October 31, 2002	Thursday	Sha’aban 24,1423

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Traders decide not to pay taxes RAWALPINDI, Oct 30: The traders have decided not to pay various taxes in protest against the government’s failure to address their concerns, the president of Markazi Anjuman-i- Tajran, Hanif Abbasi, said...		Rs6.28bn allocated for rehabilitation of special persons ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The government has allocated an amount of Rs6.282 billions in its ten years perspective plan (2001-11) for education, training and rehabilitation of the special persons....
Tehsil Nazim accused of misusing funds RAWALPINDI, Oct 30: The Tehsil Nazim, Raja Hamid Nawaz came under fire at the Tehsil council session on Wednesday for allegedly misappropriating development funds and distributing wheat among his favourites....		Ban on tobacco ads demanded ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: A civil society organization has asked the government to impose a ban on all kinds of tobacco advertisements....
Iesco links power supply to lodges with dues payment ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) on Wednesday told the Capital Development Authority (CDA) that it would not supply power to the newly-constructed blocks of the Parliament Lodges...		Need for peace education stressed ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Humanity needs peace and prosperity more than ever as war and conflicts have caused enormous losses and damages to the humanity and deprived millions of people from their...
Truck hijacked RAWALPINDI, Oct 30: Eight robbers took away a truck at gunpoint in Westridge on Wednesday, police said....		Two under-trial prisoners escape from police custody RAWALPINDI, Oct 30: Two handcuffed under-trial prisoners on Wednesday escaped from police custody after throwing red chilies into the eyes of the policemen guarding them....
US troops movement: police put on high alert GUJAR KHAN, Oct 30: The law enforcement personnel have been put on high alert along the GT Road, between Rawalpindi and Jehlum to provide security cover to the US troops coming...		New building of history museum inaugurated ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Pakistan Museum of Natural History (PMNH) will open new vistas for children by arousing their curiosity about nature....
BD defence attache meets naval chief ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The Bangladeshi defence attache, Brig-Gen Solaiman Ahmed, called on Admiral Shahid Karimullah, chief of the naval staff at the Naval Headquarters, here on Wednesday....		Plight of Kashmiri women highlighted UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30: Saying that “rape and the humiliation of women and girls has been used as an instrument of war” by Indian security forces in the Indian-occupied Kashmir, Pakistan...
Saudi ban on foreign taxi drivers to hit Pakistanis RIYADH, Oct 30: More than 50,000 expatriate taxi drivers, including a large number of Pakistanis, have been banned by Saudi Arabia from driving taxis to provide jobs to the rising number...		‘Parliament should complete term’ ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, secretary-general of Pakistan Muslim League-Q and an aspirant to prime ministership on Wednesday, said that all political parties should work in unison to ensure...
‘NA results notified’ ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The Election Commission of Pakistan Wednesday clarified that it has issued notifications of all the returned candidates of national assembly except those of NA-262 and NA-263 where re-election...		No mly solution to Kashmir issue, says New Zealand MP MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 30: The first Muslim member of the New Zealand parliament, Dr Ashraf Choudhary, on Tuesday expressed his pleasure over the return of democracy and congratulated President Gen Pervez Musharraf...
People greet Musharraf in Madina MADINA, Oct 30: Zaireen of different nationalities greeted President Pervez Musharraf when they saw him in their midst outside the Roza-i-Rasool (SAW) here on Wednesday morning....		NA session on completion of election results: Ranjha ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: Federal Law Minister Dr Khalid Ranjha said on Wednesday that it is ironical on the part of the certain quarters to blame the government for the delay in...
Kashmir Day observed in US WASHINGTON, Oct 30: The Simla Agreement and international commitments bind India to work towards a peaceful solution of the Kashmir dispute, Pakistan’s ambassador said here on Tuesday....		Candidate of PML-Q declared elected QUETTA, Oct 30: Member of Election Commission, Justice Ahmed Khan Lashari of Balochistan High Court, on Wednesday declared Sardar Masood Ali Khan Luni of Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam) as provincial assembly...
PPP meets PML-Q today ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The parliamentary party of the People’s Party Parliamentarian is meeting here on Thursday amidst reports of a sharp differences among the party over the question of formation of...		CPNE welcomes press laws KARACHI, Oct 30: The president and secretary-general of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), in a joint statement, have welcomed the promulgation of the ordinances relating to the newspapers, periodicals...
Election procedure notified ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday notified the procedure to elect members of national and provincial assemblies on reserved seats for women and non-Muslims....		Ammunition prices in tribal areas register increase LANDI KOTAL, Oct 30: Ammunition prices in tribal areas registered a hike in the last couple of months due to shortage of its supply from Afghanistan....
Expired pesticides need proper disposal: EPA PESHAWAR, Oct 30: The presence of 2000 tons of expired pesticides in the country needed proper disposal on emergent basis as this toxic substance poses serious threat to local population living...		LPG: clarification LAHORE, Oct 30: Apropos a news item captioned “LPG being supplied at exorbitant rates,” the Lub Gas has issued the following clarification:...
