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Tanzeem assures govt of cooperation: Registration of foreign students ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: Rabta Committee Tanzeem-ul-Madaris (RCTM), a central body of seminaries of Ahl-i-Sunnat Waljamaat, on Friday assured the government of its cooperation in repatriation of foreign students studying in its Madressahs....		Commander in bid to defuse tension PESHAWAR, Aug 5: Peshawar Corps Commander Lt-Gen Safdar Hussain has met a tribal militant in South Waziristan in a bid to defuse the situation following hostile statements that threatened to derail peace in the region....
Option to boycott polls open: PPP ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: Information Secretary of the Punjab chapter of People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) Naveed Chaudhry says the option to boycott the local government election is still open and the matter...		Interrogation of Pearl case accused completed LAHORE, Aug 5: A joint team has concluded interrogation of the fifth accused arrested in the kidnapping-cum-murder case of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl....
Indian lawyer, WPC to move SC: Derogatory remarks against Punjabis LAHORE, Aug 5: Indian lawyer Sonia Raj Sood has arrived here for filing a petition along with the World Punjabi Congress in the Lahore branch registry of the Supreme Court for...		PPP accuses Arbab of forcing withdrawal of ADP candidates SUKKUR, Aug 5: Candidates belonging to the Awam Dost Panel (ADP) have alleged that the Sindh government machinery was being misused and a number of them were kidnapped and fake cases...
3.3m voters for local body polls in Balochistan QUETTA, Aug 5: About 3.3599 million voters would exercise their right of franchise in the forthcoming local government elections in Balochistan. According to voter’s list prepared by the provincial election commission,...		SC orders removal of Rawalpindi SP: Delay in recovery of abducted girl ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Punjab chief secretary to immediately transfer Superintendent of Police (SP), Rawalpindi and depute another officer in his place to recover and produce a missing girl before the court....
NWFP govt asked to step down ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: The All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) has asked the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) government in NWFP to resign after the decision of the Supreme Court on the Hasba Bill....		Seminary students agree ‘ijtihad’ needed ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: Students of selected madressahs of the capital in a discussion at the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) on Friday agreed to the need of reviving ‘ijtihad’ to cope...
Hiroshima Day: children for peaceful world ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: Scores of children, joined by adults, staged a peace rally here on Friday to express their revulsion at the events of August 1945 when the US dropped history’s first and only atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki....		Documentary portrays plight of Afghan DPs ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: Dar Pa Dar, a Pushto documentary directed, scripted and shot by Anthropologist Samar Minallah to highlight the dark lives of Afghan women refugees in Pakistani camps after 9/11...
Two policemen booked for kidnapping trader RAWALPINDI, Aug 5: Two officials of Airport police station and a Chinese national have been booked on charges of kidnapping a trader of Faisalabad and taking Rs1.8...		Cooperation between UAA, Kabul varsity discussed RAWALPINDI, Aug 5: A team of Foreign Agriculture Services, United States Department of Agriculture (FAS/USDA), US Embassy, called on the Vice Chancellor of the University of Arid Agriculture (UAA) Prof Dr...
‘Report on housing societies in 2 months’ ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: The Committee on Cooperative Housing Societies will submit its recommendations to the prime minister for approval within two months. In a statement issued by the Press Information Department...		CSB meets today to decide promotions ISLAMABAD, Aug 5: The Central Selection Board (CSB) would meet on Saturday (today) to recommend promotions to BPS-20 for 144 positions, an official said here on Friday....
One killed in accident RAWALPINDI, Aug 5: One person was killed, while an eight-year-old boy received injuries after being hit by a jeep that veered off the road due to tyre burst and smashed into a shop in Morgah on Friday, police said....		AJK scholar condemns London blasts MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 5: Condemning the July 7 blasts in London, a leading Kashmiri religious scholar said on Friday that there was no provision in Islam to kill unarmed civilians belonging to any race or religion....
Sherpao calls for collective response to terrorism SWABI, Aug 5: Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said on Friday that terrorism had become the single biggest threat to the Muslim world and pleaded for a collective response for its eradication....		Plea against ordinance dismissed QUETTA, Aug 5: The Balochistan High Court has held that provisions of Section 15 of the Financial Institutions (Recovery of Finances) Ordinance, 2001, which allow financial institutions to foreclose on mortgaged...
Demand for action against land mafia QUETTA August 5: Vice-Chairperson Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (Balochistan Chapter) Malik Zahoor Shahwani has urged the government to take stern action against encroachers and land mafia which enjoy backing of corrupt tehsil officials and police....		Dawn sports reporter Ian Fyfe dies KARACHI, Aug 5: Ian Fyfe, senior sports reporter of Daily Dawn, died in a hospital on Friday night. He was 58. Mr Fyfe was on his way home on his scooter...
Circuit houses being used as poll centres: Khuhro LARKANA, Aug 5: The People’s Party Parliamentarians has urged the Chief Election Commissioner to prepare a reference to disqualify the Sindh chief minister for violation of the code of conduct, because...		2 Khairpur Dost Panel candidates elected unopposed KHAIRPUR, Aug 5: Two Khairpur Dost Panel (KDP) candidates for the post of nazim and naib nazim have been unofficially elected unopposed and one union council nazim candidate of the Awam Dost Panel (ADP) has quit the panel and the PPP....
