Bills on Navy law and federal levies tabled in NA
By Shaukat Piracha
ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday put two proposed laws to the National Assembly (NA) for approval – one to amend the Pakistan Navy Ordinance, 1961 and the other giving control of federal levies to the Balochistan government.
The draft of the amendment to the... 
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Poet Jagan Nath Azad passes away
JAMMU: Renowned Urdu language poet and scholar Professor Jagan Nath Azad has died in New Delhi. He has left behind a wife, two sons and three daughters. His burial took place in New Delhi on Sunday.
Professor Azad did his matriculation from Mianwali and graduated from Gordon College, Rawalpindi....
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Attack on Karachi corps commander: Police charges suspects
KARACHI: Prosecutors filed charges on Monday against nine suspected Islamic militants accused of participating in an assassination attempt on the Karachi corps commander, a lawyer said.
The suspects, including Attaur Rahman, the alleged chief of Jundallah, were captured days after the June 10...
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Gujrat arrests: Suspects’ link to Qaeda still unconfirmed
ISLAMABAD: Three terrorism suspects who were captured in a raid on a suspected terrorist hide-out in Gujrat were from Kenya, South Africa and Sudan, but it was not clear whether they had any links with Al Qaeda, a spokesman said on Monday, AP reported.
The suspects were captured by police during...
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Two levies gunned down in Orakzai Agency
PESHAWAR: Suspected Al Qaeda militants have killed two levies during an attack on a security checkpost in Lower Orakzai Agency close to the Afghan border, officials told Daily Times on Monday. One of the suspected attackers had been caught, but his accomplice was still hiding, the officials said, adding...
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Security forces caravan attacked near Turbat
By Azizullah Khan
QUETTA: Security forces clashed with a group of unidentified people near Turbat on Monday.
Director General (DG) Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Shaukat Sultan said that the unidentified men attacked a convoy of the security forces in the Gaddan...
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Public universities to share resources
By Waqar Gillani
LAHORE: The public universities of the Punjab are to pool their resources, libraries and research work, as well as have a database link and a common website.
The decisions were approved by the Punjab governor, Lt Gen (r) Khalid Maqbool, who is also the chancellor...
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All big dams should be built, says CM
LAHORE: Pakistan must start building all large dams currently in the planning stages if it wants to progress, Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said. The chief minister was speaking at a high-level meeting on increasing agriculture productivity and solving irrigation problems on Monday.
He...
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ARD yet to contact MMA, says Baloch
* PML-N leaders not invited for public meetings: Siddiqul Farooq
By Qamar Jabbar
LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) has not invited the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) to launch a joint election campaign for Dr Sikandar Hayat at NA-59, Attock, and Mahaish...
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PR freight business revival within a month
By Khawaja Naseer
LAHORE: Pakistan Railways (PR) is to launch a Freight Business Revival Programme (FBRP) within a month to improve its revenue, PR sources told Daily Times on Monday.
The programme includes better customer services, such as compensating businessmen if their goods...
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UHS to get 5pc of affiliated colleges’ annual fees
By Waqar Gillani
LAHORE: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) will be entitled to five to six percent of the annual tuition fees of its affiliated private and public medical colleges.
Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi made this decision at a recent meeting with UHS...
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PPPP goes to NAB over Musharraf’s land allotment
Staff Report
LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) will file a reference with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against the Capital Development Authority chairman and other government functionaries for concealing facts from the National Assembly about the...
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Ineligibility plea against PM’s brother adjourned
LAHORE: An election tribunal of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday fixed September 6 to hear an election petition against Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain, brother of Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain.
Nawabzada Ghazanfar Gill of the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians, through advocate...
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Mir tells members to attend meetings
Staff Report
LAHORE: District Naib Nazim Farooq Amjad Mir has directed the district council members to attend district assembly meetings regularly.
He warned that the names of those members who remain absent from the meetings will be sent to the Election Commission to seek their...
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Indus Music Awards pay tribute to old and new
By Anjum Gill
LAHORE: The Jazz-IM Awards were held at Alhamra Hall-1 on July 24. Pop and rock musicians as well as fashion models attended and performed at the country’s first music awards ceremony organized by Indus Music.
VJs Anushay, Dino, Faizan, and Amber Azam hosted the awards,...
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PM to take action against ‘drunk’ PIA official
By Mubasher Bukhari
LAHORE: Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has decided to dismiss Salim Nisar, general manager of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in Saudi Arabia and Jeddah, since he was allegedly found drunk during the prime minister’s entourage’s visit to Madina, government...
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Lahore plans to designate a book street soon
By Shoaib Ahmed
LAHORE: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Khalid Sultan is planning to set up a book street to promote literary activities and give street book vendors a place to set up stalls.
