March 28, 2003	Friday	Muharram 24, 1424

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Several Cantt areas to be made commercial RAWALPINDI, March 27: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) plans to declare the non-commercial areas of Saddar, The Mall and Peshawar Road upto Charring Cross as ‘Bazaar Areas’....		Civic bodies lack proper clean water system RAWALPINDI, March 27: The civic bodies have no proper system to ensure supply of clean drinking water to the residents, it has been learnt....
Pakistan to get $615m under UNDAF ISLAMABAD, March 27: Pakistan will get $615 million under the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for the period 2004-08, says a press release issued here on Thursday....		Irsa telemetry system room becomes ‘haunted’ ISLAMABAD, March 27: ‘Ghosts’ have taken the control of the newly-installed Rs450 million telemetry system of the Indus River System Authority (Irsa)....
Youth, students stage anti-US demonstration RAWALPINDI, March 27: The activists of Shabab-i-Milli and Islami Jamiat Talaba here on Thursday staged separate rallies against the US-led forces’ aggression on innocent Iraqis....		QAU workers demand solution to problems ISLAMABAD, March 27: The Quaid-i-Azam University Employees Welfare Association president, Sheikh Ashraf, has asked the university administration for an early solution of their long standing problems....
Mian Pervez new chief of hospitals’ BoG RAWALPINDI, March 27: The Board of Governors of Rawalpindi Medical College and autonomous hospitals on Thursday unofficially elected Mian Pervez Aslam as the chairman....		Efforts needed to deal with WTO challenges ISLAMABAD, March 27: Minister of State for Information Technology Raza Ahmad Hiraj Thursday said the upcoming WTO regime posed great challenges to the local industry and consolidated efforts, both from the...
Over 35pc rural population lives below poverty line ISLAMABAD, March 27: About 35 to 40 per cent rural population of Pakistan depending on agriculture and natural resources is living below the poverty line and it suffers disproportionately when its...		Hearing in BMW case adjourned ISLAMABAD, March 27: The accountability court on Thursday adjourned the hearing in BMW reference against the jailed PPP leader, Asif Ali Zardari, till March 31....
Iraq lauds Pakistanis support ISLAMABAD, March 27: The Iraqi embassy in the capital has appreciated the feelings expressed by the people of Pakistan for Iraqi people, and for condemnation of the US-led war....		CIDA to give C$6m for devolution plan ISLAMABAD, March 27: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) will provide a grant of six million Canadian dollars to Pakistan under its devolution support project....
Wasim Sajjad remains mainstay of ‘review chamber’ ISLAMABAD, March 27: Opposite the main gate of the parliament house is an arucaria excelsa tree, surrounded by fresh poppy flowers. The tablet below the tree informs passersby that the tree...		Senate resonates with anti-LFO debate ISLAMABAD, March 27: The combined opposition in the Senate on Thursday vowed to continue and put up a strong opposition to the controversial Legal Framework Order (LFO) from becoming part of...
New Pindi-Quetta train service soon ISLAMABAD, March 27: The Senate was informed here on Thursday through a written reply that the government intended to initiate a new train service between Rawalpindi and Quetta with imported Chinese...		Election on special seats un-Islamic: CII ISLAMABAD, March 27: The Council of Islamic Ideology has recommended to the government that the present system of election for women and minorities on special seats, was not in line with...
Senators demand live coverage of proceedings ISLAMABAD, March 27: The Pakistan Television (PTV) came under fire in the Senate on Thursday for not televising the proceedings of first session of the upper house....		Pakistan rebuts Indian charges ISLAMABAD, March 27: Pakistan on Thursday deplored the irresponsible statement of a spokesman for the Indian External Affairs Ministry accusing Pakistan of involvement in the massacre of 24 Kashmiri pundits in...
PPP condemns Iraq attacks MIRPURKHAS, March 27: The PPP MNA Nawab Mohammad Yousuf Talpur has expressed his concern over death and destruction of Iraqi people by allied forces and called for immediate halt to the...		Cabinet body meeting ISLAMABAD, March 27: The first meeting of the Reconstituted Social Sector Coordination Committee (SSCC) of the cabinet on Thursday considered the six agenda items relating to social sector development strategy and...
Kasuri says PM’s visit successful ISLAMABAD, March 27: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri on Thursday termed the visit of Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali to China successful saying that Beijing had once again proved itself to...		President Condemns massacre ISLAMABAD, March 27: President Pervez Musharraf has condemned the cowardly and heinous act of terrorism in which 24 persons were killed on Monday in the occupied Kashmir....
1.8m Afghan refugees to be repatriated ISLAMABAD, March 27: Pakistan, with the help of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), would repatriate about 1.8million Afghan refugees from Pakistan in the next three years. Minister for...		Wapda loses Rs1bn monthly in Fata PESHAWAR, March 27: Water and Power Development Authority is losing about Rs1bn every month due to non-payment of electricity charges by consumers of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, official sources said....
