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November 08, 2006 Wednesday Shawwal 15, 1427   PBC upholds Munir Malik’s election: Malik Qayyum rejects decision LAHORE, Nov 7: The Pakistan Bar Council on Tuesday upheld the election of Munir A. Malik as president of the Supreme Court Bar Association and of other office-bearers and nullified a notification issued by former SCBA president Malik Mohammad Qayyum.... Opposition thwarts pro-centre move QUETTA Nov 7: Opposition in the Balochistan Assembly on Tuesday thwarted an attempt to push through a resolution aimed at empowering the federal government to pass a law which the opposition fears would infringe upon rights of the province.... Call for Islamic free trade area ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: The three-day World Islamic Economic Forum concluded here on Tuesday with calls upon member countries to accelerate regional and sub-regional cooperation for establishing an Islamic Free Trade Area.... Govt asked to scrap Diamond Bar Island City project ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: Civil society organisations have warned the government against going ahead with the proposed Diamond Bar Island City Project, saying any such initiative would face tough resistance, particularly from the 500,000 strong fishing community in Karachi.... So different but so much alike: Paris, Islamabad policy-makers ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: A seminar on the global security perspectives and worldviews of Pakistan and France made a revealing start here on Tuesday - that the foreign policies of both countries flow from their chief executives.... Protest against sale of Karachi islands HYDERABAD, Nov 7: On a call of the Anti-Greater Thal Canal and Kalabagh Dam Action Committee, processions were taken out in district headquarters of Sindh in protest against the planned sale of two islands off Karachi coast to a foreign company.... District PSC’s problems ‘being ignored’ MARDAN, Nov 7: Chairmen and members of the districts of the Public Safety Commission (PSC) here criticised the National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB), the National Safety Commission (NSC), the Provincial Safety Commission (PSC) and the provincial government for ignoring their problems.... Allocation of funds fuels rift between nazim, MQM SUKKUR, Nov 7: The alleged unjust distribution of development funds and allocation of inadequate funds for taluka Sukkur city in the annual budget of 2006-07 have fuelled differences between district nazim... Minister claims Baloch jirga postponed at his request NAWABSHAH, Nov 7: Federal Minister for Northern Areas and State Affairs Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind has claimed that President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz have postponed convening... Homework for decisive campaign on: Qazi LAHORE, Nov 7: Jamaat-i-Islami amir and MMA president Qazi Husain Ahmad said on Tuesday that time had come to mobilise people for launching, what he called, a “final showdown against the regime that has become a security risk”.... PML-N to seek APC in London LAHORE, Nov 7: The PML-N will propose at the Nov 14 meeting of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy that an all-party conference should be held in London in the... Sikhs call for Afzal Guru’s acquittal LAHORE, Nov 7: Shromani Akali Dal, Amritsar, (UK chapter) president S Varinder Singh Bittu and secretary-general S Lovshinder Singh Dalewal have said India would have to acquit Afzal Guru if it wanted peace in the region.... Provinces to check major violations: Dangerous high-rises LAHORE, Nov 7: Gross violations of building bylaws will be dealt with at the provincial level whereas those of minor nature by the local authorities to ensure uniform checking of construction of dangerous high-rises.... SC wants to know man behind DPO’s transfer: Okara murder case ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: The Supreme Court Tuesday expressed its displeasure at the transfer of a police officer while probing into the murder of a woman, who had accused ex-naib nazim of... Chitral pavilion steals the show at Lok Mela ISLAMABAD, Nov 7: Chitrali folk singers and artisans are stealing the show at the ongoing Lok Mela in company of a troupe representing the much vaunted Kalash tribe.... NWFP painter dies ISLAMABAD, Nov. 7: The realist painter of the people and prominent artist Imtiaz Husain died of cardiac arrest at Pims on Tuesday morning. He was 64.... Three restaurants, shop sealed under FCR PESHAWAR, Nov 7: The administration of Mohmand Agency sealed three restaurants and a shop on the Naz Cinema road here under the Frontier Crimes Regulation in connection with the kidnapping of agency councillor Dilawar Khan Mohmand.... Five dialysis machines out of order at CMCH LARKANA, Nov 7: Five out of 12 dialyses machines have been inoperative for three months in the department of urology of the Chandka Medical College Hospital Larkana.... CM fires MS, suspends EDO of health SUKKUR, Nov 7: The Sindh chief minister on Tuesday sacked the medical superintendent of civil hospital Sukkur, Dr. Imtiaz Mughal, and suspended the EDO of health Dr.... Grade IV workers get 15pc raise PESHAWAR, Nov 7: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani on Tuesday approved a raise of Rs500 per month for grade IV employees from Nov 1.... Five killed in Peshawar PESHAWAR, Nov 7: At least five people were shot dead in the provincial capital on Monday. A taxi driver, Kiramat Shah, son of Ghulam Mohammad, was gunned down by bandits at Phandu Chowk.... Handicraft centres’ closure criticised MARDAN, Nov 7: Women workers staged a demonstration here on Tuesday against closure of handicraft centres.... Duty-free import of LPG demanded LAHORE, Nov 7: The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Distributors Association has demanded duty-free import of LPG to check undue profiteering by the producers and marketing companies.... Labourer killed as trolley overturns LAHORE, Nov 7: A labourer died while another injured when a tractor-trolley overturned in Garden Town area here on Tuesday.... CM suspends DSP, inspector SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 7: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Tuesday suspended from service the Farooqabad Sadar DSP and an inspector for not arresting the killers of seven members of a family in Ganjiana village.... Row over boy’s body VEHARI, Nov 7: The Karampur police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested another kidnapper-cum-murderer of an eight-year old boy.... Rs60.5m for RHCs’ work SIALKOT, Nov 7: The Punjab government has released a special grant of Rs60.5 million to the National Logistic Cell (NLC) for repair of all rural healthp centres (RHCs) to their original designs and provision of all missing facilities there.... Call for duty withdrawal SIALKOT, Nov 7: Exporters and manufacturers of musical instruments have expressed their concern over the step-motherly treatment with this cottage industry which is fetching foreign exchange to the tune of Rs4 billion annually....

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