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| July 07, 2008 | Monday | Rajab 3, 1429 |
‘Pakistani woman languishing in Bagram’
ISLAMABAD, July 6: British journalist Yvonne Ridley called for help on Sunday for a Pakistani woman she believes is being held in isolation by the Americans in their Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan, for over four years.“I...
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Attempt to Talibanise Karachi will be resisted, vows Altaf
KARACHI, July 6: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has said that the people of Sindh, particularly those living in Karachi, will never allow Taliban to occupy their province or the...
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Probe ordered into Islamabad bombing
ISLAMABAD, July 6: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has condemned the Islamabad blast and ordered an inquiry....
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Call for Lal Masjid operation trial
ISLAMABAD, July 6: Religious leaders addressing a conference on the first anniversary of the Lal Masjid operation on Sunday demanded trial of President Pervez Musharraf for the bloodshed caused by the operation....
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Haj policy likely to remain unchanged
ISLAMABAD, July 6: No major changes are expected in the Haj policy for 2008 except for adjustments in the airfare and accommodation rent....
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Police put on high alert: Islamabad blast condemned
LAHORE, July 6: The capital city police have been put on high alert after a suicide blast in Islamabad....
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PM for enhancing ties with UK
ISLAMABAD, July 6: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday expressed his government’s desire to consolidate diplomatic, political and economic ties with the United Kingdom....
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Panicked robbers kill two, injure seven
FAISALBAD, July 6: Robbers gunned down two people and injured seven others in Jaranwala, some 40 kilometres from here, on Sunday....
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Involvement of victim’s husband alleged: Murder over girl’s birth
GUJRAT, July 6: The Danish police arrested and then released on bail the husband of Tahira, a Danish citizen killed by her brother-in-law at Jaurra village, Kharian tehsil, on June 19,...
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Three shot dead
JACOBABAD, July 6: Three persons died over an old enmity between two groups of Katohar in village Mohammad Murad Buledi in the jurisdiction of Garhi Khairo police station on Sunday....
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Traders want industrial estate to be set up soon
ISLAMABAD, July 6: The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) has called for early establishment of the industrial estate in Sector I-17 of the federal capital....
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Man arrested for inhumane treatment of mother
RAWALPINDI, July 6: Banni police here on Sunday arrested a man, who had kept his 80-year-old mother in inhumane conditions....
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Three die in separate incidents
GUJAR KHAN, July 6: Three persons died in separate incidents in Gujar Khan city during the last 24 hours, police said....
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Various animal species face extinction
ISLAMABAD, July 6: According to a story of Noah’s ark, it is desire of God that all life be preserved but this divine wish carries no weight in this part of the world where many animal species face extinction....
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Govt employees demand increase in rent ceiling
ISLAMABAD, July 6: Recent increase in rent ceiling for the federal government employees has no match with the surging rents of private houses in the federal capital....
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Some saw it coming, but did not police
ISLAMABAD, July 6: Sunday’s deadly suicide attack on police may have been a surprise to the city police but not to the people who live in the vicinity of Lal Masjid....
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Call for handing over Mohatta to Quaid’s heir
HYDERABAD, July 6: United Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has appealed to the government to allot the Mohatta Palace to the family of Mohammad Aslam Jinnah, the great grandson of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah....
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Breach in canal floods 10 villages, crops
SANGHAR, July 6: Ten villages and standing crops over hundreds of acres land were inundated when Rohri Canal developed 200-foot wide breach at RD-752 in Shahdadpur sub-division on the non-inspection path side near Essa Sand village on Saturday....
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Fazl urges end to operations
QUETTA, July 6: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Amir Maulana Fazlur Rehman has called upon the government to honour the commitment it had made to his party and stop military operations in Fata and Balochistan....
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Storm uproots power poles
HYDERABAD, July 6: The entire area of unit-10 of Latifabad was badly hit by power breakdown when eight cement poles of 11KV lines of Hyderabad Electric Supply Company fell near Bachao Bund during a storm on Sunday....
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Man killed in accident
HYDERABAD, July 6: A man was killed and two others were injured when an overhead cement barrier fell on a vehicle of a pharmaceutical company on Wadhu Wah road in Qasimabad here on Sunday....
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Job quota for teachers abolished: minister
HYDERABAD, July 6: Sindh Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq has said that he has done away with all kinds of quotas in teachers’ jobs and decided not to succumb to any pressure over appointment of primary school teachers....
