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I'll quit if that helps resolve issue: PM
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By Zulqernain Tahir
LAHORE, March 18: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said here on Sunday that he would be ready to resign if that would help resolve the issue of writing a letter to Swiss authorities to reopen cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
Mr Gilani, who was talking to journalists at his residence, made the remarks in response to a suggestion that he should better resign to avoid a jail sentence in the contempt of court case or a death sentence for violating the Constitution (in case of writing the letter)...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/19/ill-quit-if-that-helps-resolve-issue-pm.html
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14 bodiesfound in Bara
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LANDI KOTAL, March 18: Fourteen bullet-riddled bodies were found in Speen Qabar, Bara, on Sunday, a day after security forces left the area.
Local people told Dawn that the bullet-riddled bodies with their faces having acid burn wounds, had been brought by volunteers of a welfare organisation to Mandai Kas area and kept there for identification...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/19/14-bodiesfound-in-bara.html
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Haqqani's request for testimony via video link turned down
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By Malik Asad
ISLAMABAD, March 18: The memo commission turned down on Sunday a request by former ambassador Husain Haqqani to be allowed to record his testimony via video link from London and asked him to appear before it on March 26 in Islamabad.
Mr Haqqani told the three-member commission, headed by Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa, that he was not an accused but a witness in the memo case, but he had lost his job and was being consistently maligned in the media. "Since the commission has been working under a tight schedule, it should start recording my testimony from Monday (March 19) without wasting more time because I also want an early end to the inquiry. There is no bar on the commission to record my testimony from London because it has already recorded the testimony and cross-examined American businessman Mansoor Ijaz via a video link," Mr Haqqani told the commission which resumed the hearing of the memo case in the Islamabad High Court building...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/19/haqqanis-request-for-testimony-via-video-link-turned-down.html
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MQM threat to boycott joint session tomorrow
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, March 18: As President Asif Ali Zardari summoned the much-awaited joint sitting of the two houses of parliament on Tuesday to discuss new terms of engagements with the United States, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement appeared to be planning to use the occasion to mount pressure over its demand for a "massive crackdown on extortionists" in Karachi.
Talking to Dawn, MQM's media coordinator Wasay Jalil said the party could use any option, including the boycott of the joint session if the government did not take "practical steps" against the extortion mafia which held the Karachi city hostage...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/19/mqm-threat-to-boycott-joint-session-tomorrow.html
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Overall food prices rose by 79pc in four years
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, March 18: The cost of minimum food basket comprising basic items increased by 79 per cent during four years of the current government, adding to malnutrition and poverty, according to official findings.
"The food basket has shown a consistent increase since 2007 from Rs1000 to Rs1790 (79 per cent) based on retail prices of December 2011," according to a biannual report on Change in Cost of Food Basket (July-December 2011)...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/19/overall-food-prices-rose-by-79pc-in-four-years.html
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US, Pakistan set to begin military re-engagement
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, March 18: A US military commander will be the first to visit Islamabad as the United States and Pakistan begin the process of re-engagement, mainly because Pakistani political leaders will be out of the country later this month.
Gen James Mattis, commander of the US Central Command, is expected to arrive in Islamabad in the last week of March for a series of meetings with Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and other senior Pakistani military leaders...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/19/us-pakistan-set-to-begin-military-re-engagement.html
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Soldier, five civilians killed in Waziristan
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By Pazir Gul
MIRAMSHAH, March 18: Security forces resorted to indiscriminate firing and shelling in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday, killing five innocent people, one of them a child, after two military convoys were attacked.
According to sources, the security personnel began shelling some villages in Mirali tehsil in retaliation against an attack by militants on a military convoy...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/19/soldier-five-civilians-killed-in-waziristan.html
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PPP rebuts Ijaz's allegations against Zardari
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By Syed Irfan Raza
ISLAMABAD, March 18: The Pakistan People's Party came out on Sunday with a detailed reply to the allegations levelled by American businessman of Pakistani origin, Mansoor Ijaz, against President Asif Ali Zardari during the hearing by the memo commission and termed them 'self-contradictory'.
But the reply has come from former federal minister and frontline PPP leader Raja Pervez Ashraf and has been issued through a spokesman of the presidency...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/19/ppp-rebuts-ijazs-allegations-against-zardari.html
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Bookie shot dead after cricket match
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By Our Staff Reporter
LAHORE, March 18: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a 55-year-old alleged bookmaker in a single-room portion of a house in which he lived near main Sandah Road after India defeated Pakistan in an Asia Cup match on Sunday.
