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 Gen Pervez Musharraf here on Monday and discussed UNFPA plans of investing US$12 million in Pakistan during...		Comstech approves $7m budget ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The 10th Comstech general assembly on Sunday approved a budget of $7 million for the year 2002-2003 with Pakistan taking a lead by volunteering $1 million out of...
Over 0.2m become TB patients annually ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: Pakistan ranks sixth among the countries with highest number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the world. It is estimated that more than 200,000 people develop TB every...		Minorities demand 3pc seats in National Assembly ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The minorities have demanded three per cent reserved seats in proportionate to their population in the National Assembly....
Slump in poultry items’ exports to Afghanistan ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The poultry industry is experiencing severe crisis after its exports to Afghanistan fell due to US action against the war-torn country, sources told Dawn on Monday....		Code of medical ethics being revised ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) is revising the code of medical ethics with an intent to empower the council to take suo moto action against doctors...
PPC condemns filing of blasphemy case against activist ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The Pakistan Peace Coalition (PPC) has condemned the blasphemy charge made against an activist of Kutcha Abadi from Peshawar, under the infamous section 295 (CC) of the Pakistan...		Current dry spell due to bombing in Afghanistan ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The current dry spell in the arid areas is a direct result of nuclear detonations in Pokhran (India) and Chaghi (Pakistan), and the recent bombings in Afghanistan, an...
SSP’s sentence in contempt case suspended LAHORE, Feb 18: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday admitted an appeal moved by the Lahore senior superintendent of police (Operations) and suspended the sentence awarded to...		Torkham-Jalalabad Road construction to start soon LAHORE, Feb 18: Germany plans to shortly begin the construction of the Torkham-Jalalabad Road for which material is expected to be procured from Pakistan....
PML-QA seeks seats for minorities LAHORE, Feb 18: The Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam) supports the demand for reserving seats for minorities in the National as well as Provincial Assemblies, Mian Muhammad Azhar, the party chief, said...		Limited swimming facilities in Lahore LAHORE, Feb 18: As with most other sports, there are little or no facilities for a population of about 6.5 million people of Lahore to learn swimming....
Rs50m paid to 800 co-op depositors LAHORE, Feb 18: Cheques for Rs50 million were presented here on Monday to 800 depositors of cooperative finance corporations....		Journalist Ali Akhtar Mirza dies LAHORE, Feb 18: Noted journalist Ali Akhtar Mirza died of a cardiac arrest here on Monday. He was 83....
LHC refers the Basant question to CII LAHORE, Feb 18: The Lahore High Court has referred the question of repugnance or otherwise of ‘Basant’ celebrations to the injunctions of Islam to the Council of Islamic Ideology....		Wapda staff to be given training LAHORE, Feb 18: Wapda workers will be provided adequate training facilities by the management to improve their professional skill and knowledge with a view to facilitating them to get due promotion...
Daewoo to start new express route LAHORE, Feb 18: Daewoo Pakistan will start its seventh express bus service in the Punjab on the Lahore-Faisalabad route from Wednesday morning....		Minister gets briefing on PR academy LAHORE, Feb 18: Federal Minister for Railways and Communications LT-Gen Javed Ashraf Qazi (retired) was briefed here on Monday about the performance of the Railway Academy and the Railway Police here...
Two knocked to death on road OKARA, Feb 18: Two persons were knocked to death by vehicles in different accidents here on Monday....		Ills of cinema FAISALABAD, Feb 18: The sale of cinema tickets and unhygienic food stuff in the local theatres at exorbitant rates have been ailing people with the connivance of the Excise and Taxation...
Woman shot dead OKARA, Feb 18: A woman was shot dead over a petty issue in 2/D, Hujra Shah Muqeem village on Monday....		Six students beaten, three held for eve-teasing DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Feb 18: Three students of the Gomal University were arrested and as many others beaten for teasing and harassing women in the Gomal Market on Sunday....
Man injured over monetary dispute DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Feb 18: Four armed men ambushed and injured a villager over a monetary dispute in the Wanda Kharot village of Kiri Khairore on Sunday....		UN worker injured in attack in Afghanistan ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The United Nations and the Afghan interim administration have started investigations into the attack on a Unicef worker in Mazar-i-Sharif, a Unicef spokesperson said on Monday....
PTCL Haj package ISLAMABAD, Feb 18: The PTCL has announced a Haj package, according to which rates of all outgoing calls from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia have been reduced by 20 per cent. The...		Town planners to be appointed LAHORE, Feb 18: The Punjab Local Government and Rural Development Department will fill the vacancies of town planners in 52 towns and tehsils after lifting a ban on new recruitment....