May 31, 2003	Saturday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 28, 1424

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Wapda owes Rs27m to CNG stations: RCCI chief RAWALPINDI, May 30: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) is withholding Rs27 million in arrears payable to the CNG station owners despite Lahore High Court orders, said the Rawalpindi Chamber...		Capital police seek 50pc share in fine money RAWALPINDI, May 30: The Capital territory police have sought 50 per cent share out of traffic challan money, as approved by the government in 2001, an official source said on Friday....
PTCL adopts new system to improve IT, phone services ISLAMABAD, May 30: The Pakistan Telecommunications Company (PTCL) has adopted a new system to facilitate subscribers in terms of reliability and speed in telecommunication related services like tele-medicine, internet, telephones etc....		Nine policemen suspended in armyman murder case RAWALPINDI, May 30: Nine police personnel of the capital police, who had been booked in the armyman murder case in a joint military-police inquiry, have been suspended, an official source said...
Varsity, college for women in NWFP soon ISLAMABAD, May 30: The government will soon establish a separate university and a medical college for women in the NWFP, said adviser to the prime minister on women development and special...		1,300 freight wagons to be imported from China: Mehar ISLAMABAD, May 30: Railways minister Ghous Bux Khan Mehar on Friday said 1,300 freight wagons were being imported from China, at a cost of Rs3.2 billion....
Implementation of anti-smoking ord sought ISLAMABAD, May 30: The Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan (CRCP) on Friday expressed concern over the increasing trend of tobacco advertising through film and fashion industries in Pakistan....		Benazir condemns MPAs’ arrest ISLAMABAD, May 30: Pakistan People’s Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto on Friday condemned the arrest of the Punjab parliamentary leadership and party activists as “undemocratic” and “inhuman”....
Kashmir’s division to be opposed, says Sultan MIRPUR, May 30: Leader of opposition in AJK Legislative Assembly, Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry, on Friday said that every move for the division of the Jammu and Kashmir would be strongly...		Diyat sentence awarded MUZAFFARABAD, May 30: The AJK Shariat Court here on Thursday sentenced an accused to Diyat besides two-years rigorous imprisonment for causing death to a person by rash and negligent driving in...
AJKHC dismisses workers’ petition MUZAFFARABAD, May 30: The AJK High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by 25 junior employees of the Neelum Valley Development Board seeking direction to the government to refrain from...		Govt accused of hindering MNAs’ visit to India ISLAMABAD, May 30: The People’s Party Parliamentarians on Thursday accused the government of victimization and criticized it for not granting permission to PPP National Assembly members to visit India....
Change in ministers’ portfolios demanded QUETTA, May 30: The general secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam), Balochistan, Senator Malik Sarwar Khan Kakar, said on Friday that the tussle in the coalition government was affecting the...		Six flights a week to Kabul planned ISLAMABAD, May 30: Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed on Friday to operate six flights a week on reciprocal basis to revive their air link that remained suspended for over a decade....
Nine die in accident MUZAFFARABAD, May 30: Nine people, including a woman, were killed and four others critically injured in a road accident near here on Friday, officials said....		Soomro visits Pearl’s family LOS ANGELES, May 30: Senate Chairman Mohammedmian Soomro, on a private visit to the United States, visited slain journalist Daniel Pearl’s house on Wednesday and apprised the family about progress in...
MQM-H man shot dead KARACHI, May 30: An activist of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement was shot dead on Friday night in New Karachi, police and party sources said....		Correction ISLAMABAD, May 30: Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali, while talking to reporters after the NEC meeting in Islamabad on Thursday, had said he was unhappy about the events relating to the...
Degree programme in PHA planned PESHAWAR, May 30: Provincial Health Services Academy is to launch a degree programme in public health administration from next month, health official told Dawn on Friday....		3 die in accidents MANSEHRA, May 30: Three people, including an unidentified young girl, died in three different incidents on Thursday in Mansehra district....
Three tribesmen shot dead SUKKUR, May 30: Three members of the Chachar tribe were shot dead and several others injured when another group of the tribe ambushed them in the Daim Khan Chachar village in...		Canal breached SUKKUR, May 30: A 150 feet wide breach occurred in Peer Shakh at RD-92 near Thul, Jacobabad district on Friday as a result the Kamaluddin village was inundated, its 15 houses...
Enforcement of water rotation plan urged MIRPURKHAS, May 30: Farmers of Mirpurkhas taluka have alleged that despite dividing the Jamrao division into groups to effectively implement the water rotation programme, the irrigation officials have failed to judiciously...		Imposter on looting spree PESHAWAR, May 30: An imposter posing himself as a prisoner released from Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay, has been deceiving people by narrating false stories of his imprisonment....
