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Armymen being inducted in CDA ISLAMABAD, July 21: Army engineers are likely to be inducted in the engineering wing of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) on a contract basis to streamline development projects, CDA Chairman Chaudhry...		Tourism pact signed with Malaysia ISLAMABAD, July 21: Pakistan and Malaysia Monday signed an agreement to promote bilateral relations between the two countries in the fields of culture, tourism, sports, youth affairs and education....
HEC approves 5,000 PhD fellowships ISLAMABAD, July 21: The government’s Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved a scheme of the Higher Education Commission to provide PhD fellowships to 5,000 scholars in the country....		More rains likely in Rawalpindi, Islamabad ISLAMABAD, July 21: Islamabad and Rawalpindi are expected to receive more rain over the next 24 hours and the weather in twin cities is expected to remain partly cloudy as the...
RCB members requisition full board meeting RAWALPINDI, July 21: The elected members of the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) have requisitioned a special meeting of the full board....		First medical college in Capital by year end: MNA ISLAMABAD, July 21: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) has asked the ministry of health to provide Rs35 million for setting up of first medical college in the capital....
Four arrested RAWALPINDI, July 21: The police on Sunday arrested a gang, allegedly involved in various robberies, from Jatli, Thakar Mor, and recovered Rs300,000, automatic weapons, vehicles and other valuables....		NHMP collects over Rs38m as fine ISLAMABAD, July 21: The National Highways & Motorway Police (NHMP) have collected over Rs38.87 million as fine from 131,572 people for violating traffic rules during the month of June, says Monthly...
SC urged to include NGO in route case ISLAMABAD, July 21: The Network for Consumer Protection has urged the Supreme Court to include it as a party in a case regarding permission to a private transport company to operate...		Expansion of Mangla Dam opposed ISLAMABAD, July 21: The Kashmiri people do not accept the agreement on expansion of the Mangla Dam and will continue to oppose this plan....
Probe into PIA incident demanded ISLAMABAD, July 21: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has demanded a complete probe into the Sunday’s incident at Islamabad airport in which a PIA aircraft escaped a major disaster....		Fatima Jinnah’s career termed path-making event ISLAMABAD, July 21: Senior adviser to the prime minister Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada has said the career of Madar-i-Millat Ms Fatima Jinnah was path-making years during the independence struggle....
Resolution of disputes through talks sought ISLAMABAD, July 21: Pakistan reiterated on Monday that the issue of Kashmir could be resolved in accordance with UN resolutions....		Musharraf to be briefed on irrigation projects ISLAMABAD, July 21: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has sought a detailed briefing on three big irrigation projects and financial performance of the Water and Power Development Authority on Tuesday....
Minister to visit TV station’s site MUZAFFARABAD, July 21: Information and Broadcasting Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed is scheduled to arrive here on Tuesday and visit the proposed site of a television station....		Tribal elders’ help needed in curbing terrorism: CM QUETTA, July 21: The government is seeking the cooperation of tribal leaders in the wake of the crackdown after the sectarian killings through the holding of a jirga on Wednesday, Balochistan...
Engines cited for aborted take-off RAWALPINDI, July 21: The engines of PIA’s B-747 Combi that aborted take-off Sunday morning has had a series of dramatic failures in the past few weeks, all coincidentally on international flights,...		CPNE hails cabinet’s decision KARACHI, July 21: Mir Shakilur-Rehman and Dr Jabbar Khattak, President and Secretary-General of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) have termed the decision of the federal cabinet to allow newspapers...
Agriculture uplift top priority: Aziz ISLAMABAD, July 21: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Monday that the government was according top priority to the development of the agriculture sector, which contributed 26 per cent to the...		Power supply suspended QUETTA, July 21: The provincial capital and the areas between it and Sibi on Monday evening remained without power for 90 minutes....
Coalition partners quarrel over slots ISLAMABAD, July 21: The government of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Monday was dealt a major blow when it was left with no other option but to withdraw 11...		Embassy reopens KABUL, July 21: Pakistan’s embassy here officially reopened on Monday, nearly two weeks after it was closed when it was ransacked by protesters on July 8, a diplomat said....
Indus water destroys 500ft of J-spur DADU, July 21: The River Indus is building pressure on the right side of the Dadu-Moro bridge in Dadu district as the water flow had destroyed 500 feet of the J-spur...		Young man dies of police torture DADU, July 21: A villager, Toohal Khan, 20, son of Meeral Khan, resident of the Jarwar village, Khairpur Nathan Shah Taluka, died in police custody due to being tortured on Sunday....
