March 4, 2002	Monday	Zilhaj 19, 1422

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Clock tower ‘facelift’ project left incomplete MULTAN, March 3: The 114-year-old town hall building has been presenting a rather clumsy look for the last six months as the contractor who was doing the ‘facelift’ work on the...		Pledge to increase mango export MULTAN, March 3: Concrete steps will be taken to enhance mango export, including installation of scanning and weighing machines at Multan airport....
Police yet to file rape FIR after 10 weeks DERA GHAZI KHAN, March 3: The Border Military Police (BMP) have not registered the FIR in a rape case despite constant appeals by the victim and her family for the last...		Clerks threaten to swarm streets: Retrenchment FAISALABAD, March 3: The All-Pakistan Clerks Association has threatened that it will launch a countrywide protest movement in case any low-paid employee was removed from service under the retrenchment policy....
Youth injured in Indian shelling SIALKOT, March 3: A villager sustained severe injuries in Indian shelling in Khariyal village, Charwa sector of the Sialkot working boundary on Sunday....		Man, son among 5 killed in accident GUJRANWALA, March 3: Five people were killed while over a dozen others sustained injuries in separate road accidents in and around the district on Sunday....
Provincial boards to get welfare fund LAHORE, March 3: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has ordered decentralization of the workers’ welfare fund to the provinces....		Two die, 32 hurt on road SHEIKHUPURA, March 3: Two persons were killed while 32 injured when a bus plunged into a ravine after hitting a motorbike near Gulistan Town, Lahore Road, on Sunday evening....
Minor girl murdered in revenge OKARA, March 3: A three-year-old minor girl was murdered in revenge at Chaudhry Colony here on Sunday....		Agri varsity convocation on 16th FAISALABAD, March 3: The 10th convocation of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF), will be held at the Iqbal Stadium here on March 16....
Line losses checked, Musharraf told ISLAMABAD, March 3: The targeted revenue generation of the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) in 2001-2002 is around Rs196.2 billion against Rs174.4 billion in 2000-2001; and line losses have been...		EC meets today to review poll plan ISLAMABAD, March 3: The first meeting of the Election Commission of Pakistan will be held on Monday to review the arrangements for the general elections to be held in the current...
D-8 to eliminate trade barriers ISLAMABAD, March 3: The D-8 countries will adopt later this month a single framework for shipping, finalize IMF-guided harmonized banking procedures, eliminate trade barriers within member states and set up an...		Pension commutation benefit withdrawn ISLAMABAD, March 3: The government has decided to withdraw the benefit of restoration of commuted portion of pension irrespective of an employee’s date of retirement for all military and civil servants....
Eight more Pakistani pilgrims die ISLAMABAD, March 3: Eight more pilgrims from Pakistan have died during the course of performing Haj in Saudi Arabia, increasing the death toll to 110, said the ministry of religious affairs....		Judicial complexes in major dists soon KOHAT, March 3: NWFP Governor Lt-Gen Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said that soon judicial complexes will be constructed in all the major districts of the province with the financial assistance...
Govt urged to write off growers loans BADIN, March 3: The Pakistan Muslim League (QA) leaders demanded the government to write off the loans of the growers of those areas in Sindh where less than 50 per cent...		PPP takes out rally against Thal Canal LARKANA, March 3: A large number of the activists of the Pakistan People’s Party took out a protest rally here on Sunday against the construction of greater Thal Canal....
Five die as coach rams into car near Halani NAUSHAHARO FEROZE, March 3: Five people including the wife, two sons, sister and driver of the deputy superintendent, Landhi Jail, Karachi, were killed while four of his children were injured in...		Iranian diplomats block GT Road NOWSHERA, March 3: Iranian diplomats blocked the main GT Road in protest following an altercation and fist-fight with traffic police on Saturday....
Five teachers sacked SUKKUR, March 3: Five office-bearers of a teachers’ association were dismissed from service here on Saturday for interrupting increment test in Jan last....		Doctors form action committee MINGORA, March 3: Some local doctors, assisted by senior specialists, have formed an action committee to press the government for the withdrawal of its decision which banned their private practice....
Accident claims 5 lives near Thatta THATTA, March 3: Five passengers were killed and five others were injured in a head-on collision between a coaster and a pickup, some two kilometres from Thatta, on the National Highway...		Two kidnapped HANGU, March 3: Two persons were kidnapped in the Kotakai area of Hangu district on Saturday....
Zinc sheets distributed MANSEHRA, March 3: The Al-Khidmat Foundation on Sunday distributed zinc sheets among flood-affected people of Dadar village for their roofs....		PAT claims of enrolling 0.1m members ISLAMABAD, March 3: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) has met the target of making 0.1 million fresh members in February while the party’s lower tiers in various parts of the country...
Five of a family shot dead ATTOCK, March 3: Five persons of a family were shot dead and a man was injured in a political feud on the outskirts of Domail village, some 40km from here Saturday...		‘Techtown’ to be developed in Islamabad ISLAMABAD, March 3: The government will develop a “Techtown” in Islamabad to set up electrical, information technology, telecommunication, new materials and related vendor industry....
Protest day RAWALPINDI, March 3: Jamaat-i-Islami will hold countrywide demonstrations on Monday to protest the killing of innocent Muslims in India....		PML(QA) holds rally outside PPP office ISLAMABAD March 3: Pakistan Muslim League (QA) on Sunday staged a demonstration outside the central secretariat of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) to register its anger against the reported disruption of a...
Pagara to move SC against other factions of PML LAHORE, March 3: Pir Pagara, who was re-elected unopposed president of the PML (Functional) within 35 minutes after his resignation at a party meeting on Sunday, declared that he would soon...		JI mass-contact drive from 23rd LAHORE, March 3: The Jamaat-i-Islami announced on Sunday the launching of its mass contact campaign from March 23 ahead of the October elections....