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March 06, 2008 Thursday Safar 27 ,1429   PPP’s strength in NA rises to 95: PML-N’s strength 70 ISLAMABAD, March 5: Seven more independent MNAs have joined the Pakistan People’s Party, bringing to 95 the party’s strength in the National Assembly. The PML-N’s strength in the assembly is now 70.... Days of cheap food, energy over ISLAMABAD, March 5: Rising world food prices will make it difficult for the new government to contain the soaring food inflation at least in the short term, officials and analysts told Dawn on Wednesday.... Clarification sought from ministries: Burney takes up issue of deposed CJ’s detention ISLAMABAD, March 5: Caretaker federal Minister for Human Rights Ansar Burney has sought clarification from the interior and law ministries on the status of the deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and his family.... ‘Pakistan acted to protect N-arsenal when US invaded Afghanistan’ WASHINGTON, March 5: Pakistan had moved its nuclear arsenal to at least six secret locations when the United States launched an attack on Afghanistan after 9/11, says a report prepared for the US Congress.... Sherpao moves fresh petition RAWALPINDI, March 5: Former interior minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao moved a fresh petition for acquittal in a corruption reference in an accountability court on Wednesday.... Areas of Punjab, NWFP not to be added in Islamabad: New master plan draft ISLAMABAD, March 5: The city fathers have excluded a proposal from the draft of the new master plan of the federal capital under which some areas of Punjab and the NWFP... Pervaiz rejects politics of confrontation MITHI, March 5: President of the PML-Q (Punjab chapter) and former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said the PML did not believe in the politics of confrontation and would not create any hurdle for the new government.... LUMHS to produce Pakistan-specific drug against snakebite HYDERABAD, March 5: The vice-chancellor of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) Prof. Dr. Naushad A. Shaikh said on Wednesday that the university planned to establish an anti-snake... Wajih says he faced pressure during presidential race OKARA, March 5: A former Supreme Court judge and presidential candidate Justice Wajihuddin Ahmad (retired) addressed the local bar on Wednesday and revealed how he was pressed by the Musharraf camp to withdraw his candidature.... Nazim absorbs first shock, gets ready for another: No-trust motion SHEIKHUPURA, March 5: The district naib nazim has convened the district council’s session on Friday (tomorrow) on opposition’s requisition for voting on a no-trust motion tabled by it against District Nazim Mian Jalil Ahmad Sharaqpuri.... UC nazim, deputy disqualified HAFIZABAD, March 5: A local additional district and sessions judge, who was acting as election tribunal for Gujranwala district, has disqualified a union council nazim and naib nazim pair after finding... Festival cancelled as police deny security MIANWALI, March 5: The local administration had to cancel the four-day spring festival in the nick of time as police refused to spare the required force for the event on Wednesday.... EC told to review Daniyal Aziz ’s rigging charges LAHORE, March 5: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to review the allegations of rigging in NA-116, Narowal, levelled by National Reconstruction Bureau Chairman Daniyal Aziz against his rivals.... Qazi warns parties of ‘mob justice’ LAHORE, March 5: Jamaat-i-Islami amir Qazi Husain Ahmad has warned the government in-waiting that if it backed out of its promises on revoking the actions taken under the emergency, the masses will themselves step forward to decide the issue.... Chubby baby amazes tribesmen ISLAMABAD, March 5: Tribal men, women and children walk for hours in the mountainous terrain of Miramshah in North Waziristan Agency to reach Ahzan village and have a glimpse of a... Student activists for recovery of ‘abducted’ youth MUZAFFARABAD, March 5: Activists of a hard-line pro- independence organisation staged a demonstration here on Wednesday, calling upon the United Nations to play its role in recovery of the persons, particularly... ADB to provide $75m for dam construction in Potohar ISLAMABAD, March 5: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $75 million in loan to Pakistan to build several multipurpose dams, irrigation canals and drinking water supplies across the Potohar Plateau.... Permission for moot: city nazim put on notice RAWALPINDI, March 5: The Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench on Wednesday issued notices to City District Nazim Raja Javed Ikhlas in a petition seeking permission for holding a conference in Liaquat Bagh by a religious