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UN yet to receive adequate funds for victims: official MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 30: A UN official on Sunday regretted that the world body had not received as much funds as it required to help earthquake victims in Pakistan....		Telecom links restored in quake-hit areas ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Thanks to swift and combined response of the government, private companies and international community, basic telecom infrastructure has been restored in the quake-stricken zone to ensure accelerated relief activities....
Neelum road repair to take more than 4 months: ISPR RAWALPINDI, Oct 30: Elaborating a news item relating to the Neelum Valley road, which appeared in a section of the press on Sunday, a spokesman of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)...		No plans to reduce relief aid: US ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The United States assured Pakistan on Sunday that it had no intentions of reducing support to the ongoing relief operations in the quake-hit areas and urged the donor community to be more forthcoming in this regard....
Iran, China send tents for quake victims ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: World community continued send relief assistance for quake victims as more aircraft landed at the Chaklala Airbase carrying relief goods on Sunday....		Local donations not reaching Balakot BALAKOT, Oct 30: Majority of relief camps set up in various cities across the country for collecting donations in the name of quake-affected people have no existence in the flattened city of Balakot....
WHO sets up cell to compile medical data MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 30: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has established a coordination cell in a hospital here to compile information about outbreak of diseases and administration of vaccines, an official said on Friday....		BoGs to run family support plan LAHORE, Oct 30: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi announced here on Sunday the administrative set-up of the “Support a family relief programme” that would be run by a board of governors with the help of Nadra....
Senate body for revision of curriculum ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The Senate standing committee on education, science and technology has underlined the need for reviewing and updating the curriculum according to the changing needs of the time....		Governor urged to withdraw language notification HYDERABAD, Oct 30: Activ-ists of the Sindhi Adabi Sangat and People’s Cultural Wing on Sunday held a demonstrations across Sindh in protest against abolition of Salees Sindhi teaching in class-XI....
Newly-wed couple gunned down PESHAWAR, Oct 30: Unidentified assailants on Sunday shot dead a newly-wed couple who had left their homes in Quetta and had got married here, official sources said....		Child recovered, abductors held: Kidnap for ransom drop scene SHEIKHUPURA, Oct 30: Nankana police recovered a six-year-old boy allegedly kidnapped ten days ago for Rs5 million ransom by three outlaws from Mandi Faizabad....
20,000 illegal Pakistanis in Greece to get passports RAWALPINDI, Oct 30: The government of Pakistan has decided to issue temporary passports to 20,000 illegal Pakistani immigrants to help them to avail themselves of an amnesty offered by the Greek government, Dawn has learnt....		Saudi king assures continued support ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has embarked on a tri-nation visit to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar to mobilise financial support for the October 8 quake relief and reconstruction efforts, a foreign ministry official said on Sunday....
Incorporation of homoeo research in livestock urged ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Pakistan Livestock Research Scientists Association President Dr Hafiz Mohammad Matiullah has said that country’s livestock sector can surely rise to the occasion and boost socio-economic development if due attention is paid to get rid it of various diseases....		Global tragedy needs global response: diplomats ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Ambassadors and senior diplomats, based in the federal capital, have said that the Oct 8 earthquake in Pakistan was a global tragedy and it needs a global response....
Body fails to recover drugs from jail RAWALPINDI, Oct 30: A high-powered committee constituted by the Inspector General Prisons, Punjab, during its search operation in Adiala Jail on Sunday recovered Rs100,000 from the prisoners and compiled lists of...		Eid holidays cancelled ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Federal Secretary Health Syed Anwar Mahmood has directed officials of the ministry attached departments and autonomous bodies dealing with quake relief to remain on duty during the Eid holidays....
Two killed; woman attempts suicide RAWALPINDI, Oct 30: Two persons were killed and one was injured in a clash between two rival groups in Sihala on Sunday while a woman attempted suicide in Ganjmandi area, police said....		Childcare centre RAWALPINDI, Oct 30: A child care centre will be constructed on the pattern of Faizul Islam Complex on Adiala Road under the supervision of the district government to provide shelter and...
Order to expedite Gwadar port work QUETTA, Oct 30: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has instructed the Ministry of Ports and Shipping to seek anticipatory approval of Gwadar Deepwater Port master plan so that it is be made functional as soon as possible....		Lawmakers’ appeal to Wadh factions QUETTA, Oct 30: Senior minister and chief of the parliamentary reconciliatory committee for Wadh, Maulana Abdul Wasay, and leader of the opposition Kachkol Ali have appealed to the rival factions of Wadh to stop issuing statements against each other....
Food packages to be sent by JI MARDAN, Oct 30: The Jamaat-i-Islami’s Mardan chapter will send 3,000 food packages to the earthquake-hit areas soon after Eidul Fitr....		Rocket lands near office of secret agency QUETTA, Oct 30: Saboteurs fired a rocket at the Khuzdar cantonment area late on Sunday night. Police sources said that unidentified men had fired a rocket from the mountains in the west of the township....
Bail granted to woman in drug trafficking case PESHAWAR, Oct 30: The Peshawar High Court has granted bail to a woman who was facing drug trafficking charges. A single-judge bench of Justice Saleem Khan ordered that the accused-petitioner, Gulab...		Hunger strike against oil firm DADU, Oct 30: Farmer Allah Rakhio alias Khamiso Khan Panhwar, of Ghar Pahenja village, Johi taluka, continued his token hunger strike outside the Johi press club on Sunday in protest against...
