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PML-N opposes decision to obtain loan from IMF
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: The Pakistan Muslim League-N has criticised the government’s decision to obtain loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and said it proved that the economic plans of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had failed.... 
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Double trouble for Balochistan’s quake survivors
QUETTA, Nov 15: The cold weather gripping Quetta and other northern parts of Balochistan has compounded problems of the already grief-stricken people affected by last month’s earthquake....
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Nine militants killed in Swat clashes
MINGORA, Nov 15: Nine militants, including a local Taliban commander, were killed and 15 others injured in clashes with security forces in Swat on Saturday....
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Fazl defends IMF loan, cabinet expansion
QUETTA, Nov 15: JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has defended the federal government move to seek IMF loan to replenish fast depleting foreign exchange reserves, saying in a critical situation there is nothing wrong in obtaining loan from international financial institutions....
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CDA looks up to president for financial assistance
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: The city managers will give a detailed briefing to President Asif Ali Zardari on the federal capital on Nov 19 and seek financial help to bail out the...
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Minister sees 40 per cent shortage of irrigation water
KHAIRPUR, Nov 15: Provincial Minister for Irrigation Jam Saifullah Dharejo has said that there is a possibility of 35 to 40 per cent shortage of irrigation water during Rabi season due to which water rotation programme would be implemented strictly....
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Mumtaz lashes out at govt for failing to contain crisis
HYDERABAD, Nov 15: The government should resign for failing to pull the country out of crisis, demanded Chief of Sindh National Front (SNF) Sardar Mumtaz Ali Khan Bhutto....
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PM blames foreigners for violence
MULTAN, Nov 15: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said there is no question about the sincerity of tribesmen and only a handful of foreign terrorists, including Saudis, Afghanis, Uzbeks and Chechens, are responsible for turbulence in the country....
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‘Corrupt rulers afraid of independent judiciary’
GUJRANWALA, Nov 15: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said the rulers did not reinstate deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry because they were all corrupt and afraid of an independent judiciary....
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Torture of GCUF guard:12 booked
FAISALABAD, Nov 15: Police on Saturday registered a case against a dozen boys, including two students of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF), who tortured a Government College University security guard during their demonstration for reinstatement of an official....
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SC to start hearing on 18th: Lal Masjid operation
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: The Supreme Court will start hearing from Tuesday an appeal against the Islamabad High Court’s rejection of a plea by a private citizen seeking registration of a criminal...
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Man strangles wife
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: A man strangulated his wife to death over a domestic issue, police said here on Saturday....
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Roti and the political games
Hunger is central to the relationship between the politicians and the poor and that explains the politics and popularity of the ‘Sasti Roti’ in Punjab these days....
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Babar promises uniform Education system
RAWALPINDI, Nov 15: Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan on Saturday said the government was making efforts to introduce uniform education system....
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Windfall of Rs4m worries PTV
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: Pakistan Television (PTV) administration is investigating the sudden appearance of Rs4 million in its accounts....
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Hospital clash: report sent to CM
RAWALPINDI, Nov 15: The three-member committee constituted to probe into the Thursday clash between doctors and nurses at Benazir Bhutto Hospital has sent its findings to Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif....
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Property dealer missing for the last two days
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: A property dealer has been missing from Islamabad for the last two days, police said on Saturday....
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Constables’ recruitment: only 102 pass written test
ATTOCK, Nov 15: Only 102 candidates including a female could pass the written test for appointment as police constables against 219 posts, it has been learnt....
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Elected members sceptical about commissioners
RAWALPINDI, Nov 15: Commissioner of Rawalpindi Division Haseeb Athar’s assurance that re-introduction of commissioners in Punjab poses no threat to the devolution of power under the local government system does not sound very convincing to the skeptics....
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Parliament’s oversight body to meet tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: The first meeting of the 17-member parliamentary oversight committee on national security will be held on Monday at 10.30am to discuss its terms of reference....
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Cold weather forecast
QUETTA, Nov 15: The Met office has forecast cold and dry weather for Quetta valley and its surrounding areas....
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Age limit for CSS may not be raised
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: The government appears reluctant to accept a recommendation of the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat to increase the upper age-limit of candidates applying for Central Superior Services (CSS) from 28 to 30 years....
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KSE lawyer clarifies position
KARACHI, Nov 15: Mr Khalid Anwer, Advocate, has taken exception to a news item headlined “Supreme Court allows CCP to proceed against KSE”, which was published in Dawn on Friday (Nov 14)....
