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NCSW seeks more powers to implement proposals ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: Chairperson National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) Justice Majida Rizvi has demanded more powers for the commission so that it could ensure implementation of its recommendations....		Prayer leader among many held for questioning: Sunday’s bomb blast RAWALPINDI, Dec 15: Several labourers, working on Askari villas project, and a prayer leader of a mosque from a neighbouring colony were taken into custody for questioning in connection with Sunday’s...
Call to promote social sciences ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: Social sciences will play an effective role in preservation of national interest in the coming days....		Corruption biggest obstacle to development: NAB chief ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Lt-Gen Munir Hafiez on Monday said corruption was the biggest obstacle in the way of development and well-being of the people....
Court orders A-class for Sajid Naqvi RAWALPINDI, Dec 15: The anti-terrorism court no 1, on Monday ordered provision of A-class to the chief of the banned Islami Tehrik Pakistan (ITP), Allama Sajid Naqvi....		Two killed in separate incidents in Rawalpindi RAWALPINDI, Dec 15: A shopkeeper was shot dead by an unidentified motorcycle rider in Pirwadhai on Sunday night, while a pedestrian was killed in a road accident in Westridge, police said....
200 houses to be electrified thru solar energy ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: The secretary to the Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB), Brig Dr Nasim A. Khan, said large groups from as many as 12 countries had expressed interest in investing...		PML-Q leader lauds Benazir’s Delhi speech RAWALPINDI, Dec 15: The PML-Q vice-president, Kabir Ali Wasti, has welcomed the speech of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, which she has delivered at a Delhi moot....
Need stressed to promote institution of Waqf ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: The chief adviser to the prime minister, Sharifuddin Pirzada, has stressed the need for promoting the institution of Waqf (trust) for the socio-economic development of the Muslim countries....		Rs500m uplift schemes to be launched in Pindi soon RAWALPINDI, Dec 15: The provincial government will start major uplift projects worth Rs500 million in the city from next month, provincial local bodies minister Raja Basharat said here on Monday....
‘Dynamic politics a must for progress’ ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: Renowned intellectual I.A. Rehman has said no society can progress without dynamic politics....		FBISE to honour position holders ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: The Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) will distribute 49 gold, silver and bronze medals amongst top three position holders of each group of Matric and...
Megawati plants sapling ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: Visiting Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri on Monday planted a “Mangolia Grandiflora” sapling at Shakarparian....		JKNLF calls for opening of all natural routes: Independent Kashmir demanded MIRPUR (AJK), Dec 15: The Jammu and Kashmir National Liberation Front (JKNLF) has demanded of India and Pakistan to open all the natural routes linking occupied Kashmir with Azad Kashmir to...
Cabinet slams attempt on life of Musharraf ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: The federal cabinet on Monday condemned the explosion in Rawalpindi that occurred on Sunday and declared that it stood solidly behind President Gen Musharraf in his resolve to...		SC suspends SHC decision: Sindh Regulation & Control Ord ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: The Supreme Court on Monday suspended the Sindh High Court’s decision in which it had declared the Sindh Regulation and Control (Use of Plots and Construction of Buildings)...
Senators pay tribute to Noorani ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: Members from both the treasury and the opposition benches in the Senate on Monday paid glowing tributes to the “selfless” services rendered by veteran parliamentarian Maulana Shah Ahmed...		Democracy restored, claims president ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that democracy has been fully restored in Pakistan and the elected government is exercising power at the centre and the provinces....
1971 debacle: role of civil society MILITARY action (operation Searchlight) was launched from the Dhaka Kurmitola Cantonment at midnight on March 25, 1971. It went on for nine long months till the surrender of our East Pakistan-based...		Hashmi’s case to be heard in jail ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: Chief Commissioner Junaid Iqbal issued orders on Monday that the proceedings of the case of ARD President Makhdoom Javed Hashmi would be held in Central Jail Adiyala instead...
Kasuri condemns blast ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Monday condemned the terrorist incident in Rawalpindi....		30 detained in anti-bandit crackdown DADU, Dec 15: Thirty people were rounded up in a crackdown against bandits launched in the Kutcha area of the district on Monday by the police of six districts and rangers...
NWFP considering reforms to remove gender gap PESHAWAR, Dec 15: The provincial government is considering wide-ranging reforms in policy making, institutional structures, fiscal and political processes, in addition to increasing women representation in public offices, to remove gender...		CM terms Sindh’s case convincing: NFC award NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Dec 15: Sindh Chief Minister Ali Muhammad Mahar has said that Sindh has pleaded its strong case to the federal government in respect of National Financial Commission (NFC) award....
Demo against oil firm held BADIN, Dec 15: The Sindh National Party activists and jobless youths staged a sit-in on the road leading to Mazari oil field, Matli, some 110 kilometres off here on Monday....		90 hepatitis cases detected JACOBABAD, Dec 15: Out of 1,500 women and children, 30 per cent were found to be carriers of hepatitis when their blood was screened at a free medical camp here on...
