June 20, 2003	Friday	Rabi-us-Sani 19, 1424

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Lessons on eminent women should be included in textbooks ISLAMABAD, June 19: Lessons based on popular women personalities should be included in the textbooks of Punjab Textbook Board (PTB) to help remove gender biases....		House tax in Islamabad proposed: Rs200m CDA deficit ISLAMABAD, June 19: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has proposed to levy residence tax and increase the water charges and toll tax to meet an expected deficit of Rs200 million in...
Price of flour increased by six rupees RAWALPINDI, June 19: Flour Mills Association has increased the price of flour by Rs6 due to wheat shortage in the private market....		Water-borne diseases on the rise RAWALPINDI, June 19: The occurrence of diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases is increasing rapidly in the city due to supply of contaminated water, medical sources said on Sunday....
650 tenders approved illegally ISLAMABAD, June 19: At least 650 tenders of development works have been illegally approved by the directorates of roads and maintenance of Capital Development Authority (CDA) during the current fiscal, a...		District govts’ help for Tawana plan sought ISLAMABAD, June 19: The Ministry of Women Development, Social Welfare and Special Education has called upon the district governments to play an active role in successful running of Tawana Pakistan, a...
Re-examination of witness in Asif asset case stayed ISLAMABAD, June 19: Supreme Court on Thursday issued stay orders in favour of Asif Ali Zardari that a witness Naki Imam Malik could not be re-examined in asset case....		World Refugee Day today ISLAMABAD, June 19: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Pakistan will celebrate the 3rd World Refugee Day on Friday from 9:30am to 5pm in the auditorium of the National...
Relations with Russia to grow, says PML-Q RAWALPINDI, June 19: The recent visit of the Russian foreign minister to Pakistan has further cemented bilateral relations and enhanced cooperation in telecommunication, information technology, agriculture and defence sectors between the...		British consular section closed today ISLAMABAD, June 19: The British High Commission has announced that its consular section in Islamabad will be closed on June 20 and will reopen on the 23rd....
Opposition’s move to disqualify Sikandar Hayat MUZAFFARABAD, June 19: The opposition on Thursday submitted a reference before the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly’s Speaker Sardar Siab Khalid, seeking to disqualify Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan...		15 Nazims threaten to resign QUETTA, June 19: Fifteen of the Balochistan district Nazims on Thursday threatened to resign if they were not given powers in accordance with the Local Government Ordinance 2001 by July 15....
Troops deployed to check infiltration GHALANAI, June 19: The government deployed army on Thursday at eight different points along the 60km-long northwestern Pakistan-Afghanistan border of Mohmand Agency....		Population growth affects GDP rate ISLAMABAD, June 19: The failure to restrict population growth rate is causing serious problems, making the job of the federal planners difficult to achieve 6 per cent GDP growth rate in...
Turkish firm’s contractors compensated ISLAMABAD, June 19: Pakistan has blacklisted the Turkish company Bayinder which was given contract for the construction of Islamabad-Peshawar motorway....		Karzai govt’s writ must prevail throughout country: Pakistan UNITED NATIONS, June 19: Pakistan on Thursday reiterated its support for the Afghan Transitional Administration’s pledges for eliminating drug production, saying President Hamid Karzai’s government was the only legitimate authority in...
Ex-minister arrested in corruption reference QUETTA, June 19: Former minister Malik Gul Zaman Kasi was arrested on Thursday after his bail was cancelled by the Balochistan High Court....		Five killed in Kashmir SRINAGAR, June 19: Indian troops shot dead three militants in occupied Kashmir on Thursday while unidentified men shot dead two Muslim civilians, a police spokesman said....
AJK Dy Speaker accused of hurling threats MUZAFFARABAD, June 19: Former AJK minister and People’s Party leader Khwaja Farooq Ahmed on Tuesday accused AJK Legislative Assembly’s deputy speaker Sanaullah Qadri of issuing “serious threats to his life” at...		President attends cultural show LONDON, June 19: President Gen Pervez Musharraf attended a cultural show “Rhythms of the Indus” in London on Wednesday....
Shafkat made additional secy ISLAMABAD, June 19: Pakistan’s Ambassador to Kuwait Shafkat Saeed has been appointed as additional secretary at the ministry of foreign affairs, sources at the ministry told Dawn on Thursday....		CM says no leniency for influential culprits SARGODHA, June 19: Law and order will be maintained at all costs and culprits not shown leniency no matter how influential they might be....
Rs13 million fee fraud in TMA FAISALABAD, June 19: The Tehsil Municipal Administration (city) authorities, with the connivance of a contractor, have allegedly misappropriated Rs13 million received from the owners of commercial properties during the last six...		Motorway cop ‘beaten up’ by armymen MULTAN, June 19: A Motorway Police officer was beaten up on the Multan-Bahawalpur Highway, allegedly by some army officials whom he had fined for over-speeding....
