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Police to use sniffer dogs at checkpoints
RAWALPINDI, Oct 13: Personnel of the Special Branch will now use sniffer dogs to detect explosives carried in baggage or by suspects during checking at sensitive check posts, officials said on Monday.... 
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Power shutdown for longer hours
RAWALPINDI, Oct 13: The acute power shortage has paralysed public life and business activities as the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) decided on Monday to stretch the loadshedding hours from six to over eight hours a day....
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Sectors uplift task may be given to private party
ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: The city managers are planning to develop residential sectors through public-private partnership to accelerate the pace of their development, Dawn learnt on Monday....
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Rs2 Roti under watch
RAWALPINDI, Oct 13: The district government plans to create watchdog bodies for the 232 Tandoors commissioned in the district to sell Roti at the subsidised rate of Rs2....
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Former AJK premier wants minister arrested
MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 13: Former AJK prime minister Sultan Mahmood on Monday demanded immediate sacking and arrest of a cabinet member for his alleged involvement in the murder of an opposition worker,...
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Wah police asked to submit charge-sheet against ‘bomber’
RAWALPINDI, Oct 13: A special judge of anti-terrorism court on Monday directed the police to submit on October 23 a charge-sheet against Hameedullah Mehsud, a suspected suicide bomber who was arrested soon after the Wah twin suicide blasts in August....
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30,000 children administered anti-polio drops
ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: Over 30,000 children were immunised against polio in the rural areas of Islamabad on the first day of the drive on Monday....
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SCO to install microwave link in Gilgit by year end
GILGIT, Oct 13: The Special Communications Organisation (SCO) is committed to providing latest, modern and sophisticated means of telecommunication to the people in remote mountain regions....
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Lack of medicines prolong prisoners’ pain
ATTOCK, Oct 13: About 1,000 prisoners of the district jail are facing severe hardships because of lack of medical facilities as the Punjab prisoners department has not released medical budget despite demand by the jail authorities, it has been learnt....
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Durrani holds talks with Narayanan
NEW DELHI, Oct 13: National Security Adviser Mehmud Ali Durrani held talks with his Indian counterpart M.K. Narayanan to improve bilateral relations here in the Hyderabad House on Monday....
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Irsa meeting may generate heated arguments
ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: Heated arguments and counter arguments between Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab are expected over their existing irrigation water share when the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) meets here on Wednesday to discuss the water situation....
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EC to examine lawmakers’ declaration of assets today
ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: The Election Commission will meet on Tuesday to examine the declaration of assets and liabilities submitted by members of parliament and provincial assemblies....
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Task force on climate change set up
ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: The planning commission set up on Monday a task force to suggest policy guidelines on minimising the adverse effect of climate change on agriculture and environment....
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Prolonged outages continue
MIRPURKHAS, Oct 13: Unannounced and prolonged power outages continued on Monday in four districts of lower Sindh causing hardships to people as water supply was disrupted to the cities and towns and business activities were also adversely affected....
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Climate change to hit flow of Indus
HYDERABAD, Oct 13: Global warming is having a disastrous impact on Sindh’s climate, especially on the Indus River, which would lose 27 per cent of its flow by 2050....
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Chakkis seek increase in weekly wheat quota
NAWABSHAH, Oct 13: The Wheat Grinding Plant and Chakki Association on Monday complained to the government of short supply of wheat to the district and demanded raise in quota....
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Wind-powered project almost complete
KARACHI, Oct 13: Country’s vast wind power potential will soon begin to be realised when the first wind-powered project begins to deliver electricity to about 6,900 homes in the Hyderabad Electricity Supply Company region later this month....
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Court frees 20 bonded labourers
MIRPURKHAS, Oct 13: District and sessions judge, Umerkot, Khan Ubaidullah Khan, on Monday set 20 bonded labourers, including women and children, at liberty....
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Taseer wants joint session on food challenges
FAISALABAD, Oct 13: Governor Salmaan Taseer has called food security another area of concern for the country after national security and stressed the need for a joint session of parliament to discuss rising food challenges....
