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Shaheed-i-Millat Secretariat to be renovated this month ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The renovation work on gutted Shaheed-i- Millat Secretariat will be commissioned in the current month at a cost of Rs100 million, a senior official of Public Works Department...		Ex-legislators take away items from Parliament Lodges ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: Some precious items of the Parliament Lodges have been taken away by the inmates with them while vacating them after military takeover on October 12, 1999, a well-placed...
Hundreds of small restaurants selling unhygienic food RAWALPINDI, Aug 18: Hundreds of small restaurants in the city are selling unhygienic food due to the apathy of authorities concerned....		Scientists asked to develop poultry sector ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The agricultural scientists should focus their attention on the development of commercial poultry sector to meet the country’s dietary requirements and to enhance the income of farmers....
Postmen to get motorbikes ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The government has decided to provide motorbikes to postmen across the country for timely delivery of letters....		‘Political parties must commit to 33pc seats for women’ ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The Aurat Foundation has drafted and sent detailed manifesto suggestions to political parties for women’s emancipation in diverse areas related to legal rights, violence, economy and poverty, employment,...
Kutcha abadi dwellers hold demo ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The dwellers of a kutcha abadi in F-6/2 have staged a protest demonstration against the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for providing contaminated water to the locality....		Troops return from Sierra Leone RAWALPINDI, Aug 18: A batch of Pakistani troops returned on Sunday after performing peacekeeping duties in Sierra Leone....
CEC takes notice of PPP leaders’ complaint ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: Chief Election Commissioner Justice Irshad Hasan Khan took a serious notice on Sunday of a complaint from Larkana regarding setting up of polling stations other than previous places...		Crackdown on illegal arms markets soon ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: Pakistan is to close hundreds of illegal weapons outlets in an attempt to change the nation’s “Kalashnikov culture” and reduce gun-related killings, which claim thousands of lives each...
PPP urges CEC to reconsider decision: Single identity condition for voting ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The Pakistan People’s Party has urged the Chief Election Commissioner to reconsider the single identity condition and permit the use of multiple identity condition for voting as it...		MMA selects 105 for NA elections in Punjab LAHORE, Aug 18: Punjab Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has unanimously selected 105 candidates of the six-party alliance for contesting National Assembly polls in the province....
MMA, PML(N) & PPP to field joint candidates PESHAWAR, Aug 18: Three major political forces — Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal, Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League (N) — have decided to field joint candidates in the NWFP in the October...		15 cops sacked in Ghizer district GILGIT, Aug 18: The inspector-general of police, Northern Areas, Maj (retd) Sikander Muhammadzai, has sacked 15 police constables in the Ghizer district on the ground that they were appointed in violation...
Pagara sees no role for Benazir, Nawaz KARACHI, Aug 18: The chief of PML (Functional) Pir Pagara has expressed the confidence that general elections will be held on Oct 10 next, but said there would be no political...		Boy killed in Skardu bomb explosion SKARDU, Aug 18: A student of seventh class was killed, while his mother and two other women were injured when an explosive device exploded in the Kharmang valley, some 150km from...
People urged to take part in forestry plantation ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: President Pervez Musharraf has said that the scarcity of forests in the country makes it necessary that all citizens join hands to protect and manage forests on a...		80 foreign nationals handed over to Punjab GILGIT, Aug 18: The Northern Areas police have handed over at least 80 foreigners, including women and children, belonging to Afghanistan, Tajikistan and other Central Asian States to the Punjab police....
Symbols for 46 parties today ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: The Election Commission will finalize the allotment of election symbols on Monday which will complete the first phase of forthcoming general elections being held on Oct 10....		Karzai greeted ISLAMABAD, Aug 18: President Pervez Musharraf has greeted President of the Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai on the occasion of their 83rd independence say falling on Monday.—APP...
PPP selects candidates for Sanghar seats SANGHAR, Aug 18: The Peoples Party Parliamentarians has selected its candidates for the national and provincial assemblies for the coming elections, said Altaf Rind, president, PPP, Sanghar district, on...		Tribesmen urged to ensure peace KOHAT, Aug 18: Jalat Khan Afridi, district coordination officer, Kohat, has asked the tribesmen of Darra Adamkhel to ensure peace in the tribal territory and help the government carry out development...
