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DAWN - the Internet Edition
September 12, 2005 Monday Sha’aban 7, 1426

National
 
‘Ulema critical of amended law’
ISLAMABAD Sept 11: The executive committee of Wafaqul Madaris Arabia (Deobandi) met here on Sunday and expressed willingness to register seminaries affiliated with it, provided it was done under the unchanged Registration of Societies Act 1860....
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Jihad council leader rejects ceasefire call
MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 11: A Kashmiri Mujahideen leader on Sunday rejected a call attributed by a section of Pakistani press to a leader of the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led faction of the All...
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Bomb planted on road defused
MIRAMSHAH, Sept 11: A remote-controlled device planted along the main road near the Qutubkhel village was defused shortly before three military trucks were to pass through the place on Sunday....
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‘Policemen grabbed Rs45m’: Report gives out Asim-police deal
FAISALABAD, Sept 11: SP Abdullah Khalid and Inspector Jamshed Iqbal Chishti, the main accused in the Sonia Naz case and the motor registration scandal, have been declared guilty of receiving Rs45...
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Minister says PR board executive body illegal
LAHORE, Sept 11: Minister of State for Railways Ishaq Khan Khakwani says the PR Board executive committee has no legal basis at all. The committee is scheduled to meet on Monday...
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Mob sets police post on fire: Desecration of Holy Quran
SARGODHA, Sept 11: A mob torched the Farooka police post in Sahiwal tehsil, some 52km from here, on Saturday night following reports that the post in-charge had desecrated the Holy Quran....
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No major change in offing: Shujaat
PESHAWAR, Sept 11: Ruling Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Sunday rejected speculation about ‘any major political change’ in the country. Talking to reporters after meeting NWFP Governor Khalilur...
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Unease in ruling party on eve of nazim election
RAWALPINDI, Sept 11: Desperation looked creeping into government ranks on the eve of the third phase of local body elections of filing of nominations for district nazims....
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Vocational centre faces closure
GILGIT, Sept 11: A vocational centre for women in the Ishkomen valley in Ghizer district may be closed down because of shortage of funds and staff, district councillor Mashrouf Akram has...
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2 children drown in Tarbela lake
HARIPUR, Sept 11: Two children drowned while bathing in the Tarbela lake and two others were rescued by the area people here on Saturday evening, police said....
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PPP-JI talks for Chitral seats fail
CHITRAL, Sept 11: The much-awaited electoral alliance between the Jamaat-i-Islami and PPP did not come about due to lack of flexibility or both sides in working out a formula for distribution of seats of district nazim and two tehsil nazims....
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Struggle to continue
GUJRANWALA, Sept 11: The opposition will continue its joint struggle against the government and president till the complete restoration of real democracy under the 1973 Constitution....
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Rangers ‘occupy’ farm research buildings in RYK, Khanpur
MULTAN, Sept 11: Official and non-official members of the Cotton Crop Management Group have cried out against alleged highhandedness of the army and Rangers. A grower member of the CCMG from...
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Three brothers shoot uncle, grandfather, grandmother
VEHARI, Sept 11: Three brothers shot dead their grandfather, grandmother and uncle on a piece of land at Chak 159/WB, Thingi area, some 20kms from here on Sunday....
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ARD fields town nazim hopeful in Wazirabad
GUJRANWALA, Sept 11: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy has nominated Advocate Zafer Gondel of PML-N for Wazirabad town nazim slot and asked him to launch his campaign with coordination of PPP activists....
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PPP MPA, activist re-arrested
OKARA, Sept 11: B-Division police again arrested PPP district president and MPA Muhammad Ashraf Khan Sohna and an activist in another case under 16 MPO registered in 2004....
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18 shopkeepers fined
GUJRANWALA, Sept 11: Eighteen shopkeepers, including butchers, were fined for overcharging and not displaying rate lists here on Sunday. A team led by the district price control committee chairman raided shops in various parts of the city....
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‘Police flouting law to detain women’
PESHAWAR, Sept 11: Police have found a way to flout an amendment made to the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) under which no woman, suspected in the Offence of Zina Ordinance, could be arrested without prior permission from a court of law....
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Gilgit firing: two suspects held
GILGIT, Sept 11: On the second day of a search operation launched on Saturday morning in Barmas, security forces arrested four suspects, sources said. The operation is aimed at tracking down...
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Close contest likely in Abbottabad
ABBOTTABAD, Sept 11: The candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) for the post of district nazim, Javed Abbasi, has gained support of Al Khidmat Group and the People’s Party Parliamentarians,...
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