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Attock nazim warns against sacking of teachers
ATTOCK, Oct 19: The tug of war between the district government affiliated with the PML-Q and the local administration supported by the PML-N has taken a new turn after the district... 
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UN urged to help stop violence against minorities in India
ISLAMABAD, Oct 19: Condemning the mistreatment of religious minorities in India, Chief of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (Apma) and member of National Assembly Shahbaz Bhatti has called upon the United...
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High food prices to have devastating effect on poor: study
RAWALPINDI, Oct 19: Energy has become the second major household expenditure after food in Pakistan, and if every poor person were to be compensated to offset the loss in real expenditure...
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Truck driver kidnapped; four persons go missing in Jatli
RAWALPINDI, Oct 19: A truck driver has been kidnapped in the city for Rs3 million ransom while a woman along with two girls and a five-year-old boy went missing in Jatli, police said on Saturday....
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Winter plan for Bajaur, Swat DPs being devised
ISLAMABAD, Oct 19: As the winter is about to set in, a plan to protect internally displaced persons (DPs) from troubled districts against tough climatic conditions is on the drawing board of Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS)....
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Teacher commits suicide
RAWALPINDI, Oct 19: A lady schoolteacher committed suicide by hanging herself in her house in Saddar Bairooni area on Sunday, police said....
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Balochistan acts against mills supplying substandard flour
QUETTA, Oct 19: The Balochistan food department has cancelled wheat quota of two flour mills found involved in illegal business and an FIR has been registered against a flour mill owner....
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Ramchand Pakistani in London
LONDON, Oct 19: Mehreen Jabbar’s Ramchand Pakistani was screened here on Saturday evening to a packed house on the third day of the 15-day The Times-British Film Institute (BFI) 52nd London Film Festival....
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Need stressed to promote merit
QUETTA, Oct 19: Balochistan Assembly Speaker Aslam Bhootani has underlined the need for adopting merit to ensure a bright future for the youth....
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Govt urged to address rural Sindh’s ills
LONDON, Oct 19: The UK-based Sindh Doctors’ Forum (SDF) has appealed to the PPP-led government to undo what it called the wrongs done to rural Sindh during the long years of former president Pervez Musharraf’s rule....
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Film on Ghaffar Khan
NEW YORK, Oct 19: A documentary on the life and times of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the grandfather of Awami National Party chief Asfandyar Wali, will premier in New York on Nov 8....
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Steps to face water shortage discussed
HYDERABAD, Oct 19: The Sindh Minister for Irrigation, Jam Saifullah Dharejo, and Agriculture Minister Syed Ali Nawaz Shah on Sunday held a marathon session with the growers’ organisations and relevant officials...
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Children’s hospital short of doctors, equipment
LARKANA, Oct 19: Lack of equipment and shortage of doctors and paramedics at the Chandka Medical College Children Hospital have contributed to an increase in mortality rate at the hospital....
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JSQM-A activists block highway
SUKKUR, Oct 19: Hundreds of activists belonging to Jaey Sindh Qaumi Mahaaz (Aresar group) staged a demonstration and a sit-in on the National Highway near Qadirpur gas field on Sunday to protest against its proposed privatisation....
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Protest against outages
MIRPURKHAS, Oct 19: Hundreds of residents of Rahim Nagar, Bhansinghabad and Gulshan colony staged a demonstration on Mirwah road here on Sunday to protest against prolonged power cuts in their localities....
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Govt trying to provide relief to people: CM
NAWABSHAH, Oct 19: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that poverty has increased up to 25 per cent in the country during the last 13 years as per...
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Recovery of journalist’s father urged
HYDERABAD, Oct 19: Journalists held demonstrations and observed token hunger strikes across the province on Sunday in protest against police failure to recover Jam Nawab Hussain Samoon, father of a senior journalist, Lala Rehman Samoon....
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Scholar Banho Khan Sheikh dies
HYDERABAD, Oct 19: A bureaucrat-turned-scholar, Banho Khan Sheikh, who is known for his research on the poetry of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, died in Hala on Sunday after protracted illness....
