March 10, 2006	Friday	Safar 9, 1427

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EC notifies names of elected senators ISLAMABAD, March 9: The Election Commission officially notified on Thursday the names of all senators but one elected by the four provincial assemblies. Senator-elect Mohammad Ishaq Dar’s notification was withheld because he has yet to submit his election expenses....		Two die, 9 hurt in landmine blasts QUETTA, March 9: Two persons, including an 11-year-old boy, were killed and 9 others injured on Thursday when landmines planted by tribal militants exploded in Sui and Nasirabad districts....
LHC disallows Javed Hashmi to cast vote ISLAMABAD, March 9: The Rawalpindi Bench of the Lahore High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition that sought production of PML-N acting president Javed Hashmi for Friday’s vote by the National Assembly to elect a new senator from Islamabad....		Afghan officials accused of human smuggling ISLAMABAD, March 9: Human rights activist Ansar Burney Advocate has accused Afghan government officials of being involved in human trafficking. In a statement issued here on Thursday, the Ansar Burney Welfare...
Sub-Saharan nations fair better than Pakistan: Malnutrition ISLAMABAD, March 9: Pakistan has a higher prevalence of under-nutrition than certain countries of Sub-Saharan Africa and is unlikely to achieve Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of under-weight by 2015....		Role of women in development stressed ISLAMABAD, March 9: Parliamentarians Commission for Human Rights (PCHR) firmly believes that women development is the key to speeding up the progress and development of a nation....
300 Pakistanis in Indian jails ISLAMABAD, March 9: About 300 Pakistanis are languishing in Indian jails and their repatriation will be discussed in the forthcoming secretary level talks in New Delhi, sources told Dawn on Thursday....		Iran breached NPT, Congress told WASHINGTON, March 9: A senior Bush administration official has told the US Congress that Pakistan, India and Israel have not breached the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty while Iran has and that’s why...
Accord with Turkish Red Crescent signed ISLAMABAD, March 9: The Pakistan Red Crescent Society and the Turkish Red Crescent Society on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the reconstruction in quake-hit areas in Azad Kashmir and the NWFP....		‘Quake victims prone to respiratory infection’ PESHAWAR, March 9: Around 200 people died, 31 per cent of them from acute respiratory infection (ARI), in the quake-hit areas during February this year, says a WHO report....
Govt failed to protect Sindh’s rights: PPP: NFC award HYDERABAD, March 9: The leader of the opposition in Sindh Assembly, Nisar Ahmad Khuhro, has said the government has failed to protect rights of Sindh with regard to the NFC award....		Thunderstorm, heavy rain hit Sindh towns SUKKUR, March 9: Thunderstorm, coupled with heavy rain, lashed Sukkur, Rohri, Salehpat, Pano Aqil, Kandhra and Ghotki for the second day on Thursday. In Sukkur, power supply to the city and...
Kite furore ‘beneficial’ for police LAHORE, March 9: The go-no-go vacillation of government over allowing kite flying and the related trade has left those in the business at the mercy of police which were allegedly using the opportunity to mint money....		Police, city govt set to enforce ban: Kite shops closed LAHORE, March 9: The Lahore police and the city district expressed their resolve to implement ban on kite flying which was imposed by the Punjab government on Thursday evening....
‘Musharraf not to attend festival’ LAHORE, March 9: President General Pervaiz Musharraf’s forthcoming visit to Lahore is an official visit, a Press Information Department’s release said on Thursday night....		Another day of protest in PA LAHORE, March 9: Members of the Punjab Assembly Press Gallery Committee boycotted the assembly proceedings to demand ban on kite flying and show solidarity with a photo journalist, Waseem Niaz, who was injured by a kite twine the other day....
N.As population welfare budget increased ISLAMABAD, March 9: Federal Minister for Population Welfare Chaudhry Shahbaz Hussain has said that the government has increased the budgetary allocation for the Population Welfare Programme (PWP) in the Northern Areas form Rs 6.662...		Murder case against MMA activists condemned TAXILA, March 9: The leaders of the joint opposition alliance have condemned the registration of an attempted murder case against eight local Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) activists and appealed to the Lahore...
Saad Rafiq shifted to Punjab House RAWALPINDI, March 9: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) MNA Khawaja Saad Rafiq was on Thursday shifted to the Punjab House declaring it as sub-jail, official sources told Dawn....		Attock free of bird flu virus: DCO ATTOCK, March 9: District Coordination Officer (DCO), Attock, Nasir Khan Babar on Thursday claimed that in Attock district no case of bird flu virus has so far reported....
PFUJ, Apnec meeting KARACHI, March 9: A meeting of the federal executive bodies of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and the All Pakistan Newspaper Employees’ Confederation (Apnec) will be held in Faisalabad...		Call for holding nazim election QUETTA, March 9: Kharan tribal elder Mir Shaukat Baloch has demanded that election for district nazim in Kharan should be held and said that people are facing problems due to absence of local government....
School owners oppose changes in curricula PESHAWAR, March 9: The All Pakistan Private Schools Management Association has rejected changes in curricula and new schedule for examinations, threatening to close the institutions and stage hunger strikes and protest rallies if the provincial government does not revoke the decisions....		Sherpao accuses Afghanistan of interference MINGORA, March 9: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has said that the government is committed to flushing out terrorists from the country. “We will not allow terrorists to use the...
