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Provincial status for Fata demanded
PESHAWAR, May 30: Tribal elders hailing from different agencies have called upon the government to carve out a separate province encompassing the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.... 
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Jalozai refugee camp closed
NOWSHERA, May 30: The sprawling Jalozai refugee camp was shut on Friday after over 70,000 Afghans had vacated the site....
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Election tribunal seeks reply from Bajaur MNA
PESHAWAR, May 30: An election tribunal of the Peshawar High Court on Friday directed the MNA from Bajaur Agency, Akhundzada Chittan, to file reply to two election petitions seeking his disqualification....
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Security beefed up in Peshawar
PESHAWAR, May 30: Keeping in view the proposed visit of the deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Saturday, the city police have beefed up security measures and assigned fresh duties to officials to avert any untoward incident on the occasion....
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Two women killed by landmine
QUETTA, May 30: Two women were killed and another woman and a constable were injured by a landmine in Kohlu on Friday....
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Bahawalpur ‘loses’ neuro sciences plan
BAHAWALPUR, May 30: The Institute for Neuro Sciences, which was planned to be set up in Bahawalpur, has been shifted to Lahore, District Nazim Tariq Cheema said on Friday....
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Verdict on appeals against Nawaz, Shahbaz today
LAHORE, May 30: An election tribunal of the Lahore High Court on Friday reserved for today (Saturday) the verdict on the appeals against acceptance of nomination papers of PML-N patron Nawaz Sharif and president Shahbaz Sharif....
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PML-N men for five NA, nine PA seats
LAHORE, May 30: The PML-N has announced its candidates for bypolls on five National Assembly and nine provincial assembly seats in Punjab. A decision on five provincial assembly seats has been deferred....
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Qazi wants cut in size of armed forces
LAHORE, May 30: Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed on Friday demanded reduction in the size of the armed forces....
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Appoint FDE head from parent department: IHC
ISLAMABAD, May 30: Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Sardar Mohammad Aslam has directed the education ministry to ensure the appointment of the head of Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) in line with the rules of SRO-225....
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Man sentenced to 25 years in prison for axing wife
RAWALPINDI, May 30: An additional district and sessions judge here on Friday sentenced a man to 25 years in prison for axing his wife to death in Kahuta earlier this year....
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Jurisdiction of Pindi changed
RAWALPINDI, May 30: The Punjab government amended the nomenclature and jurisdiction of region III (Rawalpindi) on Friday, official sources said....
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Man hit, killed by train
RAWALPINDI, May 30: A man was killed when he was struck by a passenger train near Marrir Chowk here on Friday, police said....
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Rabies vaccine import: NIH refutes PMA allegations
RAWALPINDI, May 30: The National Institute of Health has refuted allegations raised by Pakistan Medical Association, Rawalpindi Islamabad chapter, about import of a rabies vaccine from a Brazilian institute....
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21 prisoners released
CHAKWAL, May 30: Additional District and Sessions Judge Mushtaq Elahi Bingi on Friday visited sub jail Chakwal and ordered to release some 21 prisoners involved in petty crimes....
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Students told to fight illiteracy
ISLAMABAD, May 30: It was imperative for students to focus on their education as a prime duty and equip themselves with modern knowledge for the progress of country....
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More flour for Fata
ISLAMABAD, May 30: The government has decided to supply an additional 536 tons of wheat flour per day to Fata to meet the demand in the area.—Reporter...
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Parties set up camps outside PHC to welcome deposed CJ
PESHAWAR, May 30: Lawyers, political activists and civil society groups completed arrangements to accord a rousing welcome to deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on his visit to the provincial capital on Saturday....
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Flour seized in Darra
KOHAT, May 30: Security forces seized 3,600 maunds of flour in Darra Adamkhel which was being smuggled to Afghanistan on Friday....
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Jirga settles 30-year old dispute
MANSEHRA, May 30: A 30-year-old dispute over a territory between two sub-clans of the Bassikhel tribe in Kala Dhaka was settled on Friday by a local jirga, it is learnt.
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Education department acts to retrieve land
SAHIWAL, May 30: The district education department has identified 73 schools of diverse grades whose land is illegally occupied by influential people....
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Man dies of power shocks
FAISALABAD, May 30: A man died of electric shots and eight others of the same family were injured when a live electricity wire fell on them in Malikpur on Friday....
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Autopsy confirms torture caused student’s death
VEHARI, May 30: The autopsy report of the seven-year-old blind student, Atif, who died after being subjected to corporal punishment allegedly by a seminary teacher here on Thursday, has confirmed that...
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Police not siding with nine people’s killers: DPO
BAHAWALPUR, May 30: District Police Officer Azhar Hameed Khokhar has denied that police are siding with the accused and that innocent people have been arrested in connection with the murder of...
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LHC seeks Nepra reply
LAHORE, May 30: Justice Syed Hamid Ali Shah of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has directed National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) to file reply on Friday next (June 6) regarding...
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NTU stakeholders’ fate may be decided today
FAISALABAD, May 30: The National Textile University’s (NTU) board of governors will likely to decide the fate of the vice-chancellor, students and the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) in its second meeting on Saturday (today)....
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Shot dead
SIALKOT, May 30: Six dacoits shot a farmer dead in a Pasrur tehsil village early Friday....
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Clarification
A report on a press conference by Begum Bilqees Akram, head of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Bahawalpur, (Dawn, May 19, 2008), inadvertently carried the headline ‘BISE chief admits matric papers leak’....
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