May 26, 2005	Thursday	Rabi-us-Sani 17, 1426

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Gender Reform Action Plan approved ISLAMABAD, May 25: The federal cabinet on Wednesday approved women development ministry’s Gender Reform Action Plan (GRAP), Adviser to the Prime Minister on Women Development Nilofar Bakhtiar said. She told a...		Provincial police chiefs oppose changes in Police Order ISLAMABAD, May 25: The police chiefs of the four provinces on Wednesday rejected proposed amendments to the Police Order-2002, expressing apprehensions that the amended law would make police accountable to...
Resignation of Abbasi not accepted by president ISLAMABAD, May 25: The resignation of A. N. G. Abbasi, chairman of technical committee on water resources, has not been accepted by President General Pervez Musharraf and he has been asked...		Fazl wants exclusive meeting with Rocca ISLAMABAD, May 25: The leader of Opposition in the National Assembly and secretary general Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) Maulana Fazlur Rahman, is expected to arrive in the federal capital on Thursday to...
PAC grills PTV about financial irregularities ISLAMABAD, May 25: The Pakistan Television (PTV) management, led by its managing director Arshad Khan, failed to satisfy the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on financial irregularities and award of various contracts...		NA budget session called on June 2 ISLAMABAD, May 25: President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday called the National Assembly to meet on June 2 to begin its budget session with very little signs of cheer yet amid one...
Amnesty slams Pakistan’s human rights record KARACHI, May 25: The Amnesty International in its annual report released on Wednesday slammed Pakistan’s human rights record; citing arbitrary arrests and detentions, disappearances and possible extrajudicial executions in the context...		Voters’ number for LG polls increases to over 62m ISLAMABAD, May 25: A workshop on accurate and credible electoral rolls was informed on Wednesday that after updating, the number of voters for the upcoming local government elections had increased to...
Benefits of Islamic banking highlighted RAWALPINDI, May 25: Renowned scholar and senior adviser to the Islamic Research Institute of the Islamic Development Bank, Saudi Arabia, Dr Mohammad Umar Chapra has stressed the need for implementing Islamic...		Asghar Khan’s book launched ISLAMABAD, May 25: The ambition of generals and myopia of the ruling elite were some of the chronic problems affecting our body politic, said minister for privatisation, Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh,...
PML group steps up anti-MMA campaign QUETTA, May 25: A recently formed group of PML ministers and MPAs in a meeting here on Tuesday decided to speed up their campaign against MMA ministers’ attitude towards members of...		Protesting workers storm PTCL headquarters ISLAMABAD, May 25: Thousands of Pakistan Telecommunication Company workers stormed the company’s headquarters here on Wednesday, threatening to jam the telecom system if the PTCL privatization plan was not put off...
Six of a family killed in blast WANA, May 25: Six members of a family were killed and three others were wounded in a bomb blast in the Makin area of the South Waziristan Agency on Tuesday night,...		Loharu family’s get-together in capital ISLAMABAD, May 25: The visit of Nawabzada Aimaduddin Ahmed Khan of Loharu (Durru) to attend Safma’s South Asian Parliamentary Forum provided an occasion to the large Loharu family residing in Islamabad...
Departments told to keep ADP to ‘rational level’ PESHAWAR, May 25: The NWFP government has directed its line departments to keep their annual development programme (ADP) to a rational level in the next financial year, according to official sources....		Call to set up blood bank ISLAMABAD, May 25: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmad on Wednesday assured full support to the Pakistan Red Crescent Society in its humanitarian efforts for the distressed people....
IPCC seeks easing of visa curbs ISLAMABAD, May 25: Pakistan and India should develop sea, air and rail links besides easing visa restrictions that would greatly help promote bilateral trade. This was stated by the newly elected...		Musharraf’s agenda has British support, says diplomat PESHAWAR, May 25: British High Commissioner to Pakistan Mark Lyall Grant has said that his country supports the ‘enlightened moderation and liberal democratic agenda’ of President Gen Pervez Musharraf and does...
Traders support strike call KOHAT, May 25: The local business community has decided to support a protest call given by the Jamaat-i-Islami for Friday against the desecration of the holy Quran by US interrogators at...		NSC meeting MMA fails to evolve consensus LAHORE, May 25: Three components of the MMA are against opposition leader Maulana Fazlur Rahman and NWFP Chief Minister Akram Durrani’s participation in a National Security Council meeting. The Jamaat-i-Islami, Jamiat...
