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Over Rs913m aid received: Sewage treatment plant ISLAMABAD, May 20: The French government has released Rs913.3427 million for repair and completion of a Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) at I-9 area....		Non-waiver of allocation for CCBs irks dist govts RAWALPINDI, May 20: The district governments in the province received a setback after President Pervez Musharraf rejected a request of the district Nazims to waive annual allocation for the citizen community...
Decision on Asif’s plea on 27th ISLAMABAD, May 20: An accountability court on Tuesday fixed May 27 as the date for the announcement of its decision on an application of jailed PPP leader Asif Zardari, questioning the...		Encroachments to be removed: CDA chief ISLAMABAD, May 20: All encroachments made by diplomats, government departments and private institutions will be removed, said the chairman of Capital Development Authority (CDA), Chaudhry Abdul Rauf, while speaking at a...
Three women die as wagon falls into ravine RAWALPINDI, May 20: Three women were killed and 12 other people injured after a crowded wagon plunged into a ravine at Loi Bhir on Tuesday, police and injured said....		Section 144 imposed in Capital ISLAMABAD, May 20: The district magistrate, Islamabad, has issued seven orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) banning speeches and gathering by people in the capital territory for...
24 more IIU students issued show-cause notices ISLAMABAD, May 20: As many as 24 more students of Islamic International University were issued show cause notices in connection with the clash erupted last week between Anjuman Talaba Islam (ATI)...		House tax raised RAWALPINDI, May 20: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board has increased the annual house tax for the year 2002-2003 by 500 per cent, official sources said here on Tuesday. The increase has been...
Release of 11 labourers ordered ISLAMABAD, May 20: City magistrate, Islamabad, Rana Farasat Ali Khan, has directed the police to release 11 labourers who were arrested under 55/109 Vagrancy Act a few days ago....		100 Uzbek Afghan families repatriate QUETTA, May 20: A group of 100 Uzbek Afghan families returned to their homeland via Chaman on Tuesday under the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) repatriation programme....
Musharraf to help settle AJK row with Wapda: Mangla dam raising ISLAMABAD, May 20: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will preside over a meeting to review and settle the electricity tariff and other issues between Wapda and the AJK government on May 27....		Sikandar calls for Kashmir division MUZAFFARABAD, May 20: The prime minister of Azad Kashmir called on Tuesday for the partition of disputed Kashmir along religious lines as a way to resolve its standoff with India over...
Rs420m allocated for flood protection steps ISLAMABAD, May 20: The federal government has decided to immediately release Rs420 million for flood protection programme to the provinces so that they can complete their schemes on time....		Afghan war caused $1bn loss to Pakistan: report WASHINGTON, May 20: The US operation in Afghanistan has had an adverse affect on Pakistan’s economy, causing it to suffer a loss of $10 billion, says a recent report displayed at...
MMA releases its stand on disputed points of LFO RAWALPINDI, May 20: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Tuesday voiced its stance on the disputed points of the Legal Framework Order (LFO), stressing that the constitutional amendment bill be put before...		Students end strike QUETTA, May 20: Balochistan Governor Abdul Qadir Baloch has directed release of the arrested students while agitating students’ bodies have decided to call off their protest meetings following successful talks with...
New PFUJ office-bearers ISLAMABAD, May 20: New office-bearers of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) for the next two years were elected here on Sunday before the conclusion of a three-day biennial delegates...		Appointment of ad hoc officer criticized MUZAFFARABAD, May 20: The appointment of an officer in the Ombudsman office by AJK President Sardar Mohammad Anwar Khan without advertising the post has been criticized by a number of people,...
Drought-hit districts to get Rs1bn: minister QUETTA, May 20: Senior Minister Maulana Abdul Wasay said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has assured him of the transfer of Rs1 billion to Balochistan for the...		Gwadar airport to be ready by 2004 KARACHI, May 20: A brainstorming session on Gwadar port chaired by Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday was informed that an international airport with extended facilities to accommodate wide-bodied aircraft will...
Faisal to visit UK on 24th ISLAMABAD, May 20: Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat will visit London on May 24 to look into problems of overseas Pakistanis about Pakistan Origin Cards (POCs) and National Identity Cards (NICs)....		Pemra, PU sign MoU ISLAMABAD, May 20: The Pakistan Electronic and Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has been playing vital role in encouraging private sector to promote electronic media, therefore many licences are being issued to...
Man injured in Indian shelling MUZAFFARABAD, May 20: A man was injured in a border village of Azad Kashmir on Tuesday in unprovoked Indian shelling from across the Line of Control, police said....		Petition dismissed QUETTA, May 20: Balochistan Election Tribunal Member Justice Akhtar Zaman Malghani on Tuesday dismissed a constitutional petition challenging the election of a PML-N MNA....
