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November 4, 2001 Sunday Shaba’an 17, 1422 KARACHI: KU urged to strive for financial autonomy KARACHI, Nov 3: Sindh Governor, Mohammedmian Soomro, has asked the Karachi University to increase its endowments in order to make it self-reliant and viable.... KARACHI: Two killed in city KARACHI, Nov 3: A man committed suicide in Garden police limits on Saturday.... KARACHI: Schedule for electoral rolls announced KARACHI, Nov 3: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Saturday approved the schedule for preparation of electoral rolls-2002 and also finalized various matters pertaining to electoral rolls.... KARACHI: Members for DPSC elected KARACHI, Nov 3: The City Council on Saturday elected its three presiding officers and six members for the District Public Safety Commission.... KARACHI: Benazir postpones return to Pakistan KARACHI, Nov 3: Benazir Bhutto has postponed her return to Pakistan indefinitely due to the fear of being killed by the Taliban or Al-Qaeda networks.... KARACHI: Representatives urged to solve people’s problems KARACHI, Nov 3: Speakers at a seminar here on Saturday said the people’s representatives should try to solve the city’s civic problems that had piled up over the last decade due... KARACHI: Decision to support US backed KARACHI, Nov 3: Participants at a discussion on current military and political situation in the region endorsed the government’s decision to extend support to the US as the only available option... KARACHI: Iodine deficiency disorders KARACHI, Nov 3: Iodine deficiency disorders which constitute the greatest worldwide cause of preventable brain damage in the foetus and infants are highly prevalent in South Asian Countries, including Pakistan.... KARACHI: Proper shelter for abandoned women needed KARACHI, Nov 3: Growing need is being felt for a shelter home in Karachi for women abandoned by their families, particularly those released from the local prison either on bail or... KARACHI: Building bylaws KARACHI, Nov 3: The Secretary Housing & Town Planning, Major Qamar Zaman (retd), has said matters relating to building bylaws, regularization of illegal buildings and cancellation of allotments of plots by... KARACHI: Fishermen’s insurance KARACHI, Nov 3: The Fishermen’s Cooperative Society has announced the launching of the fishermen insurance scheme with enhanced amount of payment to families of fishermen in case of accidents.... KARACHI: Councillors agitate at water crisis in Lyari KARACHI, Nov 3: Faced by a mounting pressure of public outcry regarding water shortage in parts of Lyari Town, the elected members met here on Saturday to discuss the situation and... KARACHI: Minister calls for uplift plans for rural poor KARACHI, Nov 3: The Sindh Minister of Finance, Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, has said there is an imperative need to launch practicable projects for improvement in the health, education and economic... KARACHI: Transporters withdraw strike call KARACHI, Nov 3: A nine-member delegation of Karachi Transport Ittehad, led by Irshad Hussain Bukhari, met with the provincial transport secretary, Raja Muhammad Abbas, in his office on Saturday.... KARACHI: Demonstration held for peace KARACHI, Nov 3: The Joint Action Committee for the Restoration of Peace, comprising various civic organizations and NGOs, held a demonstration to raise voice in support of peace on Saturday.... KARACHI: Impure water being supplied in Malir KARACHI, Nov 3: Hundreds of houses in Khokhrapar’s G-Area and Saudia Colony (Malir) have been receiving contaminated water for the past one week.... KARACHI: Ponam’s public meeting on 9th KARACHI, Nov 3: The central leaders of Pakistan Oppressed Nations’ Movement (PONAM) will visit interior of Sindh after holding a public meeting in Karachi on Nov 7.... KARACHI: AI demands cessation of hostilities in Afghanistan KARACHI, Nov 3: The Amnesty International, Karachi Group, in a meeting here on Saturday, called for immediate cessation of hostilities in Afghanistan so that relief supplies are stored before the onset... KARACHI: Prof Naqvi honoured KARACHI, Nov 3: Prof Jafar Naqvi has been elected councillor of the International Society for Nephrology a period of six years.... KARACHI: KBA polls KARACHI, Nov 3: Polling for the election of new managing committee of Karachi Bar Association completed here on Saturday evening.... PESHAWAR: Ex-minister among three released : NAB accepts plea bargain PESHAWAR, Nov 3: Former provincial minister Iftikhar Mohmand, and two others were released by an accountability court here on Saturday after they agreed to pay Rs8 million to the National Accountability... PESHAWAR: Jalalabad doctors treating injured without anaesthetic PESHAWAR, Nov 3: The Edhi Foundation has provided life-saving drugs and other relief goods to the Jalalabad Hospital, which is short of doctors, equipment and medicines and where doctors have been... PESHAWAR: US urged not to kill innocent people PESHAWAR, Nov 3: The provincial president of the Pakistan Awami Tehrik, Khalid Mehmood Durrani, has condemned the US air strikes on the innocent people of Afghanistan and said that terrorism could... PESHAWAR: Afghan transit trade slows down PESHAWAR, Nov 3: Continued bombing in Afghanistan by US planes since Oct 7, left sharp imprints on trade with the war ravaged country via NWFP as the Afghan Transit Trade (ATT)... PESHAWAR: Hashmi’s arrest condemned PESHAWAR, Nov 3: Condemning the arrest of Acting President of the Pakistan Muslim League, Jawed Hashmi, by the National Accountability Bureau, the provincial secretary-general of the party, Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, said... PESHAWAR: Young man shot dead PESHAWAR, Nov 3: Some un-identified persons shot dead Mir Rehman son of Gul