July 27, 2005	Wednesday	Jumadi-us-Sani 19, 1426

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KARACHI: Construction of mosques without NOCs banned KARACHI, July 26: A ban has been imposed on the construction of new mosques in the city with the exception of those having prior permission from the Sindh Home Department, Dawn learnt here on Tuesday....		KARACHI: 798 appeals filed against nominations in Sindh: LB elections KARACHI, July 26: In Sindh a total number of 798 appeals were filed against acceptance and rejection of nomination papers in 10 out of 11 districts in the province where polling is scheduled on August 18 in the first phase....
KARACHI: Women’s role in politics stressed KARACHI, July 26: Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday stressed that women would have to wage a long struggle to get their due rights which though guaranteed...		KARACHI: SHC rules on concurrent terms KARACHI, July 26: Jail sentences cannot run concurrently when earlier and subsequent offences committed by a convict are independent and unconnected, the Sindh High Court held on Tuesday....
KARACHI: Training for NICH doctors in US promised KARACHI, July 26: The acting consul-general of the USA, Kay L. Anske, visited the National Institute of Child Health on Tuesday and assured the doctors of facilitating advanced training programmes for them in the USA....		KARACHI: Perjury case against widow of KESC MD KARACHI, July 26: An anti-terrorism court has fixed Thursday for hearing arguments on a direct complaint against Shahnzaz Hamid, complainant in the murder case of her husband Shahid Hamid, for the offence of alleged perjury....
KARACHI: Power plant project reviewed KARACHI, July 26: A meeting presided over by Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad on Tuesday reviewed the proposed 35-mw power plant of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB)....		KARACHI: Two killed in different incidents KARACHI, July 26: Two persons were shot dead in different parts of the city on Tuesday. A restaurant owner was shot dead by unknown persons in Patel Para on Tuesday....
KARACHI: Overdue scholarships to be given in August KARACHI, July 26: The girl students of government middle schools are likely to get the overdue scholarship cheques for the last financial year in August, it was learnt officially....		KARACHI: Historical society waits for federal grant KARACHI, July 26: Strapped for funds, the Pakistan Historical Society has not received its federal grant this year. The PHS general-secretary, Dr Ansar Zahid Khan, told Dawn on Saturday that previously...
KARACHI: Candidates being pressurized, says PPP KARACHI, July 26: The Pakistan Peoples party on Tuesday accused the ruling coalition parties of allegedly sending their armed hoodlums to the residences of candidates of the Awam Dost panel to force them to submit withdrawals or face dire consequences....		KARACHI: Gutter Baghicha project reviewed KARACHI, July 26: The development of Gutter Baghicha into a big park was reviewed at a meeting held under the chairmanship of Sindh Chief Secretary Fazlur Rehman here on Tuesday....
KARACHI: City faces 40mgd water shortage KARACHI, July 26: The water supply from Pipri’s new pump house on Tuesday remained suspended for carrying out inter-connection work of a new filter plant being set up there....		KARACHI: ‘IPC decisions to improve education system’ KARACHI, July 26: The Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy, Dr Hamida Khuhro, on Tuesday said that the decisions taken in Inter-Provincial Ministers of Education Conference (IPC) would prove as foundation stones towards quality education in Pakistan....
KARACHI: Sessi scope to be widened KARACHI, July 26: The Commissioner, Sindh Employees Social Security Institution, Asif Margoob Siddiqui, has urged the institution’s field directors to widen the social security scheme....		KARACHI: Heaps of garbage in Saddar removed KARACHI, July 26: As a part of its ongoing cleanliness drive, the Saddar Town municipal administration lifted 315 tons of garbage and demolished 120 illegal structures from different union councils....
KARACHI: MMA warns of movement against crackdown KARACHI, July 26: The chief of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Qazi Hussain Ahmad, has said the MMA wanted free, fair and peaceful election organised by an impartial authority with the guarantee that there would be no interference in them....		KARACHI: Need to improve nation’s image emphasized KARACHI, July 26: Scholars and intellectuals have stressed the need for determining short-, mid- and long-term strategies aimed at earning Pakistan a respectful and conspicuous position in the comity of nations,...
KARACHI: SHC orders release of two detenus KARACHI, July 26: The Sindh High Court ordered release of two detenus arrested by intelligence agencies in Khipro, Sanghar, earlier this year. Petitioner Hameed Aresar submitted before the court that...		KARACHI: Altaf calls for end to feudalism KARACHI, July 26: The founder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Altaf Hussain, on Tuesday reiterated his party’s resolve to continue its struggle for the banishment of the exploitative feudal system leading to the empowerment of the middle class and the downtrodden....
KARACHI: Journalist’s bail plea rejected KARACHI, July 26: A judicial magistrate rejected on Tuesday the bail application of a journalist facing charges of publishing ‘hate material’. Abdul Latif Abu Shamil, an assistant editor of the Friday...		HYDERABAD: EC to be informed of malpractices: PPP HYDERABAD, July 26: President of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, has said that the party was collecting details of irregularities being committed in the electoral process which would be forwarded to the Election Commission....
HYDERABAD: Army mobile recruitment programme HYDERABAD, July 26: The Army Selection and Recruitment Centre, Hyderabad, has announced its mobile recruitment programme for registration and recruitment during August....		HYDERABAD: ‘Encroachments to be removed’ HYDERABAD, July 26: City taluka municipal officer and taluka caretaker Asadullah Khan Rajput has assured the people that encroachments in the area will soon be removed....
HYDERABAD: Girl criminally assaulted HYDERABAD, July 26: A young girl was sexually assaulted in Latifabad-12 in the A-section police area on Tuesday. The accused, Azhar, had called the girl at his father’s clinic....		HYDERABAD: Three of a family die in accident HYDERABAD, July 26: Three people of the same family were killed and another injured when a rickshaw collided head-on with a truck on the Autobahn here on Tuesday....
SHIKARPUR: Bus driver killed in attack by bandits SHIKARPUR, July 26: The stand-in driver of a bus, Farooque Shah, was killed while five people, including the main driver of the bus, were seriously wounded when a group of 25...		SUKKUR: Union leaders threaten to go on strike SUKKUR, July 26: Leaders of the Sukkur-Khairpur Irrigation Circle Mazdoor Union have announced to go on an indefinite strike from July 30 if their demands are not accepted....
SUKKUR: Kidnapped SUKKUR, July 26: A woman was kidnapped by six armed men in the Ghaffar Shah village, Khairpur district, on Monday night. The armed men barged into the house of Ayub Jagirani and at gunpoint kidnapped his wife, Rashida....		THATTA: Highway blocked THATTA, July 26: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz blocked the National Highway in Gharo town for about three hours on Tuesday. The traffic for upcountry and Karachi remained...