January 25, 2006	Wednesday	Zilhaj 24, 1426

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Govt response to US attack criticized KARACHI, Jan 24: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad has accused the government of handing over national sovereignty and territory to the United States and giving it a free hand to intervene wherever it wants....		IUCN president discusses rebuilding with Soomro ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: World Conservation Union (IUCN) President Valli Moosa called on Acting President Mohammedmian Soomro here on Tuesday...
Muttahida calls off fact-finding visit to Balochistan KARACHI, Jan 24: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has called off its fact-finding mission to Balochistan because of reported refusal of representatives of Nawab Akbar Bugti to ensure security for its members....		Benazir not interested in becoming senator NEW YORK, Jan 24: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has vowed to return to the country to participate in the elections scheduled for 2007. In an interview at a hotel here, she denied having expressed interest in becoming a senator....
Irregularities in use of quake funds ruled out ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: Chief Relief Commissioner Major-Gen Farooq Ahmad Khan has ruled out any possibility of irregularities in the utilization of funds meant for relief and reconstruction in the quake-hit areas....		Committee redrafting code of conduct for politicians ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: The Ethics Retreat Committee of the Ministry of Law and Justice is redrafting a code of conduct for politicians and parliamentarians with a suggestion to penalize those violating the new code....
Water crisis in Pindi, Islamabad feared TAXILA, Jan 24: A water crisis is being feared in Rawalpindi and Islamabad following suspension of supply from Khanpur Dam for one week, starting from Thursday, to carry out desilting of...		Minister demands US envoy’s expulsion PESHAWAR, Jan 24: NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq has demanded that the federal government should declare the United States ambassador persona non grata and expel him from the country....
PPP assails govt’s tactics FAISALABAD, Jan 24: PPP leaders allege that the government is adopting negative tactics to pressure the party leadership owing to its increasing popularity. Speaking at a news conference here on Tuesday,...		Men, women to run separately: Lahore Marathon LAHORE, Jan 24: Women, children and men will run separately after intervals in Lahore Marathon. This was unanimously decided after a delegation of the MMA led by JI Naib Amir Liaquat Baloch called on Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi here on Tuesday....
MMA wants NFC award on basis of revenue SHIKARPUR, Jan 24: Sindh Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president MNA Asadullah Bhutto has expressed concern over the alleged step-motherly attitude of the federal government towards Sindh on the issue of the NFC award....		Govt trying to abuse interpol process: PPP ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: Leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Tuesday condemned the government for, what they said, trying to abuse the process of Interpol to settle political scores with party chairperson Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Zardari....
Hurdles to Safta need to be removed ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: The implementation of South Asian Free Trade Area (Safta) linked to addressing of major concerns of two contracting parties of the agreement—Pakistan and Sri Lanka....		Sultan seeks dismissal of Badr ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: Reacting to the suspension of his basic membership of Pakistan People’s Party, former AJK prime minister and leader of opposition in the AJK Legislative Assembly, Barrister Sultan Mahmood,...
Women asked to make mark in literature ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: Begum Zareen Musharraf, mother of President Gen Pervez Musharraf, on Tuesday said more women should come forward and make their mark in the field of literature the way they were showing excellence in all fields....		AJK varsity: relocated classes to start from Feb 13 ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) University on Tuesday announced that its classes would start at various higher education institutions of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad from February 13....
Media asked to popularize science to bust myths ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: Eminent physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy has called for putting science at work to remove myths from the minds of the people. Prof Hoodbhoy made the call in his keynote...		44 filtration plants rusting in Pindi RAWALPINDI, Jan 24: The 44 filtration plants installed a year ago in Rawal Town are rusting due to lack of maintenance, as neither the Town Municipal Administration (TMA) nor the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) is willing to supervise them....
ZTBL employees protest against forced LPR ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: The employees of Zarai Taraqiati Bank (ZTBL) have protested against the management’s decision to send them on forced Leave Preparatory to Retirement (LRP) at the age of fifty-seven-and-a-half years....		Countrywide anti-polio campaign starts ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: A three-day national polio immunization campaign started in the federal capital and other parts of the country on Tuesday. The capital administration has constituted over 200 mobile vaccination...
Foreign firms to invest in Chagai copper project QUETTA, Jan 24: Two mining companies, one of Chile and the other of Australia, will jointly invest $150 million in a project for exploration of copper in Rico-dik area of Chagai district....		ARD meeting tomorrow ISLAMABAD, Jan 24: Chairman of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy Makhdoom Amin Fahim has convened an emergency meeting of the heads of the component parties of the alliance in...
PHC annuls acquittal in murder case PESHAWAR, Jan 24: While allowing an appeal against acquittal, the Peshawar High Court on Tuesday awarded death sentence to an accused on two counts in a double-murder case....		Students oppose change in status of KMC campus PESHAWAR, Jan 24: Students of the Girls campus of the Khyber Medical College (KMC) have expressed concern over conversion of their campus into an independent medical college one year after their admission....
