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March 25, 2007 Sunday Rabi-ul-Awwal 5, 1428   Sherpao asks Karzai to hold talks with resistance groups PESHAWAR, March 24: Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has called upon Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to hold talks with resistance groups for a lasting peace in his country... Informal Pakistan-India talks likely next week ISLAMABAD, March 24: Foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India, Riaz Mohammad Khan and Shiv Shankar Menon, will meet again next week on the sidelines of the 33rd session of the South... Benazir for peace summit with India NEW DELHI, March 24: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto urged India and Pakistan on Saturday to end what she called a destructive chapter in their relationship and proposed that the two... 12 villages flooded as river changes course UBAURO (Ghotki), March 24: Twelve villages of Kutcha area have been permanently inundated and standing crops over hundreds of acres of land damaged during the last eight months as Indus River has changed its course near here.... 13 killed as coach rams into wagon KHAIRPUR, March 24: Thirteen people, including nine of a family, were killed and two suffered serious injuries in a head- on collision between a passenger coach and a wagon at Shah Hussain bypass on the National Highway late on Friday night.... MMA candidate elected Peshawar Bar president PESHAWAR, March 24: Maulana Shamsul Haq of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal was elected president of the Peshawar District Bar Association in the annual elections held on Saturday, defeating a candidate of the Awami National Party.... Pakistan prone to big quakes, say experts ISLAMABAD, March 24: Seismic experts on Saturday said that a large area of Pakistan was prone to massive earthquakes.... No objection to MMA joining protest: ARD: Opposition rally tomorrow LAHORE, March 24: Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) will hold a peaceful march from Nila Gumbad to the Lahore High Court on Monday (tomorrow) to express solidarity with the... No secret diplomacy on Kashmir: Kasuri LAHORE, March 24: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri has dispelled the impression the Pakistani government is involved in `secret diplomacy’ with the Indian government over the Kashmir issue and urged the people not to mix `private diplomacy’ with `secret diplomacy’.... Qazi again calls for en bloc resignations LAHORE, March 24: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Qazi Husain Ahmad has said that the ‘worst’ crisis in the history of the country’s judiciary warrants that the legislators belonging to all political parties... Festival of lamps begins LAHORE, March 24: The annual Urs of Hazrat Madhu Lal Husain began at his shrine near the historic Shalamar Gardens in Baghbanpura here on Saturday.... Govt tells police to keep students, traders away: Lawyers’ campaign FAISALABAD, Mar 24: Police have been given a task to make concerted efforts to keep students, traders, transporters and labour unions away from the protest campaign launched by lawyers in the country, it was learnt on Saturday.... NP urged to join ARD rally QUETTA, March 24: Chief of the National Party and vice-president of Ponam Dr Hayee Baloch on Saturday urged party activists to participate in ARD’s protest rally on March 26 and said... 4 kidnappers remanded PESHAWAR, March 24: Four people arrested on charges of kidnapping a schoolgirl were remanded into police custody for two days by a local court on Saturday.... Ad hoc workers demand salaries GILGIT, March 24: Over 470 temporary employees of the Northern Areas Public Works Department have not been paid salary for the past three months.... Villagers block highway NAWABSHAH, March 24: Dozens of villagers from the Safan Patan village of Daulatpur taluka held a demonstration outside the press club on Saturday against influential landlords of the area and police.... Farmers warn of protest against power cut QUETTA March 24: The Balochistan Zamindar Action Committee has threatened to launch a movement against the Quetta Electric Supply Company in protest against suspension of power supply to tubewells.... Lawyers resume protest HYDERABAD, March 24: Sindh lawyers, after a day’s break due to a national holiday on Friday, resumed on Saturday protest against the ‘suspension’ of the chief justice of Pakistan and police violence against the lawyers of Quetta.In... Balochistan lawyers observe token boycott QUETTA, March 24: Lawyers on Saturday observed a token boycott of court proceedings in the provincial capital and district headquarters of the province to protest against the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.... Senate body for measures to check marine, air pollution ISLAMABAD, March 24: The subcommittee of the Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production has called for effective measures to check marine and air pollution to minimise the damaging impact on naval, air force and other defence-related assets.... ARD protest rally tomorrow: Save judiciary drive ISLAMABAD, March 24: As a part of ‘save the judiciary campaign’ the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) will hold a protest demonstration in Rawalpindi on Monday.... Divisional engineer’s office set up at Bunair ISLAMABAD, March 24: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Government Assurances met here on Saturday to discuss the implementation of the assurances given by the federal minister for information technology