August 29, 2005	Monday	Rajab 23, 1426

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Benazir’s move to pacify workers: PPP’s support for JUI-F candidate PESHAWAR, Aug 28: PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto has intervened to resolve a controversy between rival groups over the party’s alliance with the JUI-F for the office of the district nazim Peshawar, party leaders said....		Aziz, Shujaat act to end PML row over polls LAHORE, Aug 28: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Husain and Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi decided on Sunday to call a meeting of important party leaders from Rahim Yar Khan to settle their differences....
PML-N to move court against rigging RAWALPINDI, Aug 28: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has accused the government of rigging the local bodies elections and said it would move court against the fraud....		Niamat grilled for low-key reaction to ‘rigging’ LAHORE, Aug 28: Jamaat-i-Islami high-ups are not happy over the mild reaction shown by the Karachi unit of the party to the alleged rigging by the MQM in the local polls on Aug 18....
ECP refutes poll result delay charge ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has dismissed as baseless, malicious and misleading news reports in a section of the press that asserted that the commission had not...		Old passports valid till expiry date, says official ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: The old passports would be acceptable all over the world till their expiry dates as no country has so far refused to accept them, said Directorate of Immigration and Passport (DIP) Director-General Brig (retired) Khalid Habib....
Private projects power tariff to be re-negotiated ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: The government has decided to re-open for negotiations a benchmark power tariff of 3.1 cents per unit for private hydro-electric power projects because of refusal by international financial...		PR decides to downgrade commercial, transport wing LAHORE, Aug 28: The Pakistan Railways has decided to diminish its commercial and transport wing, which makes over 33 per cent of its functioning, by transferring the relevant staff to a private advisory and consultancy company....
Rashid in Nepal for Saarc meeting KHATMANDU Aug 28: The fifth conference of the information ministers of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) will start here from Monday....		Bugti invites Baloch leadership QUETTA, Aug 28: Jamhoori Watan Party leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti has invited Baloch leaders, intellectuals and elders to Dera Bugti to discuss formation of a single nationalist organization....
Minorities demand equal rights ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: Members of the Christian community have demanded that the government should ensure equal rights to minorities in the country. The demand was made in a protest demonstration led by former minister J....		PPP accuses govt of rigging LB polls ISLAMABAD, Aug 28: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) here on Sunday alleged that the government had changed the results of both the phases of local bodies elections in their favour by using...
JUI-F nominee claims majority support PESHAWAR, Aug 28: Haji Ghulam Ali, nominated by Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) for the post of city district nazim, has claimed to have backing of the 60 per cent of the nazims and councillors-elect....		Where even powerful presidents fail RAWALPINDI, Aug 28: Even intervention by presidents George Bush and Pervez Musharraf has failed to help recover a World Bank security guard who went missing in Rawalpindi last April, as the police say “hopes of finding him are fading”....
2 more Afghans held with fake travel papers PESHAWAR, Aug 28: The Anti-Trafficking Unit (ATU) of the Federal Investigation Agency on Saturday night arrested two Afghan nationals on charges of possessing fake travel documents and recovered two children, who were waiting to be flown to Saudi Arabia....		Women buried alive in snow MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 28: Two women were killed after a large piece of glacier fell upon them in a Leepa valley village on Saturday, police said here on Sunday....
BA, BSc results tomorrow RAWALPINDI, Aug 28: The Punjab University will announce the results of BA/BSC annual examinations on Tuesday. The controller of examinations in the university, Dr Ihsan, said results cards would be sent to the candidates on their addresses.—Online...		Constable shot dead RAWALPINDI, Aug 28: Five persons died in separate incidents in Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Sunday, police said. In the first incident, a person shot dead constable Sanaullah, brother of a newly elected councillor, in Sadiqabad and escaped....
Nadra centres in NAs GILGIT, Aug 28: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) will set up swift centres in all the remaining sub divisions of Northern Areas to expedite issuance of computerized national identity cards to people of the region....		Police being trained on modern lines, says minister PESHAWAR, Aug 28: Federal Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has said that war on terrorism has changed the security environment and in order to eradicate the menace the police force is being trained on modern lines....
Performance of literacy centres discussed MANSEHRA, Aug 28: Speakers at a dialogue on literacy were of the opinion that people should at least be taught how to write their names, do simple sums, write simple letters and read newspapers....		Legislators, activists booked KHAIRPUR, Aug 28: A case was registered against 27 people, including an MNA and MPA of the People’s Party Parliamentarians and a candidate of the Awam Dost panel, for firing and others offences on the election day....
