March 4, 2006	Saturday	Safar 3, 1427

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Strike, rallies paralyse capital, Rawalpindi ISLAMABAD, March 3: A complete strike called by religious parties against the publication of blasphemous caricatures in European newspapers brought life to a standstill in Rawalpindi and Islamabad and adjoining areas on Friday....		Strike, demonstrations in Sindh towns; Protest against blasphemous cartoons HYDERABAD, March 3: A complete strike was observed in all district headquarters and major towns of Sindh on Friday on the call of the MMA and the ARD in protest against publication of blasphemous cartoons in European newspapers....
Complete strike in NWFP against sacrilege PESHAWAR, March 3: A strike was observed in the NWFP on Friday against the publication of blasphemous cartoons in European newspapers....		Punjab remains vocal yet peaceful GUJRANWALA, March 3: The Punjab remained peaceful amid complete shutter down and wheeljam strike in protest against the publication of blasphemous cartoons in Denmark and other European countries....
Legal action against publishers on anvil: Blasphemous cartoons ISLAMABAD, March 3: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Friday the government would start a legal process against newspapers in western countries which published blasphemous caricatures by evoking their constitutional rules and laws against publication of such material....		Anti-cartoon shutdown peaceful in Lahore LAHORE, March 3: A shutterdown strike was observed in the provincial metropolis under tight security arrangements on Friday to condemn the publication of blasphemous caricatures of Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) in some European countries....
Ministries differ on bird flu tests ISLAMABAD, March 3: The ministries of health and agriculture are contradicting each other over the results of samples taken from poultry farms, where presence of a mild type of bird flu virus was recently reported in Charsadda and Abbottabad....		Defence expenditure may cross target ISLAMABAD, March 3: The country’s defence expenditure is expected to surpass the annual target of Rs223 billion during the fiscal year 2005-6 as the half-yearly spending has crossed Rs119.054...
‘Investigators trying to identify bomber’ KARACHI, March 3: Law-enforcement personnel investigating Thursday’s bombing in Karachi are focusing on identification of the suicide bomber whose ‘blurred’ face was captured by a surveillance camera installed at the US consulate....		Civil Defence or soldiers without weapons? RAWALPINDI, March 3: The Civil Defence setup is meant to handle emergency situations but the one in the city has been lacking in equipment and manpower since 1965, it is learnt....
Subsidised sugar for the poor: Another 50 bikes for arson victims LAHORE, March 3: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi announced on Friday a scheme to provide sugar to the poor at subsidised rates....		Notices to CNG stations slated RAWALPINDI, March 3: All Pakistan Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Association (APCA) Chairman Tariq Kandaan has criticized serving of notices on some of the CNG stations by the district administration for not obtaining environment-related no-objection certificate (NOC)....
Fishing policy being revised ISLAMABAD, March 3: The fishing policy is being revised to enhance earning of foreign exchange and improve socio-economic condition of small fishermen....		Anti-terrorism laws discussed ISLAMABAD, March 3: British parliamentarian Lord Alex Carlile along with his delegation on Friday called on the Federal Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights Mr Wasi Zafar and the Secretary Law, Justice and Human Rights Mr Justice (Retd) Mansoor Ahmed....
MMA seeks debate in NA on army operation ISLAMABAD, March 3: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Thursday submitted an adjournment motion to the National Assembly Secretariat seeking a debate on the recent military operation in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) in which 40 people, including women and children, were killed....		Payment of utility bills an ordeal for consumers RAWALPINDI, March 3: Utility services routinely threaten their consumers with “disconnection” if payment of the bills is delayed but give no thought to what a nerve-wrecking exercise paying a bill is....
2 committees to run affairs of OPF schools, colleges ISLAMABAD, March 3: The board of governors of the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) has constituted two management committees to run the affairs of the foundation’s schools and colleges....		Over 300 stalls gutted in Pindi market RAWALPINDI, March 3: A huge fire broke out in a weekly market here on Friday reducing over 300 stalls to ashes, fire department and police sources said....
EC orders production of detained MNAs; Senate poll ISLAMABAD, March 3: The Election Commission (EC) on Friday directed the Punjab home secretary to ensure the presence of two detained members of parliament in the National Assembly on March 10 so that they could cast vote in the Senate poll....		Elders asked not to help army MIRAMSHAH, March 3: The local Taliban shoora has warned tribal elders against meeting personnel of the armed forces and the political authorities or cooperating with them in the North Waziristan Agency....
Pakistan needs help for economic wellbeing: NYT NEW YORK, March 3: The United States should grant Pakistan a free trade agreement that it has granted Jordan and Morocco and a host of other countries as “it would cement...		Strike in Quetta, other towns of Balochistan QUETTA March 3: A protest strike was observed in the city and district headquarters of the province on the call of the Muttahida Majlis-Amal and other opposition parties against publication of sacrilegious cartoons in some European countries....
‘Apostate’ held after protests KASUR, Marc h 3: Hundreds of villagers in Phoolnagar (Bhai Pheru) clashed with police as they protested on Monday night against an apostate....		Private schools allowed to follow old syllabus for exams this year PESHAWAR, March 3: Authorities in the NWFP have temporarily allowed private schools to conduct examinations in accordance with the old syllabus, officials said on Friday. The decision will not apply to private schools in the quake-affected areas....
