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| November 27, 2008 | Thursday | Ziqa'ad 28, 1429 |
Miliband visits town notorious for ‘forced’ marriages
KALAR SYEDAN, Nov 26: British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Tuesday visited this town which is notorious for ‘forced’ marriages between elderly British men of Pakistani origin and young Pakistani women and high divorce ratio among such couples....
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Tribal lashkar resumes anti-militant campaign
KHAR, Nov 26: A tribal lashkar, which stopped its armed campaign after some of its leaders had been killed by militants, resumed activities in different areas of Mamond on Wednesday....
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Indian request to release Sarabjeet turned down
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Pakistan has turned down India’s request to release spy Sarabjeet Singh who is on death row for his involvement in a series of bomb blasts in Lahore in 1990....
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Navy ready to counter piracy, says chief
KARACHI, Nov 26: Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Noman Bashir expressed concern on Wednesday over rising trend in high-sea piracy and human and drug trafficking and stressed the need for maintaining vigilance to protect maritime lines of communications....
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Norway gives $35.54m for UN health projects
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Norway has provided the United Nations in Pakistan 250 million krones (over $35.54 million) for a UN project in Pakistan for maternal, newborn, and child health projects for the poor in Sindh....
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Rocket hits Nato truck depot
PESHAWAR, Nov 26: Suspected militants fired a rocket on Wednesday that hit a terminal for trucks carrying supplies to Nato and US troops in Afghanistan, underscoring the insurgents’ increasing hold over parts of northwest Pakistan....
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Nawaz condemns drone attacks
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif has said that drone attacks inside Pakistan should be stopped immediately. He urged the international community to respect Pakistan’s sovereignty....
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BNF not to hold talks with govt
QUETTA, Nov 26: Leaders of the Baloch National Front said on Wednesday that they would not hold talks with the government because its Balochistan policy was aimed at maligning the resistance movement....
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Taliban threaten to target PPP, ANP leadership
MAMOUZAI, Nov 26: A Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan leader has vowed to increase attacks on Nato and US forces in Afghanistan and block their supply lines through Pakistan’s tribal areas....
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Clash in Dera Bugti
QUETTA, Nov 26: A heavy exchange of fire took place between security forces and militants in the Loti area of Dera Bugti on Tuesday night....
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Govt short of PROs to cope with army of ministers
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: The information ministry is finding it difficult to provide public relations officers (PROs) to the increasing number of federal and state ministers....
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BISP offices shifted to NAB building
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: The government has shifted the offices of newly-launched Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) headquarters building, indicating that the powerful department set up by the Musharraf regime is about to be wound up....
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69 police recruits disqualified in last leg of training
ATTOCK, Nov 26: Police Training Schools (PTS) has disqualified 69 police constables of Attock district in the last leg of their six months training and sent them back to the district...
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Proposed increase in gas prices: IHC issues notice to Ogra
ISALAMABAD, Nov 26: Justice Mohammad Munir Paracha of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) here on Wednesday issued notice to the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), directing the authority to respond...
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Account holder deprived of Rs0.2m
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: About Rs0.2 million were fraudulently withdrawn by some accused from the account of a citizen by making a fake credit card allegedly in connivance with the bank officials....
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PAC questions transfer of Peco shares
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: The Public Accounts Committee has questioned the transfer of 67 per cent shares of the Pakistan Engineering Company (Peco) to private bidders....
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PTA plans ‘Inactive SIMs’ to discourage fake customers
ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in collaboration with stakeholders is planning to introduce “inactive SIMs” in the market to ensure that mobile connections were sold to genuine customers....
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Three killed in separate incidents
RAWALPINDI, Nov 26: Three persons including two women were killed in separate incidents in the city, police said on Wednesday....
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No compromise on dam royalty, NALA told
GILGIT, Nov 26: Northern Areas Chief Executive Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan told the legislative assembly on Thursday that he had made it clear to the federal government that there would be...
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Two killed
GHALANAI, Nov 26: Two civilians were killed and 11 others injured when gunship helicopters attacked suspected militants’ hideouts in Lakaro tehsil of Mohmand tribal region on Wednesday, residents and officials said....
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113 peasant women get land deeds
THATTA, Nov 26: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah distributed ownership deeds (Sanads) for agricultural land among 113 women peasants who got 25 acres each in coastal taluka Jati on Wednesday....
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Three taluka nazims suspended
DADU, Nov 26: The Sindh government has suspended taluka nazims of Dadu, Larkana and Garhi Yasin....
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Girl was killed by parents, alleges husband
SUKKUR, Nov 26: Suspicions that Ms Amna Khushk had been murdered as punishment for marrying of her own free will gathered strength on Wednesday after her parents produced her elder sister before police and claimed she was Amna....
