November 18, 2002	Monday	Ramazan 12, 1423

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Pakistan heads for legal battle with US firm ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: An American law firm has asked the Government of Pakistan to pay it Rs250 million from the amount, which it recovered from the corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, a...		Police baton-charge drivers ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: The Rawalpindi police on Sunday manhandled the drivers of public transport vehicles protesting against the highhandedness of a sergeant who allegedly fined a driver at Faizabad for not...
President may give devolution plan charge to new PM ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: President Gen Pervez Musharraf is likely to hand over the charge as head of the devolution plan committee to the new prime minister next week, official sources told...		No headway in probe against ex-FDE director ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: An inquiry initiated against a former director of Federal Directorate of Education (FDE), allegedly involved in an ACR-tampering case, is being delayed for the last five months, sources...
100 Pakistanis to arrive from US on 21st RAWALPINDI, Nov 17: About 100 Pakistani nationals detained in different jails of the United States following the September 11 terrorist attacks are scheduled to arrive here on November 21 by a...		Afghan students to protest in Capital today ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: Afghan students of International Islamic University (IIU) will stage a peaceful protest in front of Afghan Embassy on Monday to register their concerns over the killings of Kabul...
Pakistanis in Afghan prisons feel forgotten KABUL, Nov 17: In a basement beneath a government building in Kabul, six Taliban prisoners lie listlessly on the floor in a fetid cell, less than six metres square, which has...		PPP refuses to accept amended Constitution ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: The Pakistan People’s Party insisted Sunday it would not recognise controversial amendments introduced by the military regime ahead of October’s elections....
PPP to choose PM candidate today ISLAMABAD Nov 17: The People’s Party Parliamentarians president, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, has said that his party’s parliamentary group would meet to choose its candidate for the prime minister’s post in its...		PML-Q holds talks with MMA, PAT ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: Leaders of the PML-Q Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi held a meeting with leaders of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Qazi Hussain Ahmed here on...
Jiang felicitates Musharraf BEIJING, Nov 17: President Jiang Zemin on Sunday congratulated Gen Pervez Musharraf on his inauguration for a new five-year term, state press reported....		‘Kashmir dispute can cause war’ ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: AJK President Sardar Mohammad Anwar Khan said on Sunday that Kashmir is the main cause of tension between India and Pakistan which can trigger a war anytime....
Quake-hit people get contaminated water: Unicef ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: The affected people of the earthquakes, which jolted three valleys of Diamir district in the Northern Areas in the first week of this month, are facing great hardships...		MoU signed for defence talks with China RAWALPINDI, Nov 17: Pakistan and China have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to institutionalize annual “Defence and Security Talks” between the two armed forces....
Arrangements made for re-polling CHAMAN, Nov 17: Security arrangements have been made to ensure peaceful conduct of re-polling in 17 polling stations of NA-262 and 14 of PB-13, Killa Abdullah....		PML-Q will form govt, says Azhar ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: President of Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam), Mian Mohammad Azhar, has said that his party will form the government at centre and all the allied parties will have their...
Internet service CHITRAL, Nov 17: The Internet service remained suspended in the district for the last six days due to a technical fault developed in the microwave station, Chitral....		Governor directs police to protect minorities FAISALABAD, Nov 17: Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool has expressed anguish and concern over the murder of a Qadiani and directed the local police to make allout efforts to protect the lives...
Police sit on lock-up suicide probe MULTAN, Nov 17: Police have yet to complete a probe into the suicide of an alleged dacoit in the lock-up of Haram Gate police station....		Family feud claims three lives SAHIWAL, Nov 17: Three family members lost their lives on Sunday over a property issue in a nearby Chak 189/9-L....
Plight of PTCL Colony residents JHANG, Nov 17: The residents of PTCL Colony, Gojra Road, have been facing a number of problems....		Killer gets death on three counts SIALKOT, Nov 17: The additional district and sessions judge awarded death sentence on three counts with a fine of Rs150,000 to a convict in a triple-murder case here on Saturday....
Five perish in road accidents GUJRANWALA, Nov 17: Five people were killed and 24 others injured in separate road accidents in and around the city on Sunday....		One dies as truck rams into rickshaws GUJRAT, Nov 17: A rickshaw driver died while two others were injured in an accident on GT Road near Kunjah intersection on Sunday....
Musharraf’s oath ‘unconstitutional’ TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 17: Gen Pervez Musharraf has violated the Constitution by taking oath as president because he is the in-service general and ineligible to contest the presidential election....		Committee on migration in colleges LAHORE, Nov 17: The hardship committee to allow migration of students in medical colleges of the province has been reconstituted which will hold its meetings quarterly....
