November 28, 2001	Wednesday	Ramazan 12, 1422

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Increase in wheat support price urged MULTAN, Nov 27: The government’s decision to retain the procurement price of wheat at Rs300 per 40 kg will have an adverse affect on production....		Farmers’ call to resolve water crisis on priority VEHARI, Nov 27: Expressing concern over the acute water shortage in the district, farmers have demanded that the crisis should be resolved on priority basis....
Gujrat district jail overcrowded GUJRAT, Nov 27: The district jail, constructed for 377 prisoners, at present houses some 1,087 inmates....		DCOs empowered to grant arms licences GUJRANWALA, Nov 27: The Punjab government has given executive powers of granting and transferring arms licences to all district coordination officers....
Polio vaccine reaches less than 50pc children JHANG, Nov 27: Less than 50 per cent of the targeted children in the district received polio drops during the recent campaign, it has been learnt....		Man survives 10 hours under mud SAHIWAL, Nov 27: One of the three people survived even after staying under earthen mound for at least 10 hours here on Monday....
Ex-SHO, two constables awarded life terms OKARA, Nov 27: Additional district and sessions judge Rana Abdul Hafeez on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to Satgrah police station former SHO and two constables....		Life term for two brothers SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 27: Additional district and sessions judge Syed Shahbaz Hassan on Tuesday awarded life term and a fine of Rs20,000 each to two brothers in a murder case....
Electric wire taken away KASUR, Nov 27: Robbers on Tuesday took away cash, gold ornaments and electricity wires worth hundreds of thousands of rupees in different parts of the district....		Youth stabs sister-in-law to death TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 27: A woman was killed by her brother-in-law on resisting a rape bid in Faiz Colony on Tuesday....
Rs50m grant for women health project MULTAN, Nov 27: Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allocated Rs50 million for the women health project in the district....		Police can’t levy tax: LHC MULTAN, Nov 27: Justice M A Shahid Saddiqui of the Multan bench of the Lahore High Court has observed that the police is not competent to charge any tax except those...
Three of a family killed RAJANPUR, Nov 27: Three members of a family, including a woman, were killed while the fourth one was injured by five gunmen in a village near Fazilpur railway station on Monday...		UN staff leave Mazar for security reasons ISLAMABAD, Nov 27: The United Nations security officer and staff of an international NGO have left Mazar-i-Sharif following insecurity, lawlessness and violence, UN officials said at a news conference here on...
‘Operation to continue till Taliban ousted’ ISLAMABAD, Nov 27: The United States has dropped 500 marines south of Kandahar and 500 more are likely to be deployed within a day or two, a spokesman for coalition forces...		Bid to cover up hate crimes in US condemned NEW YORK, Nov 27: Pakistani-Americans in the United States have condemned the statement of an eight-member delegation of the Overseas Pakistani Foundation led by Saghir Tahir saying Pakistanis are not discriminated...
Relief for repayment of agriculture loans promised ISLAMABAD, Nov 27: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday said that the government would prepare a relief package for the repayment of agriculture loans in the drought-hit areas of Balochistan....		Musharraf’s visit being finalized: Chinese FO BEIJING, Nov 27: A spokeswoman of Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhang Qiyue on Tuesday said that the two sides are holding consultations through diplomatic channels to finalize the details of President Pervez...
Iranian FM due today ISLAMABAD, Nov 27: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Khirazi will be arriving here on Wednesday, to discuss the support of both the countries for the formation of a representative government in Afghanistan,...		Security enhanced to block Osama’s entry ISLAMABAD, Nov 27: Pakis-tan stepped up border security to prevent Osama bin Laden from slipping across the border from Afghanistan to evade a US manhunt, a senior government official said on...
UN identifies 10 plans for rebuilding Afghanistan ISLAMABAD, Nov 27: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has identified 10 key programmes for reconstruction of Afghanistan over a period of three years estimated to cost $245 million, Dawn learnt...		Housing project for poor lies abandoned HARIPUR, Nov 27: The seven-marla housing scheme launched by former prime minister Mohammad Khan Junejo to provide shelter to the low-income and the poor lies abandoned since 1988....
