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April 11, 2002 Thursday Muharram 27, 1423

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Roads blocked to protest killing by police
FAISALABAD, April 10: Hundreds of residents of Chak Jhumra blocked roads of the area for traffic on Wednesday to protest against the killing of the father of a councillor by a...
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‘US using rulers against religious parties’
SIALKOT, April 10: Anti-Islamic forces particularly the US are employing every tactics to enslave the Muslims around the world....
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Seven die, 18 hurt on road
VEHARI, April 10: Seven people, including a woman, were killed while 18 others sustained injuries on road in different parts of the Punjab on Tuesday night....
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Call to fix phutti price at Rs900 per 40kg
MULTAN, April 10: National Assembly former speaker Syed Fakhar Imam has urged the government to fix minimum price of phutti at Rs900 per 40 kilograms for the cotton season 2002-2003....
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Prisoners, cops injured in clash
GUJRANWALA, April 10: At least half a dozen policemen and prisoners were injured in a clash in district courts here on Wednesday....
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Health dept record gutted
KASUR, April 10: The documents in the EDO (health) office were reduced to ashes late Tuesday....
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Boy drowns in drain
FAISALABAD, April 10: A minor boy drowned in an open drain in Kanak Basti of Ghulam Muhammadabad on Tuesday night....
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11 wheat procurement centres
SIALKOT, April 10: The Punjab Food Department has set up 11 wheat procurement centres in Sialkot and Narowal districts....
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Students crab over mate’s murder
MULTAN, April 10: The students of the Government Williat Husain College on Wednesday took to streets, protesting over the murder of their mate....
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Middle East diplomacy not dead, says Sattar
ISLAMABAD, April 10: Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar said on Monday Pakistan is doing its best to draw the world attention towards the escalating Israeli military aggression in the Palestinian territories and...
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PPP can attract larger crowds, claims Asif
ATTOCK, April 10: PPP’s jailed leader Asif Ali Zardari has claimed that the Pakistan People’s Party is a major, popular, national, political party and could attract much larger crowd if the...
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MQM, govt close to strike deal
ISLAMABAD April 10: The Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) is close to strike a deal with the military government over its outright support to the referendum which would elect Gen Pervez Musharraf...
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Pakistan won’t be cowed down by Indian blackmail: minister
ISLAMABAD, April 10: Reiterating unequivocal adherence to the principled stand on Kashmir, Pakistan has said it would not submit to Indian blackmail and military coercion, and urged the international community to...
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Pakistan may seek Canada’s help in IT
TORONTO, April 10: Pakistan intends to seek Canada’s cooperation in the filed of information technology (IT), said visiting Federal Minister for Science and Technology Atta-ur-Rahman here on Tuesday night....
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Afghanistan needs financial system, says ADB report
ISLAMABAD, April 10: Afghanistan has one of the highest infant, child, and maternal mortality rates, and one of the lowest literacy and life expectancy rates in the world, says a latest...
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GDA fails to reach consensus on referendum
ISLAMABAD, April 10: The Grand Democratic Alliance on Tuesday failed to arrive at a consensus on its stand on referendum and decided to meet again on April 15 at Lahore for...
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Ticketing: Rs4.8m collected in March
GUJRANWALA, April 10: The traffic police claimed to have issued around 27,654 tickets to vehicle owners and collected Rs4.8 million for violation of traffic rules during March....
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Rotary to buy refugees daily items
QUETTA April 10: The Rotary International (RI) will spend the funds, collected from all over the world, to purchase various items for the Afghan refugees living in Shalman Camp, NWFP, and...
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BSO demands college in Hub
HUB, April 10: The activists of the Baloch Students Organization (Manzoor) held a rally here on Wednesday to protest against the local administration and the provincial governments for ignoring their repeated...
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Two Jinnah scholars repay scholarship
KARACHI, April 10: Two Jinnah scholars John Coelho and Tauseef Kazi, who had received a scholarship from the Quaid-i-Azam Aligarh Education Trust for studies in the United States, have completed their...
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Clarification sought on PAC’s powers
PESHAWAR, April 10: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday asked the provincial government to clarify whether the public accounts committee has the powers to penalize a government servant....
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China offers $70m for new bridges
MANSEHRA, April 10: China will extend a $70 million aid to for construction of new bridges and improvement and widening of the famous Silk route, the Karakortam Highway (KKH) and an...
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Nazim can’t order detention: PHC
PESHAWAR, April 10: Accepting 11 identical writ petitions, the Peshawar High Court on Wednesday ruled that the district Nazim had no legal authority to issue detention orders of a person under...
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Three ‘terrorists’ held
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, April 10: Kulachi police have recovered explosives from three unidentified terrorists travelling on Maddi-Kulachi road on a motorbike Tuesday evening....
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Poppy over 1,800 kanal destroyed
BAJAUR, April 10: The political administration of Bajaur Agency destroyed standing poppy crop over 1,800 kanal in the inaccessible areas of Salarzai and Nawagai subdivisions of the agency....
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Construction of Lowari tunnel urged
CHITRAL, April 10: Tanzim-i-Tahaffuz Huqooq Chitral Convener Maulana  Abdul Akbar Chitrali has said that his organization has chalked out activities to press the government to commence work on the Lowari tunnel....
