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Call in Senate for APC on security in Fata, NWFP: Foreign policy shift sought
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: A major government-allied party told the Senate on Monday nobody’s honour and life were safe in the main trouble spots in the North-West Frontier Province and the adjoining... 
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Budget deficit rose to 7.4pc of GDP in 2007-08
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: The budget deficit rose to a record Rs777.2 billion or 7.4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) during 2007-08 and was met through the highest ever bank...
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Balochistan assembly backs Asif’s candidature
QUETTA, Sept 1: The Balochistan Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution on Monday supporting Asif Ali Zardari as most suitable candidate for the office of president....
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SC moved to defer presidential poll
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: A petition requested the Supreme Court on Monday to defer the Sept 6 presidential elections, saying the electoral college was incomplete because the chairman of the Senate, currently...
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New finance secretary appointed
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: Dr Waqar Masood has been appointed as the new finance secretary in place of Farrukh Qayyum who had been appointed by former finance minister Ishaq Dar to replace...
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‘Pakistan’s democracy needs help’
LONDON, Sept 1: In what reads like a highly sympathetic analysis of the current situation in Pakistan — Seize this chance to support Pakistani democracy — published in the Financial Times,...
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Constitution mute on way to restore judges: Naek
LAHORE, Sept 1: Federal Law Minister Farooq H Naik has said the Constitution does not contain any mechanism for restoring the deposed judges....
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PR to ink deal with Chinese firm: Purchase of 75 locomotives LAHORE, Sept 1: An agreement for the procurement of 75 locomotives is likely to be signed between Pakistan Railways and a Chinese firm by the end of the current month....
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Govt needs to do more to enforce land reforms
HYDERABAD, Sept 1: The Joint Action Committee for Agrarian Reforms has said the government’s announcement of distributing state land among the landless peasants is not enough as it needs to do much more than that to bring about real reforms....
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Minister’s call leaves growers high and dry
THATTA, Sept 1: A phone call to the Thatta administration allegedly by an influential minister in the Sindh government on Sunday led to the despatch of a fertiliser-laden trailer to some...
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‘Strengthen institutions, not individuals’
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: Speakers on Monday called for strengthening the institutions and termed concentration of powers in individuals a cause of increased vulnerability of the political system....
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World Bank experts help Wasa cut water losses
RAWALPINDI, Sept 1: World Bank (WB) consultants on Monday offered their services to the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) for reducing water losses in the city to ensure round-the-clock supply of drinking water while utilising the available sources....
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Flour shortage persists in Taxila
TAXILA, Sept 1: Shortage of wheat flour persists in various parts of Taxila and adjourning areas, belying claims of the provincial government that the commodity was easily available at the markets and utility stores....
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Faraz’s poetry throbs with people’s aspirations
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: It was not a ceremonial reference or a ritual condolence meeting that lamented the passing of a very popular and widely loved and admired poet of our time...
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IHC dismisses plea against appointment of presiding officers: ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Sardar Mohammad Aslam here on Monday dismissed the petition of Shahid Orakzai that challenged the appointment of four provincial chief justices of...
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Rs18.395m Zakat fund for N.As
SKARDU, Sept 1: The Northern Areas Zakat Council has approved Rs18.395 million Zakat for distribution among the deserving persons in the six districts of the region....
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SC allows protective bail to former MP
ISLAMABAD, Sept 1: The Supreme Court on Monday allowed protective bail to former provincial minister Haji Behram Khan Achakzai, who was convicted by a NAB court in a corruption reference, with a surety of Rs100,000....
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Mystery girl comes to Hyderabad
HYDERABAD, Sept 1: A young girl left her uncle’s home in Nawabshah and reached Hyderabad where police came to her aid. She complained that her aunt had solemnised her nikah with...
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Widows protest
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Sept 1: A large number of poor and deserving women from different villages held a demonstration in the lawn of taluka council building in protest against the Baitul Maal officer here on Monday....
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Man stabs wife to death
SUKKUR, Sept 1: A man killed his wife over domestic dispute in Allah Abad Colony situated in the Site police station jurisdiction, Sukkur on Monday....
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Taluka council rejects revised budget
LARKANA, Sept 1: The Larkana taluka council that met here on Monday after the suspension of Taluka Nazim Qurban Ali Abbasi, rejected unanimously the revised budget for 2007-08....
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Minor killed in accident
MITHI, Sept 1: A five-year-old boy was crushed to death by a speeding pick-up on Monday. According to reports, Manoj Khatri of Mithi was crushed to death near Dargah Misri Shah....
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Nikah proves the last event of youth’s life
OKARA, Sept 1: A youth was shot dead after his nikah ceremony over some minor issue in Asadullahpur village on Monday....
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Protest against shortage of fertilisers
TOBA TEK SINGH, Sept 1: Farmers and activists of Kissan Board took out a rally on Monday in protest against the non-availability of fertilisers in the district....
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Kasur college faces host of issues
KASUR, Sept 1: The Government Islamia College, Kasur, is facing a host of problems, including faculty shortage....
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4 gangsters held after encounter
SAHIWAL, Sept 1: Dera Rahim police claimed to have arrested four members of an inter-district gang of dacoits following a brief encounter....
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Chevening winners get award letters
LAHORE, Sept 1: Jennifer Wilkes, who is British High Commission’s deputy head for press and public affairs, presented on Monday award letters to five successful candidates of the British Chevening Scholarship...
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Body of kidnapped boy found
GUJRANWALA, Sept 1: A boy who was kidnapped from Ratta Road here on Sunday was found strangled in suburban Jandiala Baghwala locality on Monday....
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Separate lock-up for deportees demanded
GUJRANWALA, Sept 1: Central Jail authorities have suggested that the FIA should arrange separate lockup for illegal immigrants arrested by the agency upon their deportation by foreign countries because the jail was already overcrowded up to five times than its capacity....
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OGDC workers protest gas field sell-off
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Sept 1: Scores of employees at OGDC’s Dhodak plant staged a protest demonstration on Monday some 100km from here against privatisation of Qadirpur Field in Sindh....
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Jamaat grills govt’s ‘manoeuvres’
LAHORE, Sept 1: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Deputy Secretary-General Dr Farid Piracha and information secretary Ameerul Azim have expressed concern at confrontation between flour mill owners and the Punjab government which is leading to acute shortage of the commodity in the open market....
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Mother’s claim enough to determine parentage
LAHORE, Sept 1: Justice Ali Akbar Qureshi of the Lahore High Court has ruled a mother’s claim is sufficient to determine the parentage of a child....
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PR offices to work in three shifts
LAHORE, Sept 1: The booking offices of the Pakistan Railways will work in three shifts during Ramazan....
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Rumpus mars LHCBA moot
LAHORE, Sept 1: Lawyers wrangled and later scrambled for the microphone during a debate over passage of a verbal resolution to condemn the government for picking and choosing the deposed judges...
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Women’s burying alive condemned
LAHORE, Sept 1: Women’s rights activists held a demonstration to protest the burial of five Balochi women and subsequent statements uttered by Senator Israrullah Zehri who had sought to downplay the incidents....
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