Transport fares set in Lakki Marwat LAKKI MARWAT, Aug 5: The district regional transport authority has fixed transport fares for passenger vehicles plying on different routes during a meeting at the DCO office here....		Teams set up to monitor purchase of medicines DADU, Aug 5: Sindh Health Secretary Prof (Dr) Naushad A. Shaikh has said that local purchasing boards of medicines had been abolished due to poor results....
Drive against tinted glasses ABBOTTABAD, Aug 5: Abbottabad police have launched a campaign against tinted glasses of cars. The police have booked at least 131 vehicles for using black windscreens....		People of Sindh against extremism, says Altaf SANGHAR, Aug 5: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has said that Sindh is the land of Sufis and the people of Sindh do not support Jamaat-i-Islami and other religious extremists....
41 elected unopposed in Hangu HANGU, Aug 5: Thirty-five women and six minority candidates returned unopposed to different union councils of Hangu district ahead of the local government election....		Security beefed up in Waziristan MIRAMSHAH, Aug 5: Security has been beefed up in the volatile North Waziristan Agency to pre-empt any sabotage activities and attacks on security forces. Witnesses said that massive movement of the...
PPP, PML-N ‘make early inroads’: Canvassing in Gujranwala GUJRANWALA, Aug 5: The PPP and PML-N, two of the components of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, are not behind the ruling PML as far as their campaign for the local-body election is concerned....		Cases against two PPP candidates GUJRAT, Aug 5: Police on Friday registered separate cases on different charges against two PPP candidates for the nazim slot. The first FIR was lodged under Section 11S-ATA by the Kunjah police against PPP’s Ihsanullah Prince from UC-16, Golayki....
Police move against AMP office-bearers OKARA, Aug 5: Cantonment police on Friday registered a case against Anjuman Mazareen Punjab secretary-general, his 10 nominated and four unidentified accomplices for killing a man and injuring two people in an armed clash on Thursday....		Three killed, 11 hurt in accident GUJRANWALA, Aug 5: Three people, including two women, were killed while 11 others received serious injuries on Friday in an accident on the GT Road near Aimanabad....
Graft charges bring 2 policemen in the dock SAHIWAL, Aug 5: The Anti-Corruption Establishment registered a case of illegal gratification against the SHO and additional SHO of Dera Rahim police station. Farmer Mushtaq Ahmad said his four buffaloes and their calves were stolen on July 5 from Chak 131/9-L....		Police accused of killing man in staged encounter TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 5: A former Gojra city union council nazim has charged the Nawan Lahore police officials with killing a villager in a staged encounter....
More cases of poll code violation SIALKOT, Aug 5: The district police on Friday registered cases against 100 supporters of local bodies candidates for violating the wall-chalking act. However, no arrest of the violators has so far been reported....		Lucky ones get ‘lucky’ symbols MIANWALI, Aug 5: As many as 2,169 candidates were allotted election symbols in the second phase of the local election here on Friday. A great rush of people was witnessed in...
Two robbers shot dead FAISALABAD, Aug 5: Two unidentified robbers were killed while their accomplice managed to escape in the darkness on Thursday night after an encounter with the police near Chak 107-GB, Jaranwala....		New emergency blocks being built in five hospitals LAHORE, Aug 5: New emergency block will be completed in five government hospitals in the province at a cost of Rs357.36 million within a year. This was stated at a meeting...
ADB project for women in Barani areas LAHORE, Aug 5: The literary and non-formal basic education department, in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank, will launch a project to empower the women of Barani (rain-fed) areas of the Punjab through functional literacy and training....		Funds for journalists’ colony released LAHORE, Aug 5: The Punjab government has released Rs375.5 million to the Punjab Journalists Housing Foundation for the development of the Lahore Press Club Housing Society....
CMIT to check Sunday Bazaars LAHORE, Aug 5: Chief Minister’s Inspection Team members were on Friday allotted towns for checking of quality of goods and prices in Sunday Bazaars. Allotting the towns to the members during...		Hasba bill NWFP govt may file petition in apex court PESHAWAR, Aug 5: Terming the Supreme Court’s verdict on the Hasba bill in conflict with the constitution, NWFP Law Minister Malik Zafar Azam has asked the president to direct the provincial governor for signing the bill....
Steps urged to protect archaeological sites PESHAWAR, Aug 5: Speakers at a national seminar have demanded effective steps to stop plundering of archaeological sites and illegal export of antiquities from Pakistan by strengthening relevant institutes and implementation of relevant laws....		Call for return of Gandhara relics to NWFP PESHAWAR, Aug 5: MPA Arshad Khan has called upon the federal government to shift artefacts, relics and statues belonging to the Gandhara civilisation and presently being displayed in museums of other provinces to the NWFP....
PPP deplores MMA move on Hasba bill verdict PESHAWAR, Aug 5: General Secretary of the NWFP chapter of the Pakistan People’s Party Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao has deplored the statements of MMA leaders about re-tabling the Hasba bill in the provincial assembly....		AC frames charges against ex-official PESHAWAR, Aug 5: The Accountability Court on Friday framed charges against former district food controller Kohat for his alleged involvement in financial embezzlement and accumulating assets beyond his known sources of income....
Information caravan launched in Haripur HARIPUR, Aug 5: To strengthen the local government system at the grass-roots level and encourage people’s participation in the voting process, an information caravan was launched here on Thursday....		US to provide training to Frontier police PESHAWAR Aug 5: Two officials of the US Justice Department on Friday called on the NWFP police chief Muhammad Raffat Pasha here and discussed issues related to police training....