August 9, 2005	Tuesday	Rajab 3, 1426

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PHC declares sanad equivalent to SSC PESHAWAR, Aug 8: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday declared a sanad of seminaries equivalent to the secondary school certificate and allowed two candidates to contest for the posts of nazim of their respective union councils....		Registration move final: president ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said the decision about registration of seminaries was final and warned that no hindrance would be tolerated in the registration process....
CM calls for withdrawal of expulsion decision: Foreign students in seminaries PESHAWAR, Aug 8: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has called upon the federal government to withdraw its decision about expelling foreign students from the country’s seminaries....		ATTOCK: 578 women in the run in 72 Attock UCs: 59 out of 72 minority seats vacant ATTOCK, Aug 8: Fifty-nine minority seats out of a total of 72 seats and 11 women seats, including three for Muslim (women) and eight for peasant worker (women), remained vacant in...
SC rejects NWFP plea on creation of new UC ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an appeal of the NWFP government and upheld the decision of the Peshawar High Court, declaring illegal the creation of a new...		UC nazim, rival candidate summoned to court PESHAWAR, Aug 8: On the directives of Chief Election Commissioner Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, the Kohistan district returning officer has summoned a union council nazim and his rival candidate to court on Tuesday....
CEC accused of inaction on rigging complaints: PPP briefs diplomats ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) on Monday briefed Islamabad-based foreign diplomats about the ongoing “pre-poll rigging” being done by the ruling party and its coalition partners in the forthcoming local government elections in the country....		Kasuri asks army to speed up climber’s rescue efforts ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has directed the army authorities to provide fullest support in the evacuation of the world’s famous climber, Tomaz Humar, trapped on Nanga Parbat....
Pims develops infection control manual ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) is developing an infection control manual to protect the patients from contracting diseases. “A twelve-member committee is preparing a practical infection control...		National Bank ATMs a comfort or nuisance? ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: Almost all Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) installed by the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) in Rawalpindi and Islamabad are out-of-order these days landing the account- holders in serious trouble....
‘NGOs failed to improve women’s lot’ ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: About 350 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working on women issues have contributed very little to improving the lot of the country’s women, Independent Bureau for Humanitarian Issues (IBHI) Director-General Ziaul Hassan Rizvi said on Monday....		CDA to spend Rs2bn on development works ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: The development working party of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has approved a grant of over Rs2 billion for several projects in the federal capital....
Diplomat calls for strengthening Saarc ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: Bangladeshi High Commissioner to Pakistan Shamim Ahmed has called for fortifying the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) for alleviating poverty, unemployment and other problems in the region....		Surgical skills courses conclude ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: The generic instructors courses of essential surgical skills with an emphasis on maternal and child health concluded at Islamic International Medical Complex, Islamabad....
Customs duty on CNG buses cut to five per cent ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has scaled down customs duty to 5 per cent on import of Euro-II (+) buses and done away with the condition of...		High court decides 21 appeals QUETTA, Aug 8: The Balochistan High Court on Monday decided 21 appeals against rejection of nomination papers of candidates in the local body polls and reserved judgment in five cases....
PIA retires two senior officials ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: PIA Chairman Tariq Kirmani on Monday sent two senior officials on mandatory retirement, sources said. They said that the director airport services Col (retired) Ahsan Siddiq and director general services Salman Javed had been relieved of their duties....		DRO denies receiving complaints ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: The district returning officer (DRO) of Tharparkar in a report to the Election Commission has denied receiving complaints from any candidate, proposer or a seconder of kidnapping or...
Govt plans to convene NA session on 29th ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: The government is planning to convene the National Assembly session on August 29, a source said on Monday. This will be the first session after the passage of the federal budget for the financial year 2005-06 in June....		EC finalizes arrangements for polls ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: The Election Commission announced on Monday that it had finalized all arrangements for the first and second phase of the local government polls....
Senate body concerned over lack of facilities on motorways ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: The Senate Standing Committee on Communications on Monday expressed concern over lack of facilities at restaurants established in the service areas on the motorways....		Three shot dead in Ghotki SUKKUR, Aug 8: Three people, two of them brothers, were gunned down by armed men when they were going on a motorcycle in Ghotki on Monday....
Governor vows to oust foreigners from Waziristan PESHAWAR, Aug 8: NWFP Governor Khalil-ur-Rehman has vowed to root foreign elements out of the North Waziristan Agency and asked the tribal elders not to remain silent spectators in the volatile situation....		Water treatment plants at union council level urged HARIPUR, Aug 8: In order to eradicate water-borne diseases and avoid a major disaster like the one that struck Lahore, the government must ensure that citizens receive safe drinking water by installing treatment plants at the union council level....
