July 6, 2005	Wednesday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 28, 1426

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PPP to seek explanation from PML-N: Reports of govt-Nawaz talks ISLAMABAD, July 5: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) will ask the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leadership to clarify its position regarding reports that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is negotiating...		Bari Imam bomber identified: SSP ISLAMABAD, July 5: The suicide bomber, who killed 20 people and injured nearly 100 by blowing himself up at Bari Imam shrine on May 27, has been identified by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the bloodiest terror attack in Islamabad’s history. ...
Ministries told to ensure e-governance plan enforcement ISLAMABAD, July 5: The federal cabinet has directed all the ministries and divisions to establish senior level focal points to ensure implementation of E-Government plan immediately and has made mandatory training...		Bugti lashes out at ‘plan to move people out of Sui’ QUETTA, July 5: Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti has said that people will retaliate if they are forcibly dislocated from their land and homes in Sui....
Balochistan minister denies allegation QUETTA, July 5: Provincial Minister for Excise and Taxation Mir Amanullah Notezai has denied allegations about his involvement in smuggling of vehicles from Afghanistan and said that such allegations were being levelled to defame him....		Over 400 homes in N. Areas damaged GILGIT, July 5: The recent flood and hill torrents damaged 424 homes in three districts of the Northern Areas. Official sources said that the flood damaged 178 houses in Gilgit, 161...
‘MQM ministers thwarting development’ LAHORE, July 5: Former Karachi city government Nazim Naimatullah Khan alleges that MQM ministers have been a big hurdle in the execution of his development projects....		Badr says deal with govt impossible LAHORE, July 5: PPP Secretary-General Jahangir Badr said here on Tuesday his party would in no way strike a deal with the military regime and not accept share in power either....
MMA to join hands with PML-N in local polls MANDI BAHAUDDIN, July 5: Punjab MMA Secretary-General Allama Syed Mohammad Mehfooz Mashadi and JI Amir Syed Ijaz Husain Khayali have announced joining hands with the PML-N for the upcoming local bodies elections in the district....		Smuggling of life-saving drugs to be checked: Code of conduct ISLAMABAD, July 5: The government, manufacturers and retailers on Tuesday agreed on a code of conduct to discourage sale of smuggled medicines and ensure availability of life-saving drugs at control rates in the market....
Swiss grant for gender equality project ISLAMABAD, July 5: The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) will provide a grant of $626,471 to Pakistan for analyzing federal and provincial governments’ budgets to determine the extent to which resources are being allocated to address gender inequality....		‘Pakistan committed to rooting out terrorism’ ISLAMABAD, July 5: Senate Chairman Mohammadmian Soomro has said Pakistan is the major player in the global war against terrorism and was committed to rooting out the evil from the society....
PPP workers observes ‘black day’ in twin cities ISLAMABAD, July 5: The Pakistan People’s Party on Tuesday observed ‘black day’ in the twin cities as a protest against toppling of its government by Gen Ziaul Haq on July 5, 1977....		‘Efforts on to expand healthcare coverage’ ISLAMABAD, July 5: Federal Minister for Health Mohammad Nasir Khan here on Tuesday said the government had focused its efforts on expanding preventive health-care coverage in the country....
Call for more investment in education of special children ISLAMABAD, July 5: More than 70 per cent of special children in the country live in rural areas and much needs to be done for their rehabilitation, Federal Minister for Special Education and Social Welfare Zobaida Jalal said....		Duty-free import of cement demanded ISLAMABAD, July 5: The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) has urged the government to allow duty-free import of cement to reduce its rates and save the construction industry from crisis....
28 regional offices made MRP centres ISLAMABAD, July 5: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao on Tuesday said all 28 regional passport offices had been converted into machine readable passport (MRP) centres....		43-52 pc power tariff hike sought ISLAMABAD, July 5: The Lahore and Gujrawanala electric supply companies on Tuesday sought an increase in tariff by 43 to 52 per cent for below-poverty-line consumers and 14 to 20 per cent for other power users....
Open debate in PA on Hasba bill promised PESHAWAR, July 5: The provincial cabinet on Monday night approved the proposed Hasba Bill which envisages the creation of ombudsmen offices at provincial, district and tehsil levels....		Assembly approves bill to regularize service of contract employees PESHAWAR, July 5: The provincial assembly through a unanimously approved bill has regularized the services of all employees recruited on contract basis after July 1, 2001....
Rains may intensify misery of flood victims PESHAWAR, July 5: With the helplessness of the provincial government and civil administrations of the flood affected districts of the NWFP, people of the Northern Areas and low lying areas of...		No progress in probe into Upper Dir double murder PESHAWAR, July 5: Police in the Upper Dir district have not been able to make a single arrest in the double murder of a known social activist and her daughter....
Shake-up in N. Areas bureaucracy GILGIT, July 5: The Northern Areas administration has transferred Gilgit Deputy Commissioner Zarak Mirza and posted him as the Skardu district DC. Additional secretary to Northern Areas chief secretary Asadullah has been posted as Gilgit deputy commissioner....		PPP demands election under interim set-up QUETTA, July 5: The People’s Party Parliamentarians, Balochistan, has demanded formation of an interim government comprising representatives of political parties to hold general election within three months....
