December 10, 2005	Saturday	Ziqa’ad 7, 1426

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Protests in Muzaffarabad over alleged rape MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 9: A procession taken out in protest against reported rape of a Kashmiri earthquake survivor in Lahore was stopped by police from entering the main road here on Friday....		Sardar Qayyum wants LoC points used for trade KARACHI, Dec 9: Chief of the ruling Muslim Conference in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and a former AJK president Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan has called for using the five recently opened...
PPL union leaders held in Karachi KARACHI, Dec 9: Twenty people, including office-bearers of the CBA of the Pakistan Petroleum Limited and their associates, are believed to have been detained by intelligence agency personnel in a pre-dawn raid on a hotel in the city....		Faster relief work urged to prevent more deaths ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: Thousands of earthquake survivors are still in need of help, and if not facilitated on emergency basis, they would not be able to survive the winter, an international non-governmental organization (NGO) observed on Friday....
Dissidents in MMA put off meeting with Durrani PESHAWAR, Dec 9: The 17-member forward bloc of the Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal has decided to delay a meeting with the NWFP chief minister till a ‘show of strength’....		OIC should have sought troop withdrawal: Qazi: Iraq, Afghanistan MULTAN, Dec 9: The Organization of Islamic Countries should have come out in its Makkah Summit with a clear policy against the presence of the US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
‘First phase of seismic survey completed’ PESHAWAR, Dec 9: A joint team comprising the army survey group personnel and Turkish disaster management workers has completed the first phase of a seismic survey in quake-hit areas of the...		Elders say illegal FM stations fanning hatred LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Dec 9: Elders of the seven tribes of the Bara tehsil on Friday unanimously demanded the closing down of all FM radio stations in the area and expulsion of two religious leaders from Bara....
Plan to regulate arms trade KOHAT, Dec 9: The interior ministry is understood to be working on a multi-pronged strategy to regulate illegal arms business in the century-old gun manufacturing town of Darra Adam Khel with...		Urdu varsity faces problems without own statutes ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: The Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) is yet to have its own statutes which is hampering the university’s smooth functioning, Dawn has learnt....
Technology for infrastructure rebuilding in quake-hit areas urged ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: The Senate standing committee on information technology has stressed the need for introduction of new technology which can cater to the needs of the time and the market challenges....		51 foreign medical teams working in AJK, NWFP RAWALPINDI, Dec 9: Fifty-one foreign medical teams along with 233 Pakistani doctors are treating the Oct 8 earthquake victims in the mountainous region of Azad Kashmir and NWFP, said an ISPR press release here on Friday....
Child smugglers caught but get easy jail terms ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao informed the National Assembly on Friday that 153 persons had been arrested during the last three years for smuggling out children from...		Govt criticized for failing to curb extremism ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: The incidents of Sangla Hill were merely manifestation of the alarming level of religious intolerance prevailing in the country being fuelled by hate speech and discriminatory laws....
‘PTCL network in NWFP suffered Rs112m loss’ ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: Minister for Information Technology Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari on Thursday told the National Assembly that the quantum of loss caused to the telecommunication network in the NWFP due to earthquake amounted to about Rs112.225...		WHO calms nerves of chicken lovers ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: Chicken and birds from flocks infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza should never enter food chain, but if they do, the virus will not survive if poultry is cooked to 70 degrees Celsius....
Two volunteers shot dead FAISALABAD, Dec 9: Two razakars (volunteers) were shot dead by unidentified armed men in Chak 120-JB on Friday night. Jahangir and Amjad Mehmood of Bawa Chak were going to perform their...		No headway in cyber crime case FAISALABAD, Dec 9: The Rail Bazaar investigation police have failed to make any headway in a cyber crime case about the disbursement of Rs90 million fraudulently from a local bank on behalf of a UK-based financial institution....
DCO wants vani cases settled through talks MIANWALI, Dec 9: DCO Zulfiqar Ali Toor has said the vani cases could not be settled by using police force or exercising arbitrary powers, but through consultations and mutual agreements....		Grant for child labour elimination SIALKOT, Dec 9: The International Labour Organization (ILO) has announced a Rs15 million grant for the elimination of child labour from surgical instruments manufacturing industry in Sialkot....
