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October 12, 2007 Friday Ramazan 29, 1428   Shahbaz joins legal battle against NRO ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) president Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday joined the legal battle against the National Reconciliation Ordinance and challenged it in the Supreme Court, questioning President Pervez... Govt bound to protect Benazir, says SHC KARACHI, Oct 11: The Sindh High Court directed the federal and provincial governments to provide maximum security and protection to Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto on her arrival here on October 18.... US to monitor general elections ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: The United States will sponsor election observation programmes in support of Pakistan’s general elections, US Ambassador Anne W. Patterson announced here on Thursday.... Dissolution of NWFP assembly challenged PESHAWAR, Oct 11: Former deputy speaker Ikramullah Shahid challenged in the Peshawar High Court on Thursday the dissolution of the NWFP assembly and requested it to declare the notification issued by the governor as illegal and unconstitutional.... Verdict reserved LAHORE, Oct 11: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Thursday reserved verdict on an appeal filed by PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto for declaring “illegal and unlawful” her conviction in absentia in the SGS Cotecna and ARY Gold references.... Crop insurance, other schemes for farmers ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Thursday approved various insurance schemes to help farmers and people of low-income groups.... ANP calls for halt to military operation: Nato supervising Waziristan strikes, says JI PESHAWAR, Oct 11: The Awami National Party (ANP) has urged the government to stop what it calls the anti-Pakhtun military operation in North Waziristan and allow fleeing tribesmen to return to their villages.... CD shops in K arak attacked KARAK, Oct 11: A man was injured and several CD and music shops were damaged in two explosions here on Thursday.... 72 prisoners released VEHARI, Oct 11: About 72 prisoners were released from the district jail here on Thursday.... Qazi wants political solution to problems LAHORE, Oct 11: Political problems must be solved through political and democratic means instead of ‘other forces’ and state institutions, says Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) ameer Qazi Husain Ahmad.... Farmlands: CDA finds president, PM not in violation ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will not lose their costly agriculture farms in Islamabad as the city managers have cleared them from any violation, sources told Dawn on Thursday.... Chakothi converted into a model town ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) has developed earthquake-ravaged Chakothi as a model of integrated provisions of basic services in education, health, drinking water, sanitation and drainage.... NGOs’ alliance plans protests to force Erra to review policies ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: An alliance of non-governmental organizations, from the NWFP, has announced holding large-scale protests to press the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra) to review its “flawed reconstruction policies.”... Suspects in suicide bombing cases sent to jail RAWALPINDI, Oct 11: An anti-terrorism court here on Thursday sent four suspects of suicide bombing to central jail Adiala on judicial remand till October 25 after police said they had completed... Society should respect special people: DCO ATTOCK, Oct 11: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Malik Abdul Razaq has said that special people should be given respectful status in the society.... No clue to four gang members ATTOCK, Oct 11: No clue has been found to four members of a kidnappers’ gang who injured two police officials including the SHO of Attock Saddar in an encounter last week.... Cinepax opens in Pindi’s Jinnah Park RAWALPINDI, Oct 11: In a welcome move, the country’s first five-screen multiplex cinema was launched in Jinnah Park Rawalpindi on Thursday.... CM’s remarks about banners distorted KARACHI, Oct 11: A spokesman for Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim on Thursday clarified a statement attributed to him and published in a Sindhi daily on October 3 regarding the Sindh High Court.... Efforts to restore peace in tribal areas continuing, says governor PESHAWAR, Oct 11: NWFP Governor Lt-Gen (retd) Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai on Thursday said that efforts were under way for a ceasefire in the restive North Waziristan Agency.... Punjab police ‘illegally arrest relatives of accused’ KOHAT, Oct 11: The Punjab police have ‘illegally’ taken away from Kohat a man and his son in place of his brother, who has been accused of fraud by a tile company, according to sources.... Holding fair el ections toppriority: Shamsul Mulk PESHAWAR, Oct 11: The caretaker Chief Minister of the NWFP, Shamsul Mulk, on Thursday said that holding free and fair elections was his priority.... Masses to hold religious alliance accountable, says Sherpao PESHAWAR, Oct 11: Federal Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Sherpao has said the masses will hold the provincial MMA government accountable for every misappropriated penny of the national exchequer and the alliance... Rally against caretaker CM PESHAWAR, Oct 11: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) on Thursday organised a protest demonstration to condemn what it called the appointment of an anti-Pakhtun man as the caretaker chief minister of the NWFP.... Owners of CD shops wind up business KOHAT, Oct 11: More than 100 owners of CD shops, who were asked by local Taliban to