MNA faces probe for beating gatekeeper PESHAWAR, Jan 24: The University Town police have launched an inquiry against Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MNA from Chitral Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali for allegedly beating a gatekeeper....		Power supply to Lakki stopped by workers LAKKI MARWAT, Jan 24: The Wapda Hydro-electric Labour Union on Tuesday stopped power supply to the Lakki Marwat district in protest against detention of two officials of the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco)....
CM calls for effective anti-crime measures PESHAWAR, Jan 24: Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has directed police officers to take ‘serious’ steps for enforcing the government’s writ and evading social evils. Presiding over a meeting on the...		Erosion wipes out two localities JHANG, Jan 24: Erosion on the right bank of river Jhelum near the Trimmu Headworks has wiped out two localities, besides eroding several acres of fertile farmland and is posing serious threat to many other villages along the river....
Police crack down on protesting academics MULTAN, Jan 24: Police rounded up scores of teachers here on Tuesday to stop them from assembling outside the office of the executive district officer (education) to hold a protest rally....		Teachers being taxed SAHIWAL, Jan 24: The deputy district education officer elementary (female) collected Rs675 from each schoolteacher of 425 primary and middle schools as cost of a “Maar naheen payar” board....
SC orders probe into gang-rape BAHAWALPUR, Jan 24: Supreme Court Chief Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar Ahmed has ordered a judicial inquiry into the alleged gang-rape case of Uch Sharif. The apex court issued the orders on an application filed by a human rights body....		Four killed in accident MIANWALI, Jan 24: Four people were killed in a head-on collision between a pick-up and an oil tanker on Mianwali-Talagang Road near Sohrabwala, seven kilometres from here, on Tuesday....
Administrative shake-up in Punjab LAHORE, Jan 24: The Punjab government transferred and posted some senior officials here on Tuesday. OSD DIG Javed Noor was posted as commandant of Punjab Constabulary, Farooqabad, against a vacant post....		Rs689m Lakki budget LAKKI MARWAT, Jan 24: District Nazim Humayun Saifullah Khan presented a Rs689.23 million budget for the fiscal 2005-2006 at a district council session here on Tuesday....
Woman dies in gas explosion DERA GHAZI KHAN, Jan 24: A woman died from burns on Tuesday while her minor daughter and two other relatives suffered severe injuries in an explosion caused due to gas leakage here....		AJK polls to be fair: CEC LAHORE, Jan 24: Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s Chief Election Commissioner Justice Riaz Akhtar Chaudhry has pledged to hold forthcoming general election in the state in a transparent and fair manner....
13 injured in fireworks explosion LAHORE, Jan 24: At least 13 labourers were injured, five of them critically, in a fireworks explosion in Imamia Colony, Shahdara, on Tuesday. Police said Majid had set up a fireworks manufacturing unit in a house....		No more college to get varsity status LAHORE, Jan 24: The Punjab government has decided not to award a university status to any more college in the province. Officials of the education department told Dawn on Tuesday that...
Hate literature to be checked: Pervaiz LAHORE, Jan 24: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Tuesday announced continuation of a drive against the literature containing sectarian hatred and warned that strict action would be taken against those writing, publishing or printing it....		Arbab says projects to yield results soon MIRPURKHAS, Jan 24: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said that all available resources are being utilized to provide basic amenities to people. He was talking to different delegations at the circuit house here on Monday....
Airport data tampered with PESHAWAR, Jan 24: The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Federal Investigation Agency has detected a case of tampering with the Personal Identification and Secured Compression Evaluation System (Pisces) introduced to...		Two arrested in Kashmore JACOBABAD, Jan 24: Two men were arrested in Kashmore district on Tuesday. On a tip-off, a heavy contingent of police raided different places in the district and arrested one Rahim Bugti...
Fund allocations termed unjust PESHAWAR, Jan 24: Opposition in the NWFP Assembly on Tuesday accused the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) of promoting ‘the worst kind of nepotism’ and ignoring people of their constituencies while making ‘bloc allocation’ of development schemes....		630 teams to administer polio vaccine LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Jan 24: Health authorities in the Khyber Agency have formed 630 teams to administer polio vaccines to children of up to five years during a three-day campaign....
IJT protests against curriculum change TIMERGARA, Jan 24: Workers of Islami Jamiat-i-Tulaba (IJT) on Tuesday held a protest rally against changes in the curriculum of primary schools. The students, led by IJT leaders Mushtaq Ahmad and Shad Muhammad, marched on different roads and burnt tyres....		Appointment dispute causes closure of girls’ school PESHAWAR, Jan 24: A high school for girls in Jandri Union Council of Karak district has been closed for two months following a dispute over appointment of a class-IV employee....