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Druggists discuss problems with health minister RAWALPINDI, Aug 31: The health director general has been directed to implement 15 per cent margin on the retail trade as well as for the leftover medicines destroyed by floods in...		60 mini-dams to be built in Potohar ATTOCK, Aug 31: Provincial minister for irrigation and power Aamir Sultan Cheema has said about 60 new mini dams, 100 link mini dams and 200 village reservoirs will be constructed in...
Automation of NA, Senate approved ISLAMABAD, Aug 31: The projects of automation of the National Assembly, Senate and the information technology ministry were approved here in a ministerial review committee meeting....		2 drown in drain RAWALPINDI, Aug 31: Two persons drowned in a drain in Thalian village on Sunday, police said....
More showers forecast ISLAMABAD, Aug 31: More rains are expected in the Punjab during next few days, met office told this agency here on Sunday....		HEC okays Rs37m for Taxila varsity : Lab upgradation project ISLAMABAD, Aug 31: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has approved a Rs37 million project for upgradation of research laboratory of Department of Transportation Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila....
PRM seeks rights for slum dwellers RAWALPINDI, Aug 31: The activists of People’s Rights Movement (PRM) on Sunday held a rally in which they demanded ownership rights for kutchi abadi dwellers, landless tenants and compensation for the...		Parties term NWFP demands justified PESHAWAR, Aug 31: Major political parties have supported the provincial government’s demand that the NWFP should be given share from the profit of Ghazi Barotha hydro power project to offset the...
Muslims’ moot condemns New Delhi over Kashmir WASHINGTON, Aug 31: Speakers in Chicago at a four-day Islamic conference condemned India on Sunday for exploiting the current resentment against terrorism to suppress the Kashmiri struggle for the right to...		JUI reviews draft of Balochistan Shariat bill QUETTA, Aug 31: Jamiat Ulema Islam (Fazlur Rehman) provincial executive and parliamentary group held a meeting here on Sunday to review the Shariat Bill draft prepared by the Nifaz-i-Shariat Council, which...
Indian team stresses renewed peace efforts KARACHI, Aug 31: Indian delegates on arrival here on Sunday to attend a two-day conference called for renewed efforts for peace by Pakistan and India and the need for more concrete...		MMA disowns ties with militants QUETTA, Aug 31: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), Balochistan, has dissociated itself from all militant groups in the country and decided to hold a big public gathering soon in Quetta to strengthen...
Construction of dams essential: Shujaat ISLAMABAD Aug 31: Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam) president and parliamentary leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said the construction of Kalabagh Dam, Bhasha Dam and other dams have become essential for the...		Pakistani held in Canada TORONTO, Aug 31: Another Pakistani, suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda, was arrested in here on Saturday raising the number of arrests to 20 this month, police sources said....
Osama working on serious projects, claims magazine NEW YORK, Aug 31: The Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden convened a “biggest terror summit since Sept 11 at a mountain stronghold in Afghanistan” and told the gathering that he...		PML-N criticizes investment policy ISLAMABAD, Aug 31: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chief coordinator Ahsan Iqbal has alleged that perpetuation of the military rule in the country is discouraging foreign investment and hampering real economic growth....
Shutter down strike against minister’s misbehaviour MULTAN, Aug 31: Almost a complete shutter down strike was observed by local traders against the alleged misbehaviour of the provincial minister for excise and taxation....		Water of six localities declared unfit BAHAWALPUR, Aug 31: The Institute of Public Health, Lahore, has declared the drinking water of six localities of Bahawalpur unfit for human consumption....
ASI, constable suspended for registering wrong FIR MIANWALI, Aug 31: DPO Dr Shakeel Ahmed Mirza has transferred Paikhel SHO to Police Lines and suspended an ASI and a constable for instituting a fake FIR against an addict....		Man kills daughter, sister, cousin OKARA, Aug 31: A man shot dead his daughter, a sister and a cousin in Chak 48/3-R on Sunday....
Lawyer shot dead by rivals TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 31: A senior member of the local District Bar Association was shot dead by his rivals on Sunday at Chak 330-JB, Seowal....		Bank manager injured by dacoits NAROWAL, Aug 31: Five unidentified dacoits on Saturday night looted the house of a bank manger and injured him on resistance at Pasrur....
EDO suspended on corruption charges SARGODHA, Aug 31: Executive District Officer (Literacy Development) Saeed Ahmed Khan has been suspended and an inquiry ordered against him on charges of misusing and misappropriating the Asian Development Bank funds...		Bus drivers block road FAISALABAD, Aug 31: Dozens of bus drivers and conductors blocked the Narwala Road by parking their vehicles in protest against beating of their colleagues by some shopkeepers here on Sunday....
XEN, SDO held for taking bribe SARGODHA, Aug 31: An executive engineer, his stenographer and an SDO of the Sargodha tehsil municipal administration were arrested on Friday on the charge of receiving bribe from a contractor....		Four killed in Rs20m prize bonds dacoity FAISALABAD, Aug 31: Dacoits shot dead two prize bond dealers and as many gunmen and took away prize bonds worth Rs20 million in Sanatpura, Jhang Bazaar, here on Sunday....
Musharraf dividing nation: Fazl NOWSHEHRA, Aug 31: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal Secretary-General Maulana Fazlur Rehman has asked Gen Pervez Musharraf to refrain from what he termed fuelling hatred among the provinces on regional basis....		Former Mujahideen commander attacked PESHAWAR, Aug 31: A former Hizbul Mujahideen commander, Major Mast Gul, on Sunday survived an attempt on his life after his car was ambushed by a group of unidentified armed men...
Need for tax-free zones stressed KOHAT, Aug 31: The government is trying to attract foreign investment and there is a need to establish tax-free industrial zones in the less-developed regions, says NWFP senior minister Sirajul Haq....		Nadra books 21,000 illegal foreigners KOHAT, Aug 31: The National Database and Registration Authority has registered criminal cases against 21,000 foreigners, mostly Afghan refugees, for submitting bogus attestations of government officials and public representatives to get...
Anti-Thal caravan reaches Jacobabad JACOBABAD, Aug 31: Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly, said that the greater Thal canal and Kalabagh Dam would directly hit the interests of Sindh and wondered why...		Sugar mill workers form body BADIN, Aug 31: Owners and managements of sugar mills must stop exploiting labourers, cease harassing workers and put an end to injustices committed against them....
Sick units’ revival vowed DADU, Aug 31: Federal Industries and Production Minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi has said sick industries, including sugar mills, will soon be reopened....		Two killed KHAIRPUR, Aug 31: Ten armed men barged into the courtyard of Jalbani tribesmen and opened fire with Kalashnikovs as a result of which two people were killed and another injured in...
Below-average rainfall in August LAHORE, Aug 31: The rainfall in August was less than the average for the month in a majority of cities of the country....		ARD to take its drive to district level LAHORE, Aug 31: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) has decided to take its anti-Musharraf drive to the district level, and alliance chief Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan has cut short his...
Qadri may join opposition LAHORE, Aug 31: Pakistan Awami Tehrik chief Tahirul Qadri says he may join hands with the opposition in its struggle for real democracy and political stability....		Workers to observe demands day LAHORE, Aug 31: The Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union has announced that 120,000 Wapda employees will observe a ‘Demands Day’ on Sept 10 to press for the acceptance of...