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091323
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2009.
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It was the Musharraf government that opened the doors to corporate farming with offers of minimum blocs of 1,000 acres with no upper ceiling and decade-long tax holidays. But except for Monsanto, the US-based chemical multinational that now poses as a seed company, entering the country eight years ago to serve agriculture with chemical-dependent genetically modified seeds, there were no takers in the post 9/11 years.
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091188
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086071
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088425
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2009.
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At 10:20 a.m. on May 27, Khaver Abbas, a 25-year-old constable of the Lahore police, was guarding the Rescue 15 building when an unmarked white van pulled up to the security gate, about 10 feet from where he was standing. He saw two young men, dressed in white, with automatic rifles, jump out the van. "They began firing into the air for five to 10 seconds, then at other policeman guarding the building and me. Some of us tried to fire back but we were shot. They seemed very well trained as it took them only a few seconds to overpower the police." Abbas himself suffered a gunshot wound to his left arm and is now ecovering at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.Abbas says that after the gunfire, one of the gunmen tossed a grenade towards the police. "I had already been hit by a bullet and fell to the ground when they threw the grenade. First there was a small blast; then five seconds later a massive blast. Everything around us started shaking. I felt like I was at the centre of the blast. It was only Allah who saved me." Fourteen of his colleagues and 16 other people were killed in the attack, while more than 300 people were injured.
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