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Protest of students of Aseefa Dental College continues

By our correspondent

SUKKUR: Students of the Aseefa Dental College of Larkana continued their protest on the fifth day against the administration of their college, which failed to get the college affiliated with the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council.

The students boycotted their classes and staged a protest demo at the main gate of the college. They said that the chief of the PMDC had flatly refused to affiliate Aseefa Dental College with the PMDC because of the lack of faculty and other technical requirements. Meanwhile, students of Chandika Medical College of Larkana also protested against the examination date of November 9, which they said was not acceptable because the examination schedule in all the other medical colleges was November 21.

Four hurt in Orakzai IED blast

By our correspondent

KALAYA: Four persons sustained injuries in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion in Khadizai village of Upper Orakzai tehsil on Thursday, local and official sources said. The sources said that the family of Malik Malang Badshah had just returned home from displacement when an IED planted in the lawn of the house went off as a family member identified as Muhammad Shoaib stepped on it. As a result of the explosion, four persons sustained shrapnel wounds. However, there were no reports of any fatal casualty in the incident. The injured were identified as Muhammad Shoaib, Haider, Ihsan and Mujeeb.Security forces cordoned off the area and started a search operation. The injured were shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital in Hangu.

Sami seeks release of detained clerics

By our correspondent

NOWSHERA: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) head Maulana Samiul Haq on Wednesday sought the release of detained clerics. Speaking at a meeting here, he condemned the attack on the Police Training College in Quetta and said that the government should take action against the perpetrators of the carnage. Maulana Hamidul Haq, Maulana Abdul Manan, Maulana Syed Mohammad Yusuf Shah and Maulana Abdul Rauf were also present on the occasion. Samiul Haq urged party activists to ensure participation in the Defa-e-Pakistan conference being held in Islamabad on 28 October. He said his party would strive to work for the restoration of Shariah rule in the country.  He said that the rulers were taking action against the seminaries to hide own failures. He said the government had failed to serve the people and urged them to side with the JUI-S to enforce Sharia in Pakistan.

Unregistered drugs seized in Abbottabad

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ABBOTTABAD: The district drug control authority here on Wednesday seized a huge quantity of imported, unregistered and unwarranted drugs besides initiating action against medical stores for operating without a qualified person and valid licence.A press release said the health officials, on a tip-off, raided different medical stores in Cantonment Bazaar and Jinnah Road in Abbottabad district. During the inspection, the official recovered huge stock of unregistered imported drugs from M/S Qureshi Brothers Chemist.Medicines were also seized from Qureshi Dental Clinic pharmacy and Shifa medicos which were sent to drug testing laboratory in Peshawar.

VEHARI: The Vehari District and Sessions Judge Thursday issued the death warrant for a murder accused. Imdad had killed Hafiz Muhammad Abdullah in 2001 and City Burewala police had registered a murder case against him. In 2002 the Additional Sessions Judge Burewala awarded him the death sentence.