300 TNSM men taken prisoner PESHAWAR, Nov 27: Some 300 volunteer fighters belonging to Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammed (TNSM) have been taken as prisoners by the Northern Alliance’s commander at Jalalabad, TNSM spokesman Maulana Qiyamuddin told Dawn on Tuesday....		Litigation mars tourist resort development MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 27: Some people, backed by some political leaders, have been creating hurdles for the last two years in the development of a tourist resort on the outskirts of the...
‘2,000 Afghans arriving everyday’ PESHAWAR, Nov 27: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said that, for the sake of a lasting peace in the region, the international community must have to work together for...		Students demand college reopening LAKKI MARWAT, Nov 27: The students of FA, FSs and BA, BSc have demanded earlier reopening of the Government Degree College, Lakki Marwat....
Arms seized in Dera Ismail Khan DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Nov 27: A police party, led by Karim Khan, SHO, Kiri Khaisore, seized two Kalashnikov rifles with three magazines, 110 rounds of other guns and 45 rounds of...		UN seeks $662m for Afghanistan ISLAMABAD, Nov 27: The United Nations has revised upward its emergency donor appeal from $584 million to $662 million to incorporate gross food requirements....
Settlement of issue with Wapda ordered ABBOTTABAD, Nov 27: District Nazim Col (retd) Mustafa Jadoon has asked the municipal authorities to conduct a survey of Kunj Jadeed and Qadeem for setting up a drain....		People urged to report about Al-Qaeda members KOHAT, Nov 27: The intelligence agencies and the tribal administrations have warned the tribal elders and influential Afghans living in refugee camps of stern action if anybody was found providing shelter...
‘Jihadi groups exploiting public’ DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Nov 27: Donations and relief goods in the name of Taliban are being collected and embezzled regularly, reliable sources said....		Drugs seized KOHAT, Nov 27: Police here foiled an attempt to smuggle charas and opium into Punjab and arrested one person who was travelling in a coaster, bound for Mianwali, on Monday....
Dacoits loot house NOWSHERA, Nov 27: Three unidentified dacoits took away cash and valuables from a house in the armoured colony here on Tuesday morning....		50,000 acres of forest land to be leased out SUKKUR, Nov 27: The Government of Sindh has decided to lease out the kutcha land of forest department to the people to increase the government revenue, informed sources told Dawn here...
Inquiry into Health Dept funds’ fraud begins THATTA, Nov 27: Agencies in Thatta have initiated an inquiry regarding gross misappropriation in the accounts of the district executive office (Health) as a result of which the national exchequer has...		Unhygienic water supply decried DADU, Nov 27: The residents of Sita Road town are consuming unhygienic water for drinking, said the Nazim, union council Sita road town, Ali M. Soomro, while talking to newsmen on...
Moot on historical sites tomorrow LARKANA, Nov 27: The National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) and the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Sindh, would hold a joint meeting on Thursday in Islamabad to finalize the plan of decentralization...		Teachers boycott classes in protest against arrests LARKANA, Nov 27: High school and primary school teachers on the call of the Sindh Employees Association (SEA) boycotted their classes throughout the district on Tuesday protesting against the arrest and...
Tension mounts over kidnapping of Pesh Imam SUKKUR, Nov 27: Tension was mounting along the border with Balochistan in the jurisdiction of Malgozar police station as armed Jakhranis and Bugtis have taken position against each other where a...		Two men kidnapped near Sanghar SANGHAR, Nov 27: Two men were kidnapped from a wagon by a gang of dacoits near Allah Bux Malkani village on late Monday night....
PMCH psychology ward abolished NAWABSHAH, Nov 27: Patients from here, Dadu, Naushahro Feroze, Sanghar, Khairpur, Sukkur and other nearby areas are facing difficulties due to abolition of psychology ward at Peoples Medical College Hospital Nawabshah....		Muttahida team to pay homage to Sachal KHAIRPUR, Nov 27: A representative delegation of MQM led by Aftab Shaikh will pay a visit at the shrine of sufi poet Hazrat Sachal Sarmast during his one 180th annual Urs...