Ponting, Clarke tons as Australia plunder India
At the close on a sweltering opening day, Australia were 335 for three with Ponting unbeaten on 137 and Clarke 140.
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JI rallies against power, gas outages

LAHORE – Jamaat-e-Islami staged countrywide rallies and protest after Friday prayers to condemn worst load shedding of electricity, gas and hike in the tariff and plundering of public wealth.
On the appeal of JI Ameer Syed Munawwar Hasan, JI leaders and workers staged sit-ins outside Wapda offices in major cities and held protests outside mosques after Friday prayers, where workers …
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Robbers kill bank guard, loot Rs4.45m
LAHORE, Dec 21: Robbers shot dead a security guard and injured his colleague before plundering Rs4.45 million from a bank in Green Town on Wednesday.
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NAB chief for AGP’s help to eliminate corruption
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ISLAMABAD – National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Admiral (Retd) Fasih Bokhari has asked the Auditor General of Pakistan to help eradicate corruption in the country.
The NAB chairman visited the Audit House here on Wednesday, and met with Auditor General of Pakistan Akhtar Bulund Rana. He discussed with him the…
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Sehwag goes past Sachin as India plunder 418
INDORE: Flamboyant opener Virender Sehwag hit a world record score of 219 on Thursday as India reached a mammoth 418-5 against the West Indies in the fourth one-day international at the Holkar Cricket Stadium. Sehwag broke compatriot Sachin Tendulkar’s previous one-day mark of 200 not out against South Africa at Gwalior last year, smashing 25 [...]
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Indian Navy proud of Pakistan’s JF-17 Thunder aircraft!
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In a yet another public humiliation, Indian Navy’s three page PR publication in the popular national newspaper carried another blunder. The title “Guardians of the Sea” showed a Pakistani JF-17 Thunder Jet fighter, Indian media reported on Monday.
This mistake was carried forward in the next two pages of also,…
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Country cannot afford political blunder: Latif Khosa
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Governor Punjab Latif Khosa was talking to a delegation of the Pakistan People’s Party from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa led by provincial minister Syed Tahir Ali Shah, which called on him at the Governor’s House. He said that it was the responsibility of all political parties to save the present democratic system.…
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Shahbaz vows to make the looters accountable
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Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the plunderers and looters of the country would have to make accountable for providing basic amenities to the people, a private TV reported on Tuesday.
Shahbaz was addressing an Eid gathering at model colony, Shahbaz Nagar, made for the residents of the Katchi Abadis…
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Chilly weather ups Lunda Bazaar business
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RAWALPINDI – Among other things, Saddar Bazaar is also known for its makeshift Lunda Bazaar that has been a Sunday feature in twin cities for years and is catering the needs of lower middle class and unprivileged segment alike.
With the advancing biting cold, the roadside stalls are pouring with…
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Categories: The News Tags: Lund, Rawalpindi
Punjab cancels Inter Part I results
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The government of Punjab has cancelled Intermediate Part I results after students protest across the province due to blunders in the results as the pre-engineering students were given marks in biology and the pre-medical students were awarded marks in mathematics, report said on Saturday. Apart from this, there are many…
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Khosa terms Sharif’s worst plunderer of all
LAHORE: Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa has said that Punjab had faced the wrath of foreign plunderers who looted the resources of the land in the past but Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was the greatest plunderer of all. Replying to the media men at the inaugural session of 3-day Round Table Conference on [...]
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‘al Qaeda recruits’ were simple migrants: Niger
NIAMEY: Fifty-nine suspected followers of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghrib (AQIM) arrested in Niger were simply migrants, officials said Saturday, admitting a blunder by troops who killed their driver. A security source in the northern city of Agadez said the 59, who had been heading for Algeria when their truck ran into fire in [...]
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Blunders lead to rush at BISE
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LAHORE – Hundreds of students have been visiting the office of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education these days in order to get their papers rechecked after confession of blunder made by the board administration regarding the compiling of result of a position-holder.
The BISE announced the results of intermediate…
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Corruption made us to beg, says Shahbaz
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LAHORE – Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that corruption, looting and plundering of the national resources has constrained Pakistan today to live a borrowed life. He said if no action is taken today to ameliorate things and set them in order through a soft revolution no…
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PML-N revises strategy
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ISLAMABAD – After the installation of Akhtar Blund Rana as Auditor General of Pakistan, the PML-N leadership has readjusted its strategy and entered into consultation with their legal wizards on possible options including challenging his appointment in the apex court.
Sources in the party informed TheNation that PML-N was…
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Top brass blunders put British troops ‘at a permanent disadvantage’ in Afghanistan: report
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British troops were placed at a ‘permanent disadvantage’ in Afghanistan because of failures by military chiefs, a damning report reveals yesterday.
The Armed Forces were sent into a ‘nasty little war’ in Helmand, a Taliban stronghold in the south, with a lack of defence intelligence, not enough equipment and too…
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Categories: The News Tags: Afghanistan, Lund, Mand, Taliban
Governor returns Punjab Finance Bill
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LAHORE – In a classic example of the Punjab bureaucracy’s malfunctioning, the Punjab Finance Bill 2011 volleyed between the Governor House and the CM Secretariat as Punjab governor returned it with a valid objection. Later on, though, the blunder was rectified by CM’s Baboos and the bill was resent to…
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