March 21, 2006	Tuesday	Safar 20, 1427

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KARACHI: Ibad wants cabinet to review issue soon: Composite examination KARACHI, March 20: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan has once again asked the Sindh government to give priority to the issue of composite examination and ensure that the matter is...		KARACHI: KMC Sports Complex to host all WSF events KARACHI, March 20: Organizers of the World Social Forum (WSF) have decided to change the venue of the opening and closing plenary of the event from Lyari Football Stadium to the KMC Sports Complex, Kashmir Road....
KARACHI: Mother kills two infant daughters KARACHI, March 20: A woman killed her two infant daughters in Landhi on Monday evening. SHO of Landhi police station told Dawn that Nadia, 30, wife of ASI Mohammad Aslam killed her two daughters by throttling them....		KARACHI: High Court condones delay in appeal KARACHI, March 20: The Sindh High Court condoned on Monday about six years’ delay in three murder convicts’ jail appeal and asked the Hyderabad jail authorities to be careful in the future....
KARACHI: Schools, colleges closed today KARACHI, March 20: The Sindh Education and Literacy Department on Monday notified that all the educational institutions in the government and private sector in the province would remain closed on March 21 on account of Chehlum (Safar 20)....		KARACHI: Army action no solution to Balochistan problem: NP KARACHI, March 20: The National Party has called for a 25 per cent cut in armed forces, de-militarization of society and recognition of people’s sovereign right to rule....
KARACHI: Ibad reviews industrial activities KARACHI, March 20: Industrial activities in the province were reviewed at a meeting held under the chairmanship of Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad at Governor’s House here on Monday....		HYDERABAD: Demand to end Balochistan operation HYDERABAD, March 20: Leaders of nationalist parties and intellectuals on Sunday demanded that the operation in Balochistan should be stopped immediately. They were speaking at a seminar on “Situation obtaining in...
PESHAWAR: Assembly wants operation ended: Durrani blasts centre’s policy PESHAWAR, March 20: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has stressed the need for a representative government in Afghanistan, saying that the current set-up in Kabul had failed to establish peace and its writ was not accepted beyond the capital....		PESHAWAR: Dy speaker insists on secret ballot PESHAWAR, March 20: The NWFP Assembly Deputy Speaker, Ikramullah Shahid has said that he is not going to resign as suggested by some MPAs. Instead, he will contest the no-trust move against him on Tuesday....
PESHAWAR: DPOs asked to ensure ban on Swara, Vani PESHAWAR, March 20: All district police officers in the NWFP have been officially ordered to keep an eye on “Swara” and “Vani” customs in their areas....		KARACHI: Karachi on way to self-reliance, says nazim KARACHI, March 20: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that concrete steps are being taken for making the city government economically stable and viable so that it could continue to...
KARACHI: FIR against Indian boat registered KARACHI, March 20: Police on Monday registered an FIR against an Indian boat for allegedly opening fire at a Pakistani fishing boat resulting in the death of a fisherman on March 18....		KARACHI: Rs13.2m allocated for skin hospital KARACHI: March 20: The Sindh government has earmarked a sum of Rs13.2 million for procurement of latest machinery and setting up of a new laboratory at the Institute of Skin Disease Sindh commonly known as “chamra (skin) hospital” at Regal Chowk....
KARACHI: Niamat blames MQM for wave of killings KARACHI, March 20: Former City Nazim Niamatullah Khan on Monday alleged that the recent wave of killings in Karachi, including an attempt on the life of former nazim of Landhi Town...		KARACHI: Women’s role in economic uplift urged KARACHI, March 20: Women, comprising 48 per cent of Pakistan’s population can play a vital role in country’s economic uplift, President Karachi Chambers of Commerce and Industry Haroon Farooki said here on Monday....
KARACHI: HRCP slams Sindh govt move to ban trade unions KARACHI, March 20: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan condemning the Sindh government’s suggestion to impose a ban on trade union activities has demanded that the government should refrain from taking...		KARACHI: No ban to be imposed: Adil KARACHI, March 20: Sindh Minister for Labour and Industries Mohammed Adil Siddiqi said here on Monday that no ban would be imposed on labour unions in the government offices....
KARACHI: Ordinance to streamline private health centres soon KARACHI, March 20: An ordinance to regulate and control all existing and upcoming hospitals and health centres in the private sector in the province is likely to be issued in a fortnight, said sources in the health department....		KARACHI: Vaccination stressed for child survival KARACHI, March 20: Rota virus (diarrhoea) and Pneumococcus (pneumonia), which continue to be the major killer diseases for under five children, can be contained through optimum use of new vaccines available in the country under WHO and Unicef Strategy - GIVS....
KARACHI: Traffic arrangements for Chehlum KARACHI, March 20: Traffic police have made elaborate arrangements for observing Chehlum of Hazrat Imam Hussain on Tuesday. According to the plan, a procession will be taken out from Nishtar Park at 1pm....		KARACHI: Call for probe into funds spent by HEC KARACHI, March 20: The Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Associations (FAPUASA) alleged that the distribution of funds on higher education by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) was not “transparent”...
