Army closes in on Sharif, kin arrested
Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau, set up by the military government, arrested the younger brother of ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday in connection with ``unpaid bank loans,'' a military spokesman said.

Probe team says police firing unwarranted
The People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), which deputed a fact-finding team to probe the riots and police firing that resulted in death of nine inmates and a jail official in the Central Prison here, claimed on Tuesday that the police firing was unwarranted and aimed at avenging the murder of the jail official.

Mosquitoes plague district malaria offices in Bihar
The office of Dr Ram Kumar (name changed to protect identity), District Malaria Officer, at Nepal House is full of files, flies and mosquitoes. Its walls are damp and floors filthy and they stink. Most of the chairs, tables and almirahs lying there are broken.

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