Rehman at Achinee Bala north from here on Saturday.... PESHAWAR: Rs17.2m allocated for Tank uplift PESHAWAR, Nov 3: The Zila Nazim of Tank, Nawabzada Binyameen Khan, said on Saturday that the government had allocated Rs17.2 million under the Khushal Pakistan Programme for development projects.... LAKKI MARWAT: Motorcycle taken away LAKKI MARWAT, Nov 3: Unidentified thieves stole a motorcycle parked in front of the local Nadra office here on Friday.... ISLAMABAD: Musharraf has no right to rule: JI leader ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: The secretary general of Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), Syed Munawar Hasan, has said President General Pervez Musharraf’s clarification that no attack has been launched on Afghanistan from the Pakistani soil... ISLAMABAD: Iesco gets electricity distribution licence ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Saturday granted a distribution licence to Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) to provide electricity to consumers under its service area... ISLAMABAD: Flood-affected slum dwellers to be paid soon ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: Payment of compensation to the flood- affected people of Kutcha Abadis in the Capital will be made soon, Rural Development Minister Omar Asghar Khan said on Saturday.... ISLAMABAD: Security alert at post offices ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: The Pakistan Post Office (PPO) has provided gloves and masks to protect its staff, responsible for sorting and distribution of letters, from anthrax spores.... ISLAMABAD: PML-N seminar on 13th ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: The Pakistan Muslim League (N) will organize a seminar in the Capital on November 13 against the government’s Afghan policy.... RAWALPINDI: Nadra men charging money for delivery of NIC cards RAWALPINDI, Nov 3: The National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) employees are charging people for the delivery of National Identity Cards (NICs), citizens have complained.... MINGORA: Students allege irregularities in varsity admission MINGORA, Nov 3: A number of candidates seeking admission in different departments of the University of Peshawar have alleged large scale irregularities in the admission process.... GILGIT: Air, road links with Northern Areas remain suspended GILGIT, Nov 3: The air and road service to Gilgit, Baltistan and other parts of Northern Areas remained suspended with the rest of the country due to bad weather and heavy... HARIPUR: Haripur Zila Council Constitutes committees HARIPUR, Nov 3: The Zila Council has constituted eight monitoring committees here on Saturday. The convener, Riaz Khan Jadoon, presided over the meeting.... NOWSHERA: Bombing in Ramazan: US decision flayed NOWSHERA, Nov 3: Cond-emning the US decision to continue airstrikes on Afghanistan during Ramazan, chief of Pakistan-Afghan Defence Council and Jamiat Ulema Islam Maulana Samiul Haq said on Saturday that the... QUETTA: Scholarship awarded QUETTA, Nov 3: Abdul Majeed from Balochistan, got distinction in M.Sc Polemalar Technology from Manchester University of Science and Technology, UK, and has been awarded scholarship for Phd studies in the... QUETTA: Ehtesab court’s verdict challenged QUETTA, Nov 3: A Balochi-stan High Court division bench admitted the petition of former food department contractor Shamraz Khan against the sentence awarded to him by an accountability court in a... LAHORE: Preparation of voter rolls from Jan 1 LAHORE, Nov 3: Preparation of electoral rolls for general elections will start from Jan 1, a meeting of the Election Commission of Pakistan was informed on Saturday.... LAHORE: MP initiative torpedoed LAHORE, Nov 3: The Millat Party’s initiative to hold a conference to find a political solution to the Afghanistan problem and bring an end to the incessant US bombing of the... LAHORE: Postal dept adopts anthrax precaution LAHORE, Nov 3: The Pakis-tan Postal Department has adopted precautionary measures to protect its workers from possible attack of Anthrax.... LAHORE: Temperature drops LAHORE, Nov 3: Thick clouds, drizzle and gusty winds dropped day temperature in Lahore from Friday’s 33.2 to 26 degrees C on Saturday.... HYDERABAD: Parents urged to get children immunized HYDERABAD, Nov 3: The executive district officer (EDO) health, Hyderabad, Dr Qadir Bux Memon, has appealed to parents to get their children up to five years of age immunized against polio... HYDERABAD: Hesco ordered to restore power supply to mill HYDERABAD, Nov 3: A division bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad, directed Hesco to restore the power supply to Quetta Textile Mills (QTM), Kotri, as the disconnection was against canons... HYDERABAD: People cautioned about eye diseases HYDERABAD, Nov 3: Eye specialists have cautioned that even a minor eye disease should be treated without any loss of time as carelessness can prove very dangerous.... HYDERABAD: SPLA supports SEA strike call HYDERABAD, Nov 3: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers’ Association (SPLA), at a meeting held here on Saturday at the Sachal Sarmast Arts and Commerce College decided to observe strike in all... HYDERABAD: Medical colleges’ entry test on 15th HYDERABAD, Nov 3: The registrar of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Jamshoro, has announced that the entry test for admission in medical colleges of Sindh will be re-held on... HYDERABAD: Educational projects reviewed HYDERABAD, Nov 3: Sindh Education Secretary, Nazar Hussain Mahar, held a meeting with District Nazim Hyderabad, Dr Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman, here on Friday, in which various educational projects of the district were...

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