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Landslide kills two in Skardu
SKARDU, Dec 21: Two persons were killed and three others injured when a passenger van was hit by a landslide on Skardu-Gilgit Road on Sunday, sources said.... 
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Missing man’s family hopes for recovery
GUJAR KHAN, Dec 21: The local police have failed to trace a driver who mysteriously went missing in November 2007, causing agony to the whole family, including his speech-impaired aged mother....
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Assistance promised to affected shopkeepers: Ghakkar Plaza tragedy
RAWALPINDI, Dec 21: Shopkeepers devastated by the fire in Ghakkar Plaza were Sunday promised alternative places by the City District Government and the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) to rebuild their businesses from the ashes....
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Police asked to devise plan for Muharram security
ATTOCK, Dec 21: Regional Police Officer Nasir Khan Durrani has directed the Attock police to prepare a foolproof security plan during Muharram to prevent any untoward incident and maintain law and order situation in the district....
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ADB to provide Rs250m for water scheme
FATEHJANG, Dec 21: The Asian Development Bank will provide Rs250 million to provide clean drinking water to the residents of the city....
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KKH blocked
GILGIT, Dec 21: Karakuram Highway (KKH), which links the Northern Areas with the rest of the country, remained blocked to all kinds of traffic for the third consecutive day, Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) sources said....
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Compensation for fire victims announced
RAWALPINDI, Dec 21: Punjab government has announced a package of compensation for those who lost their lives when half of the Ghakkar Plaza collapsed after being engulfed by fire on Saturday....
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Experts work on options to demolish standing portion
RAWALPINDI, Dec 21: The ruins of Ghakkar Plaza, which emitted smoke and fire even after passage of 40 hours, have impacted on the business activity in the vicinity and become a headache for the authorities involved in the rescue operation....
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CDA looks for foreign buyers: Real estate market is depressed but
ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: Our city managers have decided to attract international realtors to the real estate of Islamabad and ride out of their financial difficulties....
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Five POF firefighters among the dead
TAXILA, Dec 21: Among nine firefighters who were killed during rescue operation at Ghakkar Plaza Rawalpindi, five belonged to the Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF), Wah Cantonment...
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Task force formed to address women issues
MURREE, Dec 21: A task force of women parliamentarians has been formed to highlight the women related issues and to create awareness among them regarding their rights....
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Cancellation of Afghan refugees’ cards sought
QUETTA, Dec 21: The Balochistan National Party-Mengal, Baloch Republican Party, National Party and Shahwani Qaumi Ittehad have urged the government to cancel national identity cards issued to Afghan refugees and ask the United Nations to send them back to their country....
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Govt resisting US pressure on investment treaty
ISLAMABAD, Dec 21: The government has decided to resist the US pressure for early signing of a bilateral investment treaty without addressing Pakistan’s concerns....
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Six killed in Swat violence
MINGORA, Dec 21: A councillor and his son were among six people killed in incidents of violence in the restive Swat valley on Sunday. Several other people were injured....
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US House urges Pakistan to work with India
WASHINGTON, Dec 21: The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution urging Pakistan to work with India to bring those responsible for Mumbai terror attacks to justice and to prevent...
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Clarification
WITH reference to a report headlined ‘Undersea cable faults hit internet service’, published on December 20, Transworld Associates has clarified that it also operates as an internet backbone provider in the country....
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Govt urged to help rain-hit growers
HYDERABAD, Dec 21: The Sindh Abadgar Board and the Sindh Chamber of Agriculture have drawn the attention of the government to the plight of rice growers who have been economically destroyed by heavy rains....
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Sasoli wants govt to hold talks with Baloch leaders
HYDERABAD, Dec 21: Expressing disappointment over performance of PPP government, Jamhoori Watan Party general secretary Rauf Sasoli has said that the government has failed to honour the promises made by Benazir Bhutto with the people of Balochistan....
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Quake rumours create panic in Khairpur
KHAIRPUR, Dec 21: The people of Khairpur spent a sleepless night on Saturday due to rumours about an earthquake hitting the region....
