Talks successful, flour mills end strike in Punjab

LAHORE: Floor mills owners have announced to cancel the strike following successful talks with government of Punjab here in Lahore.Punjab Minister for food Nadeem Kamran told a press conference in Lahore that a 9-member committee has been formed following the round of talks, which would find a possible solution to this flour crisis within three days in Punjab, and both the parties would have to accept that decision.20 Kg atta sack would be sold at Rs. 300, he added.Minister said that all the cases against flour mill owners would be withdrawn and asked them to begin with the grinding process at once.

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Zardari-Sharif Confrontation Continues To Plague Pakistan (Nasdaq)

(RTTNews) - The political uncertainty in Pakistan continues days after Pervez Musharraf stepped down as president with the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and its coalition partner Pakistan Muslim league (PML-N) unable to reconcile their differences.

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Dry weather forecast across the country

KARACHI: Meteorological Department forecast dry weather in most parts of the country during next 24 hours. In Kashmir, isolated thundershowers may occur during next 24 hours. The maximum temperature expected during next 24 hours Islamabad 35 C, Lahore 36 C, Peshawar 37 C, Quetta 35 C, Karachi 33 C, Muzaffarabad 34, Gilgit 34 C and Skardu 39 C.

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Pakistan claims victory in militant stronghold (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Pakistan’s army claimed Monday to have routed Taliban militants in a stronghold near the Afghan border but turned up no sign of Osama bin Laden or al-Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.

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Pakistan claims victory in militant stronghold (AP via Yahoo! News)

Pakistan’s army claimed Monday to have routed Taliban militants in a stronghold near the Afghan border but turned up no sign of Osama bin Laden or al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.

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Pakistan Opens Investigation Into ‘Honor Killings’ (Fox News)

Pakistan opened an investigation Monday into the murder of five women who reportedly tried to choose their own husbands after a provincial lawmaker defened their deaths as a ‘centuries-old tradition.’

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PML-N showing narrow-mindedness: Taseer

LAHORE: Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer has said PPP Co-chairman Asif Zardari will be the first president who will have the support of all the province

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NWFP PA session adjourned for Sept 3 due to lack of quorum

PESHAWAR: The session of the NWFP Assembly was adjourned for Wednesday, September 3, soon after it began on Monday as only nine members were present i

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President, PM call for discipline, unity during Ramazan

ISLAMABAD: Acting President Muhammadmian Soomro and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday felicitated the nation on the start of Ramazan-ul

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PA contradicts reports about exodus from Bajaur

BAJAUR AGENCY: The Political Agent (PA) Bajaur Agency has contradicted the media reports regarding mass exodus of local population in the wake of mili

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