December 12, 2001	Wednesday	Ramazan 26, 1422

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176 Afghan IDPs die of huger in a month ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: The World Food Programme on Tuesday confirmed the death of 176 persons, mostly children, in an IDP camp near Kunduz due to non-delivery of food assistance for over...		Britain urged to help resolve Kashmir issue MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 11: AJK President Mohammad Anwar Khan on Tuesday called upon the European countries, particularly Britain, to play an active role in resolving the Kashmir issue in accordance with the...
CJ adjourns hearing in suo motu case ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: Chief Justice Irshad Hasan Khan on Tuesday adjourned hearing of a suo motu case which was fixed for Jan 3, three days before his retirement....		Freedom of Information Ord’s promulgation urged KARACHI, Dec 11: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society has strongly protested the exclusion of Freedom of Information Ordinance from the package of press laws being promulgated by the federal government....
Brahimi to meet president today ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: The special representative of the UN secretary general for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, is scheduled to meet President Musharraf here on Wednesday....		Federal minister resigns ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: Federal minister for labour, manpower and overseas Pakistanis, Omar Asghar Khan, resigned from the federal cabinet on Tuesday amidst reports that he was planing to launch a new...
Musharraf to visit Dhaka DHAKA, Dec 11: President Pervez Musharraf will make a one-hour stopover in Dhaka on Dec 24 on his way home from a trip to China, Shah Zaman Khan, from the Pakistan...		Jordan’s king expresses solidarity with Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: King Abdullah bin El Hussein has expressed his and Jordan’s solidarity with, and support for, Pakistan’s decision to join the international coalition against terrorism....
Fighters crossing in to be arrested ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: The government has asked the NWFP and Balochistan authorities to arrest all Pakistanis and foreigners, entering into Pakistan from Afghanistan and hand them over a Joint Interrogation Team...		APNS slams burning of newspapers offices KARACHI, Dec 11: Kazi Asad Abid, the APNS secretary-general, has condemned the mysterious burning of the offices of daily Balochistan Times and daily Zamana, situated on I.I. Chundrigar Road here, and...
Improvement in family health service proposed ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: The Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy, prepared by the finance division and the Planning Commission, suggests that women’s fertility rate in the country, especially in rural areas, should be...		PoWs massacre: probe urged MINGORA, Dec 11: The Awami National Party has demanded of the international community to constitute a war tribunal to probe into the Qila-i-Jangi carnage....
Extension of environment laws to N. Areas sought GILGIT, Dec 11: Northern Areas cabinet advisor Amran Nadeem on Saturday called for launching a struggle against pollution, which, he said, was a major threat to human life....		Hospital lacks staff, equipment MANSEHRA, Dec 11: Due to the shortage of specialist doctors and paramedics in the ENT and dental sections of the District Headquarter Hospital, Mansehra, patients are not getting proper attention and...
Bid to shift machinery foiled SWABI, Dec 11: Union council Nazims and councillors said on Monday that they had foiled an attempt to shift machinery from the Gadoon Amazai Industrial Estate (GAIE)....		Two killed MANSEHRA, Dec 11: Two people were killed in different incidents here during the last 24 hours....
Three-marla scheme lying uninhabited since 1998 FAISALABAD, Dec 11: A housing scheme for low-income people in Chak 238-RB has been lying uninhabited since 1998 for want of ‘external electrification’....		Call to employ directed research FAISALABAD, Dec 11: Scientists in the agriculture university should evolve a research-oriented system with practical utility....
Eminabad PS staff dismissed GUJRANWALA, Dec 11: The staff of Eminabad police station, Gujranwala, has been dismissed for breach of duty on the directions of Punjab governor Lt-Gen Khalid Maqbool (retired)....		‘Fair share’ of uplift funds sought GUJRANWALA, Dec 11: An opposition group in the tehsil council criticized the district Nazim’s group on Tuesday, alleging unfair distribution of development and welfare funds....
Row over market arrears lingers on TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 11: Gojra Market Committee has warned the management of Chaudhry Sugar Mills (owned by Nawaz Sharif family) that it will recover 11 times of the actual amount...		‘Cops plot prisoners’ escape’ CHINIOT, Dec 11: Involvement of police in prisoners escapade from a lock-up had been confirmed....
4 defaulters freed from lockup SARGODHA, Dec 11: Four defaulters confined in the tehsil lockup were got released by some armed men here on Tuesday....		Franchised bus service inaugurated in Multan MULTAN, Dec 11: District Nazim Shah Mahmood Qureshi inaugurated a franchised bus service here on Tuesday....
Thieves take away Wapda wire BAHAWALPUR, Dec 11: Thieves on Tuesday cut away an electricity wire worth hundreds of thousands of rupees in the Musafirkhana area, some 15km from here....		Bank staff deprived of Rs2.6m SHEIKHUPURA, Dec 11: Four dacoits looted Rs2.6 million and a car from the staff of a private bank near Khorian on the GT Road, about 40km away from here, on Tuesday....
Cane crisis persists OKARA, Dec 11: Baba Farid sugar mills and Abdullah mills had started cane crushing after a delay of 45 days....		Bailiff recovers man from police custody SAHIWAL, Dec 11: A bailiff of the Lahore High Court, Multan bench, on Tuesday recovered a man from illegal custody of the Grain Market police....
Nazim wants uplift of all drought-hit areas MIRPURKHAS, Dec 11: District Nazim Pir Shafqat Hussain Shah Jilani has expressed his surprise over the government decision in which only 24 dehs of taluka Umerkot had been declared drought affected...		Canal breach destroys crops DADU, Dec 11: A 41-ft-wide breach developed in the Tatri waterway, near Usman Kalhoro village, some 13 kms from Radhan town, on Monday night owing to the apathy of irrigation department...
SCCI resents plans to increase PTCL charges SUKKUR, Dec 11: Engineer Syed Naqeeb-ul-Hussain Musavi, president, Sukkur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), Shakeel Ahmed Mukhtiar, senior vice president, SCCI, and other office bearers and members of the executive...		Nazim lauds NGOs role KHAIRPUR, Dec 11: District NGOs Coordination Council, Khairpur has done a noble job by holding Eid Bachat Bazar, as low income groups will benefit by this work....
No decision to join alliance, says npp leader SHIKARPUR, Dec 11: NPP Sindh president Dr Muhammad Ibrahim Jatoi while supporting the new local government system, has said that due to some complications in devolution plan, the elected representatives were...		Four cops suspended SUKKUR, Dec 11: The ASP, City, Sukkur, Mazher Shaikh, suspended four police officials on Tuesday on the charge of extorting money from a Pesh Imam of the Thermal Power Mosque....
Three die in accidents BADIN, Dec 11: Three persons were killed and 17 injured in three separate accidents in different parts of Badin district in the last 48 hours....		Seven injured in tribal clash NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Dec 11: Seven persons were injured in a clash between two groups of Zardaris in village Aachar Zardari near Moro over some matrimonial dispute the other day....