16 April 2005	Saturday	06 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1426

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28 PPP men arrested by Islamabad police ISLAMABAD, April 15: The local police arrested 28 activists of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Friday when they tried to hold a demonstration at Aabpara Chowk in violation of Section 144....		No bar on PPP workers: Aziz FAISALABAD, April 15: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz claims that there is no bar on PPP workers to welcome Asif Ali Zardari, but no one will be allowed to violate the law...
Rallies banned on public demand, says Pervaiz LAHORE, April 15: Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi said on Friday the government had imposed a complete ban on processions and rallies in the province, especially in Lahore, on the demand...		PPP caravans stopped from entering Punjab: scores held SUKKUR, April 15: Heavy contingents of Rangers and police closed the Sindh-Punjab border by parking four armoured personnel carriers and 10 tractors on Friday to stop caravans of Pakistan People’s Party...
No drive against MMA: Governor PESHAWAR, April 15: NWFP Governor Khalilur Rehman has denied that he is campaigning against the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s Qari Abdullah who is contesting the by-election for the senate’s vacant seat from the...		Quorum issue continues to hit NA proceedings ISLAMABAD, April 15: A large number of treasury members, including federal and state ministers, skipped the National Assembly proceedings on Friday forcing the speaker to once again adjourn the session of...
400 PPP workers set on bail LAHORE, April 15: About 400 PPP activists were released on bail by judicial magistrates in the district courts, Model Town and Cantonment courts on Friday....		ANP may keep out of Senate by-election PESHAWAR, April 15: The Awami National Party (ANP) may abstain from the forthcoming by-elections for the Senate’s vacant seat from the NWFP, according to sources....
PPP activists from Sindh arrested BAHAWALPUR, April 15: Police continued crackdown on PPP men and arrested hundreds of them across the Punjab on Friday....		Govt officials urged to serve masses PESHAWAR, April 15: NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq has called upon government employees to perform their duties honestly and give full attention to solving problems of the masses....
Four held in Fatehpur blasts case QUETTA, April 15: Police have arrested four members of a gang allegedly involved in bomb blasts at the Fatehpur shrine in Jhal Magsi district, which claimed 43 lives....		Shah Hussain’s poetry panacea for worries, says scholar ISLAMABAD, April 15: The message of Shah Hussain’s poetry is universal love, fraternity, equality and peaceful co-existence and it still possess remedy for most of our socio-economic ills....
New City scam: NAB reviews pleas ISLAMABAD, April 15: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has started reviewing applications of the people affected by the Islamabad New City (INC) scam with a view to reimbursing their money, it...		Ex-principal hits back, blames OPF, minister: Delay in award of degrees ISLAMABAD, April 15: The former principal of the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) Girls College, Islamabad, Ms Rabia Noor, has expressed shock over the manhandling of protesting students of the college and...
Jamali feels Zardari’s image being boosted with purpose HYDERABAD, April 15: Former Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali has expressed a surprise over the government action to disallow a welcome to PPP leader Asif Zardari....		Internet city to be set up in Islamabad ISLAMABAD, April 15: An internet city similar to that of Dubai will soon be established in the capital The central departmental working party (CDWP) of the Planning Commission on Friday sanctioned Rs77....
Hasni quits PPP, joins PML QUETTA, April 15: A former federal minister and president of PPP Balochistan, Sardar Fateh Mohammad Hasni, has resigned from his party and joined the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML)....		Daughter pleads for hostage release ISLAMABAD, April 15: The daughter of the Pakistani embassy employee held by kidnappers in Iraq made a passionate appeal on Friday for her father’s release after seeing him on a video...
Names of women councilors notified GILGIT, April 15: The Northern Areas Election Commission has notified the names of women councillors for local bodies elections, who were elected indirectly to the four municipal committees and four district...		AJK People’s Party leaders arrested MUZAFFARABAD, April 15: People’s Party Azad Kashmir President Sahibzada Mohammad Ishaq Zaffar and seven other leaders of the party, including two former AJK ministers, were arrested by Punjab police on Friday...
Power supply to Nooriabad restored HYDERABAD, April 15: Power supply to Nooriabad industrial estate was restored on Friday night after six days massive breakdown had occurred last Sunday due to the dismantling of concrete poles of...		156 Pakistani fishermen due tomorrow KARACHI, April 15: About 156 Pakistani fishermen will arrive at the Wagah border on Sunday morning after their release by Indian authorities....
Compensation for poisonous water victims KARACHI, April 15: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has announced financial help to the legal heirs of those who died after consuming contaminated water from Hamal Lake....		Five killed in road crash SARGODHA, April 15: Five people were killed and three police officials, including the SP investigation, injured seriously in a road accident on the Sargodha-Jhang Road, some 20km from here, on Friday...
Policemen exempt from court hearing GUJRANWALA, April 15: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 on Friday accepted the plea of three senior police officers for exempting them from their presence in the court during the hearing of...		Two brothers, sister killed over land SARGODHA, April 15: Two brothers and their sister were shot dead while another was injured by their eight relatives over a land dispute on Friday in Ahli Kaisopur village, some 50kms...
Three die in accident SAHIWAL, April 15: Three people were killed while 12 others were injured, five of them seriously, on Friday in an accident on Lahore-Multan Road near Harappa bypass, some 15kms from here....		Two-month remission for prisoners PESHAWAR, April 15: Inspector-General (prisons) Azam Khan on Friday announced a two-month remission in sentence for all prisoners in the central jail here on the directive of Peshawar District and Sessions...
Health centre to be upgraded PESHAWAR, April 15: The provincial government has decided to upgrade the rural health centre in Takhtbhai as a tehsil headquarters hospital at a cost of Rs100 million to meet growing needs...		PML to contest Senate seat poll PESHAWAR, April 15: Ruling Pakistan Muslim League coordinator Nisar Muhammad Khan has denied reports that the party’s candidate for the vacant Senate seat would withdraw in favour of an independent candidate....
HIV/AIDS: prevention stressed PESHAWAR, April 15: Reverent Rafiq Javed has urged members of the Christian community to stick to their religious values in order to prevent the alarming spread of infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS....		Science education PESHAWAR, April 15: A Jamaat Al-Dawa leader has stressed the need of introducing science and technology in religious schools. Prof Zafar Iqbal said at a seminar held here that the students...
PHC to get four more judges PESHAWAR, April 15: The federal government has agreed to appoint four additional judges in the Peshawar High Court over and above its sanctioned strength, according to Ziaur Rehman Khan, president of...		Work on railway track begins: Mirpurkhas-Khokhrapar MIRPURKHAS, April 15: Transportation of railway material for laying the broad-gauge track on the Mirpurkhas-Khokhrapar railway route has begun, as about 8,000 broad-gauge slippers, iron parts and other items arrived at...
Population growth causing increase in poverty DADU, April 15: Speakers at a seminar here have observed that poverty is increasing in Pakistan because of high population rate while resources are decreasing at the same time....		Sukkur Barrage rehabilitation work reviewed KARACHI, April 15: The progress achieved so far in the Sukkur Barrage restoration work was reviewed at a high level meeting held at Governor House here with the Governor Dr. Ishrat...