June 5, 2002	Wednesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 23,1423

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Growers to get quality cotton seed, pesticides VEHARI, June 4: Governor Khalid Maqbool has said the government would ensure provision of best quality cotton seed and pesticides to the growers and solve their problems on priority basis....		Breach in Upper Gogera Canal: Subversion suspected SHEIKHUPURA, June 4: Several houses were damaged and sugar cane crops inundated in Khurd and Kalan localities on Tuesday when at least 75-foot breach was developed in Upper Gogera Branch Canalnear...
PSP vows to change Indus river’s name MULTAN, June 4: The Pakistan Seraiki Party will change the Indus river’s name to the river ‘Seraiko,’ if Sindhi leadership keeps on demanding more water share....		Call to fix phutti price at Rs900 MULTAN, June 4: PML-QA leader and a former speaker of the national assembly, Syed Fakhar Imam, has urged the government to fix minimum price of phutti (seed cotton) at Rs900 per...
Drug traffickers, dacoits arrested OKARA, June 4: The district police have arrested two pushers with 25kg of charas, 10kg of opium and 40 litres of liquor and a gang of bandits with a three-wheeler and...		Rs8,000 for repair of transformer demanded SADIQABAD, June 4: Residents of Basti Haji Ghulam Sarwar near Chachran Sharif have been braving hot weather for the last three days as the electricity transformer developed a fault....
Two condemned prisoners pardoned GUJRANWALA, June 4: Two condemned prisoners were pardoned on Tuesday by the family of the victims....		Meter removed despite dues’ payment GUJRAT, June 4: Wapda employees removed the electricity meter of a doctor despite the fact that he had paid the bills....
11 cattle killed in Indian shelling SIALKOT, June 4: At least 11 cattle were killed in unabated Indian shelling on various sectors of the Sialkot working boundary on Tuesday....		Two women killed by kin JHANG, June 4: Two women were slaughtered by their relatives in Chiniot during the last 24 hours....
Accidents claim two lives TOBA TEK SINGH, June 4: Two persons were killed in separate road accidents here on Tuesday....		Vaccination for measles LAHORE, June 4: The government hospitals have started vaccinating daily the children between nine and 23 months of age against measles....
Six injured in tanker fire VEHARI, June 4: Six people were injured in an oil-tanker fire at the Pakistan State Oil depot here on Tuesday which raged for three hours, destroying three tankers and the PSO...		Additional UN observers along LoC demanded MUZAFFARABAD, June 4: Leader of the opposition in the AJK Legislative Assembly and former Azad Kashmir prime minister Barrister Sultan Mahmood on Tuesday demanded of the United Nations to raise the...
Iran offers mediation to end tension TEHRAN, June 4: Iran has offered to mediate in the crisis between India and Pakistan, urging both countries not to pour fuel on the flames of their dispute, the Iranian news...		APNS describes Defamation Ord as draconian KARACHI, June 4: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has unequivocally rejected both the motivation and the rationale contained within the draft of the new Defamation Ordinance 2002....
Struggle for freedom won’t wane, says Hizb MUZAFFARABAD, June 4: A dominant group of Kashmiri freedom fighters, Hizbul Mujahideen, said on Tuesday that the freedom struggle in the occupied Kashmir would not wane despite what it called negative...		Five lawyers held for protesting GILGIT, June 4: Five lawyers were arrested for staging a sit-in in front of the city police station on Tuesday against what they called the issuance of contempt of court notices...
No handshake between Musharraf, Vajpayee ALMATY, June 4: President Pervez Musharraf said here on Tuesday that he did not shake hands or meet Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee during a regional conference in the Kazakh...		FSC seeks comments on 3 saving schemes ISLAMABAD, June 4: The Federal Shariat Court directed on Tuesday the finance division to submit para-wise comments on the shariat petition moved by a local lawyer against three national saving schemes...
Provinces asked to finalize proposals : Police Ordinance RAWALPINDI, June 4: The Centre has directed the provinces to finalize their recommendations on various features of the Police Ordinance within a week, official source said on Tuesday....		Bail of FEHF money’s embezzler cancelled RAWALPINDI, June 4: The Supreme Court has cancelled the pre-arrest bail of a man, who received 37.80 million from the Federal Employees Housing Foundation (FEHF) as earnest for purchasing 2,000 kanals...
