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A 7.6 earthquake hit the Pakistan-India border region on the 8th of October, 2005. Recent news articles mentioning Lahore .

Tourists are winners off the field 04 Dec 2005
Guardian Unlimited, On the first day of the Lahore Test, a banner read: 'Long live England. Thanks for helping Pakistani earthquake victims'. It was ...

Shoaib hopes victory was special to quake victims 04 Dec 2005
Khaleej Times, LAHORE — Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar who finished with 17 wickets in the 2-0 test series win over England said he wanted his performance to cheer ... 8 earthquake. ...

POSTCARD USA: Our men and women abroad —Khalid Hasan 04 Dec 2005
Daily Times, The lovely ambassador’s residence in London’s exclusive Regent’s Park was sold by a Lahore trader who had been sent to represent us at the court of St ...

Trade fair ends with Rs 80 cr possibilities 04 Dec 2005
Business Standard, ...per the commitment of the PHDCCI, would be sent to the earthquake relief fund ... the FSL Group of Industries, Islamabad, and another between the Lahore Chamber of ...

Pakistan diary 04 Dec 2005
Telegraph.co.uk, ...in Lahore in addition to shutting out England with 154. Today some of England's cricketers will play a charity golf match for the Pakistan earthquake appeal. ...

Pak-Turk foundation to set up schools in quake areas 04 Dec 2005
Daily Times, ...visited Muzaffarabad to express solidarity with the October 8 earthquake victims. ... more than 350 students in its Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore and Multan branches ...

Taipei 101 changes faultline Dec 2, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: Standing 508 metres (1,667ft) high and at 700,000 tonnes, Taipei 101 is the ... the stress from the skyscraper may have reopened an ancient earthquake fault ...

Heavy landslides likely in summer Dec 2, 2005
Gulf Times, LAHORE: Quake survivors have been warned against heavy landslides in Kashmir and North ... deep fissures and wide cracks of rocks caused by the recent earthquake. ...

Trial runs of Amritsar-Lahore bus this month Dec 1, 2005
Outlook (subscription), ...of the Amritsar-Lahore bus service and talks for finalising Amritsar-Nankana Sahib bust service were postponed due to the earthquake in Kashmir on October eight ...

Christians evicted to make way for Muslims in Pakistan, says ... Dec 1, 2005
Catholic News Service In mid-November three churches in Sangla Hill, near Lahore, were destroyed by ... donors to the relief operation in the aftermath of the magnitude 7.6 earthquake. ...

PTI stops political activity for now Dec 1, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would have appeared as a major political ... suspended all political activities because of the October 8 earthquake on party ...

England team spirit weathers security restraints Nov 30, 2005
Daily Times, ...flew in a Royal Air Force (RAF) helicopter to deliver aid to earthquake victims ... test and Tuesday’s start of the third test in the cosmopolitan city of Lahore. ...

Organisers dedicate film festival to quake victims Dec 2, 2005
Peninsula On-line, ..."We will also screen the first documentary on the earthquake in the ... Pakistan's Lahore-based film industry, dubbed Lollywood, has begun cooperating with India's ...

World Performing Arts Festival helps earthquake victims Nov 28, 2005
People's Daily Online, ...arts event ended on Monday in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore with 30 percent of its ticket sales going to the country's victims of the Oct. 8 earthquake. ...

India bus trial run this month Dec 1, 2005
Gulf Times, Lahore on December 11 while on December 13 a bus would go from Lahore to Amritsar ... scheduled to be held in October but were put off due to October 8 earthquake. ...

SECOND OPINION: The ‘default’ in our stars —Khaled Ahmed’s ... Dec 1, 2005
Daily Times, ...earthquake were punished by God for their sins. He said the people of Azad Kashmir and Hazara were good people and it was cruel to call them sinful. A Lahore ...

Trial run of Amritsar-Lahore bus on Dec 11 Nov 29, 2005
Hindustan Times, The trial run of the Amritsar-Lahore bus service, which was postponed due to the October 8 earthquake, would be held on December 11 and 13, Foreign Office ...

