August 7, 2005	Sunday	Rajab 1, 1426

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Resolution of Kashmir issue to boost ties: PM ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that Pakistan and India need to resolve their disputes to enhance better relations. In an interview with the Khaleej Times the prime...		Ordinance for accreditation of engineering institutions ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday promulgated the Pakistan Engineering Council (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2005, requiring the council to constitute an accreditation committee, including a representative of the Higher...
Concern over India’s joint exercises ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: Pakistan on Saturday said it was ascertaining details about reported plans of Indian Air Force conducting joint exercises with its US and British counterparts in occupied Kashmir....		Mehsud described as soldier of peace PESHAWAR, Aug 6: A senior military commander here on Saturday described a tribal militant commander as a soldier of peace and said that his meeting with him early this week had been helpful in removing misunderstandings between them....
Refugee camps in Fata to be closed: UNHCR ISLAMABAD, Aug 6: The government has decided to close down Afghan refugee camps in the tribal areas along the Afghanistan border and move some 60,000 refugees out of the capital by the end of month, the UN said Saturday....		12 BSO men arrested in Turbat QUETTA, Aug 6: Turbat police have arrested 12 activists of the Baloch Students’ Organization and registered a case against them for creating law and order problem....
Afghan DPs asked to leave before 31st KHAAR (Bajaur Agency), Aug 6: Political Agent Mohammad Fahim Wazir has said Afghan refugees living in the tribal areas will have to leave the country before Aug 31, otherwise they will have to face action ....		Guddu Bihari remanded in police custody KARACHI, Aug 6: Judicial Magistrate, East, Shazia Asif on Saturday remanded Shahid Alam Alias Guddu Bihari, former Orangi Town nazim, in the custody of the Brigade police till Aug 11 in an attempt to murder case....
AJK police to fight constable’s murder case MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 6: The AJK police will fight the murder case of a constable in every court of law even if his dependants strike a deal with the accused, senior police officials said here on Saturday....		PBC employees waiting for new pay scales MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 6: The employees of Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation have voiced dissatisfaction with the organisation’s directors over their failure to introduce revised pay scales with raised salaries....
PhDs unhappy with below par allowance MARDAN, Aug 6: The Association of Doctors in Philosophy has said that degree holders from the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) were receiving a little more than one-third of the “PhD allowance” that individuals from other provinces were receiving....		Tourism secretary robbed KARACHI, Aug 6: Armed men robbed Federal Tourism Secretary Saleem Gul Shaikh and his cousin of mobile phones, official cards and a PIA ticket, behind the New Sindh Secretariat here on Saturday....
PPP urges women to take part in polls LAKKI MARWAT, Aug 6: The divisional president of Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians, Fareeha Marwat, has said that the participation of women in the local body polls will help change the...		EC urged to take notice: President’s role in poll drive PESHAWAR, Aug 6: The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has demanded that the Election Commission should to take notice of President Gen Perviz Musharraf’s participation in the election campaign of the ruling PML....
Chitral needs development of tourism potential CHITRAL, Aug 6: A number of schemes initiated by previous regimes for development of tourism in Chitral were abandoned because of political changes at the centre....		5.2m saplings to be planted in Fata PESHAWAR, Aug 6: The forest department will plant 5.277 million saplings of different species during the monsoon tree plantation campaign 2005 in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata)....
Rainstorm hits Swabi SWABI, Aug 6: Torrential rains paralyzed life across the district on Saturday. Traffic on some roads remained suspended for hours due to felling of trees in the storm....		CM’s Multan mission seen routing of PML-N MULTAN, Aug 6: Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi is scheduled to come here on Sunday (today) to what appears after going through his itinerary a mission to rout the PML-N in the district ahead of the local polls....
ATC acquits accused for want of evidence: Gang-rape of singers MULTAN, Aug 6: An anti-terrorism court acquitted on Saturday two persons accused of criminally assaulting two female singers in May last year. Judge Zahoorul Haq Rana of the Multan ATC No...		Four killed as roof collapses in rain KASUR, Aug 6: Four people, including two children, were killed when the roof of a house in Kot Murad Khan here collapsed during heavy wind and rainstorm which lashed the city and its suburbs on Friday night....
