May 13, 2005	Friday	Rabi-us-Sani 4, 1426

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Jamali not invited to meeting of PML ‘elders’ ISLAMABAD, May 12: Former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has not been invited to a meeting of Pakistan Muslim League ‘elders’ convened by its president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Friday...		Government averts defeat in NA ISLAMABAD, May 12: The ruling coalition successfully averted a sure defeat in the National Assembly on Thursday when the chair refused to hold a vote on a government bill and cut...
Govt in contact with Baloch leaders: official QUETTA, May 12: Balochistan Chief Minister’s media consultant Raziq Bugti said on Thursday that positive suggestions made by a opposition and a recommendations of the parliamentary committee would help resolve the...		MNA for apology from US govt: Desecration of the Holy Quran ISLAMABAD, May 12: The opposition in the National Assembly on Thursday urged the house to pass a strong resolution to condemn desecration of the Holy Quran in Guantanamo Bay. Chaudhry Nisar...
NA speaker proposes amendments to law: Bonded labour ISLAMABAD, May 12: Public-private sector cooperation is the key to fighting the scourge of bonded labour in the country, the National Assembly speaker, Chaudhry Amir Hussain, said here on Thursday. He...		Rs7.8m being spent on PM Secretariat staff per month ISLAMABAD, May 12: The National Assembly was informed on Thursday that the government was spending Rs7.8 million per month on pay and allowances of 773 employees of the Prime Minister’s Secretariat....
NA body okays non-allopathic medicine bill ISLAMABAD, May 12: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Health has unanimously approved the Tibb-i-Unani Ayurvedic, Homeopathic, Herbal and non-Allopathic Medicine Bill, 2005. The bill was approved in a meeting presided...		Education minister blasts extremist elements ISLAMABAD, May 12: Federal Education Minister Javed Ashraf Qazi on Thursday blasted “extremist elements” who were crying hoarse that modernity was not compatible with religion. “We must confront such people because...
US varsity’s youngest graduate KARACHI, May 12: A 19-year old Pakistani student, Owais M Idris, has been declared the youngest-ever graduate of the University of Michigan Flint, USA. Owais Idris who hails from Karachi, was...		Former AJK PM’s secretary held ISLAMABAD, May 12: Political secretary of former Azad Kashmir prime minister was arrested on fraud charges here on Thursday, police said. Syed Azadad Hussain Kazmi, political secretary to Barrister Sultan Mehmood,...
Man attacking women with blades arrested TAXILA, May 12: The law-enforcement agencies have arrested a man involved in over six attacks on women using blades in Wah Cantonment over the last 10 days. Sub Divisional Police Officer...		Army farms’ civilian workers can face court martial: PHC PESHAWAR, May 12: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday ruled that civilian employees on army farms are subject to the Army Act and could be court martialled. A two-member bench, comprising...
NAB barred from taking decision By Our Reporter: Badr’s case ISLAMABAD, May 12: A two-member Supreme Court bench on Thursday stayed a Lahore accountability court, for a week, from announcing its verdict against PPP secretary-general Jehangir Badr in a corruption reference....		Government departments ‘violate’ rules: Legislation procedure LAHORE, May 12: Provincial government departments are violating rules of business and, thus, discouraging MPAs from taking active part in legislation by not ‘entertaining’ their bills for an appropriate procedure. Under...
Nazim lifts ban on use of LPG: Rickshaw drivers protest LAHORE, May 12: District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood on Thursday announced lifting of ban on the use of liquefied petroleum gas in rickshaws only a week after its imposition after the...		Five killed in accident QUETTA, May 12: At least five women were killed and 10 others injured, three of them seriously, when a van carrying a marriage party overturned on the Quetta-Karachi highway near Saruna...
US report rejected ISLAMABAD, May 12: The Foreign Office said on Thursday that the annual report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom presented a distorted picture of the situation in Pakistan....		No plan to cope with major disasters PESHAWAR, May 12: The Pakistan Red Crescent Society is yet to devise a disaster management plan for the NWFP to cope with any catastrophe or crisis, it is learnt reliably. Officials...
NWFP finds development strategy not practical PESHAWAR, May 12: The NWFP government has expressed scepticism about the federal government’s Medium Term Development Framework (MTDF) — the country’s five-year development strategy —- for ‘not taking into account’...		Probe ordered into ‘illegal’ hospital fee PESHAWAR, May 12: NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah Khan has ordered an immediate inquiry into alleged illegal charging of fees from poor patients at the Saidu Hospital in Swat. The matter was...
Contractor-MPA row mars meeting CHITRAL, May 12: A meeting of the chief engineer of the irrigation department with local people ended in pandemonium here on Wednesday night after a scuffle between a contractor and a...		ICRC seeks govt help for welfare activities PESHAWAR, May 12: The International Committee of the Red Cross has sought the help of the provincial government in carrying out its welfare activities and assured that the ICRC will provide...
Canal diversion project cancelled SKARDU, May 12: Diversion of Shatung canal project has been cancelled after an objection by a non-government organization, reliable sources told Dawn here on Wednesday. The project comprised the dam, 14MW...		Varsity school holds prize distribution ceremony PESHAWAR, May 12: Speakers at the 50th annual prize distribution ceremony of the junior section of the University Model School here on Thursday urged teachers to focus on character-building of the...
