May 14, 2005	Saturday	Rabi-us-Sani 5, 1426

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PN ships interdict 3,200 vessels: War against terror ISLAMABAD, May 13: Pakistan Navy interdicted 3,200 vessels since deployment of warships in the Arabian Sea as part of the coalition maritime forces in the war against terrorism, officials told Dawn....		Opposition in NA stages walkout: Speaker’s remarks ISLAMABAD May 13: The government on Friday faced another embarrassment on account of lack of quorum in the National Assembly as the combined opposition staged a walkout to protest what it...
Consultants in ministries getting hefty packages ISLAMABAD, May 13: The National Assembly was informed on Friday that Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs had engaged five consultants on remunerations amounting to millions of rupees per month....		Mounting backlog delaying justice: LHC annual report LAHORE, May 13: A backlog of decades is making a clear impact on the adjudication of criminal, civil and commercial disputes by superior and sub-ordinate courts. The high court’s annual report...
59 campuses to be inter-linked: HEC ISLAMABAD, May 13: Fifty-six universities have been interconnected through Pakistan Educational Research Network (PERN), while work to interconnect 59 more campuses will be completed within a year. This was told to...		Rs2bn compensation for oil companies ISLAMABAD, May 13: The federal government will pay Rs2 billion to oil companies and refineries next week to compensate them for the losses they suffered on account of price differential in...
UN to help Pakistan combat drug trade: official ISLAMABAD, May 13: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) would increase cooperation with Pakistan to control drug smuggling from Afghanistan. This was stated by the UNODC executive director, Antonio...		FIA establishes unit to control human smuggling ISLAMABAD, May 13: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has established an anti-trafficking unit to control the menace of human smuggling in the country, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said. Speaking...
Railways to acquire 150 new coaches ISLAMABAD, May 13: The ministry of railways has finalized a plan to add by procurement or manufacturing 150 ‘high speed modern passenger coaches’ to its fleet which it believes is fast...		NCHD praised for improving education, health services NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, May 13: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has praised the National Commission for Human Development for improving the quality of health sevices and education. He was speaking...
JI, JUI protest against Quran’s desecration PESHAWAR, May 13: Enraged by the desecration of the Holy Quran by US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay and publication of a derogatory cartoon in an American newspaper, workers of the Jamaat-i-Islami...		Rules violated, PHC told: Appointment of Fazl’s brother PESHAWAR, May 13: The ministry of state and frontier region on Thursday admitted before the Peshawar High Court that the brother of opposition leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman had been appointed project...
New Pashto channel PESHAWAR, May 13: Renowned artist Jamal Shah has formally announced that he is launching a Pashto-language television channel. The announcement was made at a fund-raising function organised on Friday by the...		Bid to keep Benazir out of polls to fail: Naheed ISLAMABAD, May 13: MNA and political secretary to Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Naheed Khan on Friday said any exercise to keep Benazir Bhutto out of general elections would jeopardize the federation....
Punjab govt,Abu Dhabi Group sign two MoUs LAHORE, May 13: The Punjab government and Abu Dhabi Group of the UAE signed here on Friday two MoUs for the construction of Sheikh Zayed Trade Centre and Lake View Housing...		Nazim on use of LPG LAHORE, May 13: District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood has said the permission for use of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in rickshaws was not a licence for irregularities. He told a delegation...
Talent farming scheme test on 22nd ISLAMABAD, May 13: The Higher Education Commission on Friday announced that the aptitude test for ‘talent farming scheme’ will be held on May 22. Test for BSc/BSc (Hons) level students will...		FIR against SI RAWALPINDI, May 13: Additional Sessions Judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman here on Friday ordered the Rawalpindi police to register an FIR against a sub-inspector who allegedly detained a citizen and tortured him....
‘Turkey’s EU entry to benefit Pakistan’ ISLAMABAD, May 13: Senator Mushahid Hussain here on Friday said Turkey had made successful transformation to civilian administration after prolonged military rule. The country also made harmonious shift to neo-Islamic but...		Check on sale of acids urged ISLAMABAD, May 13: The participants of a conference on the plight of women disfigured by acid throwers asked the government to regulate the sale and purchase of acids by law. The...
Motion on consulate torching ISLAMABAD May 13: The combined opposition on Friday submitted an adjournment motion to the Senate Secretariat seeking discussion on the torching of Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad (Afghanistan) on May 11 during...		Holding of two offices Court sends principal on LPR ISLAMABAD, May 13: The Supreme Court on Friday sent a local school principal on Leave Preparatory for Retirement (LPR) for misconduct and holding of two offices. A two-member bench, comprising Chief...
