January 23, 2003	Thursday	Ziqa’ad 19, 1423

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QAU cancels MBA student’s admission for fake documents ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) has cancelled admission of a fourth-semester MBA student on the grounds of submitting fake documents at the time of admission....		Cost of apartments in sector G-6 reduced ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: A joint committee of Pakistan Housing Foundation and Capital Development Authority (CDA) has reduced the price of a flat constructed at G-6 sector by Rs100,000, a CDA official...
Woman sets husband on fire RAWALPINDI, Jan 22: A woman killed her husband by setting him on fire to stop him from marrying for the second time, police and relatives told Dawn on Wednesday....		‘Campaign for reunification of PML factions soon’ RAWALPINDI, Jan 22: The general secretary of PML-Q, Saleem Saifullah, has said he would soon start a campaign to end political difference between his party and other factions of Pakistan Muslim...
Body on bioethics formed ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The Organization of Islamic Conference Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) has set up an International Committee on Bioethics (CICB)....		UAE to help establish 500 schools in remote areas ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will help establish 500 schools in far flung areas of the country to enhance the coordination and strengthen relations between the two countries....
Woman drug-trafficker gets 10-year RI RAWALPINDI, Jan 22: The district and sessions judge, Dost Mohammad, on Wednesday awarded 10 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) to a woman in a drug-trafficking case....		Presence of animals at hospital irks patients, doctors ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: Doctors and patients have expressed grave concern over the growing presence of rats, cats and bugs, including cockroaches, in different wards of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims)....
Illegal colleges asked to get registered with PMDC ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: Pakistan Medical and Dental Association (PM&DC) Wednesday apprised Federal Minister of Health Mohammad Nasir Khan that a number of medical and dental colleges in the country were operating...		Govt, private sector urged to address WTO challenges ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The agriculture system, which is mainstay of our economy needs to be strengthened to meet the WTO challenges coming ahead....
Qazi asks govt to review relations with US ATTOCK, Jan 22: Amir Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and MMA leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed has asked the government to review its relations with the United States....		Telecom deregulation policy to be implemented in 3 months: minister ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: A transparent deregulation policy on telecommunication will be implemented in three months, the minister for state on information technology, Mohammad Raza Hayat Hiraj, said....
Rs2bn package for drought-hit areas QUETTA, Jan 22: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Wednesday announced a relief package of Rs2 billion for drought-hit areas in Balochistan besides promising to provide other facilities to growers...		FM wants relaxation for Pakistanis in US NEW YORK, Jan 22: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri, on Tuesday assured Pakistanis that he would ask the Bush administration to take Pakistan off the NSEERS registration list when he meets...
Indian court acquits Pakistani NEW DELHI, Jan 22: A Pakistani national arrested by the Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in connection with a drugs case has been acquitted by a city court after three years...		Expatriates urged to invest in country DUBAI, Jan 22: Industries and Production Minister Liaqat Ali Jatoi on Tuesday assured the expatriate Pakistanis that the government will set up special desks at all the international airports for gold...
Students find registration rules ambiguous SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 22: Pakistani students, who are required to register with the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) by Feb 21, are worried because rules for registration are ambiguous....		INS keeping hundreds in detention: paper WASHINGTON, Jan 22: “There are hundreds and perhaps thousands of immigrants, mostly Arabs and other Muslims, who would not be in detention but for Sept 11, and who are now wending...
SC to hear APNS plea against wage award ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The Supreme Court would take up the petition of All Pakistan Newspapers Society seeking a declaration that Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1973, was “violative of the...		Provinces’ moot to discuss blast ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: The government on Wednesday called an inter-provincial conference to consider the law and order situation and ordered a probe after a pipeline blast near the Sui gas field,...
Opening of road demanded MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 22: More than five dozen women staged a demonstration on Tuesday and demanded that an army officer should convey to the authorities their demands for opening of the Neelum...		India-Pakistan row stalls Bush visit: Blackwill NEW DELHI, Jan 22: US President George W. Bush is keen to visit South Asia but tensions between India and Pakistan have stalled the plan, US Ambassador in New Delhi Robert...
Rift in MMA over Senate tickets widens MANSEHRA, Jan 22: Differences have made way into the ranks of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal over the distribution of tickets for the Senate election....		Yaqub to act as NA speaker ISLAMABAD, Jan 22: National Assembly Deputy Speaker Sardar Mohammad Yaqub will act as the speaker in Chaudhry Amir Hussain’s absence, a notification issued here stated....
