September 27, 2002	Friday	Rajab 19, 1423

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Politicians vow to take up women rights issues ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: The candidates of different political parties, contesting for two National Assembly seats from the federal capital, spoke on women rights at a seminar on Face to Face Dialogue...		Courts asked not to grant stay against uplift work: Moin opens grid station ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: The interior minister, Moinuddin Haider, has asked the courts not to grant stay orders to those, who create hurdles in the way of development work and other nation-...
PTI shows no-confidence in election commission ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday expressed lack of confidence in the Election Commission of Pakistan and warned the government not to push political parties against the wall....		Minister for promotion of scientific culture RAWALPINDI, Sept 26: The provincial agriculture minister, Khursheed Zaman Qureshi, has underlined the need for promoting scientific culture in the country to overcome increasing poverty, hunger and malnutrition....
Christians start three-day mourning ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: On the call of All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) the Christian community has started observing three-day mourning to mourn the killings of staffers of Idara Amn-i-Insaaf, Karachi....		Karachi killings widely condemned ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: The killings of Christian community members in Karachi was widely condemned by people from all walks of life, including politicians and civil society organizations. They also criticized the...
Benazir offered cooperation to form king’s party: Wasti ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: Pakistan Muslim League-Q central vice- president Syed Kabir Ali Wasti, on Thursday, claimed that the People’s Party Parliamentarians, led by Makhdoom Amin Fahim, was a direct beneficiary of...		World Tourism Day today RAWALPINDI, Sept 26: The World Tourism Day will be celebrated throughout the world including Pakistan on Friday....
Govt supporting loan defaulters: PPP ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: The People’s Parliamentarians (PPP) candidate from NA-49, Nayyar Hussain Bukhari, on Thursday, lambasted the government for, what he termed, “supporting loan defaulters and notorious characters”....		WB to give more funds to Pakistan: Finance ministers’ moot ends LONDON, Sept 26: Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. on Wednesday said World Bank was considering a proposal to inject more resources to help improve education in 23 countries, including...
Agents allowed to check material before polls ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: The Election Commission (EC) has directed the presiding officers (POs) to allow polling agents of the candidates to check the ballot paper books with serial numbers, to ensure...		BHC bar deplores appointment of judges QUETTA, Sept 26: The Balochistan High Court Bar Association deplores the appointments of judges to the apex and high courts against the verdict in the judges case....
Poverty report: govt version ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: The news item carried in Dawn of Sept 25 with the headline “Poverty report suppressed for outcry fear”, is misleading. At no point has the government attempted to...		List of 48 injured in train derailment SUKKUR, Sept 26: Pakistan Railways, Sukkur, Chief Controller Haji Aziz has released the list of 48 injured passengers of 24-Down Quetta Express train which met an accident between Damboli and Dingra...
Saarc official due today ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: The secretary-general of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), Q. A. Rahim, will arrive here on Friday to attend a meeting of the Independent South Asian Commission...		Govt rejects WB report on defence budget ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: The government has rejected the latest World Bank report, which says that Pakistan is spending 29 per cent of its budget on defence....
US defence team calls on president ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday that cooperation between defence forces of Pakistan and the United States would not only be mutually beneficial but also for peace and...		Musharraf rigging polls for compliant parliament: PML-N ISLAMABAD, Sept 26: Pakistan Muslim League (N) Chairman Raja Zafarul Haq said on Thursday that President Gen Pervez Musharraf was rigging October’s elections to ensure a compliant parliament....
Walis and Sherpaos vie for supremacy CHARSADDA, Sept 26: The two powerful political families of the district, the Walis and Sherpaos, are trying once again to retain their dominance in the political arena....		ANP demands provincial autonomy SWABI, Sept 26: ANP leader Begum Nasim Wali Khan said on Thursday that without provincial autonomy the dream of a stable Pakistan could not come true....
PTI chief rejects old politicians PESHAWAR, Sept 26: Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf, Imran Khan, has accused the old politicians of playing into the hands of the US and asked the people to elect young, honest and educated...		National interest mortgaged: Mehtab HARIPUR, Sept 26: Former NWFP chief minister Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan has said the military regime has gone an extra mile in its love affair with the US....
Rs50m grant for Kohistan announced MANSEHRA, Sept 26: Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah on Thursday announced a grant of Rs50 million for the development of the Kohistan district....		NAPP sees obstacles to fair elections SWABI, Sept 26: National Awami Party Pakistan (NAPP) President Ajmal Khattak said on Wednesday that in view of the prevailing situation, there remained various obstacles to fair and free general elections....
Karachi killing condemned PESHAWAR, Sept 26: The Peshawar Diocese of the Church of Pakistan, has condemned the killing of seven Christians in Karachi and demanded of the government to provide security to the minority...		MMA to act on IIC’s proposals: Qazi TIMERGARA, Sept 26: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said that Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, if voted to power, will implement the recommendations of the Islamic Ideology Council in letter and in spirit....