Students from Sibbi visit Numl ISLAMABAD, May 13: A group of 46 students and teachers from the Government Girls Degree College, Sibbi, visited the National University of Modern Languages (Numl), a statement issued here on Friday...		Power tariff Pleas admitted for public hearing ISLAMABAD, May 13: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority has admitted for public hearing tariff petitions of all the distribution companies of the Water and Power Development Authority seeking increase in...
Drugs, arms seized; six held QUETTA, May 13: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) on Friday recovered drugs and illegal arms and ammunition from Pasni and arrested six persons. According to official sources the ANF troops raided a...		District court premises hit by blast QUETTA, May 13: A bomb exploded on the premises of the heavily guarded Quetta district courts on Friday night. No loss of life or serious damage was reported. Police said that...
Councillor shot dead KARACHI, May 13: A councilor and his associate were shot dead by unknown persons in Baldia Town on Friday night. Police said that Nawab Khan, councilor of Qaimkhanai Colony Baldia town...		Protest against murder SIALKOT, May 13: Traffic was thrown out of gear near Lorry Adda in Sambrial for three hours to protest the killing of a retired inspector’s son and injuring his two other...
Taxpayers for clearance of refund cases GUJRANWALA, May 13: The business community and income tax payers have urged the income tax department to clear their refund cases. At a meeting held here on Friday, participants said the...		Two militants remanded MULTAN, May 13: An anti-terrorism court remanded two alleged activists of the outlawed outfit Lashkar-i-Jhangvi in police custody for four days. Police produced Khwaja Ibrahim and Amer Shahzad before the ATC...
Five killed, 20 hurt as bus hits trailer VEHARI, May 13: Five people, including a woman, were killed and 20 others were injured on Friday in an accident on Multan-Lahore Road near Khanewal, some 70kms from here. A bus...		Darul Aman proves last abode for woman FAISALABAD, May 13: A woman was shot dead allegedly by her brothers in Darul Aman on Thursday night. Reports said Kaneez Fatima married a man against her family’s wishes nine years...
Lawyers end strike DERA GHAZI KHAN, May 13: The district bar association ended its strike against the police on Friday after its successful negotiations with the DPO in the presence of an additional district...		GCU campus FAISALABAD, May 13: A new campus of the Government College University, Faisalabad, will be established on 600 acres near Chak Jhumra. Vice-Chancellor Dr Asif Iqbal told journalists on Friday that the...
More lake water released into Indus DADU, May 13: The irrigation department announced on Friday that 900 cusecs of polluted water was released from the Manchhar Lake into the Indus River. A duty officer of the Dadu...		Calm prevails in Sukkur jail SUKKUR, May 13: a complete calm prevailed in the central jail, Sukkur, and no untoward incident took place on Friday. The Inspector-General of Prisons, Sindh, Brig (Retd) Ayaz Mughni, reached here...
One killed, two injured in tribal clash SHIKARPUR, May 13: One person was killed and two others injured in a clash between Jatoi and Mahar tribesmen in the Taib Khan village, Lakhi taluka, on Friday. The deceased was...		Cases against PPP activists, office-bearers lodged MIRPURKHAS, May 13: The police booked a number of People’s Party Parliamentarians’ office-bearers and workers of Mirpurkhas, including district president, on Thursday for attacking the SHO of taluka police station and...
Tehsil nazim booked for injuring two HARIPUR, May 13: Tehsil Nazim Iftikhar Ahmad Khan has been nominated in an FIR for injuring two persons in Khalabat township on Thursday evening. However, he managed to get a bail...		33 detained students freed in Gilgit GILGIT, May 13: Police have freed 33 students belonging to a particular sect, who had been detained for instigating agitations over the Islamiyat curriculum in a school in the Gilgit Cantonment...
Man commits suicide HARIPUR, May 13: A man committed suicide in the Saddar police area on Friday. Police said Mohammad Sultan, resident of village Dobandi, committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan...		PTCL claims its cables damaged by diggings PESHAWAR, May 13: The staff of the northern region of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) complained on Friday that diggings in various parts of the city for sewerage lines were damaging...
Ex-official of Steel Mills jailed, fined PESHAWAR, May 13: An accountability court here on Friday convicted former deputy general manager of the Pakistan Steel Mills Mian Hissamuddin and sentenced him to five years rigorous imprisonment with a...		Two sentenced to life term for disgracing woman KOHAT, May 13: A court on Thursday handed down life terms to two men who had forced a woman to take off her clothes and walk naked in the street. The...