December 1, 2001	Saturday	Ramazan 15, 1422

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Sugar cane growers face relentless toil FAISALABAD, Nov 30: Inordinate delay in the commencement of sugar cane crushing season has triggered hordes of complications, including financial loss to growers and a halt to sowing of wheat crop....		Suspension of policemen sought GUJRANWALA, Nov 30: The Anti-Corruption Establishment on Friday sent a summary to the Gujranwala SSP asking him to suspend from service the two police officers who were...
All efforts to weed out terrorism: Maqbool SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 30: The government is making its all out efforts for the welfare of the masses and raising their living standard....		Shelling on Sialkot working boundary SIALKOT, Nov 30: Paddy harvesting was badly disrupted for the 15th consecutive day on Friday due to Indian firing in border villages near the Sialkot working boundary....
Schools without teachers SADIQABAD, Nov 30: Hundreds of posts, for both male and female teachers, are lying vacant in various institutions in the district....		Rally against govt’s Afghan policy FAISALABAD, Nov 30: Local religious organizations on Friday took out a rally under the umbrella of the Pak-Afghan Defence Council against the government’s Afghan policy....
Concern at police inaction TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 30: Senior District Bar Association members have voiced their concern over police inaction against a constable and his two accomplices involved in a dacoity case....		Chamber for steps to check highway robberies BAHAWALPUR, Nov 30: The Bahawalpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) and the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA), Bahawalpur circle, have demanded that strict measures should be taken to stop highway...
PTI election Campaign in January SIALKOT, Nov 30: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan has said that the party will launch an election campaign from January 2002 by holding conventions all over the country....		Car retrieved from bandits SAHIWAL, Nov 30: Bandits on Friday drove away with a district council former member’s car in Farid Town....
House looted, man injured VEHARI, Nov 30: Five unidentified dacoits on Thursday night looted a house and injured a man on resistance in Chak 188/W.B....		Research centre in Jandiala SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 30: Punjab Governor Lt-Gen Khalid Maqbool (retired) has announced to construct a research centre besides starting post graduate classes in Waris Shah Degree College, Jandiala Sher Khan....
‘Democracy for survival’ MULTAN, Nov 30: The only way to rescue the country is by removing the present undemocratic government....		Suspension of Ghazi Brotha work costing $1m daily LAHORE, Nov 30: The suspension of work at Ghazi Brotha project is costing Wapda $1 million per day and the authority is working hard to get the Italian contractor back to...
Citizenship for Afghan refugees urged ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: A nine-member delegation of International Development Committee of House of Commons (IDCHC) on Thursday asked Pakistan to give citizenship to those Afghans who had sought refuge here 20...		Rumsfeld lauds Pakistan’s role in anti-terror drive ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday that Pakistan had made significant contribution towards achieving the goals of the coalition in its fight against terrorism....
WFP’s avalanche control unit arrives ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: A three-member Avalanche Control Unit of World Food Programme arrived here on Thursday to assist the world food agency in delivering food assistance across the snow-blocked passages in...		Unicef official to visit Kabul ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: Unicef Executive Director Carol Bellamy arrived here on a five-day visit to Pakistan and Afghanistan....
UAE envoy visits DPs camp QUETTA, Nov 30: The United Arab Emirates ambassador to Pakistan, Mr Ali Muhammad Ben Hammad Al Shamsi and Corps Commander Quetta, Lt-Gen Abdul Quadir, visited the Roghani refugee camp, 10km from...		‘Kashmiris should control movement themselves’ MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 30: AJK People’s Party on Friday demanded that the military government should reconcile with former prime minister Benazir Bhutto “so that she could as usual play an active and...
SC to hear pleas against cancellation of promotions ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: A Supreme Court bench, presided over by Chief Justice Irshad Hasan Khan, on Friday decided to hear the appeals of 12 information officers who had been stripped of...		No Taliban man held in Balochistan QUETTA, Nov 30: No al-Qaeda fighter or Taliban soldier was arrested by the Balochistan Police during recent fighting in Afghanistan....
Muttahida may set up radio, TV stations ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) plans to set up a “communication network”, comprising a radio station and a satellite television channel, to re-activate the organisation and workers throughout...		Small dams planned to meet water needs ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: The ministry of water and power has planned to build small dams in order to ensure enhanced water storage capacity to meet the shortage of water, especially in...
ICAO to rebuild Afghanistan’s air transport system ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has chalked out a two-phased intervention programme to rebuild the devastated air transport infrastructure in Afghanistan....		Central committee okays ANP’s exit from ARD PESHAWAR, Nov 30: The central committee of Awami National Party, met under the chairmanship of its president, Asfandyar Wali Khan, endorsed the party’s withdrawal from the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy....
Mangah UC lacks education facility MARDAN, Nov 30: Residents of Union Council Mangah have complained that due to lack of accommodation in boys schools and absence of any high school for girls in the area, their...		Ex-senator gets five years’ RI PESHAWAR, Nov 30: An accountability court here on Thursday convicted a former senator and ex-chairman of district council Abbottabad, Javed Iqbal Abbasi, and sentenced him to five years rigorous imprisonment with...
Edward College to decide about teachers’ pay structure PESHAWAR, Nov 30: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has granted complete autonomy to the Edwards College in deciding the pay structure of teachers to be appointed under contractual arrangements....		15 hurt in accident NOWSHERA, Nov 30: The passengers of a bus that remained suspended from the Khairabad bridge here on the Indus river after being hit by another bus were rescued after almost an...
Salaries not paid to teachers MINGORA, Nov 30: Teachers of non-formal schools have been facing financial hardship as they have not been paid salaries for the last five months. They have urged the governor and the...		Facilities for prisoners pledged DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Nov 30: Tehsil Nazim, Fatehullah Khan Miankhel, visited central jail of Dera Ismail Khan on Friday morning. He was accompanied by jail officials....
Industrial units causing pollution PESHAWAR, Nov 30: Due to lack of sewage treatment plants, majority of industrial units in the Hayatabad Industrial Estate, Peshawar, are releasing effluents in excess of the level prescribed in the...		Governor pledges funds allocation: Khairpur-Larkana bridge KHAIRPUR, Nov 30: Those who create unrest and lawlessness in the name of strike will be dealt with a heavy hand as government was determined to eliminate terrorism, patharidari and lawlessness....
Five Wapda employees dismissed SUKKUR, Nov 30: Five employees of WAPDA Sukkur including four meter readers and a supervisor were dismissed from service on the charge of intentionally recording wrong reading to annoy the consumers...		Truck loaded with sugar hijacked MIRPURKHAS, Nov 30: A truck loaded with sugar bags was hijacked by some highway robbers at Kot Ghulam Muhammad-Mirwah road, in the jurisdiction of taluka police station on Thursday night. Report...
Inquiry against ex-MPA begins DADU, Nov 30: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has initiated inquiry against former MPA and PPP leader, Syed Ghulam Shah Jilani and Mukhtiarkar Johi taluka, Nizamuddin Thatiar. The higher authorities of...		Rally against Nazim baton-charged SUKKUR, Nov 30: Five persons were injured when police batoncharged a protest rally taken out by Abro Ittehad against Taluka Nazim, Mumtaz Jakhrani, in Jacobabad on Friday....
Qila-i-Jangi massacre slated SHIKARPUR, Nov 30: Iqbal Ahmed Detho, secretary general, Amnesty International Pakistan, has expressed concern and anguish over the killing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan through bombing by British and US warplanes....		Parties back PMC students demand NAWABSHAH, Nov 30: The protest of girls students against the People’s Medical College, Nawabshah, administration continued to attract public attention....