July 30, 2002	Tuesday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 19,1423

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‘CDA failed to compensate villagers before eviction’ ISLAMABAD, July 29: The residents of Pind Sangrial and Siri Saral villages, located at Sector D-12, on Monday claimed that the CDA had failed to give adequate compensation to the landholders...		Police open fire on photojournalists ISLAMABAD, July 29: The police on Monday opened fire on press photographers in an attempt to stop them from taking snaps of a violent encounter between the law enforcement agencies and...
USC facing Rs600m deficit, says chief ISLAMABAD, July 29: The Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan (USCP) is facing a deficit of Rs600 million, said the managing director of USCP, Brig Hafeez Ahmad, at a press conference, here...		Accidental gunfire causes panic among foreigners ISLAMABAD, July 29: The guests at the French club, mostly foreigners, were panic stricken on hearing the sound of gunfire, in the tightly guarded Diplomatic Enclave on Saturday, police officials said....
Doctors sending patients to private labs RAWALPINDI, July 29: Patients at the Rawalpindi General Hospital (RGH) are suffering at the hands of unscrupulous doctors and paramedics, who force them to get their pathological investigations done from private...		PML-QA preparing for party elections ISLAMABAD July 29: Pakistan Muslim League-QA is preparing for holding intra party elections so that it could fulfil the criteria, set by the military government, to participate in the general polls....
President orders probe into D-12 incident ISLAMABAD, July 29: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Monday ordered an inquiry into the clash between police and villagers at Sector D-12 which claimed four lives, a source in the interior...		Mutton, beef in short supply in Islamabad, Rawalpindi ISLAMABAD, July 29: The residents of the twin cities are experiencing shortage of beef and mutton due to record smuggling of meat to Afghanistan and some Middle East countries....
Bosnian envoy visits AIOU ISLAMABAD, July 29: The ambassador of Bosnia Herzegovina, Abdulah Hadzic, visited the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) campus here on Monday....		Medicine prices ISLAMABAD, July 29: The medical professionals have asked the health ministry not to increase the prices of medicines in the larger public interest....
Education minister for improving teachers’ efficiency ISLAMABAD, July 29: Economic progress of developing nations lay in their abilities and capacities to transform knowledge into good quality education....		PPL warns Wapda of gas supply cut ISLAMABAD, July 29: The Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) has issued a gas supply disconnection notice to Wapda for continued default on payments. If the supply of gas is disconnected to the...
BBC to Launch programme on Pakistan KARACHI, July 29: BBC World, the BBC’s 24-hour international news and information channel, is to launch a new weekly programme, Question Time Pakistan, on Friday, Aug 2, says a Press release....		USC to sack 250 workers to reduce expenditure ISLAMABAD July 29: The Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan (USC) has been forced to retrench about 200 to 250 employees in an attempt to cut down its non-developmental expenditure....
Meeting on Madaris Ord today ISLAMABAD, July 29: A crucial and perhaps decisive meeting between the heads of five major madressah organisations and the government team of ministers for interior, religious affairs and education has been...		Hizb says polls no solution to dispute MUZAFFARABAD, July 29: Kashmir’s dominant freedom fighter group, Hizbul Mujahideen, on Monday offered a guarded response to US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s visit to New Delhi and Islamabad, declaring that...
AJK high court staffer, four sons manhandled MUZAFFARABAD, July 29: New Civil Secretariat police trespassed on the house of a High Court employee in the wee hours on Monday, severely beaten him and his four sons, one of...		Musharraf calls for burying past DHAKA, July 29: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Monday evening stressed the need for “overcoming of the sorrow and the bitterness of our past.”...
Tarbela Dam claimants to get cash compensation HARIPUR, July 29: After the refusal by the governments of Sindh and Punjab to give land to the people affected by Tarbela dam, the federal government has decided to pay some...		SC dismisses govt’s plea in NGO’s case MANSEHRA, July 29: Upholding a Peshawar High Court judgment, a full bench of the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal of the NWFP government against a Mansehra-based NGO, Aurat Association....
Water supply to tail-end growers assured BADIN, July 29: The provincial minister for irrigation, Aijaz Hussain Shah Shirazi, has directed the irrigation officials to ensure availability of water within a week to the tail-ends of the Sultan,...		Four killed in Swabi SWABI July 29: Four people were killed and 11 injured in five different incidents here on Monday....
Rs629m Chitral budget approved CHITRAL, July 29: The District Council of Chitral on Sunday unanimously approved Rs629.973 million budget for the financial year 2002-2003. An amount of Rs153.296 million have been allocated for development schemes,...		Two drown in Khanpur dam HARIPUR, July 29: Two picnickers, including a young boy, drowned in the Khanpur dam on Sunday evening....
