August 23, 2005	Tuesday	Rajab 17, 1426

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Speaker for war against poverty ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain has called upon Asian states to wage a war against poverty, drug abuse, extremism and resolve regional conflicts....		‘Revisit Islam’ to allay misunderstandings ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Western and Muslim scholars both need to “revisit Islam” to refute the talk of clash of civilizations and Islamophobia....
LG elections beyond common man’s reach ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Expansion in the cellular mobile telephone technology in the country has also a trickle down effect on the local government elections in the Rawalpindi district with candidates offering mobile phone sets to the voters....		Political will needed to implement trade policy: expert ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: A seminar here on Monday termed Pakistan’s trade policy ambitious and an important step towards compatibility with the WTO regime, but requiring a strong political will for effective implementation....
Tension still prevails in Dhoke Khabba UC ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: With the second phase of the local government elections 2005 only few days ahead, tension still prevails in the Union Council-43 Dhoke Khabba, Rawalpindi where one person was...		PPP seeks removal of police involved in ‘rigging’ ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The Pakistan People’s Party has filed an application with the chief election commissioner asking him to remove several police officers who, it claimed, were involved in picking up the Awam Dost candidates and their supporters in Gujrat district....
Builders not fulfilling environment body rules ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pepa) has been demanding the administrators of a number of housing projects planned alongside the under-construction Islamabad-Muzzafarabad expressway to obtain clearance from the agency, but so far in vain, an official source told Dawn....		Senate body for quality education at higher level ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The subcommittee of the Senate Standing Committee on Education has stressed the need for improving quality of education by establishing high calibre universities in both public and private sector....
Pakistan, Iran discuss traders’ problems QUETTA, Aug 22: Two meetings of the Pakistan-Iran Joint Road Transportation Committee began here on Monday to discuss various issues confronting transporters and traders of both the countries....		Wafaqul Madaris rejects registration law ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The Wafaqul Madaris Arabia Pakistan (Deobandi) on Monday rejected the amendments to the registration of Societies Act 1860 and termed it a tool to be used to control the religious institutions in the country....
Religious parties are not extremist: Fazl ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Leader of opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rahman said on Monday that religious parties were not extremist. Talking to reporters here, he said that in real...		MMA files motion against remarks ISLAMABAD Aug 22: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has proposed a debate on response to criticism levelled by the US State Department against the educational syllabus in Pakistan....
NP leader refutes govt claims QUETTA, Aug 22: Dr Hayee Baloch, the chief of the National Party, has claimed that the people of Balochistan by voting for panels backed by the nationalists in the first phase...		APNS hails lifting of ad ban KARACHI, Aug 22: The All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) has hailed the government’s decision to lift a ban on government advertising on the Nawa-i-Waqt and The Nation....
National Party claims victory KARACHI, Aug 22: Secretary General of the National Party Hasil Bizenjo on Monday claimed that his party had swept the local body elections in Balochistan....		Encroachments on coastal areas to be removed ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The Sindh government has assured to remove encroachments on 3,400 acres of land in the Karachi coastal area to facilitate installation of windmills producing renewable energy....
‘Arrangements made for peaceful second round’ NAWABSHAH, Aug 22: Sindh Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said that the law and order situation remained peaceful in the first phase of local body elections and no casualty was reported from any part of the province....		Campaigning at its peak in Sukkur for Aug 25 polls SUKKUR, Aug 22: Arrangements to hold the second phase of local body election on Aug 25 have been completed and strict security measures have been adopted at all sensitive polling stations of Sukkur, Shikarpur, Khairpur and other parts of Sindh....
Plea for recount in Sanghar UCs KARACHI, Aug 22: The People’s Party Parliamentarians has demanded a re-count of ballots in the Jam Nawaz Ali taluka and re-polling in Mazar Khashkheli and Urdu School (girls) polling stations in UC Berani....		Demand for re-poll in five UCs of Kashmore LARKANA, Aug 22: Member of the National Assembly and leader of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, has criticized what he called massive rigging in polls in Kashmore and...
1,656 candidates in Dadu DADU, Aug 22: A total of 1,656 candidates, including 146 for seats of nazim and naib nazim and 1,510 for general, women, workers and minority councillors’ seats, are contesting in Dadu...		EC urged to take notice of CM’s statements KHAIRPUR, Aug 22: The president of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, Sindh chapter, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, has said that the Election Commission should take notice of statements of the Sindh chief...
Former nazims’ pleas still pending in PHC PESHAWAR, Aug 22: About a dozen writ petitions filed by former district nazims regarding infringement of their constitutional and legal rights by the provincial government have been pending before the Peshawar High Court....		ANP-backed group ahead of others in first round PESHAWAR, Aug 22: The ANP-backed Watan Dost panel has emerged as the single largest political grouping in the first phase of local body elections, regaining much of the ground it had...
Hunt intensified for suspect in triple murder case PESHAWAR, Aug 22: The political administration of Khyber Agency has intensified efforts to arrest a businessman from the remote Tera valley, who is a key suspect in the murder of his...		Favouritism mars varsity relief plan PESHAWAR, Aug 22: The official move to give relief to students in various departments of the Peshawar University on self-finance basis has been marred by irregularities, students and official told Dawn....
