May 9, 2002	Thursday	Safar 25, 1423

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Maqbool seeks report on police torture of two women SAHIWAL, May 8: Punjab Governor Lt-Gen Khalid Maqbool (retired) has sought a report from local DPO regarding police torture on two women in the district courts on Monday....		Teachers warn of protest drive FAISALABAD, May 8: Teachers of various government educational institutions have threatened to launch a protest drive against what they termed an illegal arrest of a college professor....
Protest against US operation in Tribal Areas GUJRANWALA, May 8: Chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Maulana Fazlur Rahman said on Wednesday that his party would observe protest day on Friday against the US troops’ operation...		Case against tehsil Nazim, staff lodged FAISALABAD, May 8: Railway police have registered a case against city tehsil Nazim Mumtaz Ali Cheema, its public relations officer Yousaf Mufti and a dozen employees of the tehsil municipal administration...
Growers shun wheat disposal hassle BAHAWALPUR, May 8: Scores of wheat growers have started selling their produce at throwaway prices to avoid food department’s complicated procedure of acquiring gunny bags and disposal of wheat, it is...		Courses for ex-servicemen’s wives, daughters FAISALABAD, May 8: Technical courses of 40 week duration for the wives and daughters of ex-servicemen of the Faisalabad district will start in the local Fauji Foundation Vocational Training Centre from...
Rs80m for Sialkot uplift plans sanctioned SIALKOT, May 8: The federal government has sanctioned a grant of Rs80 million for the uplift of the district under city development package....		Water scarcity a serious threat to cotton crop MULTAN, May 8: Scarcity of water is a serious threat to the cotton crop as regard to its acreage and per acre yield....
9 labourers injured in roof collapse FAISALABAD, May 8: Nine labourers of a powerloom unit sustained injuries, five of them serious, on Wednesday when a factory roof collapsed at Noorpur in the limits of Sargodha Road police...		20,925 fined in six dists in April GUJRANWALA, May 8: The traffic police have issued around 20,925 tickets to vehicle owners and fined Rs4.2 million collectively for violating the traffic rules in six districts during April....
School clerk booked for fraud SHEIKHUPURA, May 8: A junior clerk was booked on Wednesday on the charge of misappropriating a school’s funds....		Pharmacists flay quality boards constitution MULTAN, May 8: The local chapter of Pakistan Chemists and Druggists Association (PCDA) on Wednesday criticized the composition of district quality control boards, terming it against the drugs rules 1988....
Lawyers observe strike TOBA TEK SINGH, May 8: The District Bar Association observed a strike on Wednesday in protest against the torture of three Bar members by some villagers of Chak 152-GB, Bhindianwala....		Man run over by coaster KASUR, May 8: A passenger was run over by a coaster near Gilanwala village, Chunian, on Wednesday....
Bahawalnagar sizzles BAHAWALNAGAR, May 8: Temperature in the district on Wednesday soared to 48.2 degree Celsius....		More suicide attacks feared this month: 300 Al Qaeda men present: intelligence reports ISLAMABAD, May 8: The government has not ruled out the possibility of Al Qaeda’s involvement in Wednesday’s suicide attack in Karachi, senior interior ministry officials informed Dawn....
Striking employees seeking political help: govt QUETTA, May 8: Balochistan government has termed the ongoing strike of its low-grade employees, including teachers, illegal and without any justification....		Probe ordered into misuse of narcotics dept’s funds ISLAMABAD, May 8: The ad-hoc public accounts committee (PAC) ordered on Wednesday an inquiry into misuse of vehicle, telephone and other facilities provided by the US to the narcotics control division...
Benazir condemns Karachi blast ISLAMABAD, May 8: PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has expressed shock over the suicide bombing in Karachi....		Audience in New York sways to Junoon’s songs NEW YORK, May 8: Junoon group gave a frenzied performance at New York’s Town Hall last Thursday where a crowd of 2,000, mostly Pakistanis, swayed to the beat of drums and...
PML-QA leader advises parties to take part in elections QUETTA, May 8: A former federal minister and the joint secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League (QA), Dr Mir Haji Khan Tareen, has called upon all political parties to take part...		SC upholds Election Tribunal’s verdict ISLAMABAD, May 8: The current Nazim and Naib Nazim of Union Council No 58 Chicha Watni will continue to work till the finalization of their appeals against the order of the...
PML-N to publish white paper ISLAMABAD, May 8: Pakistan Muslim League(N) will publish a white paper on the alleged irregularities in the recently held referendum which has been widely termed “fraud” by the opposition parties here...		Suspected Al Qaeda member killed WANA, May 8: A man was killed in a clash with the US allied forces in the Barmal area of Afghanistan, sources said....
