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Rally condemns mounting prices in Multan
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Our Correspondent
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MULTAN: Local businessmen and people from various walks of life staged a demonstration in Gulgasht Colony here Thursday against growing price hike.
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Governer announces uplift schemes for Sialkot
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Kicks off PPP candidate’s campaign in PP-121
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Our Correspondent
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SIALKOT: Punjab Governor Salman Taseer Thursday visited the city in connection with a PPP candidate's by-election campaign in constituency PP-121.
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Bahawalpur tehsil council okays budget
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Muhammad Asif
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BAHAWALPUR: Tehsil Nazim Zahid Mehmood Channer presented Rs 418,220,000 tax-free budget for 2008-09 and the house approved it unanimously the other day.
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Girl kidnapped
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Our Correspondent
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MAILSI: Three vagabonds kidnapped a girl here on Thursday.
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Sialkot district govt announces 10pc raise in medicinal quota
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Imran Shakeel Butt
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DASKA: The district government would soon establish a Child and Mother Health Care Department at all its DHQ and THQ hospitals, Rural Health Centres (RHCs) and Basic Health Units (BHUs) in active collaboration with UNICEF, Sialkot business community and the local philanthropists for providing maximum advanced medical and health facilities to the people.
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Nine officials booked for manhandling complainant
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Our Correspondent
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PATTOKI: City police Thursday registered a case against SDO, an engineer and seven others of the building department who allegedly thrashed a man who got a corruption case registered against the SDO.
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Woman, girl brutally killed
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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NOWSHERA: Unknown assailants here Thursday killed a woman and a girl and threw away their bodies in the mountains of Manki area, police said.
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One killed, another hurt in road
accident
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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PAKPATTAN: A man was killed while another received serious injuries in a head-on collision between a tractor trolley and a car at Sahiwal-Pakpattan road about 24km away here Thursday.
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Govt to launch Youth Development Programme: Qaim
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Says educated youth to get jobs after training, Rs 4,000 to Rs 7,000 stipend during training | Govt to construct 50,000 to 100,000 housing units for the poor
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has announced that the provincial government will launch Youth Development Programme to be named after Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto from July 15.
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NFC Award to be announced soon: PM
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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KARACHI: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani Wednesday said the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award would be announced soon.
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Sialkot gets Rs 1.65b for uplift schemes
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Arif Mehmood Sheikh
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SIALKOT: The district government has allocated Rs 1.65 billion for development schemes out of its Rs 5.64 billion tax-free budget for the fiscal year 2008-09 with priority given to the education sector at an allocation of Rs 2.17 billion.
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‘PPP committed to provide relief to masses’
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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SUKKUR: The PPP leader and MNA Syeda Nafisa Shah has said that all-out efforts will be made to provide relief to the masses and resolve their problems.
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35 Afghan
immigrants jailed
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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QUETTA: Judicial Magistrate Dalbandin, Asad Ullah Raisani Thursday sentenced 35 illegal Afghan immigrants to two months rigorous imprisonment each under the Foreign Act 1946.
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Efforts on to de-silt drains ahead of monsoon
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Our Correspondent
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FAISALABAD: The Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) is taking emergency steps to de-silt various sewer lines and open drains ahead of the upcoming monsoon season.
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Four killed in road accident
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APP
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KARACHI: At least four people killed in roadside accident near Super Highway tool Plaza here early Thursday morning.
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Transfer of two naib tehsildars cancelled
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Our Correspondent
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JHANG: The Senior Member (SM) Board of Revenue has cancelled the orders of District Coordination Officer (DCO) for the transfer of two Naib Tehsildars at their home tehsils and stopped them from working.
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Journalists take out rally
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Our Correspondent
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BAHAWALPUR: Local journalists took out a rally against decision of shifting of advertisements section of public relations department of Bahawalpur to Multan.
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Lawyers
boycott court
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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QUETTA: Lawyers community across Balochistan boycotted proceedings of the High Court and all subordinate courts on Thursday in protest against the delay in reinstatement of the deposed judges.
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KU announces BA, B Ed results
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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KARACHI: The University of Karachi on Thursday announced the result of B A Part-I external annual examination, 2007.
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Mareer-Faizabad flyover announced
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Aqeel Sarfraz
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RAWALPINDI: Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif Thursday announced the government would build a flyover from Mareer Chowk to Faizabad to mitigate sufferings of commuters.
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FJWU
hosts Indus Valley Walk
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Staff Reporter
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RAWALPINDI: The Fatima Jinnah Women's University hosted Thursday a festival titled "Indus Valley Walk".
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Students rally against Bara operation
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Staff Reporter
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PESHAWAR: Muttahida Tulba Aman Tehreek took out a rally in front of the Press Club to protest against the ongoing military operation in Bara.
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Shahbaz pays surprise visit to DHQ hospital
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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RAWALPINDI: Chief Minister Punjab Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif paid a surprise visit to the District Headquarters (DHQ) hospital here on Thursday where he inquired about workings of various departments of the hospital.
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Woman seeks justice
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Staff Reporter
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PESSHAWAR: Shamim Begum, a resident of Jogan Shah, Dabgari located in the Shah Qabool police precincts, has demanded the officials provide her with justice.
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CCPO bans carrying arms
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Online
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PESHAWAR: The Capital City Police Officer has imposed a ban on carrying arms and ammunition in the provincial capital under the articles 118/122 of the Police Order 2002.
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WBA issue under consideration, says Sherry
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Online
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KARACHI: Federal Minister of Information Sherry Rehman has said the issue of Wage Board Award was under observation and a dialogue between the parties would be held at the end of this month.
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Navy to get utmost resources: PM
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Staff Reporter
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KARACHI: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani has said that Pakistan has no intention to enter into an arms race in the region but the country will maintain a minimum credible deterrence to ensure peace and the ongoing process of the economic development uninterrupted.
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PM supports NWFP govt peace talks: Hoti
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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PESHAWAR: NWFP Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has said that the provincial government will never compromise on the security of the people and curb criminal activities in the province at any cost.
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Indian couple killed in road accident
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Our Correspondent
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MULTAN: An Indian couple, Khatoon Begum and Mashooq Ali of Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh), was killed in a road accident at Dera Muhammadi on his way to Kotli Najabat (Shujabad) on Wednesday night.
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