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Senate stunned by sugar mills scam
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: The Senate on Thursday was stunned by revelations made by two PML-Q lawmakers about what they termed the biggest sugar mills scam hitting Sindh.... 
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SC allows CCP to proceed against KSE
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: The Supreme Court allowed the Competition Commission of Pakistan on Thursday to proceed in a case in which the stock exchanges of Lahore and Islamabad have challenged the alleged monopoly of the Karachi Stock Exchange....
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59 employees of OGDC, PPL reinstated
QUETTA, Nov 13: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has reinstated 59 employees of the Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) and Oil and Gas Development Corporation (OGDC) from Balochistan....
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Move to curb defiance of PBC decisions
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: The rules committee of the Pakistan Bar Council has recommended punishment for lawyers, provincial bar councils and bar associations for defying PBC’s rulings....
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Speakers urge strategy for IDPs’ rehabilitation
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: Speakers at a conference here on Thursday stressed the need for a strategic framework for internally-displaced persons (IDPs), affected by conflict, earthquake and flood, whose number has risen...
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Magsi slams govt’s go-ahead for Bhasha Dam
HYDERABAD, Nov 13: The Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party has criticised go-ahead by Ecnec for the construction of Bhasha Dam and said that the Pakistan People’s Party has forgotten all promises it...
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Half-hearted boycott of courts
HYDERABAD, Nov 13: Lawyers partially boycotted courts on Thursday in response to a call for protest given by the National Coordination Council to press the government for the reinstatement of Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and other deposed judges....
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Polio-stricken lad sees beasts in human garb
SAHIWAL, Nov 13: In an act of bestiality, two brothers have chopped off the nose and bruised the left hand and lips of a polio-stricken youth who ‘dared’ to forbade them from teasing his sister....
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VC’s guards fracture leg of student: Operation in PU hostel
LAHORE, Nov 13: Guards of the Punjab University vice-chancellor on Thursday allegedly tortured an Old Campus hostel student fracturing his leg, while a varsity spokesman claimed that he was injured while climbing a wall....
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PPP man in IG house hits police ‘pride’
LAHORE, Nov 13: The allotment of IG’s designated colonial residence in GOR-I to a provincial minister, is hurting the ‘pride’ of police who are taking it as a symbolic first attack...
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20 new ministers after Eid
LAHORE, Nov 13: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has agreed to give 40 per cent share to the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), a junior partner in the alliance ruling Punjab, in...
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Arsenic in Lahore’s water
LAHORE, Nov 13: Arsenic and fluoride contamination pose a growing threat to public health in the city, according to research undertaken by Dr Prof Kauser Jamal Cheema, head of the Environmental...
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Police asked to complete probe into POF attack
RAWALPINDI, Nov 13: An anti-terrorism court here on Thursday directed the station house officer (SHO) Wah police station to complete the investigation into the case of twin suicide blast and submit the charge-sheet against an arrested accused on November 27....
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Clash over petty issue: doctors, nurses on strike
RAWALPINDI, Nov 13: Doctors and nurses at the Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Hospital went on strike after clashing over a petty issue on Thursday night....
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Strict security for Sikh pilgrims
TAXILA, Nov 13: The district police in collaboration with other law-enforcement agencies here on Thursday reviewed a security plan for over 300 Indian Sikh pilgrims arriving on Friday....
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Culture-sensitive strategies can lead to women empowerment
RAWALPINDI, Nov 13: Development strategies that are sensitive to cultural values can reduce harmful practices against women and promote human rights, including gender equality and women’s empowerment, affirms a new United Nations report released on Thursday....
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Call to improve education standard in Northern Areas
HUNZA-NAGAR: Nov 13: The two-day teachers’ convention concluded in Gulmit with the commitment to develop synergies among different educational systems to improve the quality of education in the region....
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Jewellery, cash robbed
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: Robbers have struck at three different places and made off with cash, gold ornaments, valuables and a vehicle, police said here on Thursday....
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Islamabad: a bird-watcher’s paradise
ISLAMABAD, Nov 13: Islamabad often makes the news for suicide attacks, extremism and political upheaval, but for a small band of enthusiasts the city is famous for something very different -- bird-watching....
