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Master plan of Muzaffarabad to be devised this month: Rehabilitation process ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: Master planning of Muzaffarabad city will start from mid of the current month. This was decided when Assistant Project Manager of Japan International Cooperation System (JICS) Hidekazu Tanemura...		UN helicopter service faces fund shortage ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The United Nations Helicopter Service would run out of fund by the end of February unless donors provided more money, UN sources said on Saturday....
Cuban doctors operated upon 7,000 patients, treated 80,000 ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: Cuban doctors have provided treatment to 80,000 patients, conducted 7,000 operations and admitted 4,000 patients in earthquake-hit areas of Kashmir and NWFP....		Pakistan, Japan desire world peace: speaker ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: Pakistan and Japan share the same perception on global issues and have a common desire for peace and stability in the region and the world....
SC disposed of 3,746 cases in January ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The Supreme Court disposed of 3,746 cases in January 2006 against institution of 415 new ones. According to a statement, the ratio of disposal was nine times higher than fresh institutions....		WAF demands zero-tolerance for violence against women ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The Women’s Action Forum (WAF) has called for promotion of zero-tolerance for any form of violence against women....
‘Ample stock of sugar fails to control prices’ ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: A slight decrease of 2.87 per cent in the country’s sugarcane production in the year 2005-06 does not justify the prevailing high sugar prices as enough imports have been made to meet the shortfall....		Tree lovers out to stop mass murder ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: In this season of protests, the capital city witnessed the strangest one on Saturday when children gathered round an old banyan tree with the mission to save it from the hatchet....
Passengers face hardships: Goods’ trains accident near Kotri HYDERABAD, Feb 11: Hundreds of passengers faced a painful ordeal following a collision between two goods trains between Meting and Bholari railway stations on Friday....		Nankana, Amritsar bus leaves LAHORE, Feb 11: The Pakistan government’s 10-member delegation on Saturday left for Amritsar on board the Nankana Sahib-Amritsar bus to check the international route as well as facilities for passengers....
Two trains leave for Karachi LAHORE, Feb 11: Only two passenger trains left here for Karachi as traffic to and from the Sindh capital could not be restored till late on Saturday evening....		Political change must to address public issues, says PPP ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: The government is trying to divert public’s attention from the core issues by engaging them in meaningless debates, PPP Information Bureau Central Coordinator Farzana Raja here on Friday said....
Bank workers hold demo for raise in salary ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: Hundreds of United Bank (UBL) employees staged a protest demonstration here to press the bank administration to improve their salary package and accept other demands....		Benazir grieved over Hangu incident ISLAMABAD, Feb 11: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has condemned the attack on Ashura procession in Hangu and the subsequent riots that left over 40 people dead and scores injured....
BSO factions unify QUETTA, Feb 11: Three factions of the Baloch Students Organization merged to form a unified body after maintaining separate entities for 22 years....		Ashura blasts a conspiracy against Muslims: Fazl DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Feb 11: Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that Thursday’s blasts in Hangu are not a result of sectarianism but a conspiracy against Muslims....
Student killed in Khasadars’ firing LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Feb 11: A college student was killed and two of his colleagues injured when Khasadar force opened fire on a group of protesters in Jamrud on Saturday....		24,500 TB patients in NWFP PESHAWAR, Feb 11: The number of registered patients of tuberculosis in the NWFP has increased to 24,500, an official has said. “We had 24,500 registered TB patients in 2005 against 18,500 in 2004....
Ban on entry in Hangu deplored KOHAT, Feb 11: The secretary-general of Tehrik Nifaz Fiqa Jafria Pakistan, Syed Mazhar Ali Shah, has criticized the ban on the entry of the Muharram committee into Hangu to sympathize with the families of the victims of violence in the city....		Chinese team visits Peshawar museum PESHAWAR, Feb 11: A delegation of Chinese officials visited Peshawar Museum which is displaying artefacts and statues of Gandhara art....
Demos held against caricatures SWABI, Feb 11: Workers of different religious parties and students of schools and colleges held a protest demonstration here on Saturday against the publication of blasphemous caricatures in some European newspapers....		Kidney centre planned for Quetta QUETTA, Feb 11: Balochistan’s Chief Secretary K.B. Rind announced on Friday that a well-equipped kidney centre and hospital would soon be set up in the provincial capital under the auspices of the UAE-based Shaikh Zayed Trust....
South Korea to set up hospital in Mansehra PESHAWAR, Feb 11: South Korean Ambassador to Pakistan Mr Kim Joo Seok has said that his government wants to set up a burns clinic and a hospital in Mansehra....		Rs33.8 million budget for Lakki LAKKI MARWAT, Feb 11: Tehsil nazim Fareedullah Khan presented a Rs33.86 million annual budget for the year 2005-06 here on Saturday....
Karo-kari claims four lives LARKANA, Feb 11: Four people, three of them women, were killed on the pretext of karo-kari in Qubo Saeed Khan and Kandhkot talukas on Saturday....		Tenders for Rani Bagh uplift HYDERABAD, Feb 11: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has directed consultants to float tenders for the development scheme of Rani Bagh within a week so that execution of the project can be started within a month....
