July 6, 2003	Sunday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 5,1424

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Islamabad needs to improve its image abroad: diplomat PESHAWAR, July 5: Pakistan needs to pay special attention to improve its human rights record if it wants to improve its image abroad, a British diplomat said on Saturday....		C’wealth moot to discuss Pakistan’s membership: UK ISLAMABAD July 4: The question of restoration of Pakistan’s Commonwealth membership would be discussed during the forthcoming meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Nigeria....
Peshawar-Jalalabad bus service soon PESHAWAR, July 5: A bus service between Peshawar and Jalalabad (Afghanistan) is likely to be started soon to boost tourism, Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation officials said on Saturday....		From idealism to pragmatism PESHAWAR, July 5: Afr-asiab Khattak is an old campaigner. Both as a Pukhtun nationalist and chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, he has left his mark....
Concern expressed over wheat supply ban MINGORA, July 5: The traders and politicians of Malakand division have expressed concern over Punjab government’s decision to impose ban on supply of wheat to NWFP....		Mansehra Nazim’s by-election on 14th MANSEHRA, July 5: The campaign for the by-election to the office of district Nazim and Naib Nazim of Mansehra, due on July 14, is now in full swing....
‘Police commandeer vehicles’ CHITRAL, July 5: Drivers abstained from coming on to the roads fearing being commandeered by the police to transport to the Shandur pologround, where the annual festival is commencing from July...		F-16s denied due to Indian opposition: PML-N ISLAMABAD, July 5: It was India’s opposition to the sale of F-16 aircrafts to Pakistan that persuaded the United States to turn down Gen Pervez Musharraf’s request for the state-of-the-art combat...
PPP-S rejects allegations PESHAWAR, July 5: The Pakistan People’s Party (Sherpao) has demanded that Water and Power Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao should hold an inquiry into the allegation of power theft levelled against...		Award PESHAWAR, July 5: Syed Jawad Ahmad Shah, senior scientific officer, Crop Breeding Division of the National Institute for Food and Agriculture, has been honoured by Pakistan-Swiss Project for Horticulture Prom-otion in...
WB worried about slow reforms in water sector ISLAMABAD, July 5: The World Bank on Friday expressed concern over the slow place of reforms in the water and irrigation sector and has asked the government to expedite this process....		Pakistan is investment friendly, says minister ISLAMABAD, July 5: Investment and privatization minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh said here on Saturday that no government could give hundred per cent surety that incidents like the one in Quetta would...
PPP to move against party renegades ISLAMABAD, July 5: People’s Party Parliamentarians on Saturday asked its lawyers to prepare references against members of the People’s Party Patriots and unseat them, sources told Dawn....		Tehran terms mosque attack a terrorist act TEHRAN, July 5: Iran’s foreign ministry condemned on Saturday a suspected sectarian mosque attack in Pakistan as a “terrorist act”, state news agency IRNA reported....
Package is unconditional: Shaukat ISLAMABAD, July 5: Minister for Finance Shaukat Aziz said on Saturday no conditions are attached to the US $3 billion assistance for Pakistan and it is a grant package....		PM visits injured people ISLAMABAD, July 5: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali visited on Saturday the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Quetta to inquire about the condition of those injured in the Friday mosque...
Quetta killings slated PESHAWAR, July 5: The NWFP governor, chief minister and politicians have condemned the act of terrorism in Quetta, and expressed their deep sense of sorrow over the loss of precious lives...		APNS backs CPNE KARACHI, July 5: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society has warned against a “conspiracy to disrupt unity in the ranks of the newspaper industry” at the behest of “vested interests” who want...
Lack of coordination causes problems QUETTA, July 5: Lack of coordination between the civil administration and army officials during curfew hours in Quetta caused embarrassment and confusion....		Trainees to be accommodated, says SSGC ISLAMABAD, July 5: The management of the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has clarified that the federal government has considered the financial implications arising out of the Supreme Court judgment, reinstating...
