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Aziz launches housing scheme in Islamabad: Low-paid employees to get 1,000 flats ISLAMABAD, April 11: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Monday launched a housing scheme for low-paid government employees of grade 1-16 who will get their own flats at an affordable price. Speaking at...		Call to involve stakeholders: Amendments to Pemra ordinance ISLAMABAD, April 11: Participants of a seminar on Monday agreed that proposed amendments to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority’s ordinance should be discussed in depth before submitting them to the...
4 Al Qaeda suspects arrested PESHAWAR, April 11: Security forces have arrested four Iraqi nationals suspected of having links with Al Qaeda militants, a local security official said on Monday. The Iraqis were rounded up on...		PPP blames MQM for division of Hyderabad MIRPURKHAS, April 11: Sindh People’s Party Parliamentarians president Syed Qaim Ali Shah has held the Muttahida Qaumi Movement responsible for division of Hyderabad. He added that the Sindh chief minister had...
Opposition requisitions Senate session ISLAMABAD, April 11: The opposition members on Monday submitted a requisition to the Senate Secretariat for convening a session of the Upper House. The requisition notice has been signed by...		JWP leader lashes out at Rashid: Dera Bugti settlement QUETTA, April 11: Jamhoori Watan Party’s secretary-general Agha Shahid Hasan Bugti has accused the federal information minister of trying to sabotage the efforts being made to peacefully resolve the Dera Bugti...
Law to control unsafe use of injections soon ISLAMABAD, April 11: A legislation to ban the unsafe use of injections was on the anvil, said Health Minister Mohammad Nasir Khan while speaking at a seminar here on Monday. The...		Imam of Kaaba to attend moot ISLAMABAD, April 11: Imam of Harmain Sharifain will arrive Pakistan to attend an International Ulema Conference here starting on May 4, said Minister for Population Welfare Chaudhry Shahbaz Hussain on Monday....
Investment urged for road maintenance ISLAMABAD, April 11: Inadequate maintenance and increasing load is damaging the road network, official sources say. They told Dawn that Rs3 billion a year was required to simply...		Portuguese naval chief calls on Karimullah ISLAMABAD, April 11: Portuguese Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Francisco Antonio Torres Vidal Abreu called on his Pakistani counter part, Admiral Shahid Karimullah, at his office in the Naval Headquarters here...
OPF college students hold demo against ex-principal ISLAMABAD, April 11: The students of Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) Girls College in F-8 on Monday staged...		‘System neither presidential nor parliamentary’ ISLAMABAD, April 11: Advocate-General Makhdoom Ali Khan on Monday told the Supreme Court that Pakistan’s system of governance was neither...
Teachers plan campaign for salary raise RAWALPINDI, April 11: Ittehad-i-Assataza Pakistan is planning to launch a campaign for increase in teachers’ salaries in the forthcoming budget. A local representative of the teachers’ association, Zulfiqar Haider Malik,...		Zardari to lead rally, says Badr LAHORE, April 11: The Pakistan People’s Party said on Monday that Asif Ali Zardari would lead a rally from Lahore airport to Data Darbar on Saturday, notwithstanding the ban imposed by...
Over 3,000 Sikhs arrive for Baisakhi LAHORE, April 11: Over 3,000 Sikh pilgrims arrived here from India on Monday to celebrate Baisakhi, which marks the end of wheat harvesting season. Of the 3,142 pilgrims, some 311 belonged...		Flour mills’ membership to be expanded LAHORE, April 11: The Indo-Pak Flour Mills Confederation would expand it membership to all Saarc countries, claimed its office-bearers. At a press conference here on Monday, they said the confederation’s executive...
Notice to judge for disallowing remand LAHORE, April 11: Justice Khwaja Muhammad Sharif of the Lahore High Court on Monday served notice on a senior judge anti-corruption for disallowing the remand of suspended Ravi Town Nazim Amir...		PPP groups mend their fences at last moment: Zardari’s welcome JHANG, April 11: Several PPP factions, who were at variance with each other for the last one and-a-half years, have mended their fences at the last moment to welcome their leader...
