November 7, 2001	Wednesday	Shaba’an 20, 1422

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Families of church victims get cheques BAHAWALPUR, Nov 6: The families of 16 people who were killed in an attack on a church on Oct 28 and five injured were given Rs3.45 million as a compensation here...		PPP sees no need to agitate for early polls LAHORE, Nov 6: Makhdoom Amin Faheem, the Pakistan People’s Party senior vice-chairman, said on Tuesday he trusted President Gen Pervez Musharraf to hold the general elections in October next year. There...
Taliban not creation of Pakistan: ex-ISI chief LAHORE, Nov 6: Former ISI chief Gen (retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi has rejected the allegation that the Taliban were the creation of Pakistan or that Islamabad could influence their decisions....		Hoarding before Ramazan FAISALABAD, Nov 6: A majority of wholesale dealers has created artificial shortage of eatables by hoarding them to ensure maximum gains in the holy month of Ramazan....
Multan city council budget approved MULTAN, Nov 6: Budget of the Multan city tehsil council was approved on Tuesday for the year 2001-2002 amid objections and hooliganism....		Anthrax: probe into GPO mail GUJRAT, Nov 6: Higher authorities have ordered a departmental inquiry into the anthrax episode, it is learnt....
Uplift plans for barani areas BHAKKAR, Nov 6: The Agency for Barani Areas Development (ABAD) has earmarked funds for certain uplift schemes in the rain-fed areas of the district....		Engg college students plea to governor MULTAN, Nov 6: The students of the engineering college of the Bahauddin Zakariya University have sought the Punjab governor’s help for the resolution of their problems....
Passengers looted SAHIWAL, Nov 6: Highwaymen looted cash and valuables from passengers here on Monday evening....		Death sentence SAHIWAL, Nov 6: An additional district and sessions judge has awarded death sentence to two persons in a murder case in Chak 86/6-R, on Tuesday....
Taliban hand over night-time security task to Arab fighters PESHAWAR, Nov 6: The Taliban have entrusted night time security of Afghanistan’s urban centres with battle-hardened Arab fighters of Osama bin Laden, Pakistani officials said....		Musharraf wants quick end to war: US envoy WASHINGTON, Nov 6: The US ambassador to Pakistan said on Tuesday that President Pervez Musharraf did not “push hard” for a halt to the bombing of Afghanistan during Ramazan....
Falcon export banned ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: The government has imposed a ban on the export of falcons to avert the imminent extinction of the precious birds in the country....		Ties with Pakistan now strained, says ex-Afghan envoy CHAMAN, Nov 6: A former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan and chief of Shoora-i-Ulema Afghanistan, Mufti Masoom Afghani has said that his country has no more friendly relations with Pakistan which has...
SC orders re-arrest of two murder accused ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that two persons acquitted by the Sindh High Court of the charges of murdering an army man in Karachi in 1998, be...		Seniority dispute SC adjourns hearing of two petitions ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned hearing of two writ petitions filed by three judges of the Lahore High Court regarding an inter se seniority dispute....
AJK LA blasts Indian atrocities MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 6: AJK Legislative Assembly here on Tuesday vehemently condemned the inhuman atrocities being committed by the Indian forces in occupied Kashmir, and asked the world community to exert pressure...		Suspect letter posted from within Pakistan: US embassy ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: The United States embassy here said on Tuesday white powder that tested positive for anthrax and is undergoing further tests was sent to the Lahore consulate in a...
Pakistan ready to set up peace zones inside Afghanistan ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: Pakistan has expressed its willingness to establish peace zones inside Afghanistan for internally displaced persons (IDPs), a move which is being opposed by the United States....		Government urged to withdraw support to US MINGORA, Nov 6: Speakers at a protest meeting here on Tuesday criticized the government decision of backing the US-led coalition in its military operation against the Taliban....
