August 11, 2002	Sunday	Jamadi-us-Saani 1, 1423

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Education gets 27pc of Frontier budget PESHAWAR, Aug 10: Frontier Province Education Minister Syed Imtiaz Hussain Gilani said on Saturday that the government had allocated 27 per cent of the total provincial budget for improving the literacy...		Bomb explodes near mosque HARIPUR, Aug 10: A low intensity indigenous bomb exploded near a mosque, damaging a portion of its uncemented structure and wall of a nearby house in Mohalla Session House, here on...
Former income tax official indicted PESHAWAR, Aug 10: An accountability court here on Saturday indicted a former commissioner of the income tax department, Abdul Ali Khan, on charges of corruption and corrupt practices....		Christian leader condemns chapel attack PESHAWAR, Aug 10: The President of Pakistan Christian Writers’ Guild, Yousaf Maseeh, has expressed sorrow at the terrorist attack on innocent people at a Christian Hospital in Taxila....
Service book to be made pension document FAISALABAD, Aug 10: Punjab Accountant-General Wazir Ali Qureshi said on Saturday that reforms were under way to expedite the process of deciding the pension cases of the retired government servants....		Computerized ticketing opens for new train LAHORE, Aug 10: The Pakistan Railways opened here on Saturday computerized ticketing for its new train, Karakoram Express....
Police short of men to guard churches TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 10: Incidents of terrorism in Muree and Taxila have forced the administration to enhance security around churches and Christian schools here....		ATC summons six more witnesses: Meerwala gang-rape MULTAN, Aug 10: Dera Ghazi Khan anti-terrorism court’s judge Malik Zulfiqar Ali on Saturday summoned three more court witnesses and as many defence witnesses in the under-trial Meerwala gang-rape case....
PML-QA hails EU observation LAHORE, Aug 10: The Pakistan Muslim League (QA) on Saturday welcomed the proposed monitoring of the upcoming national elections by an observers’ team from the European Union....		Courts order Wattoo’s release LAHORE, Aug 10: Two accountability courts on Saturday issued formal orders for former Punjab chief minister Manzoor Wattoo’s release from jail provided he had not been arrested in any other case....
Engineering varsity in Gujranwala approved LAHORE, Aug 10: Lt-Gen Khalid Maqbool (retired), the Punjab governor, approved on Saturday the establishment of a university of engineering and technology in Gujranwala....		Rs23.3m fraud in NBP LAHORE, Aug 10: The Commercial Bank Circle (CBC) of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has unearthed a Rs23.358 million fraud in the Jalalpur Pirwala, Multan, branch of the National Bank, and arrested...
Varsities dispute PU notice LAHORE, Aug 10: A Hamdard University spokesman has said the university was authorized to open its sub-campuses all over the country....		18 Afghans arrested GUJRANWALA, Aug 10: The district police claimed on Saturday having arrested 18 Afghan nationals from various hotels here on Saturday....
Detention extended LAHORE, Aug 10: A review board of the Lahore High Court on Saturday extended detention of Maulavi Ghulam Yahya Fakhari, an activist of a banned organization for one month....		Soil scientist rewarded FAISALABAD, Aug 10: The Pakistan Academy of Sciences has declared Dr Muhammad Arshad, professor of department of soil science as the best scientist and awarded him a gold medal, cash prize...
Indian dies in jail hospital LAHORE, Aug 10: An Indian national died of illness at the Kot Lakhpat Jail hospital on Saturday....		KTH faces shortage of specialists PESHAWAR, Aug 10: Shortage of doctors has been affecting the performance of the orthopaedic ward of Khyber Teaching Hospital, doctors told Dawn on Saturday....
Poverty, population growth interlinked PESHAWAR, Aug 10: NWFP Minister for Health Dr Mehar Taj Roghani has said we cannot succeed to control the high growth of population in the country until each person realizes the...		Arrangements finalized for Independence Day PESHAWAR, Aug 10: All arrangements have been finalized to celebrate the country’s independence day in Malakand in a befitting manner....
CNG station in residential area opposed PESHAWAR, Aug 10: The residents of Sikandar Town have expressed concern over the construction of a CNG station in their area and have asked the authorities concerned to stop the construction...		Landmines defused QUETTA, Aug 10: Eight unexploded landmines were recovered from a village near Zhob, on Friday, official sources said....
Farmers block road to protest water shortage SANGHAR, Aug 10: About 400 farmers blocked the Sanghar-Khipro Road at Warenh Mori on Saturday in protest against the SDO, irrigation, Khipro....		Poisonous water claims two lives DADU, Aug 10: Two villagers died and some villagers were hospitalized due to drinking of poisonous water in Thana Bula Khan taluka the other day....
Sanitation workers continue strike NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Aug 10: The sanitation workers of Naushahro Feroze continued their strike for the sixth consecutive day here on Saturday....		One killed, 15 injured in clash KHAIRPUR, Aug 10: One person was killed and 15 injured, including three women, in a clash between two factions of Mojai tribe, in Pir Waryal village on Friday evening, over a...
Mother, son die of gastroenteritis NAWABSHAH, Aug 10: A woman, Zaibul, 35, and her son, Nasir Chandio, 6, died of gastroenteritis in Sanwal Chandio village near Qazi Ahmed on Thursday and Friday....		Nazimeen say officials not cooperating QUETTA, Aug 10: Nazimeen and Naib Nazimeen of various districts in Balochistan alleged on Saturday that the provincial government and bureaucracy were trying to sabotage the local government system....
PPP Parliamentarians wants arrow as symbol ISLAMABAD, Aug 10: Chairperson of Pakistan People’s Party, Benazir Bhutto, has requested the chief Election Commissioner to allot “arrow” as symbol to the newly-former PPP Parliamentarians....		Repeated terrorist attacks feared: paper NEW YORK, Aug 10: The wave of militant attacks on Christian targets and attack on a brigadier in Quetta have fuelled Western governments’ fears that the militants are out to undermine...
Minister dispels chances of rigging KARACHI, Aug 10: Federal Minister for Information and Media Development Nisar A Memon has reiterated government commitment to ensure free, fair and transparent national polls on Oct 10....		Security tightened for Christians MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 10: AJK police have taken special measures to protect the small Christian community in Azad Kashmir in the wake of two terrorist attacks in the neighbouring towns of Murree...
Sharif family won’t be allowed to return: ISPR ISLAMABAD, Aug 10: Inter-Services Public Relations director-general and government spokesman Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi said on Saturday that the government will not allow any member of the Sharif family to return....		PML(QA) hopes polls will be fair ISLAMABAD, Aug 10: Additional Secretary-General of Pakistan Muslim League (QA) Col (retd) Sarwar Cheema on Saturday hoped that the Election Commission would hold free and fair elections....
Arundhati to speak at seminars LAHORE, Aug 10: A series of seminars in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi on the subject of Peace and Freedom in South Asia is being organized by The Daily Times, a Lahore-based...		Protesters set two vehicles on fire QUETTA, Aug 10: Two vehicles were set on fire by unknown people during a wheel jam strike observed at the highways linking Balochistan with Karachi and other parts of the country,...
Attack on Taxila chapel condemned WASHINGTON, Aug 10: The State Department condemned a grenade attack on Christian worshippers in which three women were killed and 20 other people injured....		Paramedics’ service structure likely PESHAWAR, Aug 10: The provincial Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Meher Taj Roghani, has said the government was trying to form a service structure for paramedical staff in the province....