December 7, 2001	Friday	Ramazan 21, 1422

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UN observers visit villages affected by Indian firing SIALKOT, Dec 6: The Sialkot-based permanent UN observers on Thursday visited the villages affected by the continuous Indian shelling near the working boundary’s Chhumb, Joriyaan, Bajwat and Sucheetgarh sectors....		PTCL plea for line rent increase opposed FAISALABAD, Dec 6: The Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI), condemning the proposed enhancement in the line rent and reduction in local call duration, urged the government not to accept...
Leiah medical staff continues strike MULTAN, Dec 6: Doctors and paramedical staff of all government and private sector health facilities continued their protest throughout the Leiah district for the second day on Thursday....		Cane farmers resent govt decision TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 6: Politicians and farmers’ leaders have condemned the government decision exempting mills from purchasing sugarcane on support price of Rs45 per 40 kilograms....
Growers assured of timely payment BAHAWALPUR, Dec 6: The crushing season at Ashraf Sugar Mills began on Thursday with the assurance to growers that mills management and the district government would look after their interests....		Franchised bus service in Multan MULTAN, Dec 6: The franchised city bus service is expected to become operational in Multan before Eid....
Food official held for corruption SAHIWAL, Dec 6: Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) on Thursday arrested an assistant food controller for appropriation of wheat worth Rs1.6 million....		Schools without DEOs SADIQABAD, Dec 6: The posts of district education officers in secondary and elementary schools, Rahim Yar Khan, have been lying vacant for quite a long....
Robbers Injure industrialist GUJRANWALA, Dec 6: Robbers injured an industrialist in his house along Commissioner’s Road here on Thursday....		Rs250,000 looted JHANG, Dec 6: Two dacoits on Wednesday evening looted Rs250,000 from the office of a medicine company and injured its driver on resistance in Aamir Colony, Jhang Saddar....
Fraud in hospital GUJRANWALA, Dec 6: An embezzlement of Rs0.5 million was detected in the divisional headquarters hospital here....		Man shot dead OKARA, Dec 6: A man shot dead his brother on Thursday over a trifle issue in Chau Khokharawali village....
Govt may extend Wapda Act to AJK ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: The government is considering extension of Wapda Act 1958 to the Azad State of Jammu and Kashmir, a move that could raise complex constitutional questions, Dawn learnt through...		CJ calls for training academy for lawyers RAWALPINDI, Dec 6: The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr Justice Irshad Hasan Khan, has said that the system of administration of justice can be strengthened if Bench and Bar speak with...
Gilani not satisfied with Bonn accord ISLAMABAD Dec 6: Pir Syed Ahmed Gilani, a prominent figure in the Zahir Shah group and chief of National Islamic Front of Afghanistan, has expressed his reservations over the Bonn accord....		Sattar rules out DPs forced repatriation ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar said on Thursday the Bonn agreement would pave the way for early establishment of peace and normalcy in Afghanistan and bring the early prospects...
CE calls for ‘correct’ Projection of Islam ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday expressed the confidence that the present crisis facing the Muslim world would be over soon....		Taliban can play role in future govt, says Karzai LONDON, Dec 6: The head of the newly-appointed Afghan interim administration, Hamid Karzai, has said former Taliban figures could play a role in a future government if the Afghan people wanted...
Fire destroys LPG godown GILGIT, Dec 6: At least six shops and a huge Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) godown were gutted when fire broke out at Jamatkhana Bazaar on Thursday....		Centre accepts loan offer for reforms against provinces’ will ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: The federal government has accepted an Asian Development Bank’s loan offer of $350 million for police, judicial and administrative reforms in spite of the staunch resistance from the...
AI chief due tomorrow LONDON, Dec 6: Secretary-General Amnesty International Irene Khan is visiting Pakistan to lobby for human rights in Afghanistan and would discuss current situation with President Gen Pervez Musharraf in a meeting...		Untold misery of the Tora Bora bombing victims PESHAWAR, Dec 6: As the Afghans were singing a power-sharing agreement in Bonn, Germany, which would become effective from Dec 22, the US airstrikes continued on Nangarhar and Kandahar provinces....
