July 20, 2002	Saturday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 9, 1423

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Councillors criticize Mansehra budget MANSEHRA, July 19: A number of councillors criticized the district budget for the financial year 2002-03 on Friday and termed it “a game of figures” to deceive the people....		236 teachers sent to surplus pool HARIPUR, July 19: About 236 primary teachers of the district have been placed in the surplus pool owing to the rationalization scheme introduced by the NWFP government in the education department,...
Power breakdowns hit Kohat KOHAT, July 19: The acute water shortage and long power breakdowns has badly affected the normal life in the whole Kohat division where people are facing extremely hot weather for the...		Rs297m budget for Charsadda presented CHARSADDA, July 19: District Nazim Nasir Mohammad Khan on Thursday presented a surplus budget without any new tax in the district council for the financial year 200-03 with an outlay of Rs297.97 million....
Lawyers to observe strike today in Kohat KOHAT, July 19: The lawyers community announced that they would boycott the courts on Saturday demanding security for them and their clients following killing of a man near the Bar office...		Issues about livestock discussed SWABI, July 19: The livestock problems were discussed at a meeting of the Citizen Action Committee (CAC) members with the Executive District Officer, Agriculture....
Inquiry into land allotment demanded MINGORA, July 19: Thousands of villagers from Malamjabba, Batora, Kokarai, Islampur, Marghazar valley, Lalko Sakhra, protested here on Thursday against the allotment of land to some influential people. They demanded of...		Four dacoits arrested ABBOTTABAD, July 19: The police busted a gang of Afghan dacoits and recovered stolen goods worth millions of rupees....
PTI polls PESHAWAR, July 19: Pakis-tan Tehrik Insaf (PTI), NWFP, has announced to hold elections for provincial offices of the party on July 21, said a release on Thursday. Provincial president of PTI...		AJK wants electricity at domestic rates ISLAMABAD, July 19: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir government has asked the federal government to supply electricity to it at domestic rates instead of the higher bulk tariff, and provide advance...
Commission for human development to be set up ISLAMABAD, July 19: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday promulgated an ordinance to establish National Commission for Human Development to implement various programmes and projects in the social sector in collaboration...		Reduction in profit on savings to help DFIs, claims official QUETTA, July 19: Reduction of 1.5 per cent in the national savings current accounts profit rate was made for the survival of banks and other financial institutions, which could not afford...
PPP seeks UN help to get blasphemy law abolished ISLAMABAD, July 19: The Human Rights Cell of the Pakistan People’s Party has apprised the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, of the threat posed to civil society...		Balochistan to spend Rs250m on jails QUETTA, July 19: The Balochistan government would spend Rs250 million on the expansion and improvement of jails in the province under an access-to-justice programme....
BNP(M) to convene all parties’ conference QUETTA, July 19: The Balochistan National Party (Mengal) would convene an all parties’ conference on different issues of the province, including the Dera Bugti situation and political murders....		Hashish seized QUETTA, July 19: The Pishin scouts, a wing of Frontier Corps of Balochistan seized 1140kg of drugs from a village in Chaman close to Pakistan Afghan border, some 150km north of...
MQM team meets Nancy ISLAMABAD, July 19: A three-member delegation of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement met Nancy Powell, US ambassador in Islamabad, on Thursday and discussed the political situation in the country....		150 doctors promoted QUETTA, July 19: The Government of Balochistan has reportedly promoted over 150 doctors to Grade 18 and 19 on the recommendations of the Balochistan Public Service Commission....
Appeal filed against Jinnah film verdict LOS ANGELES, July 19: The UK-based Quaid Project Limited (QPL) has challenged the ruling of London High Court, which last week awarded 49,000 pound sterling in favor of Jinnah’s director Jamil...		Rs19m Zakat distributed CHITRAL, July 19: The district Zakat committee has disbursed Rs19.5 million among the needy during the last four years....
PPP meeting on 23rd ISLAMABAD, July 19: An urgent meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Pakistan People’s Party has been convened for Tuesday at 3pm at Bilawal House, Karachi, the party’s acting secretary-general,...		‘Future of 65,000 teachers’ families at stake’ MULTAN, July 19: The government has jeopardized the future of the families of 65,000 teachers in the Punjab with its policy of privatization of the state-run educational institutions....
Consumers envisage hard times: Power tariff raise FAISALABAD, July 19: The business community, politicians and people belonging to various strata of society on Friday decried electricity tariff raise, terming it inimical to all sectors of the national economy....		Contractors paid $45m: Ghazi Barotha LAHORE, July 19: The Italian contractors of the Ghazi Barotha Hydel Project have been paid $45 million — $25 million as security and $20 million advance payment — for restarting their...
