January 5, 2002	Saturday	Shawwal 20, 1422

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Preparation of electoral rolls hits students SWABI, Jan 4: The assignment of the Education Department staff, including teachers, to help Election Commission of Pakistan prepare electoral rolls for the October General Election, has badly affected school students...		NGO reunites 622 missing kids with families in 2001 LARKANA, Jan 4: Of the 622 children who went missing in Larkana District during 2001, 611 were reunited with their families while only 11 remain missing....
Police disperse JI rally demanding Qazi’s release NOWSHERA, Jan 4: Police used batons to break up a demonstration by the Jamaat-i-Islami against the continued detention of Qazi Hussain Ahmad and other religious leaders....		Water shortage hits wheat sowing MIRPURKHAS, Jan 4: In the wake of acute water shortage in Nara Canal, most of the growers of Mirpurkhas district have failed to sow wheat as they were also deprived of...
Information centres to be established in districts PESHAWAR, Jan 4: In order to ensure transparency in its official proceedings the NWFP government plans to establish district information centres throughout the province....		EC starts verification of voters’ lists HYDERABAD, Jan 4: The joint provincial election commissioner, Sindh, Ahmed Ali Halepoto held a meeting with the deputy election commissioner, Hyderabad, Sono Khan Baloch, and the assistant election commissioner, Hyderabad, Waseem...
Rs60 million allocated for e-govt plan PESHAWAR, Jan 4: The federal government has allocated Rs60 million for the establishment of e-government. Separate funds will be provided to the district governments. In addition Rs35 million will be provided...		120 outlaws held in Swat MINGORA, Jan 4: The Swat Police have arrested 120 proclaimed offenders and recovered arms, ammunitions and contraband items from their possession....
IT varsity to be set up: governor MARDAN, Jan 4: The NWFP governor, Lt-Gen (retd) Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah, has said that the district government system represented the true spirit of democracy which delegated powers to the peoples’...		Sindh jawans leave for LoC HYDERABAD, Jan 4: A batch of around 200 newly trained army jawans of Sindh Regimental Centre (SRC), Hyderabad, was sent to Line of Control and Sialkot sector from here on Friday...
NWP not to join QJP, says leader SANGHAR, Jan 4: Air Marshal (retd) Asghar Khan and Umer Asghar Khan have not stood by the decisions, which were taken on Dec 27 at 17 Lawrence Road Lahore, which is...		30 religious activists arrested DADU, Jan 4: The district police, Dadu, conducted raids and arrested 30 activists belonging to the Lashkar-i-Taiba, the Sipah-i-Sahaba, and the Tehrik-i-Jafria on Thursday night....
Shifting of bus terminal demanded HYDERABAD, Jan 4: Anjuman Pathan Colony, Hyderabad, has demanded of the authorities to immediately remove the illegal bus terminal from the colony as it was a source of permanent nuisance for...		Boy kills uncle, injures sister DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Jan 4: A young boy killed his uncle leaving his sister injured in Mohalla Khakwani as a result of a domestic clash....
Kala Dhaka elders advised to join settled areas MANSEHRA, Jan 4: District Nazim Mansehra, Azam Khan Swati, has assured the tribal elders that a Kala Dhaka uplift programme would be launched if the people of the area agreed to...		Police claim killing robber in encounter MULTAN, Jan 4: An alleged dacoit was killed in an ‘encounter’ on Friday morning, Multan police claimed....
Arrested activists released FAISALABAD, Jan 4: All the arrested activists of religious parties were reportedly released by the police after the directions received from the provincial Home Department....		Rs7.6m recovered from the corrupt MULTAN, Jan 4: The Anti-Corruption Establishment claim to have arrested 71 corrupt officials of different departments and recovered Rs7.6 million from their possession during the last month....
12 fugitives still at large MULTAN, Jan 4: Leiah and Muzaffargarh police teams have yet to apprehend the 12 prisoners who escaped from their custody on Thursday night while being taken to Leiah for hearing of...		People decry change in train timings TOBA TEK SINGH, Jan 4: Scores of people have protested over the change in local arrival time of 5 up Tezrau Express which runs between Karachi and Rawalpindi....
Employees stage rally against GDA, Wasa GUJRANWALA, Jan 4: Employees of the GDA and Wasa on Friday took out a rally against the management and observed a pen-down strike for not paying salaries according to new scales....		17 sent on judicial remand LAHORE, Jan 4: An anti-terrorism court on Friday sent 17 activists of militant groups on judicial remand....
Printing Machine installed at BZU MULTAN, Jan 4: The Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) has got a printing machine installed in the institution to save resources to the tune of Rs4 million per annum....		ECC meets today to weigh consequences: India’s threat to abrogate water treaty ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The federal government will weigh on Saturday (today) the consequences in case India abrogates the Indus Basin Water Treaty 1960, official sources told Dawn on Friday....
