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Balochistan committee facing uphill task: New mandate needed: Senator ISLAMABAD April 26: The 38-member parliamentary committee on Balochistan, scheduled to meet on May 2, has an uphill task ahead of it in the face of boycott...		‘USAID to give $90m for higher education’ ISLAMABAD, April 26: The United States government gives great importance to the cause of higher education in Pakistan and in this connection, the USAID plans to provide up to $90 million...
39 holding sensitive posts have dual nationality ISLAMABAD, April 26: The Senate was informed on Tuesday that 39 persons entrusted with important and sensitive jobs, including a minister of state, had dual...		Asif rules out deal with govt RAWALPINDI, April 26: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is not negotiating a deal with the government, said Asif Ali Zardari here on Tuesday...
Land in Gwadar for cantonment ISLAMABAD, April 26: The Balochistan government has agreed to allocate 1,407 acres to the federal government for establishment of a cantonment by the army in Gwadar, the defence ministry informed the...		Govt slammed for failing to check violence against women ISLAMABAD, April 26: The capital-based civil society organizations (CSOs) on Tuesday criticized the government for, what they termed...
‘EU’s refusal to meet Sami an eye-opener’ ISLAMABAD, April 26: Pakistan People’s Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said the European Union’s refusal to meet Senator Maulana Samiul Haq is an eye-opener for the government...		Call to boycott US, UK products RAWALPINDI, April 26: The Rawalpindi-Islamabad Citizens Peace Committee has called for total boycott of the US and British products in protest against the two major powers for imposing wars on weak...
NA body for revamping Zakat system ISLAMABAD, April 26: National Assembly Standing Committee on Religious Affairs has called for revamping of Zakat and Ushr system, saying that presently it is being subjected to massive financial and administrative...		PAEC helping industry to tap WTO benefits ISLAMABAD, April 26: Member Physical Sciences, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), Dr Masud Ahmad on Tuesday said investing in and promoting quality culture was the only way to survive in the...
Malaysian firm, NHA sign MoU for M-4 project ISLAMABAD, April 26: Pakistan and Malaysia on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for construction of 184 km Faisalabad-Khanewal Motorway (M-4). Chairman National Highway Authority Maj Gen Furrukh Javed and...		Australian HC for early completion of Doha agenda ISLAMABAD, April 26: Pakistan and Australia will have to work together for the early completion of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA). This was stated by Australian High Commission Ms Zorica McCarthy...
N.As curriculum issue resolved: Schools open today ISLAMABAD, April 26: The controversy over school curriculum which was simmering in the Northern Areas for the last four years has finally been resolved by...		Turncoats won’t be taken back, says Zardari LAHORE, April 26: Asif Ali Zardari says the PPP has given its blood for making Pakistan a strong nation with vibrant civil society, justice and prosperity to all its citizens. ...
Tourism body of Islamic countries proposed LAHORE, April 26: Federal Tourism Minister Ghazi Gulab Jamal has proposed formation of a tourism organization of Islamic countries and establishment of a fund for the promotion of tourism. Speaking on...		Alleged human smuggler held with children LAHORE, April 26: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday held an alleged human smuggler with two camel jokeys at Lahore airport. An FIA official told Dawn that Mohammad Ramzan was...
Men in police uniform loot cash, valuables LAHORE, April 26: Eight men in police uniform looted cash, jewellery and valuables worth Rs400,000 from a house in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Tuesday. Tariq told police that the...		Vehicles impounded ahead of CM’s visit MANDI BAHAUDDIN, April 26: Police and the district administration on Tuesday impounded dozens of public vehicles ahead of Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi’s one-day visit to Mauza Johalian on Wednesday as a...
