August 18, 2005	Thursday	Rajab 12, 1426

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Alternative energy sources stressed: Electricity for all by 2007: PM ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday said the government was working on a strategy to meet the growing energy needs and provide electricity to all by 2007....		FC deployed for polls in sensitive areas QUETTA, Aug 17: The Election Commission and the provincial government have completed the local body elections to be held in 13 districts of Balochistan on Thursday....
Drive to remove stigma attached to TB patients ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: The government is planning to launch a social mobilization campaign to remove stigma attached to tuberculosis (TB) and to familiarize general practitioners in the private sector with correct treatment regimes....		128 polling stations sensitive in Pindi RAWALPINDI, Aug 17: As many as 128 polling stations out of 1,645 have been declared sensitive in the Rawalpindi district where voting for the local government elections will be held on August 25, security sources said on Wednesday....
Son-in-law of Dr Qadeer granted bail ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: District and Sessions Judge Hidayatullah Shah on Wednesday granted bail to Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan’s son-in- law on medical grounds, police said....		MNA among 17 booked in murder case RAWALPINDI, Aug 17: A murder case has been registered against 17 people including MMA MNA Mohammad Hanif Abbasi after one of the persons injured in Tuesday’s armed clash between two political...
Jirga warns people against voting PESHAWAR, Aug 17: A jirga in a rural union council has asked people to stay away from the local government polls on Thursday and warned that ‘violators’ will be fined Rs1 million and their houses will be set on fire....		Registration in madressahs’ interest: Arbab HYDERABAD, Aug 17: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said the provincial government will register madressahs as the Societies Registration Act has been amended by the governor recently....
SHC stops polling in 15 new UCs of Ghotki KARACHI, Aug 17: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday barred the Election Commission from holding local body elections in 15 newly-created union councils of the Ghotki district....		371 candidates in Tharparkar MITHI, Aug 17: The polling staff and election material were despatched by the election commission functionaries on Wednesday for the local body polls in 21 union councils of Tharparkar district on...
Massive security measures taken HYDERABAD, Aug 17: Around 9,000 policemen, in addition to 3,000 to 3,500 Rangers personnel, will be deployed for polling duty and maintaning law and order in six districts of the defunct Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas divisions on Thursday....		Call to preserve Indus civilization HYDERABAD, Aug 17: Former federal information minister and chairman of the advisory council of the SOS (Save Our Soul) Children’s Villages of Sindh Javed Jabbar has said the great civilization of...
Traditional clans set for victory in southern Punjab MULTAN, Aug 17: All 13 districts that were once part of former Multan, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan civil divisions are going to the polls in the first phase of the local government elections on Thursday (today)....		Singapore firm apologizes for wrong map ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: Singapore-based firm IBC Asia has formally apologized to Pakistan for publishing a wrong map of the country in its brochure on a conference it is organizing on Pakistan’s infrastructure development projects in Islamabad next month....
High-tension towers blown up QUETTA, Aug 17: Unknown people blew up two 132-kv transmission towers in Baghbana area of Khuzdar district on Wednesday night. According to reports reaching here, the explosive material had been planted around the towers....		ANP, PPP comeback likely in NWFP PESHAWAR, Aug 17: The Awami National Party and the People’s Party Parliamentarians may reclaim some of the ground they had lost to the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal in the last general election when...
Observers arrive to monitor polls PESHAWAR, Aug 17: As many as 4,600,478 voters in 12 districts of the Frontier province will exercise their right of franchise in the first phase of the local government elections on Thursday amid tight security arrangements....		Return of AJK men who crossed LoC awaited MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 17: A proposed flag meeting between officials of the Pakistani and Indian army in the Leepa Valley for return of two AJK citizens who had mistakenly crossed the Line of Control could not be held, military sources said....
Jam Yousuf accused of violating election code QUETTA Aug 17: Balochis-tan National Party-Mengal secretary general Habib Jalib Baloch has accused Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousuf of violating the code of conduct of the local bodies elections....		Candidates urged to observe code of conduct LAKKI MARWAT, Aug 17: District Returning Officer (DRO) Anwar Ali Khan has urged candidates and their supporters to observe the Code of Conduct during campaigns for the local body elections to be held in the district on Aug 25....
Peace panel head still missing LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Aug 17: Activists of the Bara Peace Committee has failed to find any clue to the kidnapping of their head Maulana Ahmad Khan....		Rain damages telephone exchange LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Aug 17: Hundreds of telephone lines have been dead since Friday when heavy rain washed away a portion of the Kum Shalman telephone exchange in a remote area of the Khyber Agency....
