August 30, 2005	Tuesday	Rajab 24, 1426

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West needs to reform its policies rather than Islam ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: The West needs to review its own policies rather than seeking reformation of Islam, said Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr Maleeha Lodhi, on Monday....		Row between ministries to be resolved: Export of flour to Afghanistan ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: The ministries of food and finance are in a serious row over the proposed export of wheat flour to Afghanistan as the domestic market is yet to come out of rising food shortage....
Benazir summons leaders on poor showing KARACHI, Aug 29: Following dismal performance of candidates backed by the Pakistan People’s Party in the local body polls, party chairperson Ms Benazir Bhutto has summoned the parliamentary party leader in...		ANP, JI form alliance in Mardan MARDAN, Aug 29: Groups backed by the Awami National Party and the Jamaat-i-Islami have struck a deal to jointly contest the forthcoming election of the district and two tehsils....
Detailed SC judgment on sanad issue LAHORE, Aug 29: The Supreme Court has observed that religious educational institutions in the country are being managed and run by the private sector without a statutory sanction and without affiliation with a recognized university or educational board....		Inspector among four killed Cyprian: Murder mystery solved LAHORE, Aug 29: Police on Monday claimed to have solved the murder mystery of a former federal minorities minister and arrested his three alleged killers, including a police inspector....
Woman’s death: family seeks justice: Appeal for CJ’s action PESHAWAR, Aug 29: Family members of a woman, who died at a hospital here allegedly after police torture, have requested the Peshawar High Court’s chief justice to take suo motu notice of police high handedness....		Wagons to operate on 37 routes from Thursday LAHORE, Aug 29: The District Regional Transport Authority on Monday decided to issue route permits for operation of mini-buses and wagons on 37 routes in the city district from Thursday....
New curricula to be ready in one year: minister ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: Federal Minister for Education Lt-Gen (retired) Javed Ashraf Qazi on Monday said the new curricula would be completed within one year and adopted by all the boards of the country in 2007....		Super Highway project hits snags RAWALPINDI, Aug 29: The construction of Super Highway and flyover between Marir Chowk and Chandni Chowk on Murree Road has hit snags. Sources said work on the project was to start...
Pakistan Day celebrated in New York NEW YORK, Aug 29: Raising slogans of “Pakistan Zindabad” thousands of Pakistanis on Sunday participated in the parade to celebrate country’s Independence Day here as they marched down Madison Avenue which was partially closed down for the occasion....		No clue yet to missing Japanese teachers ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: The whereabouts of two missing Japanese teachers are still unknown and efforts have been stepped up to find them. The two went missing after checking out from a hotel in Quetta on Aug 8....
PPP legislator alleges massive rigging: Local body polls SUKKUR, Aug 29: Central leader of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, MNA Khursheed Shah, has alleged massive rigging during the second phase of the local body elections....		MQM set to form district govt HYDERABAD, Aug 29: The Haq Parast Group backed by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement claims to have grabbed 416 seats of councillors including nazims and naib nazim in 52 UCs....
PPP accuses CM of abusing autority THATTA, Aug 29: Deputy opposition leader in Sindh Assembly, Makhdoom Jamiluzzaman, has accused Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim of having abused his official powers during the local body elections....		Larkana board results announced LARKANA, Aug 29: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Larkana, announced results of the higher secondary certificate part-II of pre-medical and pre-engineering groups....
Jam calls on Shaukat Aziz ISLAMABAD, Aug 29: Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Mohammad Yousaf called on Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz here on Monday and discussed with him law and order situation and recently held local body elections in the province....		Strike observed in Khanpur Mahar SUKKUR, Aug 29: A complete shutter-down strike was observed in Khanpur Mahar on Monday in protest against arrest of 20 people from different hotels of the city....
Protest against robberies LARKANA, Aug 29: Residents of the Allahabad colony blocked the Airport Road protesting over robberies in the area. Ghulam Shabir Sheikh led the protest. The protesters staged a sit-in and alleged that robberies and theft had become common in their areas....		Gender justice project in D. I. Khan PESHAWAR, Aug 29: The ministry of local government and rural development formally launched a two-year pilot project on Gender Justice through Musalihat Anjuman (GJTMA) in Abbottabad and Dera Ismail Khan districts of the NWFP on Monday....
Group formed in Swabi against ANP, PML-N SWABI, Aug 29: All opposition groups have joined hands against the Awami National Party (ANP) and PML-N when they forged a grand alliance for the upcoming district nazim and Tehsil nazim elections in the district....		Demand for action against vote ban on women PESHAWAR, Aug 29: Women voters of the Katozai union council in the Shabqadar tehsil of Charsadda district on Monday staged a protest demonstration against barring women from casting votes in the local council elections....
Call to recruit sons of retired, dead workers PESHAWAR, Aug 29: The united municipal workers association has demanded that instead of making employments on political basis, sons of the dead and retired workers should be recruited....		Stress laid on quality education GILGIT, Aug 29: The speaker, Northern Areas Legislative Council, Malik Mohammad Miskeen, has appreciated the role played by Aga Khan Education Service in promoting quality education in the area....
‘Govt to set up model madressahs’ QUETTA, Aug 29: The government will soon set up model madressahs in the Haj Complex buildings across the country so that their graduates could better serve nation and the faith, said religious affairs minister Ejazul Haq....		JI advises CM not to back JUI-F candidate PESHAWAR, Aug 29: Naib Ameer of the Jamat-i-Islami (JI) and MNA Shabir Ahmad Khan has advised Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani against jeopardizing the unity of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal by extending...
