December 23, 2001	Sunday	Shawwal 7, 1422

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Tarbela Dam level drops to 1,390ft HARIPUR, Dec 22: Following a long, countrywide dry spell the water level in Tarbela Dam, a major source of hydel power in the country, has decreased to 1,390ft....		Asif blasts role of establishment ATTOCK KHURD, Dec 22: PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari has underlined the need for checking the foreign interference in Kashmir, which he said had become a flashpoint today....
Three HIV cases detected in Kohat KOHAT, Dec 22: Three people have been tested HIV positive for the first time in Kohat during the free HIV and hepatitis test campaign recently launched in the Liaquat Memorial Hospital,...		Fazl under house arrest DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Dec 22: Chief of Jamiat Ulema Islam, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, has been put under house arrest for one month....
Two killed in Haripur HARIPUR, Dec 22: An elderly woman and a tractor driver were killed in separate incidents here on Friday....		Proposal to fix professional tax being considered LAHORE, Dec 22: The Punjab government is considering a proposal to freeze the professional tax being levied from the industries and the professionals at the existing levels to minimize the role...
Shah Mahmood to deliver lecture at NDC MULTAN, Dec 22: District Nazim Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi has been invited to deliver a lecture at the National Defence College, Islamabad, on Dec 24 (Monday)....		Transporters refuse to cut fares VEHARI, Dec 22: Transporters humiliate commuters when they protest against charging old fares despite reduction in petroleum prices....
Dacoits kill youth SIALKOT, Dec 22: A youth was shot dead while his uncle was injured seriously by five dacoits in Dhaamiyaan village of Daska tehsil late on Friday night....		12 injured in wagon-tanker collision MIANWALI, Dec 22: Twelve persons sustained injuries, six of them critical, on Saturday in an accident on the Mianwali-Bannu Road near Paikhel railway station....
Boy crushed to death OKARA, Dec 22: A ninth class student was crushed to death on Saturday by a speeding tractor on the Kutchery Road....		Wasa sub-offices in each union council MULTAN, Dec 22: The Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) on Saturday set up its sub-offices in each union council for prompt redressal of sewerage problems and recovery of bills from consumers....
Fleeing robber stabs constable LAHORE, Dec 22: Robbers stabbed and injured a policeman and took away cars and motorcycles in different parts of the city on Saturday....		Two bandits arrested DADU, Dec 22: Two dacoits were arrested by Dadu police in a raid in the Eidgah area here on Saturday....
Five killed in different incidents SUKKAR Dec, 22: Five persons, including two women were killed in Thul, Garhi Khairo, Gambat and Pano Aqil areas on Saturday....		AI welcomes remission SHIKARPUR, Dec 22: The general secretary, Amnesty International, Pakistan, Iqbal Detho, welcomed the remission in capital punishment and commutation in life imprisonment of the prisoners particularly for more than a...
Privatization of educational institutions opposed MITHI, Dec 22: People from different walks of life have expressed grave concern over the proposal of privatizing all educational institutions....		Larkana board results LARKANA, Dec 22: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Larkana, announced the results of the Secondary School Certificate, Part-II, supplementary examinations, Science and General Groups, here on Saturday....
Students enhance cement’s strength HYDERABAD, Dec 22: The Chemical Engineering Department of the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, has enhanced the strength of cement....		ATC results announced HYDERABAD, Dec 22: The Controller of Examinations, Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hyderabad, here on Saturday announced the result of ATC course examination 1999-2000 held by the Board in the...
AJK officials asked to prepare plan to counter aggression MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 22: The AJK prime minister on Saturday asked the senior government officials to chalk out a strategy to meet any eventuality in case India resorted to aggression in the...		Muslim racial profiling at US airports reduced WASHINGTON, Dec 22: US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta has said that incidents of profiling people of Arab and Muslim descent at US airports have greatly decreased thanks to a recently passed...
UK police searching cargo ship minutely LONDON, Dec 22: The search in a cargo ship off the British coast suspected of carrying terrorist material is continuing “inch-by-inch” and could take up to three days to complete, security...		US legislator urges India to adopt sane attitude ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: Holding Indian obduracy responsible for the current crisis, a US congressman has advised India to give up its attempts to hoodwink the world and adopt a reasonable and...
Lashkar, UTN accounts may be freezed ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: The government has decided to freeze the accounts of Pakistan-based organizations placed on the terrorist list by the Bush Administration, official sources said....		Local govts to bring radical changes: Omar ISLAMABAD Dec 22: Omar Asghar Khan, the outgoing federal minister for local government, rural development, labour, manpower, overseas Pakistanis and environment, said on Saturday that he had worked for the betterment...
Musharraf felicitates Karzai ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has extended warm felicitations to Hamid Karzai, chairman of the interim administration of Afghanistan, on assuming his duties....		Tribal leaders to help army in arresting Al-Qaeda men KOHAT, Dec 22: The tribal elders and ulema belonging to Sadda tehsil of Kurram Agency, a border area 190km west of here, have agreed to help the army in arresting the...
CE urges Chinese Muslims to be patriotic XIAN, Dec 22: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Saturday urged Chinese Muslims to be “very patriotic” and work for the betterment of their country....		New Delhi decision to call back HC deplored ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: Secretary, Ministry of Information and Media Development, Syed Anwar Mehmood while deploring Indian decision to call back its high commissioner from Pakistan has said that we believe in...
Indian attack can’t be ruled out: PAF ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: All Pakistan Air Force bases have been put on high alert, according to Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (Personnel) Air Marshal Syed Qaiser Hussain....		Resignation accepted ISLAMABAD, Dec 22: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has accepted the resignation of Omar Asghar Khan, the minister for labour, manpower, overseas Pakistanis, environment, local government and rural development, with effect from...