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New security plan for QAU hostels ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: The Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) has prepared a comprehensive security plan for its hostels to filter out outsiders, weapons and other unwanted elements, university sources told Dawn....		Public, private depts asked to install CCTVs on premises ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration has served notices on the administrations of all banks, educational institutions, government and private organisations, cinema halls and commercial plazas to immediately...
16-year-old girl commits suicide RAWALPINDI, Aug 17: A 16-year-old girl committed suicide by shooting herself with a pistol in her house in Banni police area on Sunday....		CDA allowed to sack 23 officials: Irregularities in services wing ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: The interior ministry has given approval to the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to sack its 23 officials under the Removal of Services Ordinance (RSO)-2000 for committing irregularities during...
Writings on Fatima Jinnah part of resistance literature ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: The good thing was that Halqa-i-Arbab-e-Zauq Islamabad discussed the contribution of Madar-i-Millat Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah in the context of Urdu Adab and Pakistan on Saturday evening on the...		Govt committed to uplift of women, says Jamali ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said the government is striving to empower women by providing better education and health facilities to them....
Independence Day celebrated at PTDC motels ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: The Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) celebrated the Independence Day with simplicity all over the country....		Citizens asked to help rain-affected people ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: It is the moral duty of every Pakistani to help and assist the rain-affected people in the rehabilitation process....
Over Rs26m yet to be disbursed under FSP RAWALPINDI, Aug 17: The post offices in Rawalpindi district have failed to distribute Rs26.1 million of Pakistan Baitul Maal among the beneficiaries of the Food Support Programme (FSP) despite a delay...		Briefing for MPs on WTO regime today ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: The Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) will hold a briefing on Monday for parliamentarians on the “WTO Regime and Implications for Pakistan”....
Lawyers urged to keep law supreme MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 17: Azad Jammu & Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayyat Khan has urged lawyers to play their role for the supremacy of law and strengthening of democratic institutions....		Musharraf to visit US again: Ashraf QUETTA, Aug 17: Pakistan’s Ambassador to US Jahangir Ashraf Qazi has said the relations between Islamabad and Washington were strengthening with the passage of time and President Musharraf would again visit...
DPs repatriation to be reviewed ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: The tripartite commission on repatriation of Afghan refugees (from Pakistan) is holding its second quarterly meeting in Kabul on Aug 27 to review the pace of repatriation, official...		NAB proposes body on ECL ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has asked the interior ministry to form a three-member committee to revise the exit control list (ECL)....
Bizenjo’s services remembered QUETTA, Aug 17: Speakers at a seminar lauded the services of Mir Ghous Bakhsh Bizenjo for creating awareness among the people of Balochistan about their democratic rights....		Most Pakistanis see India as enemy state: poll NEW DELHI, Aug 17: Most Pakistanis see India as an enemy state and do not foresee peaceful relations with it until the Kashmir issue is first resolved, an opinion poll said...
FBI probing Pakistani journalist WASHINGTON, Aug 17: The Pakistan embassy here has written a letter to the State Department drawing its attention to the probing of a Washington correspondent of a Pakistani group of newspapers...		Pakistan Embassy cautions nationals WASHINGTON, Aug 17: “As the second phase of homeland security operation begins in the United States the Pakistan Embassy has urged Pakistan nationals to register themselves at airports while leaving the...
Tourism with China will be promoted BEIJING, Aug 17: Pakistan and China have exchanged lists of the approved tour operators and travelling agencies to promote tourism between the two countries....		Pakistan facing terrorist attack NEW YORK, Aug 17: Pakistan ranks third on the list of countries most likely of 186 countries to be the target of a terrorist attack within next three months followed by...
PPP leader criticizes Swiss verdict MIRPURKHAS, Aug 17: Former federal minister and Pakistan People’s Party MNA Nawab Mohammad Yousuf Talpur has termed the judg-ment by a Swiss investigating officer against Ms Benazir Bhutto and her spouse...		Kasuri to visit Kabul on 21st ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri will embark on a one-day official visit to Afghanistan on Aug 21 for talks to consolidate bilateral relations which have been under strain...
New ambassador ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: Government has appointed Ms Asma Anisa as ambassador of Pakistan to Lebanon....		60 drivers arrested for violating traffic rules GUJRANWALA, Aug 17: At least 60 drivers were arrested and driving licences of four of them were suspended while 64 public transport vehicles were impounded for the violation of traffic rules...
Close triangular contest likely in Kamoki GUJRANWALA, Aug 17: The PML-Q, PML-J (C) and PPP nominated their aspirants for the slot of Kamoki tehsil nazim and started their election campaign on Sunday....		First semester of GCU from Sept 15 FAISALABAD, Aug 17: The first regular semester of the Government College University, Faisalabad, will commence from Sept 15 with 10 new post-graduate programmes....
