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$100 million US loan for wheat import likely
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The United States will lend $100 million to Pakistan on soft terms for importing wheat till the harvest of the new crop in April and May.... 
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Zardari says no proof to back Indian allegation: Mumbai attacks
LONDON, Dec 17: Contesting the claims of US, Indian and British officials that there was clear evidence suggesting the Mumbai attacks originated inside Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari has said there is still no firm proof to back the charge....
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Sanctions on Dawa must be enforced completely, says Rice
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 17: United States would press Pakistan and other member states to “adhere completely” to the UN Security Council sanctions on Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) and other militant organisations, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday night....
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Parliamentary body declines ambassador’s briefing offer
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The Parliamentary Committee on National Security has declined an offer of the US ambassador to brief it on projects being executed in Pakistan with American economic assistance, saying...
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Isaf goods pilfered
PESHAWAR, Dec 17: Goods meant for International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in Afghanistan are being pilfered and in some cases containers full of goods have gone missing....
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Early hearing of petition sought: Committee chief’s disqualification
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The Supreme Court was requested on Wednesday for early hearing of a petition seeking disqualification of the chairman of National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Education for aggressively pursuing...
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CII clarifies report
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The Council of Islamic Ideology issued a clarification on Wednesday about a report on the term, gender equality, saying the recommendations had been made by the previous council in 2003....
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Cabinet endorses cooperation offer
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The cabinet on Wednesday endorsed the government’s offer to cooperate with India in investigating the Mumbai terror attacks and its decision to take action if the latter provided proof....
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SC for law officers’ uniform salary
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The Supreme Court has asked the federal government to look into disparity in emoluments paid to provincial law officers and judges of the subordinate judiciary and make them uniform....
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Lawyers’ warning to Dogar
LAHORE, Dec 17: Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar should step down in a week or lawyers will launch a drive to dislodge him, said PML-N Lawyers’ Forum President Khwaja Mahmood Ahmad at a press conference on Wednesday....
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Plan chalked out to observe Benazir’s death anniversary
RAWALPINDI, Dec 17: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Rawalpindi on Wednesday chalked out comprehensive plan to observe the death anniversary of former prime minister and the party’s chairperson, Benazir Bhutto, in a befitting manner....
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Pakistan, Poland to cooperate in defence
RAWALPINDI, Dec 17: Pakistan and Poland on Wednesday reiterated the desire to promote bilateral cooperation in various fields particularly in the area of defence....
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Defence officials put on notice for contempt
RAWALPINDI, Dec 17: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Wednesday directed the secretary defence, station commander Rawalpindi and an administrative officer of Station Headquarters to appear in the court...
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Court asks govt about missing doctor
ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Chief Justice Sardar Mohammad Aslam of the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday gave the government a day to inform the court about its efforts to locate a Rawalpindi doctor who is missing since September 22....
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Expat found strangled
RAWALPINDI, Dec 17: An expatriate was found strangled outside government quarters in Ghazi Colony, Chaklala, on Wednesday, police said....
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US judge visits district courts
RAWALPINDI, Dec 17: An American judge here on Wednesday visited the district courts and Lahore High Court where he was briefed about the working of judicial system....
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Upper Sindh reeling from loadshedding
SUKKUR, Dec 17: Earlier than scheduled and prolonged loadshedding that too, on daily basis has made the lives of people of upper Sindh, a hell....
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Feasibility on Nai Baran dam completed: minister
DADU, Dec 17: The Sindh government had completed feasibility report on Nai Baran dam, which would store rainwater of Khirthar Range, and selected sites for the construction of seven other small...
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Shahbaz invites Mahars to join PML-N
SUKKUR, Dec 17: Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif arrived in Khangarh, Ghotki district, on Wednesday to condole with the Mahar brothers over the death of their sister, who had died after protracted illness last month....
