April 30, 2003	Wednesday	Safar 27, 1424

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Textbooks shortage: FBISE, FDE make students suffer ISLAMABAD, April 29: The shortage of textbooks in the local market has created a dilemma for students, especially those of class IX, as the new academic session has already started....		IT varsities to start functioning soon, says governor TAXILA, April 29: Three new IT universities are being set up in the province which will start functioning in the next couple of months, Punjab governor Lt-Gen Khalid Maqbool (retired) said...
Warrants for nine police officials issued RAWALPINDI, April 29: Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate Azfar Sultan Syed on Tuesday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for nine police officials for not complying with the directives ofthe court....		Equipment, power cable stolen ATTOCK, April 29: Expensive equipment has been stolen from the under-construction power complex of Ghazi Barotha Hydropower Project (GBHP), police said on Tuesday....
HEC okays Rs25m IT project for GC varsity ISLAMABAD, April 29: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) will provide Rs25 million to Government College University, Lahore, for enhancement of the existing IT facilities....		Two sentenced to death in murder case TAXILA, April 29: Additional Sessions Judge Mustafa Tanveer has sentenced to death two convicts for killing four people....
Girl shot dead by fellow student at QAU RAWALPINDI, April 29: A Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) student shot dead a fellow girl student and then tried to commit suicide at the university premises on Tuesday, police and hospital authorities said....		UC members say auditors taking ‘bribe’ RAWALPINDI, April 29: Auditors from the office of Director Local Audit Fund have been demanding and taking bribe from the union council administrations, the district council was informed during its session...
Steps to control fire at Margalla Hills adopted ISLAMABAD, April 29: Capital Development Authority (CDA) has adopted pragmatic measures to check forest fires in the Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP)....		Envoys of Iran, Yemen call on Senate chairman ISLAMABAD, April 29: Ambassador of Yemen Ghaleb Saeed Al Adoofi and Charge d’ Affaires of Iran Reza Allae’i separately called on Senate chairman Mohammadmian Soomro in his chamber at Parliament House...
Political system blamed for rising HR violations RAWALPINDI, April 29: Only institutionalized democracy and modern educational system can root out the centuries-old barbaric traditions of Karokari, Wani, Watta Satta, honour- killing and violence against women in the country....		Fraudster gets 10-year RI ISLAMABAD, April 29: Judicial Magistrate Chaudhry Mumtaz Hussain on Tuesday awarded 10-year rigorous imprisonment (RI) to a person in a fraud case....
Pakistan must back process of reasserting UN centrality: Zaki ISLAMABAD, April 29: Pakistan should persuade the world to reassert the centrality of the United Nations because the US has wrecked an agreed international order, said Akram Zaki, the former secretary-general...		AJK opposes federal jurisdiction over dam ISLAMABAD, April 29: The government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir has rejected a proposal envisaging bringing the Mangla Dam territory under the judicial jurisdiction of Pakistan....
LFO bill to defeat govt’s stated position: experts ISLAMABAD, April 29: If the bill containing non-contentious portions of the LFO was presented before parliament for validation, the stated policy of the government that LFO was part of the Constitution...		FM reiterates willingness to reduce tension NEW DELHI, April 29: A day after the prime ministers of India and Pakistan made an attempt to usher in a thaw in their frozen ties with a telephone chat, Pakistan’s...
Resistance to anti-poppy drive subsides QUETTA, April 29: Tribesmen in areas of Qila Abdullah district have given up resistance against the anti-poppy operation that continued on Tuesday without any unpleasant incident, Frontier Constabulary sources told Dawn....		Former minister granted bail MUZAFFARABAD, April 29: AJK Ehtesab Court No I granted bail here on Tuesday to a former AJK minister and three others alleged to be involved in embezzlement in a hydel power...
PM’s call a step forward: envoy ISLAMABAD, April 29: Acting Indian High Commissioner T.C.A. Raghavan said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali’s telephonic contact with his Indian counterpart, Atal Behari Vajpayee, was a “good...		Shujaat to lead LFO committee ISLAMABAD, April 29: Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain will lead the 11-member government-opposition working committee on behalf of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid...
Jamali’s move termed a turning point SRINAGAR, April 29: Kashmiri people on Tuesday welcomed an ice-breaking telephone call from Pakistan’s prime minister to his Indian counterpart, saying it could prove to be a turning point in the...		IUCN office damaged in rocket attack PESHAWAR, April 29: Police remained clue less on Tuesday about the identity of the criminals who launched a rocket attack on the office of Dir-Kohistan (development) project at Shringle....
Taliban kill Afghan security guard QUETTA, April 29: The administrator of Spin Boldak, 10km northwest of Chaman, has said that one security guard was killed at a checkpoint in rocket attacks by the Taliban remnants in...		SC judgment ISLAMABAD, April 29: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it would announce judgment on Friday in over 700 cases involving the employment of about 1,000 people in Sui Southern Gas...
