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Tobacco ads on TV to be phased out by 2005 ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: All tobacco companies will go off the electronic media by 2005, while a leading tobacco company has already gone out of television and radio from Dec 2002, a...		RCB petition dismissed: Relief against LHC verdict RAWALPINDI, Aug 12: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal of the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) regarding interim relief against the verdict of the Lahore High Court (LHC) which restored...
Pakistan to train Sudanese doctors ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Pakistan will provide short-term and long-term training to Sudanese doctors, nurses and paramedics, while the two countries would also enhance cooperation in the fields of pharmaceuticals and medical...		Prisoners get special remission ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has granted special remission in sentences of prisoners on the occasion of Independence Day, an official announcement said....
PTCL daily wagers stage sit-in at Lal Haveli RAWALPINDI, Aug 12: Members of the All Pakistan PTCL Daily Wagers Association on Tuesday staged a sit-in here in front of Lal Haveli to press the government for regularization of their...		Munshi’s revolutionary course against oppression ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Munshi Ibrahim, the modern, revolutionary Sindhi poet, who in spite of the great influence of Shah Latif on his poetic sensibility, chartered his own course to write against...
QAU extends admission date to Sept 3 ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: The Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) has extended the admission date for the fall semester from August 16 to September 3 as the Punjab University is yet to announce its...		New Unicef chief ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Omar Ahmed Abdi has assumed the charge of representative of the United Nations International Children’s Fund (Unicef) for Pakistan replacing Carroll C. Long....
First unit of GBHP to be opened on 19th ATTOCK, Aug 12: All arrangements to inaugurate the first 290MW power unit of the Ghazi Barotha Hydropower Project (GBHP) on August 19 have been finalized, General Manager of the GBHP Brig...		US judge refuses bail to Pakistani NEW YORK, Aug 12: A Federal judge in New York on Tuesday refused to set bail for Pakistani suspect Uzair Paracha accused by the US authorities of aiding Al Qaeda terror...
Govt trying to restore peace, says Jamali QUETTA, Aug 12: Prime Minster Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said that the terrorists involved in the imambargah attack will be punished irrespective of the suspects’ status or affiliation as no...		Formation of new force planned QUETTA, Aug 12: Establishment of a new law enforcement agency and the merger of Balochistan Reserve Police (BRP) with it is under consideration to control the law and order situation in...
Transparency in award of power contract sought MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 12: The army has taken strong exception to alleged attempts in the AJK capital of transferring halfway the feasibility study contract of a public sector power project to a...		US govt to provide $53m grant for uplift ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Pakistan and the United States government on Tuesday signed a five-year US $ 53 million grant agreement to support Pakistan’s economic development objectives described in the Pakistan Poverty...
MPs asked to submit statement of assets ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: The Election Commission has asked the members of Parliament and provincial assemblies to submit statement of their assets and liabilities by Sept 30....		Indian shelling kills boy MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 12: A boy was killed and two others were wounded in the Poonch district of Azad Kashmir on Tuesday in unprovoked Indian shelling from across the Line of Control,...
Apprehensions rejected QUETTA, Aug 12: Chief Minister Jam Mohammad Yousuf has rejected the apprehensions that the new governor’s appointment is meant to launch a military operation in a particular area....		Firecrackers to be destroyed GILGIT, Aug 12: The customs authorities have decided to destroy firecrackers that were seized at the Sost checkpoint in 2001....
No morning newspaper on Friday KARACHI, Aug 12: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society has announced that member publications of the APNS will observe Thursday, Aug 14, as a closed holiday on account of Independence Day....		FC official dies as vehicle hits landmine QUETTA, Aug 12: A Frontier Corps official was killed and five others sustained injuries when a landmine exploded on Sui road in Dera Bugti district on Tuesday....
Benazir slams honour killings ISLAMABAD, Aug 12: Former premier and chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party Benazir Bhutto on Tuesday denounced the killing of a woman and her four daughters in the name of “honour”...		Strike against district relief body observed BADIN, Aug 12: A complete strike was observed in Badin on Tuesday on the call of Awam Dost Panel Nazims against the district relief committee constituted by the Sindh government and...
Two policemen, villager killed SUKKUR, Aug 12: Three people, including two policemen, were killed and another policeman was injured when armed men opened fire on a police post in the Faiz Mohammad Chakrani village in...		Growers threaten to burn tobacco SWABI, Aug 12: The Anjuman-i-Kashtkaran Swabi (AKS) has threatened that they would set on fire their products of Virginia tobacco in front of the tobacco purchasing companies if the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal...
SHO suspended MARDAN, Aug 12: The district police officer (DPO) has suspended the station house officer (SHO) of city police station following his involvement in providing special treatment to an outlaw of Hoti...		Jirga settles tribal dispute LARKANA, Aug 12: Nawab Shabir Ahmed Chandio, the chief of the Chandio tribe, announcing his verdict on a tribal dispute, has said that he has pardoned the killers of his brother,...
