September 3, 2005	Saturday	Rajab 28, 1426

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KARACHI: Muttahida supports dialogue with Israel KARACHI, Sept 2: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s coordination committee has supported President Musharraf’s dialogue initiative with Israel and felt that there was no justification for its opposition because the Palestinians themselves were negotiating peace with Israel....		KARACHI: MMA warns govt against recognizing Israel KARACHI, Sept 2: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri’s meeting with his Israeli counter-part Silvan Shalon was condemned by the participants of various rallies held in different parts of the city outside mosques after Juma prayers....
KARACHI: EC refers pleas against results to tribunals KARACHI, Sept 2: The Election Commission has sent all requests it had received so far for recounting of votes to the concerned election tribunals, which would dispose them of as election petitions....		KARACHI: PML-N base in Sindh eroded KARACHI, Sept 2: Factional fighting within the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), with ethnic undercurrent, further pushed the once formidable party into backwaters of cosmopolitan politics at the grass-root level, but the...
KARACHI: Democracy in ME by force not possible: US scholar KARACHI, Sept 2: A visiting American scholar endorsed the view that the US was wrong in thinking that it could bring democracy to Iraq and the Middle East by force and shared concerns about the American neo-conservatives dominating the policy-making process....		KARACHI: Many areas to go dry for 2 days KARACHI, Sept 2: Various parts of six towns of the city will go dry for 48 hours, starting from 9am on Monday, due to closure being applied by the KWSB to facilitate inter-connection works of the new filter plant at Pipri....
KARACHI: SHC dissatisfied with IO’s comments KARACHI, Sept 2: A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Friday expressed dissatisfaction over the comments submitted by a police inspector in a petition alleging illegal arrest and confinement....		KARACHI: Police asked to investigate kidnapping of girl KARACHI, Sept 2: The Supreme Court directed the police on Friday to investigate the kidnapping of a 15-year-old girl from her house in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on July 7 and submit a report within two weeks....
KARACHI: Lawyer found dead in Mehmoodabad KARACHI, Sept 2: A lawyer was found dead in his house where he had been living alone, in Mehmoodabad, on Friday. Mirza Qaisar Sohail, 45, was lying in a pool of...		KARACHI: Juvenile UTPs waiting for trial KARACHI, Sept 2: The fate of two juvenile under-trial prisoners, charged with possessing hashish, hangs in the balance as the investigation officer has not yet submitted final charge-sheet in the court even after over a year of their arrest....
KARACHI: Placement list of computer science issued KARACHI, Sept 2: The central admission committee for colleges on Friday released the placement list of 1,343 candidates selected for admission to computer science first year classes in different colleges....		KARACHI: KESC gets line losses reduced by 3.9 per cent KARACHI, Sept 2: The Karachi Electric Supply Corporation has finally been able to reduce transmission and distribution losses by 3.9 per cent. In May 1999, when the army took over the...
KARACHI: Traffic warden system to be implemented KARACHI, Sept 2: The Inspector General of Sindh Police, Asad Jehangir, has directed the DIG Traffic to take steps for ensuring implementation of the “traffic warden system” at schools....		KARACHI: Reconstruction of Clifton Aquarium begins KARACHI, Sept 2: The city government has started work on the reconstruction of the Clifton Aquarium to develop it into a modern aquarium of international standard....
KARACHI: Asif withdraws plea KARACHI, Sept 2: The Sindh High Court dismissed as withdrawn on Friday a petition by former premier Benazir Bhutto’s spouse, Asif Ali Zardari, for armed guards, travel in vehicles with tinted glasses and other security precautions....		KARACHI: KBCA razes illegal structures KARACHI, Sept 2: The Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) on Friday demolished illegal structures in various parts of the city. According to KBCA, a demolition team pulled down illegal structures at...
KARACHI: Police ordered to produce detainees KARACHI, Sept 2: A division bench of the SHC ordered the Jamshoro police to produce the two detainees allegedly confined by them on Sept 9. Petitioner Shrimati Rakhi of Tando Mohammad...		KARACHI: KU disaffiliates college KARACHI, Sept 2: The University of Karachi has disaffiliated Ar-Rehman College being managed by the National Professional Educational Trust (NPET). This was announced by the secretary of the affiliation committee of Karachi University, Prof Dr Sohail Barkati, on Friday.—APP...
KARACHI: Khadija Mastoor’s writings praised KARACHI, Sept 2: Rich tributes were paid to prominent writer late Khadija Mastoor on various aspect of her creative art in the context of the tradition of Urdu fiction at a seminar held at the Arts Council here on Thursday....		KARACHI: PPP demands LB polls be declared null & void KARACHI, Sept 2: Sindh chief of the Pakistan People’s Party Syed Qaim Ali Shah said on Friday that nothing less than scrapping of the whole ‘sham’ local body election would be...
KARACHI: Rail link with India by Dec 31 KARACHI, Sept 2: The Khokhrapar-Monabao railway link is likely to be ready by the end of this year as the Pakistan Railway has completed conversion of 35 kilometres of meter gauge track to broad gauge....		KARACHI: Encroachment report denied KARACHI, Sept 2: A spokesman for the Forest and Wildlife Department, Sindh, commenting on a news item captioned “Water shortage cause of vanishing forests in Sindh,” which appeared in a section...
KARACHI: Debate KARACHI, Sept 2: The Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology will organize a debate contest at its auditorium on Sept 5. The topic of the debate is, “We all are irresponsible”.—APP...		HYDERABAD: Re-election today in 7 polling stations HYDERABAD, Sept 2: Fresh polls will be held in seven polling stations of Hyderabad and Tando Mohammad Khan districts on Saturday. Hyderabad DRO Zaheeruddin S. Leghari on August 26 had urged...
HYDERABAD: Elected people urged to achieve uplift target HYDERABAD, Sept 2: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said that providing basic facilities to people of deprived areas is the main challenge for newly-elected representatives of the local bodies....		HYDERABAD: Committee set up on farm sector coordination HYDERABAD, Sept 2: A committee would be constituted to establish strong links between agricultural education, research and extension. Provincial Agriculture Secretary Nazar Hussain Mahar and Vice-Chancellor of the Tandojam Sindh Agriculture...
MITHI: DCO seeks calamity-hit status for Tharparkar MITHI, Sept 2: DCO Dr Aftab Ahmed Memon has sent letters to senior member of the Sindh Board of Revenue and the Sindh relief commissioner requesting them to declare Tharparkar district, except its seven barrage villages, a calamity-affected area....		MIRPURKHAS: 20 injured as bus overturns MIRPURKHAS, Sept 2: Around 20 passengers were injured when an Umerkot-bound bus overturned near Bachao Band on the Mirpurkhas-Umerkot road on Thursday. The injured were taken to the basic health unit, Dhoronaro....
KHAIRPUR: Water theft case against 13 registered KHAIRPUR, Sept 2: The SDO of irrigation, Faiz Ganj, registered a case at the Faiz Ganj police station against 13 growers on Thursday night for the alleged involvement in stealing water...