Lawyers hold demo against blasphemous cartoons SUKKUR, Feb 11: Lawyers took out a procession and staged a demonstration in front of the local press club on Saturday against publication of blasphemous sketches of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in European newspapers....		2 victims of accident die KHAIRPUR, Feb 11: Two motorcyclists who were injured in a road accident died here on Saturday morning. According to reports, a speedy car had collided with a motorcycle near the Panj...
Four killed over land dispute JACOBABAD, Feb 11: Four people were killed and another was injured in a clash between two rival groups in Gorchani village in the Abad police area on Saturday....		Hospital sealed after death of woman SUKKUR, Feb 11: On the directives of the Sindh chief minister, the health authorities have sealed a private hospital Darul Shifa following the death of a woman patient on February 6 due to administration of wrong injection....
Utility stores’ monthly sugar quota doubled LAHORE, Feb 11: Governor Khalid Maqbool said on Saturday the government had increased the monthly sugar quota of the Utility Stores Corporation from 11,000 ton to 22,000 ton to ensure provision...		Package for doctors under rural health programme LAHORE, Feb 11: Under the Punjab Rural Support Programme (PRSP), medical officers were compulsorily examining the patients twice a week at every Basic Health Unit (BHU) in the 12 selected districts of the province....
Farmer seeks compensation LAHORE, Feb 11: A farmer of Malianwali (Chak No 537) has appealed to the irrigation authorities to order a probe into unannounced release of water in Mananwala Rajbah which caused a...		Body sought on trade with India LAHORE, Feb 11: The proposed Indo-Pak Trade Regulatory Authority should be formed at the earliest to increase bilateral trade in the larger interest of their people....
Drawings condemned LAHORE, Feb 11; Publication of the blasphemous drawings of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in Denmark and other European countries was unanimously condemned in the monthly meeting of the Data Ganj Bakhsh Town Council here on Saturday....		PML candidates see Pervaiz LAHORE, Feb 11: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi said on Saturday under the leadership of President Pervez Musharraf, all parliamentary institutions were furthering the process of supremacy of law and public service....
Boy falls to death catching stray kite LAHORE, Feb 11: A 13-year-old boy died after falling from the roof of his house in Nawan Kot on Saturday. Qasim fell while trying to catch a stray kite....		Subsidized flour sale from 15th LAHORE, Feb 11: Sale of 1.5 million flour bags under the Chief Minister’s Sasta Atta Scheme will begin in Punjab from Feb 15 and will continue for two months....
Recruitments in govt offices by June 30 LAHORE, Feb 11: Recruitment process in Punjab government departments will be completed by June 30, 2006, says a spokesman in a handout issued here on Saturday....		Partly cloudy weather LAHORE, Feb 11: Temperature went down by a degree in the city on Saturday following partly cloudy weather. The Meteorological office said partly cloudy weather would continue to prevail in the...
Indian doctors LAHORE, Feb 11: A doctors’ delegation from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, led by hospital’s board of management chairman Dr S K Sama on Saturday arrived Lahore on a five-day visit....		Resource boards LAHORE, Feb 11: Need for activation of district human resource boards was stressed at a meeting of the Umang Development Foundation held here on Saturday....
Mob pelts trains with stones: many injured: Protest against caricatures continues MANDI BAHAUDDIN, Feb 11: People from different callings on Saturday continued protest against sacrilegious depictions with pledges to boycott the products of the nations involved in the publications....		Lyallpur town vacancies yet to be filled FAISALABAD, Feb 11: The working of the Lyallpur Town Administration is reportedly slow as the Punjab Local Government and Rural Development Department high-ups could not appoint four town officers and a town municipal officer....
Robbers continue to make bucks GUJRANWALA, Feb 11: Robbers looted the house of a trader, a passer-by and took away a car in three strikes in and around the city here on Saturday....		Probe against poor construction SIALKOT, Feb 11: District Nazim Muhammad Akmal Cheema has given vent to his disquiet over the use of substandard material in the construction of girls hostel at Government Allama Iqbal College for Women....
Constable arrested with 11kg hashish SHEIKHUPURA, Feb 11: A-Division police claimed to have arrested a constable for his alleged involvement in drug pushing and also recovered contraband in huge quantity from his possession....		Two robbers held after encounter FAISALABAD, Feb 11: Two robbers were arrested after an encounter with police in Gulfishan Colony on Saturday. Reports said three armed men stormed into jeweller Muhammad Khalid’s house at Gulfishan Colony and bagged cash and ornaments....
Open courts to be held in Kasur KASUR, Feb 11: Open courts will be held here on the advice of Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi. Provincial minister Hasan Akhtar Mokal, Parliamentary secretary Malik Ahmed Khan and Malik Ahmed...		Man killed in accident TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 11: A man was killed while four others sustained injuries on Saturday in two accidents. Schoolteacher Rustam Ali and his relative Yaseen, residents of Chak 309-GB, were going to their village from Pirmahal....