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PML-Q can cut a deal with PPP: Fatyana
TOBA TEK SINGH, May 12: PML-Q MNA Riaz Fatyana has said that Mian Nawaz Sharif wants to eat the cake and have it too by playing the role of opposition in the centre and the ruling party in Punjab.... 
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South Punjab continues to face water shortage
LAHORE, May 12: Farmers in south Punjab, who get water from the Indus River, continue facing exceptionally high shortage because of a flawed water distribution mechanism, and are facing difficulties in getting even drinking water, leaving alone sowing cotton....
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Students make a scene at NTU: Affiliation with PEC
FAISALABAD, May 12: Students of the National Textile University (NTU) forcibly entered the vice-chancellor’s office on Monday and asked him to have a dialogue with them for solution to their problems....
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Lawyers pledge support for fresh drive
SHEIKHUPURA: Lawyers’ fraternity throughout the province observed a black day on Monday against the Karachi carnage on May 12 last year....
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No room left for schools, colleges in Pindi cantonment
RAWALPINDI, May 12: The mushroom growth of official and private housing schemes in Cantonment has left no room for establishment of any educational institution....
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Lawyers protest Karachi killings
RAWALPINDI, May 12: Lawyers in Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Monday staged protest demonstrations against the May 12, 2007 killings in Karachi, deadlock over restoration of the deposed judges and curbs on media by the Supreme Court of Pakistan....
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Nawaz, Shahbaz file papers for by-polls
RAWALPINDI, May 12: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif and President Mian Shahbaz Sharif on Monday filed their nomination papers for NA-52 and PP-10 Rawalpindi-10 respectively for June 26 bye-election....
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entcom chief meets CJCSC
ISLAMABAD, May 12: United States Centcom acting commander Lt- Gen Martin E.Dempsey Monday called on Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), Gen Tariq Majid at the Joint Staff Headquarters, Chaklala....
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Imran says Zardari stands exposed
LAHORE, May 12: Tehrik-i-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan has said refusal to restore deposed judges has exposed the designs of Pakistan People’s Party Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari....
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PML-N decision hasty, say coalition partners
LAHORE, May 12: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) and the Awami National Party, two components of the ruling Pakistan Democratic Alliance, have termed the PML-N’s decision to quit the cabinet hasty and...
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UPS may worsen power crisis
LAHORE, May 12: Skyrocketing sale of Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Units could have the unintended consequence of exacerbating the energy crisis from medium to long term, an expert has warned....
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Coalition warned over judges issue
QUETTA, May 12: Leaders of the component parties in the All Parties Democratic Movement have asked the ruling coalition leadership to honour the commitment made to the nation to restore the pre-Nov 3 judiciary....
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Bhurt sees anti-PPP conspiracy
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, May 12: Conspiracies began soon after the formation of PPP-led coalition government but hopefully these will be overcome, said Sindh Minister for Livestock, Abdul Haq Bhurt....
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Sindh lawyers up in arms, again
HYDERABAD, May 12: The failure of coalition partners’ talks on judges’ reinstatement appeared to have failed to break or even dampen the lawyers’ spirit as they started afresh their struggle on...
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‘Chamkani didn’t visit US’
PESHAWAR, May 12: Subsequent to a news item in Dawn on May 10, headlined “US silent on Asfandyar visit”, it has now emerged that Mr Saqibullah Chamkani, ANP member of the...
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Space crunch in Gujranwala jail
GUJRANWALA, May 12: The central jail here is overcrowded three times more than its capacity and 4,268 prisoners, including women and their children and juveniles, are incarcerated in the jail having...
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Three ‘terrorists’ held
FAISALABAD, May 12: Police claimed on Monday to have arrested three terrorists who wanted to assassinate key figures of the district....
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Qazi flays PU closure
LAHORE, May 12: Jamaat-i-Islami amir Qazi Husain Ahmad has condemned Punjab University’s ban on the Islami Jamiat Talaba book fair, police crackdown on the varsity, vacation of its hostels and arrest of students....
