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Credential inflation: The decreasing worth of a bachelors degree
Companies get a masters degree holder for the price of an undergraduate.
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Death sentence appeal: Islamabad’s reply sought on Sarabjit plea
Sarabjit Singh is on death row for killing 14 people in bomb blasts in 1990.
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The perfect crime?: Body dumped in DHA Ph VIII bushes was burnt with acid, raped
Only one police mobile unit mans the vast area, detectives usually dismiss such victims as ‘call girls’.
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Fake Tickets: Two railways clerks arrested
Over 2,600 fake tickets were found at the Sahiwal reservation office.
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Expansion: Bank Alfalah to open 20 branches
The bank reviewed its performance and praised the employees who worked hard for its development.
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Payouts: Dawood Capital declares dividends
The returns are 28.31% with a payout of bonus dividend to unit holders of Rs11.10 per unit.
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Sales tax: Traders oppose changes in tax returns
Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), instead of facilitating the traders, was harassing them.
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Indo-pak ties: Cross-LoC trade reaches Rs16.9 million
As many as eight trucks rolled out from the Trade Facilitation Centre (TFC) at Ranger in Poonch district.
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Balochistan: National Bank’s division comes online
All its branches online in Balochistan in a major move towards automation.
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Rozgar scheme: Bank of Khyber officials to get training
Termed the initiation of the scheme an important step towards sustainable entrepreneurship development.
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Security papers: Company gets Rs1b financing
Financing worth Rs1 billion from Bank Al-Habib for its Balancing, Modernisation and Replacement (BMR) programme.
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Ramazan vision: Bazaars, shops and dastarkhwans set up across province
307 of 325 planned bazaars operational on first day of Ramazan.
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Gujranwala gas pipeline blast destroys two buildings
Three people are believed to have been trapped under the rubble.
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Cheating: Cases registered against 35 students
Cases were registered against 35 students for using unfair means during the 2011 matriculation examinations.
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Property rows: Thrown out of his own house
Jamil Rajput was thrown out of his own house by his wife and children over what he described as a property dispute.
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Hit-and-run: One died, three injured
Muhammad Yar Asif, the State Life Insurance Corporation area manager died on the spot.
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Manhandling of colleague: Lawyers boycott courts
Observed a strike to protest against the manhandling of Advocate Mian Jamshed Gill by some Dry Port officials.
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Foolproof: Security plan for Ramazan
Sialkot police has assigned more than 600 police officers for special patrolling duties during Ramazan.
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Imprisoned indians: CJ disposes of suo motu notice
Disposed of a suo motu notice regarding the incarceration of two Indian women in Kot Lakhpat jail.
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Football: Argentine FA shelves controversial plan
The idea came under heavy criticism.
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Olympics: 27,000 security officials for Olympics
The Games are expected to be Britain’s biggest peacetime security operation.
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Football: Scholes talks up ‘brilliant’ Sneijder
The playmaker’s retirement at the end of last season has left a huge gap in Sir Alex Ferguson’s midfield.
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Tennis: Kendrick to appeal drug ban
Suspended the 31-year-old American last week after he returned a positive test result for methylhexaneamine.
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Football: Rossi rules out Juventus move
Giuseppe Rossi ruled out a move to the struggling Turin club.
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Cricket: Taufel to conduct umpiring course
Simon Taufel will run the first simulated television umpire technology training course.
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Tennis: Zubair wins tennis championship
Beating Sikander Hayat Khan 6-1, 7-5.
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Cycling: Cavendish decides team
Cavendish denied that his decision was a financial one.
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Football: Pakistan to take on Maldives today
Seeking a place in the semi-finals of the under-16 South Asian Football Federation Championship.
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Madmen apologists
Let us hope that this refusal to see Breivik as anything other than an isolated madman is born of naïve myopia.
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Widyaan: Shahid Afridi’s Fashion Valley
The ‘Widyaan’ ladies line will be exhibited in Karachi this month.
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Coke Studio @ MTV: ‘Kangna’ vs ‘Hamein To Loot Liya”
How “Coke Studio @ MTV” ventures into qawwali, compared to Pakistan’s version.
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Multiculturalism under fire
While formal discrimination and forced assimilation is uncommon, informal discrimination thrives almost everywhere.
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NICL scam: Accused offers to return embezzled money
Khalid Anwar offers to return Rs410 million that was his share in the embezzlement.
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The moon and the maulvi
Until the secularists muster up some courage and take some risks, they will not succeed in spreading their viewpoint.
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Alam removed as team manager
Cheema to replace former Test cricketer for forthcoming tour of Zimbabwe, confirms PCB.
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Norway gunman wants Japanese psychiatrist: Lawyer
'He believes that a Japanese person will understand him better than someone from Europe'
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Anjum Aqeel's interim bail extended
Aqeel did not appear in court due to illness.
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Buying freedom: 33 prisoners released
NGO official paid the fine for 23 prisoners while Khoso relaxed sentence of 10 other prisoners.
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Sectarian violence: Protests surface across Quetta
Strike called by Hazara Democratic Party and backed by Aithade Tajeeran-e-Balochistan.
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Mine worker killed in explosion
Explosive material stored in his house caught fire accidentally.
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Ethnic aggression: Deadly violence hits restive Xinjiang
Knife-wielding attackers kill 10 people in China’s Xinjiang region.
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Controversial statement: Malik ‘respects everyone in Raiwind’
Denies giving statement against religious centres; says his own relatives participated in tableegh.
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Two terrorists detained
Arrested persons were identified as Aqeel and Shahbaz.
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Supporting the judiciary: PTI to hold sit-in every week
Imran Khan predicted PTI would clean sweep PML-N in next general elections.
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Provincial Autonomy: ‘Benefits obstructed due to militancy’
Last year’s floods obstructed benefits of provincial autonomy obtained under 18th Amendment: information minister.
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Peace with the Taliban: Three countries, little headway
Strained ties between Pakistan and US behind the slow pace of Afghan reconciliation.
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Disaster in the making: Gilgit-Baltistan govt to relocate Talus village residents
Houses, crops in the remote village were swept away by flooding on Saturday.
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10 NATO tankers destroyed near Khairpur
Group of 30 armed men attack parked tankers at the national highway.
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Moving up the judicial chain: Supreme Court to take up Benazir assassination case
LHC had dismissed the appeal of the former protocol officer to register a second FIR.
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Flood survivors: A house is not a home for some
Managerial inefficiencies mar Model Village built in Muzaffargarh.

















































