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10 militants killed in Bajaur
KHAR, Sept 21: Ten militants were reported killed in clashes with security forces in Bajaur on Sunday.... 
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Seven injured seminary students disappear
QUETTA, Sept 21: Seven seminary students who were injured in a blast on Friday disappeared on Saturday from the Civil Hospital where they were under treatment, apparently to avoid arrest and interrogation....
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Cold war heats up between AJK president and adviser
MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 21: The cold war between AJK President Raja Zulqarnain Khan and prime minister''s adviser on planning and development Chaudhry Tariq Farooq seems to have intensified with a new bout of allegations and counter allegations from both sides on Friday....
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Hotel occupancy drops after Saturday’s blast
ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: Occupancy rates in the luxury hotels of the twin cities have dropped dramatically after the suicide truck bombing at the Marriott hotel in the capital city killed 53 people and wounded 266 others, including foreign nationals....
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Probe into Asif’s speech mess-up
ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: An inquiry has been ordered into what has been described as a mess-up during President Asif Ali Zardari’s address to the nation on PTV late Saturday night....
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Zardari to visit China next month
ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: President Asif Ali Zardari will hold strategic talks with Chinese leaders during his visit to Beijing next month....
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Four of a family killed by mortar shell
MINGORA, Sept 21: Four members of a family were killed on Sunday when they tried to tamper with an unexploded mortar shell near here....
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Job for man who tried to sell daughters
ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has taken notice of a news report that a man of Naushehro Feroze tried to sell his daughters in Moro district....
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Smuggling worsens wheat crisis
MURREE, Sept 21: The wheat floor crisis has worsened in Murree because of the smuggling of the precious commodity to NWFP from the area, an elected representative said here on Sunday....
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Workers pledge to block privatisation of Qadirpur field
SUKKUR, Sept 21: Apprehending loss of jobs, hundreds of employees assembled in front of the gates of Qadirpur gas field with a pledge to resist the government’s privatisation plan....
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Canal breach destroys crops
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Sept 21: Standing crops over 200 acres and five villages were inundated when a 50 feet breach occurred in Sangi minor canal near Lakha Road on Sunday morning....
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Camel jockeys await UAE compensation
MUZAFFARGARH, Sept 21: At least 14 camel jockeys who were repatriated from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are still waiting for the $1,000 compensation which the UAE government had promised to give to each incapacitated child....
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Marriott attack reaction to killings in tribal areas: Beg sees more revengeful acts in future
LAHORE, Sept 21: Former army chief Gen Mirza Aslam Beg says tribesmen may be responsible for Saturday''s deadly attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, which left more than 50 people killed and hundreds of others injured....
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Three blast victims laid to rest in Jhang
JHANG, Sept 21: Three cousins killed in Marriot Hotel blast in Islamabad on Saturday were buried in Chak 463 Hasan Shah, some 15 kilometres away from here, on Sunday....
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SBP asked to review decision to print Rs5 note
LAHORE, Sept 21: The State Bank of Pakistan has been asked to review its decision to print Rs5 currency notes as already a stock of 300 million coins of same denomination...
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140 Afghans handed over
CHAMAN, Sept 21: Authorities on Sunday released 140 Afghan nationals from the district jail in Quetta and Panjgur and handed them over to Afghan officials at the Pak-Afghan border here, police sources told APP....
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Journalist’s father feared kidnapped
HYDERABAD, Sept 21: Jam Nawab Hussain, the octogenarian father of senior journalist Lala Rehman Samoon, was reported to have been kidnapped from outside a mosque here early Sunday morning....
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Gastroenteritis hits Kachho
DADU, Sept 21: One child died and 17 people suffering from gastroenteritis in some villages of the Kachho belt were admitted to hospital on Sunday....
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Fishermen slam govt apathy to their demand: Fresh water resources
HYDERABAD, Sept 21: Leaders of different political parties and social welfare organisations have strongly protested against the apathy of the Sindh government to protect the livelihood of two million fishermen of...
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Law-enforcers ‘connive’ in diesel smuggling
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Sept 21: Foreign diesel is being smuggled from Balochistan into Punjab via Dera-Quetta road unchecked, allegedly with the connivance of the officials deputed at checkpoints set up by various law enforcement agencies, reliable sources said....
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Municipal school teachers await salaries
GUJRANWALA, Sept 21: The female teachers of primary, elementary and secondary municipal schools have not been given so far the salary for the month of August, a teachers’ representative said here on Sunday....
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Concern over robberies
GUJRANWALA, Sept 21: The residents of Ghakhar Town’s Railway Road locality have protested against the rising incidents of robberies and demanded that the police patrol the locality....
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Blast widely condemned
LAHORE, Sept 21: Large-scale loss of life and property in bombing of Marriot Hotel in Islamabad was widely condemned here on Sunday....
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