September 25, 2002	Wednesday	Rajab 17, 1423

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35 UCs to be set up in Capital under LG system ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: Some 35 union councils would be established in the capital under local government (LG) system, a source told Dawn on Tuesday....		Ban on promotion of formula milk on the cards ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: The federal cabinet is likely to ban the promotion of mother-milk substitutes by regulating the marketing of designated infant foods items when it meets on Wednesday (today), an...
APHC holds demo against polls in held Kashmir ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), Pakistan chapter, on Tuesday held a protest demonstration outside the Indian High Commission in Islamabad against the second phase of ‘sham’ election...		Multimedia platform project launched ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: The ministry for science and technology, IT and telecom division has launched a project for the establishment of Multimedia Platform....
270,000 literacy centres to be set up ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: The secretary education, Mr Tariq Farook, has disclosed that some 270,000 literacy centres will be established in the country under the government’s literacy programme to educate common man....		Asif Zardari appears in court ATTOCK, Sept 24: Former senator and PPP leader Asif Zardari was produced before the judge of accountability court Attock, Chaudhry Mazhar Minhas, in a reference pertaining to illegal assets on Tuesday....
3 SHOs issued show-cause notices RAWALPINDI, Sept 24: The additional district and sessions judge, Mian Muhammad Shafi, on Tuesday issued show cause notices to three station house officers (SHOs) for not co-operating with the court, due...		Malki ya Maut movement not dead: AMP ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: Anjuman Mazarain Punjab (AMP) has rejected the claim that Malki ya Maut movement is dead....
APNS rejects press laws KARACHI, Sept 24: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has rejected as ‘illegitimate, unconstitutional and unethical’ the recent package of four draft ordinances passed by the federal cabinet aimed at regulating...		Kashmiris want plebiscite not polls, says Hizb MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 24: Kashmir’s dominant fighter group, Hizbul Mujahideen, said on Tuesday that the people’s response to the second phase of the so-called polls in the occupied Kashmir had made it...
Parties mull strategy to check ‘organized rigging’ ISLAMABAD Sept 24: Three major political parties have begun mulling a unified strategy to forestal what they fear “chances of organized rigging” on selected seats on the election day....		AJK govt approves Rs4bn scheme for computer literacy MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 24: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government has prepared a Rs4 billion master plan for computer literacy in the public and private sector, an official here said....
Information complex construction begins SKARDU, Sept 24: The minister of information, Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas, Nisar A. Memon, laid foundation-stone of the information complex here....		Rs1,188bn plan finalized to increase power generation ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: The federal government has finalized a massive Rs1,188 billion programme to increase power generation from 12,064mw to 21,000mw in 2011....
GNA to win elections, claims leader QUETTA Sept 24: The Grand National Alliance (GNA) will win the Oct 10 general elections as people of the country will reject the parties whose leadership looted national resources and fled....		Ex-senator gets two-year jail QUETTA, Sept 24: The Special Judge of the Anti-Terrorism Court, Abdul Ghayyas Nusherwani, convicted and awarded two years imprisonment on Tuesday to an ex-senator and six co-accused for their continuous absence...
ADB to lend $75m for education MANILA, Sept 24: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday it has approved a $75 million loan to improve public elementary education in Sindh....		CEC asks IGP to look into PPP’s grievance ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: The Chief Election Commissioner directed on Tuesday the Inspector General of Police, Balochistan, to look into the grievance of the People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) that the Pakistan Muslim...
Pakistan elected APT Study Group chief ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: Pakistan was unanimously elected by 85 members as the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) Study Group chairman for 2003-05....		NHA postpones bid opening ISLAMABAD, Sept 24: The National Highway Authority (NHA) has postponed the bid opening of Rs13 billion Islamabad-Peshawar motorway project owing to coordination problems, an official spokesman says....
62 new posts for GMC okayed, says governor DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Sept 24: NWFP Governor, Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah, has said the government is taking concrete steps to improve the Gomal Medical College....		Election won’t be fair, fears Khuhro LARKANA, Sept 24: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) casts doubts over the transparency of the general election as the chief election commissioner could not take notice of the excesses and administration’s...
Tough contest in Shikarpur likely SHIKARPUR, Sept 24: Fifty one candidates are contesting for the two national and four provincial assembly seats of Shikarpur district....		Hailstorm hits Swabi district SWABI, Sept 24: A hailstorm accompanied by heavy rain have destroyed standing crops in the district, disturbed power supply and flooded the low-lying localities on Monday night....
