June 26, 2002	Wednesday	Rabi-us-Sani 14, 1423

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Thal canal to render lands barren: Palijo SUKKUR, June 25: Awami Tehrik president Rasool Buksh Palijo has said the construction of the Thal canal will render Sindh’s lands barren and demanded the withdrawal of the project....		Chemists threaten protest campaign PESHAWAR, June 25: The Pakistan Chemists and Druggists Association (PCDA) has decided to launch a campaign to protest against the government’s plan to deregulate the prices of drugs, the association’s office-bearers...
Chandios urge end to Dera Bugti siege LARKANA, June 25: The chief of Chandio tribe, Nawab Shabbir Ahmed, has demanded of the government to lift siege to Dera Bugti and open dialogue with Nawab Akbar Bugti to settle...		Opinion leaders demand democracy PESHAWAR, June 25: Speakers at a day-long seminar entitled Peace and Tolerance on Tuesday underlined the need for immediate restoration of democracy in the country so that people could live in...
Fishermen accuse police of excesses THATTA, June 25: Dozens of fishermen, accompanied by their bare-foot children, staged a noisy demonstration on Tuesday in front of the district police officer at Makli against the highhandedness of police...		Two die as tanker falls into ravine LANDI KOTAL, June 25: Two people, including a khasadar, were killed and another injured when a water tanker fell into a ravine off Landi Kotal-Peshawar road on Monday evening....
Seminar on population, environment MIRPURKHAS, June 25: The Sindh minister for health and population welfare, Ahsan Ahmad, has said that village-based female family planning workers have played a vital role to succeed the family planning...		Provincial govts seek funds thru plea bargain recovery PESHAWAR, June 25: Islamabad did not pay heed to  the provincial governments’ requests to pay them the funds recovered by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) through plea bargains from their area,...
Police called at DC session NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, June 25: A row between the Awam Dost panel members and the convener caused the police to intervene in the district council hall on Tuesday....		Women councillors join new alliance HARIPUR, June 25: About 150 women councillors belonging to 44 union councils of Haripur announced their joining the newly-formed Councillor Ittehad here on Monday....
Bandit killed in encounter LAKKI MARWAT, June 25: In an anti-social elements campaign Lakki Marwat police shot dead a notorious proclaimed offender wanted to NWFP and Punjab police in dozens of cases, arrested highway robbers...		Artisans asked to educate new generation HUNZA, June 25: The skilled people, including artisans, should be encouraged and given the best opportunities to practise their skills and transfer them to the new generation....
Farmers rally against water rotation KHAIRPUR, June 25: A large number of abadgars, leaders and activists of Sindh Hari Committee staged a demonstration outside the press club here on Tuesday....		Rain brings temperature down in Kohat KOHAT, June 25: Kohat division and its adjoining tribal areas, for the fourth consecutive day on Tuesday, received rain which brought the temperature down considerably....
Kidney transplant done without infrastructure PESHAWAR, June 25: Doctors at Khyber Teaching Hospital have put a patient in difficulty after kidney transplantation, doctors and relatives of the patients told Dawn here Tuesday....		PML-Q files plea against graduation condition ISLAMABAD, June 25: The Pakistan Muslim League (Q) on Tuesday filed a petition in the Supreme Court, challenging the condition of minimum educational qualification of graduation for the members of parliament...
Omar Asghar Khan, the man with a vision ABBOTTABAD, June 25: Omar Asghar Khan graduated from the Cambridge University. He earned quite a name when he was ousted from the Department of Economics, University of Punjab, by the university...		Rangers deployed to check smuggling GILGIT, June 25: The Northern Areas Chief Secretary Maj (retd) Fazal Durrani has said the purpose of deploying Qasim Rangers at the Sost Customs checkpoint was to curb smuggling activities that...
President vows to eradicate drug abuse ISLAMABAD, June 25: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has reiterated his country’s commitment to eradicate drug abuse in the country....		Ulema warned against using religion for political ends PESHAWAR, June 25: Federal Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider has said that religious leaders will not be allowed to use religion for their political ends....
‘Three militant groups pose challenge to Musharraf’ SAN FRANCISCO, June 25: President Pervez Musharraf faces an ominous challenge to his rule from three militant groups that now stand against him, each capable of using violence to bring him...		Drug charges against Asif fabricated: PPP ISLAMABAD, June 25: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said on Tuesday it had complained to the UN over drug charges against Bhutto’s jailed husband....
Graduation condition hits politicians MANSEHRA, June 25: Following the promulgation of the presidential ordinance on graduation condition for the candidates to the parliament seats, more than 20 former MPAs, MNAs, senators and would be candidates...		Prisoners transferred HARIPUR, June 25: Owing to demolition of Peshawar central prison 43 women prisoners have been transferred to Haripur central prison....
