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October 06, 2007 Saturday Ramazan 23, 1428   36 Balochistan lawmakers to participate in voting QUETTA, Oct 5: Thirty-six members of the Balochistan Assembly will take part in the presidential election on Saturday.... Freedom allowed with restrictions: Security steps for presidential polls ISLAMABAD, Oct 5: People will be allowed free access to the Constitution Avenue on the occasion of the presidential election on Saturday but any attempt to protest the election would invite action under Section 144, local administration said on Friday.... APDM’s strike appeal to traders QUETTA, Oct 5: The Balochistan chapter of the All Parties Democratic Movement has appealed to the business community to observe a strike in the provincial capital on Saturday in protest against... Cleric refuses to hand over kidnappers: Eight suspects paraded before hundreds of people SWAT, Oct 5: Eight alleged kidnappers were paraded before hundreds of people at the Imam Dehri village on the orders of a radical cleric after Friday prayers.... Police detain, bailiff rescues & what next? FAISALABAD, Oct 5: Much trumpeted police reforms have failed to rescue people from police’s highhandedness as courts have to intervene to get people released from illegal detention of the police, Dawn has learnt.... Aabpara blast accused ‘dies’ in jail FAISALABAD, Oct 5: An inmate, who was arrested by the capital territory police after the Aabpara market blast in July, was found dead in Central Jail here, sources told Dawn on Friday.... Justice Wajih wants secret ballot LAHORE, Oct 5: Presidential hopeful Justice Wajihuddin (retired) has asked the Election Commission of Pakistan to keep the balloting for the president’s office secret.... APDM leaders set about mending ways LAHORE, Oct 5: Some leaders of the All Parties Democratic Movement have started an immediate damage control exercise to save the nascent coalition which faces a serious crisis after the JUI... ‘PPP power hungry, PML Qabza League’ LAHORE, Oct 5: Punjab Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Basharat Raja on Friday embarrassed Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) members, saying they had ended their five-year association with the combined opposition only for power.... Jamaat rejects Fazl’s claim LAHORE, Oct 5: The Jamaat-i-Islami has reacted to what it calls the ‘lame excuses’ being offered by the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam on retaining the NWFP Assembly.... Citizens’ group suggests polls reforms ISLAMABAD, Oct 5: A poll monitoring body has put forward a set of key electoral reforms ahead of elections for adoption by the government and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).... Maulana Tariq case hearing put off till 11th RAWALPINDI, Oct 5: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday put off hearing of the murder case of Maulana Azam Tariq, chief of the disbanded Sipah-i-Sahaba, till Oct 11.... Pakistan-Iran ties ISLAMABAD, Oct 5: The relations between Pakistan and Iran would become a shining example of bilateral ties and unity in the ranks of Muslim countries as it was necessary to strengthen... SHO fails to submit report on missing person in court RAWALPINDI, Oct 5: A Station House Officer (SHO) failed to submit his report, regarding a missing man, in the Lahore High Court (LHC), Rawalpindi bench, here on Thursday.... Renewed pledges to safeguard Baitul Muqdas ISLAMABAD, Oct 5: Al-Quds Day was observed on Friday across the country and the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad to express solidarity with the helpless people of Palestine, Lebanon and... Norwegian assistance for child health ISLAMABAD, Oct 5: The government of Norway will assist the ministry of health’s mother and neonatal child health (MNCH) programme in Sindh.... Teachers Day observed LAKKI MARWAT, Oct 5: Speakers at a seminar here on Friday called upon the teachers to dedicate themselves to their duty and focus on character building of students as it was the only way to regain respect in society.The... Razmak students evacuated MIRAMSHAH, Oct 5: Students and staff of the Cadet College Razmak were shifted in helicopters from the town in North Waziristan to Bannu on Friday after the college was closed on... Inquiry against MNA sought KHAR, Oct 5: Tribal elder Haji Mahboob Jan Salarzai has called on Governor Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai to initiate an inquiry into the development funds allocated to a parliamentarian belonging to the Bajaur Agency.... Demolition of village stirs protest KHAIRPUR, Oct 5: Scores of activists and office-bearers of 10 labour federations and civil society organisations took out a procession here on Friday to protest against the demolition of village Jumma Kalmati in Karachi.... 