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TTP suspends activities in Mamond
KHAR, Oct 31: Tehrik-i-Taliban has unilaterally suspended its activities in the Mamond area of Bajaur, according to a spokesman of the militia.... 
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Official results of SCBA polls announced
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Official results of the Supreme Court Bar Association’s elections were announced on Friday which showed victorious Ali Ahmed Kurd secured 1,009 votes against 506 of his rival, Mohammad Zafar....
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‘Gender ombudspersons to check sexual harassment’
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The government plans to introduce a bill to check incidents of sexual harassment under which “gender ombudspersons” will be appointed at provincial as well as federal level to...
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Petition on Dr Khan’s detention dismissed
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The Islamabad High Court dismissed on Friday a petition about Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan’s alleged illegal detention, observing that the court had already decided the matter....
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Retraction
Apropos a Rawalpindi datelined news item, headed “SHO’s comments sought in negligence case: doctor’s arrest warrant issued”, published in our issue of Sept 28, 2008, Dr Saleem Ahmed contends that only summons were issued in the case and not arrest warrants....
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Quake survivors block road in protest
QUETTA, Oct 31: People in the quake-affected area of Zandra blocked the Ziarat-Kawas road on Friday in protest against government’s failure to provide relief....
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Altaf calls for ‘national fund’ to avert crisis
KARACHI, Oct 31: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has urged the president and the prime minister set up a national fund for steering the country out of the present financial crisis....
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Survivors still Waiting for help
QUETTA, Oct 31: As a large number of quake survivors were still waiting for shelter in sub-zero temperatures, the Balochistan government claimed on Friday that with the supply of relief goods...
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Saudi Arabia announces $100m aid
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz announced on Friday an aid of $100 million for the quake-affected people of Balochistan....
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President briefed on earthquake relief work
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: President Asif Ali Zardari has ordered emergency arrangements to provide temporary shelter to the people affected by Wednesday’s earthquake in Balochistan before the onset of winter....
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Sost Port loan recovery hits snags
GILGIT, Oct 31: The National Bank of Pakistan which advanced a loan of Rs50 million to Salim Khan, son of Northern Areas Chief Executive Ghazanfar Ali Khan, in his capacity as...
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Govt warned against falling back into ‘IMF trap’
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Leader of the Independent Senators group, Naib Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Senator Prof. Khurshid Ahmed on Friday warned the government against what he said falling back into the IMF trap....
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Touching film on Bajaur homeless screened
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Shot in documentary style, Da Bajaur Guloona or Homeless at Home chronicles little known stories of innocent civilians who have been forced to live as refugees....
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PML-N vows to back lawyers
RAWALPINDI, Oct 31: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will continue supporting the lawyers for restoration of judiciary and will fully participate in their protest on November 3 to mark it as a black day....
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RPO for review of Police Order 2002
RAWALPINDI, Oct 31: Regional Police Officer Nasir Khan Durrani on Friday said the Police Order 2002 needed to be reviewed as it has not given desired results....
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Speakers breathe realism in Pakistan-China ties
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: China has been a great friend of Pakistan but in romanticising that friendship the people and government of Pakistan have lost sight of the fact that in the...
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Three children kidnapped for ransom recovered
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The city police on Friday said they recovered three children, who were kidnapped for ransom, and arrested the culprits, including a woman....
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Recovery may take 10 more years: expert: Quake-hit areas in Kashmir, NWFP
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: A British writer and disaster expert, John Lane, on Friday said complete rehabilitation and reconstruction in the quake-hit areas of Azad Kashmir and NWFP may take another 10 years....
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Hearing of pleas against LGs’ audit put off
RAWALPINDI, Oct 31: The Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench on Friday suspended further proceedings on eleven petitions filed by a number of town nazims against special audits of local governments by the Punjab administration....
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PTV managing director may be shown the door
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: Efforts to have a truce between the federal information minister and the managing director of PTV have failed and people at the helm of affairs are left with...
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PCOs owners told to keep particulars of callers
ISLAMABAD, Oct 31: The city police have directed all the public call offices’ operators to keep particulars of people, who make calls there....
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Ministers to give Rs30m from uplift fund
QUETTA, Oct 31: Balochistan’s Senior Minister Maulana Abdul Wasay has said that ministers belonging to his Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) party will contribute Rs30 million for quake relief from the development fund allocated to them....
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Tribal chief agrees to settle dispute
SUKKUR, Oct 31: Sardar Rahim Bux Bozdar, Pakistan Muslim League (Functional) MPA, and chief of Bozdar tribe was detained by Ghotki police on Friday....
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Police avoiding arrest of attack accused, say teachers
LARKANA, Oct 31: The teaching staff of the Government Degree College, Ratodero, took out a procession in the town on Friday to protest against police failure in arresting the students who...
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Landlord gets SPO suspended: HRCP
MIRPURKHAS, Oct 31: The coordinator of the HRCP’s core group for Mirpurkhas, Kanji Ranomal Bheel, has condemned the suspension of SPO Wahid Khoso of Jam Nawaz Ali and said he that...
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Tasleem’s brother hints at intimidation by ‘influential’
KHAIRPUR, Oct 31: Asif Solangi, the brother of Ms Tasleem Solangi, who was killed in March in the Hajna Shah area, has said that he, his sister and parents were under threat by an influential person of the Hajna Shah area....
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Suspect escapes with handcuffs
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Oct 31: A theft case suspect escaped with handcuffs from the Khan Wahan police station on Friday afternoon....
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Factory fire causes loss in millions
FAISALABAD, Oct 31: A fire broke out in a textile factory on Jaranwala Road, reducing to ashes gray cloth bales worth millions of rupees here on Friday morning....
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Minister sees more inflation coming with IMF loan
SAHIWAL, Oct 31: Experience shows the IMF loan will worsen the already deteriorating economic conditions and bring more inflation and price hike for ordinary citizens, Federal Minister for Labour and Overseas Pakistanis Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah said here on Friday....
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Raza Hiraj acquitted of murder charges
KHANEWAL, Oct 31: A local sessions court has acquitted former state minister Raza Hayat Hiraj and three others, including his brother, of murder of a PPP-backed union council nazim some three years ago....
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Congregation begins in Multan
MULTAN, Oct 31: The three-day annual congregation of Dawat-i-Islami began at Sher Shah, outside the city, after Friday prayers....
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Shahbaz refuses to withdraw case against doctors: FIR section changed
LAHORE, Oct 31: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ‘categorically declined’ to order withdrawal of a case against four doctors and a nurse of the Services Hospital....
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Aitzaz flays big guns for reneging on their word: Restoration of judges
LAHORE, Oct 31: Aitzaz Ahsan, the outgoing president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, on Friday criticised the top politicians for disowning their promise of restoring deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry....
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The quake-hit won’t be left in the lurch: Shahbaz
LAHORE, Oct 31: The Punjab government will spare no effort for the relief of Balochi brethren in their hour of need and the process of provision of assistance will continue till their complete rehabilitation....
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15pc cut in LPG retail prices
LAHORE, Oct 31: The country’s largest liquefied petroleum gas producer, Jamshoro Joint Venture Limited, on Friday announced a 15 per cent cut in the LPG production prices for November and December....
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GCU students set at liberty: LHC summons registrar
LAHORE, Oct 31: The Punjab government has released two students of the Government College University after dropping charges against them under Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act and 506 of PPC....
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