December 18, 2005	Sunday	Ziqa’ad 15, 1426

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US to provide $105 million: Fulbright scholarships ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Pakistan and the United States on Saturday signed an agreement on a new $157.5 million Fulbright scholarship programme spread over a period of five years for 750 students pursuing MS and PhD degrees....		Rs30 million budget approved for NVM ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has approved Rs30 million for the National Volunteer Movement (NVM), an organization constituted after the Oct 8 earthquake to channelize energies of young volunteers for the relief and rehabilitation work....
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ANP threatens to quit assemblies PESHAWAR, Dec 17: The Awami National Party (ANP) has warned that its parliamentarians would resign from the NWFP Assembly and Senate if President Gen Pervez Musharraf goes ahead with plans to build the controversial Kalabagh dam....		PML-N for mass mobilization: Hike in oil prices ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: Acting parliamentary leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has stressed the need for mobilizing the public against high oil prices in the country....
Cult leader has his roots in Toba TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 17: Shahbaz Ahmad, who has just stolen the limelight by introducing himself as head of the Imam Mehdi Force, has his roots in Toba Tek Singh district....		Hashmi fears crisis in Balochistan LAHORE, Dec 17: PML-N acting president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi says the situation being created in Balochistan is similar to the one in erstwhile East Pakistan 37 years ago....
Hospitals told to set up isolation rooms LAHORE, Dec 17: The health department has directed all the teaching hospitals in the province to establish isolation rooms to handle and treat patients with haemorrhagic fever....		Popti Hiranandani a prolific writer KARACHI: Last rituals of noted Sindhi writer and human rights activist, Miss Popti Hiranandani, who died in Bombay on Friday, were performed on Saturday. She was 71....
174 join Baloch Regiment QUETTA, Dec 17: An oath-taking ceremony and passing out parade of recruits was held here to mark the joining by 174 soldiers of the Baloch Regiment of the army....		Chinese writers due on 31st ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: A five-member delegation of writers from China is expected to arrive here on Dec 31. Zhang Jian, Chairman of Luxun Academy of Letters and Secretary of Chinese Writers Association, will head the delegation....
Pakistani to head UNCA UNITED NATIONS, Dec 17: Masood Haider, a senior Pakistani journalist, has been elected president of the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) for the year 2006....		Senate body okays changes to rules of procedure ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The Senate committee on rules of procedure and privileges met in the Parliament House on Saturday to consider the proposed amendments to the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Senate, 1988....
Move against delay in projects ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The government has taken measures to avoid unnecessary delays in the planning and execution of development projects which is causing an annual loss of $10-12 billion to the economy, says a senior government official....		Four shot dead KANDH KOT, Dec 17: Four people were killed and three others were injured in armed clashes between two sub-tribes of Masori in Dera Bugti locality on Saturday....
NA-132: voting under shadow of guns SHEIKHUPURA, Dec 17: Balloting at a polling station in Kala Shah Kaku, falling in NA-132 where bypoll was held on Saturday, was suspended after over 50 gunmen held Election Commission staff hostage and stuffed 600 ballots in favour of official nominee....		‘Language still a bond between east, west Punjab’ SAHIWAL, Dec 17: The Indian constitution has granted official status to 16 languages which also include Punjabi, while the language is the medium of instruction in educational institutions of East Punjab....
Poor state of health facility DERA GHAZI KHAN, Dec 17: The District Headquarters Hospital has been running without facilities and staff for long. Information gleaned by Dawn reveals that the ICU and orthopaedic wards have no equipment....		Telephones out of order GUJRANWALA, Dec 17: Hundreds of telephones are lying inoperative as the cable has been damaged during digging for the construction of an underpass near People’s Colony....
Four killed over enmity KASUR, Dec 17: Four people were shot dead by their rivals over an old enmity at Maqamanwala near Khudian on Friday night. Police said Riasat alias Chaboo, Faryad and Muhammad Yaseen...		PID DG dies of cancer LAHORE, Dec 17: Ms Farzana Qureshi, Director-General, Press Information Department (PID), died after losing her battle against cancer here on Saturday, family said....
Help sought for kidney patient LAHORE, Dec 17: A railway official has appealed to the president, prime minister and other government functionaries to bear expenses of treatment of his son who has been suffering from a severe renal problem....		District govts to get additional Rs22bn: Development package LAHORE, Dec 17: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi announced here on Saturday that district governments would be given Rs22 billion over and above their annual budget for accelerating the pace of development in the province....
LB polls in Fata through adult franchise urged PESHAWAR, Dec 17: Human rights activists and tribesmen on Saturday called upon the government to conduct local government elections in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) under the relevant law and through adult franchise....		Wheat shortage in Baltistan SKARDU, Dec 17: People are facing difficulties in Baltistan because of wheat shortage for the past couple of weeks. “The shortage of flour occurred after depletion of stock at the government’s wheat depot,” sources told Dawn here on Friday....
Concern over private MPH degrees expressed PESHAWAR, Dec 17: Private and semi-government educational institutes in the city are awarding the MPH degree without having the services of qualified staff and other facilities required for the course, health official say....		Early recovery of journalist urged PESHAWAR, Dec 17: The journalist community on Saturday held a demonstration for the recovery of Hayatullah Khan, a staff correspondent of an English daily, who was kidnapped by masked men in Mirali area of the North Waziristan Agency on Dec 5....
Call for reopening of all border routes: Pakistan, India HYDERABAD, Dec 17: Peace activists and journalists on Saturday urged Pakistan and India to reopen all those routes which were operative between the two countries until 1947....		Teachers, parents protest closure of schools LARKANA, Dec 17: Hundreds of teachers and parents on Saturday demonstrated and blocked the airport road for two hours at Hatri against closure of primary schools in the Larkana district....
Protest against power failure KHAIRPUR, Dec 17: Power supply remained suspended for 10 hours from the Luqman city feeder-I here on Saturday. Around 20 localities, including Faiz Mahal area, Garhi Pul, Talpur Colony, Unnar Colony,...		Measures taken to control population growth SUKKUR, Dec 17: Federal Minister for Population Welfare Chaudhry Shahbaz Hussain has said the government is reactivating family welfare and resource centres in order to control population growth in the country, says an official handout issued here on Saturday....
JSQM opposes dam NAWABSHAH, Dec 17: If resolutions of the three provincial assemblies against proposed construction of the Kalabagh dam has no meaning than the Pakistan Resolution has also no meaning, said Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi here on Saturday....		Five booked for claiming evacuee property SANGHAR, Dec 17: A case has been registered against five people for claiming evacuee property worth millions of rupees, including vast area of the Government Girls’ High School, by producing fake papers....
SU admission test today HYDERABAD, Dec 17: The University of Sindh on Saturday finalized all administrative and security measures to hold admission test for various disciplines under the evening programme scheduled to be held on Sunday....		Parents Day function held SANGHAR, Dec 17: The quality education is a basic requirement for advancement and prosperity of a nation and the Pakistan Navy has taken the patronage of many cadet colleges to help this cause....