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Outage ends in cities, claims Pepco
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: The Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) claimed on Saturday that loadshedding had come to an end in cities.... 
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Financial crunch hits Islamabad’s uplift
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is unlikely to implement the uplift projects it had announced in its 2008-09 budget due to the worldwide financial crisis....
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Jamshed Gulzar Kiani dies
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: Former Corp Commander Rawalpindi (10 Corps) Lt General (retired) Jamshed Gulzar Kiani died on Saturday after protracted illness....
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Marriott bomber stayed at Shifa College of Medicine
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: In a significant breakthrough the investigators of the Marriott blast have traced movement of a key suspect and possible suicide attacker....
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Lawyers stage car rally in Rawalpindi
RAWALPINDI, Nov 1: Lawyers here on Saturday staged a car rally which passed through different roads of the city aimed at mobilising people for November 3 march towards the Supreme Court....
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Man commits suicide
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: A man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan because of family dispute, police said here on Saturday....
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Dengue fever
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1: The health ministry has decided to alter its strategy to counter cases of dengue fever. It will now launch an awareness campaign about the disease....
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Sugarcane growers switching over to other crops
HYDERABAD, Nov 1: It is quite rare for the Sindh government to announce start of sugarcane crushing in November and that too, with the difference of only Re1 in comparison to Punjab - normally ranging between Rs3-4....
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Dist court evacuated after bomb hoax
LARKANA, Nov 1: Personnel of police, rangers and bomb disposal squad evacuated building of the district and sessions court on Saturday after a court official received a phone call, cautioning him about a bomb in the building....
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Lawyers, APDM to observe black day tomorrow
HYDERABAD, Nov 1: Leaders of the Lawyers Movement Action Committee and APDM announced on Saturday that the lawyers, component parties of APDM and members of civil society would observe ‘black day’...
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Journalists protest kidnapping
HYDERABAD, Nov 1: A large number of journalists belonging to print and electronic media held a big rally on Saturday on a call given by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists...
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Tharparkar be declaredcalamity-hit: DCO
MITHI, Nov 1: Tharparkar DCO Samiuddin Siddiqui has urged the senior member of the Board of Revenue and Sindh Relief Commissioner to declare the entire district as calamity-hit area excepting Bhitaro, Serhi, Kaloi, Dodharo, Phant Naukot and Wasaipoto....
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Indian Navy arrests seven Pakistani fishermen
THATTA, Nov 1: Indian Naval Task Force impounded fishing vessels with catch and seven fishermen onboard near Kajhar Creek in the Pakistani territorial limits early on Saturday morning, according to Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum....
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Hepatitis rising in Jacobabad
JACOBABAD, Nov 1: Cases of Hepatitis-B and C are increasing in the district and as per reports, 45 per cent people are suffering from the disease in Jacobabad and its adjoining villages....
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Aid for quake victims
HYDERABAD, Nov 1: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil said on Saturday that tents and edibles were being dispatched to the earthquake victims of Balochistan, which had been purchased from Rs5 million donated by the district government and city and Latifabad talukas....
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NGOs join hands against landlord
MIRPURKHAS, Nov 1: A large number of activists of Hari Mazdoor Ittehad, Nojawan Sindh Samaji Sangat, HRCP, Shaheen Development Organisation and Bhandar Welfare Association held a rally on Saturday to express...
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Rs265m sought to rebuild 115 dilapidated schools
LARKANA, Nov 1: The district’s education works department has declared 115 buildings of schools and colleges as dangerous, dilapidated and in serious need of repairs, and warned that delay in their repairs can culminate in a mishaps and tragedies....
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Woman killed in crossfire between robbers, villagers
SUKKUR, Nov 1: A woman was killed and her mother-in-law was injured in a crossfire between robbers and villagers near Ghazi Khan Mangnejo village in the limits of 20-Mile police station in the katcha area of Bagarji late on Friday night....
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Minister urges fairness in distribution of zakat
SHIKARPUR, Nov 1: Provincial Minister for Zakat and Ushr, Mohammad Sajid Jokhio, has said that the Sindh government was determined to redress the grievances of the people and resolve their problems at their door steps....
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Committee formed to run hospital
MIRPURKHAS, Nov 1: A committee has been set up to run the affairs of Mirpurkhas Civil Hospital after civil surgeon Dr Roshan Ali Bhatti was sent on forced leave of seven days....
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Woman shot dead in name of honour
SUKKUR, Nov 1: A woman was gunned down by armed men reportedly over a karo-kari dispute in Ganj Ali Jatoi village in the limits of Bagarji police limits near here on Saturday....
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Tenders for 36 road projects cancelled
FAISALABAD, Nov 1: The Punjab government has ordered cancellation of tenders and work orders of construction of several roads in this district after reports indicating corruption of millions of rupees emerged,...
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Heavy price for casting off aged husband
FAISALABAD, Nov 1: Police recovered a girl allegedly chained by her parents and relatives for her refusal to live with her aged husband from an outhouse in Baghbanpura here on Saturday....
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Eve-teasers shoot girl
SAHIWAL, Nov 1: Two gangsters shot dead a girl who reportedly refused to go with them as they desired on Friday evening....
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Kidnapped traders released
OKARA, Nov 1: Two traders, who were abducted eight days ago for Rs20 million ransom, were released in Mardan on the intervention of Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) representatives....
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Growers block traffic: Paddy price ‘crisis’
GUJRANWALA, Nov 1: Paddy growers on Saturday blocked GT Road at Kamoki in protest against commission agents of the grain market who were not purchasing their crop at ‘suitable’ price....
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Official patronage blamed for wheat smuggling
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Nov 1: Smuggling of wheat, flour, seed and fertilizers is going on without any check from the tribal area of Tuman Qaisrani to the NWFP and Balochistan with...
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Demo for arrest of ‘killer extortionists’
FAISALABAD, Nov 1: Following the killing of a man by alleged extortionists at Chak Jhumra, locals staged a protest demonstration, carrying the victim’s body, outside the District Council here on Saturday, besides blocking traffic on Sessions Court Road....
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Two more polio cases confirmed
GUJRANWALA, Nov 1: Health officials on Saturday confirmed two more polio cases, one each in Gujranwal and Toba Tek Singh districts....
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House job doctors’ stipend up by 50pc
LAHORE, Nov 1: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has announced a 50 per cent increase in the remuneration of doctors doing house job and of postgraduate trainees, constituting a committee to submit...
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Case against lawyers for beating cop
LAHORE, Nov 1: Naseerabad police registered a case against two lawyers and their unidentified colleagues for allegedly thrashing a policeman at Model Town Courts on Saturday....
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Youth shot dead in Misri Shah
LAHORE, Nov 1: A 24-year-old man was shot dead allegedly by an unidentified car rider at Neelam Cinema Chowk of Misri Shah on Saturday....
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Eight Camp Jail officials consigned to dist prisons
LAHORE, Nov 1: The provincial prisons minister on Saturday transferred a deputy superintendent of the Camp Jail, who was found guilty of torturing a number of prisoners and shifting them to small (torture) cells from ordinary barracks....
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