August 3, 2002	Saturday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 23,1423

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Govt tells CDA to stop work in D-12 ISLAMABAD, Aug 2: The government has ordered the CDA to stop development work in Sector D-12 till the completion of judicial inquiry into Monday’s incident in which three persons were killed...		Druggists seek withdrawal of old stocks from market ISLAMABAD, Aug 2: The Pakistan Chemist and Druggists Association (PCDA) has asked the government to devise a mechanism for ensuring prompt withdrawal of stocks from the market before announcing the fresh...
D-12: compensation at market rate for lands acquired after ’96 ISLAMABAD, Aug 2: The Capital Development Authority has decided to pay compensation at current market rate for the land acquired from 1996 onwards for developing Sector D-12, the CDA chairman, Mir...		Teenaged girl stripped off, beaten up RAWALPINDI, Aug 2: A teenaged girl was stripped off, abused and beaten in the open by a local influential in Gikh Badhal village, 65kms south from here a couple of days...
Govt likely to sign accord for Paksat-1 with US firm ISLAMABAD, Aug 2: The government is expected to sign a formal agreement with Hughes Global Systems, a US based company, on August 6 for the launch of communication satellite called Paksat-1....		Zardari says NAB trying to defame him ISLAMABAD, Aug 2: Jailed PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari has filed a written application in the accountability court, saying that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is trying to defame him....
79 hospitals get Rs400m for treatment of poor ISLAMABAD, Aug 2: The Ministry of Religious Affairs, Zakat and Ushr provides an annual grant of Rs400 million to 79 health institutions registered with the Central Zakat Council for medical treatment...		Prospective candidates for two capital seats ISLAMABAD, Aug 2: The dynamics of politics in Islamabad have changed drastically as a consequence of the Conduct of General Election Order 2002....
EC formulating code of conduct for electronic media ISLAMABAD, Aug 2: The Election Commission of Pakistan has started formulating a Code of Conduct for the state-controlled electronic media under which every political party would be given share in time...		Pakistan, China talks fruitful: Musharraf ON BOARD PRESIDENTIAL PLANE, Aug 2: President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday that his talks with Chinese President Jiang Zemin earlier in the day in Beijing covered the entire gamut of...
Balochistan may get rid of blindness by 2002 QUETTA, Aug 2: NWFP Health Minister Agha Abdul Zahir Ahmedzai has said that presently 45 million people were facing blindness and their number was increasing with the passage of time....		AJK Zakat body okays Rs410m budget MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 2: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir Zakat Council has approved its budget of Rs410 million for the current year, an official said here the other day....
BNM, BNP & JWP may form alliance QUETTA, Aug 2: A three-member committee of the Balochistan National Movement, headed by Dr Abdul Hayee Baloch, held talks with Jamhoori Watan Party Chief Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti in Dera Bugti...		PML(QA) will form Central, provincial govts, claims Azhar ISLAMABAD, Aug 2: Pakistan Muslim League (QA) President Mian Azhar has predicted victory for his party in the forthcoming polls, and claimed that it would form its own governments both in...
AJKLA forms two teams to highlight Kashmir cause MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 2: The secretariat of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly (AJK) has constituted two delegations, comprising 14 legislators and officials, to highlight the Kashmir cause and study the...		PPP slams denial of treatment to Asif ISLAMABAD, Aug 2: The Pakistan People’s Party has condemned the denial of medical treatment to its jailed leader Asif Ali Zardari and demanded his release....
Achakzai re-elected PMAP chief QUETTA, Aug 2: The four-day National Congress of the Pushtoonkhawa Milli Awami Party has re-elected Mehmood Khan Achakzai chairman and Akram Shah, Secretary General, of the party, here on Wednesday....		Khosa joins PML-QA QUETTA, Aug 2: A former MNA and leader of the PPP, Mir Nabi Bukhsh Khosa, has defected from the PPP to the Pakistan Muslim League (QA). He announced his decision ...
Shaukat to be briefed on AJK budget MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 2: Federal Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz, who arrived here on Friday evening, called on the AJK President Sardar Mohammad Anwar Khan at the presidency and discussed “issues of mutual...		SNP to boycott Oct polls QUETTA, Aug 2: The Seraiki National Party (SNP) has decided to boycott the forthcoming general elections as a protest against the government’s alleged partisan attitude....
AJK govt asked to nominate environmental tribunal MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 2: The administrator of the Muzaffarabad Municipal Corporation and AJK Environment Protection Agency (EPA) Director Dr Syed Asif Hussain on Friday gave an undertaking to the AJK High Court...		Mukhtaran’s uncle cross-examined MULTAN, Aug 2: The defence in the Meerwala gang-rape case on Friday grilled the victim’s uncle....