Fears on housing scheme allayed PESHAWAR, Oct 30: Commenting on the inter-clan rivalry between Orakzais and Regis in Peshawar, a spokesman for the City Development and Municipal Department has clarified that the land dispute between the...		Governor tells teachers to apply new methods PESHAWAR, Oct 30: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has urged academicians to replace the old techniques of teaching with the modern ones to improve the education system of the country....
Haroon enthrals youth PESHAWAR, Oct 30: The students of the local colleges and universities were enthralled by pop singer Haroon in a concert which lasted till late on Tuesday night....		Flour millers seek 5-year food policy PESHAWAR, Oct 30: The NWFP Flour Mills Association has demanded that a food policy for the next five years should be announced to improve conditions of flour mills....
Rocket fired on house BAJAUR, Oct 30: The house of a tribal chief came under rocket and mortar gunfire here on Tuesday. Witnesses told Dawn that some tribesmen fired rockets and mortar gun shots at the residence of...		Victimization alleged PESHAWAR, Oct 30: Leaders of the National Awami Party Pakistan on Wednesday alleged that the Bajur agency political administration was victimizing them....
MMA to stay away if PPP joins hands with MQM HYDERABAD, Oct 30: Maulana Asadullah Bhutto, MNA-elect of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and its president (Sindh), has said that his party had made it abundantly clear to the People’s Party Parliamentarians...		Seven hurt in anti-encroachment drive SUKKUR, Oct 30: The railway police in their anti-encroachment drive in Freak Hill Colony used tear gas shells to control the residents as a result of which seven people were injured...
11 police officials to be chargesheeted on corruption charges KHAIRPUR, Oct 30: The district anti-corruption committee, Khairpur, has decided to chargesheet 11 police officials on corruption charges in the court....		People hold demos against Hesco DADU, Oct 30: The people of four major towns in the Dadu district on Wednesday staged demonstrations to protest against unscheduled and prolonged load-shedding as well as issuance of inflated detection...
Nisar assures family of slain newsman ISLAMABAD, Oct 30: The Sindh government will ensure justice to the bereaved family of the slain journalist, Shahid Soomro, and will proceed against his killers in accordance with the law....		Seminar on women’s rights held NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Oct 30: A seminar, Aurat Mela and a handicrafts exhibition were held here the other day under the aegis of the Citizens Action Committee for Women Rights....
Murder of journalist condemned NAWABSHAH, Oct 30: The local district council on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution condemning the murder of the Sindhi journalist from Kandhkot, Shahid Soomro....		Judge dismisses injunction application THATTA, Oct 30: The senior civil judge, Thatta, Iqbal Ahmed Khwaja, on Tuesday dismissed an injunction application moved by one Nasir Abdullah Hussain Lootah, director, office of the ruler of Dubai,...
PML-Q leader refuses to accept election results SHIKARUR, Oct 30: The chief organizer, Pakistan Muslim League (Q), Maqbool Ahmed Shaikh, and elder brother of Imtiaz Shaikh, the SDA chief, has refused to accept the election results on PS-11...		STPP holds protest BADIN, Oct 30: A group of activists of the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party (STPP) observed a hunger strike for the third consecutive day here on Wednesday to protest against the lawlessness...
SPLA annual elections held MIRPURKHAS, Oct 30: The annual elections of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA), Government Model College unit Mirpurkhas, were held the other day....		Nazim wants DCO transferred MIRPURKHAS, Oct 30: District Nazim Pir Shafqat Hussain Shah Jilani has demanded of the Sindh chief secretary to immediately transfer the DCO....
3,585 posts of teachers remain vacant LAHORE, Oct 30: Some 3,585 posts of elementary and secondary schoolteachers across the province could not be filled despite hundreds of thousands of applications received by the government against them....		NRB plans to eliminate Police Service of Pakistan LAHORE, Oct 30: Police have not been consulted about the new service structure proposed for them, which would make their service a provincial subject after elimination of the Police Service of...
Seth Nisar’s remand extended LAHORE, Oct 30: An accountability court on Wednesday remanded for another two weeks Seth Nisar and co-accused Shaukat Ali Bhatti into NAB custody in a Rs1.5 billion corruption reference....		Children’s Hospital overcrowded LAHORE, Oct 30: The 250-bed Children’s Hospital is currently having to accommodate 440 patients....
Student allowed to appear for entry test LAHORE, Oct 30: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday held that the standard prescribed for medical colleges could not be revised with retrospective effect....		New reference against two NICFC men LAHORE, Oct 30: The NAB on Wednesday filed a Rs71.86 million wilful default reference against chairman of defunct National Industrial Cooperative Finance Corporation (NICFC) Chaudhry Abdul Majeed and co-accused Azizul Haq...