July 12, 2003	Saturday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 11, 1424

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Population growth rate to be checked: PM ISLAMABAD, July 11: Pakistan, with the financial assistance of donor organizations, will take every possible step to check its population, currently growing at the rate of 2.06 per cent per annum,...		Govt asked to clear Rs4bn CDA dues ISLAMABAD, July 11: The interior ministry has asked the government to release Rs4 billion outstanding dues to the Capital Development Authority (CDA) payable by different government departments on account of maintenance....
PTCL officers suspended over internet failure ISLAMABAD, July 11: Taking serious cognizance of Internet and Telecom service failure on July 7, the PTCL management has suspended four senior officers on the basis of preliminary inquiry report....		Need for reducting poverty stressed RAWALPINDI, July 11: The unbridled population growth is a big hindrance in the way of reducing poverty, creating employment opportunities, achieving economic empowerment and ameliorating the condition of the common man....
CDA directed to justify action against private schools ISLAMABAD, July 11: The education ministry has asked the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to justify its action of sealing some private educational institutions and serving notices on the management of others....		Transfered ISLAMABAD, July 11: The Press Information Department’s internal publicity wing assistant director, Shazia Abdullah, has been transferred to the PID regional information office, Karachi....
Hameed’s death condoled ISLAMABAD, July 11: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson, Benazir Bhutto, has condoled the death of renowned poet, journalist and playwright, Hameed Kashmiri....		APC on law & order soon, says CM QUETTA, July 11: An all-parties conference will be convened to take political leaders into confidence over various issues, including the law and order situation in the province....
Contempt of Court Ordinance’s text ISLAMABAD, July 11: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday issued an ordinance to further explain the contempt of court articles of the Constitution and to ensure sanctity of the judiciary....		Restructuring plan for NAPWD okayed GILGIT, July 11: The Northern Areas cabinet on Thursday approved the restructuring plan of the Northern Areas Public Works Department (NAPWD) and extended the contracts of ad hoc doctors....
CDNS may be made corporation ISLAMABAD, July 11: The government is considering turning the Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS) into an independent corporation to make it more effective for selling new savings instruments....		Atta given S&T ministry’s charge ISLAMABAD, July 11: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Friday appointed Dr Attaur Rehman as the science and technology ministry’s in charge with the status of federal minister....
2 children injured in rocket attack QUETTA, July 11: Two children were injured in a rocket attack on Kohlu township on Friday....		PPP, PML-N oppose new contempt law ISLAMABAD, July 11: The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and the People’s Party Parliamentarians have expressed their reservations about the contempt of court ordinance promulgated by President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday....
Tribesmen condemn Quetta carnage QUETTA, July 11: The people belonging to the Hazara tribe on Friday held their first public protest meeting here at the scene of the July 4 carnage and urged the government...		Bid to smuggle camel jockeys foiled QUETTA, July 11: The levies arrested a couple in Taftan on Friday and recovered two children whom they planned to smuggle to the United Arab Emirates via Iran for camel racing....
Riaz hopes India will attend summit KATHMANDU, July 11: Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar on Friday hoped that the Saarc summit, scheduled to be held in Islamabad on January 4-6, would not be delayed again by conflict with...		‘Fake drugs sale to invite action’ ISLAMABAD, July 11: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Friday the government will take strict action against those dealing in spurious drugs....
Senator booked QUETTA, July 11: The police have registered a case against Jafaria Alliance Chairman Senator Alama Abbas Kumaili for making objectionable speeches....		Rs854.25 million surplus budget presented HARIPUR, July 11: District Nazim Dr Raja Aamir Zaman has presented Rs854.25 million budget for the fiscal year 2003-4....
People of 200 villages suffer hardships: Link roads flooded DADU, July 11: The residents of at least 200 villages are facing difficulties as link roads in the Kachho and Kohistan areas remain inundated ever since it rained....		Sites identified for power production GILGIT, July 11: Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has identified various sites in the Northern Areas that have the potential to produce 5,348MW of electricity aimed at meeting future electricity...
