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US payment of terror war dues can ease crisis
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: Pakistan’s balance of payment crisis, worsened by the conflict in tribal areas, can be eased if the US reimburses the remaining $800 million it should pay under the Coalition Support Fund relating to expenditure incurred on combating militancy.... 
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Taliban supporters surrender
KHAR, Oct 28: A number of supporters of militants surrendered to the Mamond lashkar on Tuesday amid reports that tribal volunteers have consolidated their positions in the Bajaur region....
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Twelve days before going to IMF, says Tareen
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: Pakistan would ask the IMF for a bailout package in less than two weeks if it failed to secure other funding....
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Traders threaten to halt businesses
LAHORE, Oct 28: Chambers of commerce and traders’ associations have warned the government that they will halt their businesses across the country if the temporary relief of 40 per cent on power bills is not made permanent in two weeks....
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Two Bugti elders killed
QUETTA, Oct 28: Two tribal elders were killed in Dera Bugti on Tuesday....
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PML-Q undecided over change in leadership
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: Leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q on Tuesday remained undecided about whether to call a general council meeting for changing the party leadership or wait till its tenure ends in April next year....
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PPP in a fix over plan for cabinet expansion
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: The Pakistan People’s Party leadership is in a fix over a planned expansion of the cabinet due to strong lobbying within the party and its failure to negotiate a deal with coalition partners, sources told Dawn on Tuesday....
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Vote proves Iftikhar is the CJP: Kurd
LAHORE, Oct 28: Movement for the restoration of deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and other judges would continue with a new vigour, Ali Ahmad Kurd said after the announcement of unofficial results of the Supreme Court Bar Association election....
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India releases five Pakistanis
LAHORE, Oct 28: Indian authorities handed over five Pakistani mentally-challenged prisoners to Pakistan Rangers at Wagha on Tuesday....
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Several held for lodging protest: 200 GCU students struck off for short attendance
LAHORE, Oct 28: The Government College University (GCU) on Tuesday struck off around 200 first-year students for ‘short attendance’. In protest, students blocked the road in front of university’s main gate for about an hour....
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Journalists walk out of Senate: Strict security protocol
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: Journalists covering the proceedings of the Senate on Tuesday staged a token walkout from the press gallery to protest over the attitude of the police officials deputed at...
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Govt asked to stop import of hazardous cotton seed
Islamabad, Oct 28: A large number of farmers and their representatives shared concerns regarding environmental and health implications of the BT cotton seed during a consultative seminar organised by ActionAid here on Tuesday....
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12 injured
MURREE, Oct 28: Twelve people were injured, four of them seriously, when a bus overturned near 22 Meel on Tuesday, officials and rescuers said....
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Drunkard dies
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: A man died after excessive drinking here on Tuesday, officials said....
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Harmony marks Diwali in city
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: A small group of Muslims joined their Hindu compatriots in celebrating Diwali here on Tuesday, rendering harmony to the festival of lights....
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CDA may Recall infested tenders
ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: Winner of a second tender of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) opened on Tuesday appeared to further confirm the allegation by a citizen that the process of awarding two contracts of Rs2.2...
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Post offices refuse to accept bills
TAXILA, Oct 28: Power consumers in Hassanabdal on Tuesday said post offices in the town were refusing to accept electricity bills with 40 per cent deduction in accordance with the government’s...
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N.As apex court without judges
GILGIT, Oct 28: The federal government has not finalised the panel for the appointment of the new chief judge and members of the Northern Area Supreme Appellate Court (SAC)....
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Minister visits Dawn office
KARACHI, Oct 28: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sherry Rehman visited the Haroon House and met the chief executive of Dawn Group of Newspapers, Mr Hameed Haroon, on Tuesday....
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DCO empowered to allocate funds
LARKANA, Oct 28: The Larkana district council, in the absence of Khushhal Pakistan Panel, agreed to delegate powers of retaining and allocate again district government funds with the district coordination officer instead of with the district nazim....
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UTP shot dead on court premises
SANGHAR, Oct 28: Prisoners at the Sanghar district jail on Tuesday protested against the killing of an under-trial prisoner on the premises of a court on Monday....
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Loadshedding creates hardships for people
NAWABSHAH, Oct 28: The residents of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto district are facing severe difficulties due to unannounced loadshedding for the last few weeks....
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Police clueless about youth’s death
HYDERABAD, Oct 28: Police remain clueless about the mysterious death of a youth, Naveed A. Shaikh, who was found dead on the seventh floor of the Al-Amna Plaza in the Cantonment area on Monday morning....
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Jobs for locals in gas field urged
DADU, Oct 28: The district council members passed a resolution demanding jobs to locals in Zamazama gas field and development of the area as per the agreement....
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Rising crime in Larkana deplored
LARKANA, Oct 28: Sindh National Front vice-chairman Amir Bakhsh Bhutto has said that law and order situation in Larkana district is alarming and alleged that the People’s Party government has lost control over things in a short period of seven months....
