August 5, 2005	Friday	Jumadi-us-Sani 28, 1426

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ARD not to compromise with rulers: Benazir ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has lauded the ‘sacrifice’ rendered by jailed acting president of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Makhdoom Javed Hashmi for the cause...		All not lost for Hasba sponsors ISLAMABAD, July 4: The Hasba bill has lost much of its religious punch after the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled several of its clauses unconstitutional, but all is not lost for the sponsors of the controversial law....
Rs18 billion health projects approved ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Thursday approved four major health projects costing over Rs18 billion and relating to prevention and control of blindness and...		JI files reference against AJK PM, Sardar Qayyum MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 4: The Jamaat-i-Islami Azad Jammu Kashmir (JIAJK) on Thursday filed a disqualification reference with the AJK Legislative Assembly Speaker against incumbent Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat, former PM Sardar...
Interpol seeks data about lost, stolen passports GUJRAT, Aug 4: The Interpol has sought from the Pakistan’s interior ministry data and information about the lost and stolen passports besides other travel documents in order to crack down on terrorists, well-placed sources told Dawn on Thursday....		DCOs asked to be neutral: Local body polls ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The acting chief election commissioner (CEC) on Thursday directed all the district coordination officers (DCOs) and the district police officers (DPO) to act neutrally and impartially during the forthcoming local government elections....
F grader cannot be considered matriculate: LHC LAHORE, Aug 4: Chief Justice Iftikhar Husain Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court on Thursday observed that a student who had obtained grade F in the secondary school examination, could not be considered as having passed the matriculation examination....		Arbab hopes Khushal Panel will sweep polls LARKANA, Aug 4: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said the Khushal Pakistan Panel will win the local body elections in Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot districts as a number of candidates of the group have already returned unopposed....
‘Polling stations being shifted’ HYDERABAD, Aug 4: People’s Party Parliamentarians MPA from Thatta Sassui Palijo has alleged that Awam Dost Panel candidates for the local body election in the district are being harassed....		CEC urged to cancel postings HYDERABAD, Aug 4: The People’s Party Parliamentarians has appealed to the Acting Chief Election Commissioner to cancel appointments and postings of civil servants recently made by the chief minister in order...
Police told to enforce election code LAHORE, Aug 4: Law Minister Basharat Raja told on Thursday the Punjab IGP to ensure implementation of the code of conduct given by the Election Commission for the forthcoming local polls....		Favouritism thrives despite FPSC objections ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Federal Public Service Commission Chairman Lt-Gen (retired) Jamshaid Gulzar Kiani on Thursday said rules and regulations had been blatantly transgressed in employing persons on contract under the cover...
Govt accused of planning to kill Pir Mukarram ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) leaders have accused the government of planning to kill former managing director of the Printing Corporation of Pakistan Pir Mukarram Shah, who has been languishing in Mianwali jail on corruption charges....		Ambassador designate leaves for Dhaka ISLAMABAD, Aug: 4: Pakistan’s ambassador-designate to Bangladesh Alamgir Babar left for Dhaka on Thursday to take up his new assignment. This is his first ambassadorial posting after serving in different capacities in Pakistan’s diplomatic missions abroad....
JWP leader joins hunger strike against detention QUETTA, Aug 4: A Jamhoori Watan Party leader has joined Baloch Students’ Organization’s vice-chairman Sohrab Baloch in his hunger strike in support of his demand for production of detained nationalist leaders in court....		Gastasap praises SC opinion on Hasba bill PESHAWAR, Aug 4: Leader of Opposition in NWFP Assembly Shezada Gastasap has said that the opinion of Supreme Court on Hasba bill is in accordance with requirements of justice....
CBR transfers 14 senior officials ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has transferred and posted 14 senior officials of customs, sales tax and federal excise group. According to the notifications, Hassan Raza Jafari has been transferred and posted as additional collector, D.R....		$1m aid for moot on sanitation ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The British government has released a fund of $0.1 million for organisation of the 2nd South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN) to be held in Pakistan from 21-23 November, said a press release issued here on Thursday....
PPP slams remarks of retired general ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Former President of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Rawalpindi, Sultan Mehmood Qazi, has slammed Gen (retired) Khalid Mehmood Arif for his interview to a private TV channel in which...		Chinese team briefed on govt’s steps to curb terrorism ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao on Thursday briefed the visiting Chinese delegation about the measures being taken by the government to control extremism, sectarian violence and terrorism....
14-year-old girl raped; six vehicles stolen RAWALPINDI, Aug 4: Islamabad police are hunting for a man who raped a 14-year-old girl in her house in Tarnol, while six people were deprived of their vehicles in Rawalpindi by auto-thieves, police said on Thursday....		MLCs chief transfers errant employees RAWALPINDI, Aug 4: Director-General Military Lands and Cantonments (MLCs) Maj Gen Nusrat Naeem has directed immediate transfer of different categories of employees against whom complaints had been received, it is learnt....
Arrest warrant for Zardari criticized ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The Pakistan People’s Party has criticized the issuance of non-bailable arrest warrants of Senator Asif Ali Zardari in the BMW case as perversion of judicial process to harass and hound political opponents....		Call to devise strategy to defend Muslims ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Pakistan Muslim League (PML) leader and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed on Thursday said the Muslim countries should prepare a comprehensive action plan and strategy to counter the anti-Muslim propaganda through “enlightened moderation”....
