August 23, 2002	Friday	Jamadi-us-Saani 13,1423

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Wasa bigwigs served show-cause notices: Poor water supply system RAWALPINDI, Aug 22: Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) bigwigs have been served show-cause notices on the directives of the provincial minister for works for their alleged laxity and negligence with regard...		CDA seeks amends to ord to check encroachment ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has approached the interior ministry for making some amendments to the CDA Ordinance, 1960, to get possession of the illegally- occupied state land...
Pakistan ranks 56th among disaster-struck nations ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Pakistan ranks 56th among the 184 countries affected by natural disasters from 1992 to 2001, the World Disaster Report (2002) of International Federation of Red Cross and Red...		Commission seeks 33pc women quota in law dept ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: National Commission on Status of Women (NCSW) a statutory body has recommended a quota of 33 per cent for women in department of law and justice....
9/11 has added to the misery of US visa seekers ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The perceived threats of terrorist attacks and security concerns of the embassies in the Diplomatic Enclave have added to the miseries of the visa seekers....		PTCL to launch VoIP service in Islamabad ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) will launch the first Voice over Internet Phony (VoIP) service in Islamabad to check the illegal voice traffic by the end of...
Nisar calls for respectful portrayal of women in print media ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: There is a need to sensitise the society and ensure respectful portrayal of women in the media in deference to equal rights available to men and women, remarked...		President urged to stop deregulation of drug prices ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The Foundation for the Preferment of Pharmaceutical Sciences has welcomed the government decision of withdrawing general sales tax from the medicines....
114 families received aid from OPF ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) has distributed Rs2.835 million among the 114 destitute families of deceased and disabled overseas Pakistanis till June....		Bomb scare at PTCL headquarters ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Hundreds of employees were evacuated from the PTCL headquarters in a bomb scare on Thursday....
Judicial reforms plan hits snags ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The Asian Development Bank-funded judicial reforms project has run into snags as the judicial functionaries, especially those of the Lahore High Court, are not cooperating with the federal...		Chattha meets president ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Hamid Nasir Chattha, president Pakistan Muslim League (Junejo), in his meeting with president Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday demanded even playing field to all political parties contesting the...
GDA parties get individual symbols ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The Election Commission has allotted separate symbols to the members parties of the Grand Democratic Alliance after being told by Hamid Nasir Chattha that the alliance had been...		PML(QA) finalizes list of candidates ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The central parliamentary board of Pakistan Muslim League (QA) on Thursday considered and finalized a list of candidates for national assembly — 75 for Sindh, 43 for the...
‘Amendments to give Martial Law permanence’ QUETTA, Aug 22: The senior deputy chairman Pakhtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party, Abdur Rahim Mandokhel, rejected the constitutional amendments announced by President Musharraf on Wednesday and described it a permanent form of...		Punjab, Sindh may take over Jihadi inmates from NWFP RAWALPINDI, Aug 22: The NWFP government has asked Punjab and Sindh governments to take over the “blacklisted” prisoners, who fought alongside Taliban and are incarcerated in Haripur jail, sources said on...
Police Act not being extended to N. Areas GILGIT, Aug 22: The Police Act 2002 will not be enforced in the Northern Areas due to financial constraints, informed sources told Dawn on Wednesday....		Buddhist monks hold peace march MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 22: A 10-member group of peace demonstrators held a ‘symbolic peace march’ here on Thursday to advocate “peace and peaceful means to resolve conflicts.”...
Ponam parties negotiating seats adjustment QUETTA, Aug 22: Pakhtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party Chairman Mehmood Khan Achakzai said on Wednesday that negotiations are under way between component parties of Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement (Ponam) for election adjustments....		UNHCR to resume aid QUETTA, Aug 22: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Wednesday announced that it would restore relief assistance for over 30,000 Afghan refugees living in Mohammad Khail camp, 130km south-west of...
Balochistan minister resigns QUETTA, Aug 22: Balochistan minister for excise, taxation, Haj and Zakat, Mir Mohabbat Khan Marri resigned and joined Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam)....		Pre-poll rigging alleged ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: Acting secretary-general of Pakistan People’s Party, Mian Raza Rabbani, has asked Chief Election Commissioner Irshad Hassan Khan to take notice of efforts by the government to rig the...
Deluge passes through Guddu Barrage safely SUKKUR, Aug 22: The last deluge of more than 242,690 cusecs water was passing through Sukkur Barrage on Thursday....		NA-208 belongs to my family: Soomro SUKKUR, Aug 22: The Governor of Sindh, Mohammedmian Soomro, has said in Jacobabad that my resignation would be accepted within two or three days and I would return to Jacobabad after...
Students rally flays fee hike SANGHAR, Aug 22: Hundreds of college and school students and their parents staged a rally here on Thursday against the increase in the boards and universities fees....		PML-N candidates DADU, Aug 22: The Pakistan Muslim League (N) on Thursday declared the names of its candidates who will contest the general elections from Dadu district....
