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Aafia Siddiqui detained for political reasons: lawyer
WASHINGTON, Aug 4: Elaine Whitfield Sharp, the lawyer representing Aafia Siddiqui’s family, alleged on Monday that the MIT-trained Pakistani neuroscientist was being detained for political reasons.... 
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Two more climbers airlifted from K2
GILGIT, Aug 4: Pakistani army helicopters airlifted two frostbitten Dutch climbers from K2 on Monday after a catastrophic avalanche on the world’s second highest peak killed 11 mountaineers, officials said....
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New policy raises Haj expenses
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The government on Monday announced the Haj policy for 2008. Under the policy, 164,647 people will perform Haj this year – 85,000 under government sponsorship and 79,647 through private operators .....
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Musharraf’s Quetta visit sparks protest
QUETTA, Aug 4: Lawyers took out a procession here on Monday in protest against President Pervez Musharraf’s visit to the city and vowed to continue their struggle for reinstatement of the deposed judges....
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Rs13bn misused by 74 TMAs: Shahbaz tells cabinet
LAHORE, Aug 4: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday auditors had found financial bungling of Rs13 billion in 74 tehsil municipal administrations, which showed the scale of “loot and plunder” by the previous government....
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LHC stops establishment of reconciliatory bodies
LAHORE, Aug 4: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Sayed Zahid Husain on Monday issued a stay order against the establishment of Musalehati Committees in a petition challenging creation of a parallel...
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Has uncertainty over judiciary’s restoration shaken judges’ resolve?
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: A statement by the deposed chief justice of the Sindh High Court, Sabihuddin Ahmed, recently published in the form of a letter, has sparked a fresh debate whether...
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Seven die as roofs cave in
SUKKUR, Aug 4: Four children and three women died when roofs of their rain-weakened mud-thatched houses collapsed in different villages of Sukkur, Khairpur and Shikarpur on Monday....
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LHC suspends Punjab govt’s notification: Dismissal of three prosecutors
RAWALPINDI, Aug 4: Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench here on Monday suspended the notification of the Punjab government about the dismissal of three assistant district public prosecutors and sought comments of the respondents till the final outcome of the petition....
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2 killed as wagon overturns
ATTOCK, Aug 4: Two persons were killed and nine others injured in a road accident on Rawalpindi-Kohat road near Fatehjang on Sunday evening....
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Two women jailed in drug cases
RAWALPINDI, Aug 4: An additional district and sessions judge here on Monday handed down jail sentences to two women for smuggling narcotics....
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AJK forms body to improve ‘liaison’ with banks
MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 4: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir government has constituted a three-member committee presumably to improve its liaison with commercial banks in public and private sector and secure jobs and...
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Balochistan crisis can cause country’s division: speakers
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Speakers on Monday called for halting military operation in Balochistan and warned that the country would drift toward dismemberment, if a solution to the crisis was not found....
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Baitullah, 4 aides among Pindi’s 15 most wanted POs
RAWALPINDI, Aug 4: The city police have placed the names of top militant commander Baitullah Mehsud and four of his associates on a list of 15 most wanted proclaimed offenders (POs) for determining head money on them, Dawn leant on Monday....
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Appointment of PTV chairman echoes in Senate
ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The issue of the appointment of PTV Chairman Dr Shahid Masood echoed in the Senate here on Monday when a member of the ruling coalition criticised the decision...
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Quetta school attack: clarification
A report in Dawn’s Monday issue, headlined ‘Girls school in Quetta attacked’, wrongly stated that the school’s computers, furniture and records had been set on fire by ‘suspected Taliban militants’....
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Rocket hits tractor trolley
QUETTA, Aug 4: A rocket hit a tractor trolley in Kakar Colony on the Sabzal road here on Monday night....
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Child marriage facilitators booked
HYDERABAD, Aug 4: Police on Monday lodged a case against all the people who had facilitated marriage of a four-year-old minority girl Meena to settle a dispute between the girl’s father and her bridegroom’s sister....
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Pro-Shirazi landlords asked to vacate land
THATTA, Aug 4: The Forest Department has asked 130, mainly pro-Shirazi, landlords to vacate over 3,000 acres of forest land they have encroached upon over the years, a move seen by Shirazi leaders as part of political victimisation by the government....
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Villagers block highway
SUKKUR, Aug 4: A large number of people staged a demonstration and a sit-in on the National Highway near Ubauro on Monday, in protest against police for releasing a man accused...
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TMA faces people’s wrath as rainwater stagnates
LARKANA, Aug 4: A large number of people from different localities of the city protested against Hesco and municipal administration’s failure to drain out rainwater....
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Rain drains’ level rise
DADU, Aug 4: Water level in Nai Gaj nullah rose to 8 feet after water flows from mountain areas on the Sindh-Balochistan border in the wake of rain on Monday....
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Protest against power breakdown
BAHAWALPUR, Aug 4: Scores of people on Monday held demonstrations, blocked roads and burnt tyres against power breakdown for three days in their respective areas....
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Rains affect relief activities
MULTAN, Aug 4: Rains are affecting relief activities in Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur districts lashed by hill torrents on Saturday and another death was reported from Rajanpur on Monday....
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Three of family killed in roof collapse
FAISALABAD, Aug 4: Three family members were killed and eight others, including children and women, were injured when the wall and roof of a house collapsed on them in Railway Colony on Monday....
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Kidnap-for-ransom gangs are in
FAISALABAD, Aug 4: Kidnap-for-ransom incidents are on the rise in the district, and a minor boy was killed in such an incident a week ago. Four people were kidnapped in the past three weeks, of them two were released....
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Gang loots village in one go
KASUR, Aug: A gang of 25 dacoits wreaked havoc in Sarasar Hathar village on Sunday night taking away cash, valuables and gold worth millions in the mass dacoity....
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PML-N wins PP-107 bypoll
HAFIZABAD, Aug 4: The PML-N nominee won the PP-107 bypoll on Monday....
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Two feared dead as well wall collapses
SAHIWAL, Aug 4: Two mechanics are feared dead while five labourers rescued after the wall of a well they were digging collapsed at 110/9-L village located near Sahiwal-Pakpattan Road....
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SC’s status quo order on illegal plazas
LAHORE, Aug 4: The Supreme Court has ordered status quo on illegally-constructed plazas in the city while hearing several applications for restraining the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) from taking any action....
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Opposition leader in PA
LAHORE, Aug 4: Punjab Assembly speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan on Monday notified PML-Q MPA Chaudhry Zaheeruddin Khan as the opposition leader in the house....
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Suicide
LAHORE, Aug 4: A middle-aged woman committed suicide on Monday at Shahdara Mor....
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Bank scam: warrants for 13
LAHORE, Aug 4: A judge of special court (Banking Offences) Justice Akram Baitu (retired) on Monday issued arrest warrants for 13 people including directors of a UK-based finance company involved in a £120 million scam....
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Police harassing SIM sellers
LAHORE, Aug 4: Police are allegedly harassing authorised retailers of cellular companies for bribes in a crackdown on illegal sales of SIMs across the province....
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