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June 12, 2007 Tuesday Jamadi-ul-Awwal 26, 1428   PPP concerned over 20m missing voters: New electoral rolls ISLAMABAD, June 11: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has expressed concern over the names of 20 million voters missing from the new electoral rolls. It called upon Chief Election Commissioner... Pakistan has lowest number of women workers in S. Asia ISLAMABAD, June 11: The labour market in Pakistan demonstrates a lower labour force participation rate against other developing countries, says the Economic Survey 2006-07. It said that the country’s female labour participation rate was the lowest in South Asia.... SC seeks report on harassment of journalists ISLAMABAD, June 11: The Supreme Court on Monday directed a petitioner to submit during the next hearing details of incidents involving torture and harassment of journalists.... ARD seeks envoys’ help to foil Musharraf’s plan ISLAMABAD, June 11: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) on Monday sent a letter to foreign diplomats based in Islamabad, drawing their attention to the government’s plan of getting Gen... US bank to assess PIA capability to manage fleet ISLAMABAD, June 11: The Ex-Im Bank of the United States has decided to assess the capability of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to manage the Boeing 777s purchased through its guarantees.... ‘Benazir and Nawaz most influential politicians’ WASHINGTON, June 11: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto tops the list of President Pervez Musharraf’s most likely challengers, a US newspaper’s list published on Monday showed.... MPs find ambiguities in budget ISLAMABAD, June 11: Parliamentarians from mainstream political parties have expressed concern over what they called ambiguities of the budget 2007-08, and rejected government’s claim that the budget was pro-poor.... Foreign debt servicing increases by 50pc: External liabilities increase by $1.6bn to $38.8bn ISLAMABAD, June 11: Despite claiming to have broken the ‘begging bowl’, Pakistan’s debt servicing cost has been estimated to increase by a whopping 50 per cent next year against last year’s budget estimates of Rs295 billion.... Rising temperatures make life unbearable LAKKI MARWAT, June 11: People of the Lakki Marwat district have been enduring a severe heatwave for the past two days with the mercury rising consistently each day.... Opposition walks out over mass arrests LAHORE, June 11: The opposition walked out of the house after one hour of heated debate over political arrests as Law Minister Basharat Raja refused to ensure their immediate release.... Brace for more loadshedding, residents told ISLAMABAD, June 11: Islamabad Electricity Supply Company (Iesco) have a message for the residents of the federal capital for this summer: brace for more loadshedding.... Centenary celebrations of Catchpole open TAXILA, June 11: Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Ehsanul Haq here on Monday inaugurated four-day centenary celebrations of legendary British teacher, Hugh Catchpole, the founding principal of Cadet College Hassanabdal.... Child labour in Pakistan continues to rise RAWALPINDI, June 11: As the World Day against Child Labour on Tuesday focuses on the elimination of child labour in agriculture, the volume of child labour in Pakistan continues to rise;... Australian defence college team meets Erra deputy chief ISLAMABAD, June 11: A 12-member delegation of Australian defence college/faculty of college of defence and strategic studies called on the deputy chairman of Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Authority (Erra) Lt-Gen Nadeem Ahmad here on Monday.... Unemployment, poverty big challenges ISLAMABAD, June 11: Speakers at a seminar said though the per capita income has increased but poverty and unemployment are big challenges for the government. They were speaking at a post-budget... LPP leader’s detention criticized ISLAMABAD, June 11: Leaders of the National Workers Party (NWP) and the People’s Rights Movement (PRM) have condemned the detention of Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) General Secretary Farooq Tariq.... Cyclone-hit people to get compensation: CM QUETTA, June 11: The Coastal Highway was reopened for traffic on Sunday afternoon following an assurance given by the Balochistan chief minister that the people affected by cyclone in Sur Bandar coastal town would be compensated.... NGO reaches out to avalanche victims CHITRAL, June 11: Focus Humanitarian Assistance (Focus) has engaged in additional emergency relief distributions in collaboration with local government authorities in the district of Chitral which was hit by severe avalanches in March and April last year, says a Press release.... Girl killed by former fiance CHARSADDA, June 11: In an honour-killing incident, a girl was killed and her fiance received multiple injuries when they were attacked by the girl’s former fiance in Tarnab area late on Sunday night.... Jewellers demand protection QUETTA, June 11: The Balochistan Sarrafa and Jewellers’ Association has demanded protection, saying that a gang is extorting money from jewellers in the city. The association’s president Haji Muhammad Anwar... PPP calls for end to military operation QUETTA, June 11: Leaders of the Balochistan chapter of the People’s Party Parliamentarians have demanded that the military operation in the province