March 12, 2002	Tuesday	Zilhaj 27, 1422

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Gadoon estate can be saved, says governor PESHAWAR, March 11: NWFP Governor Lt-Gen (retd) Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said the government has come to realize that Gadoon industrial estate can be salvaged only if we utilize the...		Judgment on Sherpao’s appeal reserved PESHAWAR, March 11: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Monday reserved judgment in an appeal of former chief minister Aftab Sherpao, challenging his conviction in absentia by an...
Doctors challenge ban on practice PESHAWAR, March 11: Teaching staff associations of all medical colleges and post graduate medical institution in the NWFP on Monday challenged in the Peshawar High Court the ban on private practice...		Three dists without power for six days KOHAT, March 11: Hundreds of thousands of Wapda consumers in the three districts of Karak and Hangu and parts of Kohat in the NWFP and Mianwali in Punjab are without electricity...
Doctors defying ban PESHAWAR, March 11: After the ban on private practice outside public sector hospitals, many of the doctors have now started examining patients at places other than their clinics, a survey by...		Chitralis stranded in Peshawar CHITRAL, March 11: A large number of Chitrali passengers are stranded in Peshawar due to the closing of the Kunar route through Afghanistan by the Afghan interim administration. The route remained...
Need stressed for increasing literacy rate among women SWABI, March 11: Women councillors and social workers of the district have lauded the steps the military regime have taken for the empowerment of women....		Jirga executes ‘killer’ BAJAUR, March 11: A tribal jirga on Saturday executed in public an alleged assassin at the Jangazay village in the Mamond sub-division of Bajaur Agency, according to eyewitnesses....
Laboratories raided LAKKI MARWAT, March 11: Health authorities conducted raids on private laboratories of physicians and sealed an illegal clinical laboratory in the city on Sunday....		Baton-charge DERA ISMAIL KHAN, March 11: Dozens of people received serious injuries, when police resorted to baton-charge and tear-gas shelling at a concert organized at the District Sports Stadium in connection with...
Hate crime in US on the rise: Pakistanis, Indians prime target: report WASHINGTON, March 11: In the period following the Sept 11 attacks, there was an increase in bias-motivated incidents against Asian Pacific Americans, particularly Pakistanis and Indians, says a report released here...		CEC assures international observers of cooperation ISLAMABAD, March 11: Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Irshad Hasan Khan has said international observers will be welcomed to observe the forthcoming general election....
Pakistan to consider all options on Kashmir: NKC ISLAMABAD March 11: Chairman of National Kashmir Committee (NKC) Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan has said that Pakistan was ready to deliberate on all options for the settlement of Kashmir dispute through...		Aga Khan to set up bank in Afghanistan ISLAMABAD, March 11: Prince Karim Aga Khan has said he was considering to open a micro finance bank, and take part in other welfare activities in Afghanistan to help alleviate poverty...
CBR recovers Rs511 million dues from PIA ISLAMABAD, March 11: The Central Board of Revenue, with the assistance of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), has recovered Rs511.74 million from Pakistan International Airlines and other local airlines on account...		EB men may be allowed to attend PAC meetings MUZAFFARABAD, March 11: The public accounts committee (PAC) of Azad Jammu and Kashmir may entertain a request of the AJK Ehtesab Bureau (EB) to allow its officials to attend the committee’s...
Rs15m earmarked for uplift of Kila Abdullah QUETTA, March 11: Balochistan Governor Amirul Mulk Mengal has announced a package of Rs15 million for development of the Kila Abdullah district....		PAF to replace F6 aircraft on 27th ISLAMABAD, March 11: Pakistan Air Force would phase out its fleet of 30-year-old front line fighter aircraft — F6 on March 27, PAF spokesman said here on Monday....
Ad hoc judge of AJK SC takes oath MUZAFFARABAD, March 11: AJK High Court judge Justice Chaudhry Mohammad Taj took oath as an ad hoc judge of the AJK Supreme Court for two months here on Monday....		LJ hitman killed in ‘encounter’ BAHAWALPUR, March 11: Shakil Anwar alias Zahid alias Mustafa of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, who carried a Rs1.3 million bounty on his head, was killed on Monday in a ‘shootout’ with the police....
Shuttle train engine derails near Multan MULTAN, March 11: Rail traffic between Multan and Khanewal remained suspended for over six hours after a shuttle engine derailed near Riazabad, some 25 km from here, on Monday....		Bank cashier flees with Rs2 million JHANG, March 11: The cashier of the Muslim Commercial Bank (MCB), Chak 130-GB Branch, reportedly took away an amount of Rs2 million through a fake receipt from the bank manager....
20 injured as bus overturns SHEIKHUPURA, March 11: Some 20 people were injured, five of them seriously, in a road accident on Faisalabad Road, some 20km away from here, on Monday....		SSP’s Sheikh Hakim arrested JHANG, March 11: Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan’s central vice-president Sheikh Hakim Ali was arrested from Jhang Saddar and shifted to some unknown place on Monday afternoon....