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July 20, 2007 Friday Rajab 04, 1428   Jirga in Waziristan to save peace deal PESHAWAR, July 19: Members of a grand inter-tribal jirga left for Miramshah on Thursday to help resuscitate a peace agreement with militants in North Waziristan. The jirga members, who were instrumental... Chinese come under attack again ISLAMABAD, July 19: Chinese citizens in Pakistan have been regularly targeted by militants in an apparent campaign to drive a wedge between President Pervez Musharraf and his closest ally.... Checkpoints destroyed MIRAMSHAH, July 19: Three checkpoints vacated by the Khasadar force were destroyed allegedly by militants in different areas of the restive North Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday and Thursday.... Radical cleric’s sermonising alarms Swat MINGORA, July 19: Sher Zaman, 65, today is a symbol of poverty in his community. Only a few years back, he was living a peaceful and respectable life with his only son Ali and son-in-law Gul Rehman.... Hub limping back to normality KARACHI, July 19: Life in Hub was limping back to normality on Thursday evening after some shops along the main Hub Road, where a bombing earlier in the day had claimed at least 30 lives, had been reopened.... PML, PPP have reasons to accept turncoats LAHORE, July 19: The ruling PML and the opposition PPP-Parliamentarians don’t see anything wrong in allowing such people to join them as are called turncoats in political parlance and are hated by the electorate.... NWFP govt urges army to vacate buildings PESHAWAR, July 19: Provincial authorities have asked the army to evacuate soldiers from hospitals and educational institutes in Lower Dir and Swat districts where the federal government has announced sending in more troops to curb militancy, well-placed sources said.... Jamaat rejects Musharraf’s call for MPC LAHORE, July 19: The Jamaat-i-Islami has repudiated the call given to all political parties by President Gen Pervez Musharrraf for a conference to find out ways and means to fight terrorism... 5,000 policemen on alert LAHORE, July 19: Police have already been alerted to meet any eventuality and special pickets mounted at all exit and entry points of the city to keep a vigil on suspicious elements.... Nespak gets 136 projects LAHORE, July 19: Nespak Managing-Director Karamatullah Chaudhry says the organisation has secured 136 projects with a contract fee of about Rs5 billion within Pakistan and abroad during the financial year 2006-07.... Pindi traffic police office shut down: Terror attacks RAWALPINDI, July 19: In the wake of almost daily terrorist attacks on police and security forces in the country, the city’s traffic police on Thursday closed its office for issuing driving licenses for two weeks.... Harry Potter mania grips twin cities ISLAMABAD, July 19: Like any other capital and major city in the world, Islamabad and Rawalpindi are also under the spell of the Harry Potter magic and waiting crazily for the... Family seeks body of Lal Masjid student ATTOCK, July 19: The mother of a seminary student killed in the Lal Masjid military raid has moved the Supreme Court to seek the boy’s body, which was claimed by the... FAO, WHO ask governments to strengthen food safety RAWALPINDI, July 19: While people are gravely concerned about the availability of safe food in the market, two UN agencies - Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Health Organisation (WHO)... Aziz’s remand extended for two days RAWALPINDI, July 19: Anti Terrorist Court (ATC) No. 2 Special Judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahot on Thursday remanded Maulana Abdul Aziz in police custody for two more days, whereas the judge sent... Man, son wanted for murder arrested TAXILA, July 19: The local police have arrested two persons wanted in a murder case and obtained their physical remand from the court of law, sources said on Thursday.... US pledges more help for health sector ISLAMABAD, July 19: The United States will enhance its assistance for mother and child health care in Pakistan to improve medical services for pregnant women and newborns.... Three F-8 blast victims in critical condition ISLAMABAD, July 19: As many as 20 diehard workers and office- bearers of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), who were seriously injured in the Tuesday’s blast outside the district courts, are... Govt vehicles to move in disguise ISLAMABAD, July 19: The government in a bid to protect its officials from becoming possible targets of terrorists has decided that most official cars would move in disguise, sources in the ministry of interior said on Thursday.... Timeline of attacks since mosque siege ISLAMABAD, July 19: More than 180 people have died in a spate of attacks since security forces first laid siege to Lal Masjid in Islamabad on July 3.... Clerics urged to stop inflammatory sermons LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), July 19: The Landi Kotal tribal administration has urged local clerics to stop delivering inflammatory sermons against the government. Assistant Political Agent Landi Kotal Ahmad Khan Aurakzai... Barber’s shop blast destroys five others KHAR, July 19: Five shops were destroyed and 12 others were damaged when a