Cases against 103 for code violation GUJRANWALA, Aug 6: Over 48 people, including four nazim, naib nazim and general councillor candidates, were arrested here on Saturday on charges of taking out a procession and clashing with police, violating the election code....		Wrong poll symbols awarded FAISALABAD, Aug 6: The communication gap between the Election Commission officials and Returning Officers (RO) created problems for more than hundred local bodies candidates due to allotment of wrong election symbols....
OPD at MIC starts from tomorrow MULTAN, Aug 6: The out-patient department at the Multan Institute of Cardiology (MIC) will start functioning from Aug 8. MIC sources told APP here on Saturday that a paediatric cardiologist would...		Rs6.2 million theft in jewellery shop NAROWAL, Aug 6: Thieves took away Rs6.2 million in cash and gold ornaments from a jewellery shop here on Friday night. The thieves broke into the shop of Haji Bashir, a...
Two drown in Ravi SAHIWAL, Aug 6: Two youths drowned in the Ravi near Mauza Sheraza/3 here on Saturday. Reports said Akbar and Sultan went to the river for picnic....		1,219 withdraw in six districts: Local body polls in Sindh HYDERABAD, Aug 6: A total of 1,219 candidates withdrew from the local body elections in the second phase for six categories in six districts. The districts are: Hyderabad, Matiari, Dadu, Jamshoro, Badin and Tando Mohammad Khan....
Water rotation plan termed conspiracy HYDERABAD, Aug 6: The Sindh Abadgar Board has observed that introduction of a water rotation programme despite flood in the River Indus is a conspiracy against the province....		Tough fight expected between PPP, PML-F KHAIRPUR, Aug 6: The main contest for seats of 75 union councils of the Khairpur district is expected to be between the People’s Party Parliamentarians-backed Awam Dost Panel and the Khairpur Dost Panel of the Pakistan Muslim League-F....
Protest against power breakdown SUKKUR, Aug 6: Hundreds of residents of Bashirabad, Military Road, Bachal Shah Miani, Shaikh Mohalla and other areas held a protest demonstration against Hesco on Saturday....		PPP warns protest against victimization NAWABSHAH, Aug 6: Leaders of the People’s Party Parliamentarians from Nawabshah have warned of hunger strike and blocking of the National Highway if victimization of ADP candidates by the Sindh government is not stopped....
Clerks observe pen-down strike LARKANA, Aug 6: The clerical staff of the department of excise and taxation observed a pen-down strike here on Saturday. They demanded that the government should post senior officers as excise...		Durrani may consider review petition: SC verdict on Hasba bill PESHAWAR, Aug 6: NWFP Chief Minister Muhammad Akram Khan Durrani said he would consider placing before the Supreme Court a review petition challenging its ruling on the controversial Hasba bill....
16 women freed on bail PESHAWAR, Aug 6: A local court on Saturday released on bail 16 women who had been arrested on the charge of vagrancy on the directives of the Women Crisis Centre....		Illegal confinement: SHO summoned PESHAWAR, Aug 6: The Peshawar district and sessions judge, Shahjehan Khan Akhundzada, on Saturday summoned a station house officer (SHO) charged by a man of keeping him in illegal confinement and registering a fabricated case against him....
‘MMA using Hasba bill as a poll gimmick’ LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Aug 6: Awami National Party Vice-President Imran Afridi said on Friday that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s government was hoping to capitalize Hasba bill....		Independence Day celebrations PESHAWAR, Aug 6: People in the NWFP and Fata are taking keen interest in Independence Day celebrations. Student groups, political parties and different organizations have already finalized their respective programmes....
Four die in heavy rains PESHAWAR, Aug 6: Four persons died and another two received injuries after a spell of heavy rains in Pattan, Kohistan district on Saturday. According to a daily report of the...		Cholera: emergency declared in Swabi PESHAWAR, Aug 6: An outbreak of cholera and gastroenteritis left five people dead in Swabi district and forced health officials to declared and emergency. Several villages of Swabi district were in...