August 7, 2005	Sunday	Rajab 1, 1426

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KARACHI: Troops to patrol on polling days: EC briefed on arrangements KARACHI, Aug 6: The government has decided to call army for flag march and patrolling on the eve of and on polling days in Karachi, Hyderabad and some other towns in rural areas of the province....		KARACHI:PPP alleges continued victimization KARACHI, Aug 6: The Pakistan People’s Party’s election monitoring committee on Saturday alleged that the military regime had resorted to adopting another form of victimization aimed against Awam Dost candidates by...
KARACHI: Work starts on six projects KARACHI, Aug 6: Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad on Saturday laid foundation of six projects in Lyari. Talking to journalists on the occasion, he said the past governments had not paid...		KARACHI: DHA to buy land on highway KARACHI, Aug 6: The Defence Housing Authority is purchasing 12,000 acres near the toll plaza on Superhighway from the Sindh government. A senior official of the DHA told Dawn that the large piece of land, comprising over 58.1...
KARACHI: Need stressed for improving examination system KARACHI, Aug 6: Speakers at a seminar on Saturday stressed the need for adopting valid and reliable standards of examination for uplifting the educational quality in universities....		HYDERABAD: Imran sees no effort for addressing issues HYDERABAD, Aug 6: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has said that the situation in the country does not indicate that the rulers are serious about the resolution of the basic issues of people....
HYDERABAD: 67 elected unopposed in 52 UCs of Hyderabad HYDERABAD, Aug 6: A total of 67 candidates, including three pairs of nazims and naib nazim, two of them backed by MQM’s Haq Parast Group, returned unopposed in the Hyderabad district on six categories of 52 UCs....		KARACHI: Keamari: hub of economic activity KARACHI: With an estimated population of 3,84,378, comprising eight union councils, Keamari Town has been carved out of the coastal and rural areas of old Karachi west....
KARACHI:Ban on heavy vehicles KARACHI, Aug 6: The District Coordinator Officer and Caretaker City District Government of Karachi (CDGK) Fazal-ur-Rehman, on Saturday, banned all heavy vehicles from entering the city during rush hours....		KARACHI: Main suspect in girls’ murder escapes KARACHI, Aug 6: The police on Saturday intensified the hunt to locate the prime suspect in the murders of two girls while the suspect’s father accelerated his efforts for an out-of-court settlement....
KARACHI: IT students asked to submit forms KARACHI, Aug 6: The Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi, said on Saturday that the students who could not submit their Information Technology examination forms can submit them latest by Aug 10 at the Board’s office....		KARACHI: Park inaugurated KARACHI, Aug 6: The government is taking effective steps to ensure pollution-free environment. This was stated by Sindh Local Government Adviser Waseem Akhtar on Saturday while speaking at the inauguration...
KARACHI: Democracy termed essential for uplift: Workshop on role of political parties KARACHI, Aug 6: Political parties are the pillars of democratic institutions and a functional, transparent, participatory and accountable democracy is essential to achieve development objectives....		KARACHI Working of EOBI being modernized KARACHI, Aug 6: The process of re-structuring and modernization of Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) is continuing and a committee has been formed to enhance the performance of the organisation....
KARACHI: Teachers’ rally baton-charged KARACHI, Aug 6: Police baton-charged a rally of the action committee for contract teachers on Saturday. The rally began from the Karachi Press Club and tried to march towards the Chief Minister’s House....		RAWALPINDI: 5,823 vying for 2,275 seats in Pindi distt RAWALPINDI, Aug 6: Seven panels for nazims and naib nazims of union councils (16 candidate) of Rawalpindi district are poised to be elected unopposed after completion of the nomination procedure and allocation of symbols, local election officials said here on Saturday....
RAWALPINDI: Rs699 million okayed for water supply project RAWALPINDI, Aug 6: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has approved grant of Rs699 million to ensure uninterrupted water supply to all areas of Rawalpindi and Chaklala cantonment boards....		ISLAMABAD: CJP warns SC staff to refrain from corruption ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Saturday warned his staff that he would not tolerate corruption in the country’s highest court and would take strict action against those who indulged themselves in such tendencies....
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan wishes to work with Japan for peace ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain on Saturday wished Pakistan and Japan work together to make “world peace a reality”....		ISLAMABAD: PPP accuses govt of involving in ‘transparent rigging’ ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim here on Saturday accused the government of committing “transparent rigging” prior to the forthcoming local bodies elections by blatantly trampling the election commission’s code of conduct....
LAHORE: ‘SSP activists’ allowed to contest election LAHORE, Aug 6: Justice Syed Zahid Husain Shah of the Lahore High Court on Saturday permitted five alleged members of an outlawed sectarian organization to contest local elections....		LAHORE: Prosecution witness records statement: Reference against Javed Hashmi LAHORE, Aug 6: A tehsildar who appeared as a prosecution witness in the reference against ARD president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi has said that he does not remember if he had also presented evidence against his brother Nasir Husain Hashmi....
LAHORE: 60 parties invited to Islamabad APC LAHORE, Aug 6: Some five dozen political parties, including those in the MMA and the PONAM, and lawyers’ organizations have been invited to the all-party conference being organized by the ARD...		LAHORE: PPP sets up monitoring cell LAHORE, Aug 6: The monitoring cell set up by the PPP to point out rigging in the local elections, if any, has set up its secretariat on the Fane Road....
LAHORE: Wapda workers to protest tomorrow LAHORE, Aug 6: Wapda workers throughout the country will observe a protest day on Monday (tomorrow) to express resentment against anti-labour policies of the government....		THATTA: Govt urged to discourage ads on powder milk THATTA, Aug 6: A seminar on breast-feeding has recommended that the government should discourage advertisement of dry-packed milk through print and electric media. The seminar was organized by...
MIRPURKHAS: Rise in flour prices MIRPURKHAS, Aug 6: Flour prices have registered an increase in Mirpurkhas as a result of the delay in fixation of wheat price by the government. The government has not announced wheat...		DADU: Strike against Hesco observed DADU, Aug 6: A complete shutter-down strike was observed in the Sita Road town on Thursday to protest against 18-hour power breakdown. Main markets and business centres remained closed....
KARACHI: DUHS syndicate KARACHI, Aug 6: A syndicate meeting of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) on Saturday discussed the functioning of the university. In the meeting, working papers were prepared for Students...		KARACHI: DCET classes KARACHI, Aug 6: The Dawood College of Engineering and Technology has announced that the new academic session would begin on Aug 8, with the start of classes of first term in all departments of the college.—PPI...