Shirazis of Thatta to back governor THATTA, Aug 22: The Sindh Governor Muhammedmian Soomro’s plan to contest the coming elections from PS-88, Ghorabari has evolved heated debate, resentment and hope among different sections of the Thatta people....		Fish production in Keenjhar decreases THATTA, Aug 22: Due to the shortage of water in the Keenjhar Lake, the fish production in the lake has decreased....
PPP-SB selects candidates LARKANA, Aug 22: The PPP-SB parliamentary board, which met here at Al-Murtaza house on Thursday, selected some of its candidates for the national and provincial assembly seats of Larkana, Ghotki and...		Naib Nazim resigns THATTA, Aug 22: Naib Nazim, Thatta district, Mohammad Usman Malkani, has resigned from the post in order to contest the coming election of Sindh Assembly from the coastal constituency, PS-87....
Suspended SHIKARPUR, Aug 22: The executive engineer, Hesco, Shikarpur, has suspended two metrereaders, Hanif Shaikh of Lakhi sub-division and Irshad Ahmed Kaghzi of Khanpur sub-division and ordered an enquiry against them.—Correspondent...		Disease hits buffaloes NAWABSHAH, Aug 22: As many as 14 buffaloes died of a mysterious disease, that spread in various areas of Qazi Ahmed, during the last three days....
Power failure KHAIRPUR, Aug 22: The main residential and trading area of Khairpur city remained without electricity for the second consecutive day on Wednesday....		29 booked KHAIRPUR, Aug 22: An FIR was registered against Setharja Union Council Nazim and 29 others for blocking Thari Mirwah-Setharja Road and misbehaving with police officials here on Wednesday....
Candidates yet to submit documents HARIPUR, Aug 22: All the candidates intending to contest October polls here have yet to return their filled-in nomination papers to the respective returning officers (ROs) in Haripur, though now only...		Operation launched in Bara against criminals PESHAWAR, Aug 22: The law-enforcement agencies surrounded Bara town of Khyber Agency to arrest kidnappers, absconders, car snatchers and their protectors here on Thursday....
Guitarist remembered PESHAWAR, Aug 22: Speakers paid tribute to Iqbal Ahmad Awan, the late general secretary of the Abasin Arts Council and guitarist of international repute, at a reference held here on Tuesday....		Fazl warns rulers against poll rigging DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Aug 22: The Secretary-General of the Mutahidda Majlis-i-Amal and chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, has said that the MMA aims at...
Candidates of MMA file papers SWABI, Aug 22: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) candidates filed on Thursday their nomination papers for the two national assembly and four provincial assembly seats....		Fata reforms to be introduced in package PESHAWAR, Aug 22: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said the government intends to introduce Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) reforms in the shape of a comprehensive package, and directed...
Frontier cancels Malakand power project’s MoU PESHAWAR, Aug 22: The NWFP government has cancelled the memorandum of  understanding  (MoU) signed with  the  Frontier  Works Organization (FWO) for the construction of the multi-billion-rupee Malakand-III hydel power project, according...		PML (Q) not a govt party, says leader KOHAT, Aug 22: Saleem Saifullah Khan, provincial president of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) has stressed the need of better understanding between the politicians and the armed forces fearing that any friction...
MMA components allotted seats PESHAWAR, Aug 22: The provincial parliamentary board of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) allotted NWFP Assembly seats to the component parties here on Thursday....		Seats for Fata sought in Frontier Assembly BAJAUR, Aug 22: Local leaders of various political parties here have demanded of the government to give Fata people representation in the NWFP Assembly....
Water situation improves LAHORE, Aug 22: The overall water shortage in the country has come down to 10 per cent against early projections of 22 per cent and last year’s scarcity of 26 per...		LFO in contrast to PML-QA manifesto LAHORE, Aug 22: The pro-government PML(QA) received a serious setback as President Gen Pervez Musharraf ignored in his Wednesdays’s Legal Framework Order an important issue which is the first point of...
Azhar for extension in filing of nominations LAHORE, Aug 22: Mian Azhar has sent a telegram to the Chief Election Commissioner requesting him that the date for filing the nomination papers should be extended to Aug 28....		ARD parties discuss seat adjustment LAHORE, Aug 22: Leaders of various parties in the ARD met here on Thursday to discuss seats adjustments, specially with a view to putting joint candidates against the most important leaders...
Qazi sees new conflicts in future LAHORE, Aug 22: The Legal Framework Order will give birth to new conflicts in future instead of stabilizing the political setup and economy of the country, says Jamaat-i-Islami amir Qazi Husain...		Six more papers filed LAHORE, Aug 22: Six independent candidates, including a woman, filed their nomination papers for the October polls before the Returning Officers (ROs) on Thursday....