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October 04, 2007 Thursday Ramazan 21, 1428   Indemnity proposal angers Leaguers ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: The apparent cohesion of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League is disappearing fast and a large number of its members are openly criticising the move to grant total indemnity to Benazir Bhutto in corruption cases.... Two tribesmen killed QUETTA, Oct 3: Two Bugti tribesmen were killed and three others, including an FC soldier, were injured after security forces clashed with militants in the Jaffarabad area on Wednesday.... Police claim arresting men already in secret agencies’ custody RAWALPINDI, Oct 3: Police claim to have arrested some members of a banned religious organisation from a village in Rawalpindi but interestingly seven of the eight men had allegedly been picked up by secret agencies about two-and-a-half-months ago.... Watercourses project may be delayed by two years ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: At least a two-year delay is expected in the completion of the National Programme for Improvement of Watercourses (NPIW), supposed to be implemented by the end of 2009, sources told Dawn on Wednesday.... Pakistan urges Muslim states to tackle Islamophobia UNITED NATIONS, Oct 3: Pakistan on Tuesday urged members of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) to ‘evolve’ a comprehensive strategy to prevent the growing phenomenon of Islamophobia.... PPP leader, others booked THATTA, Oct 3: A case has been registered against PPP leader Masood Mustafa Shah and four office-bearers of the party by the Sujawal police on the charge of kidnapping Imran Mandhro,... Indemnity to PPP leaders amounts to rigging: SNF LARKANA, Oct 3: The government’s indemnity to the People’s Party leaders in return of their votes in the presidential elections amounts to open rigging said Sindh National Front Chairman Mumtaz Ali Bhutto on Wednesday.... Baloch hints at NWFP assembly blockade: Presidential poll LAHORE, Oct 3: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal deputy secretary-general Liaquat Baloch on Wednesday warned the Pakistan Muslim League MPAs against attending the NWFP Assembly session on Oct 6 to vote for Gen Pervez Musharraf in his bid to seek re-election to the presidency.... Opposition in PA joins journalists’ protest LAHORE, Oct 3: Opposition members in the Punjab Assembly on Wednesday joined newsmen in the protest against police action on media people and lawyers outside the Election Commission office in Islamabad on Sept 29.... LHC allows sale of Indian sugar LAHORE, Oct 3: Justice Syed Hamid Ali Shah of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday allowed the release of Indian sugar in the local market dismissing a petition by the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA).... Afghan forces claim arresting four suicide bombers QUETTA, Oct 3: Afghan security forces on Wednesday allegedly arrested four Pakistanis suspected of being suicide bombers from Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.... Three held for unauthorised sale of sugar ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: Golra police have arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in black marketing of sugar, police said here on Wednesday.... SC’s rejection seals Towers compensation ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the plea of the 143 people who lost their apartments in the collapse of the Margalla Towers in the 2005 earthquake that... Hearing in 3 references against Sharif family put off RAWALPINDI, Oct 3: An accountability court has adjourned the hearing in three references against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif and his other family members till October 18 when prosecution lawyers sought deferment.... Post offices to disburse micro loans ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: Pakistan Post and the First Micro Finance Bank (FMFB) have joined hands for poverty alleviation to provide small loans to the rural and urban poor through the expansive network of the postal department.... MoU signed to improve healthcare facilities PESHAWAR, Oct 3: A memorandum of understanding was signed here on Wednesday between the health department and Save the Children to improve primary healthcare facilities in Battagram.... Assembly dissolution blocked, says PML PESHAWAR, Oct 3: Parlia-mentary leader of the Pakistan Muslim League in the NWFP Assembly, Mushtaq Ghani, has said that the opposition parties have succeeded in their strategy of blocking the dissolution... Doctors call off strike MANSEHRA, Oct 3: Contract doctors in the NWFP on Wednesday announced ending their strike after the provincial government had accepted most of their demands and extended the contracts of 425 doctors to three years, officials said.... Silk Route festival went unnoticed GILGIT, Oct 3: The annual Silk Route festival in the Northern Areas went unnoticed owing to lack of interest on the part of the department concerned which had failed to chalk... Three judges sworn in PESHAWAR, Oct 3: Three additional judges of the Peshawar High Court took oath as confirmed judges on Wednesday.... Members seek dist council session KHAIRPUR, Oct 3: PPP-backed Awam Dost Panel members of the district council have expressed concern over the convener’s failure to convene a session of the council and decided to move the Sindh High Court in this regard.... Wapda employees oppose its division HYDERABAD, Oct 3: Wapda employees demonstrated outside local press club on Wednesday against the proposed bifurcation of corporation, upgradation of pay scales, and granting Eid allowance.... Disease hits rice crop JACOBABAD, Oct 3: A viral disease identified by agricultural experts as “poppy” has hit a major part of paddy crops in Thul taluka throwing the farmers in a limbo.... Traders asked to observe strike on Oct 6 QUETTA, Oct 3: Provincial leaders of the All Parties Democratic Movement have asked traders to observe a strike on Oct 6 to protest against the chief election commissioner’s decision of accepting nomination papers of Gen Pervez Musharraf for the presidential election.... ‘Multan facility to attract patients from Lahore’: Pervaiz Elahi Institute of Cardiology MULTAN, Oct 3: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi has said the newly-constructed cardiology institute has been equipped with modern machinery and qualified doctors and patients even from Lahore would shortly start visiting... Sold-out expired drugs seized DERA GHAZI KHAN, Oct 3: The Civil Lines police on Wednesday claimed to have confiscated a huge cache of government-owned expired medicines illegally sold by health officials to a shopkeeper.... Kifalat project: fortune favours the rich! MUZAFFARGARH, Oct 3: The much-trumpeted Punjab government’s Kifalat Programme had had its share of criticism when it transpired that the rich, including traders and industrialists, had been receiving letters promising the monthly assistance.... DAP shortage in Sialkot, Narowal resented SIALKOT, Oct 3: The non-availability of the DAP fertiliser was badly affecting the wheat crop sowing in Sialkot and Narowal districts, both famous for producing high-quality grain.... 23 doctors resign to protest MS behaviour SHEIKHUPURA, Oct 3: Twenty-three doctors of the district headquarters hospital have submitted their resignations to the DCO to protest against the alleged corruption and insulting behaviour of medical superintendent concerned on Wednesday.... PRSP accused of given fake drugs TOBA TEK SINGH, Oct 3: A Lahore-based laboratory has said that some medicines supplied by the Punjab Rural Support Programme (PRSP) to rural health centres and basic health units of the district were substandard, it is learnt.... 34 kilos of opium seized FAISALABAD, Oct 3: The Anti Narcotics Force (ANF), Faisalabad, has recovered 34kg charas and opium besides 50 bottles of tranquilisers in five raids conducted during the month of September.... A city burning with acid VEHARI, Oct 3: Acid is being sold illegally in the city which has caused acid attacks against women, Dawn has learnt.... A picture of neglect MULTAN, Oct 3: Historic Ali Muhammad Khan Mosque like other sites facing decay in Multan speaks of neglect and dereliction by the authorities concerned.... Patients suffer as druggists stop work LAHORE, Oct 3: Visitors to various public and private hospitals faced agonising moments on Wednesday as they could not get the essential medicines amid strike by the chemists.... Intra court appeal deferred LAHORE, Oct 3: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday deferred indefinitely an Intra Court Appeal (ICA), challenging amendments to the election rules notified by the Election Commission of Pakistan.... MPAs okay increase in their allowances LAHORE, Oct 3: The Punjab Assembly on Wednesday passed four bills and referred one to a standing committee....

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