Engineering workshop concludes SWABI, Aug 8: A five-day workshop on ‘Matlab and Simulink’ (a tool for engineering applications) concluded here on Monday. The workshop was organized by the Graduate Students Committee, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology....		Landmine blows up tractor WANA, Aug 8: A tractor blew up when it struck a landmine in the Angoor Adda area of the South Waziristan Agency on Sunday, sources said. However, no one was hurt....
Entrance tests for universities PESHAWAR, Aug 8: Entrance tests for the engineering university and medical colleges will be held on Aug 21 and Sept 25 in Peshawar and Abbottabad. This was announced by the NWFP Education Testing and Evaluation Authority....		Student seeks governor’s help PESHAWAR, Aug 8: A student has appealed to the governor to look into the matter of his admission to the Islamia College Peshawar. “I had applied for an admission on the seat reserved for Hafiz-i-Quran....
New districts short of police personnel HYDERABAD, Aug 8: Three new districts carved out of Hyderabad are facing shortage of police force and other problems as police force of only those police stations which were a part...		Wapda employees protest withdrawal of interim relief HYDERABAD, Aug 8: Employees of Wapda on Monday staged rallies and took out processions in almost all district headquarters in the interior of Sindh against withdrawal of interim relief to employees....
Women councillors in local polls Whatever the criticism may be of granting only token power to women in politics at the federal, provincial and local levels, the forthcoming local government elections have a different story to tell....		APC to bring democratic forces on one platform LAHORE, Aug 8: The all-party conference being held in Islamabad on Thursday is an attempt to bring all democratic forces on a single platform and thwart the government’s plans to rig...
Defections not to change PML-N policy LAHORE, Aug 8: Punjab PML-N secretary-general Zaeem Qadri condemns the defections from his party being caused by the chief minister and says they are part of the rigging plan the ruling party has prepared to win the local polls....		Bank defaulter can’t contest election: LHC LAHORE, Aug 8: Justice Syed Hamid Ali Shah of the Lahore High Court observed on Monday that a person adjudged as a defaulter in a bank loan case could not be allowed to contest local government elections....
‘Remove hoardings on Murree Road’ LAHORE, Aug 8: Punjab Law Minister Muhammad Basharat Raja on Monday ordered removal of all hoardings offering fake plots on Murree-Rawalpindi Express-way and action against culprits....		ACE seeks autonomy again LAHORE, Aug 8: The Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment has again sought autonomy from the government to strengthen itself. Officials told Dawn on Monday that a draft proposal had been sent to the chief secretary for submission to the chief minister for approval....
President ‘ignoring’ Punjab: PWC on Left Bank Canal LAHORE, Aug 8: The Punjab Water Council on Monday got after the “president and petty politicians” for ignoring Punjab to appease Sindh on the issue of the Left Bank Canal on Kalabagh dam....		Haq Parast group hopes to sweep polls in Hyderabad HYDERABAD, Aug 8: Haq Parast group candidates who were elected unopposed in the second phase of the local body elections have expressed the hope that their group will win the polls in the district....
Sindh’s interests to be protected, says Arbab THATTA, Aug 8: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said he will not bargain on interests of the province, including the issues of water and NFC award....		Four bandits arrested NAWABSHAH, Aug 8: Police on Monday arrested four bandits and seized arms, ammunition and two motorcycles in two different encounters. A police team along with personnel of the crime intelligence cell...
Anti-polio drive begins today SUKKUR Aug 8: All arrangements have been finalized for administering polio drops to 194,113 children during the campaign being launched from Aug 9 to 11 in the district....		Biradri factor in Sialkot politics SIALKOT, Aug 8: Like many other districts in the province,biradris have also been a major consideration for various political parties while choosing candidates for the upcoming local polls here....
Faisalabad PML-N divided over choice of candidates FAISALABAD, Aug 8: Differences have cropped up between the local leadership of the PML-N over the fielding of candidates for nazims and naib nazims of eight towns and city district governments....		CM violated EC code of conduct: Qureshi MULTAN, Aug 8: PPP’s central leader MNA Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that the Punjab chief minister’s visit here on Sunday at the height of the election campaign was a blatant violation of code of conduct....
Substandard material used in school building GUJRANWALA, Aug 8: The district administration took serious note of use of substandard material in the construction of a state-run girls school building and recommended stern action against buildings department executive engineer, SDO, sub-engineer and contractor on Saturday....		High court sets aside poll officer’s verdict PESHAWAR, Aug 8: The Peshawar High Court on Monday allowed several candidates to contest the local body elections scheduled to begin on Aug 18....
Governor can’t reject a bill: Qazi: SC verdict on Hasba act MARDAN, Aug 8: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussein Ahmed has said that Supreme Court judges may be authorized to offer on advice or suggestions on an issue but they cannot stop a governor or any other person from signing a bill....		Steps urged to strengthen anti-polio drive PESHAWAR, Aug 8: NWFP Minister for Health Inayatullah Khan has said that the government was trying to involve all segments of society in efforts to control epidemics....