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Passions run high as police refuse to lodge FIR: Sirhindi-Noonari dispute
TANDO MOHAMMAD KHAN, Dec 17: Passions still run high in the town five days after the attack on the residence of a leader of Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party reportedly by Sirhindis...
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Fertiliser crisis makes comeback
MIRPURKHAS, Dec 17: Hundreds of farmers assembled at the Utility Stores Corporation warehouse on Wednesday to purchase urea fertiliser....
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BB’s portraits removed
HYDERABAD, Dec 17: Miscreants have removed some of the portraits of late PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto which were displayed on panaflex signboards in the wee hours of Wednesday....
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Monthly shortage of 250,000 urea bags in Sahiwal
SAHIWAL, Dec 17: The district is facing a monthly shortage of around 250,000 bags of urea fertilizer during Rabi season while manure manufactures have linked the urea supply with equal number of DAP bags to dealers and distributors....
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UAF for agri medicines plant
FAISALABAD, Dec 17: The University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Vice-Chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmad, has suggested that the government should establish a manufacturing plant for agriculture medicines....
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‘Black-marketing’ may hit wheat yield
MULTAN, Dec 17: Wheat growers in southern Punjab are finding the going hard as they claim that urea fertiliser has ‘disappeared’ from the market....
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Human trafficker held at airport
SIALKOT, Dec 17: The Gujranwala circle of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) claim to have arrested Sialkot-based human trafficker Zakaullah from Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore, just before his departure for Spain after a month long stay in Pakistan....
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Shahbaz announces uplift projects for Cholistan
LAHORE, Dec 17: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said deprivations of dwellers of Cholistan will be redressed and no one will be allowed to usurp their rights....
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‘No Pakistani organisation involved in terrorism’
MULTAN, Dec 17: Federal Minister of State for Interior Tasneem Ahmad Qureshi has said not even a single Pakistani organisation, including Jamaatud Dawa, is involved in terrorism, and some people have been taken into custody only for investigation....
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Case against five CIA officials
LAHORE, Dec 17: Five Criminal Investigation Agency (CIA) officials have been arrested for robbery....
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Two underage girls pay for brother’s marriage: Vani incident in Taunsa
MULTAN, Dec 17: Two adolescent girls have been declared ‘Vani’ to ‘compensate’ for their brother’s elopement and subsequent marriage with a girl some seven months ago at Bughlani, Taunsa tehsil....
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Operation against illegal structures
MIANWALI, Dec 17: The district administration has begun removing encroachments from Jinnah Colony on PAF Road....
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Rs17.5m dacoity in jeweller’s shop
GUJRAT, Dec 17: As many as 12 dacoits took away gold ornaments, diamonds and foreign currency worth Rs17.5 million from a jeweller’s shop in main bazaar in Kharian Cantonment police precincts, some 30 kilometres from here, on Wednesday....
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Poster contest
LAHORE, Dec 17: An anti-corruption poster competition was held at the Chamba House here on Wednesday....
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Contractors warn of Halting projects: Arrest of colleagues
LAHORE, Dec 17: Contractors executing government development projects all over the province have criticised the arrest of their colleagues in Faisalabad and elsewhere. They announced they would stop work if the contractors were not freed in three days....
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Mafia usurps share of widows: Mega land scam
LAHORE, Dec 17: A Rs500 million scam of ‘illegal’ sale of 80 residential plots on the state land in Johar Town by the land mafia in connivance with the Lahore Development Authority officials has come to the fore....
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Report sought from Wapda on tariff raise
LAHORE, Dec 17: Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday sought a report from Wapda, Nepra and the power secretary till Jan 12 in a petition challenging a raise in electricity tariff....
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‘Love triangle’ ends up in graveyard
LAHORE, Dec 17: A ‘love triangle’ turned fatal when a young man allegedly gunned down his teenaged ‘girlfriend’ and her tutor and later committed suicide in tutor’s guestroom in Dak Khanewali Gali in Daroghawala on Wednesday, witnesses and police said....
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