MMA activists released: Torching circus GUJRANWALA, June 19: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal activists, who were arrested for setting a circus on fire, were released from a jail on Thursday on the directives of the Anti-Terrorism Court No...		Multan Nazim: 12 get nomination forms MULTAN, June 19: Eight more candidates for by-election of the Multan district Nazim received nomination forms from the returning officer on Thursday, raising the number to 12....
17 freed by police BAHAWALPUR, June 19: Cantonment police released all the 17 arrested people of Basti Raidan here on Thursday....		Killer of two hanged JHANG, June 19: A killer of two persons was hanged to death in the district jail early on Thursday morning....
All steps to curb heinous crime SHEIKHUPURA, June 19: Special police teams have been formed and a complaint cell set up at the CM Secretariat to combat crime....		Patwaris’ concern at ‘unlawful’ seniority list DERA GHAZI KHAN, June 19: The seniority list of patwaris for the DG Khan district is unlawful as it includes temporarily-recruited people from other districts, some local patwaris have claimed....
Three health employees suspended SIALKOT, June 19: Three employees of the Health department have been suspended from service by the Executive District Officer (Health) on the charge of corruption....		No army pressure on parliament, says Rao OKARA, June 19: Defence Minister Rao Sikandar Iqbal has said there is no army’s pressure on parliament....
Woman threatens suicide FAISALABAD, June 19: A woman threatened to commit suicide in front of the DIG office in protest against the failure of the Samundri police to register a case against the accused...		Looted BAHAWALPUR, June 19: Five armed bandits looted the house of a motorcycle trader at Bismillah Colony here on Thursday....
Life term for killer GUJRANWALA, June 19: An additional district and sessions judge handed down on Thursday life term and Rs100,000 fine to a man convicted of killing a policeman....		Bhooch’s qul GUJRAT, June 19: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi attended Tehsil Nazim Ghulam Sarwar Bhooch’s qul at Bhooch village on Thursday....
Five villages, 300 acres of farmland flooded MIRPURKHAS, June 19: A 20-feet-wide breach developed in the Nabisar distributary near Dargah Sher Shah Shaheed, Samaro Taluka, as a result of which five villages and at least 300 acres of...		Uproar in PA over uneven allocations PESHAWAR, June 19: The exclusion of opposition’s schemes from the annual development programme, the killing of a doctor in Abbotabad and subsequent students’ violence protest caused an uproar in the Frontier...
Man kills wife, injures two children SUKKUR, June 19: A man, Anwar Katto, opened fire with his shot gun killing his wife, Karim Dini, on the spot and injuring their two children, Fauzia and Shaukat, in the...		Power to council office cut off KHAIRPUR, June 19: The Hesco authorities disconnected the power supply to the Taluka Council office, Scarp Colony, and streetlights of Khairpur town on Thursday due to non-payment of bills....
KKH opens ABBOTTABAD, June 19: The Karakoram Highway was opened for traffic after 28 hours on Thursday morning after the district administration and two provincial ministers assured the protesters of arrest of the man...		Implementation of food law urged SWABI, June 19: The sale of adulterated food items continues in Swabi as the authorities concerned have failed to check sellers putting people’s lives at risk....
Privilege motion withdrawn PESHAWAR, June 19: The NWFP assembly on Thursday withdrew a privilege motion, which it had earlier passed against custom officials....		Haripur school plan shelved HARIPUR, June 19: The district government’s plan to establish a third high school for boys in Haripur has hit snags as the building in which the institution was to be housed...
Opposition, treasury agree to hold talks LAHORE, June 19: The treasury and the opposition in the Punjab Assembly will hold talks to run the house proceedings in accordance with parliamentary norms to facilitate the masses....		Labour officers powerless in 15 districts LAHORE, June 19: The Labour Department has not been properly devolved in 15 far-flung districts of Punjab from where poor workers have to travel hundreds of kilometres to the provincial metropolis...
Greater Thal Canal not to harm Sindh: Cheema LAHORE, June 19: The Greater Thal Canal, though a provincial project, has been approved by federal bodies like the ECNEC and the Indus River System Authority, claimed Punjab Minister for Irrigation...		BSc home economics curriculum revised LAHORE, June 19: The Higher Education Commission’s National Curriculum Revision Committee has revised the draft curriculum of BSc home economics and recommended that duration of the degree course should be increased...
Rs1.2bn for emergency wards’ development LAHORE, June 19: The Punjab Health Department has decided to provide additional Rs1.2 billion along with the allocated budget of Rs2 billion to upgrade operation theatres of all teaching hospitals in...		Azhar Ata gets 10-year RI in yellow cab scam LAHORE, June 19: An accountability court on Thursday sentenced Pakistan Medical Housing Society former chairman Dr Azhar Ata Malik to 10-year rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs12.5 million in yellow cab...