May 15, 2002	Wednesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 2, 1423

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NIH confirms seven polio cases in Rajanpur UC MULTAN, May 14: The National Institute of Health, Islamabad, has confirmed dreadful P1 strain of polio in seven cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) reported from one village of Rajanpur district....		Action against PTBB officials demanded: Delay in marketing textbooks FAISALABAD, May 14: All Pakistan Private Schools’ Management Association has urged the Punjab governor to take action against the Punjab Textbook Board (PTBB) officials for their failure to provide books of...
Visitors blast doctors’ apathy: Deaths at DHQ emergency JHANG, May 14: Scores of patients and visitors to the District Headquarters Hospital have expressed concern over what they termed apathy of doctors at the emergency unit....		Minister orders demolition of OPD building SAHIWAL, May 14: The under-construction outpatients department of the DHQ Hospital has reportedly been ordered to be demolished by the provincial health minister....
PML-QA united under Azhar FAISALABAD, May 14: The Pakistan Muslim League (QA) is united under the leadership of Mian Azhar and there is no tussle between any leader for capturing the top slot of the...		Boy killed in rivals’ crossfire TOBA TEK SINGH, May 14: An eight-year-old boy was killed in a crossfire between two rival groups in Chak 184-GB on Tuesday....
Procurement of wheat suspended till disposal GUJRANWALA, May 14: The food department officials have suspended wheat purchase in Naushera Virkan, Naukher and Kamoki centres till the disposal of huge quantity of purchased wheat....		Lawyers observe strike GUJRAT, May 14: The members of the local Bar association observed a complete strike on Tuesday to protest against the attitude of Mandi Bahauddin SP....
Two police officials suspended from service SHEIKHUPURA, May 14: Two police officials were suspended from service on Tuesday on the charge of dereliction of duty....		Livestock migration from Cholistan CHOLISTAN, May 14: The entire animal population of the Cholistan desert has migrated during the last three-year drought after suffering a mortality rate of five to seven per cent....
Police recover car, cash JHANG, May 14: The district police claimed to have recovered within few hours the car some bandits drove away with on Monday morning....		19 faint in hot spell BAHAWALNAGAR, May 14: At least 19 people, most of them children, fell unconscious on Tuesday as mercury soared to 51 degree Celsius....
LHC acquits Zardari in corruption case LAHORE, May 14: Former Pakistan People’s Party MNA Hakim Ali Zardari was acquitted by a Lahore High Court accountability appellate bench on Tuesday....		Govt winds up Social Action Programme ISLAMABAD, May 14: The federal government has eventually decided to close the controversial Social Action Programme (SAP) on June 30, 2002, as it failed to achieve the objectives of improving the...
PML(QA) invites applications for polls ISLAMABAD, May 14: Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam) has invited applications from the party members interested in contesting provincial and national assembly elections on the party’s tickets....		Nawaz to return before polls: PML leader ISLAMABAD, May 14: Pakistan Muslim League (N) Chairman, Raja Zafarul Haq, has said the exiled party chief, Nawaz Sharif, is expected to return home much before the October polls and there...
Benazir urges commutation of Zafran’s sentence ISLAMABAD, May 14: Former prime minister and chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party Benazir Bhutto has called upon the military regime to immediately commute the death sentence given to Zafran Bibi....		Pakistan, China to cooperate in arms control ISLAMABAD, May 14: Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar and his visiting Chinese counterpart Tang Jiaxuan on Tuesday reiterated shared resolve to expand and further strengthen the close and cooperative relations between Pakistan...
Weapons’ display banned in tribal area PESHAWAR, May 14: The authorities have banned the display of arms for the first time in the tribal area bordering Afghanistan, local officials said....		Cabinet to discuss law, order today ISLAMABAD, May 14: The federal cabinet is meeting here on Wednesday to discuss the prevailing law and order situation, and review the development activities of various ministries and divisions....
Gas pipeline damaged QUETTA, May 14: A pipeline linking two gas wells in the Sui field in Balochistan caught fire when unknown men resorted to indiscriminate firing causing damage to the pipeline and suspension...		122 Afghans arrested QUETTA, May 14: Border security authorities have arrested and deported 122 Afghans who crossed into Pakistan illegally in Chaghai district on Tuesday, official sources said....
Sessions judges get juvenile courts’ powers PESHAWAR, May 14: Taking first step towards the implementation of the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance (JJSO), 2000, the Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, has conferred...		Power tussle to mar future govt: PPP KOHAT, May 14: Pakistan People’s Party’s leaders in the Kohat division have demanded of President Gen Pervez Musharraf to step down after the verdict given by the people in the referendum...
Moral education must for youths MANSEHRA, May 14: The Chairman, Public Service Commission, NWFP, Mr Abdullah, has said that youths are like live electric wire and if they are not insulated with the cover of morality,...		Committee formed to help women detainees KOHAT, May 14: The NWFP Minister for Law, Athar Minallah, has said the government has constituted a committee to chalk out proposals for the legal help and rehabilitation of women and...
JAC demands repealing of Hudood Ordinance PESHAWAR, May 14: The Joint Action Committee, an alliance of various NGOs, staged a demonstration against Hudood laws in front of Peshawar Press Club here on Tuesday....		Patwari held on graft charge MARDAN, May 14: A Patwari of Fatima village was arrested by the officials of the Anti-corruption Department and complaint cell of the district government on corruption charge here on Monday....
Jewellery, cash looted HARIPUR, May 14: Armed bandits looted valuables from a house in Mohalla Noor Colony here on Monday night....		FPPS calls for regulatory body to check drug prices ISLAMABAD, May 14: Foundation for the Preferment of Pharmaceutical Sciences (FPPS) has asked the government to constitute a regulatory authority to check the ‘unjustified’ increase in medicine prices....
Capital police get Rs13.5m for buying 34 vehicles ISLAMABAD, May 14: The government has allocated Rs13.5 million for beefing up the investigation wing of the Islamabad police....		Kidney selling on the rise in twin cities RAWALPINDI, May 14: Kidney transplantation has become largely commercialized here due to an absence of legal safeguards, poverty and illiteracy....
WAF vows to fight for repeal of Hudood Ord ISLAMABAD, May 14: The Women’s Action Forum (WAF) renewed its commitment to continue with its struggle for repeal of the Hudood Ordinance....		Dist admin issues no official price list ISLAMABAD, May 14: District Administration Islamabad (DAI) has not issued any official price list of consumers items to control prices, sources from the DAI told Dawn on Tuesday....
RCB facing acute water shortage RAWALPINDI, May 14: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) is facing shortage of about 26 million gallon per day (mgd) of water, which is likely to increase if the current dry spell...		Boy dies in Indian shelling MUZAFFARABAD, May 14: A teenage boy was killed in the Poonch district on Tuesday in Indian shelling from across the Line of Control, police said....
Punjab govt notifies subsidy on farm tubewells LAHORE, May 14: The Punjab government decided on Tuesday to provide relief to farmers by sharing one third of their electricity bills of agriculture tubewells for the next three months....		37 seek Asaan Ghar loans in six months LAHORE, May 14: Aasan Ghar, the Shariat-compliant investment scheme of the House Building Finance Corporation has attracted 37 loan applications since its launch in December....
‘Killings exercise in futility’ LAHORE, May 14: The killing of four sectarian militants, including Riaz Basra, in a staged encounter in Vehari is a “futile exercise” and will have no impact on measures to counter...		Gas meter ‘stolen’ LAHORE, May 14: Unidentified thieves removed a gas meter from the residence of an Election Commission official in H-Block of the Sabzazar Housing Scheme on Monday....