War on terror waged in earthquake zone Nov 27, 2005
Dallas Morning News (subscription), The earthquake aid in Pakistan could generate similar feelings, "but that's for the Pakistani people to say.". Mr. Sethi, the Lahore editor, argues that the US ...

Trial run of Amritsar-Lahore bus service on Dec 11, 13 Nov 30, 2005
Outlook (subscription), A trial run of Amritsar-Lahore bus service, which was postponed earlier due to earthquake on October eight, will now be held on December 11 and 13 by India and ...

Humayun meets business leaders in Los Angeles Dec 2, 2005
Daily Times, ...design school in Pakistan, the Pakistan School of Fashion Design in Lahore. ... government of Pakistan in dealing with the devastation caused by the earthquake.

Former Indo-Pak army officers meet Dec 2, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: Retired army officers from India and Pakistan met on the Wagah border ... Pakistan Soldiers Initiative (IPSI) sent two relief trucks for earthquake victims ...

Lahore-Amritsar bus trial on Dec. 11 and 13 Nov 29, 2005
NewKerala.com, Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam has said that a trial bus between Lahore and Amritsar ... scheduled to be held in October but were put off due to the earthquake. ...

The 'Puss' @ Lahore 1 Nov 29, 2005
sportnetwork.net, ...a victory with two balls to spare chasing 198 in 30 overs against local Lahore side Modeltown ... Money raised by the charity event will go to the Earthquake fund. ...

World Performing Arts Festival 2005: No grand piano in city Nov 26, 2005
Daily Times, The ambassador was pleased with polish artists performing in Lahore and said ... polish engineers with heavy machinery were working in the earthquake-affected areas ...

England team spirit weathers security restraints Nov 29, 2005
Reuters.uk, ...flew in a Royal Air Force (RAF) helicopter to deliver aid to earthquake victims. ... test and Tuesday's start of the third test in the cosmopolitan city of Lahore. ...

‘India ruined Sikh holy places, Pakistan taking care’ Nov 30, 2005
Daily Times, He appreciated the Sikh community’s aid for earthquake victims’ relief and ... for the Sikh community, including hotels in Nankana Sahib, Lahore and Punja Sahib ...

Musharraf’s uniform should not be made a political issue: CM Dec 1, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: Some political elements are trying to trigger a controversy about President ... they themselves did nothing for people nor the October 8 earthquake victims ...

Battle to save quake victims also a chance to win hearts and minds Nov 28, 2005
Kansas City Star, The earthquake aid in Pakistan could generate similar feelings, "but that's for the Pakistani people to say.". Najem Sethi, the Lahore editor, argues that the ...

Govt policies attract foreign investment Nov 27, 2005
Pakistan Link, Ambassador of Germany in Pakistan G Mulack said that Lahore had great cultural significance as well as separate identity. ... ‘Recent earthquake was the biggest ...

A tribute to city’s special children Nov 27, 2005
Daily Times, Rs 2 million cheque for the President’s Relief Fund for Earthquake Victims ... LAHORE College for Women University (LCWU) arranged its annual Inter College Table ...

‘Seeds of Peace’ Lahore volunteers to help quake victims Nov 20, 2005
Daily Times, The SoP also met quake victims admitted to the Jinnah Hospital (Lahore) and affected families, who were left homeless by the earthquake, living in the Social ...

Corps commander urges psychological treatment of earthquake ... Nov 21, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: Lahore Corps Commander Lieutenant General Shafaatullah Shah visited Combined Military Hospital (CMH) and inquired after the earthquake victims admitted ...

Pakistan proposes New Dates for Trial Run of Lahore-Amritsar Bus ... Nov 21, 2005
NewsCentralAsia, Pakistan has proposed new dates to India for trial running of Lahore-Amritsar bus ... running was earlier schedule in October but it was delayed due to earthquake. ...

NATO doing relief only: Musharraf Nov 28, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: President General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that the presence of NATO Forces in the earthquake-hit areas was “nothing strange� and it was a ...

The earthquake that was like a nuclear bomb Nov 18, 2005
Daily Times, ...throughout the area struck by the earthquake, the US correspondent was told. The group also ran a hospital where surgeons from Karachi and Lahore had assembled ...