Admission fee: BISE issues notification quite late MIANWALI, Dec 9: Sargodha Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education has extended the date for depositing fee for matriculation examination for private candidates from Dec 5 to 19....		Lawyer shot at by three SIALKOT, Dec 9: A former joint secretary of the Sialkot District Bar Association was shot at by three armed men in the city’s congested Khokhar Town-Hajipura locality here on Thursday night....
Arbab says Sindh’s rights will be protected LARKANA, Dec 9: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said the rights of Sindh will be fully protected. He was talking to journalists at a lunch hosted by Mumtaz...		Kotri Barrage to be closed for 17 days HYDERABAD, Dec 9: The chief engineer of the Kotri Barrage, Mr Manzoor Shaikh, has issued a notification informing landlords and cultivators that the Kotri Barrage will remain closed from Dec...
Police fail to find Manu Bheel’s family HYDERABAD, Dec 9: Police have not been able to make any progress in finding nine missing members of Manu Bheel’s family. Police detained Rano Bheel, a former kamdar (farm manager)...		Volunteers force to clean up canals SUKKUR, Dec 9: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim said on Friday that work on removing silt from minors and canals would start soon under the newly formed volunteers force...
Brother-in-law kills woman BADIN, Dec 9: A woman was killed by her brother-in-law in Matli town on Thursday. She was identified as Sabiha Kashmiri, 30. The woman’s husband, Zulfiqar, had a dispute over a plot of land in Kashmiri Mohalla with his brother Intezar....		40 Afghans deported from Bajaur KHAAR (Bajaur Agency), Dec 9: The political authorities on Friday deported 40 Afghans who had been arrested for crossing into the tribal area here without legal documents....
Protest over journalist’s disappearance PESHAWAR, Dec 9: The Amnesty International on Friday expressed concern over the kidnapping of tribal journalist Hayatullah Khan and called for action by human rights activists across the world in protest....		Man dies of ‘Congo fever’ ABBOTTABAD, Dec 9: A patient suspected of having contracted Congo fever died in the Combined Military Hospital here on Thursday evening. Abid Ali, son of Sadiq Hussain, was admitted to the...
All About Lifestyles begins today LAHORE, Dec 9: “All about lifestyles” exhibition organized by the Dawn Group of Newspapers opens in Lahore on Saturday (today). The exhibition returns after a series of successful events over the last four years....		Cheques given to co-op depositors LAHORE, Dec 9: Punjab Cooperative Board for Liquidation has paid back over Rs7.75 billion to 225,000 depositors of defunct cooperative societies so far, including Rs5 billion paid by the NAB, Punjab, since May 2001....
Dawa hails declaration LAHORE, Dec 9: Jamaat al-Dawa amir Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has appreciated the Makkah Declaration issued at the end of the two-day OIC summit, saying it has sent a positive message to the Ummah....		Ban on kite, string trade extended LAHORE, Dec 9: A full bench of the Supreme Court on Friday extended till Jan 26 the ban on flying, manufacturing and trading of kite and string with the hope that...
Demand to abolish SR posts in hospitals PESHAWAR, Dec 9: The NWFP Health Department has been urged to abolish the posts of senior registrars or ban private practice by them. Sources said that the chief executives of Khyber...		Call for steps to end violence against women PESHAWAR, Dec 9: Speakers at a seminar have urged the government to take practical steps for ending domestic violence against women. They also called for abolition of the Hudood Ordinance 1979 to protect women against exploitation....
Medical camp held for villagers LAKKI MARWAT, Dec 9: District Nazim Humayun Saifullah Khan on Friday inaugurated a free medical camp in the basic health unit (BHU) Abdulkhel, a remote village of Lakki Marwat....		Warning about suspicious gift packs KOHAT, Dec 9: The security department of Fata has advised its officials to take extreme care while opening suspicious gift packs, in view of intelligence reports that Al Qaeda may try...