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Initial probe into Mumbai attacks completed
Nepra recommends power tariff increase
Pro-govt Taliban ban uplift work in NWA
Nine terror suspects sent on 14-day police r...
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World
SL rules out ceasefire with LTTE
Brain chemical make locusts swarm: researche...
Turncoat kept up espionage for Russia from j...
Poverty drives Rohingyas to death
Most Serb veterans suffer badly from war ail...
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National
Rabbani pays tributes to retiring senators
PM asks EU to pursue roadmap for strategic p...
PML-N wants govt to complete its term: Nawaz
Punjab CM orders withdrawal of cases against...
Zardari urges joint anti-terror Pak-Afghan e...
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Business
Banks to fund flour mills for buying indigen...
External inflows contribute Rs12bn only
Auto sales to decline by 48pc: analyst
Summary on PSDP cut sent to PM
Only NADRA will have access to mobile firms’...
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Sports
Below-par Shoaib down with knee injury
PCB drops idea of trial matches
South Africa go to top of ICC ODI rankings
Amla, Tsotsobe lead SA to victory
Asif all set to be handed one-year ban
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Karachi
DHA desalination plant still under a cloud
SBC elects VC; AG refuses to accept poll
‘When will I go home?’
‘6.5 million to get health insurance soon’
Taseer urges philanthropists to support char...
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Lahore
CM drops cases against political workers
Public schools to offer vocational training
Attacks on schools un-Islamic: Qazi
Move to settle affairs between doctors, govt
Jinnah Hospital starts free meals for patien...
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Islamabad
Markets cleared of ‘smuggled, expired drugs’
Minister wants to bring changes in S&T secto...
Stamp paper vendors looting public
Mohtasib’s office needs reforms, says presid...
US cultural attache calls on Fakhar Zaman
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Peshawar
PPP parliamentary leader in PA named
Protest staged against Wapda, Nadra
Standoff over Dargai land dispute lingers on
Abbottabad rally calls for peace in Swat, Fa...
Crackdown against criminals in Mardan
Hamas fears Gaza truce could be broken
GAZA CITY: More than 5,000 Hamas supporters rallied in Gaza on Friday, as a
leader of the Islamic militant group emerged from hiding to declare victory
in the 23-day Israeli offensive that devastated much of the Palestinian territory.
He also feared some hiding enemies are indulged to break Gaza truce.
Hamas lawmaker Khalil al-Hayeh appeared in public for the first time since the war's start on Dec. 27 and remained defiant despite Hamas' heavy losses.
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Hamas leader ties Israeli soldier's freedom to prisoner swap
WASHINGTON: A senior member of the Palestinian movement Hamas insists his group
will not release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit until Israel releases Hamas prisoners.
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Japan PM set to announce huge aid package
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso will announce a multi-billion-dollar
aid package for Asian countries in a speech Saturday at the World Economic Forum
in Davos, reports said.
The three-year package from April 2009, worth 1.5 trillion .....more
Droning on
Once more, this time at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Prime Minister Yusuf
Raza Gilani has called on the US to end drone attacks and described them as
'counterproductive'. He has urged the Obama administration to change its tactics
and to end the raids into Pakistan. We have all heard the same ...
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Malik moves in
The adviser on interior, who over the past few days seems suddenly to have come
alive to the situation in Swat as pressure builds on the government to do something,
has assured the Senate that a 'new' strategy has been put in place to deal with
the situation. Though he has refused to say what this i ...
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The power problem
In an effort to provide power to a slumping industrial sector, hours of load-shedding
for domestic consumers have been expanded in Punjab. What makes matters worse
is the fact that the hours of outage are almost completely unpredictable, with
the lights flickering off sometimes every hour and someti ...