August 4, 2002	Sunday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 24,1423

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France offers Pakistan help to fight terrorism ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: France has shown willingness to provide high-tech gadgets and finger prints collecting and collating equipment to Pakistan for checking terrorist activities in the region, Dawn reliably learnt....		Pakistani woman freed from Indian jail NEW DELHI, Aug 3: A Pakistani woman, after seven-year captivity, was set free by a court in the Indian occupied Kashmir and her daughter was granted Indian citizenship, a news report...
Transfer of power to dist govts reviewed QUETTA, Aug 3: The Balochistan government distributed Rs410 million to all the district governments on account of transition fund last year and allocated Rs218 million in the current financial year....		Ijaz Shafi elected PML (N) vice-president ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: Ijaz Shafi was elected as vice-president of the Pakistan Muslim League (N) on Saturday, despite the opposition from Sindh....
Scouting event opens for special persons QUETTA, Aug 3: Education Minister Zubaida Jalal said on Saturday scouts movement was, in fact, an education movement which played an important role in character building of children....		US Senate praises Maleeha WASHINGTON, Aug 3: The foreign relations committee of the US Senate has adopted a bipartisan inscription that praises Pakistan’s outgoing ambassador, Maleeha Lodhi, as “a cultural bridge” between the United States...
Pakistan to join two anti-terrorism pacts ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: Pakistan has decided to join the International Convention on the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings of Jan 12, 1998, and to sign the OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism,...		11 schools in Landi Kotal without teachers LANDI KOTAL, Aug 3: Despite a lapse of five years and repeated requests to the authorities concerned six regular and five community-based primary schools in Landi Kotal tehsil of Khyber Agency...
Rs26 billion to be spent on uplift projects PESHAWAR, Aug 3: The federal government has earmarked over Rs26bn to execute water, power and road projects in various parts of the province, according to official sources....		Govt officers warned against interference MANSEHRA, Aug 3: District Naib Nazim Shahzada Gustasap Khan and Nazim of Mansehra tehsil council Nawabzada Farooq Khan have said the district government and all the three tehsil councils of Mansehra...
Govt urged to lift ban on political activities HANGU, Aug 3: Pakistan People’s Party (Sherpao) chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has asked the government to lift ban on political activities and create an environment favourable for holding the polls....		Chitral Tehsil budget presented CHITRAL, Aug 3: Tehsil Nazim Amir Khan Mir on Friday presented a deficit budget of Rs11.05 million for the year 2002-3 at the tehsil council, Chitral....
Narcotics seized, four arrested PESHAWAR, Aug 3: A raiding squad of the Anti-Narcotics Force on Saturday arrested four alleged smugglers and recovered a huge quantity of narcotics from their car near Khairabad on G.T. Road....		Spaniard stabbed to death CHITRAL, Aug 3: A citizen of Spain, Jawardi, was stabbed to death here on Friday night by unknown persons at his residence in Bumburate valley....
Bandit escapes after killing three cops SANGHAR, Aug 3: A bandit, Mumtaz Mari, escaped after killing three policemen and breaking the police cordon here on Saturday....		Four members of private force shot dead SUKKUR, Aug 3: Four members of the private force of the Chachar tribe were killed and three injured when some 25 armed Teghani tribesmen attacked Hashim Chachar village in the Gudhpur...
JSQM, SNF condemn fees raise LARKANA, Aug 3: The activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) and the Sindh National Front (SNF), jointly protested against the rise in admission fees of the educational institutions and...		PPP demands jobs for local people SUKKUR, Aug 3: Hundreds of people including a large number of women took out a protest rally on Friday against the gas, petroleum, and power companies for not investing a single...
Fertilizer dealer sentenced, fined MIRPURKHAS, Aug 3: Second judicial magistrate and FCM Mirpurkhas, Anwar Ahmed Memon, awarded two year imprisonment and a fine of Rs100,000 to Mukesh Kumar, owner of the United Trader Fertiliser Agency,...		PPP stages demo BADIN, Aug 3: A protest rally was taken out by the activists of the PPP and its sister organizations, the Sindh Peoples Students Organization and the Sindh Peoples Youth, on Friday...
Man butchers wife, son, and mother-in-law LARKANA, Aug 3: A resident of Reshamgali, Kambar town, on Saturday killed his wife, mother-in-law and a four-year-old son and escaped along with 14-month-old son....		D-8 seeking funds for better cattle breeding ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: The Developing Eight (D-8), an organization of eight developing Muslim countries, on Saturday called upon the Regional and International Agriculture and Livestock (RIAL) and other relevant organizations to...
Over 600 Kuwaiti PoWs still in Iraq ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: More than 600 Kuwaiti prisoners of war (PoWs) have been languishing in Iraqi jails for 11 years, while some of them may have either been tortured to death...		Cyber-crime wing in FIA planned ISLAMABAD, Aug 3: The government has decided to establish a cyber crime wing in the Federal Investigation Agency, sources in the interior ministry told Dawn....
Man held with stolen bike HUB, Aug 3: The Winder police claimed to have arrested a bike-lifter and recovered three stolen motorcycles in Sonmiani, some 55km from here, on Friday....		Chief juror also guilty, says gang-rape victim DERA GHAZI KHAN, Aug 3: Mukhtaran Mai, the Meerwala gang-rape victim, on Saturday told the anti-terrorism court that the conduct of the Panchayat chief was ‘siasi’ and ‘duniavi’....
Govt declines to approve dist, tehsil budgets: ‘Citizens boards must’ GUJRANWALA, Aug 3: The Punjab government declined to approve the budget of district government for fiscal 2002-03 while kept the budget of all tehsil councils for consideration, it is learnt here...		Discretion misused in past: Ranjha LAHORE, Aug 3: Arbitrary use of discretionary powers by the presidents and prime ministers of Pakistan has been the main cause of political crises in Pakistan, said Federal Law Minister Dr...
Nasrullah re-elected PDP chief LAHORE, Aug 3: Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan was elected unopposed here on Saturday president of the Pakistan Democratic Party....		Teachers block road SAHIWAL, Aug 3: Teachers on Saturday took out a protest rally from the Government High School under the aegis of the Joint Action Committee of Teachers, Sahiwal district....
JUP leaders elected unopposed LAHORE, Aug 3: All the candidates, including Sahibzada Fazle Karim, contesting elections to various seats of the central and Punjab Markazi Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan were elected unopposed here on Saturday....		Critics must be silenced: Memon LAHORE, Aug 3: Those trying to paint Pakistan a weak state must be discouraged, Federal Information Minister Nisar A Memon said here on Saturday....
Prayer leader among 20 held under 16 MPO SARGODHA, Aug 3: At least 20 people, including prayer leader, were rounded up on Saturday under Section 16 MPO in Chak 104-A Shumali, Sargodha district....		30 accused in stoning case bailed out FAISALABAD, Aug 3: A local court on Saturday granted bail to all 30 accused, including prayer leader, involved in a stoning case who had been pardoned by deceased’s heirs....