July 31, 2002	Wednesday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 20,1423

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President seeks views on extending laws to Fata ISLAMABAD, July 30: The president has sought views of the NWFP and Balochistan governors and federal ministries of commerce and law on extending the jurisdiction of the acts passed by parliament...		Asif held responsible for delay in cases’ trials ISLAMABAD, July 30: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has clarified that the bureau is not responsible for the delay in the finalization of the accountability cases against Asif Ali Zardari....
Leadership change in PML (N) imminent ISLAMABAD July 30: Pakistan Muslim League (N) Chairman Raja Zafarul Haq has emerged as a potential candidate for nomination/election as party president in the intra-party elections to be held on August...		BNM to forge alliance for polls: Dr Hayee re-elected president QUETTA, July 30: The central council session of the Balochistan National Movement (BNM) has decided to unite all nationalist, democratic and patriotic forces in the province to jointly contest the forthcoming...
AJK SC rejects govt petition MUZAFFARABAD, July 30: AJK Supreme Court here on Tuesday dismissed leave to appeal petition filed by the government against the admission of a writ petition by the High Court whereby the...		AJKPP warns govt against engineering Oct polls MUZAFFARABAD, July 30: A number of leaders and legislators of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir People’s Party (AJKPP) on Tuesday called upon the military government to avoid measures, which, they said,...
Shujaat forgiving rights to smaller provinces QUETTA, July 30: The central leader of Pakistan Muslim League (QA), Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, has said the smaller provinces must be given their due rights in order to eliminate the sense...		UK court allows Dehlavi to claim £49,000 LONDON, July 30: The High Court of Justice, in its judgment delivered on July 2, ruled that Jamil Dehlavi could claim a sum of 49,000 pound sterling which according to him...
FCR is no more a law: LHC ISLAMABAD, July 30: The Lahore High Court (LHC) observed on Monday that the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) enforced by the English colonialists in 1901 was no more in existence, as the...		Breach in canal damages bridge KHAIRPUR, July 30: A 200-foot-wide breach developed in the Mirwah Canal, near the Therhi Bridge, on Tuesday....
Most parties reject constitutional package CHARSADDA, July 30: The majority of the political parties in a seminar held here on July 30 rejected the government’s proposed constitutional amendment package....		Girls outshine boys in XII class results SUKKUR, July 30: Girls students have surpassed the boys in results of examinations of class XII, pre-engineering and pre-medical groups, announced by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Sukkur, here...
MMA will break up soon, claims Hoti MARDAN, July 30: Former federal minister and a leader of Awami National Party (ANP), Azam Khan Hoti, has predicted that alliance of different religious parties with the name of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal(MMA),...		Expelled student back in medical college PESHAWAR, July 30: Accepting a writ petition, a two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Tuesday directed the administration of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, to give admission to a tribal...
Dealer booked for selling spurious fertilizers MIRPURKHAS, July 30: A fertiliser dealer, Deewan Das, was booked by the police for selling spurious fertilisers on Tuesday....		Kidnapped man returns HANGU, July 30: A kidnapped man was recovered and three alleged abductors were arrested during a police raid on a hideout in the tribal area of Orakzai Agency on Monday....
Land settlement proposal opposed CHITRAL, July 30: Members of the district council have rejected the land settlement proposals, saying that land holdings in the district were small and the process would spark off bickering among...		Growers protest SUKKUR, July 30: Hundreds of tailend growers from the Musa Allahbad Shakh, Thul Distry, Fasal Shakh, and Anis Mines staged a demonstration against the water shortage during the visit of the...
Dist govt urged to open utility, medical stores DADU, July 30: The District Council, Dadu, through a resolution unanimously approved, has urged the district government to open utility stores and medical stores in every town financed from its own...		Shifting of college resented THATTA, July 30: The Mirpur Bathoro Union Council, through a unanimously passed resolution, criticized the shifting of an elementary college from Mirpur Bathoro town to Makli, Thatta....
More witnesses depose in Meerwala case MULTAN, July 30: The Dera Ghazi Khan anti-terrorism court recorded statements of seven witnesses in the Meerwala gang-rape case on Tuesday. Four of them were court witnesses (CWs) and three prosecution...		Police fail to arrest warder’s attackers FAISALABAD, July 30: The attack on the chief warder of the District Jail by unidentified men has created concern among the jail staff and some of them have hired the services...
Bodies handed over to families: Bahawalpur ‘shootout’ BAHAWALPUR, July 30: Bodies of the four church massacre accused, shot dead by police in an encounter on Sunday, were handed over to their families on Monday night after postmortem conducted...		District council convener resigns MIANWALI, July 30: District council convener Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi resigned on Tuesday in protest against the conduct of district nazim Iqrar Hussan Shah....
