April 12, 2003	Saturday	Safar 9, 1424

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Construction of commercial plazas banned in Pindi RAWALPINDI, April 11: The district government has imposed a ban on the construction of new commercial plazas throughout the district and directed the Tehsil Municipal Administrations (TMA) to strictly implement its...		CDA regularizes 56 tubewell operators ISLAMABAD, April 11: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Friday regularized its 56 tubewell operators working on daily wages basis for several years....
Rally condemns US invasion of Iraq ISLAMABAD April 11: Markazi Anjuman Asna Ashri, Anjuman Jaan Nisaran Ahl-i-Bait, Anjuman-i-Zulfikar Haidari and several other organizations held a rally on Friday to condemn the US war on Iraq....		War is a human failure, says HRCP chief ISLAMABAD, April 11: War is a “human failure”, and there are no winners as all that remains behind is destruction of people, property, material and land, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan...
Muslims urged to resolve conflicts ISLAMABAD, April 11: The Muslim countries should forge unity among themselves, overcome internal conflicts, adopt modern technology and have a mutually agreed interpretation of Islam and democracy to boldly face the...		Education only way to end lawlessness, says Zobaida ISLAMABAD, April 11: The curriculum wing is working to mould the existing syllabus on such lines, which will create awareness to root out the social ills besides corruption of all kinds...
Owners of oil mills defy orders to vacate public land ISLAMABAD, April 11: The owners of Punjab Oil Mills continue their illegal occupation of a public land in Kahuta Industrial Triangle despite the orders of the Capital Development Authority to vacate...		Army official made member engineering in CDA ISLAMABAD, April 11: A serving brigadier of the engineering corps has been appointed as member (engineering) in the Capital Development Authority (CDA) on secondment basis by the Establishment Division....
Kiosk owners hold demo against CDA ISLAMABAD, April 11: Kiosk owners on Friday staged a protest demonstration in front of the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i- Azam) office against what they termed as the highhandedness of Capital Development...		3 members of a family burnt in gas explosion RAWALPINDI, April 11: Three members of a family were badly burnt after a gas cylinder exploded at Qasimabad Mohallah in the jurisdiction of Waris Khan Police Station on Thursday night, police...
Kuwait Airways resumes flights from Islamabad, Lahore ISLAMABAD, April 11: Kuwait Airways on Friday announced resumption of its flights from Islamabad on April 28 and from Lahore on April 26 after a temporary suspension due to Iraq war....		Seven SHOs transferred RAWALPINDI, April 11: Senior Superintendent of Police Syed Moravat Shah on Thursday reshuffled seven station house officers (SHOs)....
COMSTECH to award PhD scholarships ISLAMABAD, April 11: The Organization of Islamic Conference Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) has initiated a project to award PhD scholarships in frontier technologies....		New DG APP assumes charge ISLAMABAD, April 11: Syed Iqbal Hussain, a BS-20 grade officer of the Information Group, has assumed the charge of director-general, Associated Press of Pakistan here on Friday....
SC suspends order to vacate lawyers offices ISLAMABAD, April 11: The Supreme Court on Friday suspended the operation of Lahore High Court chief justice’s administrative order, wherein he asked about 50 lawyers to vacate their offices situated at...		US judge orders release of two Pakistanis SAN FRANCISCO, April 11: A US judge has ordered the release of two Pakistanis living in Denver whom the FBI described as potential terrorists eager to wage war against the United...
PML-N asks govt to bring LFO before parliament ISLAMABAD, April 11: The Pakistan Muslim League-N said here on Friday that after the Lahore High Court’s judgment on the Legal Framework Order (LFO) the government should not show reluctance to...		SC issues notice to NAB on bail plea ISLAMABAD, April 11: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the National Accountability Bureau to explain if a person convicted in absentia on the charge of not appearing before the...
Exemptions in taxes to go, IMF assured ISLAMABAD, April 11: Pakistan has assured the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that tax policy reform proposals will include abolition of a sizable number of income tax exemptions as well as of...		US killing of newsmen condemned MUZAFFARABAD, April 11: Kashmiri journalists staged a rally here on Friday to condemn killings of newsmen in bombing by the US troops in Iraq....
SC dismisses appeal for compromise ISLAMABAD, April 11: The Supreme Court on Friday disapproved a compromise between the father of the deceased and the convict when the wife and four children of the deceased stated before...		Ibad against politicizing sensitive issues KARACHI, April 11: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad on Friday emphasized on resolving the problems of sensitive nature with mutual consultation instead of making them a high-profile issue....
CPNE to send team to Iraq KARACHI, April 11: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has decided to send a delegation of its member-editors to Iraq as an expression of solidarity with the Iraqi people and...		Traffic jams irk citizens PESHAWAR, April 11: The agencies responsible for the security of President Pervez Musharraf turned a large part of the city into “no-go area” here on Friday morning....
