April 8, 2003	Tuesday	Safar 5, 1424

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NBP staff provident fund restored after 26 year ISLAMABAD, April 7: The provident fund of the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) employees, amounting to millions of rupees, has been restored after 26 years....		Anti-smoking law to be enforced from May 31 ISLAMABAD, April 7: The federal minister for health, Nasir Khan, has said the Prohibition of Smoking and Protection of Non-Smokers Health Ordinance, 2002 will be enforced from May 31, the international...
Two QAU officials suspended ISLAMABAD, April 7: Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) has suspended its two senior officials for their involvement in the PhD scam, sources told Dawn....		‘Continuous use of bottled water causes bone weakness’ ISLAMABAD, April 7: The chairman of Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources, Dr Akram Kahloon, said the continuous use of mineral water was found unhealthy rather than its positive affects...
Two persons die in separate incidents RAWALPINDI, April 7: One person was electrocuted while another boy was killed after being run over by a train in Gangmandi area, police said on Monday....		No clue to sales boy in building collapse RAWALPINDI, April 7: The search for a missing sales boy, who is presumed to be under the debris of the collapsed building in Commercial Market, continued for the third consecutive day...
CBR asked to make correct assessment ISLAMABAD, April 7: Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) Justice (Retd) Saleem Akhtar has asked the Central Board of Revenue (CBR) to make correct assessment of a taxpayer’s income....		Solar energy to be introduced in Islamabad ISLAMABAD, April 7: Solar energy system is likely to be introduced at household level in Islamabad....
Tariq Rahim likely to be made PM’s special assistant ISLAMABAD, April 7: Former Punjab governor Khawaja Tariq Rahim is likely to be appointed as special assistant to the prime minister on political affairs, sources told Dawn on Monday....		Spaniard gets three-year RI RAWALPINDI, April 7: The additional district and sessions judge, Syed Pervez Ali, on Monday awarded three years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) to a Spanish man for smuggling heroin....
Health sciences varsity gets VC RAWALPINDI, April 7: The deputy dean of Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC) and allied hospitals, Dr Malik Hussain Mubashir, has been appointed as the vice-chancellor of University of Health Sciences, said a...		Financial autonomy ISLAMABAD, April 7: The judiciary in Islamabad has sought financial autonomy as was granted to the courts all over the country earlier. In this connection, it has submitted a summery to...
Unesco heritage distinction award for Ganish-Hunza ISLAMABAD, April 7: Hunza has once again achieved Unesco’s Asia-Pacific Heritage Award for Culture Heritage Conservation, a statement issued here on Monday said....		Body formed for Wapda uplift ISLAMABAD, April 7: Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Monday constituted a two-member ministerial committee to look into the financial affairs of Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) and submit a...
Pakistan to seek further relief from US: Shaukat ISLAMABAD, April 7: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Finance Shaukat Aziz on Monday said that Pakistan has decided to seek new budgetary support and further debt relief from the United States....		DPs’ repatriation plan unlikely to achieve success ISLAMABAD April 7: The process of repatriation of 1.8 million Afghan refugees to their homeland was set in motion after a tripartite agreement signed in Brussels last month but the officials...
SC seeks clarification on convict’s petition ISLAMABAD, April 7: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the federal government to state its position whether it was going to withdraw the notification issued under the juveniles system or not....		N. Areas plan lab to check pneumonia GILGIT, April 7: The Northern Areas administration decided on Monday to establish a laboratory at the Sost border to cope with the any pneumonia outbreak in Northern Areas....
BHC commutes death sentence to life term QUETTA, April 7: A division bench of the Balochistan High Court has converted the capital punishment into life imprisonment of an accused in a murder case....		No SARS case in Pakistan, says minister ISLAMABAD, April 7: Pakistan has detected no cases of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Health Minister Naseer Ahmed Khan declared Monday....
PPP flays water, power authority MIRPURKHAS, April 7: Pakistan People’s Party MNA Nawab Mohammad Yousuf Talpur has strongly reacted to the statement of the Wapda chairman Zulfiqar Ali Khan who equated Rainee Canal with Thal Canal....		MMA supreme council meets tomorrow ISLAMABAD April 7: An emergency meeting of the supreme council of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has been convened for Wednesday in the federal capital, the alliance sources said....
Afghan refugee dies in explosion QUETTA, April 7: An Afghan refugee was killed on Monday and five others were injured, two of them seriously, in an explosion in Waash, a mandi at the border of Afghanistan...		Akram Zaki joins PML-Q ISLAMABAD, April 7: A leader of the PML-N, Akram Zaki, on Monday joined the ruling PML-Q....
Help sought WASHINGTON, April 7: Muslim leaders on Sunday urged the FBI to assist in investigation of a fire that destroyed a school bus outside a Northern Virginia Islamic center....		Three killed in Kashmir mine blast SRINAGAR, April 7: Three militants were killed in occupied Kashmir on Monday when a mine they were planting went off, a police spokesman said....