Water level falls drastically at Mangla, Tarbela ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: Water level at Tarbela and Mangla on Friday was recorded lower than during the corresponding period last year....		Kashmiri refugees yearn to return home MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 4: Free housing, electricity and medical care means little to the refugees who have fled their homes in the occupied Kashmir for Pakistan....
Electoral rolls to be issued on Aug 4 ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would issue final electoral rolls on Aug 4 for holding the general election scheduled to be held in October....		Accountability mode for judges be made more effective: CJ ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: Chief Justice Irshad Hasan Khan suggested on Friday constitutional amendments to make the accountability mechanism for the judges of superior courts more effective and functional....
NALC members briefed on Indian designs GILGIT, Jan 4: FMCC Director Brig Tariq Rasheed briefed the Northern Areas deputy chief executive, NALC speaker and members on the current geo-strategic and military situation between Pakistan and India....		Musharraf, Vajpayee dine with Saarc leaders KATHMANDU, Jan 4: President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee dined together with five other South Asian leaders on Friday at a banquet hosted by the king of...
Blair’s visit may defuse tension, hopes envoy LONDON, Jan 4: British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s visit to South Asia may defuse tension between Pakistan and India, said Pakistan’s High Commissioner to UK Abdul Kader Jaffer here on Friday....		Indian army shells AJK village MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 4: Indian troops shelled a southern district of Azad Kashmir on Friday following heavy overnight exchanges between the two nuclear neighbours, officials said....
JKLF leader flays war euphoria NEW DELHI, Jan 4: The JKLF leader Yasin Malik called on India and Pakistan on Friday to show “courage, vision and restraint” to avoid a war and resolve the Kashmir issue,...		PTA allows transmission of five TV channels ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday allowed cable television operators to transmit five channels of Star TV from Saturday (Jan 5)....
New minister to take oath today ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: Federal cabinet slot of minister for labour manpower and overseas Pakistani, fallen vacant after the resignation of Omar Asghar Khan, is likely to be filled tomorrow, Dawn reliably...		Democracy deterrent to war: Nawabzada LAHORE, Jan 4: Speakers at a seminar on Friday urged the government to forthwith start a democratic process in the country to save it from the existing internal and external challenges...
42,000 illegal water connections LAHORE, Jan 4: The Water and Sanitation Agency of Lahore Development Authority survey teams have so far detected 42,000 unauthorized water supply connections during their door-to-door survey of the provincial metropolis...		Rs70m for five Punjab districts LAHORE, Jan 4: The provincial government, with the help of UNDP, plans to spend Rs70 million on providing health care and civic amenities in five districts of the Punjab....
Troops urged to get their act together LAHORE, Jan 4: Corps Commander Lt-Gen Zarrar Azim on Friday visited the field formations deployed at various defensive operational locations and reviewed the troops’ state of preparedness to fight any eventuality,...		Plan to treat brackish water LAHORE, Jan 4: More than 70 per cent of tubewells in the province are pumping out brackish water that is reducing the crop yield and damaging the soil....
Haj flights from 17th LAHORE, Jan 4: The Haj operations at the Lahore Airport for the year will start with a PIA flight on Jan 17....		Wattoo willing to pay more LAHORE, Jan 4: Former chief minister Manzoor Wattoo, facing three references of misuse of Baitul Maal fund, on Friday expressed willingness to pay more if the court deemed it appropriate....
Train derails near Narang Lahore, Jan 4: Several passengers sustained injuries when a passenger train derailed near the Narang Mandi railway station on Friday....		Irshad asks govt to help poor students in higher studies ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The government should fulfil the needs of the poor students so that they can have equal opportunities of receiving higher education and becoming successful professionals....
Contingency plans finalized RAWALPINDI, Jan 4: The public utility departments have finalized contingency plans for the twin cities of Islamabad-Rawalpindi and and launched public motivational drive to deal with any emergency situation in the...		Benazir urges people to forge unity ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: Former prime minister and PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto empowered the people to shape their own destiny and the country’s destiny....
Verdict in Sehwani case today RAWALPINDI, Jan 4: An accountability court is expected to announce verdict in three identical corruption references against the former Capital Development Authority (CDA) chairman, Shafi Sehwani, on January 5....		US advancing economic agenda: expert ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: Economic advancement at all costs is the sole objective of the United Sates and international organizations like the IMF and London Club, and they are implementing an agenda...
Postal dept to build hospital in Pindi ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The postal department will build a hospital in Rawalpindi to facilitate its employees, the director- general, Pakistan Post Office, Maj-Gen Masood Hasan, said....		Oldest bear dies at zoo LAHORE, Jan 4: The oldest bear at the Lahore Zoo, Jaggoo, died on Thursday after a brief illness....