Minister criticizes Election Commission MITHI, Aug 18: Sindh minister for local government and public health engineering, Arbab Ghulam Rahim, has said that the government is yet to announce increase in number of the national and...		ANP short-lists candidates PESHAWAR, Aug 18: Awami National Party (ANP) has short-listed its candidates for Peshawar district’s four National Assembly and 11 provincial assembly seats here on Sunday, according to party sources....
3 picnickers from Karachi drown in Keenjhar THATTA, Aug 18: Three picnickers, including a woman and a child, drowned when the boat they were sailing in capsized in the Keenjhar Lake near here on Sunday....		Inquiry into sub-standard uplift works demanded LARKANA, Aug 18: The councillors of union council 9, Larkana city, demanded the government to initiate an inquiry regarding sub-standard development works....
MMA flays operation in Kala Dhaka MANSEHRA, Aug 18: JUI (F) leader and deputy general secretary of Muttahidda Majlis-i-Amal Hafiz Hussain Ahmad, while denying the existence of Al Qaeda or Al Saeqa in the tribal belt of...		Eight die of cholera BAJAUR, Aug 18: At least eight people died and many others were affected when cholera broke out in the Barang subdivision of the Bajaur Agency in the last couple of days, sources told Dawn on Saturday....
41 outlaws arrested Sukkur Aug 18: Forty one outlaws, wanted by the police, were arrested on Sunday from Daharki and its adjoining areas in a massive drive against the anti-social elements, said the police...		Three killed, 20 injured in accident PESHAWAR, Aug 18: Three persons, including two women, were killed and 20 others were injured when two speeding pickups overturned here at Nasirpur on Sunday....
Four kidnapped men recovered BARA, Aug 18: The political administration in Tehsil Bara, has recovered four men kidnapped on June 8....		Shah Mahmood resigns MULTAN, Aug 18: District Nazim Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi sent his resignation to the Punjab governor on Sunday....
Rally against siege of military farms: More tenants join drive SARGODHA, Aug 18: Around 1,000 tenants staged a rally on Sunday in Kalra State of Shahpur tehsil, Sargodha district, where a new unit of the Anjuman Mazareen Punjab was unveiled....		GNA in a fix over NA-187 BAHAWALPUR, Aug 18: The adjustment on national assembly seat (NA-187) in tehsil Khairpur Tamewali will be a poser for the Grand National Alliance....
Armyman’s wife gang-raped FAISALABAD, Aug 18: Three young men gang-raped the wife of an armyman in Chak Jhumra on Sunday....		Education department decision opposed GUJRANWALA, Aug 18: Residents of Wahando have strongly protested against the Education department for withdrawing the decision to upgrade the Government Girls High School....
Pesticides becoming ineffective: CCMC MULTAN, Aug 18: The Cotton Crop Management Committee has recommended increase in the strength of a couple of pesticides to improve their efficacy....		Four killed in accident SHEIKHUPURA, Aug 18: Four people were killed and one other injured on Sunday in an accident on the Faisalabad Road, some six kilometres from here....
Rs3,047m Sheikhupura dist govt budget SHEIKHUPURA, Aug 18: The annual budget of Rs3,047 million was approved for the district government for the year 2002-03....		Residential colonies face inundation SARGODHA, Aug 18: Recent rains have filled to capacity the distributories of Lower Jhelum Canal, Ludianwala and Mitha Luk Minors, and the adjacent residential colonies face inundation because of weak flood...
ARD asks govt to allow political activity LAHORE, Aug 18: Heads of the parties in the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy are meeting here on Monday to discuss the election schedule and the alleged difficulties the government has...		PML-QA, PML-N set up boards to select candidates LAHORE, Aug 18: The PML-QA and the PML-N have set up their parliamentary boards to select candidates for the general elections....
PML-N discussing adjustments LAHORE, Aug 18: The PML-N was discussing electoral adjustments with the PPP and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Aml and a final decision in this regard would be taken very soon, a central party...		Most UCs yet to send budgets to DAOs LAHORE, Aug 18: Most union councils in the province have failed to send their budgets for the fiscal year 2002-3 to the district accounts officers concerned so far....