February 19, 2002	Tuesday	Zilhaj 6, 1422

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LHC seeks report on health dept official’s transfer MULTAN, Feb 18: The Multan bench of the Lahore High Court directed the Punjab Health Services Director-General on Monday to submit within 15 days a report on a petition filed by...		38 injured as villagers, police clash: 40 arrested MULTAN, Feb 18: Some 38 people, including 13 policemen, were injured in a clash between police and villagers in Basti Bangalwala near Qadirpur Raan, some 20km from here, on Monday morning....
Witness against Zardari heard ATTOCK, Feb 18: The accountability court comprising judge Farrukh Latif, examined a witness for prosecution in an illegal assets reference on Monday against former federal minister Asif Ali Zardari....		Two acquitted as witnesses change statements GUJRANWALA, Feb 18: An additional district and sessions judge acquitted two accused involved in a rape-cum-murder case when witnesses changed their statements here on Monday....
Car taken away TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 18: Bandits on Monday drove away with district Nazim Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq’s brother-in-law Mian Khalid Farooq’s car on Akalwala Road....		‘Military should be on frontline’ SIALKOT, Feb 18: The role of military is on the frontlines and not in politics, Qaumi Jamhoori Party Organizer Omar Asghar Khan claimed on Monday....
Two shot dead by timber mafia CHINIOT, Feb 18: Two persons were killed by timber mafia for barring them from cutting wood in government forests here on Monday....		‘Thana culture without reforms’ BAHAWALPUR, Feb 18: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Chairman Afrasiab Khattak and Secretary-General Hina Jilani lamented the poor were still the target of police excesses....
Workcharged employees denied seniority JHANG, Feb 18: The Punjab Agricultural Engineering director general and Faisalabad AE director have failed to implement the Supreme Court of Pakistan judgement to grant seniority to the workcharge employees....		Once wildlife, now wild TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 18: The Wildlife department has failed to upkeep the park established many years ago on 357 acres of forest land near Bhagat, Rajana-Samundri Road, some 25km from...
Information officer dies, 15 injured in collision VEHARI, Feb 18: The Vehari deputy director information was killed while 15 other people were injured in a road accident near here on Monday....		Italian construction firm, Wapda hold crucial talks today: Resumption of work on Ghazi Barotha SWABI, Feb 18: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) and the Italian construction firm will hold crucial talks on Tuesday about resumption of work on Ghazi Barotha Hydel Power Project,...
Illegal sand lifting damaging river bed DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Feb 18: Illegal lifting of sand from the eastern bed of river Indus is posing a serious threat to the protection bund which was constructed to save the...		Minister fears WB may shelve project for protected areas CHITRAL, Feb 18: NWFP Minister for Environment Abbas Khan has called upon President Pervez Musharraf and the federal minister for environment to help the provincial government avail of an opportunity of...
Councillors threaten en bloc resignation HARIPUR, Feb 18: Nazimeen, Naib Nazimeen and councillors of the urban union councils of Haripur tehsil have threatened to resign en bloc if the tehsil Nazim did not change his policies...		Tobacco firm to plant 3.5 million saplings SWABI, Feb 18: The Pakistan Tobacco Company (PTC) will plant 3.5 million sapling in the ongoing plantation season. These saplings will be provided free to growers of Swabi, Mardan and other...
Rs7.5bn package okayed for Fata PESHAWAR, Feb 18: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has sanctioned a Rs7.5 billion uplift package for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), NWFP Minister for Excise and Taxation Aminullah Khan Gandapur stated....		Foundation stone of Shinwari complex laid PESHAWAR, Feb 18: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah on Monday laid the foundation stone of the Amir Hamza Khan Shinwari Complex at the site of his grave at Darwazgai, Landi...
Three killed in tribal gunfight WANA (South Waziristan), Feb 18: Three people were killed and two others sustained bullet injuries when two groups clashed here in the on Sunday....		Three die of lightning BAJAUR, Feb 18: Three people of a family died and four others received serious injuries when lightning hit their house in the Chelargam village of Salarzai subdivision in the Bajaur Agency...
Iftikhar opens Torkham Gate PESHAWAR, Feb 18: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah on Monday inaugurated the newly-constructed Torkham Gate along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in the Khyber Agency....		Rs10m uplift package for Sibi okayed, says Mengal SIBI, Feb 18: Balochistan Governor Amirul Mulk Mengal announced on Monday a special Rs10 million uplift package for Sibi, and vowed to make this historic city a model district....
Rs5.5m to be spent under KPP in Baltistan SKARDU, Feb 18: An amount of Rs 5,500,000 would be spent on various development schemes in Ghanche district through Khushhall Pakistan Programme (KPP), official sources told Dawn on Sunday....		Resolution of newspaper industry’s problem urged ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: Chairman, Implementation Tribunal for Newspapers Employees (ITNE), Justice Javed Nawaz Gandapur on Sunday said the Tribunal would play its role in implementation of the 7th Wage Board Award...
$12m investment by UNFPA discussed ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: Executive Director United Nations Population Fund, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, met President