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Another petrol bomb ready to explode
By Uzma Zafar

ISLAMABAD—Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) on Wednesday sent formal summary to Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance regarding upsurge in petroleum products by Rs 2 to Rs 4. In the summary ....

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ISLAMABAD — Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi has condemned the blasts in Jaipur, India. On behalf of the people of Pakistan and the government the  ...

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The richy rich ones of poorly poor nation
By our Special Correspondent

Pakistan is considered to be one of the badly poverty-hit nations in the world. Though the successive leaders have been making claims of enhancing country's economy and changing the lives of the poor, yet it seems that the richy rich have only been focusing on enhancing their personal accounts and assets while .....

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Govt prepares 6-point plan to defuse
energy crisis
Official time to be advanced by 1 hour from June 1
By Saad Saud

ISLAMABAD—The Cabinet meeting presided over by PM, Yousaf Raza Gillani has approved a 6-point plan for dealing with energy crisis on emergency basis.  Addressing a press conference, the federal minister for Water and Power Raja Pervez Ashraf alongwith the federal minister for Information and Broadcasting Sherry Rehman announced the 6-point agenda as approved by the Cabinet meeting, and ....

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Sharifs’ nomination papers challenged
Bureau Report

LAH0RE—The Returning Officers (RO) for by-elections of various constituencies in provincial capital have started the scrutiny of nomination papers while the papers of PML-N Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif and PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif have been challenged. Mian Nawaz Sharif’s nomination papers from NA-123 were challenged by Mian Ikhlaq Guddoo and Noor Elahi. Both the challengers ....

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