on Aug 26....
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ICU, OPD remain closed
THATTA, July 23: A large number of patients, who take long and tortuous journey from far off areas to visit the locol Civil Hospital daily, continue to suffer due to closure...
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Growers foil bid to close channels
BADIN, July 23: A large number of growers whose lands are irrigated by watercourses fed by Sher Wah Minor held a rally in Khorwah town on Wednesday in protest against closure of watercourses by irrigation officials....
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‘Canal closed to water PPP men’s land’
HYDERABAD, July 23: Farmers whose lands are irrigated by Nanga Shakh canal protested on Wednesday against acute water shortage in their area and alleged that the canal had been closed for...
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Dist govt honoraria for ‘blue-eyed’ officials
LAYYAH, July 23: The district government has obliged dozens of its favourite officials with honoraria equivalent to one month pay in violation of instructions issued by the provincial finance department, sources told Dawn on Wednesday....
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Bahawalpur awaits Iftikhar
BAHAWALPUR, July 23: Leaders and workers of some political parties will join lawyers to welcome deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on his arrival here on July 26....
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Muzaffargarh budget after three years
MUZAFFARGARH, July 23: After three years, the district council of Muzaffargarh presented budget for year 2008-2009 on Tuesday....
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Archaeological mound digging continues
TOBA TEK SINGH, July 23: The 35-member Punjab University Archaeology Department team continued digging historical mound near Chak 742/GB, some 40 kilometres away from here, for the second consecutive day on Wednesday....
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Team out to curb wheat smuggling
LAYYAH, July 23: On the direction of the chief minister, Punjab Food Minister Nadeem Kamran along with senior officials visited Layyah on Wednesday morning to check wheat smuggling....
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Two drown
GUJRAT, July 23: Two girls of a family drowned in the Jhelum while another was rescued near Sara-i-Alamgir on Tuesday evening....
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Expat pays Rs1m for life
SHEIKHUPURA, July 23: An expatriate managed his release after paying Rs1 million ransom to kidnappers in Faizpur locality here on Wednesday....
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12 faint in crowded lockup
GUJRANWALA, July 23: Twelve prisoners fainted in a judicial lockup here on Wednesday because of suffocation when the police stuffed a judicial lockup meant for 120 prisoners with 450 prisoners....
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Waris Shah’s Urs begins
SHEIKHUPURA, July 23: The three-day annual Urs celebrations of Waris Shah started in Jandiala Sher Khan here on Wednesday....
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Wapda staff protest high energy rates
LAHORE, July 23: Wapda employees staged a demonstration against the increase in POL prices and gas and electricity tariff outside the Lahore Press Club here on Wednesday....
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LHC on cell towers in residential areas
LAHORE, July 23: Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Syed Asghar Haider has observed telecom companies should not be allowed to erect towers in residential areas....
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Anti-polio drive in six districts from 28th
LAHORE, July 23: A three-day Sub-National Immunisation Days (SNID) is being launched in six districts of Punjab adjacent to Sindh from July 28....
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Varsities urged to address problems of researchers
LAHORE, July 23: Punjab University Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran on Wednesday held a meeting with the Higher Education Commission-funded PhD and M.Phil scholars at the PU....
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‘Power abuse’ costs two policemen their jobs
LAHORE, July 23: DIG (Investigation) Mushtaq Ahmed Sukhera has dismissed from service two inspectors on the charges of dishonesty while probing cases and abusing authority....
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Adieu Amjad Sahib
Syed Amjad Husain, who died in Lahore on Tuesday, was one of Pakistan’s outstanding journalists, respected equally for his professionalism and pleasant manners. He passed away as quietly as he had...
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Lahore gets 54,283 flour bags
LAHORE, July 23: Flour mills supplied 54,283 bags of 20kg each for sale at retail price of Rs375 per bag in the provincial metropolis on Wednesday....
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LHC dismisses petition against PPSC
LAHORE, July 23: Justice Hafiz Tariq Nasim of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition for direction to the Punjab government to promote petitioners against seven posts of assistant directors in the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC).Justice...
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Youth injured by robbers dies
LAHORE, July 23: A 21-year-old youth, who was shot at an injured by two robbers in Awan Town, Sabzazar, on Tuesday night, succumbed to his injuries in a local hospital early on Wednesday....
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