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Govt determined to overcome housing shortage, says Kakar
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD: Minister for Housing and Works Rehmatullah Kakar has said that the government has initiated work on various long and short term housing projects to overcome houses' shortage in the country.
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Senate body passes resolution against scanning of Pakistanis
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior Wednesday showed serious concern regarding body scanning of Pakistanis at European and US airports and termed it against the cultural norms of Pakistani society.
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Saudi govt agrees to facilitate Hajis
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Online
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Hamid Saeed Kazmi said that the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has conceded the demands of Pakistan to provide certain facilities to the Pakistani Hujjaj of Government sponsored Scheme in the coming season at Mina and Arafat.
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Check on rash
driving demanded
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Online
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ISLAMABAD: The dangerous practice of fast and rash driving is common and not unusual among drivers of public transports and a main cause of most accidents reported in twin cities.
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Capital to have 9 new sectors
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ISLAMABAD: Chairman Capital Development Authority (CDA), Imtiaz Inayat Elahi has said that the planning of opening 9 new sectors has been completed, saying double-decker bus is being introduced for tourists and common people.
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PNCA to hold ‘Sufi Aman Mela’ on 13th
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Culture in collaboration with Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) and Culture Department Sindh will hold a peace festival entitled `Sufi Aman Mela' on March 13 at Hyderabad.
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Non-payment of storage charges | PIA refuses to give bulletproof jackets
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Airlines has refused to hand over more than 3000 bulletproof jackets sought by the US embassy in Islamabad for the NWFP police and Frontier Corps till payment of more than Rs 10 million rupees as their storage charges, informed sources here on Wednesday.
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Human Development Index | Pakistan ranks 141st
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Development Programme on Wednesday launched its '2010 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 'Power Voice and Rights, a turning point for gender equality in Asia and the Pacific Asia' ranking Pakistan at 141st out of 182 states as Pakistan's Human Development Index (HDI) for this year is 0.572.
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Work in progress on Hindko-English dictionary
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Associated Press of Pakistan
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PESHAWAR: Professor Dr Elahi Bakhsh Awan, an eminent England-based lexicographer, linguist, research scholar, poet and writer from the Walled City of Peshawar, is carrying out work on a comprehensive Hindko-English dictionary which will hit the market this year.
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NA session today
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Staff Reporter
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ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned the 20th National Assembly session to meet on Thursday, what the official sources said is likely to take up the constitutional amendments, being finalized by a parliamentary committee.
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