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Railway track blown up
QUETTA, Nov 15: Quetta’s rail link with other parts of the country was cut off on Saturday night after a part of the main railway line was blown up near the Musa Colony on Saturday....
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Nomination papers filed for NA-210
JACOBABAD, Nov 15: Fourteen candidates filed nomination papers on Saturday for contesting election for NA-210 at the office of returning officer and additional session judge, Qamaruddin Abbasi, in Kandhkot....
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Stipend for house job doctors raised
JAMSHORO, Nov 15: Speaker, National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza called for making more investment in health institutions for producing good doctors while Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali...
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Textile mills accused of cartelisation
SANGHAR, Nov 15: Farmers, ginners and traders have accused textile mills of operating a cartel to manipulate prices of cotton and appealed to the president and prime minister to order the...
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Growers besiege sugar mill
HYDERABAD, Nov 15: Hundreds of cane growers of Tando Allahyar laid a siege to Mehran Sugar Mill on Saturday to press the management of the mill to clear their dues of...
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Man kills sister
LARKANA, Nov 15: A man killed his unmarried sister Sughran Brohi and driver Abdul Sattar Phull over suspicion they had illicit relations in Khamiso Brohi village in the limits of Drigh police station on Saturday....
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Protesters hold sit-in on railway tracks
SUKKUR, Nov 15: More than 3,500 Hindu pilgrims held a demonstration and a sit-in on railway tracks at Rohri Railway Station early on Saturday, forcing Super Express to stop for two...
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Ten held over UC nazim’s murder
SUKKUR, Nov 15: Police on Saturday arrested 10 suspects after a raid on Janwari village early on Saturday, following murder a day ago of Awam Dost nazim of union council Patni in the limits of Kandhra police limits near here....
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Police sit on nazim’s FIR application
HYDERABAD, Nov 15: Police did not register an FIR against a PPP MPA, DPO and DCO on a complaint lodged by Tando Allahyar District Nazim Dr Rahila Gul Magsi on Saturday...
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Primary teachers seek salary
JACOBABAD, Nov 15: Primary teachers took out a rally to protest against non-payment of their salaries here on Saturday. The rally started from DAO office and after parading on main roads...
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Bandits’ driver arrested
MIRPURKHAS, Nov 15: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested a dacoit and impounded a car used in a robbery committed by six bandits including an unknown woman in the house...
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PSF and MSF men trade fire at college
OKARA, Nov 15: Panic gripped students, faculty and the staff after activists of the People’s Students Federation (PSF) and the Muslim Students Federation (MSF) exchanged fire at the government college for boys....
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Rape suspect denied bail
LAYYAH, Nov 15: The local additional sessions judge (ASJ) has dismissed the bail petition filed by an 11-year-old suspect for allegedly molesting a nine-year-old girl....
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Elected
LAHORE, Nov 15: Mian Muhammad Yousaf has been elected president, Usman Akram senior vice-president and Asad Warraich vice-president in the annual elections of the Sheikhupura Chamber of Commerce and Industry.—Reporter...
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Girl killed by fiance
FAISALABAD, Nov 15: A girl was murdered allegedly by her fiancé on suspicion in Razaabad here on Saturday....
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Minor housemaid dies in gas leak fire
GUJRANWALA, Nov 15: A minor housemaid was burnt alive and the wife of her employer was injured in a fire caused by gas leak in Cantonment on Saturday....
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Mazari laid to rest
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Nov 15: MPA and former Punjab Assembly deputy speaker Shaukat Hussain Mazari, who died from a cardiac arrest in Lahore on Friday, was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard in Rojhan, Rajanpur district, on Saturday....
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Ordeal of prisoners in Indian lockups
LAHORE, Nov 15: Indian authorities subject Pakistanis arrested for crossing the border ‘illegally’ to severe torture in order to extract their confessions, making them liable to be tried and punished under spying charges....
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Body to probe dengue spread
LAHORE, Nov 15: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered formation of a committee to identify people who failed to take dengue control measures at appropriate time....
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Lovelorn Commits suicide
LAHORE, Nov 15: A 20-year-old youth committed suicide over the marriage of his beloved in Canalburg Housing Society on Saturday....
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LGs responsible for wiping off polio: Shahbaz on healthcare
LAHORE, Nov 15: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Saturday concerted efforts were needed for eradication of polio and other diseases from the country....
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FIA Director summoned
LAHORE, Nov 15: District and Sessions Judge Syed Nasir Ali Shah on Saturday summoned FIA’s Lahore Region director on Nov 17 in a bail application by Munaaf Kalia and Javed Khanani and others accused of laundering money....
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