Navy chief to visit Pentagon on July 15 NEW YORK, June 25: The Pakistan Navy chief, Admiral Abdul Aziz Mirza, would meet the defence department officials at the Pentagon on July 15, sources told Dawn on Tuesday....		Proposed drug policy anti-people, says World Bank expert ISLAMABAD, June 25: The Pakistan government’s draft new pharmaceutical policy, if adopted, will erode the safety, affordability and equity of medicines and badly affect the poor, says a World Bank document....
Peerowal tenants vow to water crop today MULTAN, June 25: Tenants of the Punjab Seed Corporation’s Peerowal farms have announced they will open the water channels to irrigate their lands, if the authorities do not give them the...		Two LJ men awarded death on two counts MULTAN, June 25: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 on Tuesday sentenced two activists of defunct Lashkar-i-Jhangvi to death on two counts....
Two boys drown in reservoir SADIQABAD, June 25: Two boys drowned in a water reservoir in Tibba Qadirabad here on Monday....		Rs480m being spent on uplift schemes SARGODHA, June 25: A sum of Rs480 million is being spent on 509 development schemes in the district and work on these schemes is in full swing to ensure the consumption...
Applications for tickets being scrutinized: PPP FAISALABAD, June 25: The Pakistan People’s Party high command is still scrutinizing applications of candidates for party tickets....		Girl, her ‘lover’, his father beheaded SAHIWAL, June 25: Three people, including a girl, her lover and lover’s father, were beheaded in Chak 103/9-L on Monday night....
10 held for raising slogans in favour of Gohar Shahi TOBA TEK SINGH, June 25: The Gojra city police arrested on Monday 10 Anjuman Sarfroshan Islam (ASI) activists on the charge of taking out procession and raising slogans in favour of...		Kutcha abadi removed from govt list TOBA TEK SINGH, June 25: A kutcha abadi near the district headquarters, comprising more than 150 houses, has been deleted from the government list after the Auqaf Department, on whose land...
Rs131 million utilized for development BAHAWALPUR, June 25: The government has so far utilized a sum of Rs131 million on various development projects in the district....		Rangers inspector dies in accident KASUR, June 25: A Rangers inspector was killed while five others sustained grievous injuries on Tuesday when their car overturned in Pattoki, on the Multan Road....
Employment options shrinking GUJRANWALA, June 25: The government is shrinking employment options by privatizing the institutes at the behest of the World Bank and the IMF....		Opposition councilor re-arrested VEHARI, June 25: Opposition member in the district council was re-arrested on Tuesday under MPO 3 after he was granted bail by a court on Monday....
Robbers kill youth SHEIKHUPURA, June 25: Robbers shot dead a youth on resistance near the city on Monday night....		Shah Shams Express train MULTAN, June 25: Shah Shams Express train was inaugurated from Multan to Lahore on Monday evening....
‘Tenants cultivating govt lands’ OKARA, June 25: Tenants are cultivating the Punjab government’s lands and not that of Military Farms Administration as its lease expired in 1934....		Trees falling due to termite attack ISLAMABAD, June 25: Hundreds of trees in the capital’s green belts are falling due to termites attack and the authorities find themselves at a loss to tackle the problem. “The termite...
Rs674m remain unutilized in Pindi district RAWALPINDI, June 25: Only Rs240.949 million out of Rs915 million, allocated for Rawalpindi district during the fiscal year 2001-02, could be utilized, figures showed....		Five seconds power failure at CE house, CDA chief summoned ISLAMABAD, June 25: The Chairman Capital Development Authority, Mir Laiq Shah, was summoned from his village in North Waziristan to explain the five seconds power failure at the Chief Executive House,...
Hospitals short of vaccines for snake bites RAWALPINDI, June 25: The city’s main hospitals are short of anti-snake venom and anti-rabies vaccine, hospital sources said here on Tuesday....		Police, army man scuffle during VVIP duty ISLAMABAD, June 25: A scuffle broke out between a police constable and an army man on Islamabad highway, moments before the presidential convoy started for Islamabad International Airport on Monday, police...
Six people killed in separate incidents RAWALPINDI, June 25: As many as six people, including two women, were killed and 13 others injured in separate incidents on Tuesday, police and witnesses said....		RCB drive to recover outstanding property tax RAWALPINDI, June 25: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board has launched a campaign to recover the outstanding property tax of Rs15 million for the fiscal 2001-2002, official sources told Dawn....
‘Inconsistent policies fail population welfare programme’ LAHORE, June 25: The population welfare programme has failed to meet its targets due to inconsistent government policies and lack of political support....		Azhar demands polls under army LAHORE, June 25: Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam) president Mian Muhammad Azhar demanded on Tuesday that the general elections should be held under the supervision of the army to exclude the possibility...