wind up their business, submitted an undertaking in the city police station on Thursday to voluntarily go for alternative trades.... Waziristan air strikes condemned PESHAWAR, Oct 11: The Alliance for Protection of Human Rights, a group of civil society organisations, has condemned the air strikes in North Waziristan and civilian casualties in the bombings.... SCCI election schedule announced PESHAWAR, Oct 11: The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) will hold polling for four vacant seats on Nov 29, according to the chamber’s election schedule announced here on Thursday.... ‘JUI-F addicted to power’ PESHAWAR, Oct 11: The JUI-F, addicted to being in the government, expected a share in the caretaker set-up, according to the federal minister for political affairs and the provincial president of the ruling PML, Amir Muqam.... Rocket hitshouse CHARSADDA, Oct 11: A rocket reportedly fired by the local Taliban missed its target and hit the outer wall of a house in the Shabqadar bazaar at Sehri time on Thursday, police said.... Rs10m earmarked for historical site LARKANA, Oct 11: The Department of Archaeology has allocated Rs10 million for excavations and publication of its findings at Lakhyun-jo-Daro in Sukkur. About Rs5 million will be spent on excavation and the other Rs5 million on scientific investigations and publication.... Court bars SHO’s posting till case decided LARKANA, Oct 11: The Larkana circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Wednesday ordered police to register an FIR against the SHO of Rustam police station of Shikarpur and stopped... Three die in accident HYDERABAD, Oct 11: A passenger coach rammed into a rickshaw killing three people and injuring another three, near Toll Plaza on Super Highway on Thursday.... 12 illegally detained men freed on court order HYDERABAD, Oct 11: Twelve people, who were illegally detained at the Hussainabad Police Station, were produced before the district and sessions judge Hyderabad on Thursday and allowed to go wherever they liked.... Youth loses life for Eid clothes MIRPURKHAS, Oct 11: A young man of Jhuddo town who had set himself on fire because as his family could not buy him new clothes for Eid, died at LMUH Hyderabad on Tuesday evening.... Noted Sindhi writer Krishan Khatwani passes away HYDERABAD, Oct 11: Sindh-born eminent writer and poet Krishan Khatwani died of kidney failure in a hospital in Indore, India, on Thursday. He was 80.... Village appeal BADIN, Oct 11: The residents of village Bookhy in taluka Badin have appealed to the government to include their village in the Model Village Scheme.... Banks refuse to issue new notes of Rs10, 20 BADIN, Oct 11: At a time when it is increasingly becoming difficult for the poor to make both ends meet leaving them with little to rejoice, the banks in the city... Wapda allows closure of steel furnaces LAHORE, Oct 11: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has allowed closure of steel furnaces for seven days each from Oct 12 to Dec 18, says a Wapda spokesman.... Misdeeds pave the way for penalties: Ramazan Bazaars LAHORE, Oct 11: The district coordination officer on Thursday issued show-cause notices to two town municipal officers, suspended a town officer (regulations) from service, sent a market committee sub-registrar behind the... CNG kit installer to pay damages LAHORE, Oct 11: The district consumer court has directed a CNG-kit installer to pay a total of Rs160,550 damages to the owner of a jeep for installing a kit not recommended for a 3,000cc vehicle.... PLF urges CJP to head bench for vital cases LAHORE, Oct 11: The counsel for the Pakistan Lawyers Forum has written a letter to the chief justice of Pakistan to constitute and head a full bench for deciding whether or... Double Shah’s manager bailed out GUJRANWALA, Oct 11: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 2 accepted the bail plea of Ijaz Ahmad, Sibtul Hasan’s manager, on Thursday. The court asked the accused to provide surety bonds worth Rs200,000.... Case against seven nurses for staging rally BAHAWALPUR, Oct 11: The Cantonment police on Thursday registered a case against seven nurses of the Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH), who along with others observed a strike and staged a protest rally here on Tuesday.... ‘Not-fit’ official deemed fit for principal’s slot GUJRAT, Oct 11: An education official who was declared `not fit for any administrative post’ and proven guilty of Rs1.5 million embezzlement has been posted as principal of Zamindara College after... Army officer shot dead by ‘robbers’ FAISALABAD, Oct 11: An army captain was shot dead and his father and brother injured by armed intruders in the early hours of Thursday.... A secret throbbing for Musharraf! SAHIWAL, Oct 11: PPP Punjab President Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi took serious note of the portrait of President Pervez Musharraf hung in the house of his party’s prospective candidate for PP-222 where he was to address a press conference on Wednesday.... Farmers jailed for power theft SAHIWAL, Oct 11: Seventeen farmers of Mauza Dadan were arrested by a team of Wapda on charges of electricity theft. They included Zafar Iqbal, Ejaz Ahmad, Allah Yar Fatiana, Wahab, Faiz,... Gepco GUJRANWALA, Oct 11: Apropos a news items published in Dawn’s Oct 9 addition, captioned ‘Security at Gepco installations shaky’, the Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco) has clarified that that ex-army men employed by Gepco security were protecting all its installations.... Zakat being embezzled SHEIKHUPURA, Oct 11: The Zakat and Ushr department officials have allegedly embezzled Rs1.5 million, depriving more than 170 students of their scholarships and forcing them to leave their studies....

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