July 14, 2005	Thursday	Jumadi-us-Sani 6, 1426

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Code of Conduct for LB polls announced: Expenses ceiling fixed for district nazim ISLAMABAD, July 13: Candidates contesting the posts of district nazims in the forthcoming Local Government Elections can spend a maximum of Rs500,000 in their campaign, except in Balochistan province where the...		APC asks govt to hold LB polls in Islamabad ISLAMABAD, July 13: The major political parties of the country have asked the government to hold local bodies polls in Islamabad and threatened to launch a movement if it does not announce an election schedule in this regard....
PML may not announce specific group LAHORE, July 13: The PML is unlikely to announce any specific group for its nominees in party-less elections, ruling party’s district president says. For fear of mass scale disqualifications by the Election Commission like in 1979 local body polls of PPP-backed candidates, we are avoiding to take any such step, says Mian Muhammad Munir...		PML-N calls for judicial inquiry: Trains’ collision LAHORE, July 13: The PML-N on Wednesday described the three-train collision at Ghotki as the worst ever in the world and called for a judicial inquiry to identify people responsible for the tragedy....
Collision of three trains first time LAHORE, July 13: The accident near Ghotki is the first one in Pakistan involving three passenger trains, it is learnt. Officials told Dawn that some 238 people were killed when Zakarya...		Major train accidents in Pakistan SUKKUR, July 13: Five major railway accidents from 1953 to 1992 have claimed 744 lives in Pakistan. In 1953, some 200 people were killed in a railway accident at Jhampeer....
Counter-terrorism declaration with Asean likely ISLAMABAD, July 13: Pakistan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) are likely to sign a declaration on counter-terrorism on the margins of the 38th Asean Regional Forum Ministerial Meeting...		Officers’ list being finalized for overseas posting: Community welfare attaches ISLAMABAD, July 13: Ministry of Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis is finalizing the list of 17 officers to be posted in foreign missions as community welfare attaches....
Saarc FMs’ to meet next month ISLAMABAD, July 13: Foreign secretaries of the seven-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) will meet in Islamabad next month to review progress of various Saarc-related activities since the 12th Summit....		Opposition to take up Hasba issue with IIC PESHAWAR, July 13: The opposition lawmakers in NWFP assembly have formally initiated a debate on the controversial Hasba Bill, despite a rumpus and threat of sending it to the Islamic Ideology Council for further consideration here on Wednesday....
PPP body for monitoring LG polls ISLAMABAD, July 13: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) on Wednesday announced the formation of a committee for monitoring the forthcoming local government elections. According to a press release, the committee has been formed on the instructions of PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto....		Govt asked not to rush bill through parliament: Amended Telecom Act ISLAMABAD, July 13: The Sustainable Development Policy Institute’s (SDPI) study group on information technology and telecom here on Wednesday asked the government not to rush the amended Telecom Act through parliament....
Sindh accused of violating ECP rules for LG polls ISLAMABAD, July 13: The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) has accused the Sindh government of making transfers and postings in the province in violation of the code of conduct...		SECP for increased corporatization ISLAMABAD, July 13: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan chairman, Dr Tariq Hassan, on Wednesday said the unbound potential for industrialisation in Balochistan could be optimally utilised through corporatization and development of corporate culture in the province....
Govt put education on back burner: PML-N ISLAMABAD, July 13: Ahsan Iqbal, Chief Coordinator of PML-N, has accused President Gen Pervez Musharraf of neglecting education, citing the report of an NGO which ranked Pakistan last in the sector among 14 Asian-Pacific nations....		CRCP concern over 51 deaths caused by unsafe water ISLAMABAD, July 13: The Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan (CRCP) on Wednesday expressed its concern over the death of 51 people caused by consumption of contaminated water in Zhob, Lahore, Muzaffarabad and Hyderabad in the first week of the current month....
Time tells on art for sale ISLAMABAD, July 13: An exhibition of paintings of some of the leading artists from Karachi, Quetta, Lahore and other major cities of Pakistan went on display again at the Khaas gallery on Wednesday....		Death penalty returns to haunt acquitted man ISLAMABAD, July 13: While admitting the petition of a convict against the death sentence awarded to him in a 1996 terrorism case in Lahore, the Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice...
Bari Imam blast: body of prime suspect buried ISLAMABAD, July 13: The local police on Wednesday buried the unclaimed body of the prime suspect in the May 27 Bari Imam shrine blast in which 20 people had lost their life....		Seven-party alliance against ruling PML GUJRANWALA, July 13: Around seven political parties, including the PPP and the PML-N, have formed a united group against the ruling PML in the local body elections....
Alliances for LB polls on the cards SWABI, July 13: Leaders of various political parties are poised to form alliances for the forthcoming local government elections while a local jirga comprising people from 56 union council of the...		Plea against dower dismissed PESHAWAR, July 13: A local court dismissed an appeal filed by a person requesting that he should be absolved from payment of dower and alimony to his former wife as she was his foster sister....
Musharraf urged to scrap body on Kalabagh dam LAHORE, July 13: The Punjab Water Council on Wednesday demanded scrapping of the Technical Committee on Water Resources and asked President Pervez Musharraf to individually take a decision on Kalabagh dam....		Martyrs Day of Kashmiris observed LAHORE, July 13: The Kashmir Action Committee Pakistan on Wednesday observed the Martyrs Day of Kashmiris, who laid down their lives on July 13, 1931 in front of the Srinagar Central Jail....
