December 3, 2001	Monday	Ramazan 17, 1422

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Swat district govt decision rejected: Tax on non-customs-paid vehicles MINGORA, Dec 2: The district government of Swat has decided to levy taxes on non-custom vehicles, but the provincial government is not ready to approve it on the pretext that the...		No attempt to compromise with Fazl: Nazim DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Dec 2: The district Nazim D.I.Khan, Maj Latifullah Khan, has said that no one is above the law and irrespective of his status, everyone has to obey the...
Councillor among five shot dead SWABI, Dec 2: Five people, including the councillor of the Tandi Khoi union council, were gunned down and one other was wounded in a feud over a woman near the Punjpir...		Bypass road demanded DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Dec 2: The Chamber of Agriculture, Dera Ismail Khan, has urged the local administration to direct the management of Chashma sugar mills to start its crushing season....
Body formed to press Alliance to release POWs MINGORA, Dec 2: The people of the Malakand Division have formed an alliance, Muslims and Pakhtoon Bachao Tehrik (movement for the protection of the Muslims and the Pakhtoons), which has threatened...		Women councillors want powers defined NOWSHERA, Dec 2: The women councillors of Nowshera district will boycott the council sessions if their rights, powers and benefits are not defined in the Local Government Ordinance 2001....
Citizen action body formed BUNER, Dec 2: A Citizen Action Committee has been formed for Buner district, comprising 25 individuals including 10 women members....		College teachers’ salaries looted ABBOTTABAD, Dec 2: Robbers looted Rs4,60,000 from the accountant of Pakistan International Public School & College, Abbottabad, at gun point on Saturday....
Chinese engineers to resume work soon GILGIT, Dec 2: The Northern Areas Legislative Council (NALC) meeting reviewed the progress on a number of ongoing water, power, and road projects in the areas. Fida Muhammad Nashad, Deputy Executive,...		Power supply to Lasbela by Wapda under study HUB, Dec 2: Lasbela district is likely to be provided electricity through the Water and Power Development Authority instead of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation soon, it is reliably learnt....
Disabled to get facilities: Musharraf ISLAMABAD, Dec 2: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that the government would work with a commitment for the rehabilitation of disabled persons, especially to provide them health, education and employment...		Reduction in IT fees demanded GILGIT, Dec 2: Imamia Students’ Organization (ISO) has called upon the government to reduce the fees at the four information technology centres established in Northern Areas....
Data on volunteers being collected GILGIT, Dec 2: Government has asked the national security agencies to keep an eye on the volunteers who have returned from Afghanistan, reliable sources said....		Prevention of Aids discussed ABBOTTABAD, Dec 2: Islamic teachings to be followed to get rid of AIDS in practical life....
Relief goods handed over QUETTA, Dec 2: South Korea has donated $500,000 relief goods for the Afghan refugees in Balochistan....		‘In diversity lies our unity’ LAHORE, Dec 2: Pakistan is the product of federalism and democracy and its concept is not that of an ideological utopia, says former Sindh governor Barrister Kamal Azfar....
Doctors get promotions by tampering with ACRs MULTAN, Dec 2: A number of doctors have succeeded in securing promotions into next grades by tampering with their adverse annual confidential reports (ACRs), allegedly with the help of some Punjab...		Ransacking: 20 PSF activists booked OKARA, Dec 2: At least 20 PSF activists were booked on the charge of ransacking the office of the Islami Jamiat Talaba....
Dacoits take away valuables worth Rs1m SIALKOT, Dec 2: Dacoits on Saturday night took away cash, gold ornaments and other valuables worth Rs1 million in two strikes in Pasrur tehsil....		Rs3.3m embezzled in Irrigation dept SHEIKHUPURA, Dec 2: An amount of Rs3.3 million has allegedly been embezzled in the local Irrigation department (Upper Gogera Branch), it was learnt here on Sunday....
One killed, five injured as wagon overturns VEHARI, Dec 2: One person was killed and five others sustained serious injuries late Saturday night in a road accident on the Vehari-Multan Road, some 15 kilometre from here....		Lashkar chief calls for Jihad SIALKOT, Dec 2: The prolonged US-led military attacks on Afghanistan have brought Pakistan on the verge of disaster due to its hasty foreign policies....
Security tightened ahead of Eid GUJRANWALA, Dec 2: Heavy police contingents and Elite Force have been deployed in a stepped up security measure at almost all trade centres, bazaars, markets and important places in and around...		Two held with 70kg hashish KASUR, Dec 2: Phool Nagar police on Sunday claim to have arrested two drug-traffickers and recovered 70 kg hashish and 47 kg opium from their possession near Pul Parnawan....
Murder case filed against two DSPs, three SHOs MIRPURKHAS, Dec 2: On the directives of Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, Sarhari police have lodged a double murder case on Saturday night on the complaint of Ghulam Mustafa Khoso...		65 missing children rejoin families LARKANA, Dec 2: The Khidmat Masoom Welfare Centre, Larkana, delivered 65 missing children to their parents in the month of November while three still remain untraced....
Two cotton dealers kidnapped NAWABSHAH, Dec 2: Two phutti (cotton) dealers were kidnapped by four unidentified armed men near Sim Nullah, Jam Sahib, here on Sunday....		Sujawal incident: AIG ‘protects’ policemen THATTA, Dec 2: The AIG Police, Ghulam Sarwar Jamali, who had been assigned to inquire into the recent incident in Sujawal Town in which a suspect Khuda Bux Chang was forced...
100-year-old woman stoned for ‘eating’ baby DADU, Dec 2: Several villagers critically injured a 100-year-old woman while stoning her and beating her with clubs and sticks in Shahpat village, Sehwan Sharif Taluka, on the wee hours of...		Eight injured in clashes NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Dec 2: Eight people were injured in two seperate clashes in different parts of Naushahro Feroze district on Sunday....
PMC girls reject council decision NAWABSHAH, Dec 2: The academic council of People’s Medical College (PMC) met here on Saturday and rejected students demand for re-examination and justified MBBS final year results in which 91 students...		Dacoit killed, 3 held in ‘encounter’ KHAIRPUR, Nov 2: A notorious dacoit was killed while three others were arrested in an encounter with police near village Melani of taluka Gambat on Sunday....
Zakat distribution SHIKARPUR, Dec 2: The secretary, Auqaf, Religious Affairs, Minorities, Zakat and Ushr, Government of Sindh, visited the office of the district Zakat and Ushr committee Shikarpur on Saturday....		Landlord shot dead over enmity SUKKUR, Dec 2: A landlord of Dadpur, Jacobabad, Abdul Karim son of Abdul Nabi Jakhrani, was gunned down while he was asleep in his drawing room on Sunday in the jurisdiction...