Juvenile jail being vacated BAHAWALPUR, Nov 17: The local juvenile jail is being vacated due to its dilapidated condition....		Booklet on Iqbal OKARA, Nov 17: The district coordinator committee for observance of the year 2002 as Iqbal Year has published a booklet titled Deedawar to introduce school students to the poetry and prose...
Women join drive against high electricity tariff MULTAN, Nov 17: Women belonging to the families of local powerloom owners and workers staged a sit-in here on Sunday to protest against high power tariff....		80pc work on Kohat tunnel completed: Inauguration in May KOHAT, Nov 17: Eighty per cent work on the Rs6.5 billion Kohat Tunnel Project (KTP) has been completed, and the tunnel will be opened for traffic in May when connected with...
Arrest of Agani’s killers demanded LARKANA, Nov 17: A group of singers and writers, under the banner of the Awaz Group, took out a procession here on Sunday against the killings of story writer Malik Agani...		Sindh Varsity entry test results HYDERABAD, Nov 17: The University of Sindh, Jamshoro, on Sunday announced the results of the pre-entry test for admissions in Master degree classes for the academic session 2003, which was conducted...
Nazimeen assured of schemes’ completion MINGORA, Nov 17: Country director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Mashrooq Ali Shah has assured the district Nazimeen about the timely completion of various schemes under the Malakand Rural Development...		Boy killed, 17 injured in accident DADU, Nov 17: A 12-year-old boy was killed and 17 persons were injured after a Mehar-bound wagon overturned and plunged into a ditch near here on Sunday....
Strike observed over youth’s murder TIMERGARAH, Nov 17: Residents of the Talash area observed a strike here on Sunday in a protest against the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Naveed Khan, son of Anwer Said, by...		No check on sale of smuggled vehicles TIMERGARA, Nov 17: Sale of non-custom duty paid vehicles have given birth to a plethora of problems in the Dir district, because these vehicles are being used by anti-social elements in...
Three bandits arrested SUKKUR, Nov 17: The Kandhkot police on Sunday arrested three bandits after a brief exchange of fire....		Discrimination in wheat distribution alleged MIRPURKHAS, Nov 17: The president, Scheduled Castes Federation, Surendar Valasai, has said that the country’s mainstream political parties and upper caste elements had deprived the Dalits of their due share in...
Two die as tractor falls into ditch MINGORA, Nov 17: A tractor overturned and fell into a ditch on Sunday killing two people and injuring another in the Banda village of the Matta subdivision....		Sikh tribesman shot dead in Orakzai area KOHAT, Nov 17: A Sikh, Dian Singh, was killed in an exchange of fire with a group of kidnappers in Orakzai Agency, 23km from here on Sunday....
PML-Q wants strong govt ABBOTTABAD, Nov 17: The PML-Q wants a strong coalition governments in the Centre and NWFP....		Salary NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Nov 17: A group of sanitary workers of the Moro taluka council observed a token hunger strike on Saturday against non-payment of their salary and pension for the retired...
Defectors to be unseated: Legal expert says LAHORE, Nov 17: PPP defectors are sure to be unseated under the Thirteenth Amendment which cannot be challenged in any court or forum, says known lawyer Latif Khosa....		Jamaat Shoora gives go-ahead to Qazi LAHORE, Nov 17: The Jamaat-i-Islami Shoora and newly-elected MPs on Sunday reposed their confidence in Qazi Husain Ahmad and authorized him to take whatever steps he deemed appropriate to promote party’s...
Eight officials for thousands of stray dogs LAHORE, Nov 17: The city government neither has the equipment nor does it seem to have the will to exterminate the alarmingly large number of stray dogs in the city....		Substandard stuff at Sunday bazaars LAHORE, Nov 17: The Lahore District City Government has failed to provide quality stuff at relatively cheaper rates to the people at the much-publicized Sunday bazaars....
Faisal calls for national govt LAHORE, Nov 17: Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat, head of the PPP dissident group, insists that a government of national consensus alone can put the country on the democratic track and for...		Punjab had NRB plan postponed LAHORE, Non 17: Top Punjab government officials have managed to get deferred the ‘imposition’ of a National Reconstruction Bureau-designed new civil service structure by mooting an ‘alternative and viable proposal’....
Governor inspects Ramazan Bazaars LAHORE, Nov 17: Governor Khalid Maqbool has asked the district government to improve sanitation conditions in Ramazan Bazaars and keep an eye on the quality and prices of items being sold...		Musharraf ‘can’t be’ president LAHORE, Nov 17: Gen.Pervez Musharraf cannot legally become president as long as he does not resign as chief of army staff and seek vote from parliament, says Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith...