January 8, 2003	Wednesday	Ziqa’ad 4, 1423

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Emergency wards of 3 hospitals sans medicines RAWALPINDI, Jan 7: The emergency wards of the city’s three autonomous hospitals are without medicines owing to critical shortage of funds, sources said....		$10bn export target to be met, says minister: 4th industrial exhibition opens RAWALPINDI, Jan 7: The government is monitoring the exports situation and is on course for meeting the $10 billion target, federal commerce minister Humayun Akhtar Khan said on Tuesday....
Govt committed to rehabilitation of special people: Nilofar ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: Rehabilitation of people with disabilities is the prime objective of government’s policy and programmes for special persons and efforts will be made to absorb them in the mainstream...		Only peace movement can halt Bush war machine, says Hoodbhoy ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: As the US prepares to launch a swift attack on Iraq, Quaid-I-Azam University academics have called for a sustained peace movement to halt the advancing US war-machine mobilized...
Man awarded death penalty, Rs100,000 fine in murder case RAWALPINDI, Jan 7: Additional District and Sessions Judge Sayyed Pervez Ali Shah on Tuesday awarded death sentence to a convicted murderer and a fine of Rs100,000 that would go as compensation...		Another freezing day for residents of twin cities ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: It was yet another day of biting cold in the twin cities, with mercury sticking a degree below the freezing point and the people huddling around the heaters....
Cable operators to boycott five news channels RAWALPINDI, Jan 7: The cable operators of the twin cities will boycott telecasting of five news channels from Wednesday (today) in protest against the policies of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority...		ICCI for facilities at dry port ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: Modern facilities should be provided at the Margalla Dry Port considering the future needs of the business community....
Trainee doctors flay PMA apathy towards probelems ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: The trainee doctors of the Federal Government Services Hospital (FGSH) on Tuesday termed Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) ineffective in representing the young doctors of the federal capital to...		IJT threatens demo ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: Islami Jamiat Tulba (IJT) has threatened the Quaid-i-Azam University hierarchy and the local administration with launching a protest campaign if the people nominated in the FIR for manhandling...
Minister asks PTCL staff to be responsive ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: The state minister information technology, Mohammad Raza Hayat Harraj has asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) staff to be more responsive to consumer demand and ensure a customer-friendly...		A whole sensibility transferred in body-language ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: “Our students at the University in Tokyo were quietly learning Urdu through books but we thought that the best place to test their assimilation and understanding of the...
BHC cuts sentences of corruption convicts QUETTA, Jan 7: A Balochistan High Court bench comprising Justice Fazalur Rehman reduced sentences of four accused persons in a corruption case and issued warrants against one of them for absconding....		MMA leader criticizes foreign policy CHARSADDA, Jan 7: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal Vice-President Qazi Hussain Ahmad announced on Tuesday that he would lead a rally in Islamabad and siege of parliament if the government did not changed its...
Relief for Pakistanis in US sought ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: The parliamentary leader and acting president of Pakistan Muslim League (Q) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has urged relief for Pakistanis who were required to register themselves in the United...		CPNE hails return of civilian rule KARACHI, Jan 7: The standing committee of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors on Tuesday welcomed the return of civilian rule and pledged to play with greater vigour its role in...
Extension in Saudi oil facility likely ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: Advisor to Prime Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Shaukat Aziz, has said that negotiations are under way to extend the 1998’s Saudi Oil Facility and a final...		US moves against Iraq slammed MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 7: The Jammu Kashmir National Awami Party (JKNAP) and its students’ wing, National Students Federation (NSF), held a rally and a public meeting on Tuesday to condemn the United...
PPP backs contract doctors’ demand ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: Pakistan People’s Party on Monday denounced continued victimization of Sindhi doctors working on contract for the past several years and demanded the regularization of their services....		Pakistani shot dead in Canada TORONTO, Jan 7: A high-profile member of Muslim community in Canada was gunned down in Surrey near Vancouver, police said on Monday night....
613 patients treated QUETTA, Jan 7: The Health Department organized a three-day medical camp at Awaak in the drought-hit area of Aranji and provided free treatment and medicines to 613 people suffering from various...		New Zealand MP meets FM ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: Dr Ashraf Chaudhry, member of New Zealand parliament, called on Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri on Tuesday afternoon....
CM promises gas to three towns GUJRAT, Jan 7: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that Kunjah, Mungowal and Mandi Bahauddin would soon be supplied Sui Gas....		6,000kg of Afghan poppy seized in Gujranwala GUJRANWALA, Jan 7: At least 6,000kg of poppy was seized by a customs anti-smuggling squad at a truck-stand here on Tuesday....