barber’s shop was blown up in the Inayat Kallay bazaar here on Wednesday night.... Two killed in separate incidents PESHAWAR, July 19: Two people were killed in separate incidents on Thursday, police said. Police found the body of Zafeer Gul, a gur seller and resident of Kangra village, Charsadda, from the Hashtnagri area.... Health budget raised PESHAWAR, July 19: NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah Khan has said the provincial government has raised the annual health budget from Rs300 million to Rs3.50 billion. He said this while addressing a... Protesters told to return looted relief goods MANSEHRA, July 19: The district administration of Battagram has warned people who had ransacked and looted offices and warehouses of NGOs to return the goods by July 23, or face an operation, Dawn has learnt.... Gujranwala’s central jail becomes a cattle pen GUJRANWALA, July 19: The central jail has become a cattle pen as it is holding 3,989 inmates against a capacity of 913 prisoners. According to a survey report gleaned by... Rs2bn for Mepco’s revitalisation MULTAN, July 19: The Multan Electricity and Power Company (Mepco) will install new gird stations and improve the distribution system at a cost of Rs2 billion under the Secondary Transmission Grid Station (STG) programme during the fiscal year 2007-08.... Layyah sports complex remains a dream LAYYAH, July 19: Sport lovers may not have their dream materialised as the district nazim has shelved the long-awaited construction of a modern sports complex here.... TMA finds its way of burial LAYYAH, July 19: The tehsil municipal administration has allegedly buried an unidentified body without following the Islamic injunctions. This was revealed during the exhumation of the grave for DNA test here on Thursday.... New way of administering anaesthesia claimed LAHORE, July 19: A new technique `carotid endartrectomy’ without general anaesthesia has been introduced in the country. Thoracic and Vascular Surgeon of Fauji Foundation Hospital Dr Shabbir Haider said in a... Forum on education LAHORE, July 19: Over 200 education and policy experts from across Pakistan will converge for a national forum ‘meeting the needs of 21st century’ on Nov 3-5 in Lahore.... Pledge to free Kashmir from India renewed SIALKOT, July 19: The Kashmiri people living in neighbouring Sialkot and Narowal districts observed Youm-i-Ilhaaq-i-Pakistan on Thursday with a renewed pledge to sacrifice their lives for the freedom of Kashmir from India and its affiliation with Pakistan.... PPP sees plot behind capital blast FAISALABAD, July 19: The local leadership of Pakistan People’s Party has termed the bomb explosion in Islamabad a conspiracy against them allegedly hatched by the government and its aides.... Chenab erosion swallows villages Even before the flood, the erosion in Chenab river has eaten away some 10,000 feet area of Burj Cheema and Thathi Baloch villages falling in Gujranwala district during the current year.... Litigant shot dead LAHORE, July 19: A litigant on way home after attending court hearing was shot dead while a young rickshaw driver was injured by unidentified people in Shahdra on Thursday, police and Rescue 1122 said.... Thin attendance at lawyers’ rally LAHORE, July 19: Lawyers, civil society activists and political workers took out a rally on Thursday against the presidential reference against the chief justice of Pakistan and the Islamabad blast.... All BHUs to have doctors LAHORE, July 19: Each of the 37 basic health units of Lahore will finally have a doctor on a permanent basis from the next month. Earlier, some 18 doctors had... Another political figure joins PPP LAHORE, July 19: Rai Abdur Rahman Sahi, who was the runner-up in the previous election from the Punjab Assembly constituency (PP-34) from Sargodha as an independent candidate, on Thursday joined the People’s Party along with his supporters.... Operation LAHORE, July 19: The Tanzeem-i-Islami and Khaksar Tehrik on Thursday protested against the Lal Masjid-Jamia Hafsa operation and the blast at a lawyers’ rally in Islamabad and called for a judicial inquiry into these incidents.... It’s Larkano, not Larkana, says district council LARKANA, July 19: The district council on Thursday passed a resolution with majority vote, which said Larkana should be spelt and pronounced in future as ‘Larkano’ not Larkana.... Nazim extends help to abused nurses Nawabshah, July 19: District Nazim Faryal Talpur took serious notice of the reports of sexual assault on nursing students by a doctor and paramedics at the Nawabshah Medical College Hospital (NMCH)... Cracker blast creates scare NAWABSHAH, July 19: A fire cracker explosion in meat market near Sabzi Mandi created scare and pandemonium on Thursday. The explosion sent police, bomb disposal squad and personnel of law enforcing agencies rushing to the area.... 10 more villages flooded DADU, July 19: The breach in the MNV drain in Chappar Jamali village widened up to 300 feet from 40 feet and inundated 10 more villages.... Villagers protest canal closure LARKANA, July 19: A large number of people from five villages demonstrated in front of the office of superintendent engineer of Rice Canal against closure Aabro Wah....

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