Iqbal Town SP Operation Abdhul Ghaffar Qaisarani told Dawn that Shaukat, alias Lambha, had been living in a portion of the house...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/19/bookie-shot-dead-after-cricket-match.html
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Singh in trouble as railway minister quits
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By Jawed Naqvi
NEW DELHI, March 18: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's fractious coalition was plunged into a serious crisis on Sunday after Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi was forced to quit by his Trinamool Congress, just days after he presented India's annual railway budget in parliament.
The resignation followed criticism by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of Mr Trivedi, her party nominee, for increasing train fares, a move she disapproved of. Reports said she had haggled with and persuaded the prime minister to nominate another senior party aide, Mr Mukul Roy, to replace Mr Trivedi. This could lead to an embarrassing rollback of the railway budget...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/19/singh-in-trouble-as-railway-minister-quits.html
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Democracy is the only way forward, says Nawaz
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LONDON, March 18: Pakistan Muslim League chief Nawaz Sharif said on Sunday that there was no other way except democracy to solve the problems being faced by the country.
Addressing a press conference in London, Mr Sharif said he had learnt a lot from the mistakes committed in the past and added that the PML-N would not support any other system except democracy...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/19/democracy-is-the-only-way-forward-says-nawaz.html
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• Zardari's fifth address to parliament • PML-N leads boos: Long on claims, short on promises
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By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, March 17: A seemingly subdued President Asif Ali Zardari scored a new political milestone on Saturday, but his record fifth address to parliament in the face of a noisy opposition protest had no big promises for an election year.
A 35-minute prepared speech, about half of which was marred by loud opposition shouting, mainly recounted what the Pakistan People's Party-led coalition government did in its four difficult years and spoke little about its agenda for the last year of its term that will run out in March next year...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/zardaris-fifth-address-to-parliament-pml-n-leads-boos-long-on-claims-short-on-promises.html
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PML-N rejects president's assertions
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The Pakistan Muslim League-N rejected on Saturday the claims made by President Asif Ali Zardari about the government's achievements and said he was perhaps speaking about some other country.
"There was nothing new in Zardari's speech other than false claims. (The) PPP has delivered nothing to the nation in four years. The president was talking about developments in some other country, and not in Pakistan," Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly, told newsmen outside the Parliament House after boycotting the president's speech...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/pml-n-rejects-presidents-assertions.html
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Zardari okayed Abbottabad raid: Ijaz: Wife urges commission to
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By Malik Asad
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The memo commission was approached from an unliklely quarter on Saturday when the wife of Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik submitted an application to become a party in the case.
Mushaal Malik said an allegation levelled by Mansoor Ijaz, the American businessman, that he had arranged a meeting between her husband and C. D. Sahay, a former Indian intelligence chief, had damaged his reputation...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/zardari-okayed-abbottabad-raid-ijaz-wife-urges-commission-to-hear-yasin-malik.html
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Osama's family members remanded in custody
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By Our Reporter
ISLAMABAD, March 17: A court here on Saturday remanded members of the family of slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in judicial custody for nine days.
Senior Civil Judge Sharukh Arjumand conducted hearings in the trial of Bin Laden's widows, Khairiah Hussain Sabir alias Ume Khalid, Shaim Sharif and Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah, and daughters Mariam and Samina in a house on the Embassy Road. The house has been declared a sub-jail by the Islamabad chief commissioner. Nine children are also part of the family...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/osamas-family-members-remanded-in-custody.html
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Arundhati's exclusive to Dawn
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In an exclusive for Dawn, Arundhati Roy comes out with an expose of India's economic growth. "In India, the 300 million… who belong to the new, post-IMF 'reforms' middle class… live side by side with spirits of the nether world, the poltergeists of dead rivers, dry wells, bald mountains and denuded forests; the ghosts of 250,000 debt-ridden farmers who have killed themselves, and of the 800 million who have been impoverished and dispossessed to make way for us. And who survive on less than twenty rupees a day," writes the author of "The God of small things"...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/arundhatis-exclusive-to-dawn.html
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Strike in Karachi, other Sindh towns
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KARACHI, March 17: Karachi came to a standstill on Saturday in response to a call given by a businessmen's body, and supported by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, in order to show outrage over the growing menace of extortion.