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Double murder case lodged against PML-Q leader
HYDERABAD, Oct 28: Hussainabad police lodged a separate murder case Monday against a local PML-Q leader, Dr Shafiq Arain who, police said, had earlier confessed to murdering his wife and driver on the 20th of this month....
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Body found in bag
HYDERABAD, Oct 28: The body of a labourer was found stuffed in a cricket kit-bag near a garbage dump in unit-12 Latifabad Monday night....
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PPP-SB opposes gas field privatisation
HYDERABAD, Oct 28: A larger number of activists of the Pakistan People’s Party-SB and its student wing staged a demonstration and observed token hunger strike outside the press club here on Tuesday....
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‘Commissioners won’t affect DCOs, local councils’
MULTAN, Oct 28: Governor Salmaan Taseer said on Tuesday the appointment of commissioners will not affect the powers of district coordination officers or local councils....
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Refreshments land scores in hospital: Gujranwala college event
GUJRANWALA, Oct 28: More than 100 students and teachers besides the principal of the Government Girls Community Model College, Ladheywala Warraich, fell unconscious after consuming bakery items at a college function on Tuesday....
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Man shot for thrashing student
FAISALABAD, Oct 28: A high school teacher was gunned down for allegedly thrashing his pupil at Khurrianwala on Tuesday....
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ADB to help Fesco revamp 13 grid stations
FAISALBAD, Oct 28: The Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) will revamp its various grid stations at a cost of $35 million being provided by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), says Fesco chief executive Ahmad Saeed Akhtar....
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Rs5m for hospital
SAHIWAL, Oct 28: The Sahiwal district administration has provided a sum of Rs5 million for the maternity hospital, says District Nazim Rai Hasan Nawaz....
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‘Corrected’ challan filed against three murder accused
TOBA TEK SINGH, Oct 28: On the orders of Punjab chief minister, district prosecution officer on Tuesday filed challan against a police inspector, who had allegedly killed a headmaster, under section...
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Five dead in roof collapse
MULTAN, Oct 28: Five people died and three others injured after the roof of a three-storey house collapsed in Wahdat Colony here on Tuesday, say Rescue 1122 officials....
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‘Sow maximum wheat’ rally
SAHIWAL, Oct 28: The district government in collaboration with the agriculture department officials organised a rally to motivate wheat growers to sow wheat at the maximum area in the district here on Tuesday....
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Teachers plan protest to get allowance
SAHIWAL, Oct 28: The Punjab School Education Service Teachers’ Association has criticised the Punjab accountant general for cancelling the mobility allowance of teachers living in small cities and towns and threatened...
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Factory workers thrash 2 robbers
LAHORE, Oct 28: Workers thrashed two robbers during a robbery bid at a garments factory on Bund Road in Lower Mall police precincts on Tuesday....
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Death in accident sparks protest
LAHORE, Oct 28: The killing of a young factory worker by a speeding bus at Lal Pul (Canal Road) stop and ‘late arrival’ of the local police on the spot led...
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Roti plant awaits CDGL patronage
LAHORE, Oct 28: Owner of a local restaurant, who manufactured the first automatic plant for preparing subsidised roti in the city, has been waiting for the city district government’s patronage to use his invention for the benefit of people....
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Lesco allowed to issue fresh tariff for textile mills
LAHORE, Oct 28: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday allowed the Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) to issue a fresh tariff for textile mills, if necessary....
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LHC orders case against sub-inspector
LAHORE, Oct 28: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday ordered registration of a case against a police sub–inspector for illegally detaining two women and subjecting them to torture....
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Loadshedding reduced further
LAHORE, Oct 28: The Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) decided on Tuesday to reduce loadshedding by another hour – seven hours for urban areas and nine hours for rural feeders –...
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FIA regains key wings after 4 years
LAHORE, Oct 28: Regaining the control of its two important wings on Tuesday, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has become ‘all powerful’ once again....
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‘Soft corner for PPP in national interest’
LAHORE, Oct 28: PML-N patron Nawaz Sharif assured party’s women leaders here on Tuesday that he had a soft corner for the PPP only in the larger interest of the country....
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Government employees to protest for a raise
LAHORE, Oct 28: The All Pakistan Government Employees Federation (APGEF) has announced weekly demonstrations and setting up hunger-strike camps at all district headquarters from Dec 17 and Jan 12, respectively, to press for 100 per cent increase in basic pay....
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Demo for release of prisoner
LAHORE, Oct 28: Family of a Pakistani national languishing in an Indian jail has appealed to the president and prime minister to launch diplomatic efforts for his release....
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Samanabad TMO, Wagah TO arrested
LAHORE, Oct 28: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has arrested the Samanabad Town tehsil municipal officer (TMO) and the Wagah Town finance tehsil officer (TO) for embezzling hundreds of thousands of rupees in licence fee....
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