May 25, 2005	Wednesday	Rabi-us-Sani 16, 1426

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Economic ties, peace process top agenda: Rocca arrives today ISLAMABAD, May 24: US Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca is scheduled to arrive here on Wednesday morning for consultations with the Pakistani leadership on a host of bilateral issues as...		‘Wrong policies cost several overseas jobs’ ISLAMABAD, May 24: People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) Senator Enver Baig has said due to wrong policies of the government, Pakistan has lost various opportunities for overseas employment in the past few...
Body rejects report of own subcommittee: Sale of six Airbus aircraft by PIA ISLAMABAD, May 24: The Senate Standing Committee on Defence on Tuesday vetoed the findings of its own sub-committee and allowed the PIA management to proceed with the sale of its six...		Opposition stages walkout: Blocking media access ISLAMABAD, May 24: Opposition members of the Senate standing committee on defence walked out of a meeting of the committee when its chairman, Nisar Memon, barred the media from covering the...
Shujaat meets PM Aziz calls for evolving focussed plan to boost tourism ISLAMABAD, May 24: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday directed the tourism ministry to come up with an “innovative and focussed plan” for developing tourism on professional lines in the country....		Law to curb dirty money ready, Swiss team told ISLAMABAD, May 24: The government has given final touches to an anti-money laundering law and submitted it to the cabinet. The State Bank of Pakistan has set up a unit to...
Cabinet likely to okay gender reform action plan today ISLAMABAD, May 24: The federal cabinet in its meeting on Wednesday is likely to approve women development ministry’s Gender Reform Action Plan (GRAP), Dawn has learnt. GRAP seeks gender equality in...		MMA contacts groups for worldwide rallies ISLAMABAD, May 24: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has contacted like-minded Islamic groups in various Muslim countries to stage worldwide protest rallies against desecration of Holy Quran in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp....
Demonstration held against poverty, price-hike RAWALPINDI, May 24: Scores of people marched on the busiest Murree Road here on Tuesday to protest against the rising inflation, unemployment, poverty, low wages and a host of other socio-economic...		SC to hear Sindh appeal today: Reinstatement of nazims ISLAMABAD, May 24: The Supreme Court will take up the Sindh government’s appeal on Wednesday against reinstatement of four nazims and two naib nazims of Larkana, Mirpurkhas, Jacobabad and Dadu by...
Flood safety programme ISLAMABAD, May 24: The federal government on Tuesday allocated Rs1.6 billion for a flood safety programme. An inter-provincial meeting, presided over by federal Minister for Water and Power Liaqat Ali Jatoi,...		Amendments due in FCR, says governor PESHAWAR, May 24: NWFP Governor Khalil-ur-Rehman said on Tuesday that all unfair clauses of the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) would be amended in consultation with people of the tribal areas. Describing...
Irrigation system being improved, says Arbab BADIN, May 24: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said the government is taking steps for improving the irrigation system, included lining of watercourses. Speaking at a public meeting...		Gastroenteritis claims two lives BADIN, May 24: Two people died here on Tuesday of gastroenteritis, while numbers of patients suffering from the disease has gone up to 55. The disease is yet to be controlled...
Plan for PMC co-education opposed NAWABSHAH, May 24: The academic council of the People’s Medical College (PMC) for girls has rejected a proposal of the Sindh health department to introduce co-education in the college. At a...		Pay raise sought ATTOCK, May 24: The government servants on Sunday demanded that the government should increase their salaries according to the ratio of price-hike. These views were expressed by a group of government...
UCs formed ABBOTTABAD, May 24: Four new union councils have been formed in the Abbottabad district, raising the number of UCs to 50. This was said by NWFP Minister for Local Bodies Sardar...		Two kidnapped boys freed JACOBABAD, May 24: Two boys, kidnapped three months back in Kandhkot town, were recovered from Sadiqabad on Tuesday. Kashmore DPO Ferozuddin Abbasi said a police team conducted raid on a hotel...
Gas plant opened in Ghotki SUKKUR, May 24: Federal Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Resources Mir Mohammad Naseer Khan Mengal has said that there is a lot of potential in the oil and gas...		People affected by Barotha project get compensation SWABI, May 24: The Ghazi Barotha Development Authority is reported to have paid Rs390 million to the people of Swabi district affected by the Ghazi Barotha Hydel Project. Sources said that...