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Two killed, one hurt in attack
SANGHAR, Oct 19: Two men were killed and one suffered injuries when some motorcyclists attacked a pickup full of passengers, who were going to Berani from Shahdadpur on Sunday....
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Trader comes under attack again
NAROWAL, Oct 19: Ransom-hunter threw a hand-grenade in the house of a trader that fortunately could not explode here in Muhallah Muhammadpura locality on Sunday....
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Affected families still waiting for compensation: Bus accident
MUZAFFARGARH, OCT 19: The families of those killed or injured in a road accident near Sultan Colony on September 28 have yet not been given any compensation by the Punjab government...
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Customer kills jeweller
SHEIKHUPURA, Oct 19: A customer shot dead a jeweler in Muridke on Sunday for failing to deliver gold ring in time....
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Impersonator arrested
GUJRAT, Oct 19: The Jallalpur Jattan police have arrested a man impersonating as a retired major general for making phone calls to police officers to procure their undue help in the investigation of a theft case....
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‘Efforts afoot to check eye diseases’
LAHORE, Oct 19: Measures are being taken to control eye diseases and blindness and a committee has been made to recommend measures to check this disease, says Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, according to a handout issued on Sunday....
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Karsaz FIR ill-timed: Qazi
GUJRAT, Oct 19: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed on Sunday criticised the government for registering an FIR of the Karsaz case against Hameed Gull and PML-Q parliamentary leader Pervaiz Elahi....
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Crises aggravate textile woes
FAISALABAD, Oct 19: Persistent uncertainty on economic front and an unprecedented upsurge in power loadshedding have baffled many traders dealing in textile business at one of the biggest yarn markets in the region....
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Punjabi essay writing competition
SAHIWAL, Oct 19: The fourth Punjab Lok Boli management committee has distributed 3,000 brochures in Punjabi language to school students asking them to write three essays in their mother tongue....
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Imran offers conditional help to fight credit crunch
LAHORE, Oct 19: Tehrik-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan has offered the government that he will persuade expatriate Pakistanis to transfer their capital to their homeland provided the president, the prime minister, cabinet...
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Rs16bn for school education in Punjab
LAHORE, Oct 19: The government will spend Rs16.454 billion on 22 school education promotion projects in Punjab during the current financial year....
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70 PIMH posts vacant for years
LAHORE, Oct 19: About 70 posts of doctors have been lying vacant in the Punjab Institute of Mental Health (PIMH), the only full-fledged hospital of its kind in the province, for a decade or so....
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PML-Q Legislator raps govt
LAHORE, Oct 19: A Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) legislator has said the government is implicating former chief minister Pervaiz Elahi in Karsaz case to divert people’s attention from its failures....
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JI chief Opposes IMF loan
LAHORE, Oct 19: Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said the economy of Pakistan will be destroyed if it is thrown into the clutches of International Monetary Fund (IMF) once again....
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Punjab considers change in service tribunal’s role
LAHORE, Oct 19: The Punjab government is considering amending the law governing the provincial service tribunal to introduce certain changes in its functions after finding it hampered the dispensation of justice by giving ‘undue relief’ to employees approaching it....
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Doctors call off strike
LAHORE, Oct 19: On the assurance of the chief minister, young doctors have postponed their Monday’s strike in public hospitals in the province....
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Nadir Magsi wins Lahore Jeep Rally
LAHORE, Oct 19: Sindh Food Minister Nadir Magsi won the Lahore Cross Jeep Rally by winning its ‘A’ category after covering a nine-kilometer distance in the River Ravi bed in nine minutes and 48 seconds on Sunday....
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Pepco given more gas to cut loadshedding
LAHORE, Oct 19: The Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) got an additional 70mcft gas on the intervention of Water and Power Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Sunday, generating an extra 400...
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Head-hitters claim another life
LAHORE, Oct 19: Head-hitters allegedly stoned to death a middle-aged man outside his house near Auqaf Colony of Green Town early on Sunday....
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MPAs to raise money for Fata people
LAHORE, Oct 19: The Punjab Assembly has formed a committee of MPAs to raise fund for the people of Fata displaced due to the ongoing turmoil there....
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