May 7, 2005	Saturday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 27, 1426

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NFC award likely in two weeks: adviser KARACHI, May 6: The National Financial Commission Award is likely to be finalized in two weeks as things were fast moving in the right direction. The award will be between Rs250...		Time right for joint ventures, Aziz tells Malaysian investors KUALA LUMPUR, May 6: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Friday went on high sales pitch here to woo Malaysian investors, telling them that Pakistan’s story is a good story. “Pakistan of...
Asif, Fazl discuss political situation ISLAMABAD, May 6: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari and opposition leader in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Friday held an informal meeting and discussed the prevailing...		Bugti urges drastic changes in Constitution QUETTA, May 6: The chief of Jamhoori Watan Party, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, has said that the 1973 Constitution did not meet the requirements of provincial autonomy and needed ‘drastic surgery’...
Pipeline near Sibi stops gas supply QUETTA, May 6: Gas supply to many villages of Sibi was disrupted when saboteurs blew up a pipeline in the Sibi township on Friday night. “Unknown people planted a bomb under...		US army played no role in capturing al-Libbi WASHINGTON, May 6: A senior American general has said that there was no US military involvement in capturing Al Qaeda’s third-ranking leader Abu Faraj al-Libbi. “I can tell you that there...
HEC to set up research repository ISLAMABAD, May 6: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has decided to set up a research repository having a complete record of PhD theses accepted by the universities of the country, Dawn...		286 cases pending with accountability courts: official ISLAMABAD, May 6: Prosecutor General of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Irfan Qadir on Friday said 286 NAB cases were pending with various accountability courts. He was talking to mediapersons...
Journalists end NA boycott after Shujaat’s assurances ISLAMABAD, May 6: Journalists covering parliamentary proceedings on Friday called off four-day boycott of the press gallery on the assurances given by ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain...		Use of force against journalists deplored RAWALPINDI, May 6: Several people’s movements, student groups, intellectuals and political activists have expressed solidarity with the journalist community and condemned the use of force against them in Karachi, Lahore and...
Five-judge SC bench to hear petitions ISLAMABAD, May 6: The Supreme Court on Friday announced formation of a five-member bench to hear identical petitions concerning enhancement in the retirement age of judges of superior courts. Headed by...		President, PM congratulate Blair on victory ISLAMABAD, May 6: President Gen Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri have congratulated British Premier Tony Blair and his Labour Party on a third consecutive victory...
Steps to lure back refugees urged: UNHCR envoy meets Musharraf ISLAMABAD, May 6: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday reiterated the country’s policy of maintaining strong bonds with Afghanistan and said that despite receiving limited assistance from the international community Pakistan...		Housing schemes violating rules to be denied registration RAWALPINDI, May 6: All district, city and tehsil governments in Punjab have been directed not to register any housing scheme that does not fulfil basic conditions, including minimum requirement of 160...
‘Rao wants his brother to rule Okara’ OKARA, May 6: Defence Minister Rao Sikandar Iqbal’s three political shows here addressed by the president and two prime ministers during the last one year were aimed at winning support for...		Govt planning to rig LB polls, says Zardari LAHORE, May 6: Asif Zardari has alleged that the government has prepared a pre-poll rigging plan for the forthcoming local body elections. Talking to reporters at the Bilawal House here on...
Over Rs614m to be spent on farm research ISLAMABAD, May 6: The federal government has approved a project on the restructuring and strengthening of agricultural research system in Balochistan at a cost of Rs614.103 million. This project will be...		DCOs asked to implement laws: Flammable material’s trade LAHORE, May 6: Local Government Minister Raja Basharat directed on Friday all DCOs and TMOs to strictly enforce related laws to curb business of combustible material in residential areas to prevent...
Wife also missing for a week, LHC told LAHORE, May 6: Advocate M.D. Tahir deposed in the Lahore High Court on Friday that Sonia Naz of Faisalabad, who moved court for the recovery of her husband, had gone missing...		Bar rejects resolution on LHC’swestern wing LAHORE, May 6: The Lahore High Court Bar Association on Friday rejected a resolution seeking association of the bar in the construction of the high court’s western wing. The resolution, moved...
Inclusion of NWFP’s plans in PSDP urged PESHAWAR, May 6: The NWFP government has called upon the Planning Commission to give preference to its development schemes recommended for the federal Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the next...		Changes in farm tax under study LAHORE, May 6: The Punjab government proposes to revamp its agriculture income tax, making it more buoyant to achieve greater revenues. “We’re changing the tax formula from its current land-based mode...
‘Benazir, Nawaz to return soon’ KHAIRPUR, May 6: Central leaders of the ARD Tehmina Daultana and Zafar Iqbal Jhagra have said that the struggle for restoration of democracy will succeed and people’s leaders Nawaz Sharif and...		22 held in swoop on LPG outlets LAHORE, May 6: Police raided several illegal gas filling outlets in the city on Friday and arrested 22 people. The raids were carried out in three of the four police divisions...
Mother-in-law, husband of burn victim arrested MANSEHRA, May 6: Police have arrested the husband and mother-in-law of a woman who was earlier accused of attempting to commit suicide by setting herself on fire....		Adventure tourism LAHORE, May 6: The Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab is planning to launch ‘adventure tourism service’ to hone the abilities of youth. Under this package, the TDCP would organize trips to...