Juvenile prisoners serve terms in ‘pigeon hole’ FAISALABAD, Aug 2: As many as 575 juvenile offenders who were lodged in the local District and Central Jails after the collapse of a boundary wall of the Borstal Jail two...		Villager threatens to burn himself FAISALABAD, Aug 2: A villager threatened self-immolation in front of the governor house if Samundri police failed to register a case against the Mureedwala RHC’s medical officer on the charge of...
Two sons pay for father’s obstinacy GUJRAT, Aug 2: A Wapda line superintendent of Fatehpur sub-division was dismissed from service when he failed to convince his father to withdraw a civil suit against an XEN, Dawn learnt...		No funds for 3,000 workers’ salaries SARGODHA, Aug 2: The district government did not demand budget grant for the salaries of 3,000 incumbents of various district departments while the budget for several subsidiary departments of the Education...
Delaying tactics likely to create misunderstanding: Abbakhel Vani case SARGODHA, Aug 2: The delaying tactics being employed in resolving the Abbakhel Vani case may create misunderstanding between the two parties....		Former MPA, sister bailed out MULTAN, Aug 2: A local civil court on Friday granted bail to former MPA Ahsan Shah, his sister and their relative in two different cases, including the one of an attack...
Cash, gold worth Rs7m looted FAISALABAD, Aug 2: Robbers on Friday took away cash, gold ornaments and valuables worth over Rs7 million from a jeweller’s house in Karkhana Bazaar....		Governor promises staff for schools LAKKI MARWAT, Aug 2: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah on Thursday approved Rs5 million to help the inhabitants of the district’s drought-hit areas and Rs4 million for repair of non-functional tubewells....
20 health facilities under police occupation DADU, Aug 2: The district police department has occupied 14 Basic Health Units (BHUs), four health centres, two dispensaries, 17 bungalows and 47 quarters of the health department in different areas...		NWP threatens polls boycott PESHAWAR, Aug 2: The president of National Workers Party, Abid Hassan Minto, has said that his party will not participate in the upcoming polls if the proposed constitutional amendments are implemented....
Cop shot dead as kidnap bid foiled SUKKUR, Aug 2: A constable was killed and two other people including a sub-inspector were injured when they came in the way of armed dacoits who were attempting to kidnap a...		Attack on professor condemned LARKANA, Aug 2: The People’s Doctors’ Forum, Larkana, staged a protest demonstration here on Friday against the failure of the police in arresting those who had attacked and injured Prof Zaffar...
Updating of tourism policy urged CHITRAL, Aug 2: The participants of a seminar here have asked the government to positively change and update its tourism policy at the national level, so that the country’s tourism potential...		Afghan village near border bombed WANA, Aug 2: The residents of Bermal and its surrounding areas in eastern Afghanistan started moving to safer places after three houses were destroyed in bombing of a village by the...
Assault cases registered MITHI, Aug 2: A poor Meghwar, Amolakh, resident of the Kagia village, near Chhachhro, whose wife had been raped by a goldsmith about a month back and a police constable about...		Students bodies form alliance GILGIT, Aug 2: Eight student bodies belonging to various political parties in Northern Areas have formed an alliance to press for their demands and negotiate their problems at the higher levels....
Gastroenteritis hits Kingri villages KHAIRPUR, Aug 2: The gastroenteritis has created havoc in Old Ahmedpur, Ketti Bhutto, Ismail Ja Par, Ali Shaikh Jabbar and many other villages of the kutcha area in Kingri Taluka....		Cousins kill each other LAKKI MARWAT, Aug 2: Two cousins killed each other while another received serious injuries in shootouts over a dispute in Taja Zai on Thursday....
Asia’s largest skiing base planned GILGIT, Aug 2: The possibilities of establishing Asia’s largest skiing base in Northern Areas was discussed at a meeting, presided over by the Northern Areas Chief Secretary, Maj Fazil Durrani, during...		LHC notice to AGs on Hafiz Saeed petition LAHORE, Aug 2: The Lahore High Court on Friday issued notices to the advocate-general and the attorney-general for August 12 on a writ petition seeking recovery, production and release of Jamatul...
Nawabzada ponders APC LAHORE, Aug 2: ARD President Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan is thinking of holding an all-party conference to enable all opposition parties to get together and adopt an identical line of action to...		Nazim offers pardon for return of holy relic LAHORE, Aug 2: District Nazim Amer Mahmood offered amnesty on Friday to those involved in the theft of a pair of slippers attributed to Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)...