December 5, 2005	Monday	Ziqa’ad 2, 1426

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KARACHI: Aga Khan pledges help in uplift projects KARACHI, Dec 4: The spiritual leader of the Ismaili community, Prince Karim Aga Khan, said that his family and the Aga Khan Development Network would continue to play their role towards the progress of Pakistan....		KARACHI: Support in education, health sectors assured KARACHI, Dec 4: Prince Karim Aga Khan met the Sindh Governor, Ishratul Ibad Khan at the Governor’s House on Saturday. At the meeting matters pertaining to education and health also came up for discussion....
KARACHI: SIUT moot on transplant ends KARACHI, Dec 4: No religion restricts organ donations and Islam acknowledges that saving life of one person amounts to saving the whole mankind. This was stated by Dr George Abouna, Professor...		KARACHI: KESC urged to improve billing system KARACHI, Dec 4: After the take over of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation by the new management, citizens are expecting improvement in transmission, distribution and billing systems....
KARACHI: Aga Khan, Ibad visit Beach Park KARACHI, Dec 4: Prince Karim Aga Khan accompanied by Sindh Governor Ishratul Ibad Khan, visited under the construction Beach Park at the Clifton shore here on Saturday night....		KARACHI: Psycho-trauma cases rising in quake-hit areas KARACHI, Dec 4: The Pakistan Medical Association on Sunday expressed deep concern over the rising psychological problems in earthquake ravaged areas....
KARACHI: Work on road expansion starts in Gulshan KARACHI, Dec 4: The Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town Nazim, Muhammad Wasey Jaleel, on Sunday inaugurated the expansion project of Sehba Akhtar Road in the town’s Union Council No 8, said a statement....		KARACHI: Encroachment still major problem in Lyari Town KARACHI, Dec 4: Encroachment is one of the major problems in the old city area. According to residents, it is a thriving business involving million of rupees which could not be run without the support of “highups”....
KARACHI: Pakistan’s image in Europe improving, says envoy KARACHI, Dec 4: European governments and their foreign offices now have a more positive perception of Pakistan and regard it as an important ideally placed state playing a leading role in the Muslim world....		HYDERABAD: Political parties plan march in Karachi against Kalabagh dam HYDERABAD, Dec 4: The Anti-greater Thal Canal and Kalabagh Dam Action Committee has decided to hold a protest march from the Quaid-i-Azam’s mausoleum to the Sindh High Court building on December 22....
KARACHI: Arrangements for Dec 10 by-election reviewed KARACHI, Dec 4: A meeting was held under the chairmanship of Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, Acting Chief Election Commissioner, to review the arrangements made for the by-election in Sindh, an official statement issued here on Sunday said....		KARACHI: Two student activists shot at, wounded KARACHI, Dec 4: One of the two activists of a student wing, who were shot at and wounded by unknown persons late on Saturday night in F.B....
KARACHI: Municipal emergency to control virus urged KARACHI, Dec 4: Shahida Kausar Farooq, the chairperson of Subh-i-Nau, has expressed grave concern over the spread of lethal fevers in the city claiming lives....		KARACHI: Cattle trade in residential localities opposed KARACHI, Dec 4: Residents of Lyari Town have urged the authorities concerned to establish a cattle market in the town’s periphery and have called for a ban on buying and selling of cattle in residential areas....
KARACHI: Reward for rescue team announced KARACHI, Dec 4: A rescue team of the City Fire and Rescue Service which had taken part in the rescue efforts of the Oct 8 earthquake met Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz at the Chief Minister House here on Sunday....		KARACHI: Special people meet CM’s secretaries KARACHI, Dec 4: A seven-member delegation of disabled persons called on Sindh Chief Minister’s Secretary Sikander Ali Kirio and Special Secretary Dr Muhammad Ali to apprise them of their problems, said a statement on Saturday....
KARACHI: Food licences expire on 30th KARACHI, Dec 4: The city government on Saturday notified manufacturers and traders of edible products to renew their pure food licenses before Dec 31, 2005. A handout said that under...		KARACHI: Abrogation of privatization policy demanded KARACHI, Dec 4: Speakers at a conference on Saturday condemned the proposed privatization of the Pakistan Steel, and demanded an end to the privatization policy altogether....
KARACHI: ‘Promotion of IT must for progress’ KARACHI, Dec 4: The Sindh Minister for Environment, Alternate Energy and Information Technology, Noman Saigol, said that for sustainable development and prosperity of the country promotion of information technology was imperative....		KARACHI: Extension in madressahs’ registration date urged KARACHI, Dec 4: The Markazi Jamaat Ahl-i-Sunnat has urged the government to extend the deadline fixed for the registration of Madressahs till June 30 next year....
KARACHI: NWP slams govt over Kalabagh dam KARACHI, Dec 4: The National Workers Party-Karachi chapter has expressed concern over the government’s insistence to construct Kalabagh Dam at all cost....		KARACHI: MMA calls for cut in oil prices KARACHI, Dec 4: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Sunday condemning non-transfer of benefit of the falling oil prices in the international market has strongly demanded that a matching slash in oil prices be made to fulfil the demands of justice....
KARACHI: International Volunteers Day today KARACHI, Dec 4: The 21st International Volunteers Day (IVD) will be observed in Karachi on Dec 5 at the Abdullah Haroon Muslim Gymkhana, at 4pm. Originally sponsored by the UN Proclamation...		KARACHI: Quake-proof construction KARACHI, Dec 4: The Association of Consulting Engineers (Pakistan) on Friday organised a meeting of relevant professionals to discuss seismic resistant design and the impact of earthquake on various types of buildings and infrastructures in general with specific reference to Karachi....
KARACHI: Huts for survivors KARACHI, Dec 4: The Sindh Home Minister, Rauf Siddiqui, on Saturday said the first consignment of 100 quake-proof huts would soon be dispatched to the quake-hit areas....		KARACHI: KBCA razes structures KARACHI, Dec 4: The demolition team of Karachi Building Control Authority has demolished a number of illegal structures in different parts of the city....
HYDERABAD: Demand to respect rights of minorities HYDERABAD, Dec 4: Secretary General of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Iqbal Haider has said that a sense of insecurity was prevailing among minorities in Sindh....		HYDERABAD: Tribute paid to Jiji Zarina HYDERABAD, Dec 4: Tribu-tes were paid to the late Zarina Baloch, renowned folk singer, radio and TV artiste and political activist at a condolence function held at the Sindh Museum here on Saturday night....
HYDERABAD: Focus urged on maternity, childcare HYDERABAD, Dec 4: Eminent obstetricians and gynaecologists have urged the medical fraternity to pay attention to childbirth issues because it involved lives of expectant mothers and babies....		LARKANA: Paddy growers discuss post-crop situation LARKANA, Dec 4: Paddy growers from Shahdadkot, Sujawal Junejo and Mirokhan talukas held a meeting in Shahdadkot on Saturday. They discussed the post-crop situation of paddy varieties IRRI-6 and IRRI-9 in...
MIRPURKHAS: Fire destroys 15 houses MIRPURKHAS, Dec 4: Around 15 houses of peasants were destroyed in the Mureed Hassan Wassan village of the Hussain Bux Mari taluka on Saturday when a fire broke out in the house of a peasant and later engulfed other houses....		SHIKARPUR: Sindh JI leader blasts dam plan SHIKARPUR, Dec 4: Sindh Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Dr Mumtaz Ali Memon has opposed the Kalabagh dam project and threatened to launch a protest movement if the government does not cancel it....