Cash, gold looted BAHAWALPUR, July 19: Ten dacoits on Thursday night took away cash, jewellery and prize bonds worth Rs0.8 million from a house in Muhammadia Colony....		Contempt of court notice against TMO, Nazim GUJRANWALA, July 19: A local civil judge on Friday issued contempt of court notice to the Naushera Virkan tehsil Nazim, tehsil municipal officer and toll tax contractor on a petition filed...
Prisoner attempts suicide SHEIKHUPURA, July 19: A prisoner at the district jail on Friday jumped into a tandoor to escape administration’s ‘excesses.’...		Two get death in murder case MULTAN, July 19: The local anti-terrorism court No 1 judge on Friday handed down capital punishment to two convicts and life-term to their third accomplice in a dacoity-turned-murder case....
Sialkot model IT project approved LAHORE, July 19: Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool approved on Friday the scheme to develop Sialkot as the first model information technology district in the province....		Mines officials ‘lease hills to blue-eyed’ SARGODHA, July 19: The directorate of mines has been causing a loss of over Rs100 million to the public exchequer by leasing out on low rates hills to their blue-eyed and...
‘Indus water unfit for human consumption, agriculture’ SUKKUR, July 19: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has started a phased programme spread over 15 years to rid the Indus river, right from Guddu to the delta, of pollution...		Power supply to hundreds of houses cut off MIRPURKHAS July 19: A large number of consumers have strongly condemned the ongoing disconnection drive by the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) in this division....
SHO suspended on rape charges DADU, July 19: The SHO of Budhapur police station was suspended by the DPO, Dadu, on Friday when a girl complained to the DPO that the SHO had detained her, and...		Snake-bite cases on the rise BADIN, July 19: A sudden rise in the snake-bite cases has been noticed after the arrival of water in the district following a long spell of drought....
SNF meeting KHAIRPUR, July 19: A meeting of the central executive committee of Sindh National Front (NSF) set up a committee to go through the rules and regulations, prescribed by the election commission,...		Wapda fails to clear PTCL dues LARKANA, July 19: Different wings of the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) have failed to clear the outstanding dues of the PTCL running in millions in the STR-V region of...
Eight injured in clash LARKANA, July 19: Eight people were injured as a result of infighting between two groups of Kalhoro tribesmen in the Hatri Ghulam Shah village on Friday....		Killer ‘thief’ turns out to be husband of deceased SANGHAR, July 19: A man has been arrested for killing his pregnant wife with the help of four accomplices in village Piyaro Moto, on Wednesday night in the jurisdiction of Tando...
Tariff hike not to meet Wapda deficit LAHORE, July 19: The tariff increase would fetch Wapda Rs18.8 billion only against its total deficit of Rs31 billion during the last fiscal 2001-02, authority chief Zulfiqar Ali Khan told a...		PML, MMA agree to continue dialogue LAHORE, July 19: The Pakistan Muslim League and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal said on Friday they had agreed to continue negotiations for electoral adjustments in the forthcoming polls....
Judgment reserved on Khyber Tractors officials arrest LAHORE, July 19: An accountability court reserved its judgment till Saturday (today) on the arrest of two directors and a manager of the Khyber Tractors (pvt) Limited over an alleged embezzlement...		Plea seeking qualification for voters dismissed LAHORE, July 19: The Lahore High Court dismissed in limine a writ petition saying that voters in general elections should at least be matriculates and that post-graduate qualifications be prescribed for...
Donors assured of all help in social sector schemes ISLAMABAD, July 19: Federal Education Minister Zobaida Jalal has said that all possible facilities will be provided to foreign agencies helping the government in social sector development....		US may give $100m for education sector reforms ISLAMABAD, July 19: Pakis-tan is likely to get $100 million from the United States over a period of five years for education sector development, sources in the education ministry told Dawn...
OPF asked to submit report about 26 corruption cases ISLAMABAD, July 19: Federal Ad-hoc Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has asked Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) to submit a report about 26 references concerning corruption in various projects of the organization, already...		AIOU students without books, computers ISLAMABAD, July 19: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has to still issue books for the first semester in Masters degree courses, which started in May 2002 and will end after 20...
‘Angry’ man drives car into wife, suckling FAISALABAD, July 19: A man late Thursday night killed his wife and a suckling over a domestic issue in B Block, People’s Colony....		Victimization for reporting water theft alleged SARGODHA, July 19: Over three dozens small farmers of Bhalwal tehsil alleged on Friday that Irrigation and Power Department officials had registered false cases against 1,000 farmers to punish them for...
Allocation for upkeep of monuments reduced LAHORE, July 19: The Federal Archaeology Department has allocated Rs1.2 million to its north circle wing for the upkeep of 117 monuments in Punjab during ongoing fiscal year....		Industrial units annual inspections cut LAHORE, July 19: The Punjab Labour Department has reduced the number of annual labour inspections of the industrial units from 11 to one with immediate effect....