December 5, 2002	Thursday	Ramazan 29,1423

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Over 90pc NHA top slots occupied by army officers ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The top hierarchy of National Highway Authority (NHA) comprises over 90 per cent of the serving and retired army officers, including one major-general, two brigadiers and 20 serving...		Rs200m sought for payment to New City project victims ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The housing ministry has sought over Rs200 million from the government to reimburse to the affected people of the Islamabad New City (INC), a mega-housing project launched in...
Provincial, local govts not in conflict, says chief minister ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: Provincial and district governments are determined to work side by side for welfare and prosperity of the province....		20pc women die during delivery: report ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: At least 200 women out of every 1,000 die during delivery process in Pakistan, where infant mortality rate per 1,000 lives is still 87, says the State of...
Transporters overcharging passengers ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: With Eid just round the corner, the transport services, barring few exceptions, are overcharging the passengers bound for different destinations to celebrate the event with their near and...		Three, including two women, shot dead in Tarnol RAWALPINDI, Dec 4: Three persons, including two women, were shot dead and another woman injured in a family dispute in Tarnol on Wednesday....
Five killed in truck-pickup collision ATTOCK, Dec 4: Five persons died and three others were seriously injured in an head-on collision between a pickup and a truck on Wednesday morning, police said....		Two of a family die in road accident GUJAR KHAN, Dec 4: Two members of a family were killed and six others sustained serious injuries when their car skidding off the GT road and fell into a deep ravine,...
MNA’s degree challenged TAXILA, Dec 4: Chairman Awam Dost Mahaz, and central leader of Communist Party, Engineer Jamil Ahmed Malik, has challenged the qualification of the PML-Q MNA Ghulam Sarwar Khan....		Capital wears deserted look ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The federal capital is giving a deserted look, as majority of the dwellers have left the city for their home towns to celebrate Eid with their relatives....
FSC orders retrial of juvenile offender PESHAWAR, Dec 4: The Federal Shariat Court on Tuesday remanded back the case of a juvenile offender, convicted of molesting a minor boy, for retrial....		Accused can’t become approver: PHC PESHAWAR, Dec 4: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Wednesday accepted a writ petition of former chief secretary of the NWFP, Khalid Aziz, and ruled that an accused in a...
Teachers to be hired on merit CHITRAL, Dec 4: The provincial education secretary has overruled the resolution adopted by district council regarding the appointment of primary teachers in the government girls primary schools and ordered the executive...		Ghazi Barotha project may start by end of month SWABI, Dec 4: The first 290mw unit of Ghazi Barotha Hydropower Project (GBHP) may be inaugurated at the end of the current month while the rest of the units would start...
Infected blood being sold in D.I. Khan DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Dec 4: Many laboratories are engaged in selling substandard and drug-affected blood to the needy around the district headquarters teaching hospital and maternity hospital....		Arms cache seized PESHAWAR, Dec 4: The crime investigation department has seized a large quantity of weapons and arrested the smuggler here on Tuesday...
PTCL helpline PESHAWAR, Dec 4: The Telecommunication Corporation’s northern telecom region-I help line, 111202020, will remain operative during the Eid holidays....		Carjackers held ABBOTTABAD, Dec 4: The district police arrested six members of a carjackers gang who had allegedly taken away many vehicles after killing their drivers during the past two months. The police...
Inquiry into Chashma breach delayed DERA ISMAIl KHAN, Dec 4: The team constituted to hold an inquiry into the breach occurred in the super passage of the Chashma Right Bank Canal near the Juma Sharif village...		35 prisoners released BAJAUR, Dec 4: The Bajaur Agency administration on Wednesday released around 35 prisoners undergoing terms for different crimes....
Industrial units to face gas supply cuts from 15th SAHIWAL, Dec 4: Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Chaudhry Naurez Shakoor Khan has said gas loadshedding in the industrial units would be carried out from Dec 15....		New police plan hits snags in Faisalabad FAISALABAD, Dec 4: The separation of the investigation and watch-and-ward wings, envisaged by the new police plan, has hit snags in the district....
