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Margin call: Imitating Wall Street model, Standard Capital to modernise trading
Brokerage house to launch drive to train the ‘next generation’ of equity traders.
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Give and take: World Bank poised to enhance assistance to $1.5b
Government promises to undertake long-delayed reforms.
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Owning matters: G-B Assembly rejects ban on recruitment in govt
Legislators reason G-B should make its own decisions on running govt affairs.
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Curriculum reforms: ‘K-P will not succumb to external diktat’
Information minister dubs changes in syllabus introduced by previous governments ‘criminal’.
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Unforeseen alliances, internal dissent feature prominently in by-polls
Two seats fell vacant after elected legislators were killed in separate attacks.
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Senate panel seeks report from agencies on foreign hands in Balochistan
Police officials from Karachi complain that crimes go undocumented.
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Bureaucrats have no place in politics
Sindh appears to be the only province where a distinction has been made between rural and urban areas.
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We have forgotten our country’s plus points
We have forgotten how to champion our successes; we are drowning in a sea of notoriety publicised by ourselves.
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Pak-China friendship opens doors for local artists
Local artists have been invited to a 15-day exchange program in China.
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Peshawar’s passionate music lover, Teen Beat’s Masood Ahmed Paracha, passes away
Paracha opened the music store in 1978 against all odds.
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Election rigging: Imran Khan presents 2000-page white paper
Says if ECP fails to put a stop to rigging in upcoming elections, it will have to face the consequences.
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Visa Delayed: Sarfaraz Ahmed granted visa for Zimbabwe tour
Pakistan cricket team departs for Zimbabwe without Sarfaraz Ahmed, who could not get his visa in time.
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Wasim Akram marries Australian girlfriend
Wasim said Thompson had converted to Islam and is learning Urdu.
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ISI received information about plot to kill Benazir Bhutto
ISI sent a letter to the interior ministry, which was forwarded to police and concerned security departments.
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Police lacked training, equipment to deal with Islamabad stand-off: says IG
IG claims he intended to go to the scene but learned that SSP Operations would be there and decided not to go.
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Army captain killed, soldier wounded in LoC firing from India
The officer was identified as Captain Sarfaraz and the soldier was identified as Yasin.
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Balochistan missing persons: 2 bodies found in Karachi
Police say the 25-year-old victims were strangled.
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Floods affect nearly 1 million across Pakistan: Officials
Rains affect 931,074 people, kill at least 139 and wound 804 others.
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Girls clinch top positions in BA/BSc PU exams
Government institutions could not secure top positions as all top slots were taken by private education institutions.
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Imran Farooq case: Sattar pleads for MQM chief’s innocence
Says black sheep even from within MQM should be arrested
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By-polls: Public holiday in Lahore on August 22
A notification has been issued by the Lahore DCO.
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Monsoon 2013: Flood fatalities rise to 118
Sindh braces itself as 500,000 cusecs recorded in River Indus.
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Genetic disorders: Best not to marry cousins?
The reason for this genetic disease is high incidence of interfamilial marriages in Pakistan.
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Conspiracy unearthed: Plot to kidnap Punjab chief minister foiled
Militant confesses he had completed reconnaissance inside Raiwind Complex.
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Anti-terror policy: SM Zafar advises against APC
Says the govt must take the bull by the horns.
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Lahore bust: Al Qaeda’s tech hub smashed; 13 rounded up
Ransom calls for Ali Musa Gilani, Shahbaz Taseer made from the phone exchange.
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Pakistan, Thailand eye free trade agreement
Two countries to double trade volume; set up joint trade committee and joint business council.
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Benazir assassination case: In a first, ex-military ruler charged with murder
ATC indicts Musharraf for murder, criminal conspiracy for murder and facilitation for murder.
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Polio virus in FATA: 14 suspected cases in a day set alarm bells ringing
All but two suspected cases are from North Waziristan; samples sent to NIH.
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Delhi war hysteria: Diplomats, military urged to show restraint on India
Military official to brief DCC; meeting with Manmohan expected this month.
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Sanctions imposed: Peshawar madrassa ‘terror training base’
It is the first time a madrassa has been the target of sanctions.
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Economic diktat: Islamabad meets all IMF conditions for $7.3b loan
The terms were met on the last day of the deadline.
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National Assembly session: MPs question Nawaz’s move to block executions
PTI member says delaying executions is against Islamic law.
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Punjab Assembly: Government avoids criticism of drone attacks
Sanaullah says no need for anti-drone resolution as federal govt’s stance clear.
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What support for Modi as PM means
Is India priming itself for a stronger communal, anti-Muslim, anti-Pakistan stance?
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Progress report: Pakistan secures credit line for Diamer Bhasha Dam
ADB, World Bank agree to finance multi-purpose project.
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Some relief: Power tariff cut by 30 paisa per unit
NEPRA criticises distribution firms for increase in power theft.
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Shown the door: Dissident leader Samad Mursaleen’s membership revoked by PTI
Internal rifts and allegations over violating merit in allotting by-election tickets may cost the PTI NA-1 Peshawar-I.
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Kashmir is India’s problem, not ours
We immediately turned Kashmir into an Indo-Pakistan problem by sending in army-led lashkars into Kashmir.
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Promising autonomy: Govt to set up accountability commission
All other anti-corruption bodies to be dissolved in province.
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Prison break: Inquiry committee revisits DI Khan Central Jail to conclude report
Another search operation in Kulachi, no reports of arrests or causalities.
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By-polls: Independents weigh in as party politics polarise
87 contestants vying for five NA and four provincial assembly seats.
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The PTI’s flawed anti-terror stance
Our political leadership must seek greater and deeper clarity in the war against terror.
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Mr Sharif’s foreign policy challenge
Point to ponder for Mr Sharif: it takes one to make war but always two to make peace.
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By-polls in NA-25 postponed due to security concerns
ECP states the elections in NA 25 have been postponed for a few days only.
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From kaftaans to kimonos, Indonesian designer believes in conservative fashion
Itang Yunasz promotes Muslim attire for women across the globe.
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Thai PM aims to 'double bilateral trade volume with Pak to $2 bln by 2018'
Pakistan and Thailand sign one agreement and three MoUs in economic and diplomatic fields.
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Football: Afghan ecstasy after beating Pakistan
The match was promoted as a symbol of football's ability to foster peace & unite countries in a shared love of sport.
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APML term Musharraf's indictment in Benazir case as 'deeply flawed'
APML has protested against the decision of the ATC to charge Musharraf for assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
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Swedish women don headscarves to support assaulted Muslim lady
Campaigners want to "ensure that Swedish Muslim women are guaranteed the right to... religious freedom".