November 21, 2005	Monday	Shawwal 18, 1426

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Bringing order by changing order ISLAMABAD, Nov 20: For 58 years every Pakistani child has been taught that “Unity, Faith, Discipline” was the guiding motto that the founding father left for the nation to progress....		Opposition criticized for not attending donors’ conference LARKANA, Nov 20: Pakistan Muslim League general secretary Mushahid Hussain Sayyed has said the donors’ conference in Islamabad is a big success and criticized the opposition for not attending it....
AJK by-poll for refugees’ constituency put off MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 20: Azad Kashmir’s acting chief election commissioner Justice Reaz Akhtar Chaudhry has announced postponement of by-election due in a Kashmiri refugees’ constituency in the NWFP following the death of an AJK lawmaker in the quake....		Donors moot a success: Pervaiz LAHORE, Nov 20: The international donors conference has been a success and by announcing generous assistance for rehabilitation of quake-hit people the world community have shown full confidence in the government....
Entire crop of quake-hit farmers being bought ABBOTTABAD, Nov 20: Maj-Gen Shakeel Hussain, Base Commander of quake-affected areas of NWFP, has said that efforts are under way to restore economic activities in the desaster hit region so that people can restart normal life....		Helipad construction stopped by tribesmen LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Nov 20: Zakhakhel tribesmen in the Bazaar area of Landi Kotal tehsil have forced the army authorities to stop construction of a helipad near the Jarhobi camp, official sources said here....
Call to activate police complaints commissions PESHAWAR, Nov 20: The provincial coordination council of district Public Safety Commissions (PSCs) and Police Complaints Commissions (PCCs) on Sunday asked the NWFP government to make the provincial commission operational for proper functioning of the district bodies....		Quake ‘refuges’ facing food shortage HARIPUR, Nov 20: About 4,000 quake victims, who have moved to Haripur, are experiencing a shortage of food as the government and international aid agencies are supplying relief goods only in...
Accord to clean up Muzaffarabad MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 20: The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) and the Muzaffarabad Municipal Corporation (MMC) have singed a memorandum of understanding for launching an effective cleanliness drive in the state capital....		US senator gives Rs5.9m for school buildings ISLAMABAD, Nov 20: US Senator George Allen on Sunday presented a cheque of Rs5.9 million to The Citizens Foundation (TCF) that would be spent on rebuilding schools in the quake-hit areas....
Plan to set up technical institutes okayed TAXILA, Nov 20: Federal Minister for Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis Ghulam Sarwar Khan has said the government has approved a Rs500 million plan to establish technical education and vocational training institutes to produce skilled labour....		Volunteers leave for affected areas RAWALPINDI, Nov 20: Punjab Governor Lt-Gen (retired) Khalid Maqbool on Sunday said the government and people of Punjab would continue to extend every possible help to the earthquake-stricken people of the NWFP and Azad Kashmir....
Proposals on train project ISLAMABAD, Nov 20: Four companies have submitted their proposals to the Capital Development Authority for recreational train project which is aimed at facilitating tourists in the federal capital, an authority official said here on Sunday....		Parliamentary panel to meet next week ISLAMABAD, Nov 20: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Sunday discussed with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain agenda of the meeting of the parliamentary committee for supervising rehabilitation and reconstruction plans....
High Court bar polls QUETTA Nov 20: The returning officer for Balochistan High Court Bar Association elections, Senator Amanullah Kanrani, has announced that Senator Kamran Murtaza and Sajid Tareen have been elected president and general secretary respectively of the BHCBA....		Jam Yousuf hails fund pledges QUETTA, Nov 20: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Mir Mohammad Yusuf has welcomed pledges made by the world community for quake victims, saying it is due to the clear vision of President...
Rocket lands in PML leader’s house QUETTA, Nov 20: A rocket fired from the mountainous area of Nushki on Sunday landed in a house in Killi Hayatabad without causing any loss of life or damaged to property....		Benazir and Nawaz should be allowed to return: Khar KHAIRPUR, Nov 20: Former Punjab Governor Ghulam Mustafa Khar has said that no movement against the government will succeed without a good leadership. He was talking to newsmen at the residence of PPP leader Pir Zaman Shah Rashdi in Pir-Jo-Goth....
Jobs for locals demanded BADIN, Nov 20: A large number of people staged a demonstration on the Shah Latif road here on Sunday in protest against an oil and gas exploration company, demanding the right of job for local people....		Club’s new committee registered HYDERABAD, Nov 20: A new committee of the Dialdas Club has been registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860. Nawab Mohammad Hassan Talpur and Nasir Mahmood Pirzada have been named the president and the general secretary....
Jhang dist nazim faces tough time: Warring allies expect a lot JHANG, Nov 20: The new district nazim faces an uphill task of keeping in good humour all his major allies when most of them happen to be staunch opponents having divergent interests in the area’s politics....		Teams of varsity students to join relief work MULTAN, Nov 20: The public-sector universities in Punjab will send teams of youth to join the rehabilitation efforts in the earthquake-hit areas of Azad Kashmir and the NWFP....
