November 19, 2005	Saturday	Shawwal 16, 1426

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Coordinated efforts to save quake victims stressed ISLAMABAD, Nov 18: Oxfam, an international non-government organization, has called for coordinated efforts by the international community to save the lives of millions of earthquake survivors who are set to brave the harsh winter in the coming months....		Opposition insists on probe into tent purchase ISLAMABAD, Nov 18: The opposition on Friday succeeded in persuading Senate Chairman Mohammadmian Soomro to refer the matter of purchasing “low-quality tents” for the earthquake victims to the relevant committee of the house....
Nawab Bugti’s party condemns Karachi blast QUETTA, Nov 18: The Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) has condemned the Karachi blast and accused the government of implicating its leader and his tribe in the incident, which it said was a pre-planned conspiracy....		BSO warns govt against building Awaran garrison QUETTA, Nov 18: A faction of the Baloch Students Organization (BSO) has accused the government of hatching a plot to build a garrison in Awaran district in what it said was...
Medical colleges’ admission stayed PESHAWAR, Nov 18: The Peshawar High Court on Friday stayed the admission process in public sector medical colleges in the province over a writ petition challenging the holding of the entrance test by the Education Testing and Evaluation Authority (ETEA)....		Relief troops to stay till needed: Rocca PESHAWAR, Nov 18: US Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca on Friday said that the US military personnel involved in relief and rehabilitation work would continue to stay in Pakistan as long as it was required....
Survivors encash Rs1.5bn cheques ABBOTTABAD, Nov 18: Compensation cheques of more than Rs1.5 billion given to survivors of last month’s earthquake have been encashed at the Bank of Khyber’s branches in Abbottabad and Mansehra....		School for Kashmiri refugees reopens MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 18: A charity school for victims of conflict in Kashmir reopened in the AJK capital on Thursday. The Sawera Model School, providing free tuition to 175 of its 210...
Proposals for better judiciary LAHORE, Nov 18: Supreme Court Bar Association president Malik Mohammad Qayyum has proposed a uniform retirement age of 65 years for the Supreme Court and high courts judges with cent percent...		PU housing society issue echoes in PA LAHORE, Nov 18: The Punjab University housing society issue reverberated in the Punjab Assembly on Friday when Sheikh Allauddin of the treasury took the flour on an adjournment motion and told...
150 telecom workers dismissed ISLAMABAD, Nov 18: Telecom Foundation, a subsidiary of Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL), has fired 150 workers in the past one-and-a-half months while fears are high that it will not renew contracts of about 2,250 more employees till the end of December....		Special allowance for poor in Swabi SWABI, Nov 18: The District Zakat Department has been given Rs8.3 million to be distributed among poverty-stricken people across the district as subsistence allowance. Sources told Dawn on Friday that deserving...
SAP teachers stage protest GILGIT, Nov 18: Representatives of 1,155 teachers of the Social Action Programme staged a sit-in outside the Northern Areas Legislative Council on Friday to demand regularization of their service....		110 bogus permits of anti-opium pills cancelled GUJRANWALA, Nov 18: The local DHQ Hospital administration cancelled around 110 permits of anti-opium pills after declaring them bogus here on Friday. Reports said that number of official permit holders were...
A grandeur of the past SADIQABAD, Nov 18: A historic palace at Jajja Abbasian Town in Khanpur tehsil has fallen apart owing to indifference of those at the helm. Built nearly two centuries ago in the late Nawab Sadiq Muhammad Khan Abbasi’s reign...		Sialkot traders set up hospital in Balakot SIALKOT, Nov 18: The Sialkot business community has established a 200-bed well-equipped hospital in Balakot for providing free of cost medical facilities to quake victims. Talking to reporters here on Friday,...
1,600 cotton bales burnt as factory catches fire VEHARI, Nov 18: Around 1,600 cotton bales were reduced to ashes after the Data cotton factory caught fire on Vehari-Luddan Road late on Thursday night. Six labourers, including Siddique, Manawar Ali,...		Flyover in Bahawalpur BAHAWALPUR, Nov 18: A sum of Rs360 million is being spent on the construction of a flyover at Abbasia Chowk between Ahmadpur East and Dera Nawab Sahib, about 50 kilometres from here, and a grid station at Uch Sharif....
Tight security for bypolls LAHORE, Nov 18: Punjab IGP Ziaul Hassan on Friday directed the Gujranwala DIG and DPO to ensure foolproof arrangements for bypolls in PP-97 (Gujranwala) being held on Nov 21....		Civil teams to patrol Sangla SANGLA HILL, Nov 18: Punjab police chief Major Ziaul Hassan (retired) has directed police to constitute civil committees in order to improve police patrolling system. According to official sources, the IGP...
CS asked to suspend guilty officer FAISALABAD, Nov 18: The home department has moved the Punjab chief secretary to suspend from service Rawalpindi DIG Prisons Mian Salik Jalal, who was found guilty of negligence in the last year’s jailbreak while serving as the Faisalabad central jail superintendent....		Officials facing corruption cases in Dadu DADU, Nov 18: The anti-corruption committee-II (ACC-II) has decided to register corruption cases against four officials of food and agriculture departments, prosecute seven education officials and hold departmental inquiries against 60 officials of different departments of the district, here on Friday....