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Industrialists in business of blackout protests
FAISALABAD, Oct 13: Industrialists plan a protest drive against the government over unscheduled power and gas loadshedding that, what they say, has been hampering business for many months....
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Robbers snatch vehicle from Chinese company’s driver
TOBA TEK SINGH, Oct 13: Robbers snatched a pick-up vehicle of a Chinese engineering company from its driver after administering him poisonous drink and fled after throwing him in a drain...
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Two dozen Afghan students arrested
GUJRANWALA, Oct 13: Two dozen Afghans studying in local seminaries were arrested by police on Monday for non-registration....
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Celebratory firing kills two
SHEIKHUPURA, Oct 13: An elderly man and his granddaughter were killed in Safdrabad locality in Nankana district when hit by aerial firing during a marriage ceremony on Monday....
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Police’s timely action saves vani girl
MIANWALI, Oct 13: A prompt action by Wan Bhacharn police foiled a vani attempt on Monday and saved a girl from being sacrificed for a crime committed by her elders....
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Sisters killed for ‘honour’
SHEIKHUPURA, Oct 13: An elderly man shot dead his two grand daughters for honour in a village in Nankana Sahib on Monday afternoon....
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Package
GUJRANWALA, Oct 13: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has given an approval for the construction of a medical college, separate tehsil headquarter (THQ) civil hospital, a sports complex and a flyover for the city....
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Four motorists drown
MANDI BAHAUDDIN, Oct 13: Four people, including an infant, died when a car fell into Rasool-Qadirabad link canal near New Shaheedanwali bridge on Monday evening....
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Prayer leader told not to maltreat wife
LAHORE, Oct 13: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday warned the prayer leader of a Nishtar Colony mosque that he would be sent to jail in case he maltreated his wife....
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CDGL teams to ensure sale of roti at Rs2
LAHORE, Oct 13: After finalising arrangements to supply flour at subsidised prices to 2,900 of the 7,000 or so tandoors in Lahore, the city district government on Monday constituted special teams...
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Advertisers ‘thwart’ PHA’s ‘quick buck’ move
LAHORE, Oct 13: An auction of key billboard sites by the Parks and Horticulture Authority ended in chaos on Monday after just one of the proposed 13 “B class” sites were sold, prompting the PHA to accuse advertisers of deliberate sabotage....
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Separate electoral system for minorities demanded
LAHORE, Oct 13: The Pakistan National Christian League (PNCL) has urged the government to introduce a separate electorate system for the representation of the minorities in legislative assemblies because those elected...
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Five bomb hoaxes in Lahore
LAHORE, Oct 13: Hoaxers on Monday continued to cause panic among public, this time spreading bomb rumors at least at five places in the city on Monday....
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Nawaz Sharif ‘desperate’ to get 17th amend scrapped
LAHORE, Oct 13: Chief of his own faction of the Pakistan Muslim League and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is exploring all possible means to firmly entrench himself in the country’s politics to play a bigger role....
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Iftikhar nominated for Nobel prize: Aitzaz
LAHORE, Oct 13: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan has said that deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has been nominated for the Nobel prize....
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‘BSF role in prisoners’ release limited’
LAHORE, Oct 13: The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has a limited role in release of Pakistani prisoners from Indian jails as different diplomatic channels are involved in the process....
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Shahbaz hints at ‘political’ recruitments
LAHORE, Oct 13: Chief Minister and PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif has informed district office-bearers of his party that 60 per cent quota in new recruitments to lower cadre posts would go...
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Loadshedding to end next year, reiterates minister
LAHORE, Oct 13: Federal Water and Power Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Monday reassured the nation that loadshedding would end by the end of next year and also instructed the distribution companies to end “unannounced loadshedding” forthwith....
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Under-trial succumbs to burns caused in jail
LAHORE, Oct 13: A 40-year-old under-trial prisoner, who had sustained critical burns at the Camp Jail a week ago, succumbed to his injuries in Services Hospital on Monday....
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Concern at literacy centres closure
LAHORE, Oct 13: The Punjab Literacy Forum has expressed its grave concern at the closure of a large number of adult literacy centres rendering over 80,000 workers jobless, besides jolting the non-formal adult education promotion programme....
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