and... Nescon — a platform to promote IT ISLAMABAD, March 24: The Nescon-2007 event would go a long way in helping young scientists and engineers to keep themselves abreast with the latest advancements in the field of software development, said Minister of State for Information Technology, Ishaq Khan Khakwani.... Teachers being forced to attend rally RAWALPINDI, March 24: Resentment prevails among the teachers of government schools and colleges as they are being directed by the district government to attend President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s public rally at... ‘Free treatment facilities for TB patients’ ISLAMABAD, March 24: The government is committed to providing free diagnostic and treatment facilities to those suffering from tuberculosis.... Rs400m for Pindi locality uplift RAWALPINDI, March 24: The Punjab government has approved a grant of Rs400 million for the expansion of Sadiqabad Chowk and other development projects in the constituency PP-14.... 2 criminals found murdered ISLAMABAD, March 24: Two proclaimed offenders were found murdered near their hideout in the suburbs of the capital late Friday night, police said. Mohammad Rais, 28, and Jehanzaib, 24, who were... Tubewell operator killed ISLAMABAD, March 24: A tubewell operator of the Capital Development Authority was killed on Saturday. The Industrial Area police were informed by some passersby that a man was lying in a pool of blood near a tubewell at I-8/2.... LHC seeks affidavits from witnesses: Torture of protesters LAHORE, March 24: Justice Zahid Hussain of the Lahore High Court ordered on Saturday all witnesses to submit affidavits by March 26 in proceedings of an inquiry into the alleged police... Adjournment motion PPP MPA from Rawalpindi Raja Muhammad Shafqat Abbasi on Saturday submitted an adjournment motion with the Punjab Assembly against teargas shelling of the Lahore High Court on March 17 when a lawyers’ convention was going on at the court’s premises.... PML to counter ‘negative moves’ LAHORE, March 24: The ruling PML resolved here on Saturday to counter the opposition’s “negative moves” against the government through political means, and decided to hold peaceful rallies of lawyers and... Governor calls for research in higher education LAHORE, March 24: Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool has stressed that higher education institutions must focus on conducting research and creating new knowledge.... Parliamentary delegation from India arrives LAHORE, March 24: A parliamentary delegation from India, led by Rajiya Sabha Deputy Chairman Kassem Rehman Khan, arrived here on Saturday evening to attend the three-day joint Asia and India Regions’... Over Rs1m robbery LAHORE, March 24: Robbers took away cash and valuables worth hundreds of thousands of rupees from a house in Race Course area on late Friday night.... Saarc moot on paediatric surgery opens LAHORE, March 24: Mutual cooperation and joint research ventures among the Saarc countries are necessary to upgrade the knowledge about paediatric surgery in the region.... Police on red alert LAHORE, March 24: Capital city police officer additional IG Malik Muhammad Iqbal has said that all-out measures have been taken for maintenance of law and order on the occasion of the ARD’s strike call on March 26 (tomorrow).... Accused in torture case arrested SIALKOT, March 24: The Bambaanwala police claimed on Saturday to have arrested one of the five nominated accused in the case of torture and humiliation of a district council member and... Robbers drive away with doctor’s jeep SHEIKHUPURA, March 24: Four unidentified robbers snatched a land cruiser jeep from a doctor at Kot Ranjeet on Saturday and drove it while the victim’s daughter was asleep in the vehicle.... 60,000 deported in three years GUJRANWALA March 24: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general Tariq Pervaiz said about 60,000 Pakistanis had been deported from various countries during the last three years while some 24,000, who emigrated illegally, were languishing in jails in foreign countries..... Robbers kill woman, injure husband SAHIWAL, March 24: Three robbers killed a woman and injured her husband seriously on offering resistance here on Friday night.... Three killed over love marriage LAHORE, March 24: Three members of a family were gunned down while two others injured, one of them critically, by three people over a love marriage dispute in Gujjarpura on Saturday night.... PPP man’s detention order withdrawn OKARA, March 24: The Punjab Home Department has withdrawn the detention orders of district PPP president MPA Ashraf Sohna.... Migratory birds flock border area SIALKOT, March 24: Migratory birds from Siberia and other Russian regions have returned to the bordering villages inside Pakistan territories. People living in the border villages along the working boundary see... Under-trial prisoner shot dead DERA GHAZI KHAN, March 24: Despite tall claims of strict security arrangements in and around the district courts, the district police failed to save the life of an under-trial prisoner who was shot dead on a court premises here on Saturday.... Two killed as wagon hits truck MULTAN, March 24: Two people were killed while 12 others sustained injuries in a road accident here on Saturday.... AIOU courses TOBA TEK SINGH, March 24: Allama Iqbal Open University(AIOU)’s Faisalabad region director Dr Arif Saleem says more than 100,000 students belonging to the region are getting education in different classes and courses of the AIOU....

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