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Drone kills over 12 in NWA
Women, children included

Tariq Saeed

Peshawar—More than a dozen innocent civilians mostly children and females were killed and many injured when the notorious American drones hit a house with hell fire missiles in North Waziristan Agency Friday wee hours. The CIA operated pilotless US planes, fired at least two deadly projectiles on the house of one Mirza Khan in Danday Darpakhel village two kilometer North of Miran Shah, the headquarters of North

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Variation in fixing sugar prices irks provinces
Resolve to take hoarders to task

Islamabad—All the four provinces on Friday strongly reacted and protested over different prices of Sugar fixed by the Federal Government urging center not to interfere in the provincial matters. Sources told Online that after Punjab, NWFP and Sindh Government have also rejected negotiation results between Ministry of Industries and Production and Sugar Mills Association regarding fixing rates of sugar.

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ECC’s green signal for acquiring RPPs

Sharafat Kazmi

Islamabad—The Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet (ECC) has given go ahead for acquisition of dual fired rental power plants (RPP) with combined capacity of 1500 Megawatts.Briefing newsmen, Minister for Water and Power Raja Parvaiz Ashraf said that in all rental power plants with an aggregate capacity of 2250 MW were planned but the meeting noted that 1500 MW would fulfil our requirements if assured supply of gas was

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CJP: No one to loot tax-payers’ money

Tanvir Siddiqi

Islamabad—Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Friday said that no one would be allowed to loot tax-payers money and it was the national responsibility of the court to safeguard their money.The Chief Justice gave these remarks during hearing of Rs 9 billion loan scam case of the Bank of Punjab.

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‘Judges selection sans CM advice unacceptable’

Lahore—The Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said the Pakistan Muslim League-N will not accept the judges appointed without prior consultation of the Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif.

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70% Swat IDPs return home: Kaira
Need based assessment for rehabilitation, reconstruction in hand

Islamabad—Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira informed the National Assembly Friday that seventy percent affectees of Swat have gone back to their areas. He said out of over three hundred twenty-nine thousand registered affected families two hundred thirty thousand families have gone back to their homes.

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CIA builds another drone base

Washington—Apparently buoyed by the success of its armed Unmanned Aeriel Vehicles in targeting elusive Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists in Pakistan, CIA has set-up another drone base in Jalalabad in Eastern Afghanistan to step up the hunt for likes of Osama Bin Laden.

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Zardari in China

Hangzhou—President Asif Ali Zardari arrived here Friday on the first leg of his visit to Zheijiang province that will also take him to other industrial hub Guangdong province, to further foster bilateral economic and trade ties.The President was received at the airport by the Vice Governor Zheijiang province, Pakistan’s Ambassador to China, Masood Khan, the Chinese Ambassador in Islamabad, Lou Zhaohui and senior officials.

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PM sets up Martyrs Trust, donates Rs100m

Sharafat Kazmi

Islamabad—Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has announced one hundred million rupees for the Trust of Martyrs for the welfare of their families. Announcing this in the National Assembly on Friday the Prime Minister said that the defence and writ of the State are the top most priorities of the government and no compromise will be made on 

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