Seized POL products auctioned QUETTA, July 5: The Frontier Corps, Balochistan, has auctioned thousands of litres of confiscated petroleum products. A statement issued by the Frontier Corps on Tuesday said the contraband products were auctioned and the amount received deposited in the treasury....		Tribunal records statements ABBOTTABAD, June 5: A special tribunal comprising Justice Dost Mohammad Khan of the Peshawar High Court on Tuesday recorded statements of various parties in the controversy between Haripur and Abbotabad districts over the “Abbotabad Gravity Water Scheme”....
Clinics asked to get registered within a month PESHAWAR, July 5: The NWFP Health Regulatory Authority (HRA) has asked about 300 clinics and diagnostic outlets to get registered within a month or face closure, an official told Dawn on Tuesday....		Girl killed by leopard ABBOTTABAD, July 5: A teenage girl was killed by a leopard in the Biran Gali area on Monday, raising the number of people killed by the predator in two days in the Galyats to three....
Flood-hit villagers being moved to safe places SUKKUR, July 5: People of flood affected villages, between the kutcha area of Guddu and Sukkur barrages, are being moved to safe places and pamphlets are being dropped from helicopter in...		PPP observes black day in Sindh KHAIRPUR, July 5: The president of Sindh PPP, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, has said that there was no justification for Gen Zia-ul-Haq to overthrow the elected government of Prime Minister Zulfikar...
Four killed, 22 injured in accident SUKKUR, July 5: Four people of a family, including two women, were killed and 22 others injured in an accident on the National Highway, near Ghotki, on Tuesday....		Govt slated for issuing NICs to aliens SUKKUR, July 5: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz took out a procession outside the press club here on Tuesday in protest against issuing of national identity cards to three million...
Four shot dead in Shikarpur SHIKARPUR, July 5: Four villagers were killed and another injured in two different incidents in the district late on Monday night. In a deadly clash between two rival groups of Kakepotas,...		STPP workers’ hunger strike NAWABSHAH, July 5: The activists of Sindh Taraqi Passand Party observed a token hunger strike against the arrest of STPP worker Gulzar Soomro in Karachi on Tuesday....
MQM activists stage sit-in THATTA, July 5: Traffic on the National Highway passing through the town remained suspended for about three hours as a large number of MQM activists led by provincial adviser Murtaza Memon...		Division of Sindh’s districts criticized MIRPURKHAS, July 5: Leaders of different parties criticized the Sindh government for sowing seeds of discord among people by bifurcating historical districts and talukas of the province which may prove dangerous....
Jatoi visits power stations HYDERABAD, July 5: Federal Minister for Water and Power, Liaquat Ali Jatoi, paid a surprise visit to Lakhra and Jamshoro power houses on Monday and expressed annoyance over the ‘carefree’ attitude of the officials....		Lawyers baton-charged on court premises DERA GHAZI KHAN, July 5: Police baton-charged lawyers on the premises of the district courts on Tuesday for resisting and thwarting construction of a judicial lock-up near the bar room....
Five flood relief camps in Sahiwal SAHIWAL, July 5: As many as five flood relief camps have been set up in the district to meet any emergency in face of rising water level in Ravi river....		Governor wants timely completion of Fata uplift schemes PESHAWAR, July 5: NWFP Governor Khalil-ur-Rehman has stressed the need for timely completion of all 253 developmental schemes in the new financial year’s annual development programme for Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata)....
CM slates ‘meddling’ in refugee camp affairs PESHAWAR, July 5: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has said that no one will be allowed to interfere in administrative affairs of Afghan refugee camps in settled areas of the province....		Govt urged to curb sale of obscene, pirated films PESHAWAR, July 5: Expressing deep concern over the sale of pirated and obscene films, the Tele-film Makers’ Association has urged the government to make laws to curb the sale of pirated and obscene movies....
Juvenile offender’s conviction set aside PESHAWAR, July 5: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Tuesday set aside conviction of a juvenile offender in a case of drug peddling and remanded his case to the trial court....		Demand for release of children PESHAWAR, July 5: The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) has expressed concern over illegal detention of 15 children and women belonging to the family of...
Pervaiz urged to notify towns’ status SHEIKHUPURA, July 5: Residents of Khanqah Dogran, Safdarabad, Ajnianwala and some other localities have informed journalists that despite verbal assurance by Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi no notification has been issued yet to confirm that these areas will remain in Sheikhupura....		Qureshi for ban on transfers, postings MULTAN, July 5: PPP central deputy secretary-general Shah Mahmood Qureshi has urged the Election Commission to order a ban on transfers and postings of administrative officials prior to the local polls....
Eight teachers dismissed GUJRANWALA, July 5: As many as eight lady teachers of elementary and secondary schools were dismissed from service by the district education officer on charges of absence from duty and other irregularities here on Tuesday....		‘Police let kidnappers off the hook’ FAISALABAD, July 5: A resident of Chak 58-JB has accused the investigation police of letting the kidnapper of his brother off after receiving bribe. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, Noor Ahmad...
Shahbaz urges parties to learn from mistakes LAHORE, July 5: PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif has urged political parties to learn from their past mistakes and work for a better future. He said the country’s welfare was the foremost...		Livestock projects launched LAHORE, July 5: Five projects have been launched in 12 selected districts of the Punjab for the development of livestock sector and provision of relevant facilities to the farmers....