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Time needed to clear decade’s mess, Asif tells legislators
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: The mess created over a decade cannot be cleared in three months and the Pakistan People’s Party will not shirk its responsibility of addressing people’s problems, says the party’s co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.... 
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Oil refineries ask govt to revise pricing formula
RAWALPINDI, Aug 1: Oil refineries on Friday criticised the government’s new pricing formula announced on July 30, and appealed to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to revise it and avert a crisis in the oil and energy sector....
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No decision on death-row prisoners, SC told
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: The Supreme Court was informed by the government on Friday that it had not taken a final decision on the issue of commuting death sentence into life imprisonment....
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Pace of work on highways in Balochistan reviewed
QUETTA, Aug 1: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani has urged the National Highway Authority to ensure timely completion of highways under construction in the province...
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Punjab govt collects ‘tips’ outside PC Bhurban
MURREE, Aug 1: The Punjab government has levied a unique toll exclusively on vehicles entering a luxury hotel in the scenic mountain town of Bhurban, provoking ire of the visitors and local public representatives....
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Pakistan a safe destination for tourists: Dutch traveller
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: Britt Das, a Dutch lady on a global peace walk, on Friday termed Pakistan a safe as well as enchanting destination for tourists, as she arrived here after concluding her trip to the country’s Northern Areas....
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‘PML-Q has no desire to join hands with PPP’
LAHORE, Aug 1: Pakistan Muslim League-Q Punjab secretary-general Chaudhry Zaheeruddin Khan has said that his party had no desire to join hands with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)....
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‘US asked to work with democratic set-up’
LAHORE, Aug 1: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has conveyed to Washington that coordination with a democratic set-up in Pakistan will be beneficial both for Islamabad and the world, says Pakistan People’s Party Foreign Liaison Committee Chairman Munir Ahmad Khan....
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2 security men kidnapped
KHAR, Aug 1: Two personnel of the Levies force were kidnapped early on Friday morning in the Jar area of Bajaur....
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Incessant rain claims three lives in Punjab
SAHIWAL, Aug 1: Three people lost their lives while 20 others injured in rain-related incidents throughout the province on Friday....
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Detained protesters get respite
LAHORE, Aug 1: The six men detained by the Chuhng police on Thursday following a workers’ protest at the Naveena Textiles factory on Raiwind Road were released on bail on Friday....
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Two drown in canal
GUJRANWALA, Aug 1: Two youths drowned in Upper Chenab Canal here on Friday....
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Mills told to install effluent treatment plant
LAHORE, Aug 1: An Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) tribunal has directed the technical director of the Layyah Sugar Mills to install an effluent treatment plant before Oct 18, 2008....
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Case against building laws’ violators
SHEIKHUPURA, Aug 1: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) registered cases against dozens of owners of newly-built and under-construction plazas in the city for violating rules and regulations of the Building Department here on Friday....
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BISEs declare matric results
MULTAN, Aug 1: Of 114,795 candidates who appeared in the matriculation exam under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Multan, 56,964 were declared successful on Friday....
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Urea smuggling hits farmers
MULTAN, Aug 1: The smuggling of urea fertiliser to Afghanistan via Taunsa Barrage has created the shortage of the commodity in the local market critically affecting the cotton crop, Dawn has learnt....
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Seminar
GUJRAT, Aug 1: The University of Gujrat arranged a seminar in collaboration with the local industry and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation to enhance links between academics and industry....
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Hearing in nazims’ Petition adjourned
RAWALPINDI, Aug 1: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench here on Friday took up the petition of City District Nazim Javed Ikhlas and others against the Punjab government’s decision about...
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Girl flees life of sin
RAWALPINDI, Aug 1: A local magistrate sent a 13-year-old girl who said she had run away from a brothel in Jhelum to Darul Aman here on Friday....
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184 govt houses reclaimed from illegal occupants
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: The estate office has reclaimed 184 government houses/flats from illegal occupants during the last six months, it has been learnt....
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Four police officials suspended: CM orders arrest of family’s killers
RAWALPINDI, Aug 1: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Friday suspended a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) and three inspectors and gave a deadline to the police authorities to arrest the...
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Solar eclipse inspires awe
ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: Faculty members, researchers and curious families chased the solar eclipse at different places in the city on Friday to experience one of the most fascinating phenomena in Nature....
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Missing Afghan boy found murdered
ATTOCK, Aug 1: A missing Afghan teenaged boy has been found murdered near jail road Attock city....
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Thousands attend funeral of traders’ leader
MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 1: Tens of hundreds of people attended the funeral of renowned personality and business leader Alhaj Ashraf Qureshi at the University College Ground here on Friday, a day after his body was fished out from Mangla dam....
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Solar energy the ultimate choice?
LAHORE, Aug 1: Long heralded as the key to a clean-energy future, solar panels have for years been deemed too expensive and too inefficient for domestic use....
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IT park to be set up in Lahore: Shahbaz
LAHORE, Aug 1: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that an Information Technology (IT) Park equipped with latest facilities will be established in the provincial metropolis to promote IT in the...
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Rally marks fall of caliphate
LAHORE, Aug 1: A rally was staged from Ferozepur Road to Pakistani Chowk in Ichhra on Friday to mark the fall of caliphate 82 years ago....
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Chenab in medium flood
LAHORE, Aug 1: The River Chenab is in a medium flood at Qadirabad and in low at Khanki while the Ravi is also in a low flooding at Balloki....
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Child drowns
LAHORE, Aug 1: A two-year-old girl drowned in a pond outside her house in Baghbanpura here on Friday, police say....
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LPG association raps increase in prices
LAHORE, Aug 1: The LPG Association of Pakistan (LPGAP) on Friday took note of recent increases in LPG prices across the value chain and urged member companies to maintain prices at a reasonable level in the interest of the end-consumer....
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Travel agents, tour operators lose licences
LAHORE, Aug 1: The Federal Tourism Ministry’s Tourist Services Department has cancelled licences of 10 more travel agents and tour operators who did not pay annual renewal fee, submit bank guarantees and uphold rules and regulations....
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