SC to hear Omar’s plea for case transfer ISLAMABAD, May 8: The Supreme Court (SC) will begin hearing of appeals filed by Ahmed Omar Saeed Shaikh and other three accused in Daniel Pearl’s murder case here on Thursday....		MJC vows to foil Delhi’s bid to sabotage freedom struggle MUZAFFARABAD, May 8: The Kashmiri Mujahideen groups declared on Wednesday that they would frustrate New Delhi’s designs to “sabotage the freedom struggle through the elements which have been bought by it.”...
High pesticide rates hamper production PESHAWAR, May 8: Small farmers in the Frontier Province are facing hardships in the wake of high prices of insecticides and the tactics adopted by tobacco companies to fleece them, many...		KMC students stopped from attending classes : Self-finance scheme PESHAWAR, May 8: The Khyber Medical College administration has stopped the self-finance scheme students from attending their classes after five months on the pretext that they would be given admission after...
Allocation of PA seats for Kohat challenged KOHAT, May 8: The delimitation of four constituencies of the provincial assembly seats of Kohat into three has been challenged in the Chief Election Commission of Pakistan office, Islamabad, by the...		Doctors, judges dispute over possession of house MARDAN, May 8: A senior civil judge, Sumera Noreen, has claimed that some officials of  the district headquarters hospital attacked her house and threw out her household items, while the hospital authorities...
Doctors violate ban on private practice TIMERGARA, May 8: Doctors working in the government hospital in Timergara have been violating the ban on government-employed doctors’ private practice, it has been learnt....		Irregularities in IBP come to fore PESHAWAR, May 8: As many consultants joining the institution-based practice (IBP) at public sector hospitals, many irregularities were coming to fore with each passing day, doctors and health workers told Dawn....
Two teachers of John Walker held BANNU, May 8: The teachers of Abdul Hameed (John Walker), an American Taliban fighter, were arrested here early on Tuesday morning....		Abbottabad Nazim urges removal of poplar trees ABBOTTABAD, May 8: The district Nazim of Abbottabad, Mustafa Jadoon, has asked the forest department and municipal authorities to remove poplar trees from the city, saying they are causing not only...
HRCP seeks repeal of FCR BAJAUR, May 8: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan chairman Afrasiyab Khattak has criticized the Frontier Crime Regulation and held it responsible for human rights violations in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas....		Factory gutted in Hattar HARIPUR, May 8: A socks manufacturing unit was burnt in Hattar industrial estate here on Monday night, police sources said. The cause of the fire was stated to be short-circuit, sources...
Nazims plan alliance ABBOTTABAD, May 8: All the five district Nazims of Hazara Division have decided to form an alliance for checking “corrupt politicians” from being elected in the October polls....		Chitral getting substandard wheat CHITRAL, May 8: The general body meeting of the Itehadul Ulama Pakistan, Chitral, chaired by former MPA Maulana Ghulam Mohammad the other day, demanded of the government to take notice of...
Five injured over land dispute NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, May 8: Five persons were injured in an attack in Nagar Khan Solangi village, near Naushahro Feroze bypass, on Wednesday evening....		Rally against Thal canal staged LARKANA, May 8: The activists of the Jeay Sindh Students Federation, (JSSF), Chandka Medical College (CMC) Unit, staged a protest demonstration against the construction of Thal canal on Wednesday....
Water shortage hits cotton, rice crops SUKKUR, May 8: Cotton and rice crops in Sukkur and Larkana divisions, and in some parts of Balochistan, have been badly hit due to water shortage....		Canal rotation plan modified KHAIRPUR, May 8: The water rotation programme has once again been modified in the irrigation, west division, Khairpur....
Demo against Lasmo held DADU, May 8: About two thousand Shahani tribesmen staged a demonstration near the local camp of the Lasmo Oil and Gas Company at Naing Sharif, some 120 km away from here,...		Protest against water shortage NAWABSHAH, May 8: The growers of the Setharki Minor staged a a sit-in and observed a token hunger strike opposite the press club here on Wednesday against the irrigation official for...
JI, PML-QA bid to join hands LAHORE, May 8: A PML(QA) delegation led by Mian Azhar is scheduled to hold a breakfast meeting with Jamaat-i-Islami amir Qazi Husain Ahmad on Thursday in an attempt to find common...		Lahore Arts Council’s BoGs chief ‘resigns’ LAHORE, May 8: The chairman of the Lahore Arts Council’s Board of Governors, Faqir Syed Ejazuddin, has reportedly tendered his resignation in view of the questioning of the legality of the...
Thalassemia day observed LAHORE, May 8: International Thalassaemia Day was observed here on Wednesday....		Scavengers kill two policemen RAWALPINDI, May 8: Two policemen were shot dead and another was injured when four scavengers, on bicycles, opened fire on them in Satellite Town on Wednesday, police sources said....
Reduction in GST on drugs on cards ISLAMABAD, May 8: The government is considering a proposal to reduce General Sales Tax (GST) rate on medicines from 15 per cent to five per cent, a source told Dawn on...		LG polls process to start by June ISLAMABAD, May 8: The process of local government (LG) election in Islamabad will start by June, a member of the National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) said here on Wednesday....