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OKARA: Police officials arrested a butcher, Shakeel, on Tuesday for selling dog meat in the district.

After residents in the district began complaining of stray dogs that had bitten several people, police officials said that they began to conduct raids in the area looking to impound the dogs. “I led a team at night to search for stray dogs to take off the streets when we caught two men capturing dogs in sacks,” Constable Ishfaq said. The constable said that police followed the brothers, Muhammad and Shakeel, and discovered that they had set up a secret slaughtering operation in their house. “We discovered that they had been picking up dogs off the street and were butchering them at home. Then they sold the meat to local burger shops in the morning,” Ishfaq said.

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More than one-fifth of the teaching posts at government-run colleges for women are vacant, reveal statistics released by Fafen Education Institution Monitor . With the exception of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), where the occupancy rate of teachers’ vacancies was almost 93%, other provinces lacked teaching staff. In Balochistan’s monitored colleges, 29% teaching posts were not filled. Similarly 28% of teaching posts in Sindh colleges and 24% in Punjab colleges were vacant. A higher percentage of non-teaching posts were filled in comparison to teaching posts in monitored colleges. Nearly 92% of the sanctioned non-teaching posts were filled in the monitored colleges. The research says that the government spending on each college-going female student is lower than what is being spent on a college-going male student by Rs1,348 a year. According to Fafen monitoring of 106 boys colleges during April 2010, government spends Rs18, 815 annually on each student of boy colleges nationwide as compared to Rs17,467 on each student enrolled in girl colleges annually. The Fafen Governance Monitors visited 94 Government Girls Colleges across the country during September 2010 which included 46 girls colleges in 28 districts of Punjab, 20 colleges in 16 districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 9 colleges in 9 districts of Balochistan, 17 girls colleges in 11 districts of Sindh and one college each in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata). In addition to that, one teacher was found available for every 45 students enrolled in monitored colleges nationwide. Region-wise, Balochistan had better student-teacher ratio where one teacher was available for every 34 students, followed by KP, where a teacher was present for every 37 students. Sindh followed with an average of one teacher per 39 students and in Punjab one teacher was available for every 56 students on average. The Punjab’s lower student-lecturer ratio can be attributed to the higher enrolment rate. In Fata, a teacher was present for every 10 students in the monitored institution, and in ICT, one teacher was available for every 18 students in the monitored college. On average, the government spends Rs17,467 on each student enrolled in girl colleges annually, as per the budgetary information shared by 17 colleges. The highest per student spending was found in Islamabad Capital Territory where Rs28,483 were spent on each student, followed by Sindh (Rs23,341), KP (Rs17,523) and Punjab (Rs12, 620). Balochistan and Fata colleges did not share this information with Fafen Monitors. Transparency surfaced as a major issue during Fafen’s monitoring of the girls colleges. As many as 77 out of 94 monitored colleges declined to provide information about their budget. As many as 21 colleges withheld information regarding the number of students present on the day of the Fafen visit. Similarly, some colleges did not share information about the total number of sanctioned teaching and non-teaching posts, against the number of filled posts. The administration of nine colleges did not share information about the attendance of teachers while 21 colleges did not provide information about the number of enrolled students. For physical infrastructure and facilities, bare minimum standards were maintained in monitored colleges. However some colleges were lacking in the availability of clean drinking water, furniture, playgrounds, and security guards. While 31 per cent colleges did not have a security guard, 28 per cent did not have the required furniture in classrooms.

Consumers is surprised with the sharp cut in Chicken Prices in Islamabad. A day earlier, consumers were bound to purchase Chicken with more than 125 Rs/Kg but today, Chicken outlets offering 96 Rs/KG with almost 20 Rs less rate as compare to they offer  from last two weeks. “This is indeed surprise for me, but a good releif”, said by government employee working in Islamabad.

