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Ex-lawmaker Dasti indicted in fake degree case

ISLAMABAD - The Muzaffargarh district court in southern Punjab on Monday formally charged Jamshed Dasti, a hugely popular former lawmaker and a bitter critic of former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar, in the fake degree case.

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PPP vows to do better if voted to power

ISLAMABAD - Announcing its manifesto for the upcoming elections, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has pledged to do better than during the first term and to ‘protect’ the people of Pakistan from terrorism.

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100 held for arson attack

ISLAMABAD - Amid countrywide outrage over burning of Christian houses in Lahore, police arrested about 100 people, clashed with an enraged mob of affected people and their sympathisers while the Punjab government announced a cash compensation besides rebuilding of the torched houses.

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Pakistanis divided on army offensive

Despite widespread outrage over the Taleban shooting of a female teenage activist, Pakistani leaders and opinion makers are divided over whether the government should respond by targeting the militants’ last major sanctuary along the Afghan border.

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Karzai asks Islamabad to fight extremism

KABUL -Afghan President Hamid Karzai has written letters to top political and religious leaders in Pakistan, denouncing the Taleban attack on a Pakistani teenager who is promoting girls’ education and asking them to help battle extremism in both countries.

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Govt joins anti-film protest

ISLAMABAD — The government has decided to join demonstrators on Friday to protest against the anti-Islam film made by a rogue American that has caused outrage throughout the Muslim world, Federal Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira announced here on Wednesday after cabinet meeting.

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