Ali Nawaz Chandio’s murderer killed LARKANA, May 30: The Kambar police have claimed to kill, Dilmurad Shahani, the accused of the murder of Nawabzada Ali Nawaz Chandio, in an encounter in the Khirthar hills on Thursday....		Students take out protest procession MINGORA, May 30: The students of government high school Matiltan took out a protest procession here on Friday against the shortage of teachers in the institution....
Repatriation PESHAWAR, May 30: Over 100,000 Afghan refugees have left Pakistan for their country under the UNHCR’s 2003 voluntary repatriation programme since March 1, with more than 16,000 left during the last...		Convocation of GIK today SWABI, May 30: As many as 167 students of the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology will get their degrees in the seventh convocation of GIKI here on...
Apathy to smuggling of Indian steel flayed GUJRANWALA, May 30: All Pakistan Stainless Steel Re-rolling Association has expressed concern over smuggling of Indian steel and slump in the local market....		BZU has ‘no plan’ to disband law college MULTAN, May 30: The Bahauddin Zakariya University has no plan to disband its law college....
Woman, lover held for killing couple GUJRANWALA, May 30: A woman who staged a dacoity drama in her house after killing her mother-in-law and father-in-law with the help of her lover in Khewaywali village, Wazirabad, was arrested...		New paddy-growing technique SIALKOT, May 30: The agriculture department has announced that it would establish nurseries on more than 112 plots to introduce farmers to a new paddy-growing technique called the “Parachute Technology”....
Judge summons policemen who caught him overspeeding BAHAWALPUR, May 30: A Lahore High Court Multan bench judge on Friday issued show-cause notices and summoned two motorway police officials on June 2 who caught him overspeeding on the Bahawalpur-Multan...		Kiln workers’ demo against excesses of owners GUJRAT, May 30: A large number of brick kiln workers on Friday staged a demonstration against the excesses of kiln owners and officials of the Labour department....
Boy killed as gun goes off accidentally KASUR, May 30: An 11-year-old boy was killed when a gun went off accidentally in Bonga Balochan, Phoolnagar, here on Friday....		Fire breaks out in Gojra grid station TOBA TEK SINGH, May 30: The power supply to Toba Tek Singh, Gojra and surrounding areas was suspended when fire broke out early Friday morning in Gojra grid station....
BISE office ransacked SARGODHA, May 30: Unidentified people ransacked the matriculation section of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education office on Thursday....		Rs11m cotton bales burnt SHEIKHUPURA, May 30: Cotton bales and other raw material worth Rs11 million were reduced to ashes at the Abid Kalem Spinning Mill in Kot Nazer Hussain on Nankana-Warburton Road on Friday....
Baton-charge on mediamen condemned FAISALABAD, May 30: The Faisalabad Union of Journalists has condemned the police baton-charge on mediamen outside the Punjab Assembly building, terming it a harsh step on the part of the rulers....		Bill approved amid protests by opposition LAHORE, May 30: The Punjab Assembly on Friday approved the Punjab Medical and Health Institutions bill, 2003, while the opposition kept protesting against the restrictions imposed on their leader and other...
Speaker’s impartiality questioned LAHORE, May 30: The government had prorogued the Punjab Assembly after being instructed by the Lahore High Court chief justice to allow 27 members of the opposition entry into the assembly...		CRDC employees working under PTB notified LAHORE, May 30: The Punjab government has notified the Curriculum Research and Development Board employees working under the Punjab Textbook Board on a regular basis....
MPAs meet CJ for PA’s entry denial LAHORE, May 30: The Punjab Assembly’s 27 MPAs, who had been disallowed to attend the session by the speaker, approached the Lahore High Court chief justice on Friday, complaining that they...		Govt mulls ban on cigarette ads LAHORE, May 30: Punjab Health Minister Dr Tahir Ali Javed has said the government is seriously considering to ban the advertisement of cigarettes in print and electronic media....
PPP to file for damages LAHORE, May 30: The Pakistan People’s Party has decided to claim a minimum of Rs100 million in damages for the humiliation of each of its 11 MPAs at the hands of...		Women ‘set examples’ for men to follow LAHORE, May 30: Punjab Social Welfare and Women Development Department Secretary Qazi Afaaq Husain has induced women to stand up for securing their just rights....
Qazi’s offer to Musharraf LAHORE, May 30: The MMA can give Gen Musharraf a year in uniform along with the presidency if he accepts the religious conglomerate’s demands on the LFO and recommendations of the...		Call to give up lethal tobacco LAHORE, May 30: The World No Smoking Day is being observed around the world on Saturday (today) to draw global attention to the ills of tobacco, and the death and diseases...