February 15, 2003	Saturday	Zul Hijjah 13, 1423

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Excessive use of pesticides affects soil, water quality: report ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: As a result of over-exploitation and degradation of soil and water in the Punjab province, the growth rate of crops output declined by 0.8 per cent reaching three...		PM lauds Punjab govt ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has lauded the Punjab government’s legislation and decisions regarding people’s welfare....
Rs2.7m looted from petroleum company van RAWALPINDI, Feb 14: Four armed robbers on Friday looted Rs2.7 million from the cash van of a petroleum company on motorway (M-2) near Kalar Khar and escaped....		Man commits suicide; two killed in road accidents RAWALPINDI, Feb 14: An 80-year-old man committed suicide in Sahala, while two other persons died in separate road accidents during Eid days, police said....
HEC to set up science centre at Shah Latif University ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) will set up a centralized science instrumentation centre at Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, at a cost of Rs35 million....		Timber mafia doing roaring business HARIPUR, Feb 14: Timber smuggling is continuing in Haripur without any check and the small portion that is left of this natural resource appears to be at risk of being totally...
War on Iraq will divide people, warns Shujaat LONDON, Feb 14: PML-Q President and Parliamentary leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has said war on Iraq will create an unbridgeable divide between Muslims and non-Muslim world hence both should make every...		INS may extend date for Pakistanis WASHINGTON, Feb 14: The Bush administration has extended registration period for Pakistanis for four weeks, US officials told Dawn on Friday....
Repatriation of FO worker sought ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: The government is seeking repatriation of a former employee of the foreign office who fled to Switzerland some nine years back and sought political asylum there, it is...		Research fund established ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: The Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) has decided to establish an Agriculture Research Endowment Fund (Aref) to manage all proceeds raised from the sale of US wheat....
Egyptian Al Qaeda suspect arrested QUETTA, Feb 14: Personnel of the Anti-Terrorism Force and FBI arrested an Egyptian Al Qaeda suspect in a raid on a home on the outskirts of the city, police said on...		2 barbers suffocate to death QUETTA, Feb 14: Two people suffocated in their sleep in a shop on Fatima Jinnah Road on Thursday night, police said....
One arrested, hashish recovered DERA MURAD JAMALI, Feb 14: Jafferabad police foiled an attempt to smuggle drugs from Balochistan to Sindh and recovered over nine maunds of hashish on Friday....		4 die, nine injured in three road accidents QUETTA, Feb 14: Four persons, including two minors, were killed and nine injured in road accidents in Quetta and other areas of the province, on Friday....
US official warns of coup in Pakistan WASHINGTON, Feb 14: Head of the US Defence Intelligence Agency has warned that a coup against President Pervez Musharraf could result in an “extremist Pakistan”....		Qazi urges Musharraf to quit as army chief NOWSHERA, Feb 14: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad on Friday asked President Gen Pervez Musharraf to accept failure of the kind of democracy he had introduced and relinquish the office of...
Fata growers resume poppy cultivation PESHAWAR, Feb 14: Poppy cultivation has shot up, down from zero, in parts of the federally administered tribal regions that border Afghanistan. Pakistani officials however blame the Afghan refugees for the...		No clash with chief minister: governor KOHAT, Feb 14: The NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said that the army will remain on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan as long as the Al Qaeda threats persist....
Eidul Azha celebrated with religious fervour ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: The nation celebrated Eidul Azha with religious fervour and a pledge to forge greater unity to fight internal and external threats....		‘MMA to focus on priority areas’ PESHAWAR, Feb 14: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani said on Thursday that negligence in removing people’s grievances by the people at the helm of affairs would now be a thing...
Islamabad still helps Taliban: US senators WASHINGTON, Feb 14: Two senior members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee have alleged that elements within the Pakistan government were sheltering Taliban fighters along the Pakistan-Afghan border and undermining...		Nazim gets relief PESHAWAR, Feb 14: A Supreme Court (SC) division bench here on Friday granted interim relief to the disqualified Swabi Nazim and allowed him to continue as district Nazim....