Incentive package for overseas Pakistanis under way ISLAMABAD, April 7: The government is finalizing a package of facilities and incentives for overseas Pakistanis, including permission to import many duty-free items....		Deforestation causes ailments: governor PESHAWAR, April 7: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said that increasing deforestation is causing a host of ailments....
India amassing WMDs: Rashid MANSEHRA, April 7: Federal Minister for Information and Media Development Shaikh Rashid Ahmad has said the plight of the occupied Kashmir’s people was no different from the ordeal the Serb Muslims...		GIK Institute holds open house SWABI, April 7: The NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah said that no country could make progress without a solid technological foundation....
2 policemen injured in clash with ‘criminals’ HARIPUR, April 7: Two police constables were injured when attacked by the relatives of alleged bootleggers during a raid on a hotel from where the CIA police claimed to have recovered...		Reshifting of NBP branch to Kohat demanded KOHAT, April 7: The business and social circles have demanded re-shifting of the regional office of the National Bank of Pakistan back to Kohat from Dera Ismail Khan....
Nazim reverses transfer orders MINGORA, April 7: Swat district Nazim Dr Mehboobur Rehman has ordered the reversal of the recent transfers and postings in the education department, terming them violation of rules and regulations of...		Kidnapped men’s car found LANDI KOTAL, April 7: The political authorities in Landi Kotal have recovered the car in which a C&W official and a government contractor were kidnapped from the Sra Vela area of...
ARD leaders stopped from attending tenants’ moot OKARA, April 7: The leadership of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) was stopped on Monday by the Rangers authorities from reaching the city to take part in a tenants’...		Three LJ men arrested in Vehari VEHARI, April 7: Three terrorists of the band Lashkar-i-Jhangvi were arrested by Vehari police here late Sunday night....
Remodelling of canals begins TOBA TEK SINGH, April 7: The first phase of remodelling of canals has been started while the Lower Jhang Branch Canal, which irrigates major areas in Toba Tek Singh and Jhang...		Gujranwala-Lahore road to be widened GUJRANWALA, April 7: Governor Khalid Maqbool has urged the manufacturers and industrialists to improve the quality of their products to compete in the international market....
Mazaris still in captivity DERA GHAZI KHAN, April 7: Relatives of Punjab Assembly deputy speaker Shoukat Khan Mazari, who were abducted on March 18, could not be got released from the alleged captivity of Bugti...		Last proceedings in LFO case ‘cut short’ LAHORE, April 7: The petitioner in an intra-court appeal, challenging the Legal Frame Framework Order, on Monday pleaded in his additional written arguments submitted with the Lahore High Court that the...
Funds needed for roads’ upkeep: EDOs LAHORE, April 7: The executive district officers (works) in the Punjab have attributed the poor maintenance of the roads in the districts to the paucity of funds....		JAC’s two-week protest plan LAHORE, April 7: The Joint Action Committee of teachers, doctors and students has announced a two-week protest programme which includes demonstrations, hunger strike, boycott of examination duties and long march up...
Independent police investigation wing abolished LAHORE, April 7: New police system which was introduced in February last has hit snags after the reorganization of the investigation wing....		NAB to be heard on 15th in Badr case LAHORE, April 7: An accountability bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday fixed April 15 for hearing arguments of the NAB counsel on PPP Secretary-General Jehangir Badr’s appeal, seeking review...
KAC raps slaying of Saif LAHORE, April 7: The Kashmir Action Committee, Pakistan, has condemned the custodial killing of Hizbul Mujahideen’s commander-in-chief Saiful Islam by India’s occupation forces and described it as a brutal act....		Nazim accuses EDO of illegal appointments DADU, April 7: The district’s education system has collapsed and corruption has eroded the performance of the education department, District Nazim Malik Asad Sikandar said on Monday....
Rising crime rate in Sindh slated LARKANA, April 7: Sindh Peoples’ Party Parliamentarians chief Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, expressing concern over deteriorating law and order situation in the province, has alleged that the provincial government has failed to...		Officials blamed for deducting salaries KHAIRPUR, April 7: The Mosque School Teachers Association (MATA) has threatened to launch a movement against alleged deduction of money from salaries of teachers by the education department officials....
Anti-war demos continue SUKKUR, April 7: Anti-war protests were held in Sukkur, Ghotki, Kandhkot and other parts of interior Sindh on Monday against the US and its allies who were bombing Iraq....		Five hurt in tribal attack near Ghotki SUKKUR, April 7: Five persons, including two women, were injured on Sunday after Sundrani tribesmen attacked the house of Ghulam Mohammed Waso, Munshi of the Sindh chief minister in the Janner...