June 15, 2002	Saturday	Rabi-us-Sani 3, 1423

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Body formed to resist ‘terrible’ taxation MULTAN, June 14: Local politicians and business community have formed an action committee to compel city tehsil administration to withdraw ‘terrible’ taxes it wants to impose in the coming fiscal....		Road contractor using unapproved material GUJRAT, June 14: The Road Research and Material Testing Institute, Lahore, has indicated use of unapproved material by a construction company, granted six road construction projects in Gujrat....
New parliament to decide dist govts fate: minister SAHIWAL, June 14: New parliament will be competent enough to decide the fate of the district government system after the restoration of the 1973 Constitution....		Upgrading of Bahawalpur airport approved BAHAWALPUR, June 14: The Federal government has agreed in principle to upgrade the Bahawalpur airport to make possible the landing of Boeing aircraft....
Registration office clerk shot dead GUJRANWALA, June 14: A clerk of the registration office on Friday was shot dead by his rivals in revenge in Satellite Town...		Protest against shortage of drugs at PESSI hospital SHEIKHUPURA, June 14: Hundreds of employees, particularly labourers of factories located on the Faisalabad Road, protested against the indifferent behaviour of the Punjab Employees Social Security Institute on Friday....
Teenager raped TOBA TEK SINGH, June 14: A teenaged girl was raped while another was kidnapped in Kamalia and Rajana on Friday....		50-foot breach developed in Bihari Canal SADIQABAD, June 14: A 50-foot breach in the Bihari Canal wreaked havoc on various localities in the district on Friday....
Rs440 million development package for Sargodha SARGODHA, June 14: The government has allocated a sum of Rs440 million for 432 development projects in the district during the coming fiscal....		ADB fund to be spent on improvement of judiciary OKARA, June 14: Federal Law Minister Dr Khalid Ranjha said on Friday the government would spend every paisa received from the Asian Development Bank for the improvement of judicial system....
India was in no position to fight a war: paper NEW DELHI, June 14: At least a month before war drums resonated over the border, the Indian military high command had told the parliamentary standing committee on defence that the country...		Dera Bugti under siege, says JWP QUETTA, June 14: The Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP), senior vice-president Khuda-i-Noor has demanded that thousands of militiamen, who have cordoned off Dera Bugti township, should be withdrawn, and water, electricity and...
Strategy formulated to avoid war KARACHI, June 14: The South Asian Forum for Security and Cooperation, a group of citizens of the region, has formulated the following recommendations as a strategy for conflict and crisis management...		Appointment of 2 NHA members questioned ISLAMABAD, June 14: The chief executive’s secretariat has expressed displeasure over unauthorised appointment of two members in National Highway Authority....
300kg hashish seized QUETTA, June 14: Pishin Scouts, a wing of Frontier Corps has seized 300 kg of fine quality hashish on Friday from border area with Afghanistan....		Three rockets fired at gas well QUETTA, June 14: Unknown persons fired three rockets on a gas well No 3 of Uch gas field late on Thursday night causing disruption to gas supply as the well caught...
NAs cabinet condemns terrorist strike ISLAMABAD, June 14: Northern Areas Cabinet on Friday strongly condemned the cowardly terrorist strike in Karachi, which took a toll of several innocent lives....		Arrest of Gichki’s murderers demanded QUETTA, June 14: Balochistan National Party (Mengal group) on Friday warned the provincial government that if murderers of Mir Aslsam Gichki are not arrested by June 30, it will be responsible...
SC announces detailed referendum case verdict ISLAMABAD, June 14: Supreme Court on Friday announced its detailed judgment, spread over 97 pages, in the referendum case....		Musharraf congratulates Karzai ISLAMABAD, June 14: President General Pervez Musharraf has congratulated Hamid Karzai on his election as head of the state of the transitional administration of Afghanistan....
Sindh declares calamity-hit areas KARACHI, June 14: The Sindh government has declared the entire Tharparkar and Badin districts, 39 Talukas of 10 districts and 35 Dehs of defunct Malir taluka as calamity-hit areas. These areas...		100 held as crackdown on bandits begins KHAIRPUR, June 14: The Sindh police have begun operations against bandits in the forest of Khairpur, Sukkur and Shikarpur districts....
Thatta district lacks sanitation facilities: study THATTA, June 14: At least 77.12 per cent of the population of Thatta District lacks sanitation facilities, one of the major reasons for epidemic diseases like Hepatitis, Asthma, and Malaria breaking...		Protest against Wapda, police SUKKUR, June 14: About 500 residents, including the representatives of some political, social and religious organizations, observed a token hunger strike in Jacobabad for the second consecutive day on Friday against...