NAB accepts plea bargain PESHAWAR, Feb 14: Chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has accepted a plea bargain of the coordinator of a Swiss-funded project....		Eid celebrated PESHAWAR, Feb 14: Eidul Azha was celebrated in the NWFP and its adjoining tribal areas with religious fervour and zeal to commemorate the supreme sacrifice rendered by Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) and...
Remains of sacrificial animals all around FAISALABAD, Feb 14: The cleanliness arrangements made by the Tehsil Municipal Administration (city) proved futile as filth depots and open spaces were full with offals, intestines and other waste of sacrificial...		Police arrest ‘rapist-killer’ BAHAWALPUR, Feb 14: The local police claimed on Friday to have arrested a psychopath, who raped and killed eight aged women at a village in Ahmedpur East in the last two...
Three killed in shootout with police GUJRAT, Feb 14: Kharian police killed three people in an “encounter with outlaws” near Golarriala on the Eid day....		Woman, daughter stabbed SHEIKHUPURA, Feb 14: A woman and her daughter were stabbed and wounded badly early Thursday morning on resistance by three masked dacoits in Rehmat Colony....
Wanted men, robbers arrested GUJRANWALA, Feb 14: The district police claimed on Friday to have arrested two dozen proclaimed offenders and busted two robbers’ gangs in various raids....		Government accused of pro-Leghari bias DERA GHAZI KHAN, Feb 14: The Multan Telecommunication Region authorities are said to have ignored Tehsil Taunsa Sharif of district Dera Ghazi Khan while approving new telephone exchanges for the district....
Ex-councillor shot dead KASUR, Feb 14: A former councillor and another person were shot dead in two different incidents in the district during the last 24 hours....		Eid celebrated with fervour LAHORE, Feb 14: Eidul Azha was celebrated with traditional zeal and religious fervour in the provincial metropolis on Wednesday....
LAC BoG’s chairperson resigns LAHORE, Feb 14: The Lahore Arts Council’s board of governors chairperson has resigned due to what official sources said on Friday polarization among the board members....		Basant costs Lesco Rs800,000 LAHORE, Feb 14: Basant cost the Lahore Electricity Supply Company (Lesco) Rs800,000 with 72 major power breakdowns on the day....
LHC told 1952 security act still in force LAHORE, Feb 14: The State claimed before the Lahore High Court on Friday that the Security of Pakistan Act 1952, invoked to detain Dr Ahmad Javed Khwaja and his family members,...		Railways offers medical facility LAHORE, Feb 14: The Pakistan Railways administration has decided to offer free medical facilities to the dependent children of its employees....
Salesman killed by camel LAHORE, Feb 14: A 20-year-old salesman died when a camel bit him on his neck in New Anarkali on Wednesday....		Snow leopard creates panic in Skardu SKARDU, Feb 14: Fear and panic gripped Frano village after a snow leopard enterd a cattle pen in search of food....
FC seize over 200kg drugs QUETTA, Feb 14: Frontier Corps, Balochistan recovered drugs and arms in different operations along Pakistan-Afghan and Pakistan-Iran border, an FC press release said here on Friday....		Ambassador appointed ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: Mr Ayaz Wazir has been appointed as Pakistani Ambassador to Qatar, it was officially announced here on Friday. He served as consul-general at London from August 2000 to...
Main accused of dryport blast held, claim police SIALKOT, Feb 14: The Daska special judicial magistrate on Friday remanded an importer of the consignment which exploded at Sambrial dryport in police custody for six days....		MPA escapes bid on life RAHIMYAR KHAN, Feb 14: PML-N MPA Chaudhry Muhammad Shafiq escaped narrowly in a murder attempt here on Friday....
Boy beaten by teachers sets himself on fire HARIPUR, Feb 14: A fifth class student set himself on fire after his teachers subjected him to corporal punishment over a trivial issue at the Kamilpur Hattar village, some 18km from...		Ex-MPA’s son killed on road TOBA TEK SINGH, Feb 14: Syed Nasir Raza, the younger son of ex-MPA Makhdoom Syed Ali Raza and brother of PPP parliamentarian Makhdoom Syed Husain Raza, was killed in a road...