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Kayani briefs Zardari on joint session
ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: President Asif Ali Zardari was briefed on Wednesday about the first day of the joint sitting of both houses of parliament held to apprise the lawmakers of the... 
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Devolution plan aimed at empowering military, says ICG
ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: The International Crisis Group has said that the devolution plan of former president Pervez Musharraf was aimed at weakening the civil service’s elite district management group (DMG) and...
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PBC debars office-bearers
ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has suspended licences of the president and secretary of the Multan High Court Bar Association for allegedly misbehaving with Attorney-General Sardar Mohammad Latif Khan Khosa, who is also chairman of the council....
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Negligence caused rise in polio cases
ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: A study on the rise of polio transmission cases that has incapacitated 70 children under five with the crippling disease so far this year identifies negligence during the immunisation campaigns as the main reason....
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One triple blast victim dies in hospital: Shop owners ‘clueless’
LAHORE, Oct 8: One of the injured of triple blast at the city’s congested Garhi Shahu area succumbed to his injuries in the Lahore General Hospital on Wednesday morning....
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Concern at use of force in held Kashmir
LAHORE, Oct 8: The Kashmir Action Committee Pakistan (KACP) has expressed concern over the present situation in held Kashmir and the ‘brutal’ action of the Indian army and security forces against the people of the Valley....
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Centre has no right to sell Sindh’s resources: SUP: Protest against privatisation of gas field
HYDERABAD, Oct 8: The Sindh United Party activists argued the federal government had no right to auction off Sindh’s natural resources as they held demonstrations and hunger strikes across the province...
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Bomb scare grips city: Ambulances with explosives
RAWALPINDI, Oct 8: Fear gripped the city on Wednesday when people saw hospitals barring their gates and television channels reported that three ambulances laden with explosives were on the prowl....
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Margalla Towers victims remembered
ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: Life has a way of making us forget every once in a while. Anniversaries make us remember, often giving them the status of documented history....
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Bajaur blockade to hurt Chitralis too
ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: Nestled among the Hindukush mountains, the district of Chitral has so far remained unaffected by the war on terrorism. But in the coming winter the Chitralis are likely...
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Three injured
QUETTA, Oct 8: Three Bugti tribesmen were injured in a landmine explosion in the Sui area on Wednesday. According to police, a pick-up carrying the tribesmen hit a landmine planted on a road.—Staff...
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Honour killing or suicide of love birds?
TOBA TEK SINGH, Oct 8: Police are looking into the death of a newly-wed woman and her brother-in-law, who according to their family, committed suicide on Wednesday....
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Punjab govt to restore labour inspections
FAISALABAD, Oct 8: The Punjab government will restore the powers of the district government officers to inspect factories to ensure enforcement of labour laws and availability of safety measures, Dawn has learnt on Wednesday....
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Canal to be closed for repairs
MUZAFFARGARH, Oct 8: Muzaffargarh canal will be closed on Oct 13 and opened on Nov 10 after repair....
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THQ patients will get free medicines, says nazim
FAISALABAD, Oct 8: The government will give free medicines to tehsil headquarters hospitals for all patients, the city district nazim said here on Wednesday....
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Bahawalpur hospitals delay key vaccinations: Childhood diseases
BAHAWALPUR, Oct 8: Stock of vaccines for four childhood diseases at all tehsil headquarters hospitals (THQs), basic health units (BHUs) and rural health centres (RHCs) has been consumed and these health...
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Bhakkar blast: DPO booked, made OSD
LAYYAH, Oct 8: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday made the Bhakkar district police officer (DPO) the officer on special duty (OSD) for poor security, which resulted in a suicide attack on a Pakistan People’s Party MNA on Oct 6....
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Agencies pick up four suspects
LAYYAH, Oct 8: The officials of a sensitive agency raided a public call office (PCO) at Mandi Town in Bhakkar and took away four people, apparently linked with the suicide blast at the outhouse of MNA Rashid Akbar Niwani on Oct 6...
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Rokhris, Niazis renew rivalry
MIANWALI, Oct 8: Rival groups within the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) are trying to down each other over the thrashing of a few youths by the Kaliar family here, Dawn has learnt....
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Two sisters killed by rivals of in-laws
FAISALABAD, Oct 8: Two sisters were gunned down allegedly by the rivals of their in-laws in Chak 144-JB in Sahianwala police precincts on Wednesday....
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Squatters evicted from state land
KHANEWAL, Oct 8: The district administration on Wednesday got vacated 44 kanal state land worth Rs60 million from illegal occupants....
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Superintendent of Adiala Jail booked
RAWALPINDI, Oct 8: Local police on Wednesday booked Adiala Jail’s superintendent on charges of illegally detaining an undertrial prisoner, officials said....
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Plot allotments for OPF high-ups opposed
ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: The Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) has failed to protect the rights of expatriate Pakistanis as its own Board of Governor members and other high-ups have obtained plots in...
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Rs8bn walled zone planned
ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: The government has decided to turn the ‘Red Zone’ (the Constitution Avenue and its nearby areas) into a ‘Walled City’ or ‘Green Zone’ by constructing a wall and...
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Who ordered evacuation of Secretariat?
ISLAMABAD, Oct 8: Hours ahead of the rare in-camera meeting in which parliamentarians were briefed by army high-ups on the war on terror and militancy in Pakistan, the civil bureaucracy housed...
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Man shot dead
TAXILA, Oct 8: A man was shot dead in the high-security area of Gudwal on Wednesday, Wah Cantonment police said.Akhtar Hussain was heading home in the locality’s Sector 26 when two motorcycle riders opened fire on him....
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Blasts condemned
LAHORE, Oct 8: Non-governmental organisations united on Wednesday to condemn terror attacks in the Garhi Shahu area....
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Security and traffic plan for Raiwind congregation
LAHORE, Oct 8: Nearly 4,000 police officials will perform security and traffic duty during the four-day religious congregation beginning at Raiwind from Thursday (today)....
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BoR given three weeks to file Miani Sahib survey
LAHORE, Oct 8: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday gave three weeks to the Punjab Board of Revenue to submit a detailed survey report on Miani Sahib Graveyard....
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Roti crisis deepens
LAHORE, Oct 8: The roti crisis deepened on Wednesday as it was available at Rs5 in almost all parts of the city....
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Lahore-Karachi rail journey time coming down
LAHORE, Oct 8: The travel duration of all express trains running between Lahore and Karachi will be further reduced by half-an-hour when the winter timetable will be implemented by the Pakistan Railways from Oct 15....
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Breach in canal floods crops
NAWABSHAH, Oct 8: A 60-feet breach occurred in Rein distributary canal near Qazi Ahmed on Wednesday....
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Villagers, police in row over kidnapping
LARKANA, Oct 8: Five members of a family were allegedly kidnapped from Serai Fateh Mohammed Kassar village in the jurisdiction of Fatehpur police station on Wednesday....
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Mill owners foresee rise of Rs3 in flour price
HYDERABAD, Oct 8: Chakki owners believe flour prices will rise to at least Rs3 per kilogram in near future on account of fresh increase in transportation and labour charges and electricity tariff....
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Clash over children’s fight claims 5 lives
BADIN, Oct 8: Four people, including a woman died and another breathed his last due to cardiac arrest while 20 others received injuries in an armed clash between two groups of Khosos over a minor dispute involving children....
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Two thieves shot dead
KHAIRPUR, Oct 8: Two thieves were killed by villagers near Hussain Bux Naro village in the Kotdiji area late on Tuesday night....
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