November 24, 2001	Saturday	Ramazan 8, 1422

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SC asks UBL workers to approach tribunals ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: The Supreme Court on Friday announced judgment in a case filed by 46 employees of the UBL regarding recovery of loans from their dues and other pensionary benefits....		Pakistan’s border policy remains unchanged ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: Pakistan has once again refused to open its borders with Afghanistan to accept more Afghan refugees and decided to stick to the policy of allowing entry to only...
Straw hopes Bonn moot will help form national govt ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has hoped for emergence of national unity among various Afghan factions from the Bonn talks scheduled to begin on Monday....		Team leaves for Kabul to trace Pakistanis PESHAWAR, Nov 23: An Afghan delegation left here for Kabul on Friday to track down missing Pakistani fighters in Afghanistan and secure their release....
AJK CJ reprimands government MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 23: AJK High Court Chief Justice Syed Manzoor Hussain Gillani on Friday reprimanded Advocate-General Raja Abrar Ahmed for the government’s failure to clarify its position regarding the appointment of...		Wounded Taliban trickle into Pakistan QUETTA, Nov 23: Wounded Taliban fighters are being smuggled across the border into Pakistan from southern Afghanistan to be treated and protected in safe houses, Taliban activists and witnesses said on...
Four IT centres set up GILGIT, Nov 23: The Education Department, Northern Areas, has set up four information technology centres in four colleges....		Asif assets case hearing adjourned ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: The Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench, on Friday modified the stay order it had granted against the filing of a third supplementary reference against Asif Zardari on charges...
UN urged to take notice of Indian shelling MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 23: AJK President Maj-Gen (retd) Mohammad Anwar Khan on Thursday condemned unprovoked Indian shelling and called upon the United Nations to take measures to stop such acts....		Kunduz: UN calls for negotiated settlement ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: The United Nations has called for a negotiated settlement between the warring parties in Kunduz, expressing concern over expected bloodshed in the last bastion of Taliban resistance....
Embassy warns Americans off travelling to Afghanistan ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: The United States embassy has warned Americans against the danger of travelling to Afghanistan....		Two women killed in Gilgit GILGIT, Nov 23: Two women were murdered in separate incidents in Gilgit....
Stray dogs’ number goes up in Kabul ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: The number of stray dogs has increased in Kabul, causing frequent incidents of rabies, the World Health Organization (WHO) said here the other day....		Death sentence commuted to life term ISLAMABAD, Nov 23: A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Sheikh Riaz Ahmad, on Friday commuted death sentence awarded to Waseem alias Bhayia to life imprisonment....
Dead phones HUB, Nov 23: The local bodies’ representatives, business community and residents of Lakhra union council of district Lasbela have appealed to the authorities concerned to remove faults in the telephone connections...		PADC vows to continue support for Taliban CHARSADDA, Nov 23: The leaders of Pakistan-Afghanistan Defence Council on (PADC) Friday said their campaign would continue till the enforcement of Islamic system in the country and re-installation of a Taliban...
Families worried about missing Pakistanis KOHAT, Nov 23: The families of thousands of missing Pakistanis inside Afghanistan are desperately trying to contact journalists or warlords by satellite phones to know about the fate of their near...		Nangarhar corps commander named KOHAT, Nov 23: The governor of Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, Haji Mohammad Qadeer, has appointed Haji Zaman of Mahaz-i-Milli of Pir Syed Ahmed Gillani corps commander and Hazrat Ali chief of...
Nazim warns profiteers, hoarders HARIPUR, Nov 23: The Tehsil Nazim, Haripur, Iftekhar Khan, has warned the owners of shops and stores, of legal action against those found guilty of overcharging and hoarding....		Action against drug dealers demanded MARDAN, Nov 23: A prominent lawyer of district courts Mardan was threatened by the drug peddlers of dire consequences, when he was on his way back to home near Mayar village...
Improvement in forest ordinance demanded ABBOTTABAD, Nov 23: The proposed forest ordinance needs wide discussion to remove its flaws and reservations of different quarters before its approval and implementation, speakers said at a workshop organized by...		Burglars take away cash, jewellery NOWSHERA, Nov 23: Around 10 burglars posing as plain-clothes policemen took away cash, jewellery and other valuables at gunpoint from the house of an Afghan refugee at the Urmar Colony near...