Buner dist Nazim’s bid to pre-empt strike BUNER,  Nov 6: District Nazim-i-Ala, Sirzamin  Khan,  has initiated efforts for convincing the leaders of the local transport and bazars unions to halt the strike call given by the Defence of...		DCAP finalizes plan for wheel-jam strike SWABI, Nov 6: The defence council of Afghanistan and Pakistan has finalized all arrangements for Friday’s wheel-jam strike and protest demonstrations against Pakistan’s support to the US-led attacks on Afghanistan....
People have right to hold demos: Sami MANSEHRA, Nov 6: Defence Council of Afghanistan and Pakistan chief Maulana Samiul Haq on Tuesday said that staging protest demonstrations over the killing of innocent Afghans was the right of the people....		Girl trapped by drug traffickers, claim parents PESHAWAR, Nov 6: Parents of a Belgian girl, arrested on charges of drug pushing, requested the Pakistani government on Tuesday to trace out the real culprits as their daughter was innocent...
Importance of birth registration underscored ABBOTTABAD, Nov 6: Birth registration is considered to be the basic tool for planning in the developed countries but no attention is being given to it in the country, speakers said...		Abdul Haq’s nephew executed PESHAWAR, Nov 6: The Taliban executed Izzatullah, the nephew of the slain Afghan commander, Abdul Haq, who was arrested along with his supporters inside Afghanistan last month....
Father kills daughter on her wedding day HARIPUR, Nov 6: Two persons, including a bride, were killed here the other day....		‘Education top priority of local govt’ ABBOTTABAD, Nov 6: District Nazim Mustafa Jadoon has said that education and health had been kept as target areas of the local governments to improve the literacy rate and to provide...
Contributions to relief fund urged PESHAWAR, Nov 6: The NWFP minister for information and education Syed Imtiaz Hussain Gilani has called upon the people to contribute generously towards the President’s Relief Fund for the Afghans....		Six out of seven dialysis units lying inoperative: PMCH MS seems helpless NAWABSHAH, Nov 6: Six of the seven dialysis machines at the People’s Medical College Hospital (PMCH), Nawabshah, have been out of order for three years due to lack of funds for...
Revision, update of Deh maps demanded THATTA, Nov 6: The Small Growers Association (SGA), while taking notice of the recent officially notified facts about submerging of over 1.2 million acres of fertile agricultural land by sea water...		Police raid results in infant’s death LARKANA, Nov 6: An infant girl was killed when police sneaked into the house of Roshan Shaikh while searching for certain suspects on Tuesday morning in Safdar Colony on the...
Watchman of union council shot dead DADU, Nov 6: A watchman of union council Siyal was gunned down while on duty at Mallah chowk of Dadu town on Tuesday....		Illegal pumps exist in Nara: official MIRPURKHAS, Nov 6: Provincial minister for irrigation, Syed Ali Mir Shah, has stressed the need to utilising available water in a proper manner so that the water could be ensured to...
Young man dies of electrocution KHAIRPUR, Nov 6: A villager identified as Asghar Mashoori, 25, resident of village Mashoori was electrocuted while he was repairing a generator, near Karondi on Tuesday....		Dist advisory body formed SHIKARPUR, Nov 6: Following the directives of the Sindh government, Shikarpur district administration has constituted the district advisory committee comprising the elected representatives....
PR making lame excuses to pensioners SUKKUR, Nov 6: The accounts department, Pakistan Railways, Sukkur, has refused to pay pension to nearly 400 pensioners and the widows of employees who had been asked to come on Nov...		Anti-polio drive begins SUKKUR, Nov 6: Zila Nazim Sukkur, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, inaugurated the second round of polio campaign, 2001, here on Tuesday by administering anti-polio drops including to the children below the...
Missing men: police fail to solve mystery SANGHAR, Nov 6: The mystery regarding the missing of three people has not been solved yet. Besides, their relatives have yet to lodge an FIR with the police....		Abducted KASUR, Nov 6: Two women and a minor were abducted with cash and valuables here on Tuesday....