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Trainees protest ‘unfair’ treatment
JACOBABAD, Nov 13: Internees of the newly-introduced Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Youth Development Programme took out a protest rally here on Thursday against the non-payment of dues and EDO’s reluctance to take them back on duty....
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Academic institutes
HYDERABAD, Nov 13: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan has blamed the rulers and bureaucracy for ‘the destruction of educational institutes of the province’....
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Six booked in rape case
UMERKOT, Nov 13: Police on the directives of sessions judge, registered a rape case against six accused here on Thursday....
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RPO ordered to recover kidnapped children
LARKANA, Nov 13: The Larkana circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Thursday gave three days time to Sukkur RPO Mohammed Ramzan Channa to recover four children kidnapped from their...
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Doctors operated upon healthy eye: patient
HYDERABAD, Nov 13: As senior ophthalmologists urged their colleagues, during a recently held ophthalmology conference, to take utmost care of patients during surgical interventions, there appeared an appalling report on November...
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MPA joins protest
MITHI, Nov 13: An MPA along with a large number of people from the villages of Chhachhro taluka staged a sit-in outside the press club here on Thursday in protest against police failure to arrest people nominated in a murder FIR....
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Accidental fire kills man
SANGHAR, Nov 13: Former General Manager of the Pakistan Railways Yaqoob Ali Zardari died in an accidental fire in Jhando Khan Zardari village near Sarhari on Thursday....
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Kidnappers kill boy before their arrest
NAROWAL, Nov 13: The Narowal police on Thursday arrested two culprits who had killed a boy kidnapped for ransom when his father reported the matter to the police....
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Kiln owner, outlaw die in robbery bid
TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 13: Robbers killed a brick kiln owner and one of their own accomplices in a robbery bid on Thursday in a robbery in Chak 191-GB, 30 kilometres from here, the family of the deceased kiln owner says....
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Clerks’ demo at CM Secretariat on 18th
BAHAWALPUR, Nov 13: The All Pakistan Clerks Association (Apca), Punjab chapter, has announced a demonstration outside Chief Minister’s Secretariat in Lahore on Nov 18 to press for the acceptance of their demands....
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Dengue case
MULTAN, Nov 13: One dengue case was confirmed at Nishtar Hospital here on Thursday, hospital officials say....
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Kissan Mela concludes
SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 13: Special Secretary (irrigation) Javed Akhtar says the government has earmarked Rs250 billion for agriculture industries in the country while Rs190 billion have been reserved for Punjab....
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Pro-VC protest continues at GCUF
FAISALBAD, Nov 13: The Government College University Faisalabad’s teachers, non-teaching staff and hundreds of male and female students continued their protest on third consecutive day on Thursday....
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Child hurt for breaching ‘begging domain’
MUZAFFARGARH, Nov 13: A child beggar was injured by other beggars here on Wednesday near Sher Shah Chenab bridge for ‘violating the domain’....
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Rly minister sets out priorities
LAHORE, Nov 13: Safety of passengers, replacement of obsolete assets, reduction in deficit and overdraft will be priorities of Railway Minister Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour....
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UAF forms teams to supervise students
FAISALABAD, Nov 13: The University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) has constituted teams to supervise performance and guidance of students sent to different parts of the province for farmers’ training in connection with the wheat sowing....
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Two key officers among 10 reshuffled
LAHORE, Nov 13: In yet another major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Punjab government on Thursday changed over 10 officials, including Secretary Services Fawad Hasan Fawad and Local Government Secretary Khwaja Muhammad Naeem....
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Another bomb hoax at LHC
LAHORE, Nov 13: The police and the bomb disposal squad searched the Lahore High Court building on Thursday when an unidentified caller told Police Rescue 15 that a bomb had been planted on court premises....
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Yet another Thursday protest goes by
LAHORE, Nov 13: The lawyers’ weekly protest rally blasted President Asif Ali Zardari and the judges who took oath under the Provisional Constitution Order issued on Nov 3, 2007 -- the day Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule in the country....
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