Inquiry finds arrested men innocent: Seven women’s rape TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 4: An inquiry into the rape of seven women of a poor family of Chak 343-JB found the four arrested accused innocent....		Two dacoits killed in shootout VEHARI, Dec 4: Two dacoits were killed while a sub-inspector and a constable were injured in a shootout at Karampur area on Wednesday morning....
Police fail to rearrest murder accused GUJRANWALA, Dec 4: The main accused involved in the killing of the PPP city president and who escaped from police custody two days ago could not be rearrested....		160 rice bags taken away SHEIKHUPURA, Dec 4: Eight dacoits on Wednesday took away 160 rice bags from a rice mills in Jatrikay village near Narang Mandi....
Black warrants issued for six convicts BAHAWALPUR, Dec 4: The Anti-Terrorism Court judge on Wednesday issued black warrants for six condemned prisoners....		Minister accused of betrayal MULTAN, Dec 4: The Anjuman Mazareen Punjab has criticized the defence minister on reiterating the stance of Okara Military farms management regarding the tenants struggle to get ownership rights....
Oil & gas found near Sanghar ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL), as an operator, has made another oil and gas discovery, their sixth over a period of eight months, as a...		Prisoners get remission on eve of Eid ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The government on Wednesday announced total remission to the men and women prisoners aged 65 years or above, and juvenile prisoners, on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr....
Political battles take a pause ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: Political antagonists have gone into an uneasy Eid-ul-Fitr recess but without sheathing their swords, ready to resume battles after festivities to fight out Pakistan’s lingering post-election political confusion....		ISPR chief asked to publish papers: Nawaz pact with Army govt ISLAMABAD, DEC 4: The Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) has challenged ISPR Director-General Maj-Gen Rashid Qureshi to publish immediately the alleged written agreement under which former premier Nawaz Sharif was exiled along...
New screening system at US airports soon LOS ANGELES, Dec 4: Some time next year the names of airline passengers in the United States will be fed into a mammoth computer network....		2 killed, 32 injured in road accident MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 4: At least two people were killed and 32 others were injured in a road accident in the southern Poonch district of Azad Kashmir on Wednesday....
Relief goods ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The United Arab Emirates embassy in Islamabad has provided relief goods, including four thousand blankets and five hundred tents for the victims of earthquake in Gilgit and adjoining...		Saifullah nominated PML-Q secretary ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has nominated Saleem Saifullah Khan as Pakistan Muslim League-Q secretary-general, a party source told Dawn late Wednesday night....
Snowfall CHITRAL, Dec 4: Snowfall in most parts of Chitral continued intermittently over the last 24 hours. About one foot snow has accumulated in the high altitude....		PPP to join hands with JAC LAHORE, Dec 4: The Pakistan Peoples Party vowed on Wednesday to join hands with teachers, doctors and students in their campaign against privatization of educational institutions and hospitals and the Model...
Security plan for Eid days LAHORE, Dec 4: Tight security measures have been taken in the city and elsewhere in the Punjab to maintain peace on Eid days....		Medical entry test on 29th LAHORE, Dec 4: The Punjab government has announced that the entry test for admissions to medical and dental colleges for the session 2002-03 will be held on Dec 29....
Legislators ‘a disadvantaged lot’ LAHORE, Dec 4: Speakers at a workshop stressed the need for orientation of the newly-elected parliamentarians with the intricacies of the legislative process....		Cashing in on Eid LAHORE, Dec 4: There is a big rush at the city’s railway station and bus-stands nowadays, as people are leaving for their hometown to celebrate Eidul Fitr....
JAC continues strike LAHORE, Dec 4: The Joint Action Committee (JAC) on Wednesday continued their protest against the constitution of boards of governors in educational institutions and hospitals and the Model University Ordinance....		Mian Azhar to complete party head term LAHORE, Dec 4: Mian Muhammad Azhar will complete his term as president of the PML-Q set by party’s general council, provincial secretary-general Arshad Khan Lodhi said on Wednesday....