DAWN - Local; June 16, 2003

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June 16, 2003	Monday	Rabi-us-Sani 15, 1424

KARACHI: Opposition plans strategy for budget session KARACHI, June 15: The parliamentary parties of both the ruling coalition and the opposition in the provincial assembly held separate meetings here on Sunday to formulate their individual strategies for the...		KARACHI: 12 injured as water protesters teargassed KARACHI, June 15: More than a dozen people were injured when the police and the rangers resorted to teargas shelling and baton-charge on protesters demanding water in North Karachi on Sunday....

KARACHI: Robber shot dead KARACHI, June 15: A robber was killed with the bullet of his accomplice during a dacoity bid in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Sunday....		KARACHI: Altaf for LoC as permanent border KARACHI, June 15: Muttahida Quami Movement chief Altaf Hussain has urged India and Pakistan to consider accepting the Line of Control as a permanent border.

KARACHI: 106 vehicles taken away last week KARACHI, June 15: Bandits, either hijacked or stole 106 vehicles, 43 cars and 63 motorcycles, in different localities of the city, during the past one week....		KARACHI: Tributes paid to Sami Dehlavi KARACHI, June 15: Tributes were paid to a cartoonist Abdul Sami Khan Dehlavi at a meeting organized by the Sami Art Memorial Society at the Arts Council of Pakistan here late...

KARACHI: Evening with a poet journalist KARACHI: Shamim Navid, a poet and writer, was honoured at a especially convened meeting of Mahver-i-Ilm-o-adab on Saturday....		KARACHI: MA exam forms date extended KARACHI, June 15: The Karachi University has extended the date for submission of examination forms of MA, double MA and improvement of division (Prev & Final), for the External Annual Examination-2002...

KARACHI: Electricity breakdowns continue unabated KARACHI, June 15: Power cuts, which observe no holidays in the city, continued unabated on Sunday while the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation did little to check electricity breakdowns....		KARACHI: MMA and PPP deplore NA Speaker’s ruling KARACHI, June 15: Leaders of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and the Pakistan People’s Party on Sunday deplored the National Assembly Speaker’s ruling on declaring LFO part of the constitution and termed it...

KARACHI: Nazim seeks report on adopted schools KARACHI, June 15: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan directed the officers of education department to resolve the problems of ‘adopted schools’ on priority basis, saying that it was unjust that the money...		KARACHI: 28 PIA men’s plea admitted for hearing KARACHI, June 15: The Federal Service Tribunal admitted to regular hearing on Saturday an appeal moved by 28 PIA technicians against their alleged supersession....

KARACHI: Lifting of siege in Okara demanded KARACHI, June 15: Speakers at a rally on Sunday demanded that siege of Okara villages be lifted and the atrocities by the law enforcement agency personnel against the farmer be stopped....		KARACHI: Caution urged against degradation of environment KARACHI, June 15: Unchecked population growth, industrialization and deforestation, were adversely affecting earth’s climate, opined speakers at a three-day exhibition of meteorological equipments, inaugurated on Sunday at the Institute of Meteorology...

KARACHI: Aliens in jails to be sent back KARACHI, June 15: Arrangements will be made soon for the return of those foreigners who have completed their term in prisons....		KARACHI: Weather KARACHI, June 15: Warm and humid weather will persist in Karachi with maximum temperature expected between 34 and 36°C on Monday. Similarly, very hot and dry spell is likely to prevail...

KARACHI: Release of funds ordered KARACHI, June 15: Governor IshratuI Ibad has directed the concerned authorities to release funds immediately for the execution of development schemes of union councils in Hyderabad district....		KHAIRPUR: Power supply to 50 villages cut KHAIRPUR, June 15: The Hesco, Ranipur division, disconnected the power supply to about 50 villages of three union councils — Rasoolabad, Hingorja and Ranipur — on Saturday for non-payment of bills....

HYDERABAD: Handing over of hospital to varsity will be resisted HYDERABAD, June 15: Sindh Auqaf, Zakat and Ushr and Religious Affairs Minister Dr Irfan Gul Magsi has taken up the matter of handing over of the Hyderabad Civil Hospital to a...		DADU: Discharge of saline water opposed: Manchhar Lake DADU, June 15: The growers of Dadu district have appealed to the government of Sindh to stop discharging the saline water of the Main Nara Valley into the Manchhar Lake to...

HYDERABAD: Services of G.M. Syed eulogized HYDERABAD, June 15: Tribute was paid to the late G.M. Syed for his services in the cause of Sindhi literature and culture and in the field of social work at a...		HYDERABAD: Councillors convention HYDERABAD, June 15: The government has failed to provide basic rights to the women and despite their 33 per cent representation in the district governments, the female councillors had not been...

HYDERABAD: Dist council members to stage sit-in HYDERABAD, June 15: Members of district, taluka and union councils of Hyderabad on Saturday decided to stage a protest sit-in at Haider Chowk here on June 16 if funds for 2002-2003...		PESHAWAR: Bid to smuggle arms foiled; three held PESHAWAR, June 15: A big cache of heavy arms and ammunition was seized and three ‘terrorists’ having links with a militant outfit in Sindh were arrested from a Karachi-bound passenger bus...

PESHAWAR: Eve-teasing on the rise at university PESHAWAR, June 15: Harassment of girl students and incidents of eve-teasing are on the increase at the Peshawar University Campus as no protective measures have so far been taken by the...		PESHAWAR: 2 acquitted of robbery charge PESHAWAR, June 15: A trial court has acquitted two persons in a robbery case after it came to know that three dead persons were charged by the police in the same...

HARIPUR: Man commits suicide HARIPUR, June 15: A married young man committed suicide in village Darvesh here on Saturday evening, police said....		HARIPUR: Police yet to arrest bandits HARIPUR, June 15: The local police have yet to find any clue of the culprits involved in a robbery at Mohalla Malikpura, where some bandits had deprived a goldsmith’s family of...