October 1, 2002	Tuesday	Rajab 23, 1423

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Probe ordered into $5 million irregularities: Pindi Medical College Complex RAWALPINDI, Sept 30: The Punjab government has ordered an investigation into the $5 million irregularities committed in the construction of Rawalpindi Medical College Complex, sources said here on Monday....		Pharma industry opposes amendments to Drugs Act ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: The representatives of the pharmaceutical industry have protested over the proposal to amend the Drugs Act 1976....
Schoolchildren demand free, fair polls ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: Chanting slogans for holding free and fair and elections, and for ending corruption, about 300 children of a private school staged a demonstration in front of Dawn office...		AC cannot proceed against Zardari in SGS case: counsel ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: The defence on Monday argued that the accountability court could not proceed against Asif Ali Zardari in the SGS corruption reference, as he had already sentenced in the...
People protest against increase in property tax RAWALPINDI, Sept 30: About 300 people on Monday gathered in front of the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board office to protest against the increase in property tax....		Capital kidney centre’s privatization okayed ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: The federal cabinet has approved the privatization of a 50-bed kidney centre established by the Workers Welfare Fund (WWF) in the capital....
Tayyab calls for completion of next assembly’s term ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: The former federal minister and a candidate from NA-48, Haji Hanif Tayyab, has called upon all the political parties to make it sure that the next assembly would...		Vote for PML-N, says dissident MMA leader RAWALPINDI, Sept 30: Jamiat Ahle Hadith chief Maulana Sajid Mir has withdrawn his support to the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and asked his supporters to vote for the PML-N....
Kutcha abadi dwellers seek ownership rights RAWALPINDI, Sept 30: The All Pakistan Alliance of Kutcha Abadis held a protest demonstration here at the Tigri kutcha abadi....		Labourer buried alive ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: A labourer was buried alive and another injured while digging the basement of a house in Sector F-11/4 on Monday night....
Odds in favour of PPP in NA-54 RAWALPINDI, Sept 30: Contest on almost all national assembly constituencies of Rawalpindi city is being looked at with great interest by the political observers here, but NA-54 (Rawalpindi Cantt) has draw...		Raising of Mangla Dam commences MANGLA, Sept 30: President Gen Pervez Musharraf here on Monday inaugurated the Rs57 billion Mangla Dam raising project and said that Azad Kashmir will now get royalty for its hydropower plant...
PPP pledges to strive for egalitarian society ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: The People’s Party Parliamentarians announced on Monday its manifesto for Oct 10 elections with a pledge to strive for an egalitarian Pakistan....		SC to study pardoning of rapists by victim ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: The Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine the question whether the offence of gang rape was compoundable and the victim was empowered to pardon the accused....
8 arrested as protesters, police clash MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 30: At least eight people were arrested in Mirpur on Monday after a clash between the police and the activists of Anti-Mangla Dam Extension Committee....		Boy shoots teacher, kills himself MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 30: A boy wounded his teacher and a student and shot himself dead in a school on Monday, police and witnesses said....
Musharraf to be briefed on AJK power-sharing row ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: The President of Azad Kashmir state government, Maj-Gen (retd) Sardar Mohammad Anwar Khan, is likely to call on President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday morning to discuss with...		Two shot dead SKARDU, Sept 30: Two persons were shot dead and 11 others injured in a clash between two tribes of Shigar valley over a land dispute, sources said....
NWFP facing shortfall of revenue : Wapda delays payment PESHAWAR, Sept 30: The NWFP government is facing increasing revenue shortfall under the head of net hydel profit due to non-payment of its due share by the Water and Power Development...		Malakand councillors threaten to resign en bloc PESHAWAR, Sept 30: The members of the district council, Malakand, on Monday threatened to resign en bloc if the posting and transfer orders of teachers cancelled by the NWFP education department...
PPP, ANP to form govt: Amin Fahim PESHAWAR, Sept 30: Chairman of the People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP), Makhdoom Amin Fahim, has said his party will grant maximum rights to federating units for making Pakistan a strong federation....		Army official accused of meddling in Apwa affairs PESHAWAR, Sept 30: Former MNA and chairperson of the All Pakistan Women Association, NWFP chapter, Zari Sarfaraz has asked the government to take notice of the highhandedness of a serving official...
FIA installs screening equipment at airport PESHAWAR, Sept 30: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has started installing high-tech screening equipment donated by the US FBI at the Peshawar airport....		55 polling stations termed sensitive NOWSHERA, Sept 30: As many as 55 polling stations of a total of 365 in Nowshera district have been declared as sensitive....