Foreign investment strengthening economy: Elahi Nov 26, 2005
Daily Times, Mulack said that Lahore had rich traditions of peace, mutual love, culture and sports ... The German government would help the October 8 earthquake victims, he added ...

Frank Keating Nov 28, 2005
Guardian Unlimited, ...am rooting for Pakistan to settle the series with a joyous victory at Lahore. ... beset by international turmoils, not least a savagely ghastly earthquake and its ...

Pakistan, India bus trial on December 11, 13 Nov 29, 2005
Islamic Republic News Agency, At present bus runs between Lahore and the Indian capital New Delhi as well as ... scheduled to be held in October but were postponed due to the earthquake in the ...

This doctor doesn't discriminate Nov 29, 2005
Concord Monitor, 8 earthquake that killed 86,000 people in the nation. ... He has also treated for free 80 victims of spinal cord injuries at his Lahore hospital. ...

Palki reaches Nankana Sahib Nov 30, 2005
The Tribune, ...while extending his thanks to Capt Singh for extending help to the earthquake victim, hoped ... He said that four-laning of the Nankana Sahib-Lahore Road was near ...

PML-N, PPP will contest elections under ARD banner Dec 1, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: Component parties of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) will jointly ... over the tragic loss of life in the October 8 earthquake, he urged ...

PAKISTAN: SILENT CRACKDOWN ON HARDLINE ISLAMIST GROUPS Dec 1, 2005
AKI, Shahzad) - Struggling with an enormous task after the 8 October earthquake, the Pakistani ... to his family, he was in Karachi and departed for Lahore two days ago ...

Meetings on AHAN projects Dec 1, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: Jahangir Khan Tareen, Federal Minister of Industries, Production and Special ... the occasion for economic revival of the SMEs in earthquake-affected areas ...

Earthquake disaster exposes failures of government and deep ... Nov 23, 2005
Media Monitors Network, ...manicured hands will be at yet another seminar in Islamabad or Lahore to exclaim about how much they have been traumatized themselves by the earthquake and its ...

Pakistan: Punjab government to provide help to earthquake victims ... Nov 20, 2005
ReliefWeb (press release), ...skilled labour volunteers from the six districts of Punjab --Lahore, Multan, Sialkot ... in the relief and reconstruction campaign of the earthquake affected areas ...

Bollywood, cable TV, theatres hitting Pakistani film industry hard Nov 30, 2005
Webindia123, ...a medical care centre for victims of the Oct 8 earthquake, said restarting ... of theatre fans is on the rise in major cities including Lahore, Karachi, Gujranwala ...

Kashmir's autonomy not possible right now: Rasheed Nov 29, 2005
India Monitor, 29, 2005, LAHORE: Kashmir's autonomy is not possible under the present circumstances, Federal Information ... "I assure you that all the earthquake victims will be ...

Golden palanquin arrives from India Nov 29, 2005
Daily Times, He said the people of Indian Punjab were grieved by the earthquake in northern ... Pakistani Punjab, had fond memories of his earlier visit to Lahore and would ...

Will the nation learn a lesson from the earthquake? Nov 22, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: Will the Pakistani nation and the government learn a lesson from the October 8 earthquake and evolve a strategy to deal with natural disasters and ...

On peace mission across border Nov 28, 2005
Calcutta Telegraph, Amritsar, Atari, Lahore and Islamabad, finally reaching Zafarabad. What particularly inspired the couple to undertake the trip was the recent earthquake which ...

NATO forces only participating in relief work: Musharraf Nov 28, 2005
Online - International News Network, LAHORE: President General Pervez Musharraf has said that North Atlantic Treaty ... delay in relief activities soon after October 8 earthquake, the President ...

Buildings 105 schools, colleges declared dangerous Nov 23, 2005
Pakistan Link, LAHORE, Nov 23 : As many as 105 out of the total 1356 school and college buildings in Lahore district alone have been declared dangerous ... 8 monster earthquake. ...

Pakistan supports self-governance in Kashmir, says Aziz Nov 29, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Tuesday that Pakistan supported ... Referring to the devastating earthquake, Aziz said Pakistan’s economy had managed ...