Govt ‘levels ground for US action in NWFP’ LAHORE, April 26: Jamaat-i-Islami Secretary-General Syed Munawwar Hasan alleged on Tuesday that the government was levelling ground for direct US aggression on the NWFP under the garb of curbing terrorism. The...		Stakeholders call for probe into cotton loss: ‘Compressed bales smoulder, do not burn’ MULTAN, April 26: Two fires that broke out at a warehouse of the Trading Corporation of Pakistan in Rahim Yar Khan have risen eyebrows of several stakeholders, who ask why the...
DCO’s transfer demanded MANDI BAHAUDDIN, April 26: The District Bar Association has adopted a condemnation resolution against DCO Sheikh Abdul Sattar, demanding his immediate transfer...		Bedsheet export decline ‘rings alarm bells’ FAISALABAD, April 26: The Pakistan Textile Exporters Association chairman has expressed grave concern over more...
Calamity-hit villages in Attock, Dera LAHORE, April 26: The Punjab Revenue and Relief Department has declared 166 villages in Attock and 27 villages in Dera Ghazi Khan calamity-hit because of heavy rains, says a handout. Punjab...		Human rights men to be invited on Okara farms OKARA, April 26: The Anjuman Mazareen Punjab will invite representatives of the human rights, Amnesty International and other social organizations to Okara...
Long march in Arab woman’s support PESHAWAR, April 26: A large number of people of Karak district, in two public meetings on Tuesday, extended support to an Arab woman and her Pakistani husband and warned of staging...		Official held for illegally detaining refugee PESHAWAR, April 26: A security officer of the Commissionerate of Afghan Refugees (CAR) was arrested on Tuesday on the order of the Peshawar district and sessions...
People urged to follow tenets of Islam PESHAWAR, April 26: Hailing the efforts of the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) in rendering quality services in education and health sector, district Nazim...		Preventive steps against skin disease stressed PESHAWAR, April 26: The World Health Organization has asked the federal health ministry to prepare a leishmaniasis control programme as the skin disease is spreading fast in some areas of the...
New material for road construction PESHAWAR, April 26: Senior Minister of the NWFP Sirajul Haq has said that the government was considering use of a new road construction material that has proved more durable, cost- effective...		Proposals for better salary discussed KOHAT, April 26: A meeting of the syndicate of Kohat University of Science and Technology here on Tuesday discussed proposals for making the salary package of staff more attractive. The meeting,...
Anti-polio drive in N. Areas GILGIT, April 26: Over 162,000 children in all the six districts of the Northern Areas will be administered anti-polio drops under the expanded programme of immunization (EPI). The programme manager, EPI,...		Demand for probe into action against nurses PESHAWAR, April 26: The Nursing Association of the district of Peshawar on Tuesday demanded an inquiry committee to probe into the transfer and termination of a staff nurse and a student...
Proceedings against drug convict begin PESHAWAR, April 26: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday started proceedings for declaring as proclaimed offender a convicted drug trafficker, Amanullah Kundi, whose prison term had been suspended by the NWFP...		10 held as police raid Shikarpur village SUKKUR, April 26: Shikarpur police have arrested 10 suspects from the Gulsher Kharoos village, in the kutcha area of Shikarpur district early Tuesday morning. Police claimed the raid was aimed at...
President acts to help rape victim MIRPURKHAS, April 26: The President’s Secretariat has taken notice of an application narrating the ordeal of an eight-year-old girl who was criminally assaulted by an influential person of Naobad village in...		MPA’s bail plea rejected NAWABSHAH, April 26: First Additional Session Judge Imdad Hussain Khoso rejected the bail application of MPA Ghulam Qadir Chandio here on Tuesday. Advocate Ziaul Hassan Lanjar told reporters...
Demonstration against landlord NAWABSHAH, April 26: Residents of the Dorai Mahar village held a protest demonstration and observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Monday against a landlord and the...		Protest against power breakdown KHAIRPUR, April 26: Activists of the Citizen Ittehad and Jagarta Forum took out a procession here on Tuesday against unannounced load-shedding of electricity in 20 mohallas of Khairpur town. The protesters...