4 killed, 10 hurt in bus-van collision GILGIT, March 3: Four passengers were killed and ten others seriously injured on Friday when a college bus collided with a passenger van in Hayum village in Ghizer district....		Record of Zardari’s property verified; Receiver appointed NAWABSHAH, March 3: The district administration of Nawabshah has completed verificaton of the record of property of former senator Asif Ali Zardari and on Friday appointed a receiver....
Man held in Hangu with grenade, wireless set HANGU, March 3: A Frontier Reserve Police (FRP) official claimed on Friday to have thwarted a terrorist attack on a mosque when he detained a man who was carrying a hand-grenade and a wireless set in the main Hangu bazaar....		Shops near police post robbed KOHAT, March 3: Unidentified burglars broke into two shops near the Tehsil Police post and stole mobile phones and cash on Wednesday night....
Installation of power meters opposed LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), March 3: Shopkeepers in the border town of Torkham on Thursday foiled a Wapda move to instal electricity meters in their shops....		Police submit challan against accused: Faisalabad convict’s pardon FAISALABAD, March 3: The local police on Friday submitted the challan of a case registered against 11 people on the charge of kidnapping a boy....
Basant in Gujranwala claims life; 25 injured GUJRANWALA, March 3: A boy was killed and 25 others injured in basant-related incidents and aerial firing here on Friday. Amir, 12, was flying a kite with metal wire on the...		Four of family killed in road accident SHEIKHUPURA, March 3: Four members of a family, including a youth and three women, were killed while seven others sustained injuries, three of them serious, in an accident near Kot Pindi Das, some 17 kilometres away from here, on Friday....
PSC election: Dera nazim, deputy at variance DERA GHAZI KHAN, March 3: The district nazim and naib nazim have developed differences over the election of Public Safety Commission....		Two labourers electrocuted TOBA TEK SINGH, March 3: Two people were electrocuted and five injured near Chak 183 GB Miankot on Friday. Seven labourers were returning to Rajana from Miankot after loading kinno on a truck....
No bird flu symptoms in Punjab’s poultry farms LAHORE, March 3: The Poultry Research Institute has completed the survey of some 5,000 poultry farms and declared that no symptoms of Avian Influenza (bird flu) have been found anywhere in the Punjab....		Research on dosage for breast cancer patients LAHORE, March 3: The Cancer Research Group (CRG), Pakistan, has decided starting of a research to establish the optimum dosage of drugs for breast cancer patients at advanced stage....
No public plaints against courts: CJ: New LHC judges take oath LAHORE, March 3: Chief Justice Iftikhar Husain Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court said here on Friday that the LHC was functioning satisfactorily in the discharge of its duty of administering justice to the litigant public....		Efforts on to bring people to meeting LAHORE, March 3: The ruling PML is taking all possible measures to bring maximum people to its March 23 workers convention to be held on the Minar-i-Pakistan lawns....
MPs to leave for Brussels today LAHORE, March 3: As the opposition parties are protesting against the publication of sacrilegious cartoons, a five-member parliamentary delegation is leaving for Brussels on Saturday to take up the issue with top representatives of EU countries....		Sahi’s son shot at LAHORE, March 3: Punjab Assembly speaker Afzal Sahi’s son was shot at and wounded by unidentified men near the old Lahore airport on Friday night....
Poverty, illiteracy termed causes of domestic violence PESHAWAR, March 3: Speakers at a workshop said that poverty, illiteracy and social taboos were the main reasons for the rise in domestic violence against women....		Schoolgirl, boy die in Bara firing LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), March 3: A schoolgirl was killed and a minor boy was injured when armed men opened fire on a procession of schoolchildren in Bara on Friday....
PHC issues notice to additional district judge PESHAWAR, March 3: The Peshawar High Court here on Friday issued a notice to an additional district and sessions judge asking him to clarify his position in a case of...		ANP wants punitive action against European papers PESHAWAR, March 3: The Awami National Party has asked European countries to take punitive action against newspapers which printed the blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) to defuse the current unrest in the Muslim world....
Anti-MMA procession taken out in Chitral CHITRAL, March 3: A large procession was taken out here on Friday against the MMA government in the province. It started from the Chew Bridge and ended at the Polo Ground....		PPP rejects reports about Benazir’s property in Spain MUZAFFARABAD, March, 3: Former deputy chief organizer of the PPP, AJK, Shaukat Javed Mir, has condemned what he called media trial of the party chairperson Benazir Bhutto initiated at the behest...
Jobs for brother, son of policeman PESHAWAR, March 3: The Inspector General of NWFP Police, Mohammad Raffat Pasha, has announced the appointment of the brother of late police constable Mohammad Pervez, in the police service as a...		Women’s Day in Peshawar PESHAWAR, March 3: Gandhara Hindko Board, a social and literary organisation will hold a ceremony in the city to highlight problems faced by women in connection with International Women’s Day on March 8....
Hostage recovered LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), March 3: The Landi Kotal political administration on Thursday recovered a kidnapped man from the Loe Shalman area....		Robbery OKARA, March 3: Eight gunmen robbed a house in Chak 19/IAL on Thursday night....