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Disciplinary action against engineers promised
QUETTA, Nov 9: Balochistan Minister for Communications and Works Mir Sadiq Umrani assured the provincial assembly on Saturday that the government would take disciplinary action against the civil engineers who had... 
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PML-N relief train due in Quetta today
QUETTA, Nov 9: A special train with 120 bogies carrying relief goods donated by the Punjab chapter of Pakistan Muslim League-N for people affected by the recent earthquake in Ziarat and Pishin will arrive here on Monday....
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Killers of son, father remain untraced
QUETTA, Nov 9: Police have failed to trace the killers of a senior government officer and his father who were gunned down in Satellite Town on Saturday....
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Cold weather in Balochistan
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: Several areas of Balochistan are likely to experience severe cold with temperatures dipping to -9 degrees Celsius over the next three days....
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Eleven injured as runaway train ends up in ditch
GUJAR KHAN, Nov 9: Eleven people were injured when a train en route from Rawalpindi to Sialkot derailed near Gujar Khan station following a brake failure on Sunday, officials and the locomotive driver said....
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Awami Party comes into being
RAWALPINDI, Nov 9: A new political party was born on Sunday and its founder members claimed that it would be different from traditional political parties of the elite as it would...
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Thrashing of official: PSF Punjab chief, nine others booked
RAWALPINDI, Nov 9: The City police on Sunday booked president People’s Students Federation (PSF) Punjab chapter Khalid Nawaz Boby and nine other people on the charge of beating a senior official of the education department....
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Liquor seized
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: The city police have seized large amount liquor during a raid at a house located at F-8/1, police said here on Sunday....
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Two die in accidents
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: Two persons were killed and 17 injured in different accidents at various areas of the city here on Sunday, police said....
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Two arrested
TAXILA, Nov 9: The Punjab food department with the assistance of local police foiled two attempts to smuggle wheat flour from Taxila to NWFP...
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NAB heal thyself: Medical students cry
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: After suffering the sore of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) that had grown on its body for nine years, the Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC) has taken a pain-killer pill....
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Rural women workers seek agrarian reforms
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: Rural women workers have called for introduction of agrarian reforms including limitation of private landholdings and imposition of progressively-scaled agricultural income tax, ensuring that peasant women benefited from the revenues equal to men....
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Teachers on contract to be made permanent
ATTOCK, Nov 9: The Punjab government will eliminate the contract system from the education department by regularising all teachers and will not tolerate any political interference in this crucial sector, Raja...
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Govt studying viability of new districts: Ayaz
LARKANA, Nov 9: Sindh Law Minister Ayaz Soomro said on Sunday that the government was looking into viability of new districts formed by previous governments, on a case to case basis, before taking a final decision....
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Mega drainage projects destroying freshwater lakes: experts
DADU, Nov 9: Water experts, agriculturists and environmentalists believe the RBOD, LBOD and other mega drainage projects have made water in natural sweet-water lakes toxic and adversely affected the economy of the province by damaging the agriculture sector....
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Land revenue recovery postponed in Thar
MITHI, Nov 9: Sindh Relief Commissioner and senior member of the Board of Revenue, Ashfaq Ahmed Memon, arrived here on Sunday to assess the drought situation in Tharparkar district....
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Admission to SALU
KHAIRPUR, Nov 9: The Shah Abdul Latif University has extended the last date for submission of forms for admission to bachelor and masters degree programmes from November 8 to 29....
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Workers plan to shut down oil, gas fields: Qadirpur gas field privatisation
HYDERABAD, Nov 9: Workers of oil and gas fields are planning to call for a shutdown of the fields if the government does not withdraw its decision by Nov 17 to...
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Nationalists plan joint action
HYDERABAD, Nov 9: The Sindh United Party has criticised the government decision to privatise the Qadirpur gas field and decided to host a meeting of nationalist parties in Jamshoro on Monday to evolve a joint strategy on the issue....
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Navy takes over guard duty
LAHORE, Nov 9: A changing of the guard took place at the mausoleum of poet-philosopher Allama Muhammad Iqbal during a ceremony to mark the birthday celebrations of the national poet on Sunday....
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Explosives seized from train passenger
OKARA, Nov 9: Railway police claimed to have seized four hand grenades from a passenger in a Karachi-bound Awam Express near Renala Khurd on Saturday night....
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Detention the price for youth’s loan
SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 9: Sadar police recovered a youth detained by a landlord in his private cell in Kalokey village, some 25 kilometers from here on Sunday....
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Police kit still lacks phone tracking tools: Interior ministry’s slumber
LAHORE, Nov 9: Police have yet to receive positive response from the interior ministry for the provision of facilities like ‘Call Detail Data’ and ‘Location of Cell Phone’ under the Cell...
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Wardens to regulate highways traffic too
FAISALABAD, Nov 9: The Police Department will replace traffic highway police with wardens in all parts of the district, Dawn has learnt....
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Food samples for lab testing missing
GUJRANWALA, Nov 9: The samples of foodstuff from a bakery in Qila Didar Singh have gone missing from the Gujranwala Civil Hospital. Medical Superintendent Dr Ali Muhammad ordered an inquiry into the issue here on Sunday....
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‘Transformer thief’ beaten to death
MUZAFFARGARH, Nov 9: People killed a ‘transformer thief’ after catching him ‘red-handed’ in Shah Jamal Basti of Muzaffargarh tehsil on Sunday....
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Delight for adherents, hazard for motorists
SAHIWAL, Nov 9: Acquisition of a ministry may provide a joy of some moments to supporters, but for motorists, it is not without a menace when they have to wait for the clearance of traffic for some one-and-a-half hour....
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Khar plans his own party
MUZAFFARGARH, Nov 9: Former Punjab governor Ghulam Mustafa Khar has decided to form a new political party and he will make an announcement in this regard in December....
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Procurement of rice under Passco begins
LAHORE, Nov 9: Rice procurement under the arrangements made by the Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Services Corporation (Passco) and rice mills kicked off at selected centres in Punjab on Sunday....
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Depts told to hand over powers to commissioners: ‘It’s decentralization not devolution’
LAHORE, Nov 9: All departments have been asked to immediately shed their powers to divisional commissioners to enable them to closely monitor almost all activities in districts under them, completing in...
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Several nazims, ex-MPs join PML-N
LAHORE, Nov 9: The district government system is not being wrapped up, says adviser to Punjab chief minister Sirdar Zulfikar Khosa at a press conference in which nazims and former parliamentarians from various districts announced their joining of the PML-N....
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