Adjustment of surplus staff urged PESHAWAR, March 27: All Pakistan Clerks Association (Apca) has demanded of the NWFP government to dispose of promotion cases of 1,300 employees to adjust surplus pool staff in the province....		Teachers to observe hunger strike against ord PESHAWAR, March 27: Teachers’ Joint Action Committee will organize hunger strike camps in the provincial capitals put pressure on the government to revoke its decision regarding the implementation of the Model Universities Ordinance (MUO)....
PHC allows migration to medical students PESHAWAR, March 27: The Peshawar High Court, here on Thursday ruled that the students of medical colleges in the NWFP could be allowed migration to another medical college if vacant seats were available....		Rs800 million released for tribal areas PESHAWAR, March 27: The federal government is yet to release of Rs200 million for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas under the Fata Development Package of Rs1 billion....
Four criminals arrested KOHAT, March 27: The Kohat police arrested four proclaimed offenders, including their ringleader, after raiding a house in the semi-autonomous tribal region of Shindand, nine kilometres from here on Rawalpindi road....		Banned group plans protest MINGORA, March 27: The disbanded Tehrik Nefaz Shariat-i- Muhammadi (TNSM) has decided to begin anti-US protests across Malakand from Monday....
Sindh IG encourages outlaws to surrender: Anti-bandit operation imminent SHIKARPUR, March 27: The Inspector General of Police, Sindh, Syed Kamal Shah, on Wednesday urged criminals and outlaws to surrender themselves before the police, saying preparations for an extensive anti-bandit operation...		Rally staged against inflated power bills LARKANA, March 27: Hundreds of residents of Dokri town took out a procession on Thursday to protest against excessive power bills and frequent load-sheddings in the area....
District govt okays 21 schemes HYDERABAD, March 27: The district government on Wednesday approved 21 more water supply and drainage schemes for Hyderabad city, Latifabad and Qasimabad estimated to cost Rs97.21 million....		Poor planning blamed for closure of schools KHAIRPUR, March 27: Sindh Education Minister Irfanullah Khan Marwat has expressed concern over the low standard of education in the province....
Attack on Iraq protested LARKANA, March 27: A large number of people took to the streets in Kambar town on Thursday to protest against the US-led attack on Iraq....		TMA permitted to appoint sanitary staff LARKANA, March 27: The Sindh government has permitted the taluka municipal administration, Larkana, to appoint sanitary workers on contract basis, sources in the district Nazim office told this correspondent on Wednesday....
Water rotation programme announced SUKKUR, March 27: The executive engineer of the Nusrat division, Nawabshah, on Wednesday announced the rotation programme for three irrigation sub-divisions, including Nawabshah-I, Nawabshah-II and Shahpur....		LFO can’t be struck down: AG LAHORE, March 27: The Attorney General told the division bench that the amendments to the Constitution had to be made through LFO by President Pervez Musharraf within his “constitutional dispensation”....
Laws silent on Al-Qaeda issue, rules LHC LAHORE, March 27: The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in its detailed judgment that the 1973 Constitution, Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 and all other relevant laws were completely silent on the...		Opposition to speed up anti-LFO campaign LAHORE, March 27: Opposition parties have decided to expedite their campaign against the Legal Framework Order (LFO) both within and outside the parliament....
Medical colleges to retain Punjab Varsity affiliation LAHORE, March 27: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Thursday allowed medical colleges in the province to remain affiliated with the Punjab University, according to reliable sources....		Health conference LAHORE, March 27: The Lahore Society of Surgeons of Pakistan (SSP) has announced that it will hold a seminar at the Lahore Press Club to create awareness about breast cancer, gall...
Journalist Shamsul Haq passes away LAHORE, March 27: Senior journalist and former Dawn staffer Shamsul Haq Khan died of liver failure here on Thursday evening. He was 70....		Mazari calls for judicial probe: Lawlessness in Rajanpur MULTAN, March 27: Former caretaker prime minister Mir Balakh Sher Mazari has demanded a judicial probe into the state of law and order in Rojhan tehsil of Rajanpur district....
Monetary dispute claims three lives GUJRANWALA, March 27: Three people, including a girl, were shot dead while five others injured by their rivals at Butranwali village on Thursday....		Case filed against ‘fake Chaudhry’ GUJRAT, March 27: B-Division police have registered a case against a man, who was allegedly using the name of local Chaudhrys through a letterhead for getting telephone connections and selling those...
People receiving inflated gas bills DERA GHAZI KHAN, March 27: A significant increase in utility bills of natural gas in the last couple of months has been a burden on the locals, reports said on Thursday....		Rs4.5 million looted from sugar mills SARGODHA, March 27: A sugar mill was deprived of Rs4.5 million near Shahpur on Wednesday night....
Unscheduled power breakdowns irk people FAISALABAD, March 27: Unscheduled loadshedding of power has created a lot of difficulties for consumers, many of whom have also lost electric appliances to fluctuations in the supply of power....		ARD public meeting postponed FAISALABAD, March 27: Public meeting of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy scheduled to be held here on March 31 has been postponed by its central leadership due to some...