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Errors, omissions in voters’ lists detected
SUKKUR, April 10: Errors and omissions on a large-scale have been found in the fresh voters’ lists of national and provincial assemblies’ constituencies of Sukkur, Jacobabad, Shikarpur and other towns....
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Sindh PPP rejects referendum
SHIKARPUR, April 10: Sardar Wahid Bux Khan Bhayo, member of PPP, Sindh council, and Sindh PPP senior vice president Agha Sirajuddin Khan Durrani have rejected the presidential referendum and called it...
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Operation theatres established
DADU, April 10: Four operation theatres have been set up at medical, surgical, orthopaedic, gynaecological and emergency casualty wards of the Civil Hospital, Dadu....
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Teachers’ protest against EDO
MIRPURKHAS, April 10: Several primary teachers staged a protest on Wednesday against the attitude of the EDO (health), Dr Illahi Bux Soomro....
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SEA wants acceptance of demands
SUKKUR, April 10: A large number of teachers, lecturers and professors, under the banner of Sindh Employees Alliance, staged a sit-in at the Sukkur bypass and blocked the highway for one...
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Transporters resent shifting of bus stand
SUKKUR, April 10: A large number of transporters blocked the Indus Highway near Jacobabad on Wednesday to protest against the shifting of the bus terminal....
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Four bandits arrested
SUKKUR, April 10: The Sukkur police arrested four bandits and recovered TT pistols, dagger and a government rifle from their possession on Tuesday night....
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DC member resigns in protest
LARKANA, April 10: Aijaz Leghari, a member of district council, Larkana, on Wednesday resigned from the membership of the council in protest against the remarks made by President General Parvez Musharraf...
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Police asked to improve law, order situation
NAWABSHAH, April 10: The additional inspector general of police, Sukkur, Syed Nayyar Hasnain Hyder, presided over a meeting of senior police officials of Nawabshah district here on Wednesday....
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People’s Party disputes Musharraf’s claims
LAHORE, April 10: The Pakistan People’s Party has refuted President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s assertions against its chairperson Benazir Bhutto at a public meeting held here on Tuesday to launch his referendum...
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Referendum Order challenged
LAHORE, April 10: The Lahore High Court was asked on Wednesday to suspend the operation of the Chief Executive’s Referendum Order and restrain him from holding public meetings at public expense....
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PML-N ‘regrets’ President’s language
LAHORE, April 10: Pakistan Muslim League leaders on Wednesday regretted the language used by President Gen Pervez Musharraf in his speech on Tuesday for the heads of two major political parties...
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‘Polluting’ industries treating waste: EPD
LAHORE, April 10: Seven of the eight industries accused of discharging their effluent into canals and water courses have installed their own water treatment plants, the Environmental Protection Department submitted before...
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Show-cause notices to doctors
LAHORE, April 10: The Punjab Health Department has issued show-cause notices to different doctors, including PMA president Yasmin Rashid, for indulging in the acts of subversion and indiscipline by observing a...
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Withdrawal of tax on vehicles proposed
LAHORE, April 10: The Central Board of Revenue proposes to withdraw the withholding tax on cars and other vehicles having 1,000cc or larger engines for the people whose annual income is...
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No active resistance, says MMA
LAHORE, April 10: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has no plans to put up “active resistance” against the army government for it sees little chances of its success in the changed world scenario...
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Bar to prosecute Nazim, his deputy
LAHORE, April 10: The Lahore High Court Bar Association resolved on Wednesday to initiate criminal proceedings against the Lahore district Nazim and his deputy “for squandering billions of rupees from the...
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Pindi, Gujar Khan, Kahuta to get more KPP funds
RAWALPINDI, April 10: Rawalpindi, Gujar Khan and Kahuta Tehsils will be getting a bigger share in any future grant received by the district during the current financial year....
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Tehsil Nazim declared administrative head
RAWALPINDI, April 10: The Tehsil Nazim has been declared as the administrative head of the whole Tehsil, according to the new rules of business released by the Punjab Local Government and...
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Lawyer files $10m suit against foreign airlines
ISLAMABAD, April 10: The civil judge, Islamabad, Syed Muzaffar Ali Shah Tuesday issued notice to Emirates Airlines for damages suit of $10 million, filed by a local lawyer and directed the...
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Russian embassy staffer dies of burns
ISLAMABAD, April 10: A woman staff member of Russian embassy died under mysterious circumstances after sustaining 95 per cent burn injuries here on Tuesday, police and doctors said....
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57 housing ministry officials sacked
ISLAMABAD, April 10: Ministry of Housing and Works has removed 57 officials of Pak PWD, Estate Office and National Construction from service on charges of corruption, inefficiency and misappropriation of funds....
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Nawaz group’s moot today
SWABI April 10: The Pakistan Muslim League (N) is holding a workers convention here on Thusday, to chalk out a strategy against the referendum....
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Chemists protest against GST
KOHAT, April 10: The chemists and druggists association,   Kohat, observed a token strike on Wednesday and held a public meeting at the Company Bagh to protest against the 15 per...
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