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Canal bridge collapses
SANGHAR, Dec 21: Vehicular traffic between Sanghar and Tando Mitha Khan was disrupted when a major portion of the bridge over Nara-Qazak Canal collapsed on Sunday....
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Call to give land to freed bonded labourers
HYDERABAD, Dec 21: An annual general meeting of the National Coalition Against Bonded Labour held at a local hotel on Saturday evening called for enforcement of laws on bonded labour and other labour laws in letter and spirit....
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Fishing licence system to be abolished, says minister
THATTA, Dec 21: Sindh Minister for Fisheries Zahid Bhurgari said on Sunday that contract and licence systems for fishing would be abolished and replaced with Benazir Bhutto cards for fishermen....
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One-dish violations: 24 booked in three days
SAHIWAL, Dec 21: The police have booked at least 24 people in different localities for violating ‘one dish’ rule at marriage ceremonies in last three days....
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Flooding inundates more villages
MULTAN/RAJANPUR, Dec 21: Flooding stemming from torrents of rain inundated a number of mauzas in Rojhan tehsil on Sunday and the helpless administration was carrying rescue operation with three motor boats.Our...
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Two minors die from burns
FAISALABAD, Dec 21: Two minor brothers, who sustained burn wounds in a fire incident on Saturday night in Fatahabad, died in Allied Hospital here on Sunday....
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Wheat smuggling goes on
DERA GHAZI KHAN, Dec 21: The confiscation of three trucks, bound for the NWFP, laden with wheat at Triman post on Dec 19 in a surprise police raid shows the smuggling of wheat on fake permission letters is going on....
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PO killed in ‘shootout’ with police
SARGODHA, Dec 21: A proclaimed offender (PO) was killed in an alleged shootout with a joint team of Bhalwal and Kotmomen police team near Chak 21-NB, some 20 kilometres away from here....
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Dacoit lynched for killing two sisters
KASUR, Dec 21: Villagers lynched a bandit who reportedly killed two sisters during a dacoity bid on Saturday night in the limits of Raja Jang police station....
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Rally
FAISALABAD, Dec 21: The Association of TV Journalists staged a rally here on Sunday to express their solidarity with Iraqi journalist Muntazirul Zaidi, who threw his shoes on US President George W....
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Scene after roughed up SI threatens suicide
FAISALABAD, Dec 21: A scene was created at the Chak Jhumra police station when an inspector thrashed his subordinate, no less than the rank of a sub-inspector, black and blue for ‘remaining absent from duty’ without any intimation....
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Girl saved from vani
MIANWALI, Dec 21: Awareness regarding vani laws among the rural women has saved a 15-year-old girl from being traded in compensation marriage by a punchayat or village council in Kukranwala, a village near Kalabagh....
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Four more arrests in vani case
MULTAN, Dec 21: Rajanpur police arrested on Sunday four more members of a jirga which had decided the fate of a girl under the Vani custom four years ago....
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Disquiet in PPP ranks simmering: Power sharing
LAHORE, Dec 21: Not satisfied with its share in the Punjab government, the Pakistan People’s Party is all set to ‘press’ the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) to settle such issues after the death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto....
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Rs200m for Mayo Hospital uplift
LAHORE, Dec 21: Expressing his resolve to make Mayo Hospital a model institution, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday two `special task forces’ had been constituted for the purpose....
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Drive against tractor-trolleys
LAHORE, Dec 21: City traffic police will launch a campaign for checking violation of rules by the tractor-trolley drivers from Monday (today)....
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Six held for violating one-dish rule
LAHORE, Dec 21: The Iqbal Town division police claimed on Sunday to have arrested six people involved in violation of one-dish rule and aerial firing and displaying fireworks and explosives on marriage ceremonies and registered cases against them....
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Police claim arresting 88 kite-flyers
LAHORE, Dec 21: Police on Sunday claimed to have arrested 88 kite-flyers and registered 80 cases against them under the Kite-Flying Act in different police stations....
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