December 4, 2002	Wednesday	Ramazan 28,1423

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Report seeks action against gender inequality ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: Dr Olivier Brasseur, the country representative of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), on Tuesday urged for an urgent action to combat poor reproductive health, unwanted pregnancies and eliminate...		Philanthropists urged to help special children ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: Former federal minister of sports, culture and minorities Col S K Tressler (retired) has called upon the local philanthropists to put their best foot forward to ensuring a...
Telecom lab project for UET Lahore okayed ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The government has approved a project to establish a telecommunication laboratory at University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, at a cost of Rs39.75 million....		Nasim Zehra resigns from Kashmir body ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: Nasim Zehra, member National Kashmir Committee, on Tuesday tendered her resignation....
NA working for stronger ties with world parliaments ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The National Assembly has been picking up the work of strengthening ties with other parliaments after an interlude of more than three years. The speakers from Bangladesh, China,...		Contractors demand dues from RCB RAWALPINDI, Dec 3: Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) is using delaying tactics in paying back dues worth over Rs9 million to contractors....
$25m suit for compensation against motor firm admitted ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The senior civil judge Islamabad, Justice Arshad Ali, on Monday admitted a suit of senior PPP leader and member National Assembly Dr Sherafgan Khan Niazi against a motor...		Stalwarts flexing muscles for NA-187 ticket BAHAWALPUR, Dec 3: The announcement of the byelection schedule for the 11 national assembly seats in the country has activated the political parties and their aspirants to contest the NA-187 (Bahawalpur...
295 prisoners involved in petty crimes released SAHIWAL, Dec 3: Two hundred and ninety-five prisoners involved in minor crimes were released from the Sahiwal Central Jail on Tuesday....		Murder accused escapes from police custody GUJRANWALA, Dec 3: The main accused involved in the killing of PPP city president Chaudhry Khalid Humayun escaped on Monday night from police custody under mysterious circumstances....
Link to subversive activities being probed: Discovery of sensitive equipment FAISALABAD, Dec 3: A team of the local customs collectorate has enlarged the scope of inquiry into the discovery of wireless sets and high frequency mobile phones to trace the use...		Tenants’ grievances to be redressed OKARA, Dec 3: Defence Minister Rao Sikandar Iqbal has said that the grievances of the tenants of Okara military farms would be redressed soon....
Sialkot problems to be solved on priority SIALKOT, Dec 3: National Assembly speaker Chaudhry Amir Husain has said the prolonged problems of Sialkot district will be solved on priority basis....		26 stolen motorcycles recovered TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 3: The local police claim to have arrested two members of an inter-district gang of motorcycle lifters and recovered 26 bikes from their possession....
House looted SHEIKHUPURA, Dec 3: Three armed men on Tuesday took away a motorcycle, cash and 12 tolas of gold from a house in Mohallah Canal Park in the limits of Muridki....		Motorway cost exceeds Rs60 billion ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The Islamabad-Lahore motorway project cost has now crossed Rs60 billion as Pakistan continues repayments of Rs2 billion annual interest to the Korean construction firm....
Support to UK against terror pledged ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: British Under Secretary Sir Michael Jay and Interior Ministry Secretary Tasneem Noorani on Tuesday held talks on bilateral issues and cooperation in various fields....		Kasuri assures Karzai of help in Afghan rebuilding BONN, Dec 3: Foreign Minister Mian Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri has assured the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, of Pakistan’s willingness to cooperate in its reconstruction during a meeting here....
4 Taliban supporters released PESHAWAR, Dec 3: Four aged pro-Taliban prisoners, who were arrested by the Pakistani authorities for interrogation, were released from the central jail here on Tuesday....		Blockades may starve people: NALC GILGIT, Dec 3: The Speaker of the Northern Areas Legislative Council, Sahib Khan, has said that around 72,000 people of Astore valley may starve if the Astore-Gilgit road link is not...
Benazir for action against turncoats LAHORE, Dec 3: Chairperson Benazir Bhutto said on Tuesday PPP legislators who had changed their loyalties were corrupt and shameless....		Badar’s bail plea to be heard on 9th LAHORE, Dec 3: An Ehtesab bench of the Lahore High Court could not take up on Tuesday the bail application of PPP secretary-general Jahangir Badar owing to the termination of court...
Take up Sharifs issue in parliament, says Tarar LAHORE, Dec 3: Former president Rafiq Tarar urged all democratic forces to take up in parliament the issue of return home of exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif....		No meddling, Pervaiz assures Nazimeen LAHORE, Dec 3: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi says his government will make all-out efforts for the stability and success of the district government system....
JAC flays Musharraf’s statement LAHORE, Dec 3: The Joint Action Committee on Tuesday strongly reacted to President Pervez Musharraf’s statement in which he termed the teachers, doctors and students opportunists and refused to withdraw the...		PML-Q eyes 14 Senate seats from Punjab LAHORE, Dec 3: The PML-Q is expecting 14 Senate seats from the Punjab in the forthcoming elections for the upper house of parliament....
Nine held with 442kg drugs LAHORE, Dec 3: The Anti-Narcotics Force claims having recovered 442kg of drugs from nine drug pushers, including five Nigerian nationals....		PIC waste project LAHORE, Dec 3: The board of governors of the Punjab Institute of Cardiology has decided to launch a hospital waste incineration project, construct a coronary care unit and a waiting place...
Committee on FIA fails to meet LAHORE, Dec 3: The committee constituted by the government to work out the modalities of the proposed merger of the crime and economic crime wings of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)...		HC, SC can hear similar pleas? LAHORE, Dec 3: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday sought the attorney-general’s assistance on a legal point as to whether the LHC had the jurisdiction to hear...