Wapda tower blown up in Mohmand PESHAWAR, Jan 22: Electricity supply to several parts of Mohmand Agency, Fata, was disrupted on Tuesday night when some unknown miscreants blew up a main tower of Wapda, official sources said....		Measures to curb crime in Fata assured PESHAWAR, Jan 22: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has said that the government is devising a policy in close consultation with Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah to combat criminals in...
Moot on children’s rights today PESHAWAR, Jan 22: A one-day conference on violence against children is being organized by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) in collaboration with Human Rights...		Girl commits suicide HARIPUR, Jan 22: A teenaged girl committed suicide in village Kehyan, about 22km from here on Wednesday....
NSC thrust upon parliament, says MMA SANGHAR, Jan 22: The general secretary of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) and the Jamiat-i-Ulma-i-Islam (JUI), Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro, has said that his party was not against an Urdu-speaking governor in...		Mill offers Rs40 per 40kg of sugarcane NAWABSHAH, Jan 22: Following big demonstrations staged by growers on Tuesday, the management of the Habib Sugar Mills, Nawabshah, announced to pay Rs40 per 40 kgs of sugarcane to growers....
Zardari warns against U-turn in US policies LARKANA, Jan 22: President Gen Pervez Musharraf himself will be responsible if the United States brings to bear any pressure against Pakistan or any change in its foreign policy after attacking...		Governor criticized for not calling PA session LARKANA, Jan 22: Nisar Ahmad Khuhro has said instead of calling the Sindh Assembly’s session on points mentioned in the requestioned session, the governor, Dr Ishratul Ibad, had summoned it to...
OPF to set up model schools, says Lalika SANGHAR, Jan 22: The Overseas Pakistanis Foundation would establish model schools all over the country with the help of some industrialists....		Rally against police held DADU, Jan 22: Chandio tribesmen held a demonstration outside the press club on Wednesday to protest against the SHO, Mahi Otho police station....
Demo held against Lasmo DADU, Jan 22: A large number of people of the of Bhit Jabal area staged a protest demonstration outside the EDO, health, office here on Tuesday against local officials of Lasmo...		One killed in tribal dispute SUKKUR, Jan 22: A Jagirani tribesman was shot dead on Wednesday by the Jatoi tribesmen in an on-going dispute between the two tribes over a Karo-kari incident....
Old examination policy restored GUJRANWALA, Jan 22: The old education policy of the primary and middle standard examinations was restored, it was learnt here on Wednesday....		LHC wants evidence against Khwajas LAHORE, Jan 22: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the federal government to produce a confidential file containing incriminating evidence against Dr Ahmad Javed Khwaja and other detainees for their...
Lahorites suffer without gas LAHORE, Jan 22: Lahorites awakened to the perils of their complete dependence on gas when they had to do without it on Wednesday....		44 file papers for 22 Senate seats LAHORE, Jan 22: Former Punjab chief minister Manzoor Wattoo, former federal law minister Dr Khalid Ranjha, former provincial law minister S M Zafar among 18 candidates filed their nominations for the...
PU squanders thousands on signboards LAHORE, Jan 22: The Punjab University has spent hundreds of thousands of rupees on installation of signboards and pictures in the New Campus at a time when its departments do not...		Dust, smoke pollution on the rise LAHORE, Jan 22: Dust and smoke pollution is on the rise in all cities and towns of the Punjab due to continuing dry weather, unpaved roads and increase in movement of...
Four gangs of robbers busted LAHORE, Jan 22: Model Town division police claimed on Wednesday to have arrested 13 members of four gangs of car-lifters and robbers....		NLC to work on 20 main roads FAISALABAD, Jan 22: The provincial government has directed the Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) to entrust the project of carpeting 20 main roads of the city to the National Logistic Cell....
Teachers without salaries for three months VEHARI, Jan 22: Over 600 male and female teachers appointed on a five-year contract in the district have not been paid salaries for the last three months as the Finance department...		Worst fog in Lahore LAHORE, Jan 22: Dense fog and low temperature gave Lahore one of the worst mornings on Wednesday, creating a great deal of inconvenience for the people....
Punjab to save 70,000 cusecs LAHORE, Jan 22: The Punjab irrigation department would save some 70,000 cusecs of water with the extension in canal closure period and bring down shortages by three per cent for the...		Workers protest against labour laws violation FAISALABAD, Jan 22: Hundreds of industrial workers took out a procession here on Wednesday in protest against violation of labour laws in factories....
21 tenants arrested on Okara farms OKARA, Jan 22: Tension mounted in military farms on Wednesday when two cases were registered against 74 tenants after a grand operation by law-enforcement agencies....		Traders protest against police MULTAN, Jan 22: Traders of the Cantonment markets took out a procession here on Wednesday as part of their ongoing protest drive against police for their failure to track down the...