People protest against civil hospital staff SANGHAR, Sept 24: Hundreds of people protested here on Tuesday against the killing of a police constable, Dadlo Panhwar, and the non-professional attitude of the civil surgeon and MLO of the...		Appointment of teachers demanded HANGU, Sept 24: The students of Government Girls Degree College, Hangu, have threatened that they would boycott classes from Wednesday in protest against the shortage of teaching staff....
Three women in the run from Hazara MANSEHRA, Sept 24: Three women are contesting for the general provincial assembly seats in Hazara....		Water crisis deepens in Dodanko SUKKUR, Sept 24: The problem of water shortage has deepened in Dodanko village near Rohri, the suburb of Sukkur, and people have to fetch water from far-flung areas....
Muttahida’s complaint MIRPURKHAS, Sept 24: The zonal organizer of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Mirpurkhas, Fareed Ahmad, and members of the zonal committee have condemned the harassing of Poonjo Bheel, MQM candidate for...		Two killed in Peshawar PESHAWAR, Sept 24: Two persons were killed in different incidents and a decomposed body of a woman was found in the city suburb on Tuesday....
A number of aliens in R.Y. Khan BAHAWALPUR, Sept 24: A number of alien heavyweights are among the 116 candidates contesting for six national and 13 provincial assembly seats in the Rahim Yar Khan district....		Rs750m medical college project launched in Sialkot SIALKOT, Sept 24: Punjab Governor Lt-Gen Khalid Maqbool (retired) inaugurated the Rs750 million “Sialkot Medical College” project near the Government Allama Iqbal Memorial (DHQ) Hospital here on Tuesday....
Jats to play decisive role in NA-79 FAISALABAD, Sept 24: A neck-and-neck fight is expected in NA-79 where Safdar Shakir (PML-Q), Safdar Rehman (PML-N) and Rana Farooq Saeed (PPP) are using all their resources to secure the seat....		Railways cuts power supply to employees’ colony BAHAWALNAGAR, Sept 24: The railways has cut the electricity supply to its employees’ colony here, which comprises 535 houses....
Raid on election office politicized, says DPO FAISALABAD, Sept 24: The district police officer said on Tuesday that the raid on the election office of Dr Nisar Ahmad “has been politicized.”...		Abakhel case: convicts still behind bars MIANWALI, Sept 24: The four convicts in the Abakhel case could not be released on Tuesday as Daulat Bibi, the mother of slain Saadullah, again did not appear before the court...
Dacoit killed in ‘encounter’ FAISALABAD, Sept 24: Chak Jhumra police and Rescue 15 on Monday night shot dead a dacoit and injured his two accomplices in an encounter in Chak 188-RB....		Grant for dist govt employees’ salaries SAHIWAL, Sept 24: The State Bank of Pakistan has released a Rs89.329 million grant to the tehsil councils of 13 district governments for the payment of two months’ salaries of employees....
US diplomat meets candidates VEHARI, Sept 24: The political officer of US consulate, Elizabeth Horst, on Tuesday met some local candidates including Tehmina Daultana and Shahida Daultana as well as district Nazim Mumtaz Khan Khichi...		ROs seek increase in budget LAHORE, Sept 24: The 13 returning officers (ROs) in the provincial capital have demanded an increase in election budget of Rs6,500 for an RO, declaring it as insufficient to meet the...
JUI-F withdraws candidate for JI LAHORE, Sept 24: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazlur Rahman (JUI-F) has conditionally agreed to withdraw its candidate for NA-118, Hafiz Abdul Wadood, in favour of Jamaat-i-Islami’s (JI) Hafiz Salman Butt, who is contesting...		LAC autonomy Ord in a day or two LAHORE, Sept 24: An ordinance, giving legal cover to the autonomous status of Lahore Arts Council (Alhamra), has been finalized and is likely to be promulgated in a day or two....
PPP sees no democracy after polls: Rabbani LAHORE, Sept 24: PPP Secretary-General Raza Rabbani sees no possibility of the restoration of democracy as a result of the Oct 10 elections and thinks that democratic forces will have to...		Violation of rules by PML-QA men LAHORE, Sept 24: The Labour Party Pakistan and the PPP-SB have pointed out violation of election rules by PML-QA nominees and sought election commission action against them....
Windstorm, rain hit Lahore LAHORE, Sept 24: Rain followed by a windstorm broke the spell of hot and dry weather in the city on Tuesday afternoon....		Results of first round of LCCI polls LAHORE, Sept 24: The Founder-PIAF alliance won three out of four chamber class seats of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the first round of its elections held here...