Butchers on strike for four days BAJAUR, April 11: People of the agency have turned vegetarian as butchers here have been observing a strike for four days. They demand increase in meat prices....		6,300 illegal PMTs in Fata PESHAWAR, April 11: With the political authorities of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) consistently failing to make the power consumers pay their electricity charges, the number of illegally installed transformers...
Train timing changed PESHAWAR, April 11: The Pakistan Railways has announced changes in the departure and arrival schedule of trains for summer, said a press release issued by the PR’s divisional office here on...		PHC Bar bans sale of beverages PESHAWAR, April 11: The Peshawar High Court Bar Association has banned the sale of beverages of two multinational companies in the high court cafeteria to show solidarity with the people of...
Radiology dept GILGIT, April 11: Federal Health Minister Muhammad Nasir Khan on Friday visited DHQ hospital, Gilgit, and inaugurated the radiology department. Medical Superintendent Lt-Col Ikram Qureshi apprised him of the hospital’s problems.—APP...		PMA for arrest of MPA, his men: Manhandling of doctor GUJRANWALA, April 11: The Pakistan Medical Association has expressed resentment over the police failure to arrest an MPA and his men who had manhandled the Gakkhar rural health centre in-charge....
AG to issue commutation cheques LAHORE, April 11: The Punjab Accountant General has decided to issue commutation cheques to the retired government employees directly from his office to save them from bureaucratic hurdles....		Hospital closed a day after opening TOBA TEK SINGH, April 11: The City Hospital, which was inaugurated by Punjab Health Minister Dr Tahir Ali Javed on Thursday, remained closed on Friday....
Tenants stage rallies OKARA, April 11: Tenants of 10 villages of military farms took out protest processions in their villages....		Masoods were poisoned: IO LAHORE, April 11: Police have not so far been able to solve the mystery surrounding the death of Dr Shahid Masood, his wife Dr Samina and their two-month-old daughter Amna, who...
Motorcyclists thrash two policemen SIALKOT, April 11: Two constables of Sambrial police were badly beaten up on Friday by three armed motorcyclists on Daska-Sambrial Road near Nishtarabad village....		Pension cases to be disposed of quickly FAISALABAD, April 11: Arrangements have been made for the quick disposal of pension cases of those officials of Education and Health branches of ‘tehsil municipal administrations’ who became a part of...
Three slain LAHORE, April 11: Three people, including a teenage boy, were found dead in different parts of the city on Friday....		BZU declares B.Com results MULTAN, April 11: The Bahauddin Zakariya University on Friday declared the result of B.Com (Part-II), second annual examination, 2002....
Mujaddid appointed Al-Mizan chairman LAHORE, April 11: Justice Ghulam Mujaddid Mirza (retired) has been appointed chairman of the Al-Mizan Foundation which deals with the matters concerning welfare of the serving and retired judges and their...		Prisoner injures himself, two others KASUR, April 11: A prisoner injured two other inmates when they tried to save him from committing suicide by stabbing himself in the Kasur district jail....
PBC serves show-cause on LHC Pindi Bar leaders LAHORE, April 11: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Friday served a show-cause notice on both the president and secretary of the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench bar association for inviting...		Journalist’s brother killed SHEIKHUPURA, April 11: A youth was killed by another over a petty issue on Friday evening....
Pak Jamhoor wants LFO quashed LAHORE, April 11: Pak Jamhoor, a new political party, has demanded that the LFO should be quashed, the 1973 Constitution be restored and the president should be elected in accordance with...		Explanation sought from health secy LAHORE, April 11: The Lahore High Court on Friday asked the provincial health secretary to explain why the special quota reserved by the Supreme Court in the medical colleges for the...
Kiln workers LAHORE, April 11: Brick kiln workers on Friday demonstrated outside the Lahore Press Club to express resentment against denial of minimum wages of Rs184 for moulding 1,000 bricks, and recovery of...		President has ‘lost power’ to amend Constitution LAHORE, April 11: Punjab Advocate-General Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi claimed on Friday that President Gen Pervez Musharraf had lost his authority to amend the 1973 Constitution with the election of parliament....
Govt will procure all wheat: Pervaiz LAHORE, April 11: The government will procure all the wheat and take every step to ensure the crop’s support price for the farmers, according to Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi....		Data Sahib’s Urs LAHORE, April 11: Three-day Urs celebrations of Hazrat Ali Hajveri, popularly known as Data Gunj Bakhsh, will begin at his shrine from April 21....
Mediamen turned out of Wagah checkpost LAHORE, April 11: The Sutlej Rangers on Friday turned mediamen invited to the Wagah Border by the Press Information Department and the Evacuee Trust Property Board for the coverage of the...		SZH labs’ shifting issue takes new turn LAHORE, April 11: The cabinet division has asked the Shaikh Zayed Hospital administration to immediately shift all laboratories of the Shaikha Fatima Institute of Nursing and Medical Sciences from the ADB-funded...