Traders' representatives followed up the shutdown with a warning to the government to rid the city of the scourge within three days or be ready for a nationwide strike...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/strike-in-karachi-other-sindh-towns.html
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Sindh CM doesn't own car; Magsi richest MPA
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By Iftikhar A. Khan and Kalbe Ali
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Sindh Food Minister Mir Nadir Magsi retained the top spot on the list of the wealthiest members of the provincial assembly with assets valued at Rs1.51 billion.
According to statements of assets and liabilities submitted to the Election Commission, Mr Magsi inherited weapons worth Rs7.5 million and his personal addition to the arsenal amounts to Rs2.5 million...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/sindh-cm-doesnt-own-car-magsi-richest-mpa.html
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Supreme Court clarification
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REFERRING to the report published in Dawn on Friday under the headline "Documents on immunity stolen from house of SC official" and the clarification published on Saturday, the Supreme Court has further clarified that the news item ascribed to the Registrar was factually incorrect.
Mr Yousaf Jan, who is a Judicial Assistant working in record section in the Supreme Court of Pakistan at the principal seat in Islamabad, has nothing to do with research work in the Court, according to the statement...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/supreme-court-clarification.html
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23 killed in Orakzai
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KALAYA, March 17: Twenty-three suspected militants were killed when military planes targeted their positions in Dabori and Mamozai areas of Orakzai Agency on Saturday.
Officials said that 11 hideouts were destroyed in the volatile area...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/23-killed-in-orakzai.html
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SC official suspended
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By Munawer Azeem
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Saturday announced the suspension of a judicial assistant while also stating that some study and research material had gone missing from the house of the suspended official, who worked in the record section of the court.
It was further stated in the press release that the Registrar of Supreme Court had placed under suspension Yousaf Jan Marwat and had initiated disciplinary proceedings against him under the Supreme Court (Appointment of Officers and Servants and Terms and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1982...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/sc-official-suspended.html
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Two FC men shot dead
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QUETTA, March 17: Two Frontier Corps personnel were killed when armed men opened fire on them in Sangsella area of Dera Bugti district on Saturday.
Confirming the incident, an FC spokesman said the personnel were patrolling the area on foot when they came under fire...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/two-fc-men-shot-dead.html
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Three girls die in Bara blast
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By Ibrahim Shinwari
LANDI KOTAL, March 17: Three teenage girls were killed in a bomb blast that occurred in Bara during a curfew break on Saturday.
Sources said the explosive device planted along a road went off when families were moving to safe places from Mandai Kas in Sipah area after the curfew was relaxed...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/three-girls-die-in-bara-blast.html
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Two held for attack on procession
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By Malik Irfanul Haq
RAHIM YAR KHAN, March 17: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested two men for their alleged involvement in a bomb attack on a mourning procession in Khanpur.
Addressing a press conference, Regional Police Officer (RPO) Mohammad Abid Qadri said that Khanpur City SHO Ghulam Dastgeer was patrolling near Pakistan Chowk when he saw two suspicious men with shopping bags in their hands...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/two-held-for-attack-on-procession.html
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• Zardari's fifth address to parliament • PML-N leads boos: Long on claims, short on promises
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By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, March 17: A seemingly subdued President Asif Ali Zardari scored a new political milestone on Saturday, but his record fifth address to parliament in the face of a noisy opposition protest had no big promises for an election year.
A 35-minute prepared speech, about half of which was marred by loud opposition shouting, mainly recounted what the Pakistan People's Party-led coalition government did in its four difficult years and spoke little about its agenda for the last year of its term that will run out in March next year...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/zardaris-fifth-address-to-parliament-pml-n-leads-boos-long-on-claims-short-on-promises.html
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PML-N rejects president's assertions
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The Pakistan Muslim League-N rejected on Saturday the claims made by President Asif Ali Zardari about the government's achievements and said he was perhaps speaking about some other country.
