10 March 2005	Thursday	28 Muharram 1426

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Senate chief disallows PPP resolution: Armed forces commercial activities ISLAMABAD, March 9: Senate Chairman Mohammad mian Soomro has disallowed a resolution, moved by a Pakistan People's Party senator, urging that the military should not be involved in commercial and industrial activities ...		Provincial autonomy to ensure stability: PPP QUETTA, March 9: PPP leaders Dr. Azra Zardari and Fehmida Mirza have said that giving autonomy to the federating units would ensure political stability in the country. ...
Shahbaz may be allowed to return home LAHORE, March 9: President Pervez Musharraf "may" give some concessions to top leaders of both the PPP and the PML-N with a view to shaping up a future political scene according to his own plans. ...		Protest against removal of religion column ISLAMABAD, March 9: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Wednesday held a protest demonstration against removal of the religion column from the Pakistani passport. ...
Opposition criticizes govt for raising petrol prices ISLAMABAD, March 9: Opposition members on Wednesday blasted the government for frequently increasing prices of petroleum products in the country and introducing a bill to withdraw the powers of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority ...		CM welcomes president's stand on NFC award PESHAWAR, March 9: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani on Wednesday described as an encouraging gesture a suggestion made by President Pervez Musharraf that provinces should be given 50 per cent resources ...
Drive against weapons not army action: CM QUETTA, March 9: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Mohammed Yousuf said here on Wednesday that police action for the recovery of illegal arms and ammunition was neither an extra-constitutional act nor a military operation. ...		Arrests of political workers criticized QUETTA, March 9: The Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) has criticized the arrest of political workers and said that through such steps the government wanted to pave way for launching a military operation against Balochs. ...
Shujaat meets Aziz ISLAMABAD, March 9: President of Pakistan Muslim League Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain called on Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz at the PM's Secretariat on Wednesday and apprised him of the status of the parliamentary committee report on Balochistan. ...		Nowshera students oppose Kalabagh dam NOWSHERA, March 9: Students of the Nowshera Postgraduate College boycotted classes and staged a rally on Wednesday in protest against the Kalabagh dam project. ...
Text of the Meerwala case judgment MULTAN, March 9: Following is the complete text of the judgment of the Lahore High Court Multan Bench, Multan, in the Makhtar Mai gang rape case, as released by the court here on Wednesday: ...		Rights group takes up brothers' issue NEW YORK, March 9: The Human Rights Watch on Wednesday asked the Pakistan government to immediately charge or release Zain Afzal and Kashan Afzal, US citizens of Pakistani origin who were abducted from their home in Karachi ...
Joint-venture for 1500ft high-rise ISLAMABAD, March 9: The government is negotiating a joint venture with construction firms of Malaysia and Qatar to build a 1,500-foot-high building in Karachi. ...		Speakers call for promotion of Urdu ISLAMABAD, March 9: Scholars at an international Urdu conference here on Wednesday called for making concerted efforts to preserve, promote and protect Urdu, which they said was a common heritage of the world. ...