July 3, 2005	Sunday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 25, 1426

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No deal with Musharraf, says Nawaz LAHORE, July 2: Exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday ruled out a deal with Gen Pervez Musharraf and others responsible for dividing the PML, saying such a step would...		FIA men not to be spared: DG: Human trafficking ISLAMABAD, July 2: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has affirmed its determination not to spare any official involved in criminal activities. This resolve of the FIA director-general was conveyed to Dawn...
Financial scam: IIBL officials move SC ISLAMABAD, July 2: Former chief executive and president of Islamic Investment Bank (IIBL), Javed Iqbal Qureshi and Nadeem Anwar, respectively, have moved Supreme Court against their arrest on charges of embezzlement of government funds worth Rs630 million....		MQM regrets opposition’s refusal to attend APC ISLAMABAD, July 2: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) MNA Kunwar Khalid Younus on Saturday said his party would not be discouraged by the refusal of the opposition parties to attend its all parties conference (APC), scheduled to held on Sunday....
World Baloch Alliance formed ISLAMABAD, July 2: The vice-president of the People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) and a former federal minister, Mir Baz Mohammad Khan Khetran, has announced formation of World Baloch Alliance (WBA) having its central secretariat in London....		NGOs for full participation of women in LB polls Haripur July 2: District Coordination Committee of the Aurat Foundation has vowed to motivate women voters and intending candidates to participate in the forthcoming coming local government elections....
25,000 to benefit from education complex: minister PESHAWAR July 2: Twenty-five thousand students of first to intermediate classes would receive education at a time in the proposed education complex being set up to offer them equal facilities and...		Protest against price hike LAHORE, July 2: The Labour Party will launch a protest campaign against price hike and privatization from July 4. Secretary-general Farooq Tariq says a demonstration outside the Lahore Press Club will...
Fish seed LAHORE, July 2: The fish seed production units project has been launched at an estimated cost of Rs18.87 million to facilitate farmers. Punjab Agricultural Marketing Minister Rana Qasim Noon told a...		Rs2bn to be spent on telecom projects in AJK MUZAFFARABAD, July 2: The Special Communication Organization (SCO) will spend Rs2 billion provided by the federal government on different telecom development projects in Azad Jammu and Kashmir in the current financial year, an official said here on Saturday....
Relatives abandon neuro-patients PESHAWAR, July 2: Many neurotic patients who recover at the Mental Hospital after getting treatment experience a relapse as their relatives and family members never turn up to take them home, doctors and psychiatrists at the hospital said....		PIA begins another flight to China BEIJING, July 2: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will start operating another flight to China on the Islamabad-Urumqi route by the middle of August, twice a week....
Rain raises hope for better conditions GILGIT, July 2: Light showers on Saturday in Northern Areas dropped the temperature, bringing relief to the people who had been suffering from the terrible heat since a week....		All transfers and postings stopped: EC ISLAMABAD, July 2: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Saturday again reiterated that all transfer and postings of government officers made by any provincial government have become ineffective after the announcement of the election schedule for the Local Government Elections 2005....
Irsa officials visit Garang regulator LARKANA, July 2: A three-member team of the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) arrived at the Garang Regulator, the water distribution point between Sindh and Balochistan, on Saturday and recorded soundings to resolve water dispute between the two provinces....		Plea to release flood waters for lower Sindh HYDERABAD, July 2: The Sindh Abadgar Board has demanded that flood waters in upper parts of the country should immediately be released for lower Sindh where Kharif crops have been dried up due to water shortage....
Canal breach damages crops in Mehar DADU, July 2: A 50 feet wide breach occurred in the Kakol Wah at the Betto Road in Mehar taluka on Friday night. As a result of the breach, Gulshan Ghaffari and Mustafa Colony of the Mehar town were inundated....		Provinces’ rights over resources demanded HYDERABAD, July 2: Leaders of different political parties, educationists, lawyers and agriculture experts have demanded that the National Finance Commission should be dissolved and rights of provinces over their own mineral and financial resources should be acknowledged in the Constitution....
Teachers threaten boycott of LB polls HYDERABAD, July 2: The All-Sindh Primary Teachers Association has threatened boycott of local body elections if services of contract teachers were not regularized and teachers appointed in 1998 were not reinstated in service....		PML divided in Gujranwala GUJRANWALA, July 2: The ruling PML has been divided into two groups over the local body elections as over half a dozen aspirants are seeking support of like-minded groups to contest for the district nazim seat....
Relief sent to flood-hit districts PESHAWAR, July 2: The Pakistan Army on Saturday sent nine trucks loaded with food items to worst flood-hit areas of Charsadda and Nowshera districts from here....		Plea of deceased’s brother put off: Residential plot case FAISALABAD, July 2: An additional district and sessions judge, Sadaqatullah, has adjourned till July 7 a plea moved by the brother of an alleged suspect in a Rs100 million plot case....
Rain benefits paddy growers GUJRANWALA, July 2: The monsoon rain benefited the paddy cultivators in the district by providing necessary water to the fields, saving costs of diesel and electricity for them....		Another human smuggler arrested GUJRANWALA, July 2: A human smuggler was arrested by a raiding team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Thatha Azam village on Saturday. Reports said that trader Shabbir Husain of...
‘SHO attacks MPA’ OKARA, July 2: City B-division police station SHO allegedly attacked the district PPP president and MPA Ashraf Sohna in the office of city DSP on Saturday....		Two girls killed in roof collapse SHEIKHUPURA, July 2: Two girls were killed while their mother sustained injuries when the roof of their house caved in during heavy rain here on Saturday in Shah Colony....
Theft cases TOBA TEK SINGH, July 2: City and Rajana police on Saturday registered two theft cases of a car and a pick up. Tahir Javed of Islampura locality informed the City police...		Four of a family shot dead LAKKI MARWAT, July 2: Four people of a family were shot dead over an old enmity near village Chuharkhel here on Saturday. The victims were going in a coach when assailants...
No affiliation with Aga Khan Board: Existing system will be strengthened: minister PESHAWAR, July 2: The NWFP education minister, Maulana Fazli-i-Ali Haqqani, has said that no educational institution of the province will get affiliation with the Aga Khan Education Board....		95 refugees’ schools closed PESHAWAR, July 2: The Commissionerate for Afghan Refugees (CAR) has closed down 95 middle, high and higher secondary schools for refugee camps in the NWFP and tribal areas, officials said here....