FC deployed in sensitive Kohat UCs KOHAT, Aug 17: The district administration has declared seven union councils sensitive areas and deployed Frontier Constabulary (FC) there to maintain law and order during polling on Thursday....		People suffer as buses impounded PESHAWAR, Aug 17: Commuters in the city have been suffering due to a shortage of passenger buses on the roads as police have impounded more than 350 buses on Tuesday for use in the local body elections....
FCR reforms discussed PESHAWAR, Aug 17: The Frontier Crimes Regulations Reforms Committee held a meeting with the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas’ (Fata) parliamentarians on Wednesday at the Governor’s Secretariat to discuss various provisions of the law....		MMA yet to establish itself in Punjab LAHORE, Aug 17: The ruling PML, the PPP, the PML-N and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Aml are the major parties taking part in the local elections in the Punjab, the first phase of which is due to be held on Thursday (today)....
Lasbela varsity classes from Oct 31 QUETTA, Aug 17: Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani said on Tuesday that the Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences would play a vital role in the progress of agriculture, water and sea resources....		Timely resumption ‘not possible’: Khokhrapar rail link LAHORE, Aug 17: The Khokhrapar-Monabao rail link cannot be resumed before the end of the next year if the route’s whole existing line of meter gauge is to be replaced with broad gauge....
Intense poll activity in Gujranwala, RYK, Multan LAHORE, Aug 17: In the first phase of local polls, Gujranwala, Rahim Yar Khan and Multan districts have seen maximum political activity as the number of contestants there surpassed the candidates in the other 14 districts of the province....		100,000 policemen deputed LAHORE, Aug 17: Punjab police on Wednesday decided to deploy over 100,000 men to maintain peace on the forthcoming local body election....
Water adviser appointed ISLAMABAD, Aug 17: The federal government has appointed a special adviser on water in the ministry of water and power to do spadework for the announcement and subsequent construction of a big dam....		Hospitals on red alert LAHORE, Aug 17: The health department has given a red alert to all teaching, district and tehsil headquarters hospitals to cater to any emergency during the local elections on Thursday and Aug 25....
Minister charged with abusing authority OKARA, Aug 17: Former Punjab health minister Rana Ikram Rabbani has alleged that Federal Defence Minister Rao Sikandar Iqbal is abusing his authority to ensure election of his son to the Okara district nazim’s slot....		Opposition loses ground in Jaranwala FAISALABAD, Aug 17: The three mainstream opposition parties — the MMA, the PPP and the PML-N — are still indecisive about naming their nominees for the nazim’s slot of one of the most historical and predominantly rural towns, Jaranwala....
Bloody clashes feared FAISALABAD, Aug 17: Intelligence reports apprehend ‘bloody clashed’ in different areas of the Punjab between tense rivals on the ground of alleged vote fraud....		Another day of ordeal for Sialkot commuters SIALKOT, Aug 17: Hundreds of people, including women, children, patients and daily wage-earners, had to face hardship for the third consecutive day on Wednesday as the public transport has been impounded for election....
Money makes the voters go SARGODHA, Aug 17: Keeping in view expectations of voters, candidates in Sargodha and Khushab have hired cars and wagons to bring them to polling stations. There was a demand for air-conditioned vehicles as well because of heat and humidity....		Mahar to challenge verdict SUKKUR, Aug 17: Former Sindh Chief Minister Sardar Ali Mohammad Mahar has said he will go to the Supreme Court against the verdict of the Sindh High Court declaring void the creation of new union councils in the Ghotki district....
CM’s ‘nominee’ for nazim slot TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 17: Punjab Forest Minister and PML district president Dr Ashfaqur Rehman has claimed that Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervez Elahi has directed him to support former MNA Chaudhry Abdul Sattar for district nazim slot....		Governor stresses security for voters PESHAWAR, Aug 17: NWFP Governor Khalil-ur-Rehman, while expressing satisfaction over security arrangements made for the local government election in the province, has stressed that the voters must be provided a peaceful...
Woman admits to killing intruder PESHAWAR, Aug 17: A woman, who shot dead a prayer leader, has pleaded that she killed the man to defend her honour. Ms Siraja, a resident of Tawoda Khazana village along...		Madressah registration ordinance promulgated PESHAWAR, Aug 17: The governor has issued the NWFP Societies Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 2005, making the madressahs’ registration with the provincial government compulsory....
Artistes advised to promote country’s image PESHAWAR, Aug 17: Federal Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli has urged artistes to portray a positive image of the country through their art....		End to gender bias stressed PESHAWAR, Aug 17: The world is changing fast in this era of globalisation and development interventions should be gender-sensitive to remove disparities in society, this was the crux of a two-day workshop here on Wednesday....
Public meetings banned in Dir PESHAWAR, Aug 17: The caretaker DCO Lower Dir has imposed a ban, under section 144 CrPc, on the holding of public meetings and carrying of arms in the district....