Villagers protest against police SUKKUR, Nov 18: A number of people belonging to the Drib village in the Jhangro area of Sukkur staged a protest demonstration and observed a sit-in, in front of DIG Police office Sukkur, on Friday against alleged atrocities of Jhangro police....		Nine officials booked for corruption NAWABSHAH, Nov 18: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE), Nawabshah, on Thursday booked nine officials of the food department, including four district food controllers and three food inspectors, for misusing Rs26.9...
Upgradation of schools: MPAs criticize policy QUETTA, Nov 18: Opposition members in the Balochistan Assembly on Friday criticized the government’s policy of upgrading schools, saying it was designed to promote party interests, rather than merit....		Man killed in shootout QUETTA, Nov 18: A man was killed and another two sustained bullet injuries in an exchange of firing between two tribes over a land dispute in Kalat on Friday According to...
Two shot dead in Lakki Marwat LAKKI MARWAT, Nov 18: A constable and a retired policeman were gunned down in broad daylight at the main bus-stop here on Friday. Retired policeman Mirza Khan and constable Sikandar Khan...		Boards not to be merged: minister KOHAT, Nov 18: The federal Minister of State for Water and Power has assured a delegation from Kohat that the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education of Kohat will not be merged with the Peshawar board....
Three die of suffocation ABBOTTABAD, Nov 18: Three workers of a bakery in Galiyat died of suffocation while sleeping on Thursday night. The victims — Asfand Babo of Abbottabad, Munsif of Sargodha and Ashfaq of...		Market committee secretaries suspended JACOBABAD, Nov 18: Sindh Agriculture Secretary Nazar Mohammad Mahar has suspended secretaries of Shikarpur and Jacobabad market committees for extorting naka tax. Talking to newsmen here on Thursday, Mr Mahar expressed...
ASF action: passengers bailed out LAHORE, Nov 18: Six passengers, who were arrested on Thursday by the Airport Security Force, secured their bail from a court of competent jurisdiction on Friday....		Pakistan Bar Council election today LAHORE, Nov 18: As many as 158 members of the four provincial bar councils go to polls on Saturday (today) to elect a 22-member general council of the Pakistan Bar Council for the next five-year term....
PBC gets cheque for hostel LAHORE, Nov 18: Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi is said to have given a cheque of Rs20 million to the Punjab Bar Council for the establishment of a lawyers’ hostel in Lahore....		‘Language: an instrument of power’ LAHORE, Nov 18: Language and political history enthusiast and scholar Dr Tariq Rahman told his audiences here that language historically had been used as an instrument to assert political power, and the case of Pakistan was no exception....
CM for reorganizing farm research sector LAHORE, Nov 18: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Friday directed the agriculture department to reorganize research sector and submit a report within a week. Presiding over a meeting here he directed...		Poultry group to arrange bird flu vaccination LAHORE, Nov 18: The Pakistan Poultry Association will arrange on a large scale vaccination against Avian Influenza H-7 and H-9 at the poultry farms for the prevention of bird flu....
Arts festival opens today LAHORE, Nov 18: A special show in connection with the World Performing Arts Festival was held here at the Alhamra Cultural Complex on Friday evening. The formal opening of the 10-day...		Kidnap for ransom on the rise in Punjab LAHORE, Nov 18: An alarming increase in the kidnap for ransom cases has been recorded in the Punjab in the last five years, with nine cases being registered every month in the current year....
House rushes through queries LAHORE, Nov 18: Facing the quorum crisis yet again, the Punjab Assembly on Friday ran through its business in a perfunctory manner. The attendance did not exceed 60 in the house...		Need for plan to combat diabetes stressed PESHAWAR, Nov 18: Provincial Health Minister Inayatullah Khan on Friday stressed the need for an effective strategy to combat diabetes. Speaking at a ceremony held at the Hayatabad Medical Complex...
Action ordered against SHO PESHAWAR, Nov 18: The Peshawar district and sessions judge, Shahjehan Khan Akhundzada, on Friday directed the provincial police officer to take departmental action against the SHO of Faqirabad police station for keeping two people in illegal detention for two weeks....		Anti-polio drive from 22nd PESHAWAR, Nov 18: NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah Khan said on Friday that the provincial government, in collaboration with international donor agencies, was striving to eradicate polio from the province....
Tribute paid to late scholar PESHAWAR, Nov 18: Vice-Chancellor of the University of Peshawar Mumtaz Gul has paid rich tributes to former director of the Institute of Management Studies, late Dr Mumtaz Bangash, for his work to improve the standard of the institute....		Additional chief secy LAHORE, Nov 18: Punjab local government secretary Naguibullah Malik was made additional chief secretary here on Friday. He would continue to hold the additional charge of the local government department till further orders....