Call for fresh polls in Badin BADIN, Aug 28: People’s Party Parliamenatarian legislators from Badin district have rejected the local body elections’ results and called for fresh polls. PPP district president and member of the provincial assembly,...		PPP accused of harassing MQM candidates NAWABSHAH, Aug 28: The adviser to the Sindh chief minister for information, Salahuddin Haider, has alleged that Haq Parast nazims and councillors are being threatened by the People’s Party Parliamentarians in the district....
Saifullah claims majority in Lakki Marwat LAKKI MARWAT, Aug 28: Salim Saifullah Khan, central leader of the Pakistan Muslim League has said that the alliance of Muttahida and Khushaal Pakistan groups will form district and tehsil governments in Lakki Marwat....		No compromise on seminary issu: Durrani PESHAWAR, Aug 28: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani said on Sunday that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal would not compromise on the issue of seminaries....
Alliances await CM’s nod for Khushab slots SARGODHA, Aug 28: In the wake of union council elections, the two major rival groupings, Awan alliance and Sumera-Tiwana alliance, have boosted their efforts to clinch top slots in Khushab district and its tehsils, while awaiting Punjab chief ministers patronage....		Jhang nazim’s choice sparks row in party JHANG, Aug 28: The nomination of ex-district nazim Sahibzada Sultan Hameed for the highest Jhang office by Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi has led to differences in the ruling PML....
MNA faces tough opposition in Sargodha SARGODHA, Aug 28: The Punjab chief minister has still not nominated MNA Chaudhry Anwar Ali Cheema for the coveted Sargodha district nazim’s slot despite his claim of support from nazims, naib...		Musharraf to take decision on Narowal nazim SIALKOT, Aug 28: Former federal minister Chaudhry Aziz Anwar, the father of NRB chairman Daniyal Aziz, has ruled out any possibility of alliance with his rival group headed by Punjab Health Minister Dr Tahir Ali Javed in Shakargarh tehsil....
PML groups wooing Varioys SIALKOT, Aug 28: The ruling PML’s two divided groups, led by Punjab Industries Minister Ajmal Cheema and ex-district nazim Mian Naeem Javaid, have started wooing the Variyos who have bagged 61...		Rokhri’s withdrawal lauded MIANWALI, Aug 28: The Khidmat Ittehad led by federal minister Dr Sher Afgan on Sunday expressed gratitude for the chief minister for reportedly withdrawing nomination of Humair Hayat Rokhri for district nazim slot....
ARD mulls names for Faisalabad towns FAISALABAD, Aug 28: Opposition parties, mainly PPP and PML-N, are discussing names of candidates for the slots of nazim and naib nazim for Lyallpur, Madina, Iqbal and Jinnah towns from where they won a good number of seats....		Joint candidates SHEIKHUPURA, Aug 28: Opposition parties, including the PML-N, the PPP and MMA, have decided to field joint candidates for the district and tehsil nazims’ slots under the banner of the Ittehad Group....
Two arrested SAHIWAL, Aug 28: Police arrested two brothers on charges of water theft here on Sunday. Riasat Ali Dogar and his brother Sadiq Ali Dogar were found stealing irrigation water from 4-R distributary.—Correspondent...		16,708 take entrance tests in Punjab LAHORE, Aug 28: As many as 16,708 candidates appeared in the entrance tests for admission to various undergraduate courses in the province’s 11 public and one private university here on Sunday....
Downpour in Lahore LAHORE, Aug 28: The city localities around the airport and Saddar received heavy rain on Sunday. Dark clouds hung over the entire city but it remained dry in the downtown, Gulberg and Garden Town areas....		Salary raise needed to end graft: NAB chief PESHAWAR, Aug 28: Chairman of National Accountability Bureau Lt-Gen Munir Hafeez has urged upon all segments of society, especially the youth, to wage a determined struggle against corruption....
Man, nephew shot dead LANDI KOTAL, Aug 28: A man and his young nephew were gunned down over an old enmity near Muslim Dhand in the Shalobar area of Bara on Sunday....		Arbab announces candidate for Tharparkar nazim MITHI, Aug 28: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, has said a councillor or nazim, elected with the vote of the public should come up to the expectations of masses instead of protecting his own interests....