July 5, 2005	Tuesday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 27, 1426

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2 UK diplomats barred from visiting LoC MUZAFFARABAD, July 4: Two British diplomats could not travel to an area along the Line of Control on Monday after being told by the local authorities that the permission granted to...		Controversy takes another twist: Lease-sale of PIA Airbuses ISLAMABAD, July 4: The controversy surrounding PIA’s decision to lease replacements for its six A300B4 Airbus aircraft, which it had declared unsafe and wanted to sell, has taken another twist following...
Call for restoration of ‘unfettered democracy’ WASHINGTON, July 4: Politicians, scholars and human rights activists speaking at a two-day conference on Sindh in the US capital, demanded an immediate return to unfettered democracy in Pakistan....		Passport papers of Nawaz processed, says ambassador RIYADH, July 4: The Pakistani Consulate in Jeddah is awaiting instructions from Islamabad on matters relating to the issuing of passport to former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif....
Disputes with CM to be resolved: MPA QUETTA, July 4: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League’s provincial parliamentary group has expressed the hope that its disputes with the chief minister would be resolved according to assurances given by party’s Secretary-General Mushahid Hussain....		‘Sharifs entitled to get passports’ LAHORE, July 4: Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad says the Sharifs had left Pakistan following an agreement, and a new controversy will start if he reveals how the exiled family will return....
Indus inundates 100 villages in Sindh SUKKUR, July 4: More than 100 villages in the districts of Sukkur and Ghotki have been inundated following a rise in the level of the Indus river, irrigation department sources told this correspondent on Monday evening....		Three-hour downpour paralyzes Multan MULTAN, July 4: Heavy downpour in the wee hours on Monday flooded the city, especially its low-lying areas. The rain, that continued for nearly three hours, was gauged by the meteorological department as 70.5mm....
NWFP seeks cash for flood relief PESHAWAR, July 4: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has informed international donors and relief agencies that his government needs cash rather than food items, tents and medicines for the flood-stricken people of the province....		Torrential rain forecast LAHORE, July 4: The meteorological department has forecast torrential rains touching 200 to 250 millimetre mark in Lahore, Wazirabad, Gujranwala and other cities in the province from July 15 to Aug 15....
Alliance of opposition parties in the offing LAHORE, July 4: The Jamaat-i-Islami claims that grand alliance of opposition parties is likely in the current month (July). “You’ll hear a good news about it within July,” says secretary-general Munawwar...		3,585 ton Indian sugar lying at railway station LAHORE, July 4: Islamabad is contemplating to import 200,000 ton sugar from New Delhi while as many as 3,585 metric tons of the commodity imported from India have been lying at the Lahore Railways Station since November, 2001, it is learnt....
CBR fails to detect understated income cases ISLAMABAD, July 4: The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has failed to evolve an effective audit strategy to point out the people understating their income despite spending millions of rupees in the last three years, sources told Dawn here on Monday....		Dictatorships do not last before might of people: Benazir ISLAMABAD, July 4: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has stated that once again “a military adventurer” is exploiting the situation in Afghanistan to perpetuate dictatorship in the country, adding...
Nepra holds hearings on tariff petitions ISLAMABAD, July 4: National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) here on Monday held public hearings on the tariff petitions filed by Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) and Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco)....		More funds committed for studies in US ISLAMABAD, July 4: Pakistan and the United States have agreed to increase contributions to the Fulbright scholarship programme to a total of $150 million over the next several years, the US Education Foundation in Pakistan (USEFP) announced here on Monday....
4 motions on price-hike submitted to NA sectt ISLAMABAD, July 4: Members belonging to the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) on Monday submitted four adjournment motions to the National Assembly Secretariat on the issue of recent increase in prices of oil, gas, flour and sugar....		Pindi bifurcation challenged in LHC RAWALPINDI, July 4: Former PPP and PML-N councillors have challenged the Punjab government’s decision of bifurcating Rawalpindi into Rawal and Potohar towns in the Lahore High Court (Rawlapindi Bench)....
Protest against imposition of toll on roads FAISALABAD, July 4: Residents of villages of Narwala Road, Millat Road and Pansera Road staged a demonstration in front of the Zila Council Complex in protest against the imposition of toll tax on roads of their areas here on Monday....		Varsity teachers to boycott classes QUETTA July 4: The Academic Staff Association of Balochistan University has decided to boycott classes from Tuesday to protest against manhandling of a teacher. An emergency meeting of the ASA general...
Violation of rules in recruitment alleged QUETTA, July 4: The All Pakistan Clerks Association has accused the Balochistan minister for excise and taxation of recruiting about 200 people in violation of rules and denying the staff 50 per cent quota in appointments....		Water rotation programme NAWABSHAH, July 4: The executive engineer of the Nusrat irrigation division, Nawabshah, has announced fresh rotation programme on the basis of availability of water in the Nusrat branch....
FM’s remarks about UNSC seat clarified ISLAMABAD, July 4: The Foreign Office on Monday clarified remarks attributed to Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri about a possible permanent seat for the Ummah in the United Nations Security Council....		Ten-day march planned against CRBC, water tax MULTAN, July 4: An organization called Chashma Lok Sangat has planned a ten-day foot march to mobilize the people in Tuansa area of Dera Ghazi Khan district against payment of water tax....
