April 27, 2002	Saturday	Safar 13, 1423

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Musharraf pledges end to deprivation MIRPURKHAS, April 26: President Gen Pervez Musharraf said here on Friday that he was well aware of the sense of deprivation prevailing in Sindh regarding the scarcity of water and inadequacy...		47 more lawyers held as protests continue QUETTA, April 26: Police on Friday arrested 47 lawyers, including three leaders, for taking out a procession to protest against the referendum and the arrests of a large number of lawyers...
PIA allowed to buy seven aircraft ISLAMABAD, April 26: The federal government has approved PIA’s plan to purchase seven new aircraft to help modernise its fleet....		Work on irrigation projects to begin soon NAWABSHAH, April 26: President Pervez Musharraf has said that the government will soon undertake work on big irrigation projects in Sindh, including construction of Reni Canal and Sehwan barrage....
US assured of fair referendum ISLAMABAD, April 26: Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retd) Irshad Hasan Khan has said that it is the duty of Election Commission to make all necessary arrangements to ensure that referendum is...		Irregularities in hospital alleged GUJRAT, April 26: The head of the pharmacy department of the Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Hospital has resigned from service due to ‘harsh attitude’ of the medical superintendent, it is learnt....
Vehari wheat growers left in the lurch VEHARI, April 26: Already groaning with the cotton crisis, growers in the district are left in the lurch as their wheat could not attract more than Rs240 per 40kg, much below...		Sufficient gunny bags available: secretary LAHORE, April 26: The food secretary said on Friday that ample quantity of gunny bags were available at 292 purchase centres of the department....
Arch rivals unite on one platform DERA GHAZI KHAN, April 26: The referendum has united arch-rivals at one platform provided by the Jamaat-i-Islami in the district....		ASI, muharrar sent to jail: False theft case SAHIWAL, April 26: The special anti-corruption judge (Multan camp) in Sahiwal on Friday cancelled the pre-arrest bails of an ASI, muharrar and a clerk of the former Deputy Commissioner office....
Main accused of SSP’s murder acquitted GUJRANWALA, April 26: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 acquitted on Friday the main accused and activist of the banned SSP involved in the murder of banned TJP divisional president and former...		Three prayer leaders booked TOBA TEK SINGH, April 26: Gojra City police on Friday registered cases against three khatibs of different mosques on the charge of delivering provocative speeches....
Indian firing goes on without respite SIALKOT, April 26: The harvesting of seasonal crops badly disrupted in the wake of continued shelling on Friday by the Indian security forces on villages in the Sialkot working boundary’s Chhumb...		Two held with fake cheque DERA ISMAIL KHAN, April 26: The Cantt police have arrested two men of Mahsud tribe who were trying to get a fake cheque encashed from a bank....
Rs3bn will be spent on uplift: governor MINGORA, April 26: NWFP Governor Lt-Gen (retd) Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said implementation on Malakand Rural Support Programme is to be taken in hand in a month or two....		Gomal Zam dam not cost-effective, seminar told PESHAWAR, April 26: Speakers at a day-long seminar on the under-execution ‘Gomal Zam dam and its impact’ expressed reservations about the multi-purpose water storage project....
Smuggling of timber affects forest SOUTH WAZIRISTAN, April 26: Smuggling of timber has not only been causing depletion of forest in the region but also affecting the scenic beauty, a survey said....		Environment day at Hazara University PESHAWAR, April 26: Hazara University Environment Society will observe Saturday as University Environment Protection Day, says a press release issued on Friday....
Tailor robbed NOWSHERA, April 26: A robber deprived a businessman of Rs550,000 in the front of the State Bank building in the Peshawar Saddar area....		Polling stations in districts finalized KOHAT, April 26: The Election Commission will establish 795 polling stations for referendum on April 30 in the former division and the Kohat frontier region, officials said on Friday....
Minister seeks support for referendum TIMERGARA, April 26: The minister for Kashmir Affairs, Abbas Sarfraz Khan, called upon the Nazims and Naib Nazims to empower President Pervez Musharraf by voting for him in the referendum....		Over 35pc people in Pakistan poor: survey ISLAMABAD, April 26: Pakistan continued to falter on the economic front during 2000-2001 with an increase in the poverty index and decline in the GDP growth rate, shows the Economic and...
Atta for setting up cells in industries ISLAMABAD, April 26: The federal science and technology minister, Prof Attaur Rehman, has stressed the need for establishing marketing cells in the industrial units to link industries with markets....		Economic stress main cause of rising suicide cases RAWALPINDI, April 26: As many as 61 people, including 10 women, lost their lives in suicides and related incidents in Rawalpindi district in the first quarter of 2002, police sources said....
Polling staff training completed ISLAMABAD, April 26: The two-day training of over 2,200 staff for referendum was completed at the Islamabad Model College for Boys, F-8/4, on Friday....		Court directs Pims to probe staff negligence: Youth in coma ISLAMABAD, April 26: The Lahore High Court (LHC), Rawalpindi bench, on Friday directed the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) to conduct an inquiry into the negligence of its staff which...
Wagon snatched at gunpoint RAWALPINDI, April 26: Five unidentified persons snatched a wagon from its driver in Gulzar-i-Quaid here on Friday....		ARD allowed to hold meeting LAHORE, April 26: The district government finally allowed on Friday the ARD to hold its public meeting at the Minar-i-Pakistan on Saturday where no telephonic address of any leader is expected....
Ajmal Niazi gets notice LAHORE, April 26: The Punjab governor has served a show-cause notice on Dr Ajmal Niazi, an associate professor of Urdu at Government FC College, on charges of misconduct....		NAB to ‘deal’ case against president LAHROE, April 26: The Lahore High Court on Friday asked a lawyer who wanted references against the President, the provincial governor and the district Nazim of Lahore to approach the National...