19 arrested, arms seized: Operation against bandits SUKKUR, July 21: Over 1,000 personnel of rangers conducted a raid on the Abdullah Mazari village and its surrounding areas on Sindh-Balochistan border on early Monday morning....		Regularization of doctors’ jobs demanded LARKANA, July 21: The contractual doctors and their children held a protest demonstration outside the press club here on Sunday to press the authorities for regularizing their jobs. They also observed...
Nazim ordered to clean city LARKANA, July 21: The Sindh High Court, Larkana circuit bench, on Monday gave a nine-day time to the Taluka Nazim, Larkana, to show progress towards improving the sanitary conditions of Larkana...		Anti-polio walk held KHAIRPUR, July 21: An anti-polio walk was held from Chatti Chowk to Lady Wellington Hospital here on Monday....
Rs1.2bn D.I. Khan budget presented DERA ISMAIL KHAN, July 21: The district Nazim on Monday presented a surplus budget for 2003-04 with a total outlay of Rs1.2 billion....		PM stresses need for quality education ISLAMABAD, July 21: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Monday that no nation could achieve its greater national objectives without attaining quality education in science and technology....
Three killed, two injured in family feud MINGORA, July 21: Three of a family were killed while two others received bullet injuries on Monday in Kooz Jabban village near Dargai in the Malakand Agency....		FC allowed to use hostel: Nazim QUETTA, July 21: City Nazim Mohammad Rahim Kakar said on Monday that Frontier Corps men had moved into the Youth Hostel with the district administration’s permission temporarily....
TMA fails to remove encroachments HARIPUR, July 21: The Tehsil Municipal Administration’s failure to take action against encroachers in Rehri Market has neutralized the move aimed at clearing the main bazaar from illegal structures, shows a...		Tribesmen vow to restrict NGOs BANNU, July 21: Tribesmen of Janikhel area of the district’s frontier region at a protest rally organized by a number of groups have announced measures to restrict activities of non-governmental organizations...
Anti-polio campaign from today MIRPURKHAS, July 21: The EDO, health, Dr Fazal Elahi Yousfani, has said women health supervisors can play a vital role in the three-day polio immunization campaign to be launched on July...		Sukkur to get filtered water SUKKUR, July 21: The federal government has allocated Rs370 millions for supply of filtered water to the people of Sukkur, out of which a first instalment of Rs100 million has been...
Foot & mouth disease resurfaces in Haripur HARIPUR, July 21: Foot and mouth, which wreaked havoc with cattle farms two years back, has reportedly recurred in different parts of the Haripur district, exposing thousands of buffaloes to the...		3 accused of kidnapping DERA ISMAIL KHAN, July 21: A woman on Monday accused three persons, including another woman, of kidnapping her three children, saying they had been missing since Sunday. She had filed a...
Shopkeepers released LANDI KOTAL, July 21: The political administration of the Khyber Agency released all the shopkeepers and unsealed their shops on Monday as the Bara Tajir Ittehad continued ..		Students block road SOUTH WAZIRISTAN, July 21: A large number of students took out a protest rally and blocked the main Makeen road against the kidnapping of a student here on Monday....
UC Nazim unseated CHITRAL, July 21: Nazim of the union council Chitral-I Subhanuddin was unseated on Monday through a no-confidence motion....		Bail granted PESHAWAR, July 21: A single bench of the Peshawar High Court on Monday released an accused in a murder case, Imtiaz Khan, on bail with two sureties of Rs 100,000...
Punjab seeks even-handed treatment from centre: Indus Treaty impact study LAHORE, July 21: The Punjab on Monday asked the Federal Government to be even handed in awarding money or permission to provinces for studying environmental impact of the Indus Basin Water...		Madiha, Faryal Gauhar grieved LAHORE, July 21: Noted social worker Khadijah Gauhar died in Skardu on Sunday night. She was 75. She was the mother of TV artistes Madiha and Faryal and Aamir Gauhar....
‘State bound to protect marriages’ LAHORE, July 21: The Lahore High Court ruled on Monday that the state was duty bound to protect the marriages solemnized between the individuals having the legal right to marry a...		Faisal accuses opposition of inflexibility on LFO LAHORE, July 21: Federal Interior and Narcotic Control Minister Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat has warned the opposition against taking the government’s flexibility on the LFO as its weakness....
JI firm on seeking public support LAHORE, July 21: The Jamaat-i-Islami is of the firm opinion that public pressure on the government should be stepped up to steer the country out of the present constitutional crisis, says...		Indus in low flood at Tarbela LAHORE, July 21: Country-wide rain on Monday kept mercury down but raised humidity and fear of flash floods....
Reshuffle in police on cards: IGP LAHORE, July 21: A large-scale transfers of police officials would soon be initiated in a bid to improve the working and image of the force....		Increase in rail fares likely soon: minister LAHORE, July 21: Railway Minister Ghaus Bux Maher says a proposal is under consideration to increase rail fares....