11 March 2004 Thursday 19 Muharram 1425 Senate to get report on shooting ISLAMABAD, March 10: The government told the Senate on Wednesday that an inquiry report on recent killings of 13 people by troops' firing in South Waziristan tribal agency would be available in three to four days. States and Frontier Regions Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said ... Parliament be taken into confidence, says Fahim: National security LAHORE, March 10: Maintaining that the recent visits of foreign ministers of France, Britain and Germany and the upcoming visit of US Secretary of State Colin Powell had raised suspicions that the government was going to roll back the country's nuclear programme, ... Benazir should be felicitated for Shaheen-II, says Mirani ISLAMABAD, March 10: The military regime should felicitate former prime minister Benazir Bhutto for the successful test of long-range missile Shaheen-II. This was stated by former defence minister and senior central leader of the PPP Aftab Shaban Mirani. ... MMA leader rejects ARD allegations RAWALPINDI, March 10: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has rejected the ARD allegations terming them baseless. Talking to Dawn, the MMA Punjab president, Hafiz Mohammad Idrees, said the whole nation knew it well as to who was indulging in politics of interests and who was sticking to the principles. ... Signs of rift in MMA intensifying PESHAWAR, March 10: In a sign of intensifying rifts within the Muttahida Majlis-I-Amal, a close aide to the Jamaat-i-Islami chief, Qazi Hussain Ahmad, on Wednesday accused the NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani of concentrating too much powers in his hands and ignoring his allies. ... PPP holds protest rally against MPA's murder ISLAMABAD, March 10: The MNAs belonging to the People's Party Parliamentarians (PPP) on Wednesday staged a protest rally outside the Parliament House to protest against the murder of Sindh MPA Abdullah Murad Baloch. ... Call for dismissal of Sindh govt: Protest over MPA's killing HYDERABAD, March 10: Protest against the murder of People's Party Parliamentarians MPA Abdullah Murad Baloch continued throughout Sindh on the fifth consecutive day on Wednesday. ... Why Cheema ditched PPP MULTAN, March 10: What prompted a diehard PPP stalwart like Bahawalpur District Nazim Tariq Basheer Cheema to desert the party is a hundred-million-dollar question being discussed in political circles here and Bahawalpur. ... Court reserves verdict on women's vote PESHAWAR, March 10: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday reserved its judgment on four identical writ petitions filed against barring women from casting votes in the local government elections held in 2001. ... Nationalist parties to evolve joint strategy KARACHI, March 10: All nationalist parties in Sindh have decided to evolve a common strategy with regard to different issues. They have also urged the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) to call off its indefinite hunger strike. ... 185 register to give evidence to commission QUETTA, March 10: About 185 persons have registered themselves on Tuesday, to give their statements and evidence to the judicial commission, formed to probe into the Ashura day killings on March 2. ... JSQM rejects conditional talks on disputed projects HYDERABAD, March 10: Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz chairman Bashir Qureshi said on Tuesday that his party would not hold talks with the government till the on-going work on the Thal canal was suspended and the Kalabagh dam project abandoned. ... Affected workers to be rehabilitated: Minister informs NA about PTCL privatization ISLAMABAD, March 10: Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunications Awais Leghari has said it is not possible to estimate how many employees of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) will be affected due to the company's privatization ... PFUJ demands ads be restored to newspapers KARACHI, March 10: Declaring the government ban on advertisements to The Nation and Nawa-i-Waqt newspapers as contradictory to the spirit of freedom of the press , the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists has demanded that this step should be immediately revoked so that a culture of freedom of expression can be developed in the country. ... EU to take up anti-dumping case in Sept LAHORE, March 10: Belgium ambassador Patrick Renault says the question of withdrawal of anti-dumping duty on Pakistani rice and garments will be discussed at the European Union meeting in September next. ... 10th Saarc writers' moot from tomorrow LAHORE, March 10: The three-day 10th Saarc Writers Conference will be held here from March 12 to 14, as delegates from the seven member states have started reaching the city. ... Rawa slams warlords' attitude PESHAWAR, March 10: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (Rawa) has said that in the presence of fundamentalists warlords in Afghanistan no serious issue ... More and better doctors needed - Joint Medical Conference told KARACHI, March 10: Experts in medical education have expressed dissatisfaction with the "quality and quantity" of doctors being produced and suggested teamwork ...

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