October 15, 2001	Monday	Rajab 27, 1422

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Nepra role likely to be restricted: Tariff for new projects ISLAMABAD, Oct 14: The government is expected to restrict the role of National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) in setting tariff for new power projects to reduce a six-month delay in...		Post-Taliban scenario not clear: report NEW YORK, Oct 14: American Special Forces may stage a commando raid inside Afghanistan this week, Newsweek reported on Sunday....
PML-LM for end to civilian killings ISLAMABAD Oct, 14: The Pakistan Muslim League like-minded group (PML-LM) has condemned the killings of civilians in the bombardment of US-led forces on Afghanistan, and demanded a halt to human catastrophe...		Export processing zone to be set up in Hub HUB, Oct 14: An export processing zone (EPZ) will be set up at Hub Industrial and Trading Estate, and about 125 acres land has been acquired for this purpose, Managing-Director of...
Korhum village: a scene of devastation PESHAWAR, Oct 14: Mud-houses and shanties, turned into piles of debris with flames still rising from the burnt wreckage, reflect the volume of intense airstrikes by US bombers on the Korhum...		Parco to sell 20pc of WOPP shares ISLAMABAD, Oct 14: Faced with a severe liquidity crunch, Pak-Arab Refinery Limited (Parco) - the country’s largest oil refinery owned by the governments of Pakistan and Abu Dhabi - has decided...
Drive against five Ghotki firms soon: Denial of jobs to local people SUKKUR Oct 14. Over 15 social organizations of Ghotki have announced to launch a movement against the industrial concerns operating in the district for violating environmental laws, neglecting the locals in...		Illegal paddy cultivation sparks protest KHAIRPUR, Oct 14: The resident of village Gujo, taluka Khairpur, and its outskirts staged a protest demonstration outside the district press club here on Sunday against illegal cultivation of paddy crops....
LMC workers strike continues LARKANA, Oct 14: The strike by the sanitary workers over the non-payment of salaries since the last two months led to sewage flowing on the roads on Sunday....		Show-cause notices issued to officials: Money paid without work MIRPURKHAS, Oct 14: The secretary of the provincial Education Works Department has issued show cause notices...
Ginners get extortion letters SANGHAR, Oct 14: The ginners in the Shahdadpur area are in the grip of severe fear after attacks on two factories by a gang of more than a dozen dacoits, who...		Arrangements reviewed for Qalandar’s Urs DADU, Oct 14: Arrangements for three-day annual Urs of Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar were finalized at a meeting held here on Saturday....
No check on sale of banned rice varieties SIALKOT, Oct 14: Paddy yield of banned varieties is being sold without any check both in Sialkot and Narowal districts....		A shadow of its past MULTAN, Oct 14: The Municipal Missali School, once known for its excellent results in Multan, is no more than a picture of neglect....
Dental association President shot dead GUJRANWALA, Oct 14: Pakistan Dental Association (PDA) president Dr Ghulam Rasul was gunned down late Saturday night by two assailants for pursuing a fraud case in Satellite Town....		Recovery of dues: notice issued to ex-PM sugar mills TOBA TEK SINGH, Oct 14: Gojra tehsil Nazim and the market committee have issued a notice to Chaudhry Sugar Mills owned by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to clear the outstanding...
Traders support strike MULTAN, Oct 14: As many as 150 organizations of traders of the south Punjab will observe strike on Monday (today) against the US air strikes on Afghan citizens....		Kidnapped Edhi driver Back home SADIQABAD, Oct 14: A driver of Edhi Centre at Bahadarpur Chowk, kidnapped some 17 days ago, reached home on Sunday....
Call to ensure canal water at tails MULTAN, Oct 14: The government should ensure the availability of canal water to farmers at tails....		Accidents claim three lives SHEIKHUPURA, Oct 14: Three persons were killed and 20 others injured in two road accidents here on Sunday....
29 hurt in bus-car collision SAHIWAL, Oct 14: Twenty-nine persons were injured, four of them seriously, in a head-on collision between a bus and a car on the Sahiwal-Arifwala Road on Sunday morning....		Cash, valuables looted KASUR, Oct 14: Four masked dacoits on Sunday looted a house and took away cash, ornaments and other valuables worth Rs60,000 at gunpoint in Kot Mirbaz Khan....
SOS village in Sialkot SIALKOT, Oct 14: The Punjab government has allocated 34 kanals of land for setting up an SOS village in the city....		PML fears ‘anarchy’ in country MARDAN, Oct 14: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Secretary General Sar Anjam Khan has expressed the fear that the country is inching towards anarchy and civil war because of the absence of...
Tough contest for UC Nazim slots likely SWABI, Oct 14: Electioneering for the vacant slots of Nazim in three union councils of the district is gaining momentum, as a tough contest is expected among the candidates. Polling will...		Nazim claims Passing matric in Afghanistan SWABI, Oct 14: Swabi Zila Nazim Sher Zaman Sher claimed in a   written statement, submitted to the election tribunal in reply to a writ that his matric certificate was fake,...
Four JUI leaders held in Nowshera NOWSHERA, Oct 14: The district administration here arrested four leaders of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) in connection with the demonstrations held on Friday, following which processions were taken out by the incensed...		Lawyers slam US attack BUNER, Oct 14: The lawyers’ community here has strongly condemned the US and its allies for bombarding the already war-weary Afghanistan and criticized the government for its “cooperative policy.”...
Betterment of women demanded BUNER, Oct 14: Dr Maria Jehanzeb, who had been elected councillor from the union council Pandire Chaghorzai and later on elected member district government on the reserved seat for females, has...		US asked to stop atrocities KOHAT, Oct 14: The amir of Taliban Tehrik, Orakzai Agency, Akhunzada Aslam Farooqui has asked the US to stop its brutalities in Afghanistan and announced that a strong force of 700,000...