LHC issues notice to industries minister LAHORE, Jan 7: The election tribunal of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday issued notice to provincial Minister for Industries Ajmal Cheema on a petition challenging his membership of the Punjab...		109 drug smugglers held in a year LAHORE, Jan 7: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) claimed on Tuesday having arrested 109 alleged smugglers in the last one year from Punjab....
Tenants submit applications for state land purchase MULTAN, Jan 7: Tenants of various state-owned farms in the Punjab have submitted their applications for the purchase of lands which are under their tenantship....		ATI activists attack rival group BAHAWALPUR, Jan 7: Police have registered a case against eight students of the Anjuman Talaba Islam (ATI) for allegedly attacking students of their rival group, the Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT)....
Woman Recovered from illegal confinement SHEIKHUPURA, Jan 7: A bailiff recovered a woman from the illegal confinement of an influential of Chak No 41, Marral, on Tuesday....		150 textile students face expulsion FAISALABAD, Jan 7: The management of National University of Textile Engineering has threatened 150 students of First Year class that they will be expelled if they did not quit protest....
Woman carrying father’s body killed in crash CHINIOT, Jan 7: A woman was killed and three people sustained injuries when an ambulance crashed into a tractor-trolley on the Jhang Road on Tuesday....		New abattoirs in big cities MULTAN, Jan 7: The Punjab governor has ordered setting up of abattoirs in Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala and Sialkot equipped with latest technology....
IUB results BAHAWALPUR, Jan 7: The Islamia University, Bahawalpur, on Tuesday declared the results of botany first annual examination, 2002....		Plan to reorganize Malakand Levies PESHAWAR, Jan 7: The Commandant of the Malakand Levies, Lt-Col Said Rasool (retired), stressed the need for reorganizing and strengthening the Malakand Levies on Tuesday....
Teenage girl assaulted by five landlords DADU, Jan 7: A peasant girl was criminally assaulted by five landlords in Khosa village near Dharma Wah of Mehar taluka on Tuesday as a result she had to be...		55 rice mills closed in Sindh, say traders LARKANA, Jan 7: The Sindh Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association (SBRMTA) has said the deteriorating law and order situation has crippled life in upper Sindh....
Gilani asks politicians to support government KOHAT, Jan 7: Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gilani, a senior PML-Q leader and former federal minister, has said that the parliamentarians have realised that if they want to see democratic process moving...		Jirga to settle Mahar-Jatoi feud on 17th SHIKARPUR, Jan 7: The Sindh Chief Minister, Ali Mohammad Mahar, has ordered to hold a Jirga on Jan 17 to settle the on-going tribal feud between the Mahar and the Jatoi...
Rift in JUI deepens over Senate ticket MANSEHRA, Jan 7: The differences in the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F), Hazara division, have intensified over the issue of awarding the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal ticket for contesting senate election to district Nazim of...		Timergara DHQ hospital to be upgraded, says Nazim TIMERGARA, Jan 7: Lower Dir District Nazim Advocate Alamzeb Khan has said that Rs147.49 million has been approved for the upgradation of district headquarters hospital....
Proper use of water resources urged PESHAWAR, Jan 7: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has stressed the need for efficient and scientific use of surface and groundwater resources....		Owners threaten with sugar mills’ closure NAWABSHAH, Jan 7: The general manager of the Habib Sugar Mill, Mohammad Yousuf, on Tuesday warned of an impending closure of the sugar mills in the face of the continuing deadlock...
Delay in visa panics intending pilgrims LAHORE, Jan 7: Delay in the issuance of visa-stamped passports a night before the scheduled departure to Jeddah panicked a number of intending pilgrims at the local Haji camp on Tuesday....		Rs72m cars for Punjab ministers, secretaries LAHORE, Jan 7: The Punjab government has decided to buy 60 new cars at a cost of Rs72 million for ministers and administrative secretaries, official sources said here on Tuesday....
Noorani to be MMA nominee for Senate LAHORE, Jan 7: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal chief Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani will be a candidate for Senate from Sindh, party sources here confirmed on Tuesday....		Unesco gives $900,000 for Shish Mahal LAHORE, Jan 7: Unesco has given the archaeology department about $900,000 for the renovation of the Shish Mahal and the drainage system of the Lahore Fort....
Govt view sought in Khwajas’ case LAHORE, Jan 7: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday while issuing notices to the federal and Punjab governments on a plea against the detention of five members of the Khwaja family...		Badami Bagh bus stand the dirtiest LAHORE, Jan 7: The Badami Bagh General Bus Stand is among the dirtiest places in the provincial metropolis due to lack of proper sanitation arrangements....
Consultations on APC LAHORE, Jan 7: ARD President Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan has started consultations to hold an all-party conference to evolve national consensus on important issues, including India’s aggressive designs against Pakistan....		Shahbaz exonerated in loan case LAHORE, Jan 7: The company judge of the Lahore High Court on Monday absolved PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif of his liability as the guarantor of a Rs407 million loan which had...