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GSM operators told to ensure mobile phone tracking ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: The government has directed all Global System of Mobile Phone (GSM) operators to upgrade their systems for allowing tracking of all connected handsets to check cell phone theft....		Experts call for new building code to avoid disasters ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: Technical experts have proposed to the government to prepare a new comprehensive building code to avoid massive destruction like that of the Oct 8 earthquake....
NP demands end to action in Dera Bugti and Kohlu QUETTA, Feb 7: The president of the National Party, Dr Hayee Baloch, has demanded an immediate end to the ongoing operation in Dera Bugti and Kohlu areas and withdrawal of forces....		Civilians being attacked: Mari QUETTA, Feb 7: Nawabzada Balaach Mari has said that about 20 children have died because of severe cold and non-availability of medicines in the Mari area....
Supreme court puts public interest over private profit ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: The Supreme Court on Tuesday cancelled a lease that the Capital Development Authority had awarded to a Lahore businessman for developing a mini golf club in a city park by accepting a private petition against the project....		Society warns against use of mines in tribal areas ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: A civil society organisation has expressed concern over the planting of landmines in the tribal areas killing mostly civilians....
Widespread protests against outrage PESHAWAR, Feb 7: Protest demonstration against publication of sacrilegious caricatures in European newspapers continued on Tuesday and processions were taken out in Peshawar and other parts of the province....		Musharraf urged not to give too many concessions to India MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 7: A Pakistani religious leader on Monday has called upon President Gen Pervez Musharraf not to give too many concessions to India on Kashmir and instead stick to the national stand on the issue....
Illegal tree felling hits Gujrat GUJRAT, Feb 7: The district administration has failed to take action against the timber mafia, which is depriving Gujrat of Shisham and other green trees with the alleged connivance of the forest officer....		Concern over Balochistan action, inflation HYDERABAD, Feb 7: The Institute of Sindh Affairs has expressed concern over the ongoing military operation in Balochistan, rampant unemployment and inflation....
Medical staff to undergo screening for hepatitis ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: The government on Tuesday directed all federal government medical institutions to get their entire staff screened for hepatitis to ensure that health care professionals are not carriers of this disease....		LHC orders cancellation of PTV, APP staff plots: Journalist quota in G-14 ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: The Lahore High Court (LHC), Rawalpindi Bench, on Tuesday directed the Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF) to cancel the plots allotted to the employees of Pakistan Television...
Varsities told to implement SC verdict on grace marks ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) chairman Dr Ataur Rehman on Tuesday directed vice chancellors and rectors of the public sector universities to follow the Supreme court ruling on grace marks....		Menon hosts reception for Indian cricket team ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: Indian High Commissioner Shivshankar Menon and his wife Mrs Mohini Menon hosted a reception in honour of the visiting Indian cricket team at their residence here on Tuesday evening....
Austrian NGO searches for quake child to raise funds ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: A Vienna-based NGO is looking for an unidentified child who survived October 8 earthquake to help raise funds for him and other children affected by the traumatic natural disaster....		Train collision averted at Gujar Khan GUJAR KHAN, Feb 7: An accident was averted at the Gujar Khan railway station after a Lahore-bound goods train failed to stop at the station to give way to the Rawalpindi-bound Sialkot Express, sources in the railway department confirmed....
MNAs support just, fair rent system in Islamabad ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: Members of the National Assembly on Tuesday assured full support to traders and tenants in introduction of just and fair rent system in the federal capital....		Admissions to AIOU open ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: Admissions to Spring Semester 2006 programmes of the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) have started from February 1 across the country as well as in the Middle East, says a statement....
Girl falls into manhole RAWALPINDI, Feb 7: Passersby rescued a teenage boy who along with his minor sister had accidentally fallen into a manhole on Jamia Masjid road on Tuesday night, police and witnesses said....		Rights committee of Senate wants more jails built ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: The Senate’s functional committee on human rights on Tuesday recommended construction of more prisons....
Pakistani judicial team due in London LONDON, Feb 7: A high-level judicial delegation led by the Chief Justice of Pakistan would be arriving here on Monday for a week-long visit to review the UK-Pakistan judicial protocol on matters relating to children....		Mob sets shops, vehicles on fire LAHORE, Feb 7: Police resorted to teargas to control an enraged mob which had set on fire some vehicles and shops and an old cinema in the South Cantonment area on Tuesday night....
By-elections on March 11 ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan, has said that polls for by-elections for vacant seats of Union Nazims/Naib Union Nazims in the respected provinces will be held on March 11 instead of March 6....		Sales tax ISLAMABAD, Feb 7: The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has extended exemption of sales tax levy on local supply of all goods meant for free distribution and procured out of the president’s relief fund for earthquake victims....
Environment awareness campaign launched PESHAWAR, Feb 7: Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday said that lack of political will to implement environment laws in the province had resulted in the degradation of environment....		Tent villages in NWFP to be closed by March 31 ABBOTTABAD, Feb 7: Tent villages in the province will be closed by March 31 and more than 80,000 earthquake survivors will be settled in their homes for which necessary arrangements are being finalized....