"There was nothing new in Zardari's speech other than false claims. (The) PPP has delivered nothing to the nation in four years. The president was talking about developments in some other country, and not in Pakistan," Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly, told newsmen outside the Parliament House after boycotting the president's speech...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/pml-n-rejects-presidents-assertions.html
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Zardari okayed Abbottabad raid: Ijaz: Wife urges commission to
hear Yasin Malik
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By Malik Asad
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The memo commission was approached from an unliklely quarter on Saturday when the wife of Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik submitted an application to become a party in the case.
Mushaal Malik said an allegation levelled by Mansoor Ijaz, the American businessman, that he had arranged a meeting between her husband and C. D. Sahay, a former Indian intelligence chief, had damaged his reputation...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/zardari-okayed-abbottabad-raid-ijaz-wife-urges-commission-to-hear-yasin-malik.html
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Osama's family members remanded in custody
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By Our Reporter
ISLAMABAD, March 17: A court here on Saturday remanded members of the family of slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in judicial custody for nine days.
Senior Civil Judge Sharukh Arjumand conducted hearings in the trial of Bin Laden's widows, Khairiah Hussain Sabir alias Ume Khalid, Shaim Sharif and Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah, and daughters Mariam and Samina in a house on the Embassy Road. The house has been declared a sub-jail by the Islamabad chief commissioner. Nine children are also part of the family...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/osamas-family-members-remanded-in-custody.html
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Arundhati's exclusive to Dawn
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In an exclusive for Dawn, Arundhati Roy comes out with an expose of India's economic growth. "In India, the 300 million… who belong to the new, post-IMF 'reforms' middle class… live side by side with spirits of the nether world, the poltergeists of dead rivers, dry wells, bald mountains and denuded forests; the ghosts of 250,000 debt-ridden farmers who have killed themselves, and of the 800 million who have been impoverished and dispossessed to make way for us. And who survive on less than twenty rupees a day," writes the author of "The God of small things"...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/arundhatis-exclusive-to-dawn.html
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Strike in Karachi, other Sindh towns
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KARACHI, March 17: Karachi came to a standstill on Saturday in response to a call given by a businessmen's body, and supported by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, in order to show outrage over the growing menace of extortion.
Traders' representatives followed up the shutdown with a warning to the government to rid the city of the scourge within three days or be ready for a nationwide strike...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/strike-in-karachi-other-sindh-towns.html
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Sindh CM doesn't own car; Magsi richest MPA
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By Iftikhar A. Khan and Kalbe Ali
ISLAMABAD, March 17: Sindh Food Minister Mir Nadir Magsi retained the top spot on the list of the wealthiest members of the provincial assembly with assets valued at Rs1.51 billion.
According to statements of assets and liabilities submitted to the Election Commission, Mr Magsi inherited weapons worth Rs7.5 million and his personal addition to the arsenal amounts to Rs2.5 million...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/sindh-cm-doesnt-own-car-magsi-richest-mpa.html
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Supreme Court clarification
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REFERRING to the report published in Dawn on Friday under the headline "Documents on immunity stolen from house of SC official" and the clarification published on Saturday, the Supreme Court has further clarified that the news item ascribed to the Registrar was factually incorrect.
Mr Yousaf Jan, who is a Judicial Assistant working in record section in the Supreme Court of Pakistan at the principal seat in Islamabad, has nothing to do with research work in the Court, according to the statement...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/supreme-court-clarification.html
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23 killed in Orakzai
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KALAYA, March 17: Twenty-three suspected militants were killed when military planes targeted their positions in Dabori and Mamozai areas of Orakzai Agency on Saturday.
Officials said that 11 hideouts were destroyed in the volatile area...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/23-killed-in-orakzai.html
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SC official suspended
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By Munawer Azeem
ISLAMABAD, March 17: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Saturday announced the suspension of a judicial assistant while also stating that some study and research material had gone missing from the house of the suspended official, who worked in the record section of the court.
It was further stated in the press release that the Registrar of Supreme Court had placed under suspension Yousaf Jan Marwat and had initiated disciplinary proceedings against him under the Supreme Court (Appointment of Officers and Servants and Terms and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1982...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/sc-official-suspended.html
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Two FC men shot dead
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QUETTA, March 17: Two Frontier Corps personnel were killed when armed men opened fire on them in Sangsella area of Dera Bugti district on Saturday.
Confirming the incident, an FC spokesman said the personnel were patrolling the area on foot when they came under fire...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/two-fc-men-shot-dead.html
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Three girls die in Bara blast
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By Ibrahim Shinwari
LANDI KOTAL, March 17: Three teenage girls were killed in a bomb blast that occurred in Bara during a curfew break on Saturday.
