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Woman commits suicide RAWALPINDI, April 21: Financial difficulties drove a woman to commit suicide in the Civil Lines police area on Thursday. According to police, Tahir Mehmood, a salesman, received a telephone call from...		PPP legislators stage sit-in outside SC ISLAMABAD, April 21: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) legislators on Thursday staged a sit-in outside the Supreme Court building to protest against the arrests and manhandling of a large number of...
Nation urged to shun sectarianism ISLAMABAD, April 21: President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday urged the nation to shun terrorism, sectarianism and communal confrontation to make Pakistan a real Islamic, moderate and...		Discount for senior citizens in PIA ISLAMABAD, April 21: The laxity of maintenance procedures led to a fire in the engine of PIA’s flight 789 at Manchester airport in the recent past as the aircraft. ...
Design of Seerat academy LAHORE, April 21: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi ordered on Thursday immediate implementation of the project of Seerat academy and Quran complex in the city. He also accorded final approval to the...		Textbooks given free being sold: one held: ‘Govt not bound to place schools under AKU-EB’ PESHAWAR, April 21: NWFP Education Minister Maulana Fazli Ali Haqqani on Thursday raided a number of bookshops, book agencies and printing presses and arrested a bookseller for selling textbooks which had...
SC dismisses pleas of main accused, NAB: Tax evasion case ISLAMABAD, April 21: The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal of an accused involved in tax evasion through fake liquor import permits and four appeals filed by the National Accountability...		MMA walks out of NA session in protest ISLAMABAD, April 21: Legislators belonging to the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Thursday staged a walkout from the National Assembly and kept away from the remaining proceedings of the house till it...
FF underbidding to be probed ISLAMABAD, April 21: The government has ordered an inquiry against the management of Fauji Foundation for underselling a sugar mill to a business enterprise, which did not even participate in the...		Plea for release of PPP men ‘not maintainable’ LAHORE, April 21: Justice Rustam Ali Malik of the Lahore High Court on Thursday held as unmaintainable a writ petition, seeking the court to direct the Punjab government to release all...
Food dept wants mills to take responsibility: Wheat transportation LAHORE, April 21: The Punjab Food Department has decided to withdraw from wheat transportation this season and ask the millers to lift the product from their nearest departmental godowns. Sources in...		College closure leaves students in the lurch LAHORE, April 21: The management of the Al-Huda Medical College has shut down the institute and allegedly slipped away after fleecing hundreds of students in the name of offering quality medical...
Zardari escorted to Data Darbar LAHORE, April 21: Police kept the Bilawal House cordoned off on Thursday, disallowing anyone except neighbours to enter the area close to the old airport terminal. Even journalists...		LHC orders case against minister LAHORE, April 21: The Lahore High Court on Thursday ordered the North Cantt police to register a criminal case against Punjab Information Technology Minister Abdul Aleem Khan and others for illegally...
Reply sought LAHORE, April 21: The Lahore High Court on Thursday sought a report from the National Assembly speaker if the legislature was enacting a law to curb the sale and purchase of...		Six injured as tenants clash with police: Military farms’ issue MULTAN, April 21: Three tenants and as many police officials were injured in a clash between law-enforcement personnel and tenants of the Okara Military Farms on Thursday. The clash erupted when...
Police fail to arrest tehsil nazim, others: Involvement in two cases GUJRAT, April 21: The Kharian circle police on Thursday raided the outhouse of Kharian Tehsil Nazim Nadeem Asghar Kaira in Lalamusa to arrest him and other accused wanted by Kharian Cantonment...		Qazi Hameed, his son, 24 others freed GUJRANWALA, April 21: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 2 on Thursday accepted bail applications of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MNA Qazi Hameedullah, his son Mufti Kafaitullah and 24 others involved in Gujranwala marathon case...
Restoration plan for FJ hospital MULTAN, April 21: The abandoned Fatima Jinnah Women Hospital is to be restored as a hospital of gynaecology under the Women Health Project funded by the Asian Development Bank. Khwaja Jalaluddin...		Token strike observed PESHAWAR, April 21: Grade IV employees at the Khyber Teaching Hospital observed a token strike on Thursday to press for acceptance of their demands. President of the Grade IV Employees Association,...
Protesters end hunger strike KOHAT, April 21: Protesters demanding gas supply from local oil and gas fields ended their hunger strike in Shakardarra after a provincial minister assured them that the government would address their...		Soldier killed, bus passengers robbed GILGIT, April 21: Masked men blocked a part of the Karakoram Highway and robbed passengers of a Rawalpindi-bound bus, near Sagachal, about 75km south of here, police sources said. The...
NIPA team briefed on police system PESHAWAR, April 21: Inspector General of Police Muhammad Riffat Pasha here on Thursday briefed a delegation of National Institute of Public Administration, Karachi, on the working of police system in the...		Rs35m schemes completed in Malakand PESHAWAR, April 21: The Social Organization Unit of the Malakand Rural Development Programme (MRDP) has completed several development schemes at a cost of Rs35 million in the Malakand Agency. Talking to...
Four leaders of banned organization booked KOHAT, April 21: Four leaders belonging to the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba organization were booked for making objectionable speeches at Kotwali mosque under 16 Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) Ordinance and Anti-Terrorist Act...		Power supply to 20 tubewells stopped PESHAWAR, April 21: A row between the City District government and Town-I Nazim over payment of power dues to the Peshawar Electric Supply Company had resulted in the disconnection of power...
Vaccination of dogs urged to prevent rabies PESHAWAR, April 21: Speakers at a media workshop on Thursday urged owners of dogs to get their pets vaccinated in order to protect people from the fatal rabies disease. ...		Ties with India improving: Soomro JACOBABAD, April 21: Acting President and Senate chairman, Muhammadmian Soomro, told reporters here on Thursday that President General Pervez Musharraf’s visit to India would yield fruitful results in economic and political...
‘Vaccinated’ village boy gets polio LARKANA, April 21: While the anti-polio campaign will start here and in the Shahdadkot district from April 26, a new polio case has been reported in Shahdadkot. The...		Security measures reviewed MIRPURKHAS, April 21: DCO Khursheed Naeem Malik has directed police to take action against people using loudspeakers without permission, playing objectionable audio-cassettes, running video-game parlours and raising objectionable slogans....