Police ‘blind to’ human smuggling DERA GHAZI KHAN, April 11: The district police have failed to take any action against human smugglers even after a recent incident in which a woman was rescued at the last...		Demolition of temple continues VEHARI, April 11: The boundary wall and main gate of the temple were demolished on Monday. The other parts of the building, including a dozen of rooms, had already been demolished....
Three teachers for 2,000 students SIALKOT, April 11: Despite tall official claims of revolutionizing education in the province, for over 2,000 girl students of the Government Girls Higher Secondary School Satrah, Daska, there are only three...		Kasur Road dualization in one year KASUR, April 11: President Pervez Musharraf inaugurated on Monday the Rs2 billion Lahore-Kasur Road dualization project. Addressing a public meeting later, he announced a number of uplift projects for Kasur district....
Labourer dies, children hurt in school roof collapse VEHARI, April 11: A labourer was killed and some children injured when the roof of the newly-constructed building of the Government Elementary Middle School, 214/EB, caved in here on Monday. Reports...		Mysterious disease handicaps children BAHAWALPUR, April 11: Around 10 children between the age of two and 10 years have reportedly been physically handicapped owing to some mysterious disease at Khairoo Deh village near Hasilpur. According...
Demonstration held for detainees’ release MUZAFFARABAD, April 11: A group of former Kashmiri Mujahideen staged a demonstration here on Monday to press for release of their detained colleagues. “Release guiltless Kashmiris, release the...		Marathon not to be allowed: Siraj PESHAWAR, April 11: Senior Minister Sirajul Haq has warned that marathon race will not be allowed in the NWFP and those trying to take part in it will be thrown into...
Protection of environment stressed PESHAWAR, April 11: The NWFP Minister for Environment, Mr Shahraz Khan, has said the government is considering introducing environment as a subject in colleges and universities. An announcement to this effect...		Woman burnt allegedly by in-laws dies PESHAWAR, April 11: A 20-year-old woman, who had suffered burn wounds allegedly at the hands of her in-laws over a domestic dispute, died in the Khyber Teaching Hospital here on Monday....
PHC takes up plea against boy’s detention PESHAWAR, April 11: The Peshawar High Court on Monday sought comments from directors of two intelligence agencies and the political agent of Khyber Agency in a habeas corpus petition challenging alleged...		Local govt System successful: says Khalil PESHAWAR, April 11: NWFP Governor Khalilur Rehman said on Monday that the local government system had proved effective in resolving people’s problems at their doorsteps. Talking to a delegation of elders...
Campaign launched for 100pc school enrolment PESHAWAR, April 11: District Nazim Mohammad Sharif Khattak has said that 100 per cent enrolment in schools would be ensured as a result of joint efforts of the National Commission...		Steps urged to defuse sectarian tension PESHAWAR, April 11: National Awami Party Pakistan (NAPP) General Secretary Abdul Lateef Afridi on Monday expressed concern over growing sectarian ten-sion in Kurram Agency and urged the government to take precautionary...
SHO, bandit killed in encounter SUKKUR, April 11: A police inspector and an alleged bandit were shot dead in a fierce gun battle in the Rawnti forest, in the jurisdiction of Andal Sundrani police station, Ghotki...		Minister briefed on barrage repair SUKKUR, April 11: Federal Water and Power Minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi was briefed on the repair work of the Sukkur Barrage here on Monday. The briefing was given by Brig...
Land case fake, says MPA Chandio NAWABSHAH, April 11: MPA Ghulam Qadir Chandio of the People’s Party Parliamentarians has warned that if any harm was caused to his person or family, the adviser to the Sindh chief...		20 houses gutted BADIN, April 11: Twenty houses were reduced to ashes when a fire broke out in Nao village near Lowari Sharif some 11 kilometres from here on Monday. Property over rupees one...