organisation.... Police staffers booked for embezzlement RAWALPINDI, March 5: The local police on Wednesday registered a case against two staffers — a senior clerk and an assistant sub-inspector — on embezzlement charges, officials said.... Trader arrested for abducting, raping girl RAWALPINDI, March 5: Police on Wednesday arrested a local trader for allegedly detaining a schoolgirl, raping her and taking her photographs.... AJK PM’s special assistant resigns MUZAFFARABAD, March 5: A special assistant to the AJK prime minister, with rank and status equivalent to minister, announced his resignation from the office “on voluntary basis” here on Wednesday... Release of deposed CJ’s children demanded ISLAMABAD, March 5: An alliance of political activists has demanded immediate release of the children of deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.... PPP wants inquiry report made public: Karachi bridge collapse ISLAMABAD, March 5: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has expressed concern over the refusal of the caretaker minister of communications to make public the inquiry commission’s report on the collapse of Karachi’s Northern Bypass in September last year.... Officials of Larkana BISE reinstated LARKANA, March 5: Seven officers of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Larkana, whom the chairman BISE Larkana had suspended in the light of the inquiry report filed against them on February 28, were reinstated on Wednesday.... Tit for tat kidnappings stir tension SUKKUR, March 5: Tension has mounted between Lund and Bozdar tribesmen in the Jarwar area of Ghotki district after kidnapping of two men on Wednesday.... 2,400 wheat bags missing from official godown SANGHAR, March 5: More than 2,400 wheat bags were found missing from the godown of Food Department in Jhol on Wednesday, along with the In-charge Food Inspector, Gangaram absent from his duties since seven days.... Two arrested in human trafficking case HYDERABAD, March 5: The Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) sleuths have arrested two suspects in human trafficking case of peasants and one of them has been remanded to FIA custody for three days by the concerned court of law here on Wednesday.... CMC secures top positions in countrywide test KARACHI, March 5: A student, Musadique Ali of Chandka Medical College Larkana secured 1st position, Mohammad Maqsood of Rawalpindi Medical College secured 2nd position, and Naveed Ahmed Shaikh of Chandka Medical... Rangers man killed, three injured in landmine blast SUKKUR, March 5: A personnel of Rangers was killed and another sustained injuries when their vehicle hit a landmine on the Sui road near Kashmore late on Tuesday night while two... Dist nazim calls for reopening schools MIRPURKHAS, March 5: District Nazim Dr Sughra Junejo has directed the officers of the education department to take steps to make the closed schools operational and also solve the problems of different schools with the help of UC nazims.... Patient dies in absence of doctors MIRPURKHAS, March 5: A boy who received serious injuries in a road accident near Naukot on Tuesday died allegedly due to non-availability of doctors at the Rural Health Centre of Naukot.... Trader slain VEHARI, March 5: A trader was slaughtered on resistance at Chak 125/W.B in Mailsi city police precincts on Tuesday night.... Clerics against seminary raids GUJRANWALA, March 5: The central executive committee of the Pakistan Sharia Council has demanded an independent judicial commission for an inquiry into the Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa operation.... Speeding bus runs over schoolboy: Protesters block road LAHORE, March 5: A mob threw traffic out of gear at Shalimar Chowk on GT Road for an hour after a bus crushed a 14-year-old school-going boy on Wednesday.... Farmers want 100pc raise in wheat price LAHORE, March 5: Farmers have rejected the official wheat support price of Rs510 per 40kg and asked the government to build adequate buffer stocks to forestall the crisis feared due to wheat production falling to 20 million tons this year.... A dramatic end to PU drama festival LAHORE, March 5: The drama continued well after the Punjab University Second Inter-University Performing Arts Festival, with the Punjab governor providing it the climax.... Lawyers’ Rallies today LAHORE, March 5: Lawyers are set to take out rallies in the city here on Thursday to press the new parliament to restore the superior courts judges deposed under the Nov 3 Provisional Constitution Order (PCO).... Increase in fares proposed LAHORE, March 5: The Punjab Transport Department has proposed a seven-paisa per kilometre increase in the bus fares on inter-city routes and Rs2 increase in minimum fare on urban routes....

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