Joyo panel sweeps SAS polls HYDERABAD, Dec 15: All the candidates of Taj Joyo group were elected on various posts at the central elections of the Sindhi Adabi Sangat (SAS) held at Muslim College here late...		Registration of kidnapping case ordered SUKKUR, Dec 15: The Sindh High Court, Sukkur bench, ordered here on Monday to register a case of kidnapping of Shahzadi Chohan against Raja Khan, son of Sardar Rahim Bux Bozdar,...
Cop booked in murder case SHIKARPUR, Dec 15: The Staurt Gunj police, on the orders of district and sessions judge, Shikarpur, have registered a murder case here on Monday against ASI Raja Sanjrani....		Investigation demanded SANGHAR, Dec 15: The uncle of an under-trial prisoner, who died on Dec 12 due to alleged...
Woman being ‘forced to withdraw’ case: Humiliation in public SARGODHA, Dec 15: Protest against the alleged humiliation of a woman councillor by the Kalayar tribe in Shahnikadar, Sillanwali tehsil, continued for the third day on Monday, with a majority of...		Decision to allocate vet hospital site to TMA suspended FAISALABAD, Dec 15: The district government has suspended its decision to allocate the Veterinary Hospital site for setting up offices of the Tehsil Municipal Administration (Sadar) after the provincial government’s interference....
FSc students reject new pattern of exams MULTAN, Dec 15: Students of the Fundamentals of Science (FSc) enrolled with the Punjab Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education have expressed concern over the pattern of examination papers being introduced...		Textile University crisis not yet over FAISALABAD, Dec 15: Hundreds of students of the National Textile University staged a protest demonstration in front of the dean offices on the sixth consecutive day on Monday and vowed to...
Jumbo’s maiden landing at RYK RAHIM YAR KHAN, Dec 15: The local Sheikh Zyed Bin Sultan Al Nahyaan Airport on Monday saw the first successful landing and takeoff of the Jumbo 747....		Rajanpur farmers promised land RAJANPUR, Dec 15: The Punjab government will distribute 12,000 acres of land among landless peasants in the Rajanpur district while the allotment work will be completed within a week....
Cinema manager booked for power theft GUJRANWALA, Dec 15: A joint raiding team of the Wapda military intelligence and Gepco on Monday raided Al-Khayam Cinema in Ghakkhar town and caught red-handed its manager while stealing electricity for...		Flour being smuggled to Afghanistan, NWFP SHEIKHUPURA, Dec 15: The owners of more than 300 flour mills in the Punjab are involve in smuggling of wheat and flour to the NWFP and Afghanistan....
MMA may rotate presidentship LAHORE, Dec 15: The supreme council of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), which is meeting in Multan on Wednesday, will revert to its principle decision of rotating the alliance’s presidentship among its...		MNA Abid Sher challenges his detention LAHORE, Dec 15: MNA Abid Sher, the son of former Faisalabad mayor Chaudhry Sher Ali, has challenged his detention through a constitutional petition filed at the Lahore High Court on Monday...
PPP, PML-N differences on Kashmir surface LAHORE, Dec 15: Differences between the two major ARD components, the PPP and the PML-N, on the status of freedom movement in occupied Kashmir and the kind of relations Pakistan should...		Seven investors to bid for Multan Road bus stand LAHORE, Dec 15: The City District Government will invite the seven selected investors to bid for the development of the Multan Road General Bus Stand near Thokar Niaz Beg on a...
5,000 porn CDs burnt LAHORE, Dec 15: District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood on Monday set fire to over 5,000 computer discs containing obscene material on the Hall Road....		Lawyers to protest abduction of scientists LAHORE, Dec 15: The human rights committee of the Lahore High Court Bar Association has announced a demonstration for Wednesday against the abduction of two nuclear scientists of the Kahuta Research...
Widespread rain in Punjab LAHORE, Dec 15: Lahore and some other cities in the Punjab received light to heavy rain on Monday, marking the beginning of the winter rainy season which lasts till March....		LHC’s directive to C&W dept LAHORE, Dec 15: A Lahore High Court judge on Monday directed the communications and works department to inform the court whether any audit paras were pending against the junior engineers promoted...
Samjotha given new look LAHORE, Dec 15: The Pakistan Railways has repaired the track for Samjotha Express, which is likely to start in January 2004....		Tevta training to produce qualified professionals LAHORE, Dec 15: The Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) is endeavouring to design and develop programmes to produce highly qualified professionals and ensure their placement in industrial, agriculture and...
Robbers have a field day LAHORE, Dec 15: Robbers and thieves on Monday struck nine times and made off with cash, gold, prize bonds and vehicles worth over Rs2.5 million....		Cancellation of hotel’s licence issued LAHORE, Dec 15; Punjab Tourism Minister and District Food Committee chairman Aslam Iqbal has ordered cancellation of Ambassador Hotel’s licence and prosecution of Avari and Pearl Continental’s managements for failure to...