KARACHI: Restoration of PEC’s original status urged KARACHI, March 20: At the Third International Mechanical Engineering Congress (IMEC) 2006 held here at the Institute of Engineering Pakistan (IEP), engineers unanimously adopted a resolution demanding restoration of the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) to its original status....		KARACHI: International Mushaira tomorrow KARACHI, March 20: The International Mushaira ‘Sakinan-i-Shahr-i-Quaid’ will be held at National Stadium on Wednesday. In this connection, Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town Municipal Officer Matanat Ali Khan visited the stadium to review the cleanliness and beautification arrangements....
KARACHI: Ali’s death condoled KARACHI, March 20: The Sindh Minister for Sports, Culture and Tourism, Qamar Mansoor, Sindh IT Adviser Mohammad Noman Saigol, Sindh Adviser on Public Affairs Syed Manzoor Hasan have expressed their deep...		KARACHI: Urdu-Sindhi Mushaira held KARACHI, March 20: A bilingual poetry recital session “Shafaq Urdu Sindhi Mushaira” was held at the Arts Council. Poets from across the province recited their compilations, followed by an elaborate discussion...
KARACHI: MA (external) mark sheets KARACHI, March 20: The University of Karachi announced that marks sheets of MA (previous and final) annual exams 2004 for external candidates had been dispatched to their postal addresses....		HYDERABAD: Villagers condemn ejection from ancestral land HYDERABAD, March 20: Residents of the Ismail Chand village have lashed out at the Irsa University administration for demolishing properties of villagers whose forefathers were residing there for centuries....
HYDERABAD: Police chief asked to hold inquiry: Occupation of petrol pump HYDERABAD, March 20: A division bench of the Supreme Court has directed the provincial police officer, Sindh, to personally conduct an inquiry to find out how a service station owned by a law-abiding citizen was taken over by police....		HYDERABAD: Call for arrest of rapists HYDERABAD, March 20: Residents of the Jinnan Soomro Union Council of Tando Mohammad Khan district held a demonstration outside the press club here on Sunday in protest against delay in arrest of people who are alleged to have raped a woman....
HYDERABAD: Family seeks protection, alleges police harassment HYDERABAD, March 20: A family of Latifabad’s unit-6 has demanded protection from what the family called police highhandedness. Speaking at a news conference at the press club here on Sunday, family...		SUKKUR: Custodial death: arrest of policemen demanded SUKKUR, March 20: A group of people from Jacobabad held a demonstration and staged sit-ins outside the press club and the Sukkur RPO office on Monday, demanding arrest of policemen allegedly involved in the death of Abdul Ghaffar Shaikh....
THATTA: One killed, six hurt in clash THATTA, March 20: One man was killed and six others suffered injuries in a clash between two groups over demarcation of a watercourse in Daro town on Monday....		HYDERABAD: Polls under independent commission urged HYDERABAD, March 20: The provincial secretary information of the PML-N, Zahid Rafique Butt, has said that the political situation in the country demands that elections should be held under the supervision of an independent and autonomous election commission....
HYDERABAD: Conference on arts, humanities planned HYDERABAD, March 20: The University of Sindh would organise a three-day international conference on “Arts and Humanities” in February next year at Allama I I Kazi Campus, Jamshoro, said a high level meeting of the organizing committee on Monday....		PESHAWAR: FC programme for Pakistan Day PESHAWAR, March 20: The Frontier Corps has made elaborate arrangements to celebrate the Pakistan Day on Thursday in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) in a befitting manner....
PESHAWAR: Rs1.08 billion to be spent on roads in Fata PESHAWAR, March 20: The government has allocated an amount of Rs1,081.5 million for construction of roads to open up inaccessible and far-flung regions of the Federally-Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata)....		PESHAWAR: Archaeology conference PESHAWAR, March 20: The Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, the government of NWFP, and the Pakistan National Commission for Unesco have jointly organised a three-day sub-regional conference on archaeology to be...
PESHAWAR: Legislators offer fateha for victims PESHAWAR, March 20: The NWFP Assembly on Monday offered fateha on Monday for people killed in the bomb blasts in DI Khan and Tank districts. Speaker Bakht Jehan Khan was in the chair....		DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Dera blast toll rises to nine DERA ISMAIL KHAN, March 20: The death toll in Sunday blast here rose to nine after a constable died in the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) in Islamabad on Monday....
LAKKI MARWAT: Power supply problems discussed LAKKI MARWAT, March 20: Lakki Marwat District Nazim Humayun Saifullah Khan on Monday apprised Peshawar Electric Supply Company officials of problems of low voltage and power disruption in the area....		PESHAWAR: Rs184m being spent on quake relief: Pesco PESHAWAR, March 20: About Rs184 million is being spent by the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) on medical camps, relief camps and tent villages in the areas affected by the October 8 earthquake....