Talks urged between govt and ulema: Law and order situation in Hangu KOHAT, March 9: Elders from 18 tribes of Orakzai Agency and Shia community of Kohat and Hangu have called for negotiations between ulema and the government to defuse tension prevailing in the area following the Feb 9 bomb blast in Hangu....		Monitoring of water, air quality planned PESHAWAR, March 9: A mission of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) has held a meeting with provincial authorities to finalise modalities for a project aimed at establishing monitoring systems of air and water quality in the country....
Councillor, patwari held by NAB ABBOTTABAD, March 9: The National Accountability Bureau has arrested Patwari Saifur Rehman and Councillor Mir Dad of the Namli Mera union council on charges of issuing cheques for survivors of the October earthquake to non-deserving people....		Problems of Wapda engineers discussed PESHAWAR, March 9: Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) engineers on Thursday promised to provide maximum facilities to consumers and work for the uplift of the Peshawar Electric Supply Company....
Smuggler killed, arms and drugs seized KOHAT, March 9: Police killed a carrier and seized huge quantity of drugs and weapons after an encounter with a gang of smugglers in Amozwala Banda near the Lachi town on Thursday....		Two labourers killed in Daud Khel KALA BAGH, March 9: Two labourers died and 9 others were seriously injured when the rack of a under construction block of the Maple Leaf Factory collapsed here in Daud Khel on Thursday....
Two tribesmen released in Bajaur Agency KHAR, March 9: Political authorities on Thursday released two tribesmen, including an elder, who were arrested after the Jan 13 US air attack on Damadola. Officials in the Bajaur Agency headquarters...		AJK PM promises aid package MUZAFFARABAD, March 9: AJK Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Khan has said that a package would be announced in the annual budget to rehabilitate earthquake victims....
Two shot dead in Gilgit GILGIT, March 9: A man was killed on the outskirts of Gilgit during a shootout between two groups in a dispute over a water channel. According to sources, a negotiator, Mohammad...		Food poisoning toll rises FAISALABAD, March 9: Shameem Akhtar, who was hospitalised due to food poisoning, breathed her last on Thursday. The doctors tried their best to save the life of Shameem, the mother of six, but failed to do so....
Two students die fighting robbery SARGODHA, March 9: Two students were killed and an instructor injured while resisting a dacoity bid here on late Wednesday night. Reports said Waseem Hassan, a local law college student and...		Three-wheeler owners voice resentment FAISALABAD, March 9: Hundreds of motorcycle-rickshaw drivers took out a rally and staged demonstration outside the offices of the city district nazim against police and administration’s atrocities here on Thursday....
Work to begin soon on medical college RAHIM YAR KHAN, March 9: Construction of Sheikh Zayed Medical College will soon be started and completed expeditiously. This was said by Punjab Health Secretary Javaid Malik during his visit to the Sheikh Zayed Hospital here on Thursday....		Two killed in Sheikhupura SHEIKHUPURA, March 9: A youth was killed after he fell down from a moving bus on the Faisalabad Road in the jurisdiction of Bhikhi police station on Thursday....
Gujranwala dist govt budget approved GUJRANWALA, March 9: The city district government on Thursday approved a surplus budget of Rs3.8 billion for the year 2005-06. The budget session was presided over by naib nazim Jamal Hasan Manj, while nazim Fiaz Chattha presented the budget....		Dacoits hit four times GUJRANWALA, March 9: Dacoits looted two houses, a trader and injured a property dealer on resistance in four strikes in and around the city here on Thursday....
Suspect arrested BAHAWALPUR, March 9: The Civil Lines police arrested here on Thursday a man who, they believed, have links with Al Qaeda. The police did not disclose his name but affirmed that...		LHC gives the cineplex go-ahead LAHORE, March 9: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Thursday allowed the Punjab government to go ahead with the construction of a multi-million rupee five-storey shopping plaza, along...
Rs10 million spurious aphrodisiacs seized LAHORE, March 9: The FIA has seized spurious and unregistered drugs, a majority of them aphrodisiacs, worth Rs10 million. FIA director Chaudhry Manzoor told newsmen on Thursday its teams raided four...		HRCP’s concern at ‘missing’ persons LAHORE, March 9: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has expressed its serious concern over an increasing number of persons who went missing for the past two years or so and their families were suffering miseries....
Incinerator goes out of order LARKANA, March 9: An incinerator installed in the Chandka Medical College Hospital has gone out of order for 30 days. Initially, the machine had developed a fault which its product manager had removed....		JSQM holds rallies for release of Dr Sarki HYDERABAD, March 9: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) held a demonstration outside the press club on Thursday in protest against arrest of the secretary general of the party, Dr Safdar Sarki....
Protection for journalist demanded DADU, March 9: Local journalists at a meeting have condemned the warnings allegedly issued to the district correspondent of Dawn, Qurban Ali Khushik, by a minister....		Canal breaches damage crops NAWABSHAH, March 9: Three breaches developed in different channels of the Nusrat irrigation division on Thursday. A 35 feet breach developed at RD-62 of the Chhan Babu distributary near Serhari, damaging crops over 100 acres....
Repeal of Hudood law demanded LAHORE, March 9: Repeal of Hudood Ordinance and inhuman customs like ‘karo kari’ and ‘vani’ was demanded at a meeting held in connection with the International Women’s Day here on Thursday....		Founders Day SHEIKHUPURA, March 9: The fourth Founders Day of Chand Bagh School will be celebrated on Sunday at 2.30 pm. Mr Muhammad Ali Khan, former minister of education of East Pakistan and former senator, will be the chief guest....