be stopped, all political activists released and the army returned to the barracks.... Counterfeit notes seized BANNU, June 11: Cantonment police arrested a person when he was trying to circulate fake currency notes here on Monday.... Electricity shutdown PESHAWAR, June 11: Power supply from 132KV Peshawar Fort grid station will remain suspended on June 13 due to repair and maintenance work. As a result, consumers of 11KV Shahi bagh and Bashirabad feeders will face inconvenience from 6am to 11am.... CBR to be renamed ISLAMABAD, June 11: The government has proposed to rename the Central Board of Revenue (CBR) as the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) in order to ‘enhance its tax collection capacity’.... High arsenic content in potable water LAYYAH, June 11: The underground water of Layyah, which was considered to be the best in south Punjab some two decades back, now contains high arsenic content to such a dangerous... Schoolgirls’ heirs receive part compensation payment: Wall collapse MUZAFFARGARH, June 11: The heirs of four nursery class girls who died in a wall collapse incident at Alipur Ghalwan School received compensation of Rs25,000 each from the district coordination officer.... Factories sealed for creating pollution GUJRANWALA, June 11: The district administration has sealed small factories set up in various parts of the city for “creating environment pollution”. District Coordination Officer Manzer Hayat stated this at a meeting held in his office here on Monday.... False case: rally against MPA KASUR, June 11: About 70 people took out a rally against ruling party MPA Shaikh Allauddin for his alleged hand in getting a false case registered against a woman in Chunian on Monday.... Journalists, lawyers protest against police KHANEWAL, June 11: Journalists and lawyers on Monday took out a joint protest procession against registration of a false case against six journalists of Makhdoompur Pahoran Town and torture on them at Kohna police station.... Nazim, son booked for kidnap attempt OKARA, June 11: A union council nazim, his son and their 12 accomplices were booked on Monday for attempting to kidnap the spouse of a woman councillor.... Boy abducted for Rs10m ransom KHANPUR, June 11: An eight-year-old boy was kidnapped for Rs10 million ransom by unidentified car riders in Model Town-B on Sunday.... Australia to establish post-harvest lab in UAF FAISALABAD, June 11: The Australian government will set up a post-harvest laboratory at the Institute of Horticulture Sciences, University of Agriculture (UAF), here, at a cost of cost $1.2 million.... Warm welcome awaits CJP LAHORE, June 11: The PML-N would accord a warm welcome to Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on his visit to Faisalabad on June 16.... Woman killed by robbers SHEIKHUPURA, June 11: A woman was killed while three other passengers sustained injuries when seven dacoits fired at a bus on Kala Khatai Road in the early hours of Monday.... Durrani asks Opp to field presidential candidate LAHORE, June 11: Information Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani challenged opposition parties on Monday to put up their presidential candidate against Gen Pervez Musharraf, who would be running for a second term... Bar rips to shreds minister’s statement LAHORE, June 11: Bar leaders have condemned the statement of Federal Law Minister Wasi Zafar about the preparation of another reference against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and described it as... Police probe into ‘missing’ Golf Club documents LAHORE, June 11: Police have initiated a probe into the `disappearance’ of a dossier containing original documents of the Golf Club deal from the Pakistan Railways record.... Lahorites face humidity, high temperature LAHORE, June 11: Haze with dust suspension lowered the maximum temperatures in the city and other areas in the central and northern parts of Punjab, but high degree of humidity continued to spell intense heat on Monday.... Quorum hits Punjab Assembly LAHORE, June 11: Lack of quorum again hit the Punjab Assembly proceedings on Monday afternoon when it met here to start budget session. Soon after the Asr prayer, a lone opposition... Concern over threats to Afghan journalists LAHORE, June 11: The South Asian Media Commission (SAMC) has raised an alarm at death threats to Farida Nekzad, vice-president of South Asia Media Commission and a senior Afghan journalist, only days after the killing of two women media-persons.... ‘Abuse’ of blasphemy laws slammed LAHORE, June 11: The Church of Pakistan’s Women Desk has expressed its serious concern over increase in abuse of blasphemy laws manifested in the raise in registration of cases during the last two months.... Sh Rashid forecasts ‘pleasant weather’ LAHORE, June 11: Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that national politics will soon have a `pleasant weather after hot summer’. He was addressing a seminar on `Media’s... Four die of heatstroke LAHORE, June 11: Four more people died of heatstroke in the city on Monday, hospital and police officials said. The Mustafaabad police said an unidentified youth, around 20 years old, who... Fire in warehouse LAHORE, June 11: Valuables worth millions of rupees reduced to ashes when fire broke out in a warehouse in a multi-storey plaza in the Mochi Gate area owing to short circuit on Monday morning....

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