October 7, 2002	Monday	Rajab 29, 1423

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Sheikh Rashid’s future hangs in balance RAWALPINDI, Oct 6: Former federal minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed is in dire straits in NA-55 and his fate depends on the votes his parent party, PML-N, candidate Sardar Tariq, bags....		Triangular contest tilts in favour of PPP in Murree MURREE, Oct 6: A tough contest between PML-N candidate Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Suffiyan Abbasi of the MMA for national assembly seat NA-50 has turned the odds in the favour of...
AIOU library scam’s main accused acquitted ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: The executive council, the supreme decision making body of the Allama Iqbal Open University, has acquitted the main accused of the library scam, allegedly due to the pressure...		Recruitment of teachers being made in haste RAWALPINDI, Oct 6: The district government, without advertising the 368 vacant posts of teachers has asked candidates to submit applications in two days, it has been learnt....
MMA vows to amend Hudood laws ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: Mutahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has announced that, if voted to power, it will improve Hudood laws in accordance with the injunctions of Islam....		Afghan DPs returning to Pakistan, says UNHCR KABUL, Oct 6: Fears over security and plummeting winter temperatures in Afghanistan are driving the refugees newly arrived in the country back over the border into the neighbouring Pakistan, the United...
MMA vows to carry out land reforms ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: The chief of Jamaat-i-Islami and vice president of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, has allayed the fears that if voted to power, the religious alliance would bring...		Bidding for motorway project planned ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: The National Highway Authority will open the financial bids for completion of work on the Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway....
PMKP chief told to leave NWFP ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: The NWFP government on Sunday ordered Fatehyab Ali Khan, chairman of Pakistan Mazdoor Kissan Party to leave the province in view of his “provocative speeches”....		Delay in polls for reserved seats urged QUETTA, Oct 6: Balochistan High Court Bar Association President Amanullah Kanrani on Sunday demanded postponement of election for 70 seats reserved for women and minorities....
300,000 polling officials trained ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: Election Commission has trained 300,000 polling personnel to hold the general elections in an orderly manner, a spokesman for the EC said on Sunday....		NA session ISLAMABAD, Oct 6: The first session of the National Assembly will be held in the third week of October, it was learnt on Sunday....
GIK Institute takes action against three students SWABI, Oct 6: The protest against absence of a permanent, full-time rector at the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, and a host of other issues, has...		Tough poll fight expected between PML-N, PML-Q HARIPUR, Oct 6: A tough contest is expected between the candidates of the PML-N and the PML-Q for the NA-19 seat....
MMA, PPP may win two Chitral PA seats CHITRAL, Oct 6: Unlike the National Assembly seat, the electorates seem to stand divided in the election of two provincial assembly seats of the district. PF-89 Chitral-I is for Chitral Tehsil...		Six injured as PML-Q, PPP workers clash DADU, Oct 6: Five PPP workers and a PML(Q) worker were injured in a clash between PPP and PML(Q) activists in Radhan town on Saturday night....
Intense contest likely in Thar MITHI, Oct 6: A tough electoral contest is likely to ensue between the candidates of the People’s Party Parliamentarians, the National Alliance/Sindh Democratic Alliance in Tharparkar district....		Rift between PPP candidates widens BADIN, Oct 6: Differences between two PPP candidates — Dr Fahmida Mirza, a PPP candidate for a National Assembly seat from the district and Dr Sikandar Ali Mandhro, who is contesting...
2 candidates, 50 workers booked KHAIRPUR, Oct 6: Two separate cases were registered against two candidates and several workers of the People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) after rivals clashed over hoisting of flags in Khairpur district....		Woman, man killed LARKANA, Oct 6: A woman and a man were killed over charges of Karo-kari in Sakhi Bakhsh Jaqirani village, some 15 kilometres from here on Sunday....
Triangular battle for Multan district seats MULTAN, Oct 6: Triangular contests are expected on almost all the six national and 13 provincial constituencies of the district....		PPP, PML offices attacked in Jhelum GUJRAT, Oct 6: The Jhelum district government and police on Sunday forcibly closed two election offices of the PPP and one of the PML-N, beat up their workers ahead of the...
Faheem asks govt to stop backing PML-QA FAISALABAD, Oct 6: The chief of the PPP (Parliamentarians), Makhdoom Amin Faheem, has warned the government and the Election Commission to stop backing PML-QA candidates otherwise there would be clashes between...		Police disrupt PPP rally in Faisalabad FAISALABAD, Oct 6: PPP leaders and workers foiled the attempt of armed police commandos to arrest their district president Chaudhry Muhammad Ilyas in an election meeting at Hajiabad late Saturday night....
Qadri invites observers to NA-89, 127 LAHORE, Oct 6: Pakistan Awami Tehrik chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri has invited international observers to monitor polling process on Oct 10 in the two constituencies —- NA-127, Lahore, and NA-89, Jhang....		Accidents SUKKUR, Oct 6: Two men were killed and two were injured in two accidents on Saturday....
Daunting tasks in store for legislator from NA-130 WHOEVER gets elected from rural Lahore’s largest constituency, NA-130, will be faced with an uphill task of securing funds for education, health, power, and other basic amenities for his or her...		Accountability of army urged LAHORE, Oct 6: PML-N Information Secretary Siddiqul Farooq on Sunday demanded the establishment of a representative commission with judicial powers to purge the armed forces of what he called “black sheep”...