December 29, 2002	Sunday	Shawwal 24, 1423

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1,500 check-posts being set up on inter-city roads: Highway robberies FAISALABAD, Dec 28: The provincial home department has decided to set up 1,500 check-posts on highways and other inter-city roads to check the increasing number of dacoities and vehicle-snatching incidents....		Azhar hints at mending fences with Sharifs LAHORE, Dec 28: Only a day after stepping down as president of the PML-Q, Mian Azhar, on Saturday, contacted two arch foes of the government and also hinted at the possibility...
Five pharmaceuticals blamed for short supply LAHORE, Dec 28: The health ministry’s committee to monitor the shortage of medicines in market has recommended the ministry to issue show-cause notices to five pharmaceutical companies for making short supply...		Woman, daughter gang-raped SIALKOT, Dec 28: A local trader’s wife and minor daughter were gang-raped at pistol point on Saturday by seven armed men in Muhallah Mallo Patiyaal, Pasrur....
Church attack suspect remanded SIALKOT, Dec 28: Satrah police on Saturday were succeeded in getting a three-day physical remand of main suspect terrorist Qari Muhammad Afzal from a special Anti-Terrorism Court, Gujranwala....		Two tenants arrested OKARA, Dec 28: The Anjuman-i-Mazareen on Saturday alleged that law enforcing agencies arrested two tenants Miraj Din and Hafeez when there were on their way to the city....
Autonomous institutions get more than due share of scholarships LAHORE, Dec 28: As many as 186 students of two autonomous colleges and three universities have been awarded scholarships worth Rs2.8 million, which amount to about 27 per cent of the...		Marriage registrars losing income LAHORE, Dec 28: A large number of nikah (marriage) registrars have been deprived of a lucrative source of income in the wake of the government decision to devolve marriage registration to...
Textile college students threaten protest FAISALABAD, Dec 28: Students of the National College of Textile Engineering threatened on Saturday that they would hold a protest demonstration on Monday against the expulsion of 12 students and failure...		Gardezi banking on Nazim’s support BAHAWALPUR, Dec 28: Independent candidate Tasneem Nawaz Gardezi, who did not accept the ruling party for NA-187 by-election, is banking on the support of PPP leader and district Nazim Tariq Cheema....
Jat-Warraich enmity claims another life TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 28: The two-decade old enmity between MNA Amjad Warraich of Gojra and former MNA Ilyas Jat of Faisalabad took another life on Friday night....		Four die after taking liquor SIALKOT, Dec 28: Four persons died after drinking poisonous liquor and one after taking a cough syrup in Daska city during the last 24 hours....
250 election petitions heard by LHC LAHORE, Dec 28: Hearing appeals of politicians against their arrests and conviction in NAB references, and disposal of more than 250 election petitions was the major business conducted by the Lahore...		Gujranwala phone link suspended GUJRANWALA, Dec 28: The phone link between Gujranwala and other big cities of the country remained suspended for four hours on Saturday....
Funds’ spending thru lawmakers opposed HARIPUR, Dec 28: Legislators should be restricted to their constitutional role of law making and all the development funds should be spent through district governments....		First PPP workers’ convention on Jan 5 PESHAWAR, Dec 28: The NWFP chapter of Pakistan People’s Party will organize a series of workers’ conventions in the province in the next month to reorganize the party at district level....
Tribesmen blow up Wapda tower KOHAT, Dec 28: Some unknown tribesmen blew up a Wapda tower on Friday for the third time in four months in the tribal Kohat, Frontier region of Darra Adam Khel, disrupting...		Early construction of court building urged PESHAWAR, Dec 28: The Peshawar District Bar Association (PDBA) has expressed concern over the delay in the construction of court complex here and has asked the government to take the association...
10 districts to benefit from Barani area project PESHAWAR, Dec 28: About 830,000 people in the 10 districts of the Frontier province and a tribal agency would benefit from the phase-11 of the Barani Area Development Project, which would...		Protest demo cancelled MINGORA, Dec 28: Trader unions and other organisations of Swat, Shangla and Buner districts have cancelled their joint protest demonstration scheduled for Dec 30, against the shifting of the intermediate board...
MMA opposes US attack on Iraq SWABI, Dec 28: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MNAs, Mohammad Usman advocate and Maulana Khalil Ahmad said on Saturday that the American attack over Iraq would be a “naked terrorism” and the religious...		Firing on ASI’s house, 8 held LARKANA, Dec 28: The Waggan police picked up eight suspects on Saturday after firing on the house of ASI Ghulam Qadir Jatoi on Friday night....
Appeal against death sentence dismissed SUKKUR, Dec 28: A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Saturday dismissed an appeal against the death sentence awarded by the anti-terrorism court on July 30, 2001....		5 absconders arrested MIRPURKHAS, Dec 28: The Mirpurkhas district police have arrested five absconders....
MMA opposes Ibad’s appointment SUKKUR, Dec 28: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani on Saturday opposed the appointment of the new Sindh governor, saying that never before had a proclaimed offender been elevated to...		Tube-wells for villages demanded MITHI, Dec 28: The Tharparkar District Council has demanded the government should sanction tube-wells for Mohtario, Milkan, Jorou and Asrario villages....
Private schools Ord rejected MIRPURKHAS, Dec 28: The District Private Schools Association, Mirpurkhas, has rejected the Sindh Private Schools Educational Ordinance 2001....		UTP dies of torture, say relatives DADU, Dec 28: An under-trail prisoner of the Dadu district prison, Mohammad Iqbal Jamali, 35, died in the Liaquat University Hospital, Jamshoro on Saturday....
India urged to hold tripartite talks on Kashmir MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 28: The Hizbul Mujahideen on Saturday advised India to give up its intransigence and initiate the dialogue involving the three parties....		AJK SC grants interim relief to PPP legislator MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 28: The Supreme Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday granted interim relief to the People’s Party legislator, Chaudhry Maqbool, in the shape of suspension of the order...
Appointment of Sindh governor criticized HYDERABAD, Dec 28: Chairman of the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party Dr Qadir Magsi, on Friday criticized President Gen Pervez Musharraf for accepting the appointment of the acting convenor of the Muttahida’s...		INS scheme govt’s failure: PPP ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Acting secretary-general of Pakistan People’s Party, Mian Raza Rabbani, on Saturday said the decision of the United States to place the country on the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s...
PML-Q to elect acting president ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: The Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam) high command has decided to convene an emergency meeting of the central working committee (CWC) on Dec 31 to elect an acting president...		PM seeks performance reports from ministries ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Prime Minister Mir Zafaruallah Khan Jamali has directed all the federal ministries, divisions and government departments to provide him an indepth briefing on their three-year performance, failures and...
Fata MNAs pledge support to Jamali ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Members of the National Assembly from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas called on Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Friday and affirmed their support to him in...		Pakistan ready for joint ventures in defence industry ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Pakistan is currently in the process of establishing commercially-viable joint ventures with foreign private investors of Islamic countries in the fields of military hardware, military training and education,...