Sources said the explosive device planted along a road went off when families were moving to safe places from Mandai Kas in Sipah area after the curfew was relaxed...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/three-girls-die-in-bara-blast.html
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Two held for attack on procession
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By Malik Irfanul Haq
RAHIM YAR KHAN, March 17: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested two men for their alleged involvement in a bomb attack on a mourning procession in Khanpur.
Addressing a press conference, Regional Police Officer (RPO) Mohammad Abid Qadri said that Khanpur City SHO Ghulam Dastgeer was patrolling near Pakistan Chowk when he saw two suspicious men with shopping bags in their hands...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/two-held-for-attack-on-procession.html
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Zardari's record fifth address to joint session today
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By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The stage was set for President Asif Zardari to become the first head of state to deliver a record fifth address to a joint sitting of the National Assembly and Senate on Saturday after the Presidency successfully persuaded the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to step back from its threat to disrupt the session.
The People's Party has built up the occasion as a democratic landmark in the country's chequered history...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/zardaris-record-fifth-address-to-joint-session-today.html
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Muttahida legislators to attend session
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ISLAMABAD / KARACHI, March 16: Taking notice of reports about extortion menacing the business community in Karachi, President Asif Ali Zardari asked Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday to take measures against the scourge in coordination with the Sindh government.
The reports assumed seriousness when the MQM announced that its legislators would boycott a joint sitting of the two houses of parliament to be addressed by the president on Saturday...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/muttahida-legislators-to-attend-session.html
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Haqqani's counsel criticises judge's attitude: Bitter exchanges
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By Malik Asad
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Friday turned out to be a day of bitter exchanges and allegations and counter-allegations as the judicial commission continued the cross-examination of Mansoor Ijaz, the American businessman at the centre of the memo case.
Mr Ijaz repeated his old allegations and levelled new ones about his interaction with former ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani, and the latter's lawyer Zahid Hussain Bokhari at one stage stormed out, protesting that he was not being allowed to freely carry out the cross-examination...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/haqqanis-counsel-criticises-judges-attitude-bitter-exchanges-mar-proceedings.html
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SC wants man picked up last week produced in court on Monday
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The Supreme Court ordered the capital police chief on Friday to recover and produce before it a man who had been picked up in broad daylight last week in the presence of his family.
His counsel informed the court that the only crime of 24-year-old Omar Mahmood Wali was that he was supplying food to demonstrators demanding recovery of missing persons in Islamabad's Parade Ground...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/sc-wants-man-picked-up-last-week-produced-in-court-on-monday.html
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Balochistan govt to withdraw 28 cases against Brahamdagh
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, March 16: The Balochistan government has decided to withdraw 28 cases registered in Dera Bugti district against Baloch Republican Party chief Nawabzada Brahamdagh Bugti.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik had announced last month that all cases against Mr Bugti, Nawabzada Hyarbyar Marri and other self-exiled Baloch leaders would be withdrawn...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/balochistan-govt-to-withdraw-28-cases-against-brahamdagh.html
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Obama phones Karzai: Accord to give main combat role to Afghans
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, March 16: US President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai agreed on Friday to give Afghan forces a leading role in combat operations in 2013, the White House said.
President Obama telephoned President Karzai in the wee hours on Friday, seeking clarity on the Afghan leader's demand that US forces pull out of Afghan villages...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/obama-phones-karzai-accord-to-give-main-combat-role-to-afghans.html
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Tendulkar scores century of centuries
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DHAKA, March 16: Sachin Tendulkar finally ended his year-long wait to score a record 100th international century against Bangladesh during the Asia Cup tournament on Friday.
However, his monumental achievement was marred by an upset five-wicket win by Bangladesh...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/tendulkar-scores-century-of-centuries.html
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Kidnapped American in its custody, says Al Qaeda
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DUBAI, March 16: Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al Zawahiri said on Friday that unless its demands were met, Al Qaeda would not release an elderly American development expert who was kidnapped from Lahore last year.
In a video uploaded on Internet, the Al Qaeda leader said: "By the grace of Allah, we, on our part, have captured the American Jew Warren Weinstein."..
