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PM stresses transparency in use of quake funds ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Tuesday reiterated the government’s commitment to ensuring transparency in distribution and utilization of funds pouring in for the rebuilding of quake-hit areas....		Up to 230,000 may leave mountains in quake areas: UN UNITED NATIONS, Dec 6: With heavy snow forecast in northern Pakistan by the end of this week, the United Nations refugee agency is standing by for a possible exodus of up...
Turkey building 10 schools ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: “Turkey has constructed 10 steel-fabricated school buildings in the quake-ravaged areas of the NWFP and Azad Kashmir,” a Turkish delegation told Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Sherpao....		SC asks builder to disclose assets: Margalla Towers case ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the builder of the Margalla Towers, Mohammad Ramzan Khokhar, to submit his reply and disclose all assets and accounts located outside Pakistan...
Met dept warns of harsher winter ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: The Met office on Tuesday again warned that the coming winter was likely to be harsher than usual in the earthquake-hit areas, especially those situated over 8,000 feet above sea level....		Unicef fears increased child labour PATTIKA, Dec 6: The UN children’s agency is worried child survivors of Pakistan’s earthquake are having to look for work to support their families. Child labour is common in Pakistan but...
Respect to minorities rights stressed ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Rights activists condemned last month’s attack on three churches at Sangla Hill in Sheikhupura District of Punjab at a meeting on Tuesday and called upon the society to respect the rights of all religious communities....		War on terror affecting anti-poppy campaign RAWALPINDI, Dec 6: The shifting of focus from the anti- narcotics campaign to war on terrorism has caused the re- emergence of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan....
NA session: opposition to discuss protest plan ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Opposition members in the National Assembly will hold an emergency meeting at the Parliament House on Wednesday to discuss the mode of protest against the government’s decision to...		Financial problems of Balochistan discussed QUETTA, Dec 6: Financial managers of the Balochistan government and a team of the federal finance ministry led by Minister of State Omar Ayub Khan held a meeting here on Tuesday...
NA rejects resolution on Hudood Ordinance ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: The National Assembly on Tuesday rejected a resolution seeking to amend in the Hudood Ordinance-1979 Bill. Tabling the resolution, Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Kunwar Khalid Younus said a...		Quake victim ‘assaulted’ in hospital LAHORE, Dec 6: Local police and Mayo hospital authorities have launched a probe into reports of alleged rape of a teenage earthquake victim by a doctor....
Group denies threat over cartoons ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: A youth group on Tuesday denied it had announced a reward for the deaths of cartoonists who drew blasphemous cartoon in a Danish newspaper....		APC opposes water projects on Indus HYDERABAD, Dec 6: An all-parties conference convened by the Awami Tehrik on Tuesday opposed the Kalabagh dam or any other mega water project on the River Indus....
JSQM says Sindh will not accept Kalabagh dam NAWABSHAH, Dec 6: Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz chairman Bashir Qureshi has reiterated his party’s opposition to the Kalabagh dam and said people of Sindh will not accept the project....		Panel set up to prepare plan, devise code: Reconstruction in quake-hit areas PESHAWAR, Dec 6: NWFP’s chief secretary on Tuesday formed a committee to prepare a plan for the reconstruction phase in quake-affected areas. The committee, headed by the additional chief secretary along...
Urea import delay ominous for wheat: farmers LAHORE, Dec 6: Wheat crop might face further pressure as the import of urea fertilizer was delayed, farmer bodies said on Tuesday. The federal government had decided to import 350,000 tons of urea in November and December to meet the deficit....		No regular PTCL employee terminated, NA told ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Minister of State for Information Technology Ali Asjad Malhi on Tuesday categorically stated that the Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) has not terminated any of its regular employees....
PPP senator hails C’wealth statement ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: President foreign liaison committee of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator Enver Baig has commended the Commonwealth on reminding Gen Pervez Musharraf that holding the posts of army...		SC adjourns cases ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: The Supreme Court on Tuesday announced that it had adjourned the hearing of cases pertaining to service matters of the employees of autonomous bodies/corporations to January 16 on...
Kidnapping of journalist condemned ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Journalists covering the proceedings of the National Assembly on Tuesday staged a token walkout in protest against the reported kidnapping of journalist Hayatullah Khan from Mirali in North Waziristan....		New systems to improve police performance QUETTA, Dec 6: The National Bureau of Police is introducing two new systems to improve the performance of police department and develop it on modern lines....
Security review ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao will preside over a two-day inter-provincial conference in Karachi on Wednesday to review the overall law and order situation in the country.—APP...		Low-paid employees stage protest LARKANA, Dec 6: Low-paid employees from different departments of the district took out a procession here on Tuesday. Led by Sindh Employee Alliance chief organizer Syed Ammanullah Mishwani and Manzoor Aheer, they staged sit-ins at different roundabouts and blocked traffic....
Trained teachers to run SMCs THATTA, Dec 6: About 2,529 teachers, working for school management committees (SMCs), will get training under a comprehensive programme. Sources told Dawn on Tuesday that the programme was being launched in...		Devotees from India visit Sadhu Bello SUKKUR, Dec 6: More than 100 Hindu devotees, including women and children, from India visited the historic Sadhu Bello temple here on Tuesday. They were led by Udhister Lal, Gadi Nashin of Shadhani Darbar, Mirpur Mathelo....