Inmates take five jail officials hostage SUKKUR, Feb 7: Following a scuffle between prisoners and police in the Sukkur Central Jail-I on Tuesday, more than 2,000 prisoners took over the jail and made five jail officials hostage....		Work on Mardan projects in progress PESHAWAR, Feb 7: Mardan district nazim Himayatullah Mayar has said that several projects, particularly in health, education and water sectors, are being executed in the district....
Varsity may return temporary staff to education dept GILGIT, Feb 7: The Karakoram International University may return to the education department the academic staff, including some professors, who had joined the KIU in 2003 when they were offered a...		Saifullah Magsi canal banks to be strengthened LARKANA, Feb 7: The Sindh government has approved an amount of Rs14.074 million for strengthening the banks of the Saifullah Magsi irrigation channel....
Committee to prepare plan for taluka development HYDERABAD, Feb 7: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jameel has constituted a seven-member committee headed by Naib Nazim Zaffar Rajput to work out a development plan for Hyderabad taluka (rural)....		‘Forced labour insult to humanity’ HYDERABAD, Feb 7: Leaders of various political parties and social welfare organizations have termed forced labour as an insult to humanity and demanded effective measures to end it....
Gohar registers as voter in Islamabad HARIPUR, Feb 7: Former foreign minister and Senior Vice-President of the Pakistan Muslim League Gohar Ayub Khan has got his name deleted from the voters’ list of his constituency here and registered himself in Islamabad, sources told Dawn on Tuesday....		Jaswant visits relatives in Umerkot MIRPURKHAS, Feb 7: The leader of opposition in Rajaya Sabha and former Indian foreign minister Jaswant Singh visited his relatives in Rana Jagir in the Umerkot taluka on Tuesday....
Export of brass scrap hits sanitary industry GUJRANWALA, Feb 7: Export of brass scrap/raw material has badly hit the sanitary industry as dozens of units have closed rendering hundreds of workers jobless....		Crime knows no boundaries FAISALABAD, Feb 7: The local police have failed to recover a boy kidnapped by the relatives of a murder convict to stop his execution. This is the second time that heirs...
Former Toba nazim comes under fire TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 7: District Nazim Chaudhry Abdul Sattar has accused his successor Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq of adopting wrong policies regarding education department....		Police clueless about human remains mystery FAISALABAD, Feb 7: Jaranwala police could not resolve the mystery of remains of seven human bodies found from a canal a couple of days ago....
Sheikhupura to have 470 new educators SHEIKHUPURA, Feb 7: As many as 470 educators will be recruited in the district shortly. This was stated by Education EDO Yousaf M Gull while talking to the press here on Tuesday....		Ears, nose cutting: four court arrest MIANWALI, Feb 7: Four people who had allegedly chopped off ears and nose of a prayer leader at Chak 3-MB two days back, courted arrest here on Tuesday....
Hoarding deepens sugar crisis LAHORE, Feb 7: Sugar crisis worsens in big cities across the province amid reports of black marketeering even by the utility stores. The commodity has almost disappeared from the utility stores due to a price gap between market and stores....		Non-stop train’s speed limit reduced LAHORE, Feb 7: Speed limit for the Islamabad/Lahore non-stop train has been reduced from Tuesday, it is learnt. Now the 107-up/108-down non-stop would not be exceeding the speed limit of 70km...
Lawyers observe protest strike LAHORE, Feb 7: Lawyers throughout Punjab observed a half-day strike on Tuesday on the call of the Punjab Bar Council to condemn the publication of blasphemous cartoons in Denmark, Norway and France....		Missing facilities at RHCs in a year, says Pervaiz LAHORE, Feb 7: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi has said that all missing facilities will be provided at rural health centres (RHCs) within one year under the health sector reforms programme recently launched in the province....
APC to be held in Islamabad: Blasphemous cartoons LAHORE, Feb 7: Representatives of major political and religious parties will meet in Islamabad on Feb 11 to adopt a joint strategy on the issue of blasphemous cartoons published by some Western papers....		Rs420m CCB funds remain unutilized LAHORE, Feb 7: Funds available with the city district government for utilization through the citizen community boards (CCBs) have increased to Rs420 million owing to tardy pace of work....
‘Price to be controlled’ LAHORE, Feb 7: Governor Khalid Maqbool said on Tuesday sugar price would be controlled within a few days. He told journalists after the Pakistan Tanners’ Association northern zone award ceremony...		Rangers’ team LAHORE, Feb 7: A 10-member delegation of the Pakistan Rangers crossed the Wagah border into India on Tuesday for a quarterly meeting with the Border Security Force....
Education Expo ends LAHORE, Feb 7: The two-day Dawn Education Expo-2006 concluded at the Exhibition Centre, Fortress Stadium, on Tuesday. The event was organized by the Dawn Group of Newspapers....		Two hammered to death in Khoski BADIN, Feb 7: Two people were killed and another seriously injured in an attack with hammers in Khoski town (Badin taluka) late on Monday night....