Shiekh Farid Ahmed, the personal staff officer of the DCO, said two book selling spots...
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Bars protest Pir Chishti’s nomination to PbBC post
Staff Report
LAHORE: The Supreme Court and Lahore High Court Bar Associations have condemned the nomination rather than election of Pir Masood Chishti as the executive committee chairman of the Punjab Bar Council (PbBC).
Supreme Court Bar Vice President Chaudhry Akram and Lahore...
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ECNEC meeting delayed till today: Committee to okay 27 projects of Rs 120b
* Will also approve 300 MW ChashNuPP-II at a revised cost of Rs 51.04 billion
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC), which was to meet on Monday, will now meet today (Tuesday) to approve 27 projects worth Rs 120 billion.
ECNEC...
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AJK President, prime minister appeal for release of hostages
ISLAMABAD: The president and prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Monday appealed to the kidnappers of two Pakistani hostages in Iraq. AJK President Sardar Anwar Khan said that the AJK and Pakistan governments were making all possible efforts for the release of the two hostages. The AJK...
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Families plead for lives of Pakistanis kidnapped in Iraq
ISLAMABAD: The families of two Pakistanis abducted by Iraqi insurgents appealed to the captors for their release. The men had been kidnapped on Friday in Baghdad and their kidnappers had threatened to kill them because their country was discussing the possibility of sending troops to Iraq.
29-year-old...
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Lawyers to hold countrywide strike tomorrow
* Accuse Chaudhrys of protecting DPO
By Mohammad Kamran
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council has called a nationwide strike of lawyers tomorrow (Wednesday), demanding the transfer of District Police Officer of Gujrat.
Lawyers will boycott courts after 11 am, hoist black flags...
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More farmers protest Okara farms blockade
Staff report
MULTAN: A large group of farmers protested in Khanewal on Monday to express solidarity with the tenants of the Okara Military Farms and to press the authorities to release arrested farmers.
Hundreds of farmers from chaks 81-82, 86, 75, 83 and 85/10 R blocked roads in...
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Peshawar Town-II Rs 59.98m budget 2004-05 presented
By Ghafar Ali
PESHAWAR: Town-II Nazim Mumtaz Khan presented the 2004-2005 budget on Monday, which predicted a revenue of Rs 59.98 million and an expenditure of Rs 59.30 million.
The nazim told councillors at the budget session that a total Rs 34.33 million would be spent on development...
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PPPP demands release of Zardari now
* The govt has not been able to prove a single case against Zardari: PPPP
By Zakir Hassnain
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) demanded the release of Asif Ali Zardari on Monday and said that the dictatorial polices of the present government would backfire...
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ADB approves $0.4 million for Balochistan project
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a grant of $0.4 million to provide social sector service assistance to the local governments in Balochistan.
In a statement issued here Monday, the ADB said the devolved social services sector programme for Pakistan,...
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CDA to plant 0.3m saplings this year
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) will plant 300,000 saplings in rural and urban areas this year as part of its monsoon plantation campaign, said CDA Chairman Kamran Lashari while talking to the press at the Annual Monsoon Tree Plantation Ceremony held by the Pakistan Tobacco Company...
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‘Ministers should attend question hour’
* Hussain warns of strict action
* Directs ministers to depute another colleague to answer queries if they are busy
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain directed federal ministers on Monday to remain present in the house during question hour...
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Opposition walks out of NA session
ISLAMABAD: The opposition walked out of the National Assembly (NA) on Monday when NA Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain did not allow Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Deputy Secretary General Liaqat Baloch to speak on a point of order. When the session started Mr Baloch stood up to protest against the administration...
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MMA govt waives convicted minister Kundi’s sentence
By Iqbal Khattak
PESHAWAR: Former NWFP minister Amanullah Kundi, convicted on drug smuggling charges, was released on Monday in Dera Ismail Khan after the provincial government’s withdrawal of a case and suspension of the remaining part of his life imprisonment.
Mr Kundi, alias...
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NWFP flour mills issue to be taken up with the PM
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, the federal water and power minister, has said the issue of providing wheat to flour mills in the NWFP would be resolved following discussions with Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi....
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Sami says MMA guilty of horse-trading
Staff Report
PESHAWAR: Maulana Samiul Haq, chief of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) and vice-president of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), has termed the induction of his party MPA, Ayaz Khan, into the provincial cabinet horse-trading.
Mr Haq told reporters in Mardan on...
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Arab League asks US and UN to help protect Al Aqsa Mosque
* Israeli radical seeks removal of Jerusalem mosque
CAIRO: The Arab League appealed on Monday to the United States and the United Nations to help prevent alleged plots by extremist Jewish groups to attack the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem.