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/kidnapped-american-in-its-custody-says-al-qaeda.html
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Gilani says he is not afraid of anyone
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Dawn Report
LAHORE/MULTAN, March 16: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani maintained the tempo of what has been described as a sort of political offensive and declared on Friday that he was not afraid of 'anyone' because "I am in politics".
And as if to elaborate what he meant he used an Urdu proverb to shed light on the problems he is facing. Roughly translated the proverb says that someone dealing in coal gets his hands blackened...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/gilani-says-he-is-not-afraid-of-anyone.html
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Relatives of hate crime victim get US citizenship
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WEST WINDSOR (New Jersey), March 16: The widow and daughters of a Pakistani immigrant killed by a white supremacist in a 9/11 revenge attack are now US citizens.
Wearing headscarves, Durreshahwar Hasan and three of her daughters took the oath on Friday in a ceremony at the New Jersey office of US Rep Rush Holt. A fourth daughter became a citizen last week...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/relatives-of-hate-crime-victim-get-us-citizenship.html
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'Osama wanted to attack Obama'
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WASHINGTON, March 16: Before his death, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had ordered his followers in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Barack Obama, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
The report, which cited documents seized at the Abbottabad compound where Bin Laden was killed by US forces, said the Al Qaeda leader also sought to kill General David Petraeus, who then headed international forces in Afghanistan...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/osama-wanted-to-attack-obama.html
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13pc hike in Indian defence budget
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NEW DELHI, March 16: India raised on Friday its military spending to Rs1.93 trillion ($38.6 billion), a 13 per cent increase, to modernise the armed forces that are perceived as seeking a role beyond their vigil on China and Pakistan.
The budget hike, in real terms, amounts to $4.5 billion over the revised estimates for the fiscal ending March 31. Discounting this increase of over $1 billion, the hike comes to 17.6 per cent over $32.8 billion originally allocated...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/13pc-hike-in-indian-defence-budget.html
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SC to hear petition against jirga system
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The Supreme Court will commence regular hearing on a petition moved by the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) seeking a declaration that the jirga system in the country is inhuman and against the fundamental rights of citizens.
A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and Justice Tariq Parvez, which had taken up the petition of NCSW chairperson Anis Haroon and others, decided to issue notices to Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq as well as respondents, including secretaries of law and interior and chief secretaries of the four provinces and Gilgit-Baltistan...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/sc-to-hear-petition-against-jirga-system.html
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Shahbaz vows strong action against looters
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By Our Correspondent
GUJRANWALA, March 16: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Friday that rulers were violating the Supreme Court's order by refusing to write a letter to the Swiss government.
Addressing a public meeting in Wazirabad, he said looters of public exchequer would not be spared and they would be dragged on roads after his party's victory in the coming elections...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/shahbaz-vows-strong-action-against-looters.html
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Kharif sowing may be delayed for 15-20 days
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The Indus River System Authority said on Friday that the coming Kharif sowing could be delayed for 15 to 20 days because of lower water flows in rivers and an unpredictable data about water availability. The Kharif sowing usually begin on April 1
In view of unreliable weather conditions and uncertain water availability, a technical committee of Irsa which met on Fiday could not take a decision. It will meet again on March 26 to decide about water projections and shortages on the basis of hydrological conditions prevailing on March 20...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/kharif-sowing-may-be-delayed-for-15-20-days.html
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Eight injured in bomb blast
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By Our Correspondent
PARACHINAR, March 16: A roadside bomb ripped through a Peshawar-bound bus coming from Parachinar on Friday, injuring eight passengers.
The remote-controlled device hit the bus in Charkhel area of the Lower Kurram on the Thall-Parachinar highway. Security forces cordoned off the area after the attack and took the injured, women and children among them, to the Combined Military Hospital in Thall...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/eight-injured-in-bomb-blast.html
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Pakistan team barred from meeting Kasab
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MUMBAI, March 16: An Indian official says a court has barred a Pakistani delegation from interviewing the man convicted of the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai and any of the witnesses in his trial.
The delegation came to India to gather evidence for use in the prosecution of seven militants on trial in Pakistan over the attack that killed 166 people...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/pakistan-team-barred-from-meeting-kasab.html
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Parliament to debate ties with US on Monday
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By Baqir Sajjad Syed
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Parliament will begin a debate on new terms of engagement with the United States on Monday.