City govt to build industrial homes LAHORE, Aug 17: District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood said on Sunday that industrial homes in all the six towns of the city district would be constructed....		‘Dangerous’ prisoners to be kept in fetters SAHIWAL, Aug 17: The Punjab government has decided to keep ‘dangerous’ prisoners in fetters in all prisons....
Man held for burning wife to death TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 17: Kamalia police on Sunday arrested a man along with his mother on the charge of burning to death his wife in Zeeshan Colony....		Youth throws acid on girl VEHARI, Aug 17: A youth on Sunday threw acid on a girl for refusing to develop relations with him in Burewala....
Akhbar Farosh Union official thrashed by ‘trader’ FAISALABAD, Aug 17: A ‘trader’ and his accomplices thrashed the Akhbar Farosh Union of Faisalabad general secretary and his sons near Clock Tower intersection on Sunday....		Two killed in Chiniot tehsil JHANG, Aug 17: A man and a woman were killed in different parts of Chiniot tehsil during the last 24 hours....
Chandka needs more funds for medicines, food LARKANA, Aug 17: The management of the Chandka Medical College Hospital is in a fix as how to meet the daily food expenses of the patients under the budget-2003-2004....		Nazim resigns from relief committee NAWABSHAH, Aug 17: The district Nazim, Faryal Talpur, has sent her resignation from membership of the relief committee to the Sindh chief secretary....
Jirga settles tribal dispute KHAIRPUR, Aug 17: A Jirga held at the guest house of Pir Pagaro in Pir Jo Goth on Sunday resolved a dispute between Narejo and Jagirani tribes...		Doctors told to attend OPDs MARDAN, Aug 17: Provincial Health Minister Inayatullah Khan on Saturday directed the authorities to ensure the presence of specialist doctors in the hospitals’ outpatient departments....
Police attacked, accused freed SUKKUR, Aug 17: A police party was looted by armed men who also got released one of their accomplices in the limits of the A-section police station, Sukkur, on Sunday....		Rifts appear in Upper Dir govt TIMERGARA, Aug 17: The coalition between the Al Khidmat and Sherpao groups in the upper Dir district seemed more fragile than ever as the opposition accelerated its efforts to table a...
12 file papers for local govt by-elections DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Aug 17: Twelve candidates have filed nomination papers for by-elections of Nazim of Kulachi tehsil and Naib Nazim of Dera Ismail Khan tehsil....		Two tribesmen shot dead SOUTH WAZIRISTAN, Aug 17: Two tribesmen were gunned down in the Speenkai Raghzai bazaar in South Waziristan Agency on Sunday....
Mill workers not to be retrenched: minister THATTA, Aug 17: The federal minister for industries and production, Liaquat Ali Jatoi, has assured that after privatization of the Thatta Sugar Mill its employees would not be retrenched....		Three killed TIMERGARA, Aug 17: Three people, including a woman, were killed and four others seriously injured when a car plunged into a ravine in Upper Dir on Sunday....
Recruitment in Punjab from next month LAHORE, Aug 17: Recruitment in the Punjab is likely to begin from next month with no special favour to MPAs during the process, sources said on Sunday....		Four ‘robbers’ arrested LAHORE, Aug 17: Model Town division police claimed on Sunday to have arrested four members of an alleged gang of robbers involved in robbing families on return from weddings....
All jails overcrowded LAHORE, Aug 17: Each of the 30 jails in the Punjab are accommodating much more number of inmates than the authorized capacity....		PHA ‘staggering’ on its walking street LAHORE, Aug 17: The Parks and Horticulture Authority has neither removed the lights installed on the back wall of the Badshahi Mosque nor has it developed so far the “walking street”...
System bound to collapse: Ahsan LAHORE, Aug 17: PML-N Chief Coordinator Ahsan Iqbal says the present system is bound to collapse because of its in-built contradictions and the new dispensation will help normalize the situation in...		Indus in low flood LAHORE, Aug 17: The river Indus was in low flood at Guddu, Sukkur and Kotri while the Jhelum, the Chenab, the Ravi and the Sutlej were flowing normal on Sunday....
Nawabzada blasts Jamali LAHORE, Aug 17: ARD president Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan has criticized Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali for always finding faults with the opposition and “ignoring unparliamentary acts of the army and ruling party’s...		Hassaan criticized LAHORE, Aug 17: Data Ganj Bakhsh Town opposition councillors have criticized Town Nazim Khwaja Hassaan for his failure to tender resignation from office despite making an announcement in this regard after...