“There are 24 Israeli extremist...
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Driver killed as oil tankers attacked in Chaman
CHAMAN: Two oil tankers were attacked on Monday killing one man and injuring another one, the local administration said.
The incident occurred when the oil tanker was on its way to Chaman on Boghra Road. The driver was killed on the spot and the injured man was admitted to hospital with serious...
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Opp and treasury want urea prices reduced
ISLAMABAD: The opposition and treasury in the National Assembly asked the government on Monday to reduce urea prices.
Through a call attention notice, Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians Naveed Qamar drew the food and agriculture minister’s attention to the increase in the prices of urea...
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Aziz pledges to strengthen economy
FATEH JANG: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz, the prime minister-in-waiting, addressed a large gathering in Dhurnal, pledging to make Pakistan’s economy strong by raising the common man’s standard of living and finally accomplishing the concept of a welfare state.
He resolved to render every sacrifice...
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Jersey city swears in Pakistani deputy mayor
WASHINGTON: Jersey City’s first Pakistani deputy mayor Agha Afzal was sworn in at city hall on Monday. The new deputy mayor took his oath of office on the Holy Quran. He was praised by acting Mayor L Harvey Smith for his services to the community. “I know how much we can accomplish as one community...
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Toy-bomb blast kills soldier and girl in Skardu
SKARDU: A soldier and a girl were killed in a bomb explosion in the Zay Zay Thangdu area near the Kargil sector on Monday.
A mother and her two children were injured in the explosion.
Hajira, wife of Muhammad Hussain, was picking fruit with her children when the toy bomb exploded. Rubina...
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New virus slows search engines
WASHINGTON: A new version of the Mydoom computer worm was spreading on Monday and slowing the performance of Google and other Internet search engines, company and security officials said. The SANS Internet Storm Center said the mass-mailing worm was tapping into search engines in an effort to find more...
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Ten killed in Iraq violence
* Qaeda group warns Italy again
MOSUL: Four people were killed when a suicide bomber targeted a major US base in Mosul on Monday.
Four people, including a child, died when the bomber blew up a Chevrolet Caprice, the US military said. “A car loaded with explosives detonated 50...
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40 British MPs call for World Court ruling on Iraq war’s legality
LONDON: Forty British parliamentarians have asked UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to seek the opinion of the UN’s International Court of Justice on the legality of the Iraq war, the Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Monday. It said that the cross-party group, which had written a letter to Annan dated...
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Two-thirds of BD under water as 58 more people die
DHAKA: Floodwater, disease and snakebite killed 58 more people across Bangladesh as two-third’s of the country and much of the capital is increasingly coming under water, officials said on Monday, as the death toll from monsoon flooding across South Asia neared 950.
Across the border in India’s...
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Two sectarian groups clash in Khyber Agency
Staff Report
PESHAWAR: Fierce fighting began between two sectarian groups in Tirrah Valley of Khyber Agency late Sunday night, causing loss to property. No casualties were reported.
The Barqamber Khel tribe, known as the Pir group, and Amer Bilmaroof Wanahi Anilmunkar (ABWA) fired...
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13 killed in Kashmir
* Militants bomb Baramulla hospital
SRINAGAR: Suspected Kashmiri militants killed eight people, three by beheading, and injured 30 others, while Indian troops gunned down five militants in Indian-held Kashmir, police said on Monday.
One of the civilian deaths was caused when suspected...
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Pakistani held in India for spying
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has arrested a Pakistani national on charges of spying and claimed to have seized defence-related documents from him. Ghulam Mustafa Qureshi was arrested last night in Lakshmi Nagar area of East Delhi, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Ashok Chand was quoted as saying...
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Aziz’s candidature challenged in SC
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: A constitutional petition has been made to the Supreme Court against the candidature of prime minister-in-waiting Shaukat Aziz to run for election from an Attock constituency.
The petition filed by a freelance journalist, Shahid Orakzai, seeks the removal...
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MQM MPA sworn in amid furore in Sindh PA
By Hasan Mansoor
KARACHI: The newly elected MPA of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Yousuf Munir Sheikh, was sworn in on Monday amid a protest by opposition members.
The protest was against alleged rigging during the May 12 by-election by the MQM, which allowed the party to secure...
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Manmohan has ‘open mind’ on gas line from Iran through Pakistan
NEW DELHI: Iran and India on Monday discussed a proposed US$3 billion gas pipeline through Pakistan, an idea the two countries have been pursuing for the past seven years without success, an official said.
“The matter was discussed. It is going to be discussed further, studied further,” External...
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