Injured Nazim dies MARDAN, Sept 30: Tehsil Nazim Irsal Khan died early Monday at the Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, and was buried at his native village....		Textile college to be made university ISLAMABAD, Sept 30: The federal government has decided in principle to upgrade the National College of Textile Engineering, Faisalabad, to the level of university subject to its meeting the criteria laid...
All depositors assured repayment: Claims worth Rs200m filed MULTAN, Sept 30: The government will do effective legislation to refrain ‘fraudulent companies’ from plundering the hard-earned money of common people in the cover of high profit ratio....		Faisalabad Nazim violates EC rules FAISALABAD, Sept 30: District Nazim Zahid Nazir has started holding election meetings and door-to-door campaigns in both rural and urban areas in the district in favour of PML-QA nominees....
PPP strategy weakens PML-QA in NA-114 SIALKOT, Sept 30: Effective political strategy and rigorous election campaign by the PPP has weakened the position of the PML-QA in the national constituency NA-114 (Pasrur city)....		Blasphemy convicts shifted to Sahiwal jail SAHIWAL, Sept 30: Three convicts, including two blasphemers, have been shifted from Lahore Kot Lakhpat Jail to Sahiwal Central Jail for security reason on the orders of the Home Department, Punjab....
Imran threatens to move court LAHORE, Sept 30: The Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf will move a court of law if the Election Commission does not initiate action against the Chaudhrys of Gujrat for getting a loan written off....		Governor inaugurates engineering college GUJRANWALA, Sept 30: Punjab Governor Lt-Gen Khalid Maqbool (retired) on Monday inaugurated the Rachna College of Engineering and Technology at Jaura Sian village, Wazirabad....
Variyos’ patch-up with old rival SIALKOT, Sept 30: The six-year-old rivalry between the PML-QA candidate for NA-111, former federal minister Chaudhry Ameer Hussain, and Variyo family’s head ex-MNA Chaudhry Akhtar Ali Variyo ended on Monday when...		PML-QA moot in Sahiwal cancelled SAHIWAL, Sept 30: The PML-QA public meeting which was to be addressed by party’s Punjab president Chaudhry Pervez Elahi in Sahiwal on Monday was cancelled....
Probe ordered SAHIWAL, Sept 30: An inquiry has been ordered against district Naib Nazim Malik Muhammad Yar Dhakko for using official transport and resources in the election campaign of his uncle Malik Jalal...		Triangular battle in NA-82 FAISALABAD, Sept 30: A triangular contest is expected in NA-82 among PPP’s Capt Nisar Akbar Khan (retired), PML-N’s Sahibzada Fazal Karim and PML-QA’s Syed Nasir Ali Shah....
It’s a matter of wealth in NA-125 LAHORE, Sept 30: Wealth may carry the day in the National Assembly constituency NA-125 (LAHORE-VIII) that was once known for “political voting behaviour” before Humayun Akhtar Khan entered the scene with...		PML-N votebank has swelled: Saad LAHORE, Sept 30: The PML-N votebank is not only intact but has swelled despite the banishment of the Sharif family, a party leader said at a news conference here on Monday....
‘Meagre’ pay for teachers LAHORE, Sept 30: The Punjab government is appointing thousands of schoolteachers in the province on meagre salaries and unrealistic terms and conditions....		No PML-N, MMA agreement on NA-118, PP-150 LAHORE, Sept 30: The PML-N and two constituents of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal —- the Jamaat-i-Islami and the JUI-F —- have failed to reach an agreement on joint candidates for NA-118 and...
SBP told to submit list of write-offs LAHORE, Sept 30: Justice Saqib Nisar of the Lahore High Court on Monday directed the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to submit a list of persons whose loans had been written...		Rivers inflow drops further LAHORE, Sept 30: The combined rivers inflow on Monday continued the downwards trend with total supplies dropping down to an abysmal 88,000 cusecs — around 25 per cent of the total...
Warrants for TQMD official in Mukhtar case LAHORE, Sept 30: An accountability court trying former commerce minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar on misuse of authority charges issued bailable arrest warrants of Rs10,000 for a director-general of the Textile Quota...		Question mark over eligibility of certain candidates LAHORE, Sept 30: Several politicians whose candidacies were objected to on grounds of malpractices ranging from misuse of authority to corruption to wilful default, or their having been under NAB investigation,...