Protest against killing of contractor NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Oct 30: A procession was taken out from the Court Road to the press club here on Sunday in protest against the killing of a contractor allegedly by police on Oct 18 at the Kot Bahadur bus stop....		Fact-finding team from China due today BEIJING, Oct 30: A Chinese fact-finding team will reach Pakistan on Monday to assess reconstruction and rehabilitation requirements in the earthquake-affected areas and extend further assistance....
Imtiaz backs teaching of Sindhi SHIKARPUR, Oct 30: Former provincial minister Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh has said that those living in Sindh are Sindhis and they should continue their joint struggle for restoration of usurped rights of the province....		Growers want paddy price increased LARKANA, Oct 30: Growers from different parts of Qambar on Saturday took out a procession against traders and millers who purchase paddy at low rates. Amir Bakhsh Jagirani, Mujeeb Bhutto and others led the procession....
4 UC nazims unseated CHITRAL, Oct 30: The election tribunal for Upper Dir district has unseated four union council nazims for possessing certificates from madressahs. The tribunal — comprising Chitral district and sessions judge Saleem Jan Khan — announced the order here on Saturday....		Group fails to nominate consensus candidate KOHAT, Oct 30: A group of union nazims, naib nazims and councillors has failed to finalize a consensus candidate for the post of convener of the Kohat tehsil council, although they...
Three killed in accident QUETTA, Oct 30: Three people were killed in an accident on the National Highway, near Yakmach, on Sunday. A vehicle headed for Quetta from Nushki overturned near Yakmach and caught fire killing its three occupants....		Plan to shift Jhang dist courts rejected JHANG, Oct 30: The District Bar Association has rejected the proposed shifting of Jhang district courts from its present site to a place some 15 kilometres from the city on Chiniot Road....
Robbers’ gang smashed OKARA, Oct 30: Police claimed to have smashed on Sunday a gang of outlaws allegedly involved in six murder cases and seven robberies. DPO Tahir Mehmood Malik told journalists Shakar Garh...		ASI, constable hurt in shootout GUJRAT, Oct 30: An ASI and a constable were shot at and injured by some criminals of the Thala group near Bolani in Sarai Alamgir on Saturday night....
Man injured; cotton reduced to ashes VEHARI, Oct 30: A labourer sustained burn injuries when a fire broke out in grain market here on Sunday, reducing to ashes a large quantity of cotton....		Police fail to solve triple murder mystery GUJRANWALA, Oct 30: Police have failed to find clue to the blind murder of three people during the last two weeks. Reports said landlord Muhammad Anser of Kot Barey Khan village...
Shopkeepers arrested for overcharging SAHIWAL, Oct 30: At least 18 shopkeepers were arrested for overcharging and not displaying price lists at Gamber Adda here on Sunday. Fines totalling Rs30,000 were imposed on 27 shopkeepers for overcharging....		Dacoit shot dead in ‘encounter’ SHEIKHUPURA, Oct 30: Shahkot and the Highway Patrol police shot dead a dacoit in an encounter near Shahkot on Faisalabad Road on Sunday. Reports reaching here said that deceased dacoit Waris...
Man sets ablaze his wife, mother-in-law BAHAWALPUR, Oct 30: A woman and her mother suffered burns when the former’s husband set them ablaze by throwing petrol on them at Himaytan Basti near Satellite Town on Sunday....		NA body to discuss PR affairs today LAHORE, Oct 30: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Railways has taken a serious note of the railways dwindling income and poor utilization of development funds during the first quarter of the current fiscal year....
Mayo Hospital arranges 500 artificial limbs LAHORE, Oct 30: The Mayo Hospital administration has made arrangements for providing artificial arms and legs to some 500 earthquake victims....		A grave surrounded by flowers LAHORE, Oct 30: The Raiwind field where the father of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and ex-chief minister Shahbaz Sharif was buried a year ago, now looks like a spacious lawn, well-mowed....
Kite string slit opens baby’s throat LAHORE, Oct 30: A two-year-old girl died when a kite string slit open her throat in Shadbagh on Sunday. Aurangzeb told police he had sent his servant, Mohammad Ahmad, to fetch some grocery from a market at Chowk Na Khuda....		‘Terrorist’ held LAHORE, Oct 30: Police claimed on Sunday to have arrested an alleged terrorist and seized explosives from him. Lahore investigation police chief Chaudhry Shafqaat said a special team of the anti-terrorist...
Haripur plan for drainage system ABBOTTABAD, Oct 30: The NWFP local government department will initiate a Rs21-million project to establish a modern drainage system and improve the condition of roads in urban areas of Haripur and...		Workers getting less wages than promised: Agents fleecing job-seekers PESHAWAR, Oct 30: Pakistani expatriates in Malaysia are facing numerous problems, wages lower than they have been promised by the overseas employment promoters and harsh working conditions....
Hindko Mushaira held PESHAWAR, Oct 30: The Gandhara Hindko Board, a literary-cum-cultural organization, organized an open-air Hindko Naatia Mushaira here on Saturday night....		Survey of schools, students in quake-hit areas PESHAWAR, Oct 30: The National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) will collect data of all school-going children, dead and injured teachers and school buildings destroyed and damaged in the quake-hit...