February 22, 2002	Friday	Zilhaj 9, 1422

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Court sets aside detention order: Drive against banned outfits MULTAN, Feb 21: Justice Fakharun Nisa Khokhar of the Multan bench of Lahore High Court has set aside the detention orders of a person passed by the provincial home department labelling...		Work resumes on M-3 after three years FAISALABAD, Feb 21: The work on Pindi Bhattian-Faisalabad Motorway (M-3) project resumed after three years on Thursday....
Councillor shot dead by police SIALKOT, Feb 21: A councillor was shot dead and his wife injured reportedly by the Muradpur police in Miyani Pathanaan Di village in the jurisdiction of the Head Marala police here...		Five of a family slain MULTAN, Feb 21: Five members of a family, including two women, were murdered in Chak 110/12-L, some 140km from here in Chichawatni, Sahiwal district, on Thursday morning....
Seven killed, as many hurt on road VEHARI, Feb 21: Five car riders were killed on Thursday in an accident on the Vehari-Burewala Road near Pakhi Morr stop, some 10 kilometres from here....		Housewife gang-raped before murder SHEIKHUPURA, Feb 21: Initial post-mortem report revealed the woman, who was slaughtered along with her two minor sons on Wednesday by unidentified assailants, was also gang-raped....
Paikhel irrigation scheme approved MIANWALI, Feb 21: The Punjab governor has okayed the Paikhel lift irrigation scheme to be completed at a cost of Rs533.33 million....		Probe into Bangalwala clash begins MULTAN, Feb 21: On the direction of the Punjab governor, a high-level probe into the police-public clash in Bangalwala was started here on Thursday....
Rs148.18m for facilities at girls’ schools ATTOCK, Feb 21: Local district Nazim Major Tahir Sadiq (retired) has sanctioned an amount of Rs148.18 million for the provision of potable water, toilets and boundary walls in 232 girls’ primary...		Woman hurt in Indian firing SIALKOT, Feb 21: An old woman was injured by Indian shelling in Chaprar sector of the working boundary on Thursday evening....
Murder attempt case against 4 ATTOCK, Feb 21: The Pindigheb police on Thursday claimed to have registered a murder attempt case against four people....		29 colleges not fully recognized by PMDC ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: Of the 50 medical and dental colleges in the country, seven in the public sector and 22 in the private sector are provisionally recognized by the Pakistan Medical...
Police reforms being introduced: Mengal QUETTA, Feb 21: Police reforms are being introduced in Balochistan to improve the performance of the force, Governor Justice (retd) Amirul Mulk said here Thursday....		Deweaponization drive resisted in Afghanistan QUETTA, Feb 21: One person was killed and another was injured seriously when fighting erupted between local people and forces of the Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai in Weesh town in...
4 Kashmiri DPs injured in clash with police MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 21: At least four Kashmiri refugees were injured when police resorted to firing and pelting stones during a clash on Thursday, witnesses said....		Patwari, brother convicted QUETTA, Feb 21: Accountability Court No 2, Quetta, awarded five-year rigorous imprisonment, and fined Rs11 million to a former patwari Shah Nawaz on Wednesday for corruption....
Equal opportunities must for progress, says president ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that without providing justice and equal opportunities to all to grow, Pakistan cannot progress and restore its pride outside the country....		EC obtains census data for delimitation ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: Delimitation of constituencies will start immediately after legal cover is provided to the increase in the number of seats in the national and the provincial assemblies, the Election...
Chinese leader to visit Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: The Vice Premier of State Council of the Peoples Republic of China, Mr Wu Banggno, will shortly visit Pakistan on mutually agreed dates to review progress on the...		‘Govt policies creating unrest’ TAXILA, Feb 21: The Punjab Jamaat-i-Islami naib amir, Dr Muhammad Kamal, has said policies of the present government are creating unrest among the masses....
Oil supply to retailer outlets affected: Transporters’ strike in NWFP PESHAWAR, Feb 21: The diesel and petrol supply to a number of retail outlets in the province was affected to a great extent as the All Pakistan Oil Tankers Owners’ Association,...		Fata councils to have seats for women, Maliks PESHAWAR, Feb 21: The federal government has decided to reserve 23 per cent seats for tribal Maliks and 10 per cent seats for women in the future local councils in Federally-Administered...
Another girls college to be set up in Haripur HARIPUR, Feb 21: Responding to a long-standing demand of the people the provincial government has agreed in principle to set up another degree college for women in the city. The required...		Doctors oppose ban on private practice ABBOTTABAD, Feb 21: The community of doctors in the Hazara division has decided to resist the government’s decision to ban their private practice....
Constable killed in grenade blast LAKKI MARWAT, Feb 21: A constable was killed and another injured seriously following the explosion of two hand grenades thrown by the accused during a police raid over the residence of...		Politicians against changes in Constitution PESHAWAR, Feb 21: Speakers at a seminar on Thursday termed the existence of democratic political parties no less than a miracle even braving a longest rule of dictators. “The political parties,...