JUI forms alliance with PML in Chitral CHITRAL, August 22: Formation of the Chitral Muttahida Group here by the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam and the Pakistan Muslim League is being consider by political analysts as a development which will...		‘PPP hopeful of better share in second phase PESHAWAR, Aug 22: The Pakistan People’s Party has decided to enter into electroal adjustments only with the progressive forces at the tehsil and district level for the future local body set-up in the province....
Custodial death: suspension of DPO, SHO urged HARIPUR, Aug 22: The district leadership of JUI-F has demanded suspension of the District Police Officer and the SHO Khanpur PS for their alleged involvement in custodial killing of an accused in a murder case....		PHC stays re-polling in UC Jehangira PESHAWAR, Aug 22: The Peshawar High Court on Monday stayed re-election at polling station No.4 in Union Council No.2 Jahangira in Nowshera district and suspended re-polling orders of returning officer....
84pc Lahore budget is non-development LAHORE, Aug 22: The district coordination officer has said only Rs1 billion are available for development out of the Rs6.2 billion city district government budget. Addressing businessmen and industrialists at the...		Ex-tehsil nazim, PPP man join PML LAHORE, Aug 22: Former Kamoki Tehsil Nazim Zakaullah Baryar and PPP president Bashir Bhopal on Monday announced joining the PML and expressed their confidence in the leadership of PML chief Shujaat Husain and Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi....
PML-N men ‘pressured’ to change loyalty LAHORE, Aug 22: PML-N acting president Javed Hashmi has alleged that his party MNA Rana Mehmudul Hasan and Rana Noorul Hasan of Multan are being pressurized to change their loyalties....		Protesters damage three buses LAHORE, Aug 22: Protesters damaged three buses after a college employee was killed in a road accident in Mughalpura on Monday. Police said Naeem Ahmad, 30, was on way to the...
Eight alleged kidnappers arrested LAHORE, Aug 22: The police investigation wing claimed on Monday to have arrested eight members of a gang kidnappers allegedly involved in seven cases. Speaking at a press conference, Lahore Investigation...		Mandi Bahauddin: a PML-PPP battleground GUJRAT, Aug 22: A traditional, tough contest is expected between candidates backed by former district nazim Nazar Mohammad Gondal of the PPP and MPA Riaz Asghar Warraich of the ruling PML in all 65 union councils of Mandi Bahauddin district....
Record number of women in Mianwali politics MIANWALI, Aug 22: Scores of new faces, besides the old ones, are in the run for 56 union councils of the district. They include 168 candidates for nazim and naib nazim...		Inter-PML fight in Narowal SIALKOT, Aug 22: The ruling PML remains divided into four groups in Narowal district over the issue of the nomination of their candidates. The divided groups are headed by National Reconstruction...
Ex-MPA likely to join PML GUJRAT, Aug 22: Malik Hanif Awan, a former MPA and district president of the PML-N, is likely to join hands with the Chaudhrys after the completion of the local polls....		Five died in election violence: Sialkot DPO SIALKOT, Aug 22: At least five people were killed in poll-related violence in the district before and after Aug 18. DPO Usama Mumtaz Raja told journalists here on Monday that in...
Winners being harassed to join PML, alleges PPP SIALKOT, Aug 22: The local leadership of PPP and PML-N has alleged that the law-enforcement agencies are harassing their UC nazims and independent winners in the district to join the ruling PML....		Man kills uncle on election dispute GUJRANWALA, Aug 22: A man killed his uncle over an election row in Kamoki on Monday. Reports said Ajmal was on his way home from the fields....
Vehicles impounded FAISALABAD, Aug 22: Scores of vehicles have been impounded by the local police and the district administration to carry polling staff for union council elections scheduled to be held on Aug 25....		Rs100m for hospital GUJRANWALA, Aug 22: The Punjab government has approved Rs100 million for purchase of medicines, equipment, besides recruitment of 100 doctors, 150 nurses and 250 other paramedical staff following upgradation of the DHQ hospital....
Detention of ‘suicide sisters’ denied PESHAWAR, Aug 22: The Peshawar High Court on Monday disposed of a writ petition challenging alleged illegal detention of four people, including two sisters suspected of plotting suicide attacks, after the interior ministry categorically denied having any information about their arrest....		Industrial estate in Malakand under study PESHAWAR, Aug 22: NWFP Governor Khalilur Rehman has said that the government is taking all steps required for the development of trade activities in the country, including the tribal areas....
Engineering varsity holds entry test PESHAWAR, Aug 22: The admission for Engineering University, Peshawar, was held in Peshawar and Abottabad centres on Sunday by the Entry Test Evaluation Authority (ETEA) under strict security measures....		Students’ projects win prizes PESHAWAR, Aug 22: Vice-Chancellor of NWFP University of Engineering and Technology Imtiaz Hussain Gilani has said that despite possessing more natural resources than developed countries, the Muslim states were still unable to compete with them in terms of development....
Bus passengers looted HARIPUR, Aug 22: Three armed bandits deprived passengers and drivers of valuables worth thousands of rupees on the Hattar Industrial Estate road in the jurisdiction of Kotnajibullah police station here on Sunday evening....		Women denied voting right demand re-poll PESHAWAR, Aug 22: A group of women from Sheikhan union council have demanded that the provincial election commission declare election in their union council null and void as women of the area had not been allowed to cast their votes....