‘Army will not supervise polls’ SUKKUR, July 29: Sindh Home Secretary Mukhtar Ahmad has said the general election will not be held under the supervision of army, adding that the Sindh police are capable to control...		Three of family shot dead KHAIRPUR, July 29: Three members of a family including two women were killed in an armed attack by seven unidentified armed men in the Bharo Lashari village, Kot Diji Taluka, on...
Rally against child labour THATTA, July 29: To achieve general consensus and lodge protest against the ever-rising graph of child labour, the Human Rights Development Institution took out a big rally here on Monday....		Tribal clash claims 2 lives SHIKARPUR, July 29: Two people were killed in an armed clash between two rival groups of the Jafri tribe near the Laung-Detho village, Garhi Yasin Taluka, on Monday....
160 tubewells to be installed DADU, July 29: About 160 tubewells would be installed in different parts of Dadu district soon....		PPP (S) polls PESHAWAR, July 29: The Pakistan People’s Party (Sherpao) is to hold its central elections on Aug 2 to fulfil the condition imposed by the recently promulgated Political Parties Order....
Court calls Nazim, 4 others as witnesses MULTAN, July 29: Judge Malik Zulfiqar Ali of the Dera Ghazi Khan anti-terrorist court on Monday directed Muzaffargarh district Nazim Sultan Mehmood Hinjra and four others to appear as court witnesses...		Crime against women rising alarmingly FAISALABAD, July 29: The abduction of girls, molestation and gang-rape are on the rise in the district as 301 incidents occurred in rural and urban areas during the last one year....
Encounter: police version challenged BAHAWALPUR, July 29: Relatives (of the deceased) and ‘eyewitnesses’ have described Sunday’s Hasilpur Road shootout that left six ‘outlaws’ dead as managed....		Jail warden, brother injured by assailants FAISALABAD, July 29: Some unidentified persons shot at and injured seriously the district jail head warden and his brother in Warispura here on Sunday night....
Another Vani case in Mianwali MIANWALI, July 29: Another girl escaped vani, the tradition of trading girls to settle disputes, when her guardian paid an additional amount of Rs300,000 to complainants on Sunday in Ramzanabad locality...		Police delays gang-rape FIR for 21 days SAHIWAL, July 29: Police delayed registration of a gang- rape case for 21 days because the accused were sons of influential landlords of area, the father of the victims told Dawn...
UC Nazim, 4 accomplices rape woman BAHAWALPUR, July 29: A judicial magistrate sent a gang-rape victim to Darul Aman on Monday....		Two sisters assaulted SHEIKHUPURA, July 29: Two sisters were allegedly assaulted by six vagabonds in Jhabran Mandi village, 20km away from here, on Monday morning....
Three outlaws killed in ‘encounter’ VEHARI, July 29: Three dacoits-cum-kidnappers were killed while their ring leader escaped after encounter with police on Monday at Mauza Pir Shah, Karampur, some 27 kilometres from here....		Policemen batoncharge protesting teachers: Women’s clothes torn LAHORE, July 29: City police on Monday batoncharged male and female teachers and arrested hundreds of them for holding a protest demonstration against the government policy of denationalization of educational institutions....
Tax-free Data Town budget approved LAHORE,July 29: The Data Ganj Bakhsh Town Council on Monday unanimously approved a Rs199.887 million tax-free surplus budget for 2002-3....		Noorani warns against rigging LAHORE, July 29: The Jamiat Ulema Pakistan (JUP) on Monday elected Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani unopposed central president of party....
Mine rescue stations inadequate, PAC told LAHORE, July 29: Labour Department secretary Maj Iqbal Ahmad (retired) and Labour Welfare director Khalid Pervez said on Monday the Mine Rescue Stations at Sargodha and Rawalpindi for providing protection to...		LHC stays operation of Model Town bylaws LAHORE, July 29: The Lahore High Court stayed the operation of the bylaws framed by the Model Town administrator to avoid elections to the housing society’s management committee and summoned him...
Pervez Elahi re-elected LAHORE, July 29: Chaudhry Pervez Elahi has been re-elected unopposed Punjab president of the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam)....		LHC CJ to act as governor LAHORE, July 29: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Falak Sher was sworn in as acting Punjab governor on Monday....
Kulsoom or Shahbaz likely chief of PML-N LAHORE, July 29: Nawaz League acting president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi said on Monday either Begum Kulsoom Nawaz or Shahbaz Sharif could be made the party president....		Farm tax on orchards reduced LAHORE, July 29: The Punjab governor has reduced the rate of agriculture land-based tax on mature orchards by Rs 200 per acre of irrigated land and Rs100 per acre of non-irrigated...
PTI to go for a solo flight, says Imran Khan LAHORE, July 29: The Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf plans to go for a solo-flight in the general elections, relying more on what chairman Imran Khan calls a “youth bomb” of 17 million people...		PPP men join PML-QA LAHORE, July 29: Former MPA from Multan Rana Sohail Ahmad Noon and Shuja Abad tehsil Nazim Rana Qasim Noon announced on Monday their decision to join the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam)....