April 23, 2002	Tuesday	Safar 9, 1423

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City tehsil council men go on strike: Manhandling of storekeeper GUJRANWALA, April 22: City tehsil council employees went on strike in protest against manhandling of a storekeeper by the city tehsil Naib Nazim and his men and staged a sit-in outside...		Four killed in steam boiler explosion TOBA TEK SINGH, April 22: Four workers died and two sustained serious injuries in Gojra when a steam boiler of a factory exploded on Monday morning....
PPP to hold anti-referendum conventions FAISALABAD, April 22: The Pakistan People’s Party will hold workers’ conventions and rallies in all the big cities of the province before April 30 to motivate people not to cast vote...		Ummat urged to focus on learning LAHORE, April 22: Speakers at a book launching ceremony here on Monday urged the Muslim Ummah to attain knowledge to escape exploitation and humiliation at the hands of its enemies....
Maqbool is all praise for Musharraf SARGODHA, April 22: Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool said on Monday that the pro-poor government of Gen Pervez Musharraf saved the society from extremists who had made it hostage....		Girl shot dead over marriage issue OKARA, April 22: A youth shot dead his sister on Monday because his father had arranged her marriage with a cousin he disliked....
Black warrants issued for two GUJRANWALA, April 22: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 2 issued death warrants for two condemned prisoners of Bhatteki, Wazirabad, and fixed May 7 for their execution here on Monday....		Student leader arrested in dacoity case SAHIWAL, April 22: Farid Town police on Monday arrested a student leader allegedly involved in a dacoity case....
Torture marks found on prisoner’s body MULTAN, April 22: Torture marks on the body of a prisoner who died in the district jail on Sunday had made dubious the claim by the jail authorities that he committed...		‘Police unaware of investigation procedure LAHORE, April 22: Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan of the Lahore High Court while granting bail to a petitioner on Monday observed that our illiterate and dishonest police have no knowledge of...
Multan lawyers praise judge MULTAN, April 22: Lawyers were all praise for former judge Tariq Mahmood of Balochistan High Court for showing impeccable courage by not succumbing to the state pressure....		Two women die, man hurt on road SHEIKHUPURA, April 22: Two women were killed and a man received wounds in road accidents in and around the city here on Monday....
Five houses damaged by Indian shelling SIALKOT, April 22: Indian security forces on Monday continued mortar shelling on border villages in Sialkot working boundary’s Chhumb Joriyaan (Gujrat), Charwa, Sucheetgarh, Harpal, Jammu, Saamba, Akhnoor and Shakargarh sectors, damaging...		Two killed, 10 hurt as wagon overturns SAHIWAL, April 22: Two persons were killed while 10 others were injured, four of them serious, in a road accident here on Monday....
Man commits suicide after killing wife GUJRAT, April 22: A man committed suicide after killing his wife on Monday over a domestic dispute in Lohsar Klan, Karrianwala....		Cop dies as gun goes off GUJRAT, April 22: The Sheikhpura police chowki incharge died when his gun went off accidentally in Mohallah Staff Ghalla here on Monday....
BZU declares MA Islamic studies, economics results MULTAN, April 22: The Bahauddin Zakariya University on Monday declared the results of MA Islamic studies, economics and mass communication, part-I, first annual examinations, 2001....		HRCP report critical of rights situation KARACHI, April 22: The annual report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) paints a depressing picture of the state of human rights in the country....
Benazir condemns arrest of Nawabzada ISLAMABAD, April 22: Former prime minister and Pakistan People’s Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has criticized the arrest of veteran politician Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan....		Musharraf says he has full faith in democracy ISLAMABAD, April 22: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that he had unflinching faith in democracy whose essence lay in the rule of law and good governance....
New workers party formed QUETTA, April 22: A new political party with the name of Pakistan Workers Party (PWP) was formed here on Monday....		11 of a family, 3 others hurt in Indian shelling MUZAFFARABAD, April 22: At least 14 people, 11 of them from a family, were injured in the indiscriminate Indian shelling from across the Line of Control in two different sectors of...
‘Indebted poor nations financing US deficit’ WASHINGTON, April 22: The heavily indebted poor nations of the world are actually financing the US deficit, says a report by an offbeat think-tank, New Economics Foundation, released to coincide with...		Pakistani hurt in Dubai DUBAI, April 22: Five labourers died and seven more were hurt in Sharjah on Sunday when the dome of a public building under construction collapsed on them....
150 govt employees arrested QUETTA, April 22: Police arrested 150 employees of various government departments here on Monday for observing a strike to press the provincial government to give them the utility and special allowance....		Woman on death row denied interviews: Infant accompanies mother in jail KOHAT, April 22: Jail authorities are not allowing anybody, not even the mother and brother of the woman sentenced to death in a Hudood case, to meet her, saying she is...