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Oil tanker’s driver among three kidnapped
LARKANA, Nov 26: Three people, including a driver and a cleaner of an oil tanker, were kidnapped from near Ratta Barrage in the Ratodero area late on Tuesday night...
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3 injured in mosque attack
KHAIRPUR, Nov 26: Three people were injured in a mosque when armed men opened fire on them in the Luqman area here on Wednesday....
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Police fail to soften accused in Bachani kidnapping case
HYDERABAD, Nov 26: While a joint police team of Nawabshah and Hyderabad districts, headed by DIG Hyderabad, have picked up several suspects, including a man accused of kidnapping EDO Health of...
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Rs30m of NBP looted
JACOBABAD, Nov 26: A gang of dacoits looted Rs30 million cash on Wednesday from the National Bank of Pakistan at Lal Shah Naro in Dodapur near Garhi Khairo....
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Lecturers protest across Sindh
HYDERABAD, Nov 26: More than 7,000 teachers observed black day on Wednesday in 248 government colleges of the province in protest against manhandling of ad hoc lectures by police in Karachi...
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CS spearheads ‘shuttle’ mission
FAISALABAD, Nov 26: The Punjab government has planned extending basic necessities of life to under-developed urban and rural areas of the province and priority will be given to water supply and...
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Two fleeing accused killed in ‘encounter’
NAROWAL, Nov 26: Police killed two accused in an ‘encounter’ who had managed their escape from the Narowal City police lock-up on Wednesday morning....
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Secretaries ‘comb’ Toba district
TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 26: Four administrative secretaries of provincial departments on Wednesday inspected different government installations and ongoing projects in this district to get first-hand knowledge of public grievances....
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Faisalabad: bureaucrats edge out elected representatives
FAISALABAD, Nov 26: Top provincial bureaucracy is discussing and trying to find out solutions to public grievances in Faisalabad division in ‘exhaustive’ meetings where not a single elected representative has been invited....
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Youth shoots self after killing girl he loved
KASUR, Nov 26: A man shot dead his beloved and later killed himself at Bhoay Aasal in the limits of Chhanga Manga police station limits....
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Woman held with heroin
SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 26: The A-division police claimed on Wednesday having arrested a female drug trafficker from a Bhekhi Road house and recovered one kilogram heroin from her....
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Tehsil council rejects projects floated by MPAs
SIALKOT, Nov 26: The tehsil council rejected all development schemes sent by local MPAs during its session claiming that these projects (worth Rs35 million) would exploit the rights of tehsil council members....
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Patrol officers to pass out on Dec 4
LAHORE, Nov 26: The first batch of patrolling officers of the National Highways & Motorway Police, who were recruited by the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC), has completed their training....
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‘LG system end to spur south separatists’
MULTAN, Nov 26: City District Nazim Mian Faisal Mukhtar has warned that the abolition of the local government system can accelerate the movement for a separate province in southern Punjab....
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Sain Zahoor brings about trance at Lok Boli Mela
FAISALABAD, Nov 26: The fourth Punjab Lok Boli Mela came to an end on Tuesday night at Jaranwala Town with the performances by Sain Zahoor, Nasir Chaudhry of Jhang, Aslam Lohar of Faisalabad and Iqbal Pathanay Khan of Muzaffargarh....
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Sri Lanka storm to win at stage 9: Tour de Pakistan
GUJRAT, Nov 26: Sri Lankan contenders paraded their cycling skills and clinched the first three positions in the 9th stage of the 14th Tour de Pakistan here on Wednesday....
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Rustled
KASUR, Nov 26: Nine armed men took away 12 cattle from the house of a landlord in Gidhpur village on Tuesday night....
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Land revenue bill gets assembly nod
LAHORE, Nov 26: The provincial assembly on Wednesday passed the Punjab Land Revenue (amendment) Bill 2008, with the treasury calling it an improvement on the existing local government and the opposition...
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A day of walkouts
LAHORE, Nov 26: Wednesday proved to be a day of walkouts in the Punjab Assembly, which affected the proceedings....
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Notices to four women MNAs on Punjab quota
LAHORE, Nov 26: Lahore High Court Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi issued notices on Wednesday to four members of the National Assembly (MNAs) in a petition challenging their election to the National Assembly on reserved seats for women....
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Two faint in factory fire
LAHORE, Nov 26: A factory owner and a local fainted when a fire broke out in his paperboard unit in Sector D-1 of Township early on Wednesday....
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‘Not a single expert to treat dengue patients’
LAHORE, Nov 26: There is not a single doctor here who is expert in controlling dengue fever....
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IJT stages ‘down with America’ rally
LAHORE, Nov 26: The Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) on Wednesday organised a “Down with America” rally on The Mall from Punjab University Old Campus to Governor’s House....
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Police Order requires changes: LHC
LAHORE, Nov 26: A full bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday observed that the Police Order 2002 needed to be amended for it had certain lacunas....
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