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cricket: Shahid Afridi to lead, official announcement tomorrow
Afridi has been picked to lead Pakistan in the World Twenty20 Championship in West Indies later next month: PCB
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05:51 PM PST | Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 |

pakistan: Transporters call off strike after fare reduction
The Rawalpindi district government and local transporters agree to reduce transport fares after violent protests.
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05:09 PM PST | Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 |

cricket: Parliamentary committee puts Nasim Ashraf on ECL
The PAC has recommended that the name of the former PCB boss be put on the exit control list while fraud investigations are underway.
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04:59 PM PST | Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 |

pakistan: Review petition filed on NRO verdict
The government filed a petition to review the Supreme Court’s earlier decision on the basis of 40 legal grounds.
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02:01 PM PST | Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 |

metropolitan: One killed, three injured in Quetta bomb blast
A bomb exploded under a rickshaw near a paramilitary checkpoint, killing a pedestrian and wounding three others.
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01:45 PM PST | Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 |

provinces: Gunmen kill college principal in Quetta
Gunmen riding a motorcycle shot dead Fazle Bari, a renowned educationist in a growing wave of violence in the city.
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12:50 PM PST | Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 |

pakistan: Petition filed against Dr. Qadeer at Lahore High Court
The government filed a civil miscellaneous petition to investigate Dr. Qadeer over giving information to a foreign newspaper.
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12:38 PM PST | Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 |

cricket: Shakib spins Bangladesh into commanding position
At lunch, England were trailing Bangladesh’s first innings total by 134 runs after Shakib Al Hasan removed Trott and Prior.
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12:02 PM PST | Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 |

world: Afghan militant delegation in Kabul for talks
The delegation of the Hezb-i-Islami group has arrived in Kabul with a plan for peace talks with the Afghan government.
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09:22 AM PST | Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 |

world: US Congress passes historic health care bill
The Congress handed President Obama a huge victory extending health care to millions of uninsured Americans.
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08:35 AM PST | Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 |

metropolitan: Key Taliban leader arrested in Peshawar
Iliyas also known as Usman, accused of operating a Taliban court in Mohmand, was arrested in Bakhsho Pul.
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06:02 AM PST | Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 |

pakistan: US drone strike kills five in North Waziristan
A US drone fired two missiles on a militant compound in Inzar village, killing five militants.
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05:47 AM PST | Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 |

front-page: Twenty-eight militants killed in Kurram, Orakzai
Helicopter gunships pounded militants’ positions in Masozai and Murghan Kando areas destroying eight hideouts.
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05:14 AM PST | Monday, 22 Mar, 2010 |

Bad publicity for police
In the case of the mistaken Indian police emblem, the wisest course is to just accept responsibility and apologise.
Campus intimidation
A serious warning ought to be taken about Pakistan’s youth splitting along ideological, ethnic and other faultlines.

IDENTITY

"People who meet me for the first time assume I am conservative, or worse, brain-washed and unintelligent."

DRIVEN BY PASSION

Digging out vintage cars, restoring them and hitting the tarmac is a growing passion for some Pakistani enthusiasts.

Despite the army's successes and vows to keep militants from returning to Swat, some still doubt their resolve.

Arundhati Roy writes about the struggles of people who are known to the rest of the world as dreaded Maoists.

Shahid’s loving embrace of Urdu and its culture should be a challenge to our emerging Anglophone writers.

NATIONAL POLITICS

What really guarantees the preservation and growth of democracy is strong democratic institutions.

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