December 5, 2005	Monday	Ziqa’ad 2, 1426

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Handing over of roads to NHA irks minister QUETTA, Dec 4: Balochistan Communications Minister Prince Faisal Dawood has demanded that the National Highway Authority should sign an agreement with the provincial government about its share in toll tax....		Leaders set to seek OIC reform ISLAMABD, Dec 4: Leaders of 57 Islamic countries will seek to reform the OIC in Makkah-tul-Mukkarramah next week as a way out of current turmoil affecting 1.5...
‘Last date for registration of madressahs to be extended’ ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: Minister for Religious Affairs Ejazul Haq has said last date for registration of Madressahs set for December 31 will be extended by few weeks....		Ordinance on arbitralian awards issued ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has promulgated an ordinance, effective from November 11, 2005, “to provide for the recognition and enforcement of arbitration agreements and foreign arbitral awards”....
Balakot tent school faces shortage of teachers, books BALAKOT, Dec 4: The four-storey building of a private educational institution here, which had been reduced to rubble in the devastating Oct 8 earthquake, burying alive about 300 students, now imparts education to only 50 children in tents....		Businessmen, politicians adopt 5,000 families: Stipends for thousands LAHORE, Dec 4: Around 5,000 quake-affected families of Azad Kashmir and the NWFP were adopted by leading industrialists, businessmen and politicians here at the launch of Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi’s Support-A-Family Programme on Sunday evening....
Lifestyles moves on to enliven others ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The ‘All About Lifestyles’ Expo-2005 organized by the Dawn Group of Newspapers closed here on Sunday after adding a festive look to the federal capital’s leisure scene for two days....		Govt asked to link policy with needs: Quake-affected areas RAWLAKOT, Dec 4: The earthquake victims of Rawlakot have demanded of the government to change its earthquake relief policy in accordance with the prevailing situation, weather and needs of the people in the affected areas....
Kasuri leaves for Makkah ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri is leaving on Monday to attend the OIC Foreign Ministers meeting in Makkah. The OIC Foreign Ministers’ meeting to prepare agenda for the...		Balochistan opposition asks govt to resign QUETTA, Dec 4: Opposition parties in the provincial assembly have said that the coalition government of Jam Yousuf should resign because of its failure to maintain law and order, curb corruption...
JWP team meets NP leader QUETTA, Dec 4: A delegation of the Jamhoori Watan Party met leaders of the National Party and discussed the issue of merging Baloch political parties into a single organization....		Action against works department urged KOHAT, Dec 4: A local leader of Awami National Party has demanded action against communication and works department for not initiating preliminary work on the Ustarzai Road approved by the NWFP chief minister 13 months ago....
Writers plan protest against dam DADU, Dec 4: The Sindhi Adabi Sangat announced here on Sunday that it would hold processions in district towns on Dec 11 in protest against the Kalabagh dam, greater Thal canal, Bhasha dam and other anti-Sindh projects....		Memorandum submitted GILGIT, Dec 4: Leaders and activists of the Karakoram National Movement submitted a memorandum to the military observers’ station of the United Nations here on Saturday, condemning denial of rights to the people of Gilgit and Baltistan....
Workshop on patent system HYDERABAD, Dec 4: Scholars, experts and scientists have stressed the need of introducing a patent system in the country. They said the system would help to promote scientific research and encourage researchers....		Journalist killed KOHAT, Dec 4: The president of Darra Adam Khel press club and a truck driver were killed in a cross fire between two tribes on Sunday....
Angry vendors attack town officials: Anti-encroachment drive FAISALABAD, Dec 4: Vendors brought traffic to a halt by burning used tyres and pelted the Lyallpur Town Administration employees with stones when they entered Jhang Bazaar for an anti-encroachment operation here on Sunday....		Election dispute leaves five hurt in Gujranwala GUJRANWALA, Dec 4: As many as five people, including four women, were shot at and injured by a union council nazim and his accomplices over election row at Talwandi Musa Khan village on Sunday....
DCO seals doctor’s official residence: Possession row with MPA DERA GHAZI KHAN, Dec 4: The district coordination officer on Sunday got the official residence of a doctor sealed in the wake of his row with an MPA over its occupation....		First batch of pilgrims leaves FAISALABAD, Dec 4: Federal Textile Industries Minister Mushtaq Ali Cheema, District Nazim Rana Zahid Tauseef, DCO Athar Husain Khan and industrialists saw the first batch of 184 intending Haj pilgrims off on Sunday....
Robbers kill cabbie on resistance SAHIWAL, Dec 4: A cab driver was shot dead on resistance by bandits in one of the five robbery cases reported here on Sunday. Masquerading as passengers, three bandits, including a woman, rented a car (Karachi-750-177) from Sahiwal....		Sikh pilgrims visit sacred places SIALKOT, Dec 4: A large number of Sikhs from the UK, Germany and India on Sunday visited the samaadhi of Baba Guru Nanak and other scared places in Kartarpura-Narowal amid tight security....
Naib nazims’ elections: LG law amended LAHORE, Dec 4: The Punjab government has amended the Local Government Ordinance 2001, deleting the method of the election of naib nazims of district governments and tehsil councils through secret ballot....		Children’s Day meeting LAHORE, Dec 4: Punjab Population Welfare Minister Nasim Lodhi has said that the provincial government has allocated Rs150 million to every district for funding three-year education and training programmes....
PFMA wants uniform wheat price LAHORE, Dec 4: The Pakistan Flour Mills Association wants bringing wheat price in Punjab on a par with prices in other provinces. Central committee chairman Mumtaz Ali, provincial chief Haji Ibrahim...		Ramay still on ventilator LAHORE, Dec 4: Former Punjab chief minister Haneef Ramay, who was admitted to a private hospital in Defence a week ago, was still unconscious, his son Ibrahim Ramay said on Sunday....
Opposition to launch movement, says Qazi: Nato troops’ role criticized PESHAWAR, Dec 4: MMA chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said that the combined opposition has decided to launch a countrywide movement, against President Pervez Musharraf, who according to him, has become a ‘security risk.’...		Filtration plants for Haripur approved Haripur, Dec 4: Minister of State for Finance Omar Ayub Khan has said that water filtration plants will be installed at the union council level. Talking to reporters during a visit...
Protests held in Bajaur Agency KHAR, Dec 4: Political authorities arrested 93 workers of the Awami National Party and impounded 24 vehicles in Bajaur Agency on Sunday after hundreds of tribesmen staged a demonstration against detention of a tribal elder....		Action sought in land dispute KOHAT, Dec 4: Thousands of tribesmen from the Mohammadzai area on Sunday threatened to launch an armed struggle if the government failed to get vacated within a week their land allegedly occupied by the Bezot tribe of the Orakzai Agency....