Clarification ISLAMABAD, May 20: In the Dawn Dialogue published on Tuesday with PML-N acting president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi (Page 13), the PML(N) leader was quoted as saying: “Shahbaz Sharif was also acceptable....		CM pledges to root out drug menace PESHAWAR, May 20: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has criticized the anti-democracy forces for trying to destabilize the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government....
SC grants bail to former minister ISLAMABAD, May 20: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to a former NWFP minister, Ghaniur Rehman, who is charged with having assets beyond his known sources of income....		ANP warns govt of armed resistance: Meter installation in Fata LANDI KOTAL, May 20: The Awami National Party’s Khyber Agency chapter has warned authorities that the people of the area may be forced to take up arms if electricity meters were...
Wapda office attacked in Hangu HANGU, May 20: A mob led by the union council Nazim, Astarzai, Kohat, attacked the office of Water and Power Development Authority and took away two transformers and power meters here...		Rs25m released for Swabi cadet college SWABI, May 20: The government has released Rs25 million for the construction of captain Sher Shaheed (Nishan-i-Haider) cadet college and the remaining Rs275 million will be sanctioned in the coming months....
Tribesmen, militia exchange fire LANDI KOTAL, May 20: A man was injured in a crossfire between law-enforcement agencies and Watankhel tribesmen in Bara, Khyber Agency, on Tuesday when the political authorities raided a house to...		Commuters criticize traffic police PESHAWAR, May 20: Commuters on Tuesday criticised the traffic police for randomly stopping public transport vehicles, saying that their time was wasted as drivers and traffic police officials haggled over the...
Construction of shopping centre challenged HYDERABAD, May 20: A division bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad, on Tuesday admitted a constitutional petition, challenging the construction of a shopping centre on a plot in Tando Adam...		Dust storms damage crops in Sindh MIRPURKHAS, May 20: Dust storms have caused heavy losses to several crops, including cotton, mango and chilli, in lower Sindh since last week....
200 booked for protesting against water shortage SUKKUR, May 20: The Mirpur Mathelo police registered two cases against 200 people, including three union council Nazims of Ghotki district, on the charges of disturbing the peace of Mirpur Mathelo...		Dadu growers hold demo DADU, May 20: A large number of growers staged a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Tuesday against the shortage of water in 32 waterways originating from the Dadu...
Teachers demand project allowance MIRPURKHAS, May 20: Secondary school teachers, on the call of the Government Secondary School Teachers Association, Mirpurkhas, took out a procession here on Monday to protest against non- payment of middle...		Canal breached; crops destroyed SUKKUR May 20: More than 150 feet wide breach occurred in Qazi Wah near Mirpur Mathelo on Monday night as a result two villages and cotton crop over 2,000 acres of...
Fair distribution of wheat urged MITHI, May 20: The members of the Tharparkar District Council have demanded of the district government to ensure fair and transparent distribution of relief wheat and not to entrust this task...		Woman killed LARKANA, May 20: A woman was killed and another was injured when the pistol of a bridegroom went off during a marriage ceremony in Ratodero on Tuesday....
Women councillors stage sit-in THATTA, May 20: Lady councillors belonging to Thatta district, Taluka and union councils held a demonstration outside the press club and observed a sit-in on the National Highway on Tuesday to...		ARD, MMA ‘differ’ on president’s powers LAHORE, May 20: ARD President Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan says if some ruling party had failed in the past to change its leader of the house even after his inability to deliver,...
UGC man called to explain Cheema’s ‘graduation’ LAHORE, May 20: An election tribunal of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday summoned the superintendent of University Grant Commission (UGC) and the person in charge of Islamabad higher education department...		Hospitals to have beds for addicts LAHORE, May 20: The Punjab government has decided to reserve 10 beds in psychiatric units of DHQ hospitals and 25 beds in teaching hospitals to treat drug-addicts....
MPs have ‘consumed Rs160m for nothing’ LAHORE, May 20: A sum of Rs160 million has so far been spent on salaries and other benefits of MNAs and senators who, however, have not been able to come up...		LG Ord to be ‘amended’ LAHORE, May 20: National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) Chairman Danyal Aziz said here on Tuesday that the Local Government Ordinance, 2001, would be amended in the light of recommendations by the provinces,...
Mid-term loans for farmers LAHORE, May 20: The Punjab Provincial Cooperative Bank will distribute mid-term loans of Rs200 million among farmers by June 30 for the purchase of seeds, agricultural machinery and implements....		ARD wants its leader of opposition in Punjab LAHORE, May 20: With the establishment of its parliamentary party in the National Assembly, the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy has claimed the right to nominate its leader of the opposition...
FSc-pass nurses to get double promotion LAHORE, May 20: The Punjab government has decided to create general and teaching cadres in the nursing profession and offer double promotion to FSc nurses in its forthcoming budget....		Gujranwala BISE cancels May 3 chemistry paper GUJRANWALA, May 20: The Gujranwala Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education has cancelled the May 3 Intermediate (Part-I) annual Chemistry examination due to an “unbalanced choice of questions” in the paper....