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Balochistan peace moves scuttled by hawks: Mushahid
ISLAMABAD, June 6: PML-Q secretary-general Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed made some stunning revelations in Senate on Friday about non-implementation of a parliamentary committee’s recommendations on Balochistan.... 
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NA runs out of steam as debate on local govts divides house
ISLAMABAD, June 6: The National Assembly on Friday seemed to have run out of steam as a debate on local governments dragged on to the next week after dividing the house...
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Govt must seek UN help for displaced people: HRCP
QUETTA, June 6: The Human Right Commission of Pakistan has urged the government to seek UN help to rehabilitate 1.5 million internally-displaced people....
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Author’s claim in book about Benazir condemned
ISLAMABAD, June 6: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has condemned the claim made in a book that former prime minister Benazir Bhutto confided to the author that she participated in nuclear black...
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Centre, Sindh govt urged to save 15 girls: LFP to challenge Jirga decision in SHC
ISLAMABAD, June 6: Liberal Forum Pakistan (LFP) has urged the federal and provincial governments to urgently intervene to save 15 underage girls of Chakrani tribes who were engaged to marry Qalandari tribesmen to settle a blood feud between the two tribes....
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Shahbaz joins PA seething with discord
LAHORE, June 6: PML-N President Mian Shahbaz Sharif on Friday took oath as a Punjab Assembly member amid noisy protest by the opposition against the speaker’s failure to notify the leader of opposition....
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‘Unlawful’ not in Shahbaz’s dictionary
LAHORE, June 6: Shahbaz Sharif, who is due to take oath as the chief minister of Punjab on Sunday, says he will “ensure rule of law in the province and will...
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PML-N has fundamental differences over package
LAHORE, June 6: The PML-N has fundamental differences over the PPP''s package of constitutional amendments and has, therefore, not accepted the draft in toto given by the federal law minister, a party spokesman said on Friday....
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Musharraf not a hurdle in judges’ restoration: Rashid
LAHORE, June 6: Awami Muslim League President Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has said President Pervez Musharraf is...
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PO gets death in ‘shootout’ with police
LAHORE, June 6: Police claimed on Friday to have killed a proclaimed offender in an encounter at Lorry Adda early in the morning....
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‘Nazim secures govt land for sons’
LAYYAH, June 6: District Nazim Malik Ghulam Haider, in alleged connivance with the district officer for revenue, has got transferred 113 canal costly government land in the name of his three sons....
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Embassy car blast suspects’ family in the dark
JHANG, June 6: A man and his son whose ‘stolen’ car was used in the Denmark embassy bombing in Islamabad are still in the custody of security agencies....
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Bypoll road for Wattoo’s son: green signal all way
OKARA, June 6: The stage is almost set for a landslide victory of Mian Khurram Jehangir Wattoo, the son of Mian Manzoor Wattoo, in the bypoll for NA-147 (Okara-V) seat after...
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Students expulsion by PMC to be challenged
FAISALABAD, June 6: The Ahmedi community has decided to move court against the expulsion of 23 students from the Punjab Medical College (PMC). These students were shown the door on Thursday...
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IJT book stall attacked
SARGODHA, June 6: Over 100 baton-wielding people attacked a book stall of the Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) here on Friday on Stadium Road and damaged books and injured six activists, IJT leaders alleged....
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PBM seeks Rs1.5bn increase in allocation
ISLAMABAD, June 6: As prices show a regular upward trend and more and more people come to Pakistan Baitul Mal (PBM) for financial assistance, the PBM has sought an increase of Rs1.5...
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Man killed
Gujar KHAN, June 6: A man was killed in an accident here on Friday when his car went out of the control of the driver near police constabulary school on the GT Road on Friday....
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‘PML-Q govt added 2,207MW in 2002-07’
ISLAMABAD, June 6: The Pakistan Muslim League-Q on Friday claimed that its government had added 2,207 megawatts of electricity to the system in 2002-2007....
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Chief Justice’s Committee meets today
ISLAMABAD, June 6: Chief Justice of Pakistan Abdul Hameed Dogar has called a meeting of the Chief Justice’s Committee on Saturday, two days ahead of lawyers’ planned long march to discuss...
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Man kills wife; another injured
CHAKWAL, June 6: A woman was killed and another injured in separate domestic violence incidents late Thursday evening, police sources said....
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DCOs’ meeting
LAHORE, June 6: The Punjab chief secretary is presiding over a meeting of all DCOs in the civil secretariat on Saturday (today)....
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