Leghari to give German FM Musharraf’s letter BERLIN, June 4: Pakistan envoy Farooq Ahmed Leghari will give German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer a letter on Tuesday outlining President Pervez Musharraf’s solution to the Kashmir dispute with India, a...		Text of president’s speech at Almaty conference ISLAMABAD, June 4: The following is the text of the speech by President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday to the 16-nation Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Almaty,...
Farmers to stop beet growing MARDAN, June 4: Local growers have decided to stop growing the beet crop in view of the insufficient buying rates fixed for current year and non-resolution of their problems....		Fair distribution of resources promised KOHAT, June 4: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has pledged a judicious distribution of resources among the backward areas of the province....
Rawa flays crackdown on DPs PESHAWAR, June 4: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (Rawa) has criticized the law enforcement agencies for meting out harsh treatment to Afghan refugees, especially in the federal capital territory....		Govt urged to prepare four-month budget PESHAWAR, June 4: Awami National Party Information Secretary Haji Mohammad Adeel said on Tuesday that the government should prepare budget only for the first four months of the next financial year....
‘Pakhtoons being ignored in Loya Jirga’ CHARSADDA, June 4: An Afghan leader of Kunduz, Dr Tila Mohammad, on Tuesday alleged that Pakhtoons have been ignored in the formation of Loya Jirga, to be held in Kabul from June...		PAP dissolves provincial committees PESHAWAR, June 4: Pakistan Awami Party (PAP) has dissolved its provincial-and district-level bodies across the country, and will hold elections at the districts and tehsils, said a press release....
Swabi group to challenge ANP SWABI, June 4: Leaders of the Collective Independent Swabi Group announced here on Tuesday that they would contest the forthcoming election from the platform of the group....		People asked to forge unity GILGIT, June 4: Northern Areas Chief Secretary Fazal Durrani has appealed to people for maintaining sectarian harmony and fostering unity among their ranks at a time when the nation is faced...
Infant, 5 others wounded in railway police shelling SUKKUR, June 4: Six people, including three women and an infant, were injured when a demolishing campaign by railway authorities turned violent near Maal Godaam (merchandise godown) here on Monday and...		Rocket blast creates panic SANGHAR, June 4: A rocket explosion spread panic in and around the Cadet College, Jam Nawaz Ali, on Monday....
SSC to debate water issue on 28th KARACHI, June 4: A meeting of the Sindh Solidarity Council (SSC) has been called for June 28 to discuss measures to resist the usurpation of water and wealth of Sindh and...		Youth killed SHIKARPUR, June 4: A gang of 10 armed men raided a house in village Sher Khan Soomro of Khanpur and shot dead Basheer Ahmed Soomro (22) when his parents offered resistance....
Water flow at Sukkur rises SUKKUR, June 4: Water flow at Sukkur Barrage has improved remarkably over the last three days, following melting of snow on Skardu heights, stabilizing the overall situation. The Chief Engineer...		Protest against EDO, civil surgeon DADU, June 4: The workers of various political parties including the JSQM, the JSSF, the STSF, and the PPP (SB) took out a rally on Tuesday against the EDO, Health, and...
Pakistan ill-equipped to combat pollution LAHORE, June 4: Pakistan is observing the World Environment Day on Wednesday, ill-equipped and less motivated to control pollution of all kind....		Encyclopaedia volume LAHORE, June 4: The Punjab University has published the first volume of its Urdu Encyclopaedia of Islam. It plans to publish later the Arabic, Persian and Turkish versions of the encyclopaedia....
Monsoon emergency in Wasa LAHORE, June 4: A monsoon emergency has been declared in the Water and Sanitation Agency of the Lahore Development Authority with immediate effect to put employees on a alert to deal...		Prisoners help triple jails’ revenue LAHORE, June 4: The amount contributed by the prisoners to the revenue of the Punjab jails tripled in the first 10 months of the current fiscal over the corresponding months last...
JI demands to make referendum record public LAHORE, June 4: The Jamaat-i-Islami has asked the government to make public the April 30 presidential referendum record so that journalists, lawyers, intellectuals and human rights activists could check the validity...		Almaty moot outcome disappoints Nawabzada LAHORE, June 4: ARD President Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan on Tuesday expressed disappointment over the outcome of the Almaty conference, saying dangers to the integrity of the country had not reduced because...