DAWN - National; August 05, 2007

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August 05, 2007	Sunday	Rajab 20, 1428

JWP’s Talal group joins APDM QUETTA, Aug 4: Nawabzada Talal Akbar Bugti, chief of his own faction of Jamhoori Watan Party, has joined the All-Party Democratic Movement (APDM) following talks with PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif....		NHA asked to expedite repair of roads ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: The Senate Standing Committee on Communications and Railways has directed the National Highway Authority to expedite repair of roads that were damaged by recent rains and floods in Balochistan....

Changes in bureaucracy start rumour mills ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Changes at the top in the bureaucracy are always watched with interest and jealousy in this citadel of the Establishment. No wonder the appointments made by the Prime...		125 acres and Rs416m for IUB campus RAHIM YAR KHAN, Aug 4: Punjab government has allotted 125 acres of land for the construction of Rahim Yar Khan campus of the Islamia University, Bahawalpur, (IUB), while the Higher Education Commission has approved a Rs416 million grant for the project....

Dowry quest makes girl impersonator GUJRANWALA: The desire to arrange dowry just a few months before marriage prompted a poverty-stricken girl to get valuables from a house by posing herself as a suicide bomber, inviting ire...		Seven held for killing five of a family OKARA, Aug 4: Police claimed to have arrested seven criminals who had killed five members of a Christian family and injured six others. District Police Officer (DPO) Mirza Faran Baig told a press conference here on Saturday....

Substandard painkiller in use at Pims ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: A substandard painkilling drug is being administered at the capital’s largest hospital of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), sources told Dawn here on Friday....		MMA vows to block Musharraf’s re-election LAHORE, Aug 4: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal parliamentary leader MNA Liaquat Baloch says immediate resignation is the only ‘safe exit’ left with Gen Pervez Musharraf. Briefing media after an MMA meeting at Mansoora...

Kasuri PML candidate for NA-140 LAHORE, Aug 4: Khursheed Mahmood Kasuri will be the PML candidate from NA-140, Kasur, Malik Muhammad Ahmad Khan from PP-179 and Sardar Hasan Akhtar Moakal from PP-180....		LDA to spend Rs5 billion on uplift LAHORE, Aug 4: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) will spend Rs5 billion on uplift works in the provincial metropolis during the current financial year. The authority will spend Rs100 million...

Kidnappers killed in ‘encounter’ LAHORE, Aug 4: Two persons, who had kidnapped a four-year-old boy from Badian Road on July 24, were killed in an ‘encounter’ with police near Bahseen village in the Batapur area on Saturday....		Two ruling party men join PML-N GUJRANWALA, Aug 4: Two more ruling PML leaders have joined the PML-N here in protest against what they said one-man show in national politics. PML district vice-president and member of...

Fire at mill FAISALABAD, Aug 4: Fire at the storehouse of a cloth mill on Khurrianwala Road destroyed cloth worth millions of rupees early on Saturday. Workers had not yet arrived for work...		Shot dead FAISALABAD, Aug 4: Robbers shot dead a labourer and injured two others when they tried to resist a robbery in Chak 117-RB, Tanola, on Saturday. Yaqoob, Afzal and Aamir were...

Appointments ISLAMABAD, Aug 4: Federal Public Service Commission on Saturday recommended the appointment of Shabana Wazir as Research Officer (Silkworm Rearing) in BS-17 at the Pakistan Forest Institute, Peshawar, under the Ministry of Environment....		NBP ATMs a nuisance for cardholders RAWALPINDI, Aug 4: Irfan Ghauri was one of the 50 ATM cardholders who were waiting in a queue to draw money from the National Bank’s Cantonment branch in Saddar....

Jockey unites with family after decade LAHORE, Aug 4: A 16-year-old camel jockey got united with his family after a decade through the Punjab Child Protection and Welfare Bureau. Arshad’s father Muhammad Hashim, a resident of Chak...		Peace festival LAHORE, Aug 4: The three-day peace festival organised by Alaap concluded at the Aiwan-i-Iqbal and Alhamra Art Centre on Saturday. — Staff Reporter...