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| September 29, 2008 | Monday | Ramazan 28, 1429 |
12 injured in Quetta bomb blasts
QUETTA, Sept 28: At least 12 people were injured in two bomb explosions here on Sunday....
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Hotel bomb blast report presented to PM
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik presented on Sunday a comprehensive report to the prime minister on the Marriott Hotel suicide bombing....
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Imran asks youths to oppose forces of status quo
LONDON, Sept 28: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf chief Imran Khan, who is here on a brief visit, has asked Pakistani students in the UK to become politically active to play a role for the future of the country....
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CDA takes bazaar to diplomats’ doorstep
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: City managers have opened a 30-shop market inside the Diplomatic Enclave to save the diplomatic community the security risks involved in going out for daily shopping....
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Truckers return to Islamabad but under strict check
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: The city administration has come up with a plan to regularise the movement of trucks in the capital after realising that an all-out ban on their entry could...
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Minority members adamant on church construction: Controversy over land
RAWALPINDI, Sept 28: Members of the Christian community on Sunday defied the directives of the district administration Rawalpindi and went ahead with its plan to construct a controversial church near Rawal...
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Report lays stress on awareness about breast cancer
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Over 90,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed every year in Pakistan and the disease causes about 40,000 deaths each year, says a report....
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PPP govt has failed to deliver: AT
THATTA, Sept 28: A two-day central committee meeting of the Awami Tehrik, which concluded here on Sunday, observed that induction of a democratic government in the country had failed to provide any relief at least to the misery-stricken people of Sindh....
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Emergency ward at junior doctors’ mercy: Allied Hospital
FAISALABAD, Sept 28: The administration of the Allied Hospital -- the biggest state-run health facility in the district -- has handed over its emergency ward to junior doctors for ''better healthcare'',...
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Damages suit against Q’s forward bloc MPA
SAHIWAL, Sept 28: A PML-N losing candidate for the provincial assembly seat, PP-222, Malik Arshad, has filed a Rs700 million damages suit against winner Malik Jalal Din Dhakko of the PML-Q for ‘defaming’ him....
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Secretariat record may lose ‘shelter’
LAHORE, Sept 28: There is a plan to shift the Punjab Civil Secretariat''s colonial central record room to an adjacent ''unsafe'' location, putting at risk the province''s vital links with its...
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Last-minute flurry of Eid shopping
RAWALPINDI, Sept 28: A late buying rush just days ahead of Eidul Fitr reflects that people in the city are undeterred by the security threats and the persistent inflation which wrack the entire country....
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Police college officials not paid allowance
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: The police officials posted at the Punjab Police College Sihala were not paid the special Eid allowance announced by the chief minister Punjab, sources said on Sunday....
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2 shops gutted
RAWALPINDI, Sept 28: Two shops in China Market on College Road were gutted after a fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday, rescue services said....
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Food dept reaches out to Pindi citizens with flour
RAWALPINDI, Sept 28: The food department on Sunday reached every nook and corner of the city with 43,000 bags of wheat flour ahead of Eidul Fitr on the directives of the Punjab government....
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Reduction in defence expenditure sought
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Various civil society organisations on Sunday demanded the government to cut down expenditures on defence and armaments and utilise the saved money for relief and uplift of the...
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Three killed in accident
ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Three persons, including a minor boy, were killed in separate traffic accidents here on Sunday, police said....
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No clue to missing doctor
RAWALPINDI, Sept 28: Police are searching a doctor who has been missing for the last four days....
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Police re-arrest man cleared of robbery charges by court
LARKANA, Sept 28: Police rearrested on Saturday night a man who had been cleared of robbery charges by the Larkana circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Sept 12, his brother Rahib Ali said on Sunday....
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Man kills wife
SUKKUR, Sept 28: A woman was strangled to death by her husband on the pretext of karo-kari in Riazat Golato village of the Risaldar area near Kandhkot late on Saturday night....
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Iranian team visits Garhi
LARKANA, Sept 28: A delegation of religious scholars from Iran led by the director of the Hyderabad Khana-i-Farhang, Abbasi Roohani, visited Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto on Sunday....
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PPP activists besiege police station
LARKANA, Sept 28: A large number of Pakistan People’s Party activists, led by the party’s Qambar-Shahdadkot district president Malik Ghaibi Khan Chandio, besieged a police station in Qambar and held...
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Kidnapped minor boy rescued
SHEIKHUPURA, Sept 28: Manga Mandi and Sharaqpur police rescued on Sunday a nine-year-old boy kidnapped for ransom by his close relative two days ago....
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Boy killed
OKARA, Sept 28: A class-VI student was killed while another boy sustained critical injuries by the firing of some unidentified land allottees of village 27/2-R here on Sunday....
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Factory staffers thrash health officials: Raid on fake beverages
SIALKOT, Sept 28: Owner of a fake beverage manufacturing factory and his accomplices thrashed the members of a health department team when it raided the installation in Douburji Malhiyaan locality....
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Electric shock kills servant, injures two
SAHIWAL, Sept 28: A youth working as a servant at a Canal Colony bungalow was electrocuted while two others received electric shock when they were shifting an iron grill to the rooftop....
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Nazim and 700 TMA workers go on strike: Grabbing of disposal site
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Sept 28: As many as 700 tehsil administration workers led by the nazim went on a strike for an indefinite period against illegal occupation of city’s disposal works site spreading over 14 kanals....
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Credit card scheme for growers
BAHAWALPUR, Sept 28: The Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited will launch a credit card scheme for growers seeking loans, the bank chief said here on Sunday....
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Public schools’ facilities being improved: Riaz
LAHORE, Sept 28: Senior Minister Raja Riaz has said the government had launched a Rs112.41 billion programme for restoring the confidence of the people in its schools by improving standard of education and infrastructure facilities....
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4,500 acres of paddy hit by canal closure
SIALKOT, Sept 28: Crops on more than 4,500 acres have been affected in Sialkot district owing to the closure of MR Link Canal two weeks ago....
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Two more flour mills sealed
GUJRANWALA, Sept 28: The Food Department and other teams of the Punjab government on Sunday intensified checking of flour mills and sealed two more units in Qila Didar Singh on charges of not supplying bags to market....
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36 traffickers held
LAHORE, Sep 28: Gujjarpura police claimed on Sunday to have arrested 36 drug pushers and gamblers and recovered drugs, liquor, stake money and illegal weapons from their possession....
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One injured in fire at department store
LAHORE, Sept 28: One person sustained burn injuries and another passed out while valuables worth Rs10 million were reduced to ashes when a fire broke out in a department store near Moon Market in Iqbal Town on Sunday....
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Six deer stolen from Jallo Park
LAHORE, Sept 28: Six deer were stolen from Jallo Park early on Sunday....
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Polio cases
LAHORE, Sept 28: Inadequate anti-polio campaigns are responsible for emergence of a number of fresh cases in Punjab, maintain officials of the health department....
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