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Sindh govt, MQM blamed for killings: Resolution passed in Balochistan PA
QUETTA, May 19: The Balochistan Assembly by a majority vote strongly condemned the May 12 Karachi carnage and held the Sindh government and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement responsible for it and... 
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Opposition to block rigging, says PML-N: Presidential election
ISLAMABAD, May 19: The Pakistan Muslim League (N) on Saturday said the opposition will block General Musharraf’s move to rig the presidential election. Talking to reporters here, Secretary Information PML-N Ahsan...
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‘Status quo on Kashmir not an option’
MUZAFFARABAD, May 19: The United States wants a settlement of the Kashmir issue because it believes that the maintenance of status quo in the disputed Himalayan region was not a solution....
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PN acquires three Fokker aircraft
ISLAMABAD, May 19: The Pakistan Navy (PN) has acquired three Fokker aircraft from Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) along with spares for $1.2 million. PN spokesman Capt Siddiq told this correspondent...
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Quetta blast suspects rounded up
QUETTA, May 19: Police have taken over a dozen suspects into custody for questioning in connection with the cycle bomb blast on Friday night near the office of the Ispector-General of Police, Balochistan....
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Activist asks Supreme Court for security: Missing persons’ case
ISLAMABAD, May 19: A woman, who is fighting the case of missing persons including her husband, has urged the acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Justice Rana Bhagwandas to provide her security against harassment by some elements....
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Australian HC seeks help of Pakistani investigators: Arrest of Aussie, recovery of children
ISLAMABAD, May 19: The Australian High Commission has requested Pakistan to arrange a special investigation team comprising FIA and Special Branch operatives for the arrest of an Australian national of Pakistani...
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Pakistan need not suspect US ties with India: scholar
ISLAMABAD, May 19: Pakistan should not suspect growing relations between India and the United States as something driven by religion. It was simply in the interest of America to be friend...
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Strategy made to expedite school construction, says Erra
ISLAMABAD, May 19: A fast-track school reconstruction strategy has been evolved in the earthquake-devastated areas, said deputy chairman Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) Lt-Gen Nadeem Ahmed....
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Lashkar activists loot, burn houses in Bara: Khasadar force official accused of involvement
LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), May 19: Activists of the Lashkar-i-Islam on Friday looted and set on fire 10 houses in Bara tehsil, residents of Shalobar area said on Saturday....
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356 studying medicine in Cuba: Atta
ISLAMABAD, May 19: Presently 356 Pakistani students are getting medical education from Cuba while 1,000 scholarships for graduate studies in medicine have been advertised, Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC) Dr Attaur Rehman said here on Saturday....
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Baloch leaders reject president’s conditional amnesty offer
QUETTA, May 19: President Pervez Musharraf’s offer of conditional amnesty in Balochistan has been rejected by prominent politicians, tribal leaders and local observers, some of whom have described it as an...
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HGA announces three-point agenda
HYDERABAD, May 19: The Hyderabad Grand Alliance has announced a three-point programme - to remove Musharraf and save Pakistan, seek a ban on the MQM, and an independent judiciary....
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PPP to resist re-election of Musharraf: Qureshi
JHANG, May 19: Pakistan People’s Party will categorically oppose and resist any attempt by Gen Musharraf to get himself re-elected as president from the present assemblies....
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Masses kept away from policy-making process: Minto
OKARA, May 19: National Workers’ Party chief Abid Hasan Minto has said all governments in the country, including civilian, did not involve common man in the policy-making process in the last 25 years....
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11 killed as rain lashes Sialkot
SIALKOT, May 19: At least 11 people were killed in violent windstorm accompanied with rain in many parts of the Sialkot district in the last 36 hours or so....
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PR tickets through credit cards from June 1
LAHORE, May 19: Rail tickets could be purchased through credit cards from June 1 while e-ticketing would be started from August 1, Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmad said on Saturday....
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Mediapersons protest beating of colleague
ISLAMABAD, May 19: Mediapersons here on Saturday staged a protest demonstration against the attack by unidentified persons on Sana News editor Shakeel Ahmad Turabi....
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Dr Haque: A cardiologist with heart of gold
KARACHI, May 19: Dr Abdul Haque was born in Delhi in 1934. He wanted to be an engineer. But he changed his mind and opted for medicine when his mother died for want of timely medical attention....
