March 23, 2003	Sunday	Muharram 19, 1424

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Need stressed to check spread of TB PESHAWAR, March 22: Doctors have stressed the need for awareness among the people regarding the preventive measures to save people from the deadly disease of tuberculosis....		Dist govts to reconcile figures with Wapda PESHAWAR, March 22: In an attempt to avoid at source deduction from the provincial government, district governments of the NWFP have started reconciling their accounts with the local staff of the...
Kohat tunnel to help save Rs70m, says NHA official KOHAT, March 22: The Kohat tunnel project, which will replace the 11km-long narrow hilly track on the Indus Highway after its commissioning in April, will help save time as well as...		Meeting PESHAWAR, March 22: MPA Anwar Kamal Khan Marwat, chairman of the special committee on health, has convened a meeting of the committee on March 25 at the Conference Room of the...
Four killed in explosion at iron shop SIALKOT, March 22: Four people, two of them minor girls, were killed while six others hurt in an explosion at a house-cum-shop at chak Santhal in Sialkot working boundary’s Bajwat sector...		Police persist with ‘old habits’ JHANG, March 22: Despite the police higher-ups’ stock-taking into Jhang police stations ‘reluctance’ to register cases, the Masson police station staff finds it hard to part with old habits....
Lawyers ask Arabs to fight for Iraq MIANWALI, March 22: The District Bar Association took out a protest procession on Saturday to condemn the US led attack on Iraq....		MA Political Science Syllabus being revised GUJRANWALA, March 22: The Punjab University will revise the syllabus of political science master degree as it is not fulfilling the present day requirements....
Pervaiz Elahi Iterates dist govts doing well SHEIKHUPURA, March 22: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi iterated on Saturday the district government system was going on smoothly....		NA session deliberately adjourned, alleges Fazl FAISALABAD, March 22: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman has claimed that the National Assembly session was got adjourned by treasury benches deliberately to avoid a joint resolution over the Iraq...
Laying of Cholistan pipeline to start soon BAHAWALPUR, March 22: Arrangements for laying four water pipelines in the Cholistan desert at a cost of Rs60 million have been completed....		Applications for vacant posts DERA GHAZI KHAN, March 22: Twenty-five applications have been received against seven posts of specialists at the DHQ Hospital, while no application has been submitted for two posts of radiologist and...
Youth kills mother, sister SHEIKHUPURA, March 22: A youth killed his mother and sister in Dera Nara village, Succha Sauda, on Saturday....		Inauguration GUJRANWALA, March 22: Provincial Transport Minister Rana Shamshad Ahmad will inaugurate the Kamoki tehsil council hall and a road on Sunday (today). A press release said the projects have been completed...
Construction of colony delayed : Govt-contractor row LARKANA, March 22: The construction of the revenue staff colony has been put on hold since 1992 on account of a row between its contractor and the Sindh government, an applicant...		Power connection of street lights cut KHAIRPUR, March 22: Hesco authorities disconnected power connections of Khairpur taluka municipal administration and eight telephone exchanges of the district on Saturday due to non-payments of dues....
Security at oil, gas fields intensified BADIN, March 22: Strict security measures have been taken at oil and gas fields in Badin district as heavy police contingents have been deployed at oil and gas wells in Shaheed...		Tax recovery deferred LARKANA, March 22: The collection of land revenue has been deferred in the four sub-divisions of the Larkana district till April 30 after these areas were declared calamity-hit, revenue official announced...
Three MUET Employees issued show-cause HYDERABAD, March 22: The Vice-Chancellor of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Dr Abdur Rehman Memon, on Thursday issued show-cause notices to three employees of the university for taking part...		4 traffic control centres closed KHAIRPUR, March 22: The DPO, Khairpur, on Saturday closed traffic police control centres in Khairpur city, Ranipur, Pir-jo-Goth, Sorah and Mirwah....
Villager killed JACOBABAD, March 22: A villager, Mohammad Panah Noonari, was killed over a dispute of cattle grazing on Friday in Tangwani, Kandhkot....		AIG admits poor law, order situation SUKKUR, March 22: The police personnel who went after armed men who kidnapped two police officials returned without apprehending the accused or releasing the hostages on Saturday....
Police’s claim disputed LARKANA, March 22: Larkana police on Saturday claimed to have killed an outlaw after an encounter ensued near the Punjabi Jatoi village but the villagers blamed the police for having killed...		Seven houses gutted NAWABSHAH, March 22: Seven houses were gutted when fire broke out in the Khan Mohammad Chandio village near Sakrand on Friday....
Funds to control TB demanded HYDERABAD, March 22: In connection with the World Tuberculosis Day, a rally was staged here on Saturday....		Mahar orders treatment of ailing poet KARACHI, March 22: Sindh Chief Minister Ali Mohammad Khan Mahar has taken notice of reports about illness of renowned poet Mohammad Khan Majidi and directed the provincial director general, health services,...
Jamali urges politicians to strengthen democracy ISLAMABAD, March 22: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said all political parties have the collective responsibility to strive for strengthening of democracy and democratic institutions in the country....		Check on intelligence officials’ role urged ISLAMABAD, March 22: The Pakistan People’s Party has called upon members of civil society to raise their voice against the growing highhandedness and interference of intelligence agencies in civil and political...
‘Ideals of Quaid to be realized’ ISLAMABAD, March 22: President General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali have said that people will pledge anew to abide by Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s guiding principles of...		President to confer civil awards today ISLAMABAD, March 22: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will decorate recipients of civil awards, including a foreign national, at the investiture ceremony on Sunday at Aiwan-i-Sadr....
Laws to be changed in light of Shariat: CM TAXILA, March 22: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has said the MMA will enforce Shariat in the province in letter and in spirit and all laws repugnant of Shariat would...		PM’s visit to bolster ties with China, says minister ISLAMABAD, March 22: The visit of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali would strengthen the country’s relations with China and open new vistas of cooperation and friendship, Information and Media Development...
Family allowed to visit Qudoos RAWALPINDI, March 22: A civil judge and judicial magistrate on Saturday allowed the family of Aqeel Ahmad Abdul Qudoos to visit him in jail....		Jamali new Chinese leaders’ first visitor BEIJING, March 22: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali would be the first foreign dignitary to visit Beijing after the transfer of power to the new Chinese leadership, sources in the...
‘More funds for drought relief likely’ QUETTA, March, 22: Chief Minister Jam Mir Mohammed Yousaf said on Saturday that Islamabad had assured Balochistan that an additional three to four billion rupees would be provided to the province...		Teams formed to investigate murder GILGIT, March 22: The inspector-general of Northern Areas police, Syed Ahesen Mukhtar Ashraf, constituted two teams on Friday to investigate into the murder of the education adviser of the areas, Saifur...
Remission granted to prisoners ISLAMABAD, March 22: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has granted remission in sentences to prisoners on the Pakistan Day....		Bush felicitates Musharraf ISLAMABAD, March 22: US President George Bush in his message to President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said that the United States greatly values its relationship with Pakistan and is committed to...
Air chief calls on PM ISLAMABAD, March 22: The newly-appointed Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat called on Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, his first after assuming charge, at the prime minister’s...		PML-N condemns US attack on Iraq ISLAMABAD, March 22: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) on Saturday said the Constitution as it was Oct 10, 1999 stood restored after coming of new Parliament in place, and those who were...