Rs30m ADP for Lakki Marwat presented LAKKI MARWAT, Nov 23: The Zila Nazim of Lakki Marwat, Humayun Saifullah Khan, has said that the ground-breaking ceremony of the Kurram Tangi dam will be held on March 23....		Software show opens TOPI, Nov 23: A two-day software exhibition opened at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute here on Friday. Universities and institutions from across the country are participating in the event....
Deadly malaria on the rise in south Punjab MULTAN, Nov 23: Cases of deadly malaria form falciperum are reportedly on the rise in several parts of the south Punjab due to sheer neglect by the Health department’s malaria control...		Farmers reject Rs300 wheat support price TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 23: Farmers have rejected the recently announced Rs300 per 40 kilograms support price for wheat for next season....
Deepalpur Nazim injured by rivals OKARA, Nov 23: Union council Rohela Tajeka, Deepalpur, Nazim was shot at and injured by his opponents on Friday....		Uplift funds likely to lapse due to rules BAHAWALPUR, Nov 23: A major portion of the development funds for the district councils is feared to lapse owing to rules and regulations....
Two fall prey to rivalry SARGODHA, Nov 23: Two persons were shot dead while as many sustained injuries when their rivals targeted them in front of a civil judge’s court in Bhalwal on Thursday....		Pasrur to be made a model town SIALKOT, Nov 23: The Pasrur tehsil municipal administration has planned to shift the fruit and vegetables market to its outskirts by December end to ease the rising traffic load....
Two killed over children’s feud GUJRANWALA, Nov 23: Two people were shot dead and as many sustained injuries on Friday in a clash between two rival groups over a dispute of children in Model Town, Dhulley....		Slowdown in road project irks motorists GUJRANWALA, Nov 23: A slowdown in construction of a service road and widening of the GT Road has become a permanent hazard to the motorists....
13 houses damaged in Indian firing SIALKOT, Nov 23: Thirteen more houses were ruined and two cows killed late Thursday night in firing by Indian troops on bordering Thathi Laakhi village in the Sialkot working boundary’s Sucheetgarh...		Gurdawaras renovated NANKANA SAHIB, Nov 23: The Evacuee Trust Property Board has completed renovation of seven gurdawaras which were built in the memory of Baba Guru Nanak....
Mill owners shift families to Karachi amid threats: Sinjhoro faces retaliation by gangs of dacoits SANGHAR, Nov 23: A large number of factory owners and businessmen of Sinjhoro have received ransom letters. They have got the letters by post signed by Mumtaz Khoso, the brother of...		Cane supplies to Badin sugar mills suspended BADIN, Nov 23: A large number of sugarcane growers have stopped supplies to mills located in the Badin district in protest against the government’s failure to raise its price to Rs60...
Woman shot dead over ‘Karo-kari’ LARKANA, Nov 23: A woman identified as Ms Zeenat Khatoon Lashari was killed in village Ahmed Lashari on the outskirts of Ratodero in the wee hours of Friday....		Dist Nazim appoints 173 teachers NAWABSHAH, Nov 23: A group of 173 teachers got their appointment orders after a selection processes here on Friday....
Cash, gold looted DADU, Nov 23: Five armed men barged into the house of Amb Palh in village Sathi Palh in taluka Mehar late on Wednesday night. They looted cash, gold and took away...		Growers say Punjab behind water crisis MIRPURKHAS, Nov 23: Sindh’s agriculture sector has been adversely damaged as Punjab is not sharing water shortage with it and Sindh alone is bearing the burden of the shortage and consequently...
Police get remand of four dacoits SUKKUR, Nov 23: The Sukkur police took custody of four dacoits from the central jail Sukkur for a 14-day physical remand....		124 SMC employees issued notices SUKKUR, Nov 23: The Naib Nazim, Sukkur District, Iqbal Pakwala, issued showcause notices against 124 employees of the Sukkur Municipal Corporation (SMC) whom he found absent from duty on a surprise...
One killed, nine injured in accidents NAWABSHAH, Nov 23: A man was killed and nine others seriously injured in two road accidents here on Friday....		Five held in murder case SANGHAR, Nov 23: The Tando Adam police arrested five people the other day in the murder case of trader Irshad Ali Nirban, whose body was found buried in a field....