Two labourers killed as Trolley overturns SAHIWAL, July 4: Two labourers were killed and four others injured when a tractor-trolley laden with earth overturned at Aidal Kay village on Monday. The tractor-trolley (PK-6456), coming from the bank...		Demo against ‘slow’ work at post office SHEIKHUPURA, July 4: Scores of people held a demonstration outside the Nankana Sahib post office on Monday against its slow working and demanded immediate transfer of the post master....
Transporters raise fares SIALKOT, July 4: Following the recent increase in the POL prices, the transporters in the district have arbitrarily raised the fares to at least 25 per cent on all routes, causing problems for the commuters....		3 hurt for holding out bandits SIALKOT, July 4: Armed bandits injured three people, including two women, on resistance besides looting cash, ornaments, electronic items and valuables worth Rs2.2 million in different strikes late Sunday night in Daska tehsil....
Tax on bank transactions opposed GUJRANWALA, July 4: The local chamber of commerce and industry and business community has expressed resentment over levy of 0.1 per cent withholding tax on withdrawal of Rs25,000 or above from banks, and demanded that it should be abolished....		JUI puts off protest after Pesco assurance LAKKI MARWAT, July 4: The local chapter of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) has called off its plan to hold a demonstration and block a highway but warned that it would protest...
Accountability through ballot: minister ABBOTTABAD, July 4: Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Amanullah Khan Jadoon has urged the people to elect sincere and honest persons in the next local bodies polls so that their problems were solved at their doorstep....		Candidates nominated or LB polls MANSEHRA, July 4: The JUI-F has nominated Attiqur Rehman Jehangiri, former naib nazim of union council Mansehra city-II, as candidate for the slot of nazim and Mohammad Aslam Khan, a...
Rs35m for NWFP’s industrial estates SWABI, July 4: The federal government has agreed to provide Rs35 million for NWFP industrial estates under the head of Investment Development Fund (IDF), it is learnt....		LHC bar crisis nds LAHORE, July 4: The Lahore High Court Bar Association committee has managed to resolve the crisis following a consensus among officials. The consensus emerged when all office-bearers held out an assurance...
Duty-free import of cement ‘possible’ LAHORE, July 4: Federal Industries Minister Jehangir Khan Tareen has said the government will allow duty-free import of cement if the prices do not return to pre-budget level of Rs260 per bag....		Rashid backs Musharraf LAHORE, July 4: Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad on Monday defended all policies followed by President Pervez Musharraf after 9/11, saying the country would have faced sanctions if a different course had been pursued....
Qazi denies MQM chief’s charges LAHORE, July 4: MMA President and Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Husain Ahmad has denied the charges levelled by Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Altaf Husain implicating the Jamaat leadership in cold-blooded murders of two religious scholars, Mufti Atiqur Rehman and Qari Irshadul Haq....		Call for independent election commission MIRPURKHAS, July 4: People’s Party Parliamentarians MNA Naheed Khan has demanded formation of an independent election commission and withdrawal of cases against Ms Benzir Bhutto. She said the country needed leadership...
Bus passengers looted KHAIRPUR, July 4: Passengers of a Karachi-bound bus were robbed by six armed men near Therhi, on the National Highway on Sunday night. Reports said that six armed men travelling as...		Strike observed in Shahdadkot: District status demanded LARKANA, July 4: On the call of District Forum (DF), a complete strike was observed in Shahdadkot on Monday to press the Sindh government to accord district status to Shahdadkot....
Flood arrangements reviewed KHAIRPUR, July 4: A meeting was held here on Monday to review arrangements to cope with flood emergenceies. It was presided over by the DCO of Khairpur....		WHO grant for project to control skin disease PESHAWAR, July 4: The World Health Organisation has pledged $70,000 to launch Leishmaniasis Control Programme in the country. Transmitted through the sand fly, the leishmaniasis belongs to a group of parasitic diseases....
MPAs demand LB polls’ postponement PESHAWAR, July 4: A number of NWFP Assembly members on Monday demanded postponement of the local body polls in the province. Talking part in a debate in the assembly on the...		FCR review committee starts work PESHAWAR, July 4: The Frontier Crimes Regulation Reforms Committee on Monday started clause-wise deliberation on the century-old law of FCR in force in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)....
Interference in district govts’ work criticized PESHAWAR, July 4: Outgoing Peshawar Nazim Azam Afridi has said that if the provincial governments stop interference in the affairs of district governments, the local government system would certainly deliver to the people....		Bill to increase CM’s powers adopted PESHAWAR, July 4: The NWFP Assembly on Monday approved a bill unanimously amending certain laws to bring some institutions related to education under the control of the chief minister from the governor....
Tribesmen protest against police NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, July 4: A large number of Solangi tribesmen took out a procession from Chohan Colony in Moro on Monday against the in charge of CIA of Naushahro Feroze....		Arrival of jockeys delayed LAHORE, July 4: The second batch of child jockeys scheduled to be arrived from the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday (today) has been delayed. According to a Child Protection and Welfare...
Half of Sukkur without water SUKKUR, July 4: Almost half of the city has been without water after a pipeline burst...		Protective embankments safe in Shikarpur SHIKARPUR, July 4: There was no danger of flood in Shikarpur district as all the protective embankments were safe and could sustain pressure of water. However, efforts are being made to strengthen river embankments....