Governor says farm loans to be rescheduled: Water shortage-hit areas LARKANA, April 22: Sindh Governor Mohammedmian Soomro has announced that the provincial government will purchase one million tons of wheat in the current season....		Naib Nazimeen back referendum KHAIRPUR, April 22: The All Sindh Taluka Naib Nazimeen convention held at Pacca Chang on Sunday unanimously supported the presidential referendum....
Big quantity of charas seized, four arrested PESHAWAR, April 22: The police have arrested four persons along with two kids and seized a big quantity of narcotics from their car with fake government number plate on Jamrood Road...		Cotton growers assured of help DERA ISMAIL KHAN, April 22: NWFP Food and Agriculture Minister Abeedullah Jan said on Saturday that the government was providing all assistance to cotton growers in the province....
Afghan DPs nominate 40 Loya Jirga members MARDAN, April 22: A meeting of representatives of Afghan refugees was held here at the Baghicha Dari village and nominated 40 representatives from Mardan and Malakand divisions for the Loya Jirga,...		Teenage girl raped NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, April 22: A 14-year-old girl, R, was found in a critical condition in a banana field near Lundo Minor, Fato Bilal union council, about two km from Moro, the...
Mixed reaction to TNSM chief’s sentence MINGORA, April 22: The people belonging to different walks of life have shown mixed reaction over the seven-year jail term handed down to the amir of the defunct Tahrik Nefaz-i-Shariah Muhammadi...		Jail chief booked in torture case LARKANA, April 22: The Waleed police here on Monday registered an FIR against eight persons, including Larkana Central Prison superintendent Manzoor Ahmed Memon, in the torture case of an under-trial prisoner,...
Arrest of SHO demanded NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, April 22: The family members of the deceased Sadiq Rind, who died of the alleged police torture at the Moro police station one month ago, continued their protest...		Woman killed SHIKARPUR, April 22: A woman was killed and her husband was seriously injured in an armed clash between two groups of Domki tribe in Shah Ali-ji-Wandh village, near Amrote Sharif, on...
26 arrested after clash LARKANA, April 22: The Mahota police arrested 26 people from two rival groups of the Khuhro clan after they exchanged fire to settle a land dispute in the kutcha area on...		Court orders Pims not to discharge coma patient ISLAMABAD, April 22: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench has directed the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) administration not to discharge the patient who went into coma after being...
Car-washers pollute streams ISLAMABAD, April 22: The tributaries of Nullah Leh, flowing from Margalla Hills, where once acquatic-life flourished, has been turned into poisonous, polluted streams with the setting up of ‘service stations’ along...		Special children articulate vision of environment ISLAMABAD, April 22: The Earth Day was commemorated on Monday with special children of the twin cities articulating their vision of environment in a creative way at the Sustainable Development Policy...
CDA depts told to provide vehicles for referendum ISlAMABAD, April 22: Some 24 departments and directorates of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) have been directed to place their vehicles at the disposal of the Islamabad Capital Territory administration for...		Children to be educated about wildlife ISLAMABAD, April 22: The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is establishing a Margalla Conservation and Information Centre (MCIC) at Murghzar Zoo to inform children about wildlife and forests, the Fund director education,...
UNHCR helps 300,855 Afghans return home ISLAMABAD, April 22: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has assisted 300,855 Afghans to return to their country from Pakistan in seven weeks of its repatriation operation, says a...		Drive against use of plastic bags launched ISLAMABAD, April 22: Federal environment minister Barrister Shahida Jamil on Monday said the government was committed to conserve environment and solve public problems....
Private sector asked to help rehabilitate special people ISLAMABAD, April 22: Private-public partnership is of vital importance for the healthy upbringing of the special children since the government is unable to shoulder this responsibility alone....		Over 1,200 doctors’ vacancies filled LAHORE, April 22: The Health Department has filled more than 50 per cent vacancies of medical officers at its basic health units and government-run dispensaries across the province in its drive...
Tepa again working on Ring Road alignment LAHORE, April 22: The Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency is redoing the alignment of 70-kilometre Lahore Ring Road....		LDA decides to lease out plot for Expo Centre LAHORE, April 22: The Lahore Development Authority decided on Monday to lease out the 400 kanal Expo Centre plot in Johar Town for Rs10 million per annum with an annual escalation...
Contempt plea against CJ LAHORE, April 22: A lawyer moved a contempt petition against Chief Justice Falak Sher of the Lahore High Court on Monday for not fixing a writ petition challenging the establishment of...		Fifth day of BISEs employees strike LAHORE, April 22: Employees of the eight boards of intermediate and secondary education in the Punjab continued their strike for the fifth day on Monday....