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Task force to pinpoint loopholes: Social sector projects
ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: The Planning Commission has constituted a 21-member task force to review the social sector programmes and pinpoint the loopholes in them.... 
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2,500kg wheat flour seized
ATTOCK, Nov 2: The Rangu police on Sunday foiled a bid to smuggle wheat flour from Punjab to NWFP through a river route near Ghari Matani village and seized 50 bags of the staple food....
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Study for setting up economic zone completed
RAWALPINDI, Nov 2: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has completed the feasibility study for the setting up an economic zone outside the city limits where some business activities would shifted to...
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Some see money in adversity
ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: Adversity is seen as opportunity by some and for the corrupt in the city police the present atmosphere heavy with fear is nothing more....
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3 proclaimed offenders held
TAXILA, Nov 2: The Wah Cantonment police claimed to have arrested three proclaimed offenders on Sunday....
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Inflation drives many into beggary
ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: The unbridled inflation in the country has swelled the ranks of beggars in the cities, including the federal capital....
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First Haj flight leaves with 461 pilgrims
ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: Pakistan International Airline’s (PIA) first Haj flight PK-1201, carrying 461 pilgrims left for Saudi Arabia from Benazir Bhutto International Airport here on Sunday....
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Shujaat seeks early resolution of water dispute
ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: Pakistan Muslim League-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has called for resolving the water sharing dispute between India and Pakistan under the Indus Water Treaty and warned that failure...
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Transparent use of relief aid urged
QUETTA, Nov 2: Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party Chairman Mahmood Khan Achakzai has called for transparent use of relief funds in quake-hit areas of Ziarat and Pishin....
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Debate sought on IMF conditions
ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: The Punjab chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Q, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, has demanded that conditions set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout package should be debated in parliament....
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More aftershocks likely in quake-hit areas
ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: There is a probability of more aftershocks striking Balochistan’s quake-hit areas over the next “four or five days”, says Director-General of the Pakistan Meteorological Department Qamaruz Zaman Chaudhry....
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21 Pakistanis deported
QUETTA, Nov 2: Iran’s border security forces on Sunday arrested 21 Pakistanis and handed them over to authorities in Taftan, police sources told APP on phone....
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Students seek reopening of schools
MINGORA, Nov 2: A large number of students from Koza Bandai area of Swat held a demonstration on Sunday demanding reopening of schools in the militancy-hit Kabal tehsil....
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Kidnappers release journalist’s father
HYDERABAD, Nov 2: Jam Nawab Hussain Samoon, father of senior journalist Lala Rehman, returned home early on Sunday morning amid police claim that the arrest of two members of the kidnappers’...
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Farmers assail IMF terms for loan
HYDERABAD, Nov 2: The Sindh Abadgar Board has rejected the government proposal for obtaining $5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund and cautioned that if the government does not change...
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Police grill three in Tasleem murder case
KHAIRPUR, Nov 2: Khairpur and Pir jo Goth police are interrogating three people taken into custody in connection with the murder of Tasleem Solangi. Police are also raiding different places for other accused....
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Jobs being sold, allege PPP activists
DADU, Nov 2: A large number of activists of Pakistan People’s Party staged a demonstration in Mehar on Sunday to protest against ‘sale’ of jobs in police and population welfare departments....
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PPP MPs skive off workers’ convention
MUZAFFARGARH, Nov 2: All except one MNA and MPA belonging to the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) did not attend annual workers’ convention held at the District Council Hall here on Saturday evening....
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Loadshedding: Bahawalpur in the dark
BAHAWALPUR, Nov 2: Unscheduled loadshedding revisited the city and its suburbs on Sunday after a one-day break. Multan Electric Supply Company (Lesco) consumers experienced unannounced power breakdowns with four hours intervals on Sunday which affected business and routine life....
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FCCI election fee up by Rs20,000: Members upset over ‘unilateral’ move
FAISALABAD, Nov 2: Most of Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) members, especially small traders, are in a fix after a 400 per cent increase in the election fee by...
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Patient dies as ambulance gets stuck
MUZAFFARGARH, Nov 2: A patient died when the ambulance carrying him was stuck in a traffic jam near Muzaffargarh Thermal Power Station on Sunday....
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Woman, pets killed in ammonia cylinder blast
MULTAN, Nov 2: A woman and scores of pets were killed after an ammonia cylinder exploded at an ice factory spreading poisonous gas that also left 10 people, including five children, unconscious in the city on Sunday....
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A ‘towering’ robbery
SIALKOT, Nov 2: A gang of five dacoits took away the machinery of a mobile company’s tower worth Rs1.2 million at gunpoint on Saturday night at Kassowala-Satrah, Daska....
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Kidnapped boy recovered
SIALKOT, Nov 2: The Sialkot police on Sunday recovered a minor boy who had been kidnapped for ransom 24 hours back in front of his house in city’s congested Rangpura locality....
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No office, no work but still called officer
KASUR, Nov 2: District community organisation officers are drawing salaries without any assignments as the Punjab government has yet to notify their proposed job description, Dawn has learnt....
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Many people ‘turn down’ anti-polio vaccine
TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 2: Scores of parents of children under five have refused anti-polio vaccination for their children in the district, a health department official told Dawn on Sunday....
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Hospitals told to arrange blood ‘on their own’: Private banks come under fire
LAHORE, Nov 2: The Punjab government has made it mandatory for all public hospitals to arrange blood for patients ‘on their own’ instead of sending them to private (blood) banks for the purpose....
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PEC directors for fresh summary on project
LAHORE, Nov 2: The Punjab Entertainment Company board of directors, which has met for the first time under the PML-N government, has brushed aside the opinion of ‘hawks’ among the regime...
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Junior official gets coveted sports post
LAHORE, Nov 2: The Punjab government has appointed a BPS-18 officer to work as director general of the Directorate Sports Punjab on a current charge basis, a BPS-20 post, while bypassing...
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Shahbaz’s security to cost Punjab Rs200m
LAHORE, Nov 2: Punjab government is likely to spend over Rs200 million from provincial exchequer to purchase latest equipment for chief minister’s security, Dawn has learnt....
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CM transfers Tepa chief engineer
LAHORE, Nov 2: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has transferred the Traffic Engineering and Traffic Planning Agency (Tepa) chief engineer for not getting the third party audit of the Walton Road project despite his clear instructions....
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Partymen stunned: ‘Fazl in land scam’
LAHORE, Nov 2: The JUI-F leaders and activists are stunned at the land scam reported against their chief, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, as elders of other politico-religious parties are avoiding to directly comment on it....
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‘Dist nazim’s signatures on budget book mandatory’
LAHORE, Nov 2: Controller General of Accounts of Pakistan Mohammad Mohsin Khan has said that district accounts officers (DAOs) are not authorised for any kind of payment if the concerned district...
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Korea offers help in teachers’ training
LAHORE, Nov 2: Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer has said the government is providing all possible protection to foreign investment....
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