Rs1.768bn budget for Bahawalpur BAHAWALPUR, July 30: District Nazim Tariq Cheema at a session on Tuesday presented Rs1.768 billion budget for 2002-03....		Acid attack: culprit turns complainant FAISALABAD, July 30: The parents of a teenaged girl who sustained serious injuries in an acid attack have demanded of the Punjab governor and the IGP to direct the police to...
Three of a family killed in roof collapse GUJRANWALA, July 30: Three members of a family, including a minor boy, were killed when the roof of their house in Peoples Colony collapsed during rain on Tuesday....		Newly-weds die of snake bite VEHARI, July 30: A newly-wed couple died of snake bite in Burewala on Tuesday....
Dera budget termed illegal DERA GHAZI KHAN, July 30: The district council has passed its Rs1.76 billion tax-free budget for 2002-03....		Run-off poll for Sargodha Nazim, deputy SARGODHA, July 30: District returning officer (district and sessions judge) Sheikh Abdul Rasheed has declared the seats of the Sargodha tehsil nazim and naib nazim vacant, keeping in view the judgment...
Two killers awarded death sentence OKARA, July 30: Deepalpur Additional District and Sessions Judge Raja Pervez Akhtar on Tuesday handed down death on seven counts each to two persons who killed seven members of a family...		Sialkot budget passed SIALKOT, July 30: After three days long protest, boycott and strong criticism by the opposition, the Sialkot district council on Tuesday okayed its tax free and surplus budget of Rs 2,079,000,000...
Plant health clinic set up FAISALABAD, July 30: A Plant Health Clinic has been established in the department of plant pathology, University of Agriculture here to diagnose and treat the ailing plants....		Probe against contractors, health officials SIALKOT, July 30: Local District Health Officer Dr Zafar Iqbal Gondal has started a departmental probe against a contractor and some health officials accused of buying sub-standard electrical material worth millions...
Patwari shot dead by rivals GUJRAT, July 30: A patwari was shot dead while his mate injured by rivals in the premises of local sessions court here on Tuesday....		Woman suffers for doctors’ neglect NAROWAL, July 30: A woman had to undergo ordeal of a second major operation within 10 days due to the negligence and carelessness of doctors....
Man kills two sisters JAUHARABAD, July 30: A brother shot his two sisters dead over their marriage dispute in Noorowana village here on Tuesday....		FIR lodged against over 430 villagers: Sri Saral incident ISLAMABAD, July 30: Police have registered an FIR against more than 430 villagers, including women, of Sri Saral village located at Sector D-12 on charges of killing their own men, abducting...
Moin directs CDA to resume uplift work in D-12 ISLAMABAD, July 30: The interior minister, Lt-Gen Moinuddin Haider (retired), here on Tuesday directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to resume the development work in sector D-12 within next two days....		Action against officials demanded ISLAMABAD, July 30: The victims of police operation in Seri Saral village have asked the government to register an FIR against the officials responsible and hold an impartial inquiry into the...
Wireless Internet service launched ISLAMABAD, July 30: Paknet, a subsidiary of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited, launched the wireless broadband internet service on Tuesday....		Transport company occupies college land RAWALPINDI, July 30: A private transport company has occupied about half of the land of Government Degree College for Women on Peshawar Road and stolen goods worth around one million rupees...
Dist council okays over Rs2bn suppl budget RAWALPINDI, July 30: The district council on Tuesday approved Rs2,191.958 million supplementary budget for the fiscal year 2002-03....		Ambulances being used by VVIPs ISLAMABAD, July 30: Two ambulances presented by the Japanese government as gifts for the children of Pakistan were being used by the VVIPs....
Red Crescent dispensaries lack medicines RAWALPINDI, July 30: Red Crescent Society’s Rawalpindi chapter is in a shambles and problems continue to undermine the organization since most of the dispensaries have not received medicines for the past...		Lahore Dist Council approves budget LAHORE, July 30: The Lahore District Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a Rs4.913 billion tax-free surplus budget for 2002-03 by show of hands....
Food dept to abolish temporary centres: Wheat purchase LAHORE, July 30: The Food Department would abolish temporary wheat procurement centre to save Rs2 billion spent on transportation and corruption in the process, Shahid Hasan, the secretary, told the ad...		Citizenship law ‘discriminatory’ LAHORE, July 30: Section 14 of the Citizenship Act, 1951, is unconstitutional inasmuch as it discriminates between Pakistanis settled in Britain and 12 other countries on the one hand and the...
New press law in a month, LHC told LAHORE, July 30: The Press and Publications Ordinance of 1963 is the existing law that regulates the press but a new law is on the anvil and is likely to be...		Beating of journalists, teachers condemned LAHORE, July 30: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists has condemned police action against journalists at Islamabad and teachers at Lahore and other places of the Punjab....