Bail plea of JUI leader dismissed PESHAWAR, Sept 26: Dismissing a writ petition, a two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court here on Thursday declined bail to a central leader of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F), Haji Ghulam Ali,...		Discrimination alleged HARIPUR, Sept 26: The session of Haripur Tehsil Council ended amid protest by the women councillors, who did not participate in the proceedings on Thursday....
Soomro announces development grants BADIN, Sept 26: The Governor Sindh Mohammedmian Soomro on Thursday announced Rs20 million each for development schemes in three talukas in Badin district....		PPP gains ground in Larkana LARKANA, Sept 26: Winds of change appear to be sweeping the PPP ranks, somewhere gaining strength while losing support elsewhere, as certain influential people defect and join the party’s bandwagon....
Jacobabad DCO sent on leave SUKKUR, Sept 26: The DCO, Jacobabad, Khwaja Siddiq Akber, has been sent on compulsory leave....		Two killed in accident DADU, Sept 26: Two people were killed on the spot and 40 others injured when a coach collided with a pickup near the Wahor village on the Indus Highway on Thursday....
Polls scene changing THATTA, Sept 26: Candidates in Thatta district stepped up their rhetorics and door-to-door canvassing campaigns as the date for October election draws near....		Killings deplored JACOBABAD, Sept 26: The PPP candidate for NA-208, Mir Aijaz Jakhrani, has condemned the killing of NGO activists in Karachi and demanded the government for arresting the culprits as soon as...
Election tribunals not governed by CrPC, says DAG LAHORE, Sept 26: When the Lahore High Court full bench hearing petitions against the disqualification of PML-N leaders Shahbaz Sharif and Kulsoom Nawaz adjourned the proceedings on Thursday, petitioners’ counsel Ashtar...		PSO rejects Wapda claim on oil tender LAHORE, Sept 26: The Pakistan State Oil (PSO), reacting to a Wapda statement on the cancellation of the PSO tender for the month of October, said it was not true that...
Call to waive taxes on utility bills LAHORE, Sept 26: The government should provide resources for the construction of new dams and hydel power stations to Wapda and waive off taxes on the utility bills for giving relief...		World Heart Day on 29th LAHORE, Sept 26: The third World Heart Day will be observed on Sept 29 with emphasis on controlling obesity....
Terror attacks on Christians flayed LAHORE, Sept 26: Condemning the terror attacks on Christians, two PPP candidates have announced that they would suspended their election campaign for one day to show solidarity with the community....		LGH board shortlists five candidates for PEO post LAHORE, Sept 26: The board of governors of the Lahore General Hospital has again shortlisted five candidates for the post of principal executive officer (PEO)....
All LHC employees to wear uniform from Oct 15 LAHORE, Sept 26: All Lahore High Court (LHC) employees will have to wear uniform from October 15....		Notice to govt on plea against ban on poppy straw sale LAHORE, Sept 26: Chief Justice Iftikhar Husain Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court issued notices to the Deputy Attorney-General and the Punjab Advocate-General on Thursday on a writ petition challenging the...
Army officer directed to reply to contempt notice LAHORE, Sept 26: The Lahore High Court directed Capt Syed Jawad Husain Rizvi on Thursday to file reply to the contempt notice positively by Sept 29, failing which ex parte action...		Jahangir Badar indicted LAHORE, Sept 26: An accountability court on Thursday indicted PPP secretary-general Jahangir Badar on charges of amassing assets worth Rs50 million disproportionate to his known sources of income....
Former XEN sent to jail LAHORE, Sept 26: An accountability court refused on Thursday to recall the sentence awarded to a former XEN in absentia and ordered that the accused should serve the sentence first before...		Dera still a domain of feudal-cum-tribal chiefs DERA GHAZI KHAN, Sept 26: Political scenario of the district could not be changed from 1937 to 1997 as it has always been dominated by feudal-cum-tribal chiefs....
Dualization of railway track inaugurated MULTAN, Sept 26: Federal Communications and Railways Minister Lt-Gen Javed Ashraf (retired) has laid the foundation stone of the dualization of track between Khanewal and Lodhran....		Candidates of same party lack coordination BAHAWALPUR, Sept 26: Candidates of the same party in overlapping national and provincial assembly constituencies have no coordination among them and are running their campaigns individually and in a disorganized manner....
PML-C’s adjustment with PML-QA GUJRANWALA, Sept 26: PML-C chief Hamid Nasir Chattha is contesting elections for NA-100, NA-101 and PP-103 while PML-QA has made seat adjustment with the PML-C on NA-101....		Electoral rules being ‘violated’ FAISALABAD, Sept 26: PML-N leaders and candidates for national and provincial assemblies have accused City Nazim of using official resources and manpower for the election campaign of his brother in NA-83....