Irregularities in Zakat distribution alleged PESHAWAR, Aug 29: The standing committee on Zakat and Ushr has expressed dismay over alleged irregularities in distribution of Zakat in certain parts of Dir Lower during 2002-2003....		Tree survey by Lahore Cantonment Board LAHORE, Aug 29: The Lahore Cantonment Board is carrying out a complete documentation of all trees within its jurisdiction....
Buildings against site plans to be ‘checked’ LAHORE, Aug 29: District Coordination Officer Khalid Sultan has claimed the city district government would stop construction of plazas being built in violation of bylaws and approved site plans....		Case against SI ordered for faulty investigation LAHORE, Aug 29: Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Razvi of the Lahore High Court on Monday ordered the registration of a criminal case against sub-inspector Mukhtar Ali for faulty investigation into an FIR....
Policies urged to end child labour LAHORE, Aug 29: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has urged the government to put holistic policies in place to address the root causes of child labour and sale of children...		Pervez Mehdi dead LAHORE, Aug 29: Ghazal singer Pervez Mehdi died of cardiac arrest here on Monday. He was 58. A singer in classical mould, Pervez Mehdi had been a disciple of legend Mehdi Hassan....
Body to review medical colleges’ admission policy LAHORE, Aug 29: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi has constituted a high-level committee to review admission policy for medical colleges and increased quota for special students from 12 per cent to 16 per cent....		Petitioner told to move election tribunal LAHORE, Aug 29: The LHC on Monday declined to entertain a petition raising an election dispute observing that such grievances should now be agitated with an election tribunal....
Parties face internal strife in Faisalabad: Nominations FAISALABAD, Aug 29: Both the ruling and opposition PMLs are experiencing internal strife over the nomination of candidates for the top slots of eight towns and the city district....		Bahawalpur Ittehad shows its cards BAHAWALPUR, Aug 29: The Bahawalpur Ittehad headed by MNA Syed Tasneem Nawaz Gardezi organized a gathering of 72 union council nazims and naib nazims to show its strength during a press conference at the Gardezi House on Monday....
Mother’s appeal for clemency MULTAN, Aug 29: The mother of a man sentenced to death for a 2003 attempt to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf begged the military leader on Monday to have mercy on her son....		Nazim among 40 booked for injuring 15 GUJRANWALA, Aug 29: Around 40 people, including ruling party aspirant for Aroop Town Nazim Navid Anwar Bhinder, were booked on Monday for injuring 15 people of the rival Awan group with firearms in a polling station on Aug 18....
RO shows ‘favour’ to candidate MULTAN, Aug 29: A returning officer in Dera Ghazi Khan district announced successful a candidate for the nazim slot despite that he had himself forwarded to the police four written complaints...		Peshawar to host Hindko language, culture conference PESHAWAR, Aug 29: The Gandhara Hindko Board, a literary-cum-cultural organization, has decided to hold a two-day Hindko Conference here on Nov 19. This was announced at a meeting of the executive...
Afghan officials asked to arrest child smuggler PESHAWAR, Aug 29: The Federal Investigation Agency’s immigration cell has requested the Afghan consulate in Peshawar to urge the authorities in Afghanistan to arrest the alleged ringleader of an international gang of human smugglers operating from Kabul....		PML-N, PPP to publish white paper against govt SIALKOT, Aug 29: The PML-N, the PPP and the MMA have decided to publish a ‘white paper’ under the umbrella of the ARD against the government’s rigging conspiracy during the LB polls....
Urs of Baba Bulleh Shah concludes KASUR, Aug 29: The three-day 248th annual urs of Punjabi mystic poet Baba Bulleh Shah concluded here on Monday. A large number of disciples of the sufi saint across the country participated in urs celebrations....		Rs39m for Qasim Bagh restoration MULTAN, Aug 29: An amount of Rs39 million is being allocated to restore the original historical shape of the famous Qasim Bagh fortress, besides cleansing it of the surrounding encroachments and other defacing elements....
Handicapped teenager dies unattended JHANG, Aug 29: A mentally and physically handicapped boy in his early teens died after remaining unconscious for eight days, lying unattended on the lawns of the district headquarters hospital....		Six IUB students arrested for ‘hooliganism’ BAHAWALPUR, Aug 29: Baghdadul Jadid police arrested six university students of two groups for alleged hooliganism here on Sunday night. According to police, three students of the Islamia University Bahawalpur were allegedly injured by their opponents at the hostel....
Governor lauds performance of Constabulary PESHAWAR, Aug 29: NWFP Governor Khalil-ur-Rehman has described the performance of law-enforcement agencies in maintaining law and order and protecting lives and property of the people as commendable....		Five-acre land tax exemption decision implemented PESHAWAR, Aug 29: The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has issued a notification regarding exemption of land tax up to five acres, says an official handout issued here on Monday....
Tax on cash withdrawals to stay: CBR GUJRANWALA, Aug 29: The Central Board of Revenue has denied abolition of 0.1 per cent withholding tax on more than Rs25,000 cash withdrawals and assured the business community of cut in power and gas tariff shortly....		Three killed MANDI BAHAUDDIN, Aug 29: A woman and her two children were killed and another injured in a road accident near the Qadirabad Bairaj Colony on Monday....