December 25, 2001	Tuesday	Shawwal 9, 1422

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242kg heroin seized QUETTA, Dec 24: The Frontier Corps has seized 242kg of fine quality heroin from Azad Landi area close to Pakistan-Afghan border, some 400km southwest of here on Monday....		UNHCR to shift relief goods to Afghanistan PESHAWAR, Dec 24: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has planned to shift relief items from Peshawar and Quetta to Afghanistan to facilitate the internally-displaced people....
Forces told to guard frontiers: minister ISLAMABAD, Dec 24: In response to massive troop build-up by India in the border areas, Pakistan has also deployed additional troops along the line of control to meet any eventuality....		Mansur to be released soon ISLAMABAD, Dec 24: Admiral (retd) Masurul Haq, under detention at Sihala police rest house, is likely to be released within a few days after payment of US$7.5 million, official sources said....
Musharraf felicitates Christians ISLAMABAD, Dec 24: President Gen Pervez Musharraf felicitated Christian community on the eve of Christmas and wished them all happiness and prosperity....		Dacoit killed in ‘encounter’ with police HYDERABAD, Dec 24: In an ‘encounter’ between police and dacoits, a dacoit was killed in a bungalow in Naseem Nagar, Phase-III, Kahkashan Society, Qasimabad, on late Monday night....
‘CE’s meetings in China successful’ BEIJING, Dec 24: ISPR Director General Rashid Qureshi has said that the Chinese leadership has eulogized President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s policies to establish peace and security in the region....		FBI team to interrogate Al Qaeda prisoners KOHAT, Dec 24: A strong contingent of armymen, led by Brig Haroon, head of the Special Services Group (SSG), NWFP chief of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), accompanied by Col Tariq and four...
US defence official visits GHQ RAWALPINDI, Dec 24: Les Brownlee, Under-Secretary of United States Army, called on Vice Chief of Army Staff, Gen Mohammad Yousaf Khan at General Headquarters here this morning....		Mills start buying cane at higher rates BADIN, Dec 24: At least three sugar mills out of six in Badin District have started purchasing sugarcane at higher rates ignoring the purchase price fixed by the Pakistan Sugar Mills...
Rally held against Nazim for labelling girl Kari SUKKUR, Dec 24: The activists of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) took out a protest rally against Nazim UC Jarwar who is allegedly involved in a murder attempt on a girl,...		Digging of wells in Thar villages demanded MITHI, Dec 24: The district council, Tharparkar, passed 39 resolutions at the motions moved by its members in the council’s third day’s sessions held on Monday....
Protesters block road, railway track LARKANA, Dec 24: Around 100 villagers protesting over the kidnapping of their two neighbours blocked Larkana-Naudero road near village Metla on Monday....		Bandits kill villager DADU, Dec 24: Two armed bandits barged into the house of Imam Bux Lund in Dholan Lund village, near Bhan Saeedabad town, here on Sunday night....
Nine houses gutted KHAIRPUR, Dec 24: Nine houses were reduced to ashes by fire in two separate incidents in two villages of taluka Nara on Sunday night....		Dist council to award scholarships DADU, Dec 24: The District Council of Dadu has allocated Rs500,000 to award scholarship to the poor and deserving students of the district....
Leghari meets Wali Khan CHARSADDA, Dec 24: Chief of Millat Party Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari called on Khan Abdul Wali Khan at Wali Bagh here on Monday, ANP sources said....		Two houses looted HARIPUR, Dec 24: Bandits looted cash and valuables from the houses of two brothers in Khalabat Township here the other day....
People urged to follow Quaid’s principles PESHAWAR, Dec 24: The NWFP governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said that the Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was a multi-dimensional personality and it was his charismatic qualities which gathered the...		Afghan govt frees 33 Pakistanis PESHAWAR, Dec 24: On the intervention of Regional Peace and Friendship Committee, the Afghan government has released 33 Pakistani volunteers arrested in Afghanistan....
Many Al-Qaeda men in tribal areas PESHAWAR, Dec 24: A large number of Al-Qaeda fighters, including some top lieutenants of Osama bin Laden, have crossed into Pakistani tribal areas after the US started airstrikes on the caves...		Over 36 transporters booked for overcharging LAKKI MARWAT, Dec 24: The police have booked more than three dozen vehicles for over-loading and over-charging from the passengers....
Inquiry into misuse of funds demanded KOHAT, Dec 24: A session of the district council, Kohat, held with deputy district Nazim, Haji Sardar, in the chair, on Monday, demanded a probe into the spending of a huge...		PR okays nine projects LAHORE, Dec 24: Nine more projects involving commercialization of Pakistan Railway’s assets have been finalized for approval by the Railway Board....
‘People not so tense as claimed by Indian govt’ LAHORE, Dec 24: Pakistani citizens who returned from India on Monday aboard Samjhota Express said tension in India was not as severe as statements issued by the Indian government suggested....		Toba council to make 29 ghost schools operative FAISALABAD, Dec 24: The Toba Tek Singh district council has decided to make operative ghost educational institutions without burdening the national exchequer....
Devolution hinders purchase of medicines MULTAN, Dec 24: The state-run health facilities in the Punjab have been facing acute shortage of emergency medicines, consumables and other items because no ‘meaningful’ purchases can be made after the...		Rare collection of books on Quaid LAHORE, Dec 24: Federal information and media development secretary Syed Anwar Mahmud opened an exhibition of books on the Quaid-i-Azam and the Pakistan movement at the Evan-i-Karkunan-i-Tehrik-i-Pakistan here on Monday. The...
Five arrested for running illicit cane purchase centres TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 24: The Gojra police arrested five people on Monday who had unlawfully set up centres to purchase sugarcane from the cultivators....		Unhygienic foodstuff in every corner FAISALABAD, Dec 24: Unhygienic and adulterated foodstuffs are being sold by vendors and hotel owners alike allegedly with the connivance of food inspectors of the Tehsil Municipal Administration....