Relief goods distributed in Kachho DADU, Aug 12: The district administration, Dadu, distributed relief packets of Ghee, flour, rice, pulses, sugar, soap, salt, tea, and match boxes among 8,946 rain-affected families in the Kachho, Kohistan...		50 arrested SUKKUR, Aug 12: The Pano Aqil police on Monday arrested 50 persons in connection with the kidnapping of a dates dealer and registered a case against them....
Woman killed to avenge girl’s death LANDI KOTAL, Aug 12: A girl was killed on Monday in Landi Kotal and a woman who confessed to having killed her was shot dead on Tuesday....		New IT policy rejected SUKKUR, Aug 12: All Pakistan Organization of Small Traders and Cottage Industries co-chairman Mohammad Haroon Memon has said traders of the country have rejected the new income tax policy for 2003-2004....
Obituary KHAIRPUR, Aug 12: Habibullah Mirani, the younger brother of Dawn correspondent in Khairpur, Mansoor Mirani, committed suicide by firing at himself in his house in the Ghulam Ali Shah village, Kingri...		Punjab okays land for tillers, homeless LAHORE, Aug 12: The Punjab cabinet has approved distribution of 12.5-acre plots among landless tillers and five-marla plots among homeless people of the province....
MMA not to talk to ‘agencies’ any more LAHORE, Aug 12: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has decided that further talks, if any, on the LFO and uniform issues will be held with political representatives of the government instead of officials...		Construction of underpass inaugurated LAHORE, Aug 12: Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi inaugurated on Tuesday the construction of an underpass on The Mall canal bridge, announcing that he would carry out massive development activities in...
No parleys with govt: Nasrullah LAHORE, Aug 12: ARD chairman Nawabzada Nasrullah said on Tuesday that the alliance would not hold parleys with the government on any issue, including the LFO, unless Gen Pervez Musharraf quit...		Lobbying for new PU vice-chancellor LAHORE, Aug 12: Punjab University vice-chancellor Arshad Mahmood, whose term in the office is due to expire in the first week of next month, is stated to have stepped up efforts...
Mangla, Tarbela almost full LAHORE, Aug 12: The Tarbela Dam is expected to fill up by Aug 14 while the Mangla level has already touched the optimum of 1,202 feet with Wapda planning to take...		Ganj Bakhsh Council session convened LAHORE, Aug 12: Naib Nazim Mian Mohammed Usman has convened an extraordinary session of the Data Ganj Bakhsh Council on Friday for voting on a no-trust motion submitted by two union...
Sialkot jail operation mishandled: judges heirs LAHORE, Aug 12: The legal heirs of the judges killed during the “hostage drama” in the Sialkot jail on Tuesday accused the police of mishandling its operation due to haste, as...		MMA demo against killing of soldiers LAHORE, Aug 12: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) held a symbolic demonstration outside the Press Club here on Tuesday against US firing on Pakistani troops on Afghanistan border....
Ample stock to counter outbreak of epidemics LAHORE, Aug 12: The city district health department has taken preventive steps and provided necessary medicines at its centres to counter the outbreak of seasonal diseases in the city....		Promoted LAHORE, Aug 12: Punjab Institute of Cardiology’s Associate Prof Dr Nadeem Hayat Malik has been promoted as professor of cardiology and posted against the newly created post of professor of cardiology...
Steps to save land erosion not in FPP SIALKOT, Aug 12: The Punjab irrigation department’s plan to save the eroding agricultural lands on a large scale from the continuous changing courses of the Chenab near Bajwat and Head Marala...		Torture claimed life of prisoner: family GUJRANWALA, Aug 12: A prisoner involved in a murder case died here on Tuesday due to what his family alleged torture by a jail official....
TMA staff beaten up by mob: Anti-encroachment drive MULTAN, Aug 12: An unruly mob attacked and thrashed tehsil municipal administration staff for removing encroachments from a bazaar here on Tuesday....		Rajanpur lacks health facilities RAJANPUR, Aug 12: Small towns in the Punjab, particularly the Rajanpur tehsil, lack basic health facilities....
Three women gang-raped by dacoits SARGODHA, Aug 12: Dacoits gang-raped three women besides looting cash and valuables from their houses in the district on Monday night....		Fresh probe into Darul Aman case DERA GHAZI KHAN, Aug 12: The chief minister has ordered a fresh probe into the Saffo Case in which six officials of the local Darul Aman were suspended on charges of...
Jail tragedy: suspects sent on judicial remand SIALKOT, Aug 12: On the orders of special Anti-Terrorism Court judge Iftikhar Husain, the Sialkot jail’s arrested assistant superintendents Akhtar Iqbal, Raja Mushtaq and Ghulam Sarwar were sent to the district...		Rs3.2m textile machinery stolen JOHARABAD, Aug 12: Thieves took away Rs3.2 million worth machinery from a local textile mills....