June 10, 2003	Tuesday	Rabi-us-Sani 9, 1424

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Rs140m to be spent on water supply schemes ISLAMABAD, June 9: The government has earmarked Rs140 million for supplying water to Rawalpindi and Islamabad from Khanpur Dam....		Women sections in all ministries proposed ISLAMABAD, June 9: The ministry of women development, social welfare and special education has proposed establishment of women and social development sections in the key federal ministries to promote gender equality,...
FGSH teaching status to be probed ISLAMABAD, June 9: The government has constituted an inquiry committee to investigate suspension of Federal Government Services Hospital’s teaching status by the Council of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) for six...		Health experts to meet on 12th ISLAMABAD, June 9: An expert group consultative meeting on hepatitis, presided over by the health minister, will be held on June 11 at a local hotel to formulate recommendations for reference...
Man commits suicide after killing wife RAWALPINDI, June 9: A man committed suicide after killing his wife and injuring his mother-in-law in Rahimabad on Monday....		Power supply to Islamabad, Pindi restored ISLAMABAD, June 9: Power supply to the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi was restored late Monday night, an official of the Iesco told Dawn....
Imran Khan supports lawyers ISLAMABAD, June 9: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has condemned the action taken against the lawyers in the capital on Monday, whereby they were restrained from holding a convention on...		US envoy calls on Senate chairman ISLAMABAD, June 9: The US ambassador, Nancy Powell, called on Senate Chairman Mohammadmian Soomro here on Monday....
Need to curb human trafficking stressed ISLAMABAD, June 9: The under-training sub-inspectors (SIs) of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) as well as other officials agreed that the menace of human trafficking needed to be dealt with an...		Envoys present credentials to President ISLAMABAD, June 9: Envoys-designate of four countries presented their credentials to President General Pervez Musharraf at the Aiwan-i-Sadr on Monday....
New ISPR DG assumes charge ISLAMABAD, June 9: Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan assumed the charge of director general of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) here on Monday....		PM hopeful about India’s response ISLAMABAD, June 9: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has expressed the hope that the Indian leadership would agree to resolving all outstanding disputes, including Kashmir, through talks....
US pledges efforts for starting peace talks WASHINGTON, June 9: The United States “will continue to work” with both Pakistan and India “to try to work towards a way that they can talk to each other, that they...		Judicial probe ordered into killings QUETTA, June 9: The Balochistan cabinet on Monday decided to institute a judicial inquiry into the killing of 11 police recruits besides suspending the area’s superintendent police, DSP and SHO on...
Man wounded in blast KARACHI, June 9: A man was wounded in a bomb blast on Monday night in Gulshan-i-Iqbal in front of Aladin Park....		Jamali meets Soomro, Amir ISLAMABAD, June 9: The government on Monday chalked out a strategy to tackle the situation arising after the protest by the opposition in the parliamnet....
Acid attack disfigures three BAHAWALPUR, June 9: Three people, including a eunuch, sustained burns in an acid attack in Mauza Habib Missan, about 20 kilometres from here, on Monday....		19 MMA men held for torching circus GUJRANWALA, June 9: Around 19 activists of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, including a union council Nazim, were arrested for setting a circus on fire during an anti-obscenity campaign at Ghulam Hussain Park a...
Assembly face no threat: CM SARGODHA, June 9: If the opposition maintained its non-cooperative attitude at the august forum of parliament, the government will show no leniency towards it....		Rangers official shot dead by robbers SHEIKHUPURA, June 9: A Rangers official was shot dead and his cousin injured by highwaymen near Bhela village on Monday morning....
Romanian envoy visits Iqbal Manzil SIALKOT, June 9: Romanian ambassador Prof Dr Emil Ghitulescu, who authored two books on Allama Muhammad Iqbal, on Monday visited Iqbal Manzil, the birth place of the poet, amid tight security....		Man shoots wife, two sons GUJRANWALA, June 9: A man shot dead his wife, two young sons and injured another son over domestic issue at Asghar Colony here on Monday....
LJ activist set on bail TOBA TEK SINGH, June 9: Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Afzal Javed on Monday granted bail to banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi activist Saeed Anwar alias Commando....		Youth kills sister, alleged lover VEHARI, June 9: A youth slaughtered his sister and her lover in Chak 188-EB here on Monday evening....
Two slain in Gujrat GUJRAT, June 9: Two persons were murdered on Monday in different incidents in the jurisdiction of Kunjah police station....		Water shortage GUJRAT, June 9: Residents of Islam Nagar locality have been facing the drinking water shortage for the last two months due to the indifferent attitude of officials of the Gujrat Tehsil...
