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Balochistan PA condemns US attacks
QUETTA, Nov 14: The Balochistan assembly unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday condemning missile attacks by US and Nato forces on Pakistan’s tribal areas. It urged the federal government to implement... 
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Little relief for domestic consumers: New power tariff
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: A reduction in the power tariff increase will benefit only the industrial sector and domestic consumers using up to 100 units. It does not offer much relief to the rest of households and commercial consumers....
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Glacial lakes pose threat to Gojal villages
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: Passu, Batora, Sheripaigh and Ghulkin glaciers may be the remotest places on earth but they are at the heart of the problem two researchers from Wales are facing...
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PM’s ‘aide’ remanded in police custody
RAWALPINDI, Nov 14: An area magistrate here on Friday remanded a man, claiming to be a close friend of the prime minister, into physical custody of Sadiqabad police for three days for interrogation....
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Chattha group unable to force early party polls
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: Veteran leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q who are campaigning to oust the Chaudhrys of Gujrat from the party leadership appear to be giving up the hope of early party elections....
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Reduction likely in petrol, diesel prices
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: The Ministry of Petroleum is reported to have suggested a 10 to 12 per cent reduction in petrol and diesel prices for the second fortnight of the current...
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Ministry defends Bijarani
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: The Ministry of Education claimed on Friday that the newly appointed Education Minister, Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, had been wrongly implicated in a Wani case, which was duly settled in a court of law in 2006....
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Cambridge fellowship for Aitzaz
LONDON, Nov 14: Aitzaz Ahsan, a leading Pakistani lawyer and politician, has been selected for an honorary fellowship by Downing College, University of Cambridge....
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Jury ‘covers up’ assault case in Faisalabad
FAISALABAD, Nov 14: A local jury has allegedly covered up the case of a girl assaulted by a seminary head in Rasheedabad on Jhang Road, Dawn learnt on Friday....
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LB polls on non-party basis being considered
LARKANA, Nov 14: Pakistan Peoples’ Party was pondering over on holding local bodies’ elections on party or non-party basis, said Sindh Law Minister Ayaz Soomro....
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Anti-privatisation protesters besiege minister’s house
HYDERABAD, Nov 14: Activists of different political parties and OGDCL employees staged separate demonstrations here on Friday to protest against the government’s decision to privatise Qadirpur gas field....
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All workers to get social security cover
LAHORE, Nov 14: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Friday that only 600,000 workers had been registered in the province but a large number of workers left unregistered could not benefit from free treatment facilities at Social Security hospitals....
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Land under library slipping away
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: After Maulana Fazlur Rehman, those running an NGO, Nazarya-i-Pakistan Council (NPC), look losing land doled them out by the Pervez Musharraf-led regime some six years ago....
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SCO subscribers receive inflated bills
HUNZA-NAGAR, Nov 14: Telephone subscribers here have complained that the Special Communication Organisation (SCO) has issued them highly inflated bills....
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Prosecutors case: comments sought from Punjab highups
RAWALPINDI, Nov 14: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench here on Friday issued notices to the Punjab highups, directing them to submit their comments in response to a petition filed...
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Tandoorwalas accuse govt officials of flour theft
RAWALPINDI, Nov 14: On one hand Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif is opening Sasta Tandoors where Roti is being offered for Rs2, while on the other Tandoorwalas in Rawalpindi city are...
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Draft of poverty reduction plan unveiled
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: The government unveiled on Friday the draft of its policy for reducing poverty during 2009-11 through economic liberalisation, deregulation and transparent privatisation....
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India releases 27 Pakistanis
LAHORE, Nov 14: Twenty-seven Pakistani prisoners, who have been released by India, arrived here on Friday through the Wagah border. There are two women among them....
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Quake damage reports submitted
QUETTA, Nov 14: Fourteen teams assessing the damage caused by last month’s earthquake in Balochistan submitted their reports to the provincial government on Friday....
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Judge orders SHO to file FIR on nazim’s plea
HYDERABAD, Nov 14: Additional District Judge-III Hyderabad Khalid Hussain N. Shahani on Friday ordered the SHO to lodge an FIR against PP Parliamentarians MPA, Imdad Pitafi, PPP leader Abdul Sattar Bachani,...
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Eight peasants recovered from illegal captivity
UMERKOT, Nov 14: On the directives of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, police recovered eight peasants from illegal confinement at a farm in the vicinity of Sahban Jo Kot village near here on Friday....
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Growers reject paddy prices
SHIKARPUR, Nov 14: Growers of Shikarpur, like other parts of Sindh, are unhappy with the unilateral decision of grain merchants and rice millers to raise paddy price from Rs500 to Rs600 per 40kg....
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Two JSMM Activists acquitted
HYDERABAD, Nov 14: Anti-Terrorism Court judge Hyderabad Akhlaq Hussain Larik on Friday acquitted two activists of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) in an explosion case for lack of evidence, following conclusion of their trial in central prison Hyderabad....
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Jobless man commits suicide
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Nov 14: A jobless man committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his house in Kandiaro on Friday....
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Nanak’s anniversary
SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 14: Activities in connection with the birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanank concluded in Nankana Sahib early on Friday....
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Three new colleges for girls
MULTAN, Nov 14: Three new girls colleges will start functioning in the city next month, says Multan Director Colleges Tariq Maqbool....
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Polio victim tormentors still at large
SAHIWAL, Nov 14: The family of the polio-stricken lad who suffered torment at the hands of his neighbours is crying foul as the Noor Shah police failed to arrest the culprits even two days after the incident on Friday....
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Commissioner’s post brings dual honour to Sahiwal
SAHIWAL, Nov 14: Tariq Mehmood Khan assumed the charge of first commissioner of the newly-created Sahiwal division here on Friday....
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Kiln workers rally for a raise
TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 14: Brick kiln workers took out a protest rally on Friday to press for the acceptance of their demands....
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Reply sought on Indian flicks
LAHORE, Nov 14: Justice Tariq Shamim of the Lahore High Court on Friday sought comments from the secretaries of ministry of culture and film censor board in a petition against the exhibition of Indian films in local cinemas....
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Lawmakers’ points leave house in disorder
LAHORE, Nov 14: Disorder remained the order of the day in the Punjab Assembly when it met here on Friday around one and-a-half hours late than its scheduled time....
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Shaukat Mazari passes away: Heart attack in assembly
LAHORE, Nov 14: Former deputy speaker of the Punjab Assembly Sardar Shaukat Hussain Mazari died of cardiac arrest during proceedings of the house here on Friday....
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Case against 19, two arrested: Hostel hooliganism
LAHORE, Nov 14: Police on Friday registered a case against 19 people for giving life threats to Punjab University (PU) ‘students and security staff’ and resorting to ‘hooliganism’ on the Old Campus....
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Nepra told to review power tariff
LAHORE, Nov 14: Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court on Friday directed the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) to reconsider increase in power tariff for industrial units and hand down a fresh decision after hearing the stakeholders....
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