Bonn accord imposed, say Afghans PESHAWAR, Dec 6: Afghans have expressed a mixed reaction over the UN-sponsored Bonn accord signed by the four Afghan groups in Germany on Tuesday....		Demilitarization main problem for new Kabul govt ISLAMABAD, Dec 6: Demilitarization and disarmament, conditions for lasting peace, are the main challenges facing the new interim administration in Afghanistan, where the centuries-old fighting tradition has been reinforced by decades...
Councillors seek monthly salary MINGORA, Dec 6: The councillors’ alliance here has strongly criticized the government for not fixing monthly salaries for them and said they too deserved to be given the same incentives recently...		Dist council members walk out of house DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Dec 6: The fourth session of district council was held on Thursday at the district council auditorium with Inayatullah Khan Miankhel in the chair....
Vegetable prices decline HARIPUR, Dec 6: A downward trend in the prices of vegetables was observed during the last couple of days in Haripur. However the rates of different fruit items have shown a...		‘Extremists responsible for killing of Pakistanis’ KOHAT, Dec 6: The governor of NWFP has held the leaders of religious extremists organizations directly responsible for the killing of Pakistanis inside Afghanistan who were misled and instigated to fight...
Surplus staff not yet absorbed MINGORA, Dec 6: The government employees coordination council, district Swat, has criticized the government for its failure to adjust the surplus employees and increase their salaries. It stated the employees would...		Man shot dead By Our Correspondent HARIPUR, Dec 6: A young boy was shot dead and his father sustained bullet injuries in firing by the rival party in village Kanikot, some 32 km from here on Thursday...
Afghan women prepare urgent demands for new govt KABUL, Dec 6: Afghanistan’s fledgling women’s movement on Thursday began drawing up a list of urgent needs to present to the new interim government, declaring the Bonn accord a “first victory”...		Professors’ absence blamed for poor PMC results NAWABSHAH, Dec 6: People’s Medical College Principal Azam Yousufani admitted on Wednesday that 91 girls of the college could not get through the MBBS final-year examination this year due to absence...
WWF, IUCN urged to save rare Thar species MITHI, Dec 6: Taking notice of indiscriminate poaching of rare species in Thar leading to their extinction, the notables and environmentalists of the desert area have appealed the WWF, the IUCN...		Shahdadpur reacts to Nazim’s arrest: Magistrate accused of vendetta SANGHAR, Dec 6: Strike was observed on Thursday at Shahdadpur against the arrest of UC Nazim Muhammad Ali Shaikh for allegedly thrashing a judicial magistrate here on Thursday....
Fraud in Shikarpur Education dept detected SHIKARPUR, Dec 6: Thousands of rupees were fraudulently drawn through bogus signatures against pay difference bills while illegally granting selection grade to about 120 primary teachers in Shikarpur sub-division during the...		Hesco men penalized for illegal connections DADU, Dec 6: Six linemen and one clerk were suspended, one lineman was terminated and show cause notices were issued against fourteen metre readers of Hesco Dadu operation division on Wednesday....
Hesco raid: highway blocked DADU, Dec 6: The councillors of Arazi union council, villagers and students of primary and high schools blocked Dadu-Sehwan section of the Indus Highway for seven hours in protest against the...		Growers protest as water rotation extended KHAIRPUR, Dec 6: The Irrigation department has increased water rotation period from seven days to fifteen days for lands fed on Khairpur east and west feeders which, according to growers, is...
Two illegally detained at CIA Centre LARKANA, Dec 6: A raiding party of the Sindh High Court, circuit bench Larkana, on Thursday found two people being kept in illegal confinement at the CIA Centre, Larkana....		Unscheduled loadshedding KHAIRPUR, Dec 6: Unscheduled loadshedding with a duration of 24 hours has been continuing during Ramazan in 80 villages of taluka Kot Diji specially in UC Naseer Faqir Jalalani and UC...