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August 23, 2006 Wednesday Rajab 27, 1427   CDA gives plots to military officers: Rs160m loss to kitty ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: A subcommittee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday took serious notice of the allotment of costly plots to top military officials by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) in violation of rules and regulations.... MMA to defy ban on pamphlet distribution RAWALPINDI, Aug 22: Chief of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) Qazi Hussain Ahmad on Tuesday said the legislators belonging to the religio-political alliance would defy ban on distribution of pamphlets outside mosques.... In Indian nuclear calculus minimum means substantial ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: India’s minimum credible nuclear deterrent concept is dynamic, visiting Indian academician Dr Swaran Singh said in an in-house meeting at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) on Tuesday.... Power supply to new buildings after NOC LAHORE, Aug 22: Newly-constructed buildings will have to submit a no-objection certificate (NOC) issued by the City District Government Lahore or LDA for getting electricity connections.... PBC asks Musharraf to relinquish one office LAHORE, Aug 22: The Punjab Bar Council on Tuesday urged President Gen Pervez Musharraf to relinquish either of the two offices he was holding as present in violation of the 1973 constitution.... Girls retain supremacy: BA, BSc exams LAHORE, Aug 22: Keeping up their past academic performance, the girls have this year too outshone boys by clinching five out of top six positions in the Punjab University’s BA, BSc annual examinations for 2006.... Row in PA over new appointment policy QUETTA, Aug 22: Opposition members on Tuesday lodged a strong protest in the Balochistan Assembly against a cabinet decision about appointments in the education department to be made by the department itself, and not through the Public Service Commission.... Pir Zainuddin passes away QUETTA, Aug 22: Prominent spiritual figure, Syed Pir Zainuddin Al-Gailani died in Islamabad on Tuesday afternoon. He will be laid to rest in Quetta on Thursday.... In-laws ‘repent’ being related to Rauf BAHAWALPUR, Aug 22: “It is our bad luck that he is our relative,” says Alamgir when asked about Rashid Rauf, a British national having Kashmiri roots, who is said to be... Farmers worried about plan to bulldoze villages GUJRANWALA, Aug 22: Small farmers of seven villages protested against the government for planning to bulldoze their houses for constructing an industrial estate and demanded that the plan should be cancelled.... Rs4m heist: three bank guards held SIALKOT, Aug 22: The Kotwali police on Tuesday solved the mystery of Rs4 million bank theft, arrested three security guards of the bank and recovered the looted money.... Three of family found dead VEHARI, Aug 22: The city police have recovered three bodies from a house at Amjad Town in Burewala. The bodies of three members of a family were sent to laboratory in Lahore for chemical examination on Tuesday.... Four killed as rivals clash SIALKOT, Aug 22: Four people were shot dead and two others injured in a clash between two rival groups in Kaaleyki-Phalora, Pasrur tehsil, here on Tuesday.... Bank scam victims’ protest SIALKOT, Aug 22: Hunger strike by scores of affected account holders in the UBL’s alleged fraud case entered the second day on Tuesday. They staged a peaceful sit-in and a demonstration against the Rs25 million fraud in bank’s Zafarwal branch, Shakargarh.... Chitral areas still cut off ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: A crisis-like situation persists in the northern most Yarkhun valley of Chitral after the only bridge linking it with other parts of the district near Brep village was... Call to revise ordinance ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives Pakistan has called for revising in the public interest the Freedom of Information Ordinance 2006 promulgated by the Sindh government.... Action in cricket fiasco sought ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Senate standing committee on sports, culture and youth affairs member Senator Enver Baig has asked the government to act firmly and decisively in the cricket fiasco.... Call to release Hashmi, Gilani LAHORE, Aug 22: Pakistan Human Rights Council (PHRC) chairman Mumtaz Ahmed Tarrar has demanded immediate release of PML-N president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi and PPP leader Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani.... Qadeer’s treatment urged LAHORE, Aug 22: The Punjab PML-N on Tuesday called for the immediate release of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan and constitution of a special medical board for his treatment.... Child bureau activities to be expanded LAHORE, Aug 22: Law and Local Government Minister Muhammad Basharat Raja on Tuesday assured full government support for the expansion of Child Protection Bureau’s network to other cities in the province.... More rain forecast LAHORE, Aug 22: The stationary monsoon low over Indian Rajasthan which tilted towards Sindh on Monday would not give heavy rains in the province because it had further weakened, the Flood Forecasting Division said here on Tuesday.... Arrested LAHORE, Aug 22: Islamapura police arrested four members of Shafi alias Muna mobile snatchers gang and recovered two pistols from their possession. Police said they were wanted in more than 25 cases of cell phone snatching in the city....

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