Musharraf urges youths to stop hate-mongers: Varsities chapter of ... Nov 28, 2005
Pakistan Dawn, LAHORE, Nov 28: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Monday made an impassioned plea ... the challenge (posed by devastation caused by the Oct 8 earthquake) into an ...

Musharraf urges volunteers to help quake survivors Nov 28, 2005
Pakistan Link, LAHORE - President General Pervez Musharraf Monday urged members of the National ... the world community responded promptly soon after the earthquake havoc, and ...

Anglican Communion Head Highlights Christian Solidarity ... Nov 26, 2005
Christian Post, ...moved to see how efficiently the displaced victims of the earthquake disaster are ... burning of Christian settlements in Sangla Hill, west of Lahore, capital of ...

Pakistani Academic Visits Havana Nov 30, 2005
Cuban News Agency, The earthquake hit the ... The author was born in 1943 in Lahore, then British-controlled India, and exiled from Pakistan for his vocal opposition to the country's ...

`We Are Not Such Monsters' Nov 19, 2005
Los Angeles Times, ...critics of the US In an interview in his office in Lahore, the British ... isolated mountain villages in the chaotic hours and days after the earthquake, he said. ...

Elahi calls Donors’ Conference a success Nov 20, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: The Donors’ Conference has proved successful and pledges of financial ... Elahi told a ceremony to distribute gifts among earthquake-affected families at ...

UET Taxila report on Margalla Towers: Substandard materials ... Nov 28, 2005
Daily Times, ...of the MT pointed out cracks in the building before the deadly earthquake to the ... owner of the Margalla Towers, in the Rawalpindi Bench of the Lahore High Court ...

Lives in ruins... and in peril Nov 26, 2005
Sunday Herald, But never have I encountered anything like the aftermath of the recent Pakistan earthquake. ... Dr Sami, a surgeon from Lahore, told me how she had performed ...

Govt plans to make artificial limbs for earthquake victims Nov 6, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: The government plans to make artificial limbs to rehabilitate the earthquake injured, Punjab Cooperatives Minister Col (r) Malik Muhammad Anwar said ...

LAHORE: Shopping gains momentum a few days before Eid Nov 3, 2005
Daily Times, Since the earthquake took place ... for their home before Iftar,� said Mr Tanveer at Ravi Eva, a manufacturing unit of plastic shoes in Lahore, adding: “Earlier ...

Earthquake will not impact Pakistan's economic growth - World Bank Nov 13, 2005
ForexTV.com, LAHORE, Pakistan (AFX) - The earthquake that devastated parts of Pakistan last month will not significantly slow economic growth as donors will pay for much of ...

- By Anwar Syed Nov 25, 2005
The Asian Age, Since shortly after this event a bus service between Lahore and Delhi has been operating ... in April 2005 and, until a day or two before the earthquake of October 8 ...

Update: LIFE’s response to the South Asia earthquake Nov 8, 2005
ReliefWeb (press release), ...and moving the critically injured people from Abbott Abad to Lahore, Rawalpinid, Islam ... medicines valued at $3.163 million to the victims of the earthquake. ...

Act of man Nov 19, 2005
Mathaba.Net, When the earthquake struck, the city's Civil Defence (CD) department was unable to ... Doctors came from Lahore, Karachi and other cities and set up field hospitals ...

* Criticises West for earthquake aid shortfall Nov 6, 2005
Daily Times, ...is a welcome move that will free up money for earthquake victims, said ... LAHORE: Security agencies detained 32 activists of banned religious organisations during ...

Doctor returns from mercy mission to earthquake-torn Pakistan Nov 4, 2005
Bury Free Press, ...by a Bury St Edmunds doctor has helped thousands of victims of the Pakistan earthquake. ... Dr Khan, who was born in Lahore, Pakistan, spent two weeks giving basic ...

Gulberg nazim says he won’t bow to influence Nov 21, 2005
Daily Times, Meanwhile, the City Government Lahore, in its first informal session, approved a fund generation programme for earthquake victims at union council level. ...

