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January 18, 2006	Wednesday	Zilhaj 17, 1426

Relief flights in AJK remain suspended: Snowfall, rain and landslides continue MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 17: Relief flights remained suspended in the quake-hit areas for the third consecutive day on Tuesday as rain and snowfall continued to play havoc with homeless survivors....		UN, foreign aid groups suspend Balochistan operations QUETTA, Jan 17: All UN and foreign aid organizations on Tuesday suspended their operations in Balochistan after receiving anonymous threatening calls. The foreign and local staff of all UN organizations and...

Senate body on rights to visit Dera Bugti ISLAMABAD, Jan 17: The Senate Committee on Human Rights on Tuesday discussed the issue of alleged human rights violations in Dera Bugti. The committee met here in the Parliament House with...		Bush visits Islamabad tent village ISLAMABAD, Jan 17: Former US president and UN special envoy George H.W. Bush visited the earthquake-affected children in a government-run school at a tented village here on Tuesday....

387 registered with artificial limbs centres ISLAMABAD, Jan 17: About 387 people, who had lost their limbs in different parts of the AJK and the NWFP during the October 8 earthquake, have registered themselves with different specialized artificial limb centres in the country....		Manto for mass movement against feudal set-up ISLAMABAD, Jan 17: Socio-economic conditions in Pakistan would continue to worsen until a mass movement is organized and rids the country of its entrenched feudal-military combine....


FST not entitled to take up corporations’ cases, SC told ISLAMABAD, Jan 17: The Supreme Court was told here on Tuesday that the Federal Service Tribunal was not entitled to decide the cases of employees of government corporations since their appointments could not be termed in the “Service of Pakistan”....		Corruption: NAB to take suo motu notice ISLAMABAD, Jan 17: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) would take suo motu notice of corruption cases, the bureau’s spokesman said on Tuesday. In a press briefing at the NAB Headquarters, the...

Formula for distribution of funds proposed LAHORE, Jan 17: The Punjab Provincial Finance Commission (PFC) on Tuesday proposed a formula based on multiple indicators, with population getting a weightage of 70 per cent, to the Punjab government...		Nazim vows to check traffic congestion RAWALPINDI, Jan 17: Rawal Town Nazim Sheikh Rashid Shafique has said the Punjab chief minister’s special traffic management plan would help control traffic congestion in the city....

Hit-and-run case settled, senate body informed ISLAMABAD, Jan 17: The Human Rights Committee of the Senate was informed on Tuesday that a hit and run case had been amicably settled between the son of the accident victim...		No case of bird flu: official RAWALPINDI, Jan 17: Secretary Livestock, Punjab, Babar Yaqub Fateh Mohammad has said no case of bird flue has been reported in the province and the federal capital....

Benazir’s nominee loses to party man MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 17: The candidate nominated by PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Council election lost to an independent candidate also belonging to her party here on Tuesday....		BHC acquits officials in corruption case QUETTA, Jan 17: A division bench of Balochistan High Court on Tuesday allowed appeals of three ex-officials of the provincial education department against their conviction by an accountability court of Quetta...

Amendments to Press Council law opposed KARACHI, Jan 17: The president of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors, Mr Arif Nizami, has described the proposal to amend the Press Council Ordinance 2002 as an attempt to convert a voluntary regulatory body into a quasi-judicial authority....		42 held near Iran border CHAGAI, Jan 17: The Border Security Force arrested 42 people near the Pakistan-Iran border and handed them over to Taftan Levies Force on Tuesday. Tehsildar Taftan Khaliqdad said that these people were crossing the border without any legal documents....

Religious groups in Bara continue hate campaign: Illegal FM radio stations LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Jan 17: Defying official rules and regulations two religious groups in Bara continued their propaganda campaign against each other on their respective illegal FM radio stations....		Contamination fears shut down operation theatre SWABI, Jan 17: The operating theatre of the District Headquarters Hospital has been shut down in protest for fear of the suspected contamination of instruments with the hepatitis C virus....

Lawyers boycott courts in protest KOHAT, Jan 17: The lawyers’ community boycotted the courts on Tuesday in protest against the killing of innocent people in a US attack in Bajaur Agency and to condemn the military operation in Balochistan on Tuesday....		Demand to declare brick kiln an industry PESHAWAR, Jan 17: Participants in a workshop here on Tuesday expressed concern over the plight of labourers in brick kilns and asked the government to declare it an industry and to provide due rights to labourers....