"This particular subject (US ties) will be considered by parliament starting from 19th of this month," Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said at his weekly briefing on Friday...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/parliament-to-debate-ties-with-us-on-monday.html
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Karachi Stocks Down 153.95 Points:
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KARACHI, Mar 16: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 13297.12, down 153.95 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, Mar 16: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 91.3 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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Zardari's record fifth address to joint session today
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By Raja Asghar
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The stage was set for President Asif Zardari to become the first head of state to deliver a record fifth address to a joint sitting of the National Assembly and Senate on Saturday after the Presidency successfully persuaded the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to step back from its threat to disrupt the session.
The People's Party has built up the occasion as a democratic landmark in the country's chequered history...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/zardaris-record-fifth-address-to-joint-session-today.html
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Muttahida legislators to attend session
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Dawn Report
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI, March 16: Taking notice of reports about extortion menacing the business community in Karachi, President Asif Ali Zardari asked Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday to take measures against the scourge in coordination with the Sindh government.
The reports assumed seriousness when the MQM announced that its legislators would boycott a joint sitting of the two houses of parliament to be addressed by the president on Saturday...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/muttahida-legislators-to-attend-session.html
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Haqqani's counsel criticises judge's attitude: Bitter exchanges
mar proceedings
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By Malik Asad
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Friday turned out to be a day of bitter exchanges and allegations and counter-allegations as the judicial commission continued the cross-examination of Mansoor Ijaz, the American businessman at the centre of the memo case.
Mr Ijaz repeated his old allegations and levelled new ones about his interaction with former ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani, and the latter's lawyer Zahid Hussain Bokhari at one stage stormed out, protesting that he was not being allowed to freely carry out the cross-examination...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/haqqanis-counsel-criticises-judges-attitude-bitter-exchanges-mar-proceedings.html
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SC wants man picked up last week produced in court on Monday
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The Supreme Court ordered the capital police chief on Friday to recover and produce before it a man who had been picked up in broad daylight last week in the presence of his family.
His counsel informed the court that the only crime of 24-year-old Omar Mahmood Wali was that he was supplying food to demonstrators demanding recovery of missing persons in Islamabad's Parade Ground...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/sc-wants-man-picked-up-last-week-produced-in-court-on-monday.html
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Balochistan govt to withdraw 28 cases against Brahamdagh
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, March 16: The Balochistan government has decided to withdraw 28 cases registered in Dera Bugti district against Baloch Republican Party chief Nawabzada Brahamdagh Bugti.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik had announced last month that all cases against Mr Bugti, Nawabzada Hyarbyar Marri and other self-exiled Baloch leaders would be withdrawn...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/balochistan-govt-to-withdraw-28-cases-against-brahamdagh.html
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Obama phones Karzai: Accord to give main combat role to Afghans
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, March 16: US President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai agreed on Friday to give Afghan forces a leading role in combat operations in 2013, the White House said.
President Obama telephoned President Karzai in the wee hours on Friday, seeking clarity on the Afghan leader's demand that US forces pull out of Afghan villages...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/obama-phones-karzai-accord-to-give-main-combat-role-to-afghans.html
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Tendulkar scores century of centuries
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DHAKA, March 16: Sachin Tendulkar finally ended his year-long wait to score a record 100th international century against Bangladesh during the Asia Cup tournament on Friday.
However, his monumental achievement was marred by an upset five-wicket win by Bangladesh...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/tendulkar-scores-century-of-centuries.html
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Kidnapped American in its custody, says Al Qaeda
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DUBAI, March 16: Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al Zawahiri said on Friday that unless its demands were met, Al Qaeda would not release an elderly American development expert who was kidnapped from Lahore last year.
In a video uploaded on Internet, the Al Qaeda leader said: "By the grace of Allah, we, on our part, have captured the American Jew Warren Weinstein."..
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/kidnapped-american-in-its-custody-says-al-qaeda.html
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Gilani says he is not afraid of anyone
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Dawn Report
LAHORE/MULTAN, March 16: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani maintained the tempo of what has been described as a sort of political offensive and declared on Friday that he was not afraid of 'anyone' because "I am in politics".