Saudi defence team calls on minister ISLAMABAD, July 5: A Saudi defence delegation, led by Ordinance Corps Staff Commander Maj-Gen Saad bin Ibrahim, called on Minister of State for Defence Production Division Habibullah Waraich here on Saturday....		UK envoy GILGIT, July 5: Mark Sedwill, the deputy high commissioner of the United Kingdom in Pakistan, will speak to local journalists in Gilgit on Saturday....
Thal project not part of ’91 water accord, says SAB HYDERABAD, July 5: The Sindh Abagar Board has challenged the claim of Federal Water and Power Minister Aftab Ahmad Sherpao that the greater Thal canal project is a part of the...		Black day observed by PPP HYDERABAD, July 5: The People’s Party Parliamentarians observed ‘black day’ here on Saturday to recall the dismissal of the elected government of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the imposition of...
Quetta tragedy mourned HYDERABAD, July 5: The Imamia Students’ Organization, Hyderabad division, took out a procession from Qadamgah-i-Maula Ali to the Hyderabad Press Club here on Saturday to condemn the wanton massacre of innocent...		Doctors demand regularization of services HYDERABAD, July 5: The activists of the Peoples Doctors Forum observed a token hunger strike outside the local press club on Saturday....
Road blocked NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, July 5: The residents of Sindh Colony and Mallah Mohalla on Thursday took out a procession against electricity breakdowns....		Two accidents claim lives of six people SUKKUR, July 5: Six people were killed in two different road accidents on Friday....
Plea to halt work on Thal canal SHIKARPUR, July 5: The provincial minister for population welfare, Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh, has demanded stoppage of construction of the greater Thal canal, saying such issues should first be settled through dialogue...		Patients suffer as doctors boycott OPD NAWABSHAH, July 5: Patients visiting the outdoor patient department at the PMCH here on Friday suffered in scorching heat due to boycott of the OPD duties by doctors and paramedical staff...
Police on high alert MIRPURKHAS, July 5: The leave of police personnel in Sindh have been cancelled in the wake of sectarian terrorism in Quetta, sources told Dawn on Friday....		MMA takes out procession SUKKUR, July 5: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal took out a procession from Moti mosque to the Clock Tower after Juma prayers to protest against disqualification of its MNA, Mufti Ibrar Sultan....
PPP recalls July 1977 LARKANA, July 5: The Peoples’ Party Parliamentarian held a meeting here on Saturday to recall the imposition of martial law and dismissal of the elected government of the late prime minister...		Dacoit killed in shootout with police MULTAN, July 5: A man was killed in what police claimed a shootout in outskirts of the city on Saturday....
Three hurt in gas cylinder blast GUJRANWALA, July 5: Three employees at an electronics shop suffered burns when a gas cylinder exploded here on Saturday....		Newsmen not to cover DPO’s engagements: ‘Abusive remarks’ FAISALABAD, July 5: The local editors’ council announced on Saturday that they would boycott coverage of the activities of the district police officer, who allegedly used abusive remarks against newsmen in...
No-trust move against Nazim ‘successful’ VEHARI, July 5: A meeting of the Burewala Tehsil Council on Saturday put the no-confidence motion against Nazim Usman Warraich to vote....		Bloodletting in Quetta condemned MULTAN, July 5: Hundreds of local Shiite Muslims took out a procession on Saturday to condemn attack on an imambargah in Quetta that left at least 44 people dead....
Robbers take away senator’s car, cash GUJRANWALA, July 5: The highwaymen took away the car of a senator after depriving him and his driver of cash near Pipli Goraya village on Saturday....		Held for attacking SDO TOBA TEK SINGH, July 5: Gojra City police arrested on Saturday night main accused of attack on a Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) SDO....
PPP observes black day DERA GHAZI KHAN, July 5: The Pakistan People’s Party and Lawyers’ Forum took out a procession to observe black day on Saturday....		Death for killer of wife SARGODHA, July 5: District and Session Judge Khwaja Imtiaz Ahmad on Saturday sentenced to death a man who killed his wife in Sillanwali....