Sindhi Adabi Board to get Rs10 million HYDERABAD, Dec 6: The provincial ministry of planning and development has issued instructions for release of first instalment of Rs10 million from the annual development programme for the development of the Sindhi Adabi Board....		Man held with stolen passport PESHAWAR, Dec 6: The immigration staff at Peshawar airport arrested on Tuesday a man who was trying to board a Dubai-bound Emirates Airline flight on a passport stolen from Gujrat, a senior official told Dawn....
Nominations filed for welfare body polls SWABI, Dec 6: Five men and two women have filed nominations for six posts of local directors of the Ghazi Bharotha Taraqiati Idara (GBTI), a local welfare organization working in the area affected by Ghazi Barotha dam project....		Tribesman appeals for justice PESHAWAR, Dec 6: Tribesman Yaqoob Khan of Bajaur Agency Khar on Tuesday appealed to President Musharraf and the Inspector General of FC to stop what he said was illegal construction by Bajaur Scouts on his land....
Rangers accused of beating man GILGIT, Dec 6: Rangers personnel are reported to have beaten up a person on Monday at the airport road here when he refused to carry firewood for them to their camp....		Role of performing artistes praised PESHAWAR, Dec 6: Speakers at a function here appreciated the role of artistes and asked them to portray the problems of people through their work. “The role of performers in dramas are always well-received by the people....
Healthcare a low priority in Okara OKARA, Dec 6: The 128 public healthcare centres in the district, which has a population of 2.8 million, have been facing an acute shortage of doctors, paramedics, medicines and facilities, resulting in a poor health infrastructure for the masses....		Soomro stresses need for dams FAISALABAD, Dec 6: The construction of big water reservoirs had become the need of the hour and the government would try its best to remove the objections to the projects, Senate chairman Mohammadmian Soomro stressed....
Ex-MPA, UC nazim on judicial remand GUJRANWALA, Dec 6: The anti-terrorism court No.1 on Tuesday sent former MPA Mian Mazhar Javid and Ladhaywala UC nazim Rana Khalid to jail on judicial remand and directed the police to produce them on Dec 13....		Two human traffickers arrested SIALKOT, Dec 6: The Federal Investigation Agency has arrested two alleged human traffickers on Tuesday during a special campaign. Official sources said the FIA teams from Lahore and Gujranwala raided a house in Sialkot and arrested a human trafficker Imran Azam....
Three FIA men suspended: ‘Links with human smugglers’ GUJRANWALA, Dec 6: As many as three officials of the Federal Investigation Agency, including a circle inspector, were suspended from service on charges of corruption and having connections with human smugglers on Tuesday....		Cigarettes worth Rs5m taken away FAISALABAD, Dec 6: Eight gangsters took away cigarettes and other articles worth over Rs5 million from a company’s godown here at Chak 209-RB on Jaranwala Road on Monday night....
Two mill workers lose hands SHEIKHUPURA, Dec 6: Two mill workers lost their hands while operating a machine on the Faisalabad Road on Tuesday. According to details reaching here, Muhammad Amin, resident of Ghullan Wattwan, and...		Smuggled petrol sale in Dera DERA GHAZI KHAN, Dec 6: Iranian petrol, smuggled allegedly with the connivance of the Border Military Police, is being sold here without any hindrance. The Iranian petrol is being smuggled through the Quetta-Dera Road....
Opposition leaders booked under 16-MPO BAHAWALPUR, Dec 6: Police on Tuesday registered a case under 16-MPO against six opposition leaders for allegedly criticizing army’s role in politics during a book-launching ceremony the other day....		Factory owner shot dead by three employees SAHIWAL, Dec 6: A factory owner was shot dead allegedly by three employees on the GT Road near Chak 135/9-L here on Monday night. Police claimed Mushtaq Masih, Shafiq Masih and...
Rs920m for agriculture sector GUJRANWALA, Dec 6: Punjab Food Minister Chaudhry Muhammad Iqbal has said that the government has allocated Rs920 million for agriculture sector in annual development programme (ADP)....		Nazim 26th victim of rivalry NAROWAL, Dec 6: With the murder of a union council nazim and his four companions in Lahore on Sunday, the death toll in a nearly three-decade-old political feud between two local groups has risen to 26....
No check on sugar price LAHORE, Dec 6: Sugar prices in open market on Tuesday shot up to Rs2,880 per 100 kilograms — an increase of Rs160 in the last two days....		Lahore marathon on Jan 29 LAHORE, Dec 6: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Tuesday said the second international marathon would be held in Lahore on Jan 29 and its income would be donated towards President’s Relief Fund for the rehabilitation of earthquake-hit people....
Govt urged to set up separate jails for juveniles PESHAWAR, Dec 6: Speakers at a consultation workshop on Tuesday asked the government to appoint probation officers and set up separate jails for juvenile prisoners in all districts of the province....		Call for rehabilitation of camp women, children PESHAWAR, Dec 6: Women and children who survived in the Oct 8 earthquake and are living in camps in the NWFP and Azad Jammu and Kashmir are facing security problems....
Mental health experts to be deployed PESHAWAR, Dec 6: The provincial health department is planning to launch an action plan on mental health in the quake-stricken areas of the province. “We are going to appoint a trained...		Cambridge exam system to continue LAHORE, Dec 6: Punjab Education Minister Imran Masood has said the Cambridge examination system of O and A-levels will continue. In a statement issued here on Tuesday, Mr Masood said the...