Thalassaemia centres LAHORE, June 9: Provincial health minister Dr Tahir Javed has said the government will establish thalassaemia centres at district level....		Gang busted OKARA, June 9: The district police claimed on Monday to have busted a gang and seized weapons....
NWFP seeks increase in Fata uplift allocations PESHAWAR, June 9: The federal government has so far not entertained the NWFP governor’s request to increase the size of the Public Sector Development Programme for 2003-04 to Rs4 billion for...		Government wants to eliminate poor: PPP ISLAMABAD, June 9: People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) MNA Syed Naveed Qamar has said the federal budget 2003-4 shows that the government wants to eliminate the poor instead of poverty....
PPP asks Nazims to stay away from row PESHAWAR, June 9: Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto has asked the PPP affiliated district Nazims to stay away from the ongoing centre-province row on the petty issues and not to...		Rs2.2bn earmarked for Northern Areas ISLAMABAD, June 9: The government has allocated Rs2.219 billion for various ongoing and a few new development projects, including Rs300 million foreign aid component for three major road projects, in Northern...
Better telecom services sought SKARDU, June 9: Subscribers in Baltistan on Monday complained about poor telecommunication facilities and internet service, saying the Special Communications Organisation had made the people’s life miserable....		Conspiracy against govt foiled: minister SWABI, June 9: The NWFP minister for religious affairs and irrigation Hafiz Akhtar Ali said on Monday that the “conspiracy hatched against the NWFP government” was foiled by the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal...
‘Injustice, poverty lead to rise in mental disorders’ PESHAWAR, June 9: A psychiatrist on Monday blamed social injustices, poverty, unemployment, political instability and increasing use of drugs for the rise in mental ailments, including depression and stress....		Video shopkeepers face slump in trade HARIPUR, June 9: Hundreds of video rental shop owners of the city have complained of a slump in their business after the passage of Shariat Bill recently by the provincial assembly....
Stay against FCC’s sale, transfer extended LAHORE, June 9: The senior civil judge on Monday extended till June 12 the stay granted against further sale and transfer of the Forman Christian College, and directed both the petitioner...		Shahbaz Sharif, five cops summoned LAHORE, June 9: An anti-terrorism court on Monday summoned PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif and five police officials, including a former Lahore SSP, for Tuesday in a case, accusing them of having...
Four Lashkar activists arrested LAHORE, June 9: Police claimed on Monday to have arrested four activists of the outlawed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ), allegedly responsible for 14 killings, including three policemen....		Council moves court against Armacost LAHORE, June 9: The Lahore Church Council of the United Church on Monday moved the civil court, challenging the authority of the Forman Christian College principal to make appointments on the...
ANP rejects Chenab formula, says Wyne LAHORE, June 9: The Awami National Party has rejected the Chenab formula that divides Kashmir on religious lines....		Suspension of TDCP staff ordered LAHORE, June 9: Punjab Tourism Minister Mian Aslam Iqbal has ordered suspension of Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab’s general manager (operations) Mian Shahid Mahmood, Shahi Hamam in-charge Saqib Rasheed and other...
Working of PEOs ‘not’ up to the mark LAHORE, June 9: The Punjab health department has reportedly sent a report to the chief minister saying that the performance of majority of principal executive officers (PEOs) serving in autonomous medical...		Qazi terms Musharraf’s remarks provocative LAHORE, June 9: Jamaat-i-Islami amir and MMA vice-president Qazi Husain Ahmad has said that Gen Musharraf’s aggressive attitude and highly provocative statements at a lawyers convention has once again shown that...
Lahore skies obscured by dust LAHORE, June 9: The city remained in the grip of dust raising winds on Monday with the meteorological office forecasting the same pattern in the next 24 hours....		Meraj Khalid further improves LAHORE, June 9: The condition of Malik Meraj Khalid continued to improve on Monday but he was still on a ventilator till the filing of this report....
Punjab budget on 14th LAHORE, June 9: The provincial budget for the fiscal 2003-04 will be presented before the Punjab Assembly on June 14....		River water inundates RBOD DADU, June 9: The water of the Indus River has inundated the main part of the RBOD from RD-58 to RD-62, near Bhago Thoro Mountain, on Monday due to the negligence...
Budget will boost economy: traders SUKKUR, June 9: The traders’ leaders of Sukkur have welcomed the federal budget, terming it an export and investment-friendly budget....		Anti-Thal canal demo held LARKANA, June 9: A large number of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) activists on Monday held a protest demonstration against the construction of the Thal canal....