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Clean-up operation against criminals launched
SHIKARPUR, July 6: The Pakistan People’s Party government is determined to protect peoples’ life, honour, and property and a clean-up operation has been launched against criminal elements in the province....
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Edhi begins fund-raising in Sukkur
SUKKUR, July 6: Renowned social worker Abdul Sattar Edhi has praised the Pakistani nation for supporting him during his drive to collect donation for his organisation but condemned the waderas and politicians for their misdeeds....
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Crime wave hits Sukkur, Ghotki
SUKKUR, July 6: Crime rate in Sukkur and Ghotki district has increased especially since the induction of the coalition government in March....
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Vested interests taken over economy: growers
HYDERABAD, July 6: The Sindh Abadgar Board has observed that confusion at the highest level of government has created an opportunity for sugar industry, fertiliser companies, tractor manufacturers, multinational companies, cartels,...
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5 booked over sexual assault
NAWABSHAH, July 6: On the directives of the district and sessions judge, the Qazi Ahmed police booked five people on Sunday for sexually assaulting a girl....
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Protest against water shortage
DADU, July 6: A large number of growers whose land lies along 10 waterways fed by the Rice and Dadu canals demonstrated outside the Khairpur Nathan Shah Press Club on Saturday to protest against the acute water shortage in the area....
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Doing right thing the wrong way
KASUR, July 6: The failure of the tehsil municipal administration (TMA) in revamping the collapsed sewerage system has forced the district administration to gird up its lions, but the way it...
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Ransom seekers unnerve Sialkot traders
SIALKOT, July 6: Tradesmen in many parts of Punjab are finding the going hard amid unbridled lawlessness, with a fresh case of kidnap of two factory workers for ransom adding to the worries of the community....
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Constable killed as police van overturns
SHEIKHUPURA, July 6: A police constable was killed while a sub-inspector, three constables and a proclaimed offender suffered critical injuries when an official van overturned on Motorway Faizpur interchange on Sunday....
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Labourer kills three children
MUZAFFARGARH, July 6: Driven by `extreme poverty’, a labourer in Alipur killed his three minor children and injured as many on Sunday evening....
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SSP triggers panic
LAHORE, July 6: The Shadman police took a senior superintendent of police (SSP) to Services Hospital for medical examination after he opened fire in public using his official rifle near Tollington Market on Sunday....
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JI rally against hike in prices
GUJRAT, July 6: Hundreds of the Jamaat-i-Islami activists on Sunday held a protest rally at Pakistan Chowk here against increasing prices of flour, oil and gas and the persisting power loadshedding....
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7/7 turns a private affair for Tanvir’s family
FAISALABAD, July 6: Law enforcers rule Chotian Kottan, Samundri, to prevent holding of a memorial ceremony of Shehzad Tanvir, an accused of 7/7 London bombing, Dawn learnt on Sunday....
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Man poisons sister over land dispute
JHANG, July 6: A girl was poisoned to death by her brother over a property dispute in Satellite Town on Saturday....
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Two ‘terrorists’ arrested
RAJANPUR, July 6: The Rajanpur police arrested two terrorists with explosives in the outskirts of Dajal on Sunday....
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Revenue record burnt
GUJRANWALA, July 6: The local tehsil office caught fire due to `short circuit’ and almost all important revenue record was reduced to ashes on Sunday....
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Religious parties may launch movement
LAHORE, July 6: Religious parties are consulting each other to launch a joint movement against repeal of the capital punishment by the PPP government....
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NWFP may buy two bulletproof vehicles
LAHORE, July 6: The NWFP has reportedly shown interest in buying two of the five bulletproof vehicles which the Punjab government wants to auction....
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Illegal buildings expunge history
LAHORE, July 6: A ground on the Katcha Hall Road known as Nehru Park, which ceased to exist long ago because of an alleged illegal occupation, has now been converted into...
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Sunday bazaars no exception to inflation: Flour in great demand
LAHORE, July 6: Flour remained in great demand at Sunday bazaars set up by the City District Government Lahore at nine places....
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‘Q’ comes hard on Ruling coalition
LAHORE, July 6: Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) leaders have criticised the provincial government “for pushing the people towards confrontation to sabotage the democratic system”....
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Rise in plaints at open court
LAHORE, July 6: Seeing more complainants at Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s open court at his Model Town camp office, it has been decided to restructure the building to make room for...
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