Rally in support of kidnapped students LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), May 12: Private schoolteachers in Bara staged a demonstration on Wednesday to protest the political administration’s failure to recover two kidnapped students of a school. The Private...		District govts in need of planners PESHAWAR, May 12: The provincial government has informed the federal government that district governments of the Frontier province were finding it difficult to implement development schemes due to weak planning and...
Father, son shot dead KHAIRPUR, May 12: Eight armed men killed a man and his son in Badal Shar village, Faiz Ganj taluka, on Wednesday night. The assailants barged into the house of Yousuf Shar...		Protest against cancellation of employees’ promotions HYDERABAD, May 12: City taluka municipal officer Asadullah Khan Rajput cancelled promotions of 126 employees under directives of the Sindh local government department on Wednesday. The decision has caused unrest among...
Best university award for SAU HYDERABAD, May 12: On the basis of achievements and contribution in the field of agriculture education and research, the Sindh Agriculture University has been ranked as “the best agriculture university”. Vice-Chancellor...		910 cusecs of lake water released on Thursday DADU, May 12: The in charge of the Dadu southern irrigation division emergency base has said 910 cusecs of water of the Manchhar Lake was released into the River Indus through...
Armed men kill two villages JACOBABAD, May 12: Two people were killed by armed men in two incidents of robbery in the district. Four buffaloes were also rustled by the armed men. A man was shot...		Man dies as cylinder explodes SUKKUR, May 12: A man was killed when an air cylinder busted with a huge explosion at a petrol pump in Pano Akil on Thursday. Abdul Ghaffar Punjabi, a resident of...
Token strike NAWABSHAH, May 12: Members of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited unions’ action committee and the telegraph division observed a pen down strike for two hours against privatisation of the PTCL here...		Rs3bn package for Faisalabad FAISALABAD, May 12: Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has announced Rs3 billion package for uplift and beautification of city and to provide modern healthcare and education to people. Speaking at a...
Dacoit shot dead in ‘encounter’ OKARA, May 12: A dacoit carrying Rs0.5 million head-money was shot dead on Thursday in an encounter with police on Renala-Chuchuk Road near Chak 9/1-R. Iftikhar alias Khawar of Bongi Bhattian...		MMA-led caravan welcomed SARGODHA, May 12: The Caravan-i-Jamhoriat was accorded a warm and enthusiastic welcome on arrival at Block No.12 here on Thursday afternoon. The caravan was led by MMA leaders Maulana Fazlur Rehman,...
Another 16 cholera patients hospitalized GUJRANWALA, May 12: At least 16 more cholera patients were brought to the district headquarters hospital from interior of the city and remote areas here on Thursday. The number of cholera...		Lawyers continue strike DERA GHAZI KHAN, May 12: Lawyers have decided to continue strike till the withdrawal of cases registered against their 36 colleagues. They held a meeting on Thursday which was presided over...
Qazi for ‘global protest day’ LAHORE, May 12: MMA president and Jamaat-i-Islami amir Qazi Husain Ahmad has urged all Islamic movements across the globe to observe a ‘world protest day’ against the desecration of the Holy...		Plazas built without site plans to be demolished LAHORE, May 12: The Lahore Development Authority Additional Director General Capt Nasim (retired) has said the LDA would demolish all the shopping complexes and buildings being built without the sanction of...
Courts’ authority in banking suits LAHORE, May 12: A division bench of the Lahore High Court will remove a legal anomaly in the question whether the superior courts of Pakistan are competent to entertain banking suits...		European investors call on Maqbool LAHORE, May 12: A 13-member delegation of European investors and German and Swiss industrialists of Pakistani origin called on Governor Khalid Maqbool at the Governor’s House here on Thursday. Lauding the...
30 ACE circle offices without heads LAHORE, May 12: As many as 30 district circle offices of the Anti-Corruption Establishment in the Punjab have been working without their heads for a year. The provincial government had approved...		Injured UC nazim dies LAHORE, May 12: A union council nazim died on Thursday from a bullet wound he had sustained two days ago at his house in Shadbagh. Police said UC 22 Nazim Rana...
PHC rejects appeal of five convicts PESHAWAR, May 12: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday dismissed appeals of five convicted prisoners undergoing imprisonment due to non-payment of Diyat money. They have served the jail term, but according...		Girls allege discrimination PESHAWAR, May 12: Students of the girls’ campus of the Khyber Medical College claim that they face discrimination at the hands of students of the main campus. The campus was...
Murder accused sent to hospital PESHAWAR, May 12: Additional District and Sessions Judge Shahid Khan on Thursday referred an accused facing trial for killing his wife to a psychiatric hospital after he started behaving like a...		No decision yet to raise share of NWFP: Net hydel profit PESHAWAR, May 12: Minister of State for Water and Power Amir Muqam Khan has said that the centre has made no commitment to the NWFP government on increasing its share...
PTCL staff for job security LAHORE, May 12: The PTCL Unions Action Committee demanded on Thursday job security for the regular employees of the corporation. The demand was made at a meeting of the action committee...		Development plan for Abbottabad ABBOTTABAD, May 12: Eighteen sectors have been identified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for the implementation of the Abbottabad Integrated Development Vision programme by the district government....