Almost 3,000 cell phones get snatched or stolen every month in Karachi, say latest statistics published by the Citizens Police Liaison Committee (CPLC). According to figures from August 2009 to July 2010, handset theft in Karachi takes up 43.7 per cent of all of Pakistan, with most incidents occurring in the city’s east zone, comprising areas such as Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Korangi, followed by south zone, which includes areas like Defence, Clifton and Saddar. The reported stats show that in the period August 2009 to July 2010 (one year), 9018 handsets were snatched or stolen in Karachi East, with 8,053 in the South, 6,495 in Central, 6,302 in Malir and 3,724 in the West zone.

Area wise, the highest number of incidents have occurred in Saddar (4,445) followed by Gulshan-e-Iqbal (4,428). Jamshed Town, Clifton and Korangi follow. In terms of brand, it was noted that Nokia with 77.7 per cent had the highest share in the cell phones that were stolen. It is worth mentioning here that these numbers are based on reported cases and the actual number is likely to be much higher. According to latest Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), currently Pakistan has a cell phone subscription base of more than 100 million.

Army raided a location in Jani Khel, Bannu near the tribal territory and arrested a newly arrived agent of RAW Kolan Raj s/o Chambali who is a resident of Hyderabad Dakkan. His accomplice has fled the scene. Army has recovered weapons, maps and documents of raw from the possession of 28 years old suspect. He has been shifted to some unspecified location for interrogation.

DIG Bannu Haji Iftikhar confirmed this news.

Quietly, and below the media radar, some 20 top corporate bosses and lobbyists of two of the world’s largest gold mining groups have been meeting President Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Gilani, Governor State Bank and others in Islamabad throughout last week, pressing them to quickly hand over one of the world’s biggest gold and copper treasures found in Balochistan at Reko Diq, worth over $260 billion, to their companies, and for peanuts. Before these highly enticing visits of the mining tycoons to clinch the deals, which followed intense behind-the-scene negotiations and bargaining through middle men, some highly bizarre developments have been taking place, leaving experts and the rest of the mining world stunned, amazed and confused.

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Atleast twenty four has been shot dead including more than fifty injured in target killings in Karachi from yesterday noon till to-date.

According to media reports, majority of victims were in the line of fire after tension increased on By-Elections in Karachi resulted more than two dozens in to death. As per routine statement, Rehman Malik has issued strict order against terrorist and assured the nation that they will be treated under the law. Due to tense political situation in karachi, President Zardari called Governor Sindh to Islamabad for one to one meeting to diffuse tension.

There are around 5,000 people living in the relief camp at Musharf Colony and only three of the eight bathrooms made for the camp residents are in working condition.

Khalida, a survivor from Shahdadkot at the camp, said that women at these camps are feeling helpless. Many of them observe purdah and find it very inconvenient to walk a long distance to use a public toilet. There is no water, everything is so dirty,” Khalida said with disgust, “We have our children with us and it is very hard to use the bathroom.”

“They need to build more toilets,” she added. The bathrooms are located quite far from the camps. There are no separate arrangements for women and everyone uses the same toilets, which is a source of great discomfort for the women.

ISLAMABAD: A team investigating the crash of the ill-fated Airblue jetliner on July 28 in Islamabad has detected the possible presence of a third person in the cockpit. Under normal circumstances, a cockpit is not supposed to have anyone other than the pilot and the co-pilot.
“The investigators have reportedly heard the voice of a third person in the cockpit of the Airblue jetliner,” a source close to the investigation told Dawn on condition of anonymity.

The voice has been extracted from the Cockpit Voice Recorder, according to the source, and the investigators were looking into various possibilities and aspects.

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More than £300 million in foreign aid for victims of the 2005 Pakistan earthquake has been diverted by President Asif Zardari’s government to other causes, officials have told The Daily Telegraph.

They now fear that the alleged diversion of funds will deter donors from giving further aid after the country’s devastating floods. According to senior officials, schools, hospitals, houses and roads planned with money given by foreign governments and international aid groups remain unbuilt almost five years after the earthquake which killed 80,000 and left four million people homeless.

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