Weather disrupts relief work in Hazara ABBOTTABAD, Jan 17: Relief operation in the quake-affected areas of Hazara has remained suspended for three days due to heavy snowfall and continuous rain. The communication links in the entire region,...		Three killed in cold blood SIALKOT, Jan 17: Four unidentified motorists shot dead three people and injured a passer-by here on Tuesday near Ranjhai on Daska-Gujranwala Road. Reports said Naveed along with his cousin Sajid...

Narowal a neglected district NAROWAL, Jan 17: The district is deprived of basic civic facilities despite having five ministers and three parliamentary secretaries from it. With a population of around 1.5...		Probe ordered into killing of two kidnappers SAHIWAL, Jan 17: District and sessions judge Dr Riaz Mahmood has ordered a probe into the killing of two persons involved in a kidnap-cum-murder case and asked the judicial magistrate to submit his report within two months....

Rape victim seeks justice FAISALABAD, Jan 17: A gang-rape victim has threatened to commit suicide along with her three children in front of the Supreme Court if the perpetrators will not be rounded up and trial of her case not started immediately....		Pakistan-India trade potential discussed GUJRANWALA, Jan 17: Pakistan and India have the potential to raise trade volume by $10 billion. This was stated by Punjab Small Industries and Export Corporation of India General-Manager Sanjiv Bawa...

Cellphone users face hardships RAHIM YAR KHAN, Jan 17: Thousands of customers of a cellular phone company in the district are facing problems due to poor connectivity. Since the beginning of the new year Mobilink...		Naib nazim election FAISALABAD, Jan 17: Elections to elect the City District naib nazim will be held on Jan 19, returning officer Sadaqatullah Khan announced on Tuesday. Earlier voting on Dec 28 could not...

Joint cricket team proposed SIALKOT, Jan 17: The visiting Indian businessmen have proposed the early establishment of a joint international cricket team comprising the players of Pakistan and India. Talking to newsmen at the SCCI...		Man killed BAHAWALPUR, Jan 17: One Mujahid Husain was allegedly shot dead on Tuesday by five men over a trifle at Mauza Kotla Baqir Shah in Nowshehra Jadid police limits. — Correspondent...

ARD candidate joins PML LAHORE, Jan 17: The ARD candidate to Faisalabad district naib nazim slot joined the ruling PML and withdrew his candidature here on Tuesday. He withdrew his candidature after meeting Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi....		Rainfall continues LAHORE, Jan 17: Several cities in Punjab, including Lahore, continued to receive light rain on Tuesday, causing a drop in the day’s maximum temperature. Lahore’s minimum temperature last night increased to 13 degrees Celsius because of a cloud cover....

G.M. Syed’s services to Sindh lauded HYDERABAD, Jan 17: Tributes were paid to the founder of Jeay Sindh movement, G.M. Syed, for his services to Sindh at his 102nd birth anniversary observed here on Tuesday evening....		Intelligentsia praised for opposing dam KHAIRPUR, Jan 17: Former District Nazim Nafisa Shah has welcomed statements of intellectuals and poets for opposing the Kalabagh dam. Speaking to newsmen here on Tuesday, she said intellectuals could...

Seraiki party opposes Kalabagh project HYDERABAD, Jan 17: Seraikistan Qaumi Movement president Hameed Akhtar Shaheen has alleged that Ghulam Mustafa Khar has rejoined the PPP to carry out a ‘special mission’....		Old enmity claims four lives in Dadu DADU, Jan 17: Four people were killed and three others were injured in a clash near Sita Road on Tuesday. Armed men killed one Nooruddin Chandio, 40, in K.T....

ANP seeks change in Afghan policy PESHAWAR, Jan 17: Awami National Party (ANP) president Asfandyar Wali Khan has asked the ‘establishment’ to revamp its Afghan policy to end the root cause of violence in the tribal belt....		Administrative cadre yet to be introduced: NWFP health sector PESHAWAR, Jan 17: The NWFP health department has yet to introduce administrative cadre in the health sector, owing to opposition by senior doctors. “A decision to this effect was taken by...

SHO directed to find missing man PESHAWAR, Jan 17: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday directed the SHO of the Charbagh police (Swat) to trace out whereabouts of a man allegedly picked by an intelligence agency more than 15 months ago....		PPP-S hails decisions on dams PESHAWAR, Jan 17: The Pakistan People’s Party (S) has hailed the federal cabinet’s decision to construct Bhasha and Munda dams instead of the controversial Kalabagh dam....

Bajaur youths protest US attack PESHAWAR, Jan 17: The youths hailing from Bajaur Agency on Tuesday held a demonstration in protest against the killing of 18 people in a US airstrike in Damadola village on Friday....		Two die in car-truck collision HANGU, Jan 17: Two men were killed and another sustained injuries in a collision between a car and a truck near Raeesan on Kohat road here on Tuesday....