Haripur receiving contaminated water HARIPUR, May 24: Residents of a number of areas in the city are prone to water-borne diseases owing to consumption of contaminated water supplied by the civic authorities. According to a...		Hesco disconnective drive criticized KHAIRPUR, May 24: Power consumers took out a procession on Tuesday in Pakka Chang, Faiz Ganj taluka against unscheduled load-sheding disconnection drive being conducted by Hesco officials in a number of...
Contractors threaten to launch protest movement NOWSHERA, May 24: The contractors’ community has threatened to launch a movement against the district government in protest against the freezing of development funds and delaying payments to them. The...		Toll likely to be abolished in Punjab: No new tax LAHORE, May 24: The Punjab government proposes to abolish toll tax all over the province in the budget for 2005-06 and announce a number of measures to give relief to the...
Army to build Baab-i-Pakistan LAHORE, May 24: The Baab-i-Pakistan project has been handed over to army’s engineering corps for execution, Dawnlearnt here on Tuesday. According to sources in the Punjab government, the project will exceed...		Programme against TB launched LAHORE, May 24: Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool on Tuesday launched Directly Observed Short-Course Therapy (DOTS) programme throughout the province to fight against tuberculosis and said it would be completely eradicated within...
Mujadid Mirza laid to rest LAHORE, May 24: Justice Ghulam Mujadid Mirza (retired), former Lahore High Court chief justice and chief ehtesab commissioner, was laid to rest in the Miani Sahib here on Tuesday. He died...		AC bus services raise inter-city fares FAISALABAD, May 24: The air-conditioned bus services, including the Daewoo Express, have reportedly enhanced their fares by five to 20 per cent on the plea that the prices of petroleum products...
Tension persists on PMC campus FAISALABAD, May 24: The situation remained tense on Tuesday on the campus and hostels of the Punjab Medical College because of a tug-of-war between the Muslim Students Federation (MSF) and the...		CM to decide candidates for local polls BAHAWALPUR, May 24: Punjab Transport Minister Rana Shamshad Ahmed Khan has said the decision of the chief minister will be final regarding nomination of the PML candidates for the local...
Case against 10 policemen for death in custody SARGODHA, May 24: Satellite Town police have registered a case against its SHO and nine other policemen for allegedly killing a man in custody and throwing his body in a canal....		Police fail to identify attackers GUJRAT, May 24: Police have failed to identify the remaining three accused who along with Kharian tehsil Nazim Nadeem Asghar Kaira attacked the Cantt police station last month. Cantonment police...
PML workers protest against party leaders GUJRANWALA, May 24: The ruling PML workers, besides some women councillors and naib nazims of union councils, held a protest demonstration here on Tuesday against the party leadership for ignoring them...		Boy kills three sisters SIALKOT, May 24: An infuriated boy shot dead his three sisters on suspicion of having illicit relations at Nidokey-Sialkot village early Tuesday morning. Reports said landlord Arshad Husain’s three daughters —...
Development projects being launched in five districts PESHAWAR, May 24: The NWFP health department in collaboration with the World Health Organization is launching a basic development need (BDN) project in five districts of the province. “The project, aimed...		US urged to respect tribesmen’s rights PESHAWAR, May 24: The United States should support democratic forces rather than dictators in the Muslim world, respect rights of tribesmen and bridge the widening gap between the Muslim world and...
School health service to be restored PESHAWAR, May 24: The NWFP Health Department is likely to restore the school health service in the province, sources said. “The provincial government had launched the school health service when Prime...		Vocational training plan prepared for prisons PESHAWAR, May 24: NWFP’s inspector general of prisons said on Tuesday that the provincial government had mobilized its resources in order to provide market-oriented vocational training to prisoners, specifically to juveniles...
2 murder accused executed in public HANGU, May 24: Two murder accused have been executed in public under a verdict given by a tribal jirga in the Dabori area of the Orakzai Agency. The jirga was constituted...		PHC dismisses appeal of two convicts PESHAWAR, May 24: The Peshawar High Court dismissed on Tuesday an appeal of two convicted drug smugglers and upheld the verdict of the district and sessions judge, Kohat. The division bench...
Students’ participation in sports stressed PESHAWAR, May 24: Speakers at a function here on Tuesday stressed the need of students’ participation in sports while striving to excel in studies. Addressing a function held at the University...		Pre-budget seminar PESHAWAR, May 24: The NWFP government under its Essential Institutional Reforms Operationalization Programme-II has arranged a pre-budget seminar on Wednesday at the cabinet room of the Civil Secretariat here. NWFP Senior...