40 bonded peasants freed on court order MIRPURKHAS, Oct 5: Around 40 bonded peasants were released from alleged private jails of two landlords in district Umerkot under the directives of district and sessions court here on Thursday.... Leaf folder destroys paddy on thousands of acres LARKANA, Oct 5: The second attack of ‘leaf folder’ disease on paddy crop in the rice producing belt, which stretched from Kashmore to Kandhkot, had completely destroyed a little less than... Delay in revision of pay scales resented NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Oct 5: Stock assistants, veterinary field dispensers, livestock assistants and livestock inspectors of the agriculture and livestock department staged a demonstration here on Friday to protest against delay in upgradation of their pay scales.... Suicide attempt MIRPURKHAS, Oct 5: A teenage boy attempted to commit suicide because his parents were unable to provide him new cloths for occasion of Eid in Jhuddo town on Thursday night.... Supreme Court order hailed PESHAWAR, Oct 5: Peshawar High Court Bar Association president Abdul Latif Afridi on Friday held the order of 10-member larger bench of the Supreme Court in constitutional petitions against acceptance of... Poll session summoned PESHAWAR, Oct 5: Speaker Bakht Jehan Khan has summoned a meeting of the NWFP Assembly on Saturday for presidential election.... Bandits rob family of valuables TOBA TEK SINGH, Oct 5: Three robbers looted a family travelling in a car from Gojra to Chichawatni in Kamalia Sadar police precincts on Thursday night.... A tribute to ‘architects of nation’ MIANWALI, Oct 5: Like other parts of the province, Teachers’ Day was also celebrated here on Friday.... Need to revamp CCBs stressed SIALKOT, Oct 5: Speakers at a moot on public participation in local governments have observed that Citizen Community Boards (CCBs) in Sialkot district’s rural areas have failed to deliver and meet... Where flesh becomes a commodity... LAYYAH, Oct 5: A woman has charged her husband with selling her to his brother who, she said, raped her for three months.... Two boys killed on resisting molestation JHANG, Oct 5: Two students of the Government High School, Shorkot, stabbed their two fellow students to death who resisted a molestation attempt by the assailants.... Rs3 million robbery at Gepco office SIALKOT, Oct 5: Twenty dacoits looted seven power transformers, cables and other appliances worth Rs3 million from the office of Bhopalwala sub-divisional officer of the Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco), on Thursday.... Six killed as car crash leads to cylinder blast SARGODHA, Oct 5: Six members of a family were killed and two were injured when a car caught fire after a crash on Sargodha-Sahiwal Road, some 30 kilometres away from here, on Friday evening.... Man shoots brother over vani row MIANWALI, Oct 5: A man shot dead his elder brother after he backtracked from his promise to give his daughter in vani in Rame-Khelanwala village, 25km from here.... Rally LAHORE, Oct 5: In a rare move to express solidarity with President Gen Pervez Musharraf a day before the presidential election, Christian clergymen on Friday organised a rally as their gratitude... 3 children drown in Ravi LAHORE, Oct 5: Three children drowned in the Ravi on Friday when they were swimming.... ECP working in haste LAHORE, Oct 5: The Election Commission, perhaps over-stretched and exhausted in making arrangements for the presidential polls, is working in haste and committing blunders.... Lead pencil for ballots LAHORE, Oct 5: Voters for the presidential election will use ‘copying pencil’ (commonly known as lead pencil) for marking ballot papers to select their favourite candidate.... LPG dealers for review of ECC decision LAHORE, Oct 5: Liquefied petroleum gas marketing companies and distributors have demanded review of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) decision to link gas prices to international market and bringing down the prices to Rs17,000 per ton....

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