Death sentence QUETTA, April 29: Ad hoc Sessions Judge Mohammad Abdullah Khan on Monday convicted a man of murdering four people and awarded him death sentence....		JWP criticizes government QUETTA, April 29: Jamhoori Watan Party has accused the government of exploiting the Dera Bugti issue and trying to find justification for an operation against the tribesmen....
Vajpayee’s visit not ‘an outlandish possibility’ NEW DELHI, April 29: After a widely applauded ice-breaking chat on the telephone between the prime ministers of India and Pakistan, New Delhi appeared to pause for breath on Tuesday amid...		Fata’s power-related issues will be resolved: elders told PESHAWAR, April 29: The Commander of the 11th Corps, Lt-Gen Ali Mohammad Jan Orakzai, has said that issues relating to the installation of electricity meters, recovery of outstanding dues and low...
Naib Nazims form forum ABBOTTABAD, April 29: Barrister Mohammad Javed Abbasi and Atta-ur-Rehman,  advocate were elected chairman and  general secretary of newly-formed “Naib Nazims of NWFP Forum” in the meeting of Naib Nazims of all...		Qissakhwani protest stalls demolition PESHAWAR, April 29: Shopkeepers resorted to protest by closing down  their shops when Town-1 officials  reached  the Qissakhwani Bazaar on Tuesday morning to bulldoze their structures which the officials claim are...
Man dies of suffocation KOHAT, April 29: A 17-year-old boy who suffered a head injury after falling from the roof of an Imambargah died of suffocation on way to Peshawar after the oxygen cylinder in...		Legislators criticize reshuffle in bureaucracy PESHAWAR, April 29: The opposition parties have criticized the adjustment of junior officials as frontmen of the MMA ministers and removal of the senior officials from the provincial hierarchy....
Two held for issuing threats MINGORA, April 29: The police have arrested two persons who were allegedly threatening to kidnap the children of well-off families....		Consumers hold protest against Hesco DADU, April 29: Hundreds of residents, shopkeepers, and political activists took out a procession here on Tuesday to protest against frequent power loadshedding and inflated bills....
Growers urged to increase export: Workshop on mangoes MIRPURKHAS, April 29: At least 76 varieties of mangoes are produced in the Sindh Horticulture Research Institute, Mirpurkhas, and this district produces more mangoes in comparison to the other districts of...		Woman commits suicide with kids MIRPURKHAS, April 29: A peasant woman, Marvi Kolhi, 30, committed suicide by taking pesticide at the Ghulam Rasool Talpur village, Kot Ghulam Mohammad Taluka, on Tuesday....
Two killed in accidents SUKKUR, April 29: Two persons were killed in two separate accidents here on Tuesday....		Transporters asked not to violate law LARKANA, April 29: The secretary, district regional transport authority, Larkana, Assadullah Abor, on Tuesday notified that all buses and mini-buses plying on different routes in Larkana district should charge 37 paisas...
Fair water distribution demanded THATTA, April 29: Speakers at a gathering on “Crisis of Water” have urged the government not to politicize the water issue and take concrete measures to ensure judicious distribution of water....		Material supplied by govt not ‘sensitive’: SC: Khwajas case LAHORE, April 29: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to consider as ‘sensitive’ official material furnished by the state regarding the preventive detention of Dr Ahmad Javed Khwaja and his brother....
Nepra levies sales tax: Wapda LAHORE, April 29: Water and Power Development Authority on Tuesday claimed in the Lahore High Court that it was not authorized to determine the levy of sales tax and additional surcharge...		PPP’s token hunger strike against LFO LAHORE, April 29: PPP workers observed a token hunger strike throughout the Punjab on Tuesday to protest against the LFO....
Lawyers warn opposition LAHORE, April 29: Bar councils and associations on Tuesday rejected any likely agreement to be reached on a “pick-and-choose basis” between the government and the opposition on the Legal Framework Order...		Millers cut 20kg wheat bag price LAHORE, April 29: The Pakistan Flour Mills Association on Tuesday reduced the price of 20kg wheat bag to Rs187....
UHS to focus on research LAHORE, April 29: Punjab Health Minister Dr Tahir Ali Javed has said the University of Health Sciences should focus on research and basic sciences to produce as many PhDs as possible....		Clerks observe strike LAHORE, April 29: The All Pakistan Clerks Association on Tuesday observed a strike against the administration of the University of Education at the buildings department....
Sargodha Air Base named after Mushaf SARGODHA, April 29: The late Mushaf Ali Mir had a quality of giving confidence to all those present around him. This is the quality of a great leader. I saw that...		CM pledges Rs1bn for Sadiqabad’s uplift SADIQABAD, April 29: The government will spend Rs1 billion on various development projects in the district, Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi pledged on Tuesday....
DHQ hospital without specialists, staff KASUR, April 29: Twelve posts of doctors, including a cardiologist and a chest specialist, have been vacant at the district headquarters hospital for the past few months....		Minor girl burnt to death SIALKOT, April 29: An eight-year-old daughter of a labourer burnt alive in a fire erupted when a match stick was lighted during power outage on Monday evening in Beerh village, Daska...