DAWN - National; June 14, 2007

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June 14, 2007	Thursday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 28, 1428

Premier convenes meeting on 19th: Power crisis ISLAMABAD, June 13: Federal Minister for Water and Power Liaquat Ali Jatoi on Wednesday informed the National Assembly that Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz had convened a meeting on June 19 to discuss the ongoing power crisis in the country....		MQM lashes out at PML-N chief ISLAMABAD, June 13: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Wednesday lashed out at the chief of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for accusing the MQM of killing former Sindh Governor Hakim Mohammad Said....

LHC restrains ministry from procuring vaccines through Unicef ISLAMABAD, June 13: The Lahore High Court has restrained the Ministry of Health from directly procuring vaccines for the Expanded Programme of Immunization through the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) as...		Siddiqa’s book launched in London LONDON, June 13: Dr Ayesha Siddiqa launched her controversial book ‘Military Inc.’ here on Wednesday at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS). She said that perhaps her language was so...

Missing workers in custody of agencies: JSQM chief NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, June 13: The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) Chairman Basheer Khan Qureshi has said that the government was not taking any notice of hundreds of missing Baloch and Sindhi...		JI will side with Imran: Qazi: Disqualification reference LAHORE, June 13: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Qazi Husain Ahmad said here on Wednesday that the Jamaat-i-Islami will defend Imran Khan in the reference that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement had filed against Pakistan Tehrik-I-Insaaf chairperson in the National Assembly seeking his disqualification....

HEC to provide 40,000 e-books through digital library ISLAMABAD, June 13: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has decided to provide 40,000 online books in addition to 23,000 journals that have been made available through the digital library programme....		Protesting teachers ‘divided’ GUJRANWALA, June 13: Schoolteachers who have been staging protest demonstrations for the acceptance of their demands for the last few months have developed internal differences, sources told Dawn on Wednesday....

Nine arrested ahead of lawyers’ rally DERA GHAZI KHAN, June 13: Police arrested nine leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) from their houses on Wednesday. Their arrests are believed to be...		Universities: no use crying for funds: Rs11.34bn remained unspent last year RAWALPINDI, June 13: State sector universities always cry for funds but strangely they failed to utilise Rs11.34 billion of the development funds allocated to them last year....

Akram promises pro-poor budget HARIPUR, June 13: Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani laid the foundation-stone of Rs194.355 million Khairbara Dam at the Ghazi village here on Wednesday. The dam, on completion, will irrigate 1,600 acres...		Nazim warns of raid on Wapda office MARDAN, June 13: Mardan Nazim Himayatullah Khan Mayar has announced that the people of the district will hold a protest march and ‘raid’ the offices of the Water and Power Development Authority on June 20 if loadshedding is not stopped....

CT scan machine out of order NAWABSHAH, June 13: The Nawabshah Medical College Hospital is referring most of seriously injured people and patients suffering from chronic diseases to hospitals in nearby cities as its CT Scan machine has been out of order for last two months....		Thunderstorm claims four lives LAKKI MARWAT, June 13: Four people, including a girl, were killed and three others injured when a thunderstorm hit several localities of the district on Tuesday....

Bush fire kills widow ABBOTTABAD, June 13: A widow was killed on Tuesday when a bush fire engulfed her house in Abbottabad’s Sarban Hill area. The ill-fated woman’s house was also destroyed in the incident....		Man killed SHIKARPUR, June 13: A man was shot dead over old enmity in the Lakhi Ghulam Shah area on Wednesday. Reports received here said that a group of armed men, believed...

Man, minor girl die of heatstroke LARKANA, June 13: One Muhammed Malook and a five-year-old girl Sanam Tunio died of heatstroke in Wagan town on Wednesday. There seems to be no letup in deaths from heatstroke...		Protest march against Civil Hospital management DADU, June 13: A large number of citizens, social workers and activists of political parties here on Wednesday began a 200-kilometre long march from Dadu to Hyderabad against doctors, paramedical staff...

Foreign plans killing local initiative: Poverty alleviation effort RAWALPINDI, June 13: Foreign-funded poverty alleviation and community development programmes are undermining rather than supporting the Local Governments (LGs) system in the country, according to the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)....		Cuteness with a glimmer of hope ISLAMABAD, June 13: One cannot believe that these three little sisters wearing so much innocence on their cute faces can carry hearts with holes. Iram Zahid (12), Ayesha Zahid (9) and...

Relief goods sent to Balochistan ISLAMABAD, June 13: On the special directives of Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, relief goods were delivered to the DCO Gwadar for the rain-affected people in the coastal areas of Baluchistan....		Railways to set up new factory for making components RAWALPINDI, June 13: Pakistan Railways is working on a plan to enhance its technological capability in manufacturing passenger coaches and it will set up a new factory where components made of glass-reinforced plastic would be fabricated....

Walkout in NA against student’s murder ISLAMABAD, June 13: The opposition members on Wednesday staged a token walkout from the National Assembly, to protest over the murder of a university student in Karachi, asking the speaker to...		Six die of heat LAHORE, June 13: Six people, including four women, died of heat in the city on Wednesday, hospital and police officials said. Mrs Shahid, 55, of Montgomery Park, died in Shahdara...

Zoo parrots LAHORE, June 13: Mian Muhammad Saeed, honorary game warden, Lahore, will adopt 15 parrots in a ceremony to be held shortly on zoo premises. Lahore Zoo Director Yousaf Pal said...		Three men confess to killing father, brother and cousin KASUR, June 13: Three brothers, arrested for the murder of their cousin, have revealed to police that they killed their fourth brother in 1997 and father in 2006....

‘People have rejected politics of strikes’ FAISALABAD, June 13: The federal budget clearly depict the government’s economic vision and commitment to devolve benefits of the economic growth to people at grass roots level, Governor Khalid Maqbool said here on Wednesday....		Case against 35 for blocking rail tracks BAHAWALPUR, June 13: Police on Wednesday registered a case against about 35 people under anti-terrorist act (ATA) for allegedly blocking the main up and down tracks at railway station here on June 9, Saturday, it is learnt....

Brick kiln owner killed by robbers OKARA, June 13: A brick kiln owner was shot dead by highwaymen on Tuesday night near Chak 14/IL. Kiln owners and brothers Zareef Khan and Mohabbat Khan were on their way...		Arrested OKARA, June 13: According to a press release issued on Wednesday, Okara police have arrested 49 members of 14 gangs, including Khurrmi, Wasi, Joota, Nasri Bagga, Bari, Gami, Waqari Odh, Akhtari, Peeji, Shooki and Mustai gangs in May....