February 13, 2002	Wednesday	Ziqa’ad 29, 1422

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ADB to provide $650m for four uplift projects ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $650 million for four new uplift projects during 2002....		SC orders action against responsible officials: Evacuee property cases delay ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the heads of all government departments to take action against the officials responsible for causing loss to exchequer by filing cases beyond...
Petroleum prices Dawn disputes ministry’s clarification ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: The Ministry of Petroleum has claimed that it is incorrect to assume that there was any proposal under consideration to levy tax on petroleum products for construction of...		Rustam Shah appointed ambassador to Kabul ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: The government on Tuesday appointed Rustam Shah Mohmand ambassador to Afghanistan, an official announcement said....
Doctor shot dead in Karachi KARACHI, Feb 12: A 40-year-old doctor was shot dead at the Faiz-ur-Rehman Hospital in Metroville, in Orangi Town district West on Tuesday night....		Pearl case: Punjab AG issued notice RAWALPINDI, Feb 12: The Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi bench, on Tuesday issued notice to the Advocate-General of Punjab and Rawalpindi District Police Chief to explain why Pir Mubarak Shah Gillani, a...
10 including DSP killed in three shootouts FAISALABAD, Feb 12: Three police officials and six proclaimed offenders were killed in shootouts in Faisalabad, Jahanian and Multan on Tuesday. Four policemen were also injured....		Lower Chenab irrigation system to be remodelled TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 12: All the canals of the lower Chenab irrigation system will be remodelled with the financial assistance of the World Bank (WB)....
Woman, daughter tortured over rent GUJRANWALA, Feb 12: A woman and her young daughter were manhandled by some 11 people for not paying the monthly rent of the house in Wahdat Colony here on Tuesday....		7 killed as wagons collide head-on FAISALABAD, Feb 12: Seven people were killed while over a dozen sustained injuries in a head-on collision between two wagons on the Samundri-Rajana Road, some 45km from here, on Tuesday....
Rs6 million dacoity in exporter’s house FAISALABAD, Feb 12: Gold ornaments, cash and other valuables worth Rs6 million were looted from the house of an exporter in Karim Town on Monday night....		BVH restricts ambulance service BAHAWALPUR, Feb 12: The Bahawal Victoria Hospital administration has restricted ambulance service for serious patients only, it is learnt....
Ex-councillor stabbed to death JHANG, Feb 12: A former member of Jhang district council and losing candidate for the slot of Nazim, Tariq Saqlain Bhojia, was stabbed to death by unidentified people on Monday night...		11 held with illegal weapons ATTOCK, Feb 12: The Hazro police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested 11 people with illegal weapons in different parts of the district....
Three youth Found dead MULTAN, Feb 12: Three youth were found dead from Naubahar Canal near Nagsha intersection on Tuesday....		Stale food: 40 students hospitalized TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 12: Forty (40) students of the Government Girls Degree College, Gojra, were hospitalized after they took stale food from their hostel mess on Tuesday....
Three die in accident PINDI BHATTIAN, Feb 12: Three people were killed and over two dozen injured, six of them seriously, when a bus (FDP-1215) collided with a mini-bus on Pindi Bhattian-Hafizabad Road near here...		Jalozai camp evacuation completed JALOZAI, Feb 12: United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has completed the relocation of Afghan refugees from the “notorious” Jalozai makeshift camp on Tuesday and shifted its last remaining 45,000...
Heart disease cases high in Dir TIMERGARA, Feb 12: Cases of heart diseases were alarmingly high in the districts of Dir upper and lower, says a report....		Cold wave kills 7 Afghan children BAJAUR, Feb 12: Seven Afghan children died in two days from severe cold in the Kotkai and Chaharmang refugee camps in the Bajaur Agency....
Students from 55 Madaris relieved MARDAN, Feb 12: More than 8,000 students, both Afghans and Pakistanis, have been relieved from 55 Madaris in the Mardan division since Jan 12, the day President Pervez Musharraf announced crackdown...		7 arrested in land scam PESHAWAR, Feb 12: The National Accountability Bureau arrested seven more government officials in the multi-billion Ghazi Barotha Hydropower Project (GBHP) land acquisition scam on Monday and Tuesday....
Three shot dead NOWSHERA, Feb 12: Two women and a man died when their relatives opened indiscriminate fire on them in their house at Dehri Katikhel near Nowshera Cantonment....		Two traders kidnapped KOHAT, Feb 12: Gunmen kidnapped two traders on Monday, raising the number of victims during last month to 14....
Horse & cattle show in March DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Feb 12: Annual ‘Horse and Cattle Show’ will be held in the last week of March this year, and the arrangements are being made for it, tehsil Nazim...		Army will keep check on police, lawyers: Moin ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: Army officers have been inducted in the Anti-Terrorism Courts (ATCs) to keep a check on the police officials and lawyers, thereby ensuring timely execution of cases....
Calligraphy a distinct Islamic art, says expert ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: Calligraphy was a creative means to beautify buildings as distinctly Islamic as well as to pay tributes to Allah....		Hearing in SGS case adjourned ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: An accountability court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing in the SGS reference for March 7 since the summons could not be served on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto...
Faiz’s message hope for weak, downtrodden ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: Glowing tributes were paid to great revolutionary poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz by intellectuals, educationists and poets on the occasion of his birth anniversary at the National Library auditorium...		Man shot dead by robbers RAWALPINDI, Feb 12: A man was shot dead by robbers here on Tuesday, police said. The victim, Walait Hussain, owner of a kerosene oil depot in Dhok Saidan, was busy with customers in the afternoon when four robbers raided his shop and demanded cash at gunpoint.....
Ruet-i-Hilal Committee meets today ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee will meet for sighting the moon of Zilhaj on Wednesday (today) in the Conference Hall, P&D Block No: 8 at Quetta, says a press release...		The great corridor to graves closed LAHORE, Feb 12: The gateway to the tomb of Ali Mardan Khan, Emperor Shah Jahan’s famous canal engineer, has been closed “temporarily” to the general public....
Engineer becomes Hesco chief LAHORE, Feb 12: The Water and Power Develop-ment Authority has repla-ced Brig Muhammad Ali, the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company chief executive, with Abdur Rashid Khan, a career engineer, Dawn learnt on...		50,000 more voters to be registered LAHORE, Feb 12: At least 50,000 more voters will be included in electoral rolls meant for the October general elections in the Punjab following an 11-day campaign of the election commission....
NAB task force to examine Taj scam LAHORE, Feb 12: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has constituted a special task force, to be headed by Maj-Gen M H Ansari (retired), to examine the infamous Taj Company scam, and...		Call to expand talks process LAHORE, Feb 12: Observing that democracy is the hallmark of all political dispensations, the Muslim-Christian Federation International has pleaded for expanding the process of dialogue beyond the confines of faith and...
Hafiz Saeed’s mother dies LAHORE, Feb 12: Hundreds of Jamaatud Dawat workers and leaders of several political and religious parties, including Alliance for Restoration of Democracy president Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan attended the funeral prayers for...		Conditional offer by JI to PML-QA LAHORE, Feb 12: The Jamaat-i-Islami will cooperate with the PML-QA in the forthcoming general elections only if it helps get JI amir Qazi Husain Ahmed released....
Bail plea of co-accused in fraud case dismissed LAHORE, Feb 12: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a bail application of co-accused Tanvir Ahmed Haral in a Rs280 million Emirates Bank fraud case....		JI plans protest LAHORE, Feb 12: The Jamaat-i-Islami will observe Friday as protest day against the arrest of Qazi Husain Ahmad....