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Road blocked to protest lawlessness
SHEIKHUPURA, May 12: Shopkeepers of Mailsi Chowk on Monday threw traffic out of gear on Lahore-Sargodha Road for three hours in protest against lawlessness.The shopkeepers came on the road after three...
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Call to raise wheat support price
SAHIWAL, May 12: The food department is facing hardships in meeting wheat procurement target because of reluctance of farmers to sell their commodity at the price fixed by the government and...
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Man killed
SHEIKHUPURA, May 12: A man was killed while two others were injured when two rival groups traded fire in Bharianwala village in Bhikhi police precincts on Monday....
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Election tribunal issues notice to three MNAs
LAHORE, May 12: An election tribunal of the Lahore High Court on Monday issued notice for May 27 to three members of the National Assembly (MNAs) and the Election Commission on a petition by Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) candidate Rukhsana Jamshed....
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Govt support for higher education assured
ISLAMABAD, May 12: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday assured government’s continued support to the higher education including the new engineering universities so as to make the country self-sufficient in science and technology sector....
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Contempt case: IHC serves notice on CDA chief
ISLAMABAD, May 12: The Islamabad High Court on Monday served notice on Chairman Capital Development Authority (CDA) Kamran Lashari and directed him to submit comments on a contempt of court petition...
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Afghan refugees return suspended
ISLAMABAD, May 12: The UNHCR has temporarily suspended voluntary repatriation of Afghans through Peshawar due to the unrest and fighting in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar....
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Sanitary worker dies of rabies
RAWALPINDI, May 12: A sanitary worker of Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) died of rabies here on Monday....
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IJT vows to hold book fair
LAHORE, May 12: The Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) has condemned the Punjab University administration for what it called forced closure of the varsity, and announced that it will organise its three-day...
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Question mark over IG’s open courts
LAHORE, May 12: IGP Shaukat Javed heard 60 complainants on Monday and, as usual, marked all applications to lower staff for further action....
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PU offices open
LAHORE, May 12: The Punjab University (PU) administration says all teaching departments and administrative offices of the university will remain open and directed that all university employees should continue performing their duty....
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Faryal files nomination from BB’s constituency
LARKANA, May 12: Former district nazim of Nawabshah, Ms Faryal Talpur, filed her nomination papers for NA-207 (Larkana-IV) in Ratodero on Monday....
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Tortured
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, May 12: Enraged villagers allegedly subjected an octogenarian relative to torture and set his house on fire as punishment for selling off the house to a man belonging to...
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PML-Q MNA, father, brother booked
MITHI, May 12: The Nagarparkar police have registered a case against Pakistan Muslim League-Q MNA Dr Ghulam Hyder Samejo, his father Haji Amin, his brother Aftab, Hanif, Abdul Karim, Rano and...
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APDM remembers May 12 victims
HYDERABAD, May 12: The components parties of the All-Party Democratic Alliance observed black day and held rallies and demonstrations across Sindh on Monday, in protest against government failure to nab perpetrators of May 12 Karachi killings....
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Five freed from illegal police detention
LARKANA, May 12: Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate-I Qambar Rasool Bux Solangi recovered five people, in a raid at the Nasirabad police station on Monday, kept in illegal detention....
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Sarki vows to spread Syed’s message
DADU, May 12: People will continue to struggle till the realisation of the dream of Jeay Sindh Movement’s founder G.M. Syed, said General Secretary JSQM Dr Safdar Sarki....
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ACE team raids Larkana nazim office
LARKANA, May 12: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) team including circle officers of Larkana, Nawabshah and Sanghar raided the Larkana District Nazim’s Secretariat and seized record on the directive of Sindh Chief Minister....
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Anniversary to be observed every year
QUETTA, May 12: Lawyers boycotted the courts here on Monday and at a meeting adopted a resolution which said that after the restoration of the judiciary the perpetrators of the crimes...
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