Post-graduate classes at Chandka soon LARKANA, June 14: A post-graduate centre would soon begin functioning at the Chandka Medical College (CMC), said Sindh health minister Ehsan Ahmed while speaking at a reception of the Pakistan Medical...		Two die in accident DADU, June 14: Two persons were killed and six others seriously injured in a road accident near Thermal Power House, Jamshoro, on Friday morning....
Man kills sister LARKANA, June 14: A woman, Heer wife of Shoukat Brohi, was shot dead in village Khattan Khan Brohi near Waggan on Friday by her brother over a matrimonial dispute....		Afghan DPs role in NWFP’s economy hailed ABBOTTABAD, June 14: The Afghan refugees have made a worthwhile contribution to the economic growth of the province through the export of hand-knotted carpets produced in Pakistan....
Contingency liabilities stand at Rs35.2 billion ISLAMABAD, June 14: Pakistan’s explicit and implicit contingency liabilities, excluding pension payments, have touched a whopping Rs35.2 billion due to sovereign guarantees and losses incurred by public sector corporations....		Students concerned at delay in results PESHAWAR, June 14: Scores of students of the University of Peshawar have expressed concern over the delay in the announcement of the results of MA and MSc examinations....
Chitralis flay high rates of phone calls CHITRAL, June 14: The people of Chitral have expressed concern over high rates fixed by the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) for the calls made within the district....		Woman killed, three injured in road accident PESHAWAR, June 14: A 40-year-old woman was killed and a minor boy,7, was among three others who received injuries in the head-on-collision of a passenger van with a truck on Thursday,...
Hashish seized from govt vehicle PESHAWAR, June 14: The Customs Intelligence, Peshawar, seized 1031 kg of foreign-made fine quality of hashish from a government vehicle after exchange of fire with the drug smugglers wearing Frontier Constabulary...		Iftikhar escapes unhurt in rocket attack MIRANSHAH, June 14: Some unidentified attackers in the small hours of Thursday fired a missile at the Razmak Fort, where NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah was staying overnight. He is...
Shujaat backs idea of independent Kashmir LAHORE, June 14: PML(Q) leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has supported the idea of an independent Kashmir and said that Pakistanis would accept ‘any resolution’ of the Kashmir dispute provided it came...		‘Religious tolerance vital to peace’ LAHORE, June 14: Peace in the region cannot be achieved without creating a culture of religious tolerance and respect for the views and opinions held by others....
Sattar pays farewell call on president ISLAMABAD, June 14: Abdul Sattar, the outgoing Minister for Foreign Affairs on Friday paid a farewell call on President Gen Pervez Musharraf....		Commission on status of women meets LAHORE, June 14: National Commission on the Status of Women chairperson Justice Majida Rizvi (retired) presided over the 12th meeting of the commission here on Friday....
Lawyer accused of misstatement in court ISLAMABAD, June 14: The Supreme Court was informed on Thursday that senior counsel Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada had obtained a stay order by making a false statement, claiming that he had talked...		‘US using Al Qaeda threat for its motives’ ISLAMABAD, June 14: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf on Thursday alleged that the United States was using the threat of Al Qaeda to pursue its worldwide political agenda....
Amnesty declared KUWAIT CITY, June 14: Kuwait has declared a 45-day general amnesty for illegal foreign workers to help them legalize their stay, or face deportation....		Governor orders more varsities in Punjab LAHORE, June 14: The Punjab governor directed on Friday the authorities concerned to prepare a plan for the establishment of universities in Faisalabad, Sargodha, Rawalpindi and Dera Ghazi Khan to promote...
‘Deserving students exempt from fee raise’ LAHORE, June 14: District Nazim Mian Amer has said the city district government has not raised the fee for deserving students in its 36 upgraded English-medium schools....		Govt policies criticized LAHORE, June 14: A former federal additional secretary who joined the PPP on Friday has criticized the government for what he said its wrong policies....
‘Tevta to train 60,000 boys, girls’ LAHORE, June 14: Governor Khalid Maqbool said on Friday that the government would provide world standard local industry-oriented vocational training to youngsters in the country so as to make the human...		Candidates lists being finalized FAISALABAD, June 14: Almost all the political parties have started finalizing lists of candidates contesting in the coming elections....
Nazim’s son held for robbery TOBA TEK SINGH, June 14: The son of a union council Nazim was arrested on Friday on the charge of committing robberies on highways....		LHC upholds two death sentences GUJRANWALA, June 14: The Lahore High Court on Friday upheld Gujranwala anti-terrorism court’s verdict of awarding death sentence to two accused out of 15....