And as if to elaborate what he meant he used an Urdu proverb to shed light on the problems he is facing. Roughly translated the proverb says that someone dealing in coal gets his hands blackened...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/gilani-says-he-is-not-afraid-of-anyone.html
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Relatives of hate crime victim get US citizenship
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WEST WINDSOR (New Jersey), March 16: The widow and daughters of a Pakistani immigrant killed by a white supremacist in a 9/11 revenge attack are now US citizens.
Wearing headscarves, Durreshahwar Hasan and three of her daughters took the oath on Friday in a ceremony at the New Jersey office of US Rep Rush Holt. A fourth daughter became a citizen last week...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/relatives-of-hate-crime-victim-get-us-citizenship.html
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'Osama wanted to attack Obama'
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WASHINGTON, March 16: Before his death, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had ordered his followers in Afghanistan and Pakistan to attack the aircraft of President Barack Obama, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
The report, which cited documents seized at the Abbottabad compound where Bin Laden was killed by US forces, said the Al Qaeda leader also sought to kill General David Petraeus, who then headed international forces in Afghanistan...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/osama-wanted-to-attack-obama.html
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13pc hike in Indian defence budget
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NEW DELHI, March 16: India raised on Friday its military spending to Rs1.93 trillion ($38.6 billion), a 13 per cent increase, to modernise the armed forces that are perceived as seeking a role beyond their vigil on China and Pakistan.
The budget hike, in real terms, amounts to $4.5 billion over the revised estimates for the fiscal ending March 31. Discounting this increase of over $1 billion, the hike comes to 17.6 per cent over $32.8 billion originally allocated...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/13pc-hike-in-indian-defence-budget.html
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SC to hear petition against jirga system
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The Supreme Court will commence regular hearing on a petition moved by the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) seeking a declaration that the jirga system in the country is inhuman and against the fundamental rights of citizens.
A two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and Justice Tariq Parvez, which had taken up the petition of NCSW chairperson Anis Haroon and others, decided to issue notices to Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq as well as respondents, including secretaries of law and interior and chief secretaries of the four provinces and Gilgit-Baltistan...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/sc-to-hear-petition-against-jirga-system.html
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Shahbaz vows strong action against looters
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By Our Correspondent
GUJRANWALA, March 16: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Friday that rulers were violating the Supreme Court's order by refusing to write a letter to the Swiss government.
Addressing a public meeting in Wazirabad, he said looters of public exchequer would not be spared and they would be dragged on roads after his party's victory in the coming elections...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/shahbaz-vows-strong-action-against-looters.html
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Kharif sowing may be delayed for 15-20 days
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, March 16: The Indus River System Authority said on Friday that the coming Kharif sowing could be delayed for 15 to 20 days because of lower water flows in rivers and an unpredictable data about water availability. The Kharif sowing usually begin on April 1
In view of unreliable weather conditions and uncertain water availability, a technical committee of Irsa which met on Fiday could not take a decision. It will meet again on March 26 to decide about water projections and shortages on the basis of hydrological conditions prevailing on March 20...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/kharif-sowing-may-be-delayed-for-15-20-days.html
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Eight injured in bomb blast
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By Our Correspondent
PARACHINAR, March 16: A roadside bomb ripped through a Peshawar-bound bus coming from Parachinar on Friday, injuring eight passengers.
The remote-controlled device hit the bus in Charkhel area of the Lower Kurram on the Thall-Parachinar highway. Security forces cordoned off the area after the attack and took the injured, women and children among them, to the Combined Military Hospital in Thall...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/eight-injured-in-bomb-blast.html
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Pakistan team barred from meeting Kasab
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MUMBAI, March 16: An Indian official says a court has barred a Pakistani delegation from interviewing the man convicted of the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai and any of the witnesses in his trial.
The delegation came to India to gather evidence for use in the prosecution of seven militants on trial in Pakistan over the attack that killed 166 people...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/pakistan-team-barred-from-meeting-kasab.html
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Parliament to debate ties with US on Monday
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By Baqir Sajjad Syed
ISLAMABAD, March 16: Parliament will begin a debate on new terms of engagement with the United States on Monday.
"This particular subject (US ties) will be considered by parliament starting from 19th of this month," Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said at his weekly briefing on Friday...
http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/17/parliament-to-debate-ties-with-us-on-monday.html
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Karachi Stocks Down 153.95 Points:
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KARACHI, Mar 16: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 13297.12, down 153.95 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, Mar 16: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 91.3 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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