Anti-PPP alliance formed in Larkana LARKANA, Feb 21: The Larkana District Alliance (LDA) was formed here at a meeting of different political and social conglomerates on Thursday....		Health dept fails to control skin disease DADU, Feb 21: The Nazims of the union councils of the hilly area of Kachho have complained that the Sindh health department had failed to control skin disease, leishmaniasis, in the...
Occupied land got vacated THATTA, Feb 21: Thatta forest officials with collaboration of Ghora Bari police got vacated 80 acres of forest land from the possession of a former deputy commissioner Ali Akbar Mugheri, a...		Shortage of water resented NAUSHAHARO FEROZE, Feb 21: The members of the Sindh Hari Committee (SHC) took out a rally and observed token hunger strike on Wednesday morning....
16 houses, flour mill gutted KHAIRPUR, Feb 21: Sixteen houses and a floor mill were gutted in two villages near here the other day in two separate incidents of fire....		100 activists likely to be released today LAHORE, Feb 21: The Punjab government has decided to release 100 activists of jihadi and sectarian groups before Eid who were among the 700 arrested in a countrywide crackdown in January....
Benazir to return, contest polls: Zia LAHORE, Feb 21: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto would return to Pakistan before the elections and take part in the polls scheduled for October, PPP’s Punjab president Qasim Zia said...		ADB pledges $225m for Punjab roads LAHORE, Feb 21: The Asian Development Bank will provide a financial assistance of $225 million for widening roads in the Punjab under the Pakistan Road Sector Project....
Rs167m paid to co-op victims LAHORE, Feb 21: Cheques for Rs167.26 million were distributed among 2,518 victims of cooperatives scam on Thursday at a ceremony held at the Chamba House here on Thursday....		Lahore traffic system to be computerized LAHORE, Feb 21: The Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency (Tepa) of the Lahore Development Authority will develop a software to control the city traffic from one centre....
Governor opens tree plantation LAHORE, Feb 21: Governor Khalid Maqbool inaugurated the annual tree plantation campaign by planting a sapling at Jallo Park here on Thursday....		Two-year RI for keeping illegal arms MIRPURKHAS, Feb 21: The second judicial magistrate, Mirpurkhas, Anwar Ahmed Memon, has sentenced Mir Khan Rind for two years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs5,000 on charges of possessing illegal...
IG, traffic AIG issued notices ABBOTTABAD, Feb 21: The Peshawar High Court, Abbottabad circuit bench, has issued notices to the NWFP inspector-general of police, the traffic AIG, the home secretary and the law division on a...		Policeman seeks justice PESHAWAR, Feb 21: A traffic police inspector, who begged for justice, told NWFP Governor Iftikhar Hussain Shah during a police Darbar that he had been kidnapped and released after paying ransom...
Millat Party ‘working for new political culture’ LAHORE, Feb 21: The Millat Party is making efforts to change political culture of the country, infested with corruption, the party’s central information secretary says....		Govt okays setting up of burn institute RAWALPINDI, Feb 21: The Punjab government has approved setting up an institute of plastic surgery and burn at the District Headquarters Hospital, sources told Dawn on Thursday....
Zubaida stresses on teaching modern education at Madaris ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: Federal education minister Zobaida Jalal has said that the government’s decision to bring religious Madressahs into mainstream education is based on the realization that without attaining mastery of...		Two policemen booked for torturing citizen RAWALPINDI, Feb 21: Two officials of the Ganjmandi police station were booked for keeping an innocent citizen in illegal confinement and torturing him, a police report said on Thursday....
Ex-minister complains of being tortured ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: A former NWFP minister, allegedly involved in car-lifting, claimed before a judicial magistrate that he was tortured by the anti-car lifting cell of the Islamabad police....		European research centre invites Nust students RAWALPINDI, Feb 21: Renowned scientists of the Centre for European Nuclear Research, Switzerland, (CERN) have appraised the skills and knowledge of the students of Nust Institute of Information Technology for contributing...
Pharmacists at drug stores to be ensured ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: The deputy commissioner, Islamabad, Tariq Mahmood Khan, has directed the district health department to ensure the presence of qualified pharmacists at medical stores in the Islamabad Capital Territory...		Service stations directed to stop car-wash ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has directed the owners of all services stations to stop car-wash due to persisting water shortage in the federal capital....
Probe into marriage hall case ordered RAWALPINDI, Feb 21: The district government has ordered an inquiry into the incomplete construction of the municipal community marriage hall in Kartarpura, Dawn has learnt....		Security tightened on Eid eve in Capital ISLAMABAD, Feb 21: District Administration Islamabad (DAI) have beefed up security in the federal capital and deployed police commandos at all sensitive places to avoid any untoward incident during Eid holidays,...