‘Kashmir issue to be resolved by people’ LAHORE, May 25: Former chief justice Rajindra Sachar of the Delhi High Court on Wednesday pleaded for separating the Kashmir conflict from the peace process, saying the people of India and...		Spurious milk, syrups caused diarrhoea LAHORE, May 25: The Punjab health department’s five-member team has found that a large number of diarrhoea and gastroenteritis cases in Pattoki tehsil were caused by contaminated milk and syrups distributed...
Punjab likely to see high GDP growth LAHORE, May 25: The gross domestic product (GDP) of the Punjab is likely to grow at the annual rate of seven to eight per cent in medium-term framework as against a...		Probe body on Harappa park LAHORE, May 25: The federal government on Wednesday constituted a committee to probe into the issuance of an NOC for the establishment of an amusement park adjacent to the Harappa Museum....
Transport contract auction boycotted: Gujranwala city division plan GUJRANWALA, May 25: The city tehsil council failed to auction the contract of the general bus stand buses and wagons when all the contractors boycotted it here on Wednesday. Reports said...		Wanted man held in Multan MULTAN, May 25: A wanted man is reported to have been arrested by personnel of an intelligence agency from the Cantonment Railway Station here. The personnel surrounded the railway station...
Nine injured in gas cylinder explosion SAHIWAL, May 25: Nine people were injured in a gas cylinder blast at a hotel here on Wednesday. The incident occurred when the people were breakfasting at the Master Hotel, Kot...		MMA man for nazim’s slot BAHAWALPUR, May 25: MMA’s deputy parliamentary leader in the Punjab Assembly Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar will contest for the Bahawalpur district nazim’s slot. Talking to reporters here on Wednesday, Punjab’s JI...
Policy soon to regulate new petrol, CNG stations RAWALPINDI, May 25: The Rawalpindi district government is framing a policy to regulate the installation of new petrol/diesel filling stations and CNG gas stations. Lack of regulatory mechanism in the past...		Man kills son RAWALPINDI, May 25: An enraged man shot dead his 19-year-old son and injured another in Dhoke Mustakeem (Westridge) on Wednesday, police said. Agha Taskeen, a dentist and father of five, lived...
PPP welcomes Amnesty report ISLAMABAD, May 25: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has welcomed the annual Amnesty International’s human rights report which exposed “how the present regime used war on terror to arrest...		Wapda clarifies news report LAHORE, May 25: Wapda in a press release has clarified a news item pertaining to the award of contract for the Mangla Dam raising project that was discussed during a meeting...
Herald union’s office-bearers KARACHI, May 25: In the biennial elections of Pakistan Herald Workers Union, Shafiuddin Ashraf was re-elected general secretary on Wednesday for the years 2005-2007. The following office-bearers had been elected unopposed:...		Deputy chief executive gets transfer powers GILGIT, May 25: The Northern Areas deputy chief executive has got the powers to transfer government servants of grade 18 and above in accordance with a decision of the chief executive...
Accused admits to carrying out terror attacks BANNU, May 25: A man arrested in connection with missile attacks in Bannu has confessed to having been trained as a terrorist and having links with outlawed organizations, district police officer...		EU urged to monitor ‘pre-poll rigging’ LAHORE, May 25: An ARD leader alleged here on Wednesday that the entire official machinery was engaged in the selection of candidates for the ruling party in the local bodies elections....
Celebrations of N-test anniversary begins LAHORE, May 25: The PML-N started here on Wednesday five-day celebrations of the seventh anniversary of the May 28, 1998, nuclear tests by holding a seminar at the Lahore Press Club,...		Anti-encroachment drive GUJRANWALA, May 25: The city tehsil council continued its drive against encroachments on the second day here on Wednesday and challaned dozens of shopkeepers in various bazaars....
Ex-prisoner confirms desecration in Guantanamo PESHAWAR, May 25: Badar Zaman Badar, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, has said that the jail authorities stopped mishandling and desecrating the Holy Quran in 2003 following strong protests by prisoners....		Bail plea rejected in illegal detention case PESHAWAR, May 25: Additional District and Sessions Judge Shehbar Khan on Wednesday rejected the bail application of a man charged with keeping in illegal confinement his two sisters-in-law and sexually abusing...
JI urged not to oppose participation in NSC meeting PESHAWAR, May 25: The provincial spokesman for the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has asked the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) not to make the participation of the opposition leader in the National Assembly, Maulana Fazlur...		Need to empower commission on women stressed PESHAWAR, May 25: Participants of a workshop here on Wednesday criticized the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) as it had been working without its members for about two...