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French lawmakers oppose attacks inside Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Two visiting French parliamentarians have urged the international community to respect Pakistan’s sovereignty because the country is playing a vital role in the war against terror.... 
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Tax officials asked to settle default cases
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: The Public Accounts Committee asked tax officials on Wednesday to settle cases of tax default of billions of rupees in three months....
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Loadshedding to end by Dec next year: minister
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf has said that loadshedding will end by December next year....
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Political workers’ help sought in quake relief
QUETTA, Nov 5: Frontier Corps Inspector-General Maj-Gen Saleem Nawaz has said that political workers are creating hurdles in earthquake relief operation by stopping their rivals from going to areas of their influence....
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Government to reinstate over 6,000 employees: Relief for textile industry
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: The federal cabinet has decided in principle to reinstate over 6,000 government employees who had been provided jobs by the Pakistan People’s Party government but were sacked after its dismissal in 1996....
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Cabinet expansion illogical: PML-N
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Pakistan Muslim League-N lashed out at the government on Wednesday for inducting an army of ministers and advisers in the federal cabinet and termed it illogical and unjust...
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Compensation for Balochistan quake victims
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani announced on Wednesday that the government would pay Rs300,000 for each person killed in the recent earthquake in Balochistan and Rs100,000 to each of the injured....
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Govt’s privatisation plan criticised
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Senator Prof Khurshid Ahmed of the Jamaat-i-Islami has criticised the government’s plan to privatise some state-owned enterprises for raising funds to overcome the balance of payment crisis....
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Three militants killed
PESHAWAR, Nov 5: Three Taliban militants were killed on Wednesday when a roadside bomb they were planting exploded in a restive valley of Swat, police said....
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150 ‘missing’ children: court issues notices to ministries
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) here on Wednesday issued notices to the ministry of interior and the ministry of foreign affairs in a petition filed by Barrister Mohammad...
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Assault on FGSH doctors: attackers counter attack
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: In the latest twist in the incident of assault on Federal Government Services Hospital (FGHS) doctors, the daughter-in-law of the National Assembly deputy secretary has lodged two complaints...
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HEC shelves future scholarships: Cut in funds
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has shelved all its future scholarships after the government imposed major cuts on its annual budgetary allocations, reliable sources told Dawn....
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Govt warned against imposing curbs on media
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Journalists of Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Wednesday asked the government to refrain from imposing curbs on media and ensure implementation of 7th wage award....
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PAL to promote progressive ideals, says Fakhar Zaman
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: Prominent Punjabi novelist and the newly appointed Chairman of Pakistan Academy of Letters PAL, Fakhar Zaman has expressed his resolve to make...
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Implementation of Saarc Social Charter reviewed
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: The third meeting of the heads of National Coordination Committees of SAARC Social Charter concluded here Wednesday after adopting its report for the prosperity of the region....
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Kidnapped girl recovered
ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: The Shahzad Town police recovered a four-year-old girl kidnapped from the city on July 7....
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Call for changes in jail manual
HYDERABAD, Nov 5: The demand for a new jail manual was made during a seminar as speakers termed the existing one lacking in addressing jail conditions where under trial prisoners pass...
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40 bonded Labourers freed
HYDERABAD, Nov 5: Additional District Judge-III here on Wednesday ordered release of 40 kiln workers, who were produced before the court by Hatri police in response to an earlier court order....
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Three arrested for holding jirga
SUKKUR, Nov 5: Police on Tuesday arrested three people on charges of holding jirga and issuing life threats to a couple for marrying of their own free will some five months ago....
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Ex-cop stopped from torching himself
LARKANA, Nov 5: People rescued a sacked policeman who attempted to torch himself near DIG office on Wednesday out of sheer desperation and frustration....
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Encroachment on historical school removed
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Nov 5: The district administration swung into action and demolished six shops, one katcha house and a small park constructed at the playground of historical Government Madressah and High School here on Wednesday morning....
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Drop in prices of paddy irks growers
LARKANA, Nov 5: A large number of growers and members of general public held a demonstration under the banner of Sindh Abadgar Board at Koto-Moto Chowk in Shahdadkot on Wednesday in...
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Four books published
HYDERABAD, Nov 5: The Sindhi Abadi Board has published four books and three journals....
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Jubilation fire takes life of PPP leader’s friend
FAISALABAD, Nov 5: The jubilation firing to accord a warm welcome to PPP Punjab president Rana Aftab Ahmad cost him the life of his friend and an industrialist here on Wednesday....
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Rescue 1122 tests job applicants’ patience
SAHIWAL, Nov 5: Applicants have complaints about the process of submitting applications for 54 jobs advertised by Rescue 1122, Sahiwal office. So far 1,110 applicants have applied for the jobs....
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First woman to become SP in Dera
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Nov 5: Ms Safia Begum is the first woman to have become a superintendent police in this male-dominated part of Punjab. She has been appointed SP of Punjab Highways Patrol, Dera Ghazi Khan....
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PEFMA chairman, EC members on war path: Rejection of nomination papers
GUJRAT, Nov 5: Serious differences have cropped up between the incumbent chairman of the Pakistan Electric Fans Manufacturers Association and its election commission members after the rejection of nomination papers of...
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Life time ban on D&SJ entry into Toba bar
TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 5: The district bar association has banned the entry of district and sessions judge Jalaluddin Akbar for life in Toba bar and decided to write to the...
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Teachers’ protest drive from today
MULTAN, Nov 5: The Punjab Teachers’ Union (PTU) will launch a protest campaign from Thursday (today) if the government does not fulfill their demands....
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Four hurt in roof collapse
LAHORE, Nov 5: Three children and a teenaged girl suffered injuries when the roof of their small house collapsed on Captain Jamal Road in Zaman Park, rescuers said....
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Cleric shot dead
KHUSHAB, Nov 5: The amir of Tehrik Khatam-i-Nabuat, Quaidabad, Maulana Qari Mohmmad Ismail, was shot dead in Chenabnagar near Joharabad on Tuesday night....
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Rally against ‘political victimisation’
LAYYAH, Nov 5: Peasants and activists of Jamaat-i-Islami took out a rally to protest price-hike, electricity outages and alleged political victimisation at the hands of local police, here on Wednesday....
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Package
LAHORE, Nov 5: Punjab Chief Minister’s Task Force on Industrial Development and SMEs chairman Yawar Irfan Khan has announced a package of incentives for Punjab Small Industries Corporation (PSIC) borrowers....
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LHC grills top officials over courtroom lock
LAHORE, Nov 5: A seven member bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the Punjab chief secretary, home secretary and inspector general of police to take a strict action...
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Lahorites react with cautious optimism: Obama’s election
LAHORE, Nov 5: Lahorites reacted with a mixture of relief and cautious optimism to the election of Barack Obama, the first Afro-American president-elect of the United States, on Wednesday....
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Shahbaz’s security expenses resented
LAHORE, Nov 5: People are committing suicides due to poverty while Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is spending Rs200 million of taxpayers money on his security paraphernalia....
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Task forces, drug courts to check spurious drugs
LAHORE, Nov 5: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered constitution of three special task forces, beside establishment of nine drug courts for checking business of spurious medicines....
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‘No extra spending’
LAHORE, Nov 5: A Punjab government spokesman has said that no decision has been made for spending an additional amount on chief minister’s security and the allegations levelled in a press conference in this regard are baseless....
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Shujaat supports grand national reconciliation
LAHORE, Nov 5: Ruling out the PML-Q ‘merger with any party’, Chaudhry Shujaat Husain on Wednesday called for grand national reconciliation for solving the problems afflicting the country....
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