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| September 13, 2008 | Saturday | Ramazan 12, 1429 |
Allied forces, militants working against Pakistan, says Owais
PESHAWAR, Sept 12: NWFP Governor Owais Ahmad Ghani has said that foreign forces based in Afghanistan and militants are working on the same anti-Pakistan agenda and both are following the same strategy to weaken the country....
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Bush, Brown discuss new strategy in war on terror
LONDON, Sept 12: President Bush’s decision to extend the war into Pakistan, and his apparent hope of British backing, formed the background to a video conference with Gordon Brown on Thursday, The Guardian reported on Friday....
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PML-Q calls for joint session
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Chief of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and secretary-general Senator Mushahid Hussain on Friday condemned US attacks in tribal areas and urged president Asif Ali Zardari...
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Judges cannot be restored by executive order: AG
KARACHI, Sept 12: The government had to opt for reinstatement of individual judges because of the stalemate created by the PML-N over the PPP-proposed package of constitutional amendments, Attorney-General Latif Khan Khosa told a gathering of lawyers here on Friday evening....
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Gilani lays stress on diplomacy
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has ruled out retaliatory action against incursions by US-led coalition forces into Pakistan’s territory and said that the government will instead use diplomatic...
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Senate seeks ‘credible report’ on women’s killing
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: The Senate committee on human rights has condemned the killing of five women who were allegedly buried alive....
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US incursions into Pakistan condemned
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: The Leader of the House in the Senate, Mian Raza Rabbani, has condemned incursions by US troops into the Pakistani territory....
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Asif for Dubai on way to London
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: After a low-profile maiden visit to Karachi and other parts of Sindh, President Asif Ali Zardari left for Dubai on Friday night....
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Increase in GST hampering telecom sector’s growth: PTA
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Dr Mohammad Yasin on Friday called for reduction in the federal excise duty (FED)/general sales tax (GST) which, he believed was one of...
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Work on Balochistan projects in limbo
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Work on most of the infrastructural development projects in Balochistan has come to a standstill as the government has not released funds to contractors for the past four months....
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Army asked to counter border violations
LAHORE, Sept 12: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Husain Ahmad has asked the army to retaliate against border violations by Nato forces despite a warning and the killing of 12 people in tribal areas....
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Tribesmen clash with police
KHAIRPUR, Sept 12: Policemen and Ulra tribesmen clashed during a search operation resulting in injuries to four officials. Police arrested 13 people, while its mobile van came under attack and was damaged....
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PML-N gets breathing space in Punjab
LAHORE, Sept 12: In what appears a change of strategy, the PPP will remain in alliance with the PML-N in Punjab for the ‘time being’, but will take the PML-Q along at the central level....
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50MW wind farm planned in Sindh
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) would facilitate expeditious setting up of renewable energy projects in line with government’s policy of promoting the use of renewable energy in the...
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Six senior FBR members reshuffled
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: The government on Friday reshuffled six senior members of the federal board of revenue (FBR)....
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Women protest against teachers’ recruitment ‘out of merit’
MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 12: Around four dozens women, annoyed over the alleged violation of merit in the recent recruitment of primary teachers, staged a unique demonstration in the hometown of Prime Minister...
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Wheat flour smuggling bid foiled
ATTOCK, Sept 12: A monitoring team on Friday foiled an attempt to smuggle wheat flour to NWFP and seized 2,120 bags of the precious commodity at Mullah Mansoor checkpost....
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Lack of resources mars Attock police working
ATTOCK, Sept 12: The performance of the district police in controlling robberies, street crimes, maintaining law and order and combating terrorism has been affected by shortage of staff, lack of investigation system and equipment....
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Employees not paid salary for four months: Instaphone in dire straits
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Cellular company employees elsewhere are known to get good pay packages. In Instaphone, they are actually fighting to get paid....
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Police asked to recover minor from father’s custody
RAWALPINDI, Sept 12: District and Sessions Judge (DSJ) on Friday directed the Chontra Police SHO to recover a minor from the custody of his father and produce him in the court...
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Deposed CJ not to vacate residence
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: Deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has received no notice to vacate his official residence....
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NP leader calls for dialogue on Balochistan
QUETTA, Sept 12: National Party’s secretary-general Mir Tahir Bizenjo has expressed the hope that President Asif Ali Zardari will put an end to the use of force against the people of...
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Five-year plan panel meets today
ISLAMABAD, Sept 12: The Planning Commission has convened the first roundtable panel meeting on Saturday to set priorities for the next five-year development plan....
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Drug smuggler killed
QUETTA, Sept 12: A drug smuggler was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces on the Pakistan-Afghan border near Chaman on Friday....
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High Court issues notices to officials: Job seekers’ petition
HYDERABAD, Sept 12: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, on Friday issued notices to the Sindh secretary education and the DCO and EDO (education) of Umerkot on a petition filed...
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Anti-PPP forces not happy with people’s govt: president
NAWABSHAH, Sept 12: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the enemy is not happy over the PPP’s coming into power as they do not want solution of problems of people....
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Villagers protest ejection attempt
HYDERABAD, Sept 12: Hundreds of villagers of Goth Sabz Ali Korai, Goth Saeed Khan Mari, Goth Yar Mohammad Mallah, Kolhi Goth, Goth Darimiyan and Goth Naichani Miayan, Latifabad taluka, staged demonstrations...
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Equal rights for provinces urged
HYDERABAD, Sept 12: Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party chairman Dr Qadir Magsi has said that democracy will remain a misnomer unless the provinces are given equal rights, provincial autonomy is restored, pre-November...
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Compassion is above everything
JACOBABAD, Sept 12: Hindu and Muslim protesters took out a procession in Garhi Khairo on Friday to protest against the kidnapping of a Hindu trader, his six-year-old grandson and the driver of the taxi they were travelling in on Thursday....
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Girl student thrashed
MULTAN, Sept 12: An undergraduate female student of the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) has alleged that a few male students thrashed her on campus....
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Three days without power and counting
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Sept 12: Despite protest demonstrations by the residents of the arid zone called Pachhad against three days long power breakdown, Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) authorities have not taken any action to restore power supply to the area....
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Seven irrigation men booked
GUJRANWALA, Sept 12: An executive engineer, the deputy collector and five other officials of the Irrigation department were booked for tampering with an official record here on Friday....
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Three killed in road accidents
OKARA, Sept 12: Three people were killed while a police officer sustained severe injuries in separate road accidents on Friday. Reports said Qazi Sarwar along with his son, Sajid, was on the way to Chak 32/2-L by a motorcycle....
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Rickshaw driver ‘kidnaps’ ASI
TOBA TEK SINGH, Sept 12: In a weird exercise of authority, the city police on Thursday registered a case against a rickshaw driver for kidnapping an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) from city’s...
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Breach in canal
KASUR, Sept 12: Sugarcane and corn crops on hundreds of acres of land were inundated after a 35-feet breach developed in lower canal’s main branch near Ganddianpur village in Changa Manga on Friday....
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Body fished out of canal
SIALKOT, Sept 12: Bhambanwala police found a body, believed to be of a Hindu, in the BRB canal on Friday....
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Vehicles fined
LAHORE, Sept 12: The Traffic police fined 7,323 smoke-emitting vehicles since the start of anti-pollution drive in June, according to the data released by the Environment Protection Department (EPD) of Punjab....
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