Sikh committee to deliberate on replacing marble palanquin Nov 23, 2005
Daily Times, ...to reach Lahore on Baba Guru Nanak’s 536th birth anniversary from November 11 to 15, but the idea was dropped in the aftermath of the October 8 earthquake. ...

Terrorism-free atmosphere needed to resolve disputes: India Nov 19, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: Shortly after President Musharraf remarked that the earthquake offered a lifetime opportunity to settle the Kashmir issue, India said on Saturday it ...

Pakistan-Musharraf Musharraf announces quake reconstruction ... Nov 19, 2005
Islamic Republic News Agency, ...procedures set by his government and coordinate with the Earthquake Reconstruction and ... He said the affluent cities of Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad can adopt ...

Minorities will get equal rights, says Elahi Nov 25, 2005
Daily Times, Dr Williams condoled the deaths in the earthquake and praised Punjab for progress in education, health and agriculture. Bishop of Lahore Dr Alexander John ...

World Performing Arts Festival draws large audiences Nov 23, 2005
Daily Times, ...in collaboration with Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) and the Lahore Arts Council (LAC ... will go to the victims of the October 8 earthquake, which killed ...

Imran Khan celebrates his 53rd birthday on 25th of November Nov 19, 2005
PakTribune.com, Imran Khan who was born on 25th November, 1952 in Lahore was the Captain of the ... Imran Khan who is currently busy in his campaign for earthquake affectees will ...

15.2 million children to be administered polio drops in Punjab Nov 24, 2005
PakTribune.com, ...& treatment) was also being provided to the earthquake victims, specially ... in connection with anti-polio campaign at Children Hospital Lahore on Wednesday. ...

EDITORIAL: Transparency and efficiency should be the buzzwords Nov 21, 2005
Daily Times, ...the money Pakistan requires to rehabilitate the victims of the earthquake and reconstruct ... The Lahore-based Research Society of International Law (RSIL) held a ...

Polycentric WSF 2006 Karachi delayed by two months Nov 24, 2005
OneWorld.net, ...to have a national forum in Pakistan, in Lahore, on January 23rd and 24th, 2006. This delay is one of the consequences brought by the earthquake that took ...

Textile policy before next budget Nov 26, 2005
Pakistan Link, ...the newsmen after attending a briefing on the pace of work on Lahore Garment City ... plus in the wake of the devastation caused by October 8 earthquake, which was ...

VIEW: Sikha Shahi II —Kamran Shafi Nov 23, 2005
Daily Times, And it wasn’t the earthquake either, it was if the Almighty wanted the Chaudhry ... daily flights to and from Karachi for example, and many from Lahore) to man ...

Earthquake has political implications for Musharraf Nov 14, 2005
Daily Times, ...premature to say whether the Pakistan Army’s handling of earthquake relief will ... the government,’ said Rasul Baksh Rais, a professor at Lahore University of ...

MY TURN: Let’s help Pakistan earthquake victims Nov 4, 2005
BurlingtonFreePress.com, ...of the earthquake. Her husband is a senior level government official, and she has assured me that if we can get blankets and tents to her in Lahore, Pakistan ...

VIEW: A world spiralling out of control —Navid Shahzad Nov 18, 2005
Daily Times, The recent earthquake and the devastation it has caused have had one tied up ... Berkeley and Lahore, strange bedfellows as they were, fired the imagination in a ...

Archbishop of Canterbury to visit quake-hit Pakistan Nov 18, 2005
Ekklesia, ...other senior politicians and will visit those recovering from the recent earthquake disaster ... will preside and preach at a special service in Lahore to celebrate ...

MQM to continue relief work in AJK Nov 10, 2005
Daily Times, LAHORE: Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) relief efforts would continue until earthquake victims’ complete rehabilitation, said its Punjab organiser Nauman ...

VIEW: Earthquake relief and rehabilitation —Syed Mohammad Ali Nov 14, 2005
Daily Times, ...risepak.com) has been designed by experts from the Lahore University of ... Unfortunately, the record of managing post-earthquake rehabilitation is poor according ...

40 teams of skilled manpower sent to affected areas Nov 12, 2005
Daily Times, ...app. LAHORE: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has appreciated the role of the Pakistan Army and doctors for extending prompt and effective aid to earthquake ...


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