RCCI to attend China fair ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) will participate in China’s Xiangiang Urmqi Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Fair 2005 to be held from September 1-5....		Jatois, Mahars fail to reach accord: Shikarpur local body seats SUKKUR, Aug 4: The Chief Minister of Sindh, Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, presided over a high-level meeting here on Wednesday to finalize a seat-adjustment agreement between Jatois and Mahars in Shikarpur....
Steps taken to curb human trafficking, IOM told ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao on Thursday reiterated the government’s resolve to effectively fight human trafficking. Talking to a delegation of the International Organization on Migration (IOM),...		CM supports Balochistan projects QUETTA, Aug 4: Chief Minister Jam Mohammad Yousuf said on Thursday that his understanding with the centre had resulted in major development programmes for the province while unnecessary confrontations in the past had led to poverty and ignorance....
Woman, three daughters shot dead NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Aug 4: A woman and her three daughters were killed when about 20 armed men attacked their house in the Sunehri village, near Moro, on Wednesday night....		BHC seeks report about detained man QUETTA, Aug 4: A division bench of Balochistan High Court has on Wednesday directed the standing counsel to get a report from the quarters concerned on an application submitted by a...
Polls under army’s supervision urged THATTA, Aug 4: Former legislators and leaders of the People’s Party Parliamentarians from Thatta have demanded that local body elections be conducted under the supervision of army....		ADP candidates booked in water theft cases NAWABSHAH, Aug 4: Police on Wednesday registered cases against former nazims and PPP-backed Awam Dost Panel candidates on the charges of water theft. The Bandhi police booked former nazim of the...
Establishment of picket by Rifles sparks row LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Aug 4: Unidentified tribesmen partially demolished a picket established by the Khyber Rifles in Charwazgai on Wednesday night....		Minister accused of interfering in poll process MARDAN, Aug 4: Contesting panels of union councils in Kohi Barmol, Shamozai, Babozai, Mian Khan and Sangao have urged the acting chief election commissioner to prevent the provincial irrigation minister from interfering in the election process....
Secondary laws yet to be amended: AJK assembly strength MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 4: The AJK government is yet to amend secondary laws in keeping with a constitutional amendment introduced two months ago to raise the strength of the legislative assembly, Dawn has learnt from official sources....		Saboteur killed as device explodes MIRAMSHAH, Aug 4: An unidentified man was killed in a blast on the Ghulam Khan Road, some 10km north of here, on Wednesday night. Officials said that the man was planting...
Anti-polio drive to begin from 9th MANSEHRA, Aug 4: All the arrangements have been made for the three-day anti-polio drive from Aug 9 to 11 in the district during which 252,000 children under the age of five years would be administered anti-polio drops....		‘Schools to be purged of politics’ CHITRAL, Aug 4: MPA Maulana Abdur Rehman has said that educational institutions will be purged of politics and the rule of merit will be ensured to raise the standard of education....
Application for bail dismissed PESHAWAR, Aug 4: A local court on Thursday dismissed the bail application of a person charged with desecration of the Holy Quran. The court, which was presided over by Judicial Magistrate...		Notice issued to federation GILGIT, Aug 4: A bench of the Northern Areas Chief Court (NACC) has issued notices to the federation of Pakistan, the Northern Areas chief executive, chief secretary and Northern Areas Legislative...
Farmers urged to use modern technology BANNU, Aug 4: A top agriculturist has called for greater efforts to enhance per acre yield through the sustained use of modern technology. Amir Muhammad Durrani told a one-day agriculture workshop...		Govt, not farmers responsible for sugar crisis: KBP LAHORE, Aug 4: The government must fix the responsibility for the current sugar crisis in the country, demanded the Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) here on Thursday....
CDG to fix new flour price LAHORE, Aug 4: The city district government will fix new flour price on Monday. A four-member committee was constituted for fixing the price at a meeting of the...		Body to monitor tubewell package LAHORE, Aug 4: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi has constituted a nine-member committee to monitor the process and implementation of the recently-announced concessional power scheme for the tubewells being used for agriculture purposes....
PML-N to hold functions on 14th LAHORE, Aug 4: The PML-N will hold flag hoisting ceremonies, seminars and meetings at all district headquarters in Punjab on Aug 14 to renew its pledge with the Pakistan ideology....		No cable publicity LAHORE, Aug 4: City District Government Lahore caretaker and DCO Khalid Sultan has imposed an immediate ban on publicity campaigns of local body councillors and unregistered doctors and hakims on cable networks....
Art galleries’ scheme lingers on for years SIALKOT, Aug 4: The district government’s plan to set up art galleries in public colleges, schools and libraries in collaboration with the business community could not be materialized even two years after the district nazim’s announcement in this regard....		Children Hospital project in the doldrums: ‘Illegal land occupation’ MULTAN, Aug 4: The 150-bed Children Hospital Complex project for which a sum of Rs540 million has already been approved by the provincial government, is in doldrums due to illegal occupation of its land....
Parco employees, others freed after paying Rs7m DERA GHAZI KHAN, Aug 4: The Bosan gang kidnappers released the Parco employees and other people from Dera Ghazi Khan and Muzaffargarh gradually and only after taking Rs7 million to Rs8 million ransom through mediators....		Office-bearers’ tussle may hit PML vote bank NAROWAL, Aug 4: The ongoing cold war between the ruling PML district president and secretary-general may adversely affect the party’s vote bank in the upcoming local polls....