Wapda suffers Rs23bn loss in nine months: Drought, furnace oil price LAHORE, May 6: Persistent drought and raise in furnace oil price have caused the Water and Power Development Authority a loss of Rs23 billion during the first nine months of the...		Auction of vacant plots ordered LAHORE, May 6: Punjab Housing and Urban Development Minister Syed Raza Ali Gilani has ordered auction of all vacant plots in housing schemes and expediting the arrears recovery campaign. Presiding over...
Centre of excellence to monitor uplift plans LAHORE, May 6: The Punjab government decided on Friday to create a centre of excellence to monitor execution of all types of development projects, and to develop human resource in the...		Demand for withdrawal of troops from Fata PESHAWAR, May 6: Fata Lawyers Forum has demanded withdrawal of troops deployed in tribal areas, saying that 90 per cent of the operation against foreign militants in the area had been...
Two women held for smuggling heroin PESHAWAR, May 6: A Pakistan Customs team on Friday arrested two African women flying to Johannesburg via Dubai and found 1,400 grams of fine quality heroin from their stomachs at...		Pakistani made Mauritius revenue body chief ISLAMABAD, May 6: The Mauritius government has appointed a senior Pakistani income tax official M. S. Lal as director-general of Mauritius Revenue Authority through an international competition. An announcement of the...
‘Steps being considered to check smuggling’ ISLAMABAD, May 6: The government is considering various measures to discourage unabated flow of smuggled products, including reduction of tariff on items prone to smuggling. This was stated by Central Board...		Four killed, 11 injured as van overturns at Mandra RAWALPINDI, May 6: Four passengers were killed and 11 others injured when a Gujrat-bound wagon overturned in the jurisdiction of the Mandra police station on Friday, Police said the wagon (AJKE-5686) with...
Indian official, RCCI discuss trade ties RAWALPINDI, May 6: The first secretary (commercial) of Indian High Commission, Ms Sapna Tiwari, held talks with the Rawalpindi Chamber and Industry (RCCI) President Najam Rehan and other office-bearers on the...		Body formed to check violence against women ISLAMABAD, May 6: A national committee on the prevention of violence against women, headed by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Women Development Nilofar Bakhtiar, has been established. In the four...
50 women literacy centres set up RAWALPINDI, May 6: Fifty new women literacy centres have been established in the district to expand female literacy ratio in the backward areas. These centres offer a three-month course to female...		Photographic exhibition on May 8 ISLAMABAD, May 6: A six-day photographic exhibition entitled Northern Beauty will open at the auditorium of the World Bank here on Sunday at 5pm. World Bank Country Director John W. Wall...
Rs614.10m for farming research in Balochistan ISLAMABAD, May 6: The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Minfal) has approved a Rs614.10 million project for the restructuring and strengthening of agricultural research system in Balochistan. The project would...		600 cusecs of lake water released into Indus river DADU, May 6: The irrigation authorities on Friday evening released 600 cusecs of water from the Manchhar Lake into the Indus River. The superintending engineer of the Larkana irrigation circle, Mr...
Anti-US demonstration in Miramshah MIRAMSHAH, May 6: Hundreds of tribesmen and Ulema staged an anti-US demonstration here on Friday. They asked the government to stop military operation in areas near the Afghan border. The demonstration,...		Search for rape accused, lady doctor PESHAWAR, May 6: A young girl working in a house was sexually assaulted by a man who reportedly escaped when her health deteriorated after an abortion in a local clinic, sources...
PPP MPA granted bail HYDERABAD, May 6: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, here on Friday granted bail to People’s Party Parliamentarians MPA Ghulam Qadir Chandio in a sum of Rs100,000. The MPA was...		National plan for prevention of blindness LAHORE, May 6: The health ministry has, for the first time, prioritized the prevention of blindness and prepared a Rs2.7 million five-year (2005-09) national plan for prevention of blindness. The plan...
Police still ‘clueless’ about excise clerk FAISALABAD, May 6: The government agencies have failed to find any clue to Asim Yousaf, a clerk at the local excise and taxation department, who was allegedly arrested by police and...		Police fail to arrest MPA, others GUJRANWALA, May 6: The Satellite Town police have failed to arrest the ruling party MPA Amanat Virk and other nominated accused in the murder case of four people near sessions court...
‘No child labour’ in football industry SIALKOT, May 6: Swedish Ambassador Ann Wilkens has expressed satisfaction over the eradication of child labour from the football industry. She was speaking at a meeting of the Independent Monitoring...		Three outlaws killed RAJANPUR, May 6: Three outlaws were killed and two constables were injured on Friday morning in an encounter in Darakh, the katcha area of Indus river in the limits of Mithan...
Mepco suspends supply in protest SAHIWAL, May 6: Wapda employees on Friday observed a five-hour strike and suspended the power supply to protest registration of a case against the deputy manager (operation), the SDO and five...		Inquiry ordered GUJRANWALA, May 6: The PTCL higher-ups have ordered an inquiry into the incident of allegedly setting the Kot Nika Town exchange on fire by its corrupt staff and inducted Divisional Engineer...