Emergency plan for floods LAHORE, July 13: An emergency plan for the supply of foodstuffs and other commodities to the people in case of floods was finalized at a meeting held here on Wednesday....		LHC declares order of LG secretary illegal LAHORE, July 13: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday declared as unconstitutional and illegal the order of the Punjab local government department secretary under which contracts were cancelled after approval by two tehsil councils of Sheikhupura....
Opposition’s formula for adjustments LAHORE, July 13: The People’s Party will put up its candidates on all union council seats which its candidates had won in the previous local elections....		Billboards: PPP refused permission LAHORE, July 13: The Parks and Horticulture Authority has refused permission to PPP leader Munir Ahmed Khan to put up billboards at 66 important places in the country....
Khakwani poses many questions LAHORE, July 13: Minister of State Ishaq Khan Khakwani has posed a number of questions regarding the trains’ collision at the Sarhad Railway Station near Ghotki....		CM, speaker grieved over train accident LAHORE, July 13: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi, Punjab Assembly Speaker Afzal Sahi and National Assembly’s Standing Committee chairman Sardar Tufail Ahmad have expressed deep sense of grief and sorrow over the...
Irrigation officials responsible for water crisis: CM NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, July 13: The Chief Minister of Sindh, Arbab Ghulam Rahim, has said that Sindh has objections on the Greater Thal Canal and if the federal government had released water...		Protesters baton charged: four held LARKANA, July 13: The Naudero police used batons and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse the protesters who had blocked the road and arrested four people on Wednesday....
Minorities hold demo against Hasba bill PESHAWAR, July 13: The All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) on Wednesday held a protest demonstration against the controversial Hasba bill tabled by the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal government....		Lawyers divided on Hasba bill PESHAWAR, July 13: With a visible split among the lawyers’ community here over the Hasba bill, a meeting of the Peshawar High Court Bar Association was adjourned on Wednesday amid speeches for and against the bill....
Need to counter population explosion stressed PESHAWAR, July 13: Speakers at a one-day consultation seminar on World Population Day on Wednesday urged upon government, social sector organisations and people from every walk of life to join hands to counter population explosion....		Qazi criticizes Kashmir policy MUZAFFARABAD, July 13: President Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and amir Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan Qazi Hussain Ahmed on Tuesday blamed President Gen Pervez Musharraf for creating confusion on the Kashmir issue but made it...
Three die, 8 injured as van falls into ditch QUETTA, July 13: Three people, including a woman and her daughter, were killed and eight others injured when a van overturned near Ziarat, some 120km from here, on Wednesday....		‘66pc FC posts abolished in Balochistan’ QUETTA, July 13: The Frontier Corps has abolished its 66 per cent checkpoints in different areas of Balochistan and shifted the remaining posts close to the border for strict vigil....
15 injured brought to RY Khan, Bahawalpur BAHAWALPUR, July 13: At least 13 people, who suffered injuries in Ghotki trains’ collision, were brought to the Bahawal Victoria Hospital on Wednesday. According to hospital sources, ten of the patients...		Cardiology institute’s OPD starts next month MULTAN, July 13: The Multan Institute of Cardiology’s out-patient department (OPD) will start functioning next month. This was stated by project director Prof Dr Masood Ahmad Cheema while talking to APP on Wednesday....
Hire a thief to catch a thief MULTAN, July 13: Some high officials in the district police have allegedly gone an extra mile to shield an alleged militant whom his “patrons in uniform” regard as a key informer....		Two dacoits killed in ‘encounter’ LAHORE, July 13: Two dacoits of Bosan gang wanted in a number of criminal cases were killed during an ‘encounter’ with Rajanpur police in Burshubaabad Riverine area....
‘Opposition united against ex-nazim’ BAHAWALPUR, July 13: The district’s opposition leaders have decided to field a joint candidate for the nazim’s slot against Tariq Cheema’s group in the forthcoming local polls....		Crop project raises paddy, wheat yields SIALKOT, July 13: A two-year-long Crop Maximization Project (CMP) at Maallomahey village in Daska has completed at a cost of Rs2.8 million under the supervision of the National Agriculture Research Council, Islamabad....
Teachers seek better service structure CHITRAL, July 13: The hunger strike of teachers of the Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan, has entered the fourth day which they had started at Booni, the tehsil headquarters of Mastuj, after the expiry of a deadline set by them....		Electricity supply to marble units remains suspended LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), July 13: Electricity supply to more than 60 marble units in Malagori area remained suspended for the fifth day as representatives of the Tribal Areas Electricity Company...
Mirpurkhas board announces SSC results MIRPURKHAS, July 13: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Mirpurkhas, announced the results of Secondary School Certificate (general group) examinations on Wednesday. A ceremony was held at the board’s office which was attended by position holders, their parents and teachers....		Arbab visits Sarhad railway station SUKKUR, July 13: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim reached the Sarhad railway station on Wednesday evening and reviewed the situation, especially arrangements for providing treatment to victims....
Temple attack accused get bail PESHAWAR, July 13: A local Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) on Wednesday granted bail to 13 accused, including area leaders of Jamaat-i-Islami, in the case involving ransack of Balmeek temple and adjacent houses in Nowshera Cantonment few days ago....		Women PS building to also accommodate male officials PESHAWAR, July 13: City’s Women Police Station has been shifted to a guest house after demolition of a portion of the building for renovation, police officials told Dawn....