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Shalobars seek action against Lashkar
PESHAWAR, May 19: Elders of the Shalobar sub-clan of the Afridi tribe on Saturday called upon the NWFP governor to end what he called a parallel government being run by the Lashkar-i-Islam in the Khyber agency....
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Industrialists threaten to withdraw investment: Law & order situation
PESHAWAR, May 19: Industrialists of the Hayatabad Industrial Estate on Saturday expressed concern over the deteriorating law and order situation in the area and threatened to withdraw investments, if the government failed to provide security to them....
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Muqam accused of creating discord
CHITRAL, May 19: District Nazim Maghfirat Shah has alleged that Federal Minister for Political Affairs Amir Muqam is driving a wedge between President Pervez Musharraf and the district government of Chitral....
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Rs1.5bn fraud detected
PESHAWAR, May 19: The directorate-general intelligence and investigation of the Central Board of Revenue has detected cases of alleged embezzlement of Rs1.5 billion by four import and export companies....
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Drugs shortage halts treatment of hepatitis patients
LARKANA, May 19: The treatment of 460 Hepatitis B patients registered under the prime minister’s programme with the Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH), Larkana, has come to a halt because of the non-availability of medicines....
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Lawyers get interim pre-arrest bail
NAWABSHAH, May 19: The District and Sessions Judge Nawabshah on Saturday granted interim pre-arrest bail to eight lawyers charged with firing on police and planning terrorist activities in Karachi....
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Jamalis and Kumbhars bury hatchet
DADU, May 19: A long-standing dispute between the Jamali and Kumbhar tribes was settled in a jirga held late on Friday night in Dadu. The dispute, which claimed five lives from...
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Folk singer slams government apathy
KHAIRPUR, May 19: A folk singer has criticised the government’s failure to help performing artistes. Alghoza Nawaz Mohammad Urs Bhatti raised this issue while talking to journalists on Friday....
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Principal commits suicide
SANGHAR, May 19: The principal of the Vocational Training Centre, Mirpurkhas, Abdul Latif Saand, committed suicide by shooting himself in the temple at Chand Colony, Tando Adam, on Saturday....
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Demo against Hesco
NAUSHAHROFEROZE, May 19: A large number of Fruit Mandi residents along with shopkeepers took out a procession from Sabzi Mandi on Saturday and protested against Hesco’s failure to repair the damaged transformer....
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Tribal feud, karo-kari claim 4 lives
SHIKARPUR, May 19: Four people, including a woman, were killed and four others injured in separate incidents in Garhi Yasin and Khanpur talukas late on Friday night....
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11 prisoners injured
MIRPURKHAS, May 19: Eleven under-trial prisoners injured themselves in protest against being shifted to the Hyderabad central jail from Mirpurkhas district prison on Saturday....
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Arrest warrants for Sahiwal DPO
SAHIWAL, May 19: The anti-terrorism court No 2, Multan, issued warrants for the arrest of the Sahiwal DPO, other officers and 200 constables for torching the rally taken out by lawyers in Sahiwal on May 4....
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Bee causes fatal accident
TOBA TEK SINGH, May 19: A bee caused a road accident as a result of others were which a man died and two injured seriously on Toba-Pirmahal Road near Dabanwala canal bridge, some four kilometres from here, on Saturday....
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Groom killed by brother’s jubilant fire
SARGODHA, May 19: A groom was killed and his two friends suffered injuries by the jubilant firing of his brother here on Friday night at Chak No 9-NB near Bhalwal, some 40km from here....
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Nazim lists shortcomings in local govt system
LAHORE, May 19: District nazim Mian Amer Mahmood, who is considered an important member of the present set-up, enlisted on Saturday shortcomings in the local government system which he said were badly affecting it....
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Bomb hoax at bank
LAHORE, May 19: A bomb hoax in a bank on The Mall created panic among the staff and customers on Saturday. Civil Lines SP Ahsan Younis told Dawn that the security...
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Ban on MQM sought
LAHORE, May 19: The general body meeting of the Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) held on Saturday condemned the May 12 Karachi killings, what they said, at the hands of the Muttahida...
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No end to loadshedding in sight
LAHORE, May 19 Wapda chairman Tariq Hamid says the country may face loadshedding throughout the year because of power shortage. Talking to newsmen at the Wapda Hospital here on Saturday, he said the present deficit was 1200MW....
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