4 PML office-bearers sacked for violation GUJRANWALA, Nov 20: As many as four ruling PML district office-bearers were sacked, while their basic memberships suspended for one month, for violating party discipline and policy by PML secretary general and provincial communication minister Chaudhry Zaheerud Din on Sunday....		Differences over Toba naib nazim slot TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 20: The upcoming election for the district naib nazim slot has once again created difference in the ruling PML. Former district nazim and Punjab PML vice-president Chaudhry...
Groom among six killed in accidents SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 20: Six people, including a groom and a woman, were killed in different incidents in and around the district here on Sunday. Reports said groom Muhammad Saleem along with...		Three POs held after encounter LAHORE, Nov 20: Kasur police claimed on Sunday to have arrested three proclaimed offenders after an encounter. Kasur DPO Ahmad Mobin said a police patrol signalled three men on a motorcycle to stop who, instead, tried to escape....
Tough contest in PP-97 likely GUJRANWALA, Nov 20: A tough contest among three candidates is likely on Monday (today) in PP-97 Gujranwala by-polls. Independent aspirant Dr Ghulam Sarwar, brother-in-law of disqualified MPA Mian Mazher Javed, ARD...		TMO among 20 booked for thrashing UC nazim RAHIM YAR KHAN, Nov 20: Kot Samba police on Sunday registered a case against the Rahim Yar Khan TMO and 19 others, including policemen, on the orders of the Lahore High Court (Bahawalpur bench)....
Lawyers oppose Faisalabad division FAISALABAD, Nov 20: The District Bar Association has threatened to stage protest demonstrations if the proposed plan of dividing Faisalabad district into two parts is implemented....		DCO asked to report on closed schools SIALKOT, Nov 20: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi has taken a serious notice of the closure of more than six government girls primary schools in Bajwat’s far-off villages owing to non-availability of teaching staff and the precarious condition of buildings....
Two killed on road SAHIWAL, Nov 20: Two family members were killed while four others sustained serious injuries on Saturday night in an accident on Sahiwal-Pakpattan Road near Chak 81/D....		PPP leader’s son kidnapped SAHIWAL, Nov 20: The son of a PPP leader was kidnapped over some property dispute on Sunday by seven armed men in Chak 118/12-L. Reports said that Humayun Sikandar was going...
Wheat sowing slow in Punjab LAHORE, Nov 20: The wheat sowing drive in the Punjab has got a lacklustre response from the farmers this year as the best time for cultivation ends on Sunday and not...		Govt not yet clear on community centres’ use LAHORE, Nov 20: The Punjab government is still indecisive about the future use of the 465 community centres which were built over private land and used as personal ‘dens’ by powerful...
DIG injured in accident LAHORE, Nov 20: City police chief DIG Tariq Saleem on Sunday sustained injuries in an accident on Raiwind Road. Returning from the Raiwind annual congregation, his car ran into a trailer which came across from a side road, police said....		EU supported opposition’s viewpoint, says Qazi LAHORE, Nov 20: Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmad said on Sunday that the European Union had seconded the viewpoint of the opposition by asking the government to have the rehabilitation and...
Congregation at Raiwind concludes LAHORE, Nov 20: The four-day annual ‘Tableeghi Ijtima’ at Raiwind concluded on Sunday with hundreds of thousands of people from all over Pakistan and other countries pledging to devote themselves to the dissemination of the message of Islam throughout the world....		Sherpao briefs Japan minister on terror war ISLAMABAD, Nov 20: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao and Japanese senior Vice-Foreign Minister Shiozaki discussed cooperation in war on terror and human trafficking, here on Saturday....
Quake-hit students to get aid PESHAWAR, Nov 20: NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah Khan has directed principals of public sector medical collegesin the province to prepare lists of students affected by the Oct 8 earthquake so that financial support may be provided to them....		Charity to build earthquake resistant homes WASHINGTON, Nov 20: Paki-stan has authorized a US-based charity to build 800 earthquake resistant homes near Abbottabad, officials said on Friday. Human Assistance & Development International Inc, which is registered as...
Al Khidmat to build 100,000 houses ABBOTTABAD, Nov 20: The Al Khidmat Foundation has set a target of building 100,000 houses in the earthquake-affected areas. It has so far distributed relief goods worth Rs1.5...		Centre provides help to 5,800 farmers HARIPUR, Nov 20: At least 5,893 farmers, most of them small landholders, have benefited from the Farm Service Centre (FSC) over the past four years and helped strengthen the agriculture sector....
Khalil urges immediate help for Hazara varsity PESHAWAR, Nov 20: NWFP Governor Khalilur Rehman has stressed the need of expediting efforts to solve the infrastructure and accommodation problems at the quake-affected Hazara University....		Sherpao hails success of donor meeting PESHAWAR, Nov 20: Federal Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has said that the international assistance for rehabilitation and reconstruction of quake-hit areas is an outcome of successful foreign policy of the present government....