NEWS IN BRIEF
ISLAMABAD, May 15: Two students drowned in a nullah in the capital’s rural area on Tuesday.

POL products: Fortnightly price revision opposed
ISLAMABAD, May 15: Rejecting the government’s decision to revert to fortnightly price revision mechanism for POL products, the owners of petrol filling stations said it would not only create shortage of the commodity but supply hassle as well.

‘Missing Pakistanis, Palestinians have same fate’
ISLAMABAD, May 15: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said the situation of missing persons’ relatives in Pakistan was not different from those in Palestine.

Steps urged to curb ‘forced conversion’
Speakers at a seminar suggested formation of a national commission for minorities to address social issues.

Plea filed to save ex-CDA chief’s plot
ISLAMABAD, May 15: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Tuesday filed an appeal with the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to save a plot allotted to its former chairman and to set aside the court orders

Chairman’s hiring creates unrest in PRCS
ISLAMABAD, May 15: Unrest prevails in the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) as its management and the employees union are at loggerheads over the legitimacy of the appointment of its chairman.

Poor patients facing hard time at Pims
ISLAMABAD, May 14: Some 1,600 poor patients, most of them suffering from cancer and hepatitis, are facing hard times at Pims since Pakistan Baitul Maal (PBM) is unable to provide funds for their treatment on time, Dawn has learnt

Doors shut on CDA men
ISLAMABAD, May 14: Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday ordered the doors of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) shut on its alleged virtual lord, Faisal Sakhi Butt, and the doors of his house on the CDA officials – but only in their official capacity

Power and perversions associated with prime land
LAND holds a big charm in Pakistan’s feudal culture and is a big cause of disputes and crime too. Naturally, the prime land of Islamabad invites more lustful eyes and fights

Drug rackets in AJK: Court converts application into writ petition
MUZAFFARABAD, May 14: AJK High Court Chief Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal here on Monday converted an application seeking judicial probe into alleged presence of drug rackets in the AJK’s capital into a writ petition

Recent rain damaged wheat crop
TAXILA, May 14: Farmers in rural areas of Taxila, Hassanabdal, taking advantage of interval in freakish weather, have started harvesting and threshing wheat crop

Man drowns in river
ATTOCK, May 14: A man drowned in Haro River near Jassian village of Attock Sadder police station

NEWS IN BRIEF
GUJAR KHAN, May 14: Two young men drowned in the suburban areas of Gujar Khan during the last 24 hours

PML-N questions CEC’s credibility
RAWALPINDI, May 14: Refusing to accept Yousuf Raza Gilani as prime minister, leader of the opposition in the Nation Assembly Ch Nisar Ali Khan on Monday said how a Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) appointed by the government would take action against the prime minister

Punjab govt releases uplift funds in May
RAWALPINDI, May 14: The Punjab government has started releasing funds for the projects that had been put on hold for technical reasons

Lal Masjid operation: SC wants to know who brought military into action
ISLAMABAD, May 14: The Supreme Court on Monday observed that it wanted to know whether the 2007 military operation to quell the activities at Lal Masjid was launched after a formal request by the civil authorities or not

Bhoja Air plea to quash FIR dismissed
ISLAMABAD, May 14: Justice Riaz Ahmed Khan of Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed a petition filed by Bhoja Air seeking quashment of the plane crash FIR registered against the management and staff of the company

City managers to face CDA today
ISLAMABAD, May 14: The city managers will face Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday for not making effective policy for recovery of millions of rupees dues from public

Unanimous resolution
ISLAMABAD, May 14: National Assembly’s (NA) standing committee on National Heritage and Integration has unanimously resolved that the administrative control of Pak-China Friendship Centre and National Monument may be given to the Ministry of National Heritage and Integration for achieving the objectives of its

Three police officials arrested
RAWALPINDI, May 14: Three police officials, suspended in connection with a rape case, were arrested by the Anti-Corruption Establishment after a special judge rejected their pre-arrest bail petitions on Monday

PPP leader accuses minister of corruption
ISLAMABAD, May 14: A Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) member of the National Assembly on Monday alleged that Minister for Housing and Works Faisal Saleh Hayat of the PML-Q had committed a corruption of Rs6 billion after being inducted into the cabinet

Novel idea to raise money for a slum school
Gallery6 bought 100 T-shirts that children from the slums painted to raise Rs100,000 needed to build a shelter.

Power outages: PML-Q warns of quitting coalition
RAWALPINDI, May 13: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) on Sunday threatened to quit the coalition if the government failed to solve the electricity loadshedding issue within two weeks.

Official accommodation: SC order hits special employees
ISLAMABAD, May 13: The Estate Office has sought legal opinion from the law ministry whether it can allot official accommodation to over 300 special persons working in different government departments even after a ban imposed by the Supreme Court on out-of-turn allotments.

Six of a family killed on road
CHAKWAL, May 13: As many as six members of a family were killed while six others sustained injuries after the vehicle they were traveling in met an accident here on late Sunday evening.

JI, PTI hold rallies against loadshedding
ATTOCK, May 13: Hundreds of activist and leaders of Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Attock chapters staged separate demonstrations against the lengthy hours of power outages here on Sunday

Hiring allowance: When it comes to teachers, govt has no funds
ISLAMABAD, May 13: Teachers living in rented houses in the federal capital have not been paid hiring allowance for the last over two years and there seems no solution to the issue as both the Finance Division

Illegal tent villages mushrooming in Murree
MURREE, May 13: With the start of summer season, a large number of tent villages have come up in various jungles of the hilly resort.

Many students still without textbooks
ISLAMABAD, May 13: Due to non-delivery of textbooks to majority of schools, especially in the rural area of Islamabad, academic activities have not yet been started properly and the institutions are worried about holding of the exams before summer vacations.

Man drowns
TAXILA, May 13: A man drowned in the spillway of Khanpur Dam on Sunday.