January 6, 2002	Sunday	Shawwal 21, 1422

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SSP condemns arrest of leaders, activists FAISALABAD, Jan 5: The Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan has asked the authorities concerned to suspend the police officials responsible for arresting its activists and leaders....		Proclaimed offender killed in ‘encounter’ SHEIKHUPURA, Jan 5: Ferozewala police claimed to have killed a proclaimed offender in an encounter who has allegedly killed former SHO of Muridke city police station Rana Farooq in the small...
Fog: Six die as wagon hits trolley VEHARI, Jan 5: Six people were killed and 12 others injured in two accidents on Saturday morning....		Textile mills catches fire FAISALABAD, Jan 5: Cotton bales and cloth worth millions of rupees were gutted when fire broke out in a textile unit here on Saturday....
Inquiry into Al-Qaeda men’s escape begins PESHAWAR, Jan 5: A joint inquiry team initiated probe into the circumstances which led to the escape and subsequent killing of 18 persons, including some Arab suspects and Pakistani security guards...		Hezb-i-Islami commander joins Karzai government PESHAWAR, Jan 5: A Hezb-i-Islami commander on Friday pledged his allegiance to the new interim government of chairman Hamid Karzai and called for elections within the stipulated two years time to...
NAPP flays India for exerting pressure SWABI, Jan 5: The president of National Awami Party Pakistan, Ajmal Khattak, on Saturday said that despite amassing troops on the borders with Pakistan, India will not be able to declare...		Crime rate declines in Chitral: police CHITRAL, Jan 5: The Chitral police registered 814 cases last year as against the 936 in 2000, which shows a decline in the crime rate in the district....
Two freed from Afghan jail after paying ransom MINGORA, Jan 5: Two activists of the Tehrik Nefaz Shariat- i-Mohammadi (TNSM), Malakand division, were released from a prison in the Kunar province of Afghanistan after payment of Rs300,000 ransom to...		Qazi’s family clarifies KOHAT, Jan 5: The family of Qazi Hussain Ahmed, chief of Jamaat-i-Islami, has clarified a news item appeared in the issue of Jan 2, 2002, of Dawn that Qazi Hussain was...
Three killed in road accident KHAAR, Jan 5: Three people were killed and seven wounded when a pic-kup truck fell into a deep ravine in Mena Mamoond here on Friday....		11 kidnapped in tribal row near Kashmor SUKKUR, Jan 5: Eleven persons, majority of them Bugti tribesmen, were kidnapped allegedly by armed persons of Mazari tribe on Friday night from the border area of Sindh and Punjab, some...
11 injured in clash over matrimonial dispute DADU, Jan 5: Eleven persons were injured, three seriously, in a clash between two groups of Mirani caste over a matrimonial dispute in Radhan town, some 85km away from here on...		Coastal villages face power cut THATTA, Jan 5: Some 0.3 million population belonging to coastal villages and towns, including Keti Bunder, Gharo, Kharochhan, Baghan, Johoo, Udasi, Jaloo and others, is facing crises due to closure and...
UNHCR planning incentives for DPs ISLAMABAD Jan 5: The UNHCR is planning to offer till March, incentives to those Afghan refugees who will opt to shift from urban centres to the newly-setup refugee camps near Pak-Afghan...		DHQ hospital short of doctors ABBOTTABAD, Jan 5: District headquarters hospital, Abbottabad, is on the verge of closing down due to water crisis and shortage of doctors as only  24 patients are admitted in the hospital against the capacity...
UN sends staff to Kurram Agency ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: The UNHCR has sent staff to the Kurram Agency to assess the number and condition of refugees amassing on the Afghan side of the NWFP border which according...		Two drug pushers held HUB, Jan 5: The Hub police have claimed to have arrested two drug traffickers and seized one kilogramme heroine....
World body urged to hold plebiscite : Self-determination Day observed in Kashmir MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 5: The people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir staged rallies, public meetings and demonstrations on Saturday to press the United Nations to implement its resolutions on Kashmir so that...		India wants US assurance on Jihadis, says NYT NEW YORK, Jan 5: As a condition to defuse the confrontation with Pakistan, India wants a “commitment from the United States to see to it that Pakistan follows through on cutting...
UN envoy’s appointment suggested to ease tension LONDON Jan 5: Lord Avebury has suggested appointment of a special UN envoy to help ease mounting tension between New Delhi and Islamabad....		Pakistan threatens to withdraw troops from Durrand Line ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: The concentration of forces on Pakistan’s eastern border would retard ‘our availability’ to support coalition on the western border, Minister for Kana and Safron Abbas Sarfaraz Khan said...
Editors assured of solution to issue ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: Interior Minister Lt-Gen (retd) Moinuddin Haider has assured the editors of Rawalpindi and Islamabad that he will take up the issue of lifting of ban on daily Dopehar,...		Issues be resolved thru talks: Ashraf NEW DELHI, Jan 5: Pakistan and India will come out of the present difficult situation and resolve serious problems, including Kashmir, only through the process of dialogue, Pakistan High Commissioner to...
17 officials jailed for corruption MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 5: AJK Ehtesab Court NO II on Saturday, convicted five former heads of Mirpur Municipal Corporation and 12 officials, most of them still in service, for financial irregularities and...		Washington may send special envoy to S. Asia to defuse tension WASHINGTON, Jan 5: Developments between Pakistan and India continue to be closely monitored here in Washington, and as part of its diplomatic effort to reduce tensions between the two countries, the...
Ghani takes oath as minister ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: Owais Ahmad Ghani took oath as Federal Minister for Environment, Local Government, Rural Development, Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis on Saturday at a simple ceremony here at the...		Haj flights schedule announced ISLAMABAD, Jan 5: The Ministry of Religious Affairs has announced the schedule of flights for intending pilgrims under regular and sponsorship scheme for year 2002 to Saudi Arabia....