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Rs15bn dam, irrigation projects approved
ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: The government has approved Rs12.963 billion for rehabilitation of irrigation and drainage systems in Sindh and Rs2.15 billion for construction of 20 delay action dams in Balochistan.... 
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Renaming of NAB on the cards
ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: The government is considering renaming of National Accountability Bureau with a fresh legislation because the present name symbolises an era of ‘political victimisation’....
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Pakistani Lawmakers in UK
LONDON, Nov 7: A 14-member parliamentary delegation from Pakistan is currently visiting the UK at the invitation of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, on a week-long orientation programme....
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Varsity opens after students agree on code of conduct
QUETTA, Nov 7: The Balochistan University reopened after three weeks on Friday, following an agreement between the university administration and representatives of student organisations and political parties on a 24-point code of conduct....
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Varsity not damaged by quake: VC
QUETTA, Nov 7: The vice-chancellor of the Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences has denied reports that the university building was damaged by the recent earthquake....
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Death penalty
QUETTA, Nov 7: The Dera Allahyar sessions judge has sentenced a man to death in a murder case....
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PAC orders special audit of Wapda, Pepco
ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Friday ordered “special audit” of the accounts of the Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) and the Water and Power Development Authority over Rs2.35...
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Mahmoud Haroon laid to rest
KARACHI, Nov 7: Veteran politician and Chairman of the Dawn Media Group Mahmoud A. Haroon, who died on Thursday after a protracted illness, was laid to rest on Friday alongside his...
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Political parties to strengthen women’s participation
ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: Representatives of women wings from five major political parties have agreed to work together to strengthen their units and institutionalise positions for women in their parties’ decision-making bodies....
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Broadband: govt asked to focus on rural areas
ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: Speakers at an open dialogue urged government on Friday to focus on rural areas as far as broadband proliferation is concerned because e-government and e-health could play pivotal role in their progress....
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No clue to missing doctor, IHC told
ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: The crisis management cell of the interior ministry on Friday informed the Islamabad High Court that they have found no clue to the whereabouts of a missing doctor,...
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Minister steps in as doctors’ protest grows bigger
ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: Health Minister Ejaz Jhakrani has decided to probe the beating up of two doctors in a city hospital as the agitation by the doctors over the incident continued...
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Provision of gas to Murree rural areas still a dream
MURREE, Nov 7: The rural areas of Murree are yet to receive gas facility although the provincial government and Tehsil Municipal Administration have made promises in this regard....
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Pedestrian killed, jeweller robbed
ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: A pedestrian was killed after being run over by a vehicle here on Friday, police said....
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IIU staff still not paid 20pc pay raise
ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: The employees of the International Islamic University (IIU) are yet to get the 20 per cent pay raise announced in the federal budget of the current financial year....
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Kiyun: ghazals with a contemporary beat
ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: Kiyun (why) is Shahzad Sharjeel’s first collection of ghazals, a form he uses with dexterity to explore themes that traditionally fall outside the ambit of this genre....
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1m houses for low-paid workers promised
RAWALPINDI, Nov 7: Federal Minister for Defence, Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar has said that the present government was committed to amelioration of common man....
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Qadirpur workers plan protest
SUKKUR, Nov 7: The federal government has given its approval to privatise Qadirpur gas field while workers union is all set to embark upon a long-term strategy of protesting the move....
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PPP activists occupy nazim office
HYDERABAD, Nov 7: PPP activists under the leadership of the chairman of District Development Board, occupied the office of district nazim, prompting the latter to move Hyderabad sessions court and other government functionaries for action....
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Woman sells off daughter
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Nov 7: Yet in another heartless deal, a four-year- old girl, after being taken away by her own mother, was sold twice and eventually wedded to a 22-year-old man....
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Unpublished verses of Shahs being compiled
THATTA, Nov 7: A group of poetry lovers in India are compiling unpublished verses of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai and Shah Karim Bulri Waro and the anthology will be launched during the next Urs celebrations of the latter....
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Police assault leaves spectator dead: Cockfight ‘gambling’
SAHIWAL, Nov 7: The penchant for watching a cockfight drove a man to his grave on Friday as police resorted to a baton-charge on close to 300 people on a report...
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Contaminated water in areas hit by gastroenteritis
FAISALABAD, Nov 7: The Institute of Public Health (IPH), Lahore, and the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) laboratory have declared the water being supplied to Chiragh Town and its adjacent locality unfit for human consumption, Dawn learnt on Friday....
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Man kills sister
KASUR, Nov 7: A man slaughtered his sister reportedly in the name of honour in the limits of Changa Manga police here on Friday....
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Arrested
MIANWALI, Nov 7: Police arrested three notorious absconders in different raids from Marmandi, situated in the footsteps of Salt Range mountains, 25 km from here, on Friday....
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38 seed graders installed in Faisalabad
FAISALABAD, Nov 7: The district government has installed 38 seed graders to clean eight million kilogramme of seeds, Agriculture (extension) Director General Anjum Ali said this at a department meeting here on Friday....
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Farmers for crackdown on water thieves
JHANG, Nov 7: Farmers cultivating lands at the tail-ends of canals and distributaries have demanded that the higher authorities ensure supply of canal water to their fields by cracking down on the landlords involved in water theft....
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Notice to Interpol for arrest of ‘felon’
GUJRAT, Nov 7: The Gujrat police issued the international red notice to the Interpol for the arrest and extradition of Shehbaz Ahmed from Denmark, who had allegedly plotted the murder of...
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Two robbers killed
FAISALABAD, Nov 7: Police claimed on Friday killing two robbers in a ‘shootout’ in Mansoorabad....
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800 wheat bags mixed with sand seized
LAYYAH, Nov 7: The district administration has seized 800 bags of wheat mixed with sand and straws from Jamal Chapari purchasing centre of the food department here on Friday....
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No land for Bulleh Shah project
KASUR, Nov 7: The Rs300 million project of the reconstruction of Hazrat Baba Bulleh Shah’s shrine has been delayed for more than seven years as the government has failed to convince...
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Four litigants shot dead outside court
SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 7: Four people were gunned down and another 13 injured, six of them seriously, by assailants in front of the Ferozewala court on Friday....
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Court lockup case put off for indefinite period
LAHORE, Nov 7: A seven-member bench of the Lahore High Court adjourned for an indefinite time suo motu proceedings into locking of courtrooms after the Punjab government submitted details of the action taken against the responsible....
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HRCP criticises death in cyber crimes
LAHORE, Nov 7: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed its dismay over the government’s prescribing the death penalty for those involved in cyber-crimes....
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BSF helping entrepreneurs
LAHORE, Nov 7: The Business Support Fund (BSF) has committed Rs280 million to 750 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country, BSF Chief Executive Officer Badr Hashemi said at a...
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‘Stern action against unqualified drug makers’
LAHORE, Nov 7: Dr Asad Ashraf, the chairman of the Punjab Chief Minister’s Task Force on Spurious Drugs, has said the government will take a stern action against unqualified drug manufacturers tarnishing the image of the pharmaceutical industry for petty gains....
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Three die owing to suffocation
LAHORE, Nov 7: A man, his wife and their two-year-old daughter died from suffocation when a fire broke out in their house in Gulshan-i-Ravi here on Friday....
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Human capital, not buildings’
LAHORE, Nov 7: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Friday the government was committed to promoting technical education so as to produce skilled workforce which could help the country earn foreign exchange....
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