Two dacoits among four killed KOHAT, July 11: Tension gripped Orakzai Agency, 27km north-west of here, when some alleged dacoits opened fire at a bus in the Kalaya area and killed two innocent people and injured...		CJ’s absence causes confusion PESHAWAR, July 11: The absence of the chief justice of the Peshawar High Court from the country has created confusion among lawyers....
Water pressure erodes embankment SUKKUR, July 11: The increasing water pressure in the River Indus has led to the erosion of the Qadirpur loop bund in the Ghotki district....		Anti-outlaw operation begins SUKKUR, July 11: More than 20 people were arrested and several hideouts of bandits were demolished on Friday in an operation launched by the rangers against outlaws in RD-109 area on...
Contempt of Court Ordinance decried PESHAWAR, July 11: The Peshawar District Bar Association’s general-secretary Naeem Jan Malik has condemned the promulgation of the Contempt of Court Ordinance, 2003, stating that it was aimed at saving the...		Police asked to produce kidnapped girl’s father THATTA, July 11: The senior civil judge, Thatta, Iqbal Ahmed Khwaja, sent a seven-year-old girl, Mehmooda, to the Abdul Sattar Edhi Child Home after she refused to recognize a man, Haji...
Lawyers protest CHITRAL, July 11: In solidarity with the Supreme Court Bar Association the lawyers boycotted the proceedings of the courts protesting the sealing of the SCBA offices here on Thursday....		Councillor seeks court help against NGO: Denies abduction MULTAN, July 11: Zainab Khatoon, a union council member and a former candidate for the vacant Multan district Nazim slot, has accused an NGO of causing her mental torture for its...
Factory owners, men thrash sales tax team GUJRANWALA, July 11: A raiding team of the sales tax collectorate was beaten up by factory owners and his men and harassed them with aerial firing in Kamoki on Friday....		No-trust motion against UC Nazim passed GUJRAT, July 11: The Union Council No 53 on Friday passed a no-confidence motion against Nazim Haji Nasir Mahmood, district secretary-general of the PML-N....
Syndicate approves GCU deficit budget LAHORE, July 11: The Government College University syndicate on Friday approved Rs17.97 million deficit budget for the financial year 2003-04....		Court takes up petition against official extravagance LAHORE, July 11: The Lahore High Court on Friday heard preliminary arguments on a review petition against public functionaries’ luxurious way of life....
Three Hizb activists picked up LAHORE, July 11: Plainclothesmen picked up three office-bearers of Hizbul Tehrir outside a hotel on The Mall on Friday evening....		Three killed as wagon overturns VEHARI, July 11: Three people were killed and 25 others sustained injuries in an accident on Burewala-Chichawatni Road here on Friday....
E-friends marry TOBA TEK SINGH, July 11: An American woman wedded a young Pakistani Christian here after getting to know him through the internet over the past few months....		Jhang police arrest 14 criminals JHANG, July 11: Jhang police claimed to have arrested 14 criminals of four inter-district gangs and recovered a large quantity of illicit weapons, cash, looted goods and contraband from their possession....
Law minister’s election challenged LAHORE, July 11: The return of provincial law minister Raja Muhammad Basharat to the Punjab Assembly was challenged in the Lahore High Court on Friday....		JUI-F leader sees sectarian harmony OKARA, July 11: A member of the Islamic Ideology Council and JUI-F leader, Maulana Amir Hussain Gillani, has said that there is no conflict between Shias and Sunnis in Pakistan....
Journalist dies MULTAN, July 11: Senior journalist Qamarulhaq Qamar died here on Friday at the age of 41 due to cardiac arrest....		Fined VEHARI, July 11: The traffic police fined 2,875 vehicles on the charge of violating traffic rules during the month of June....
New buses to ply on Lahore-Delhi route LAHORE, July 11: The Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation’s two buses, plying on the Lahore-Delhi route, will be replaced by brand new buses by early next month....		PML-N vows to expose banishment accord LAHORE, July 11: The myth of the so-called agreement the government claims the Sharifs had signed before being banished to Saudi Arabia some 31 months back will be exploded in the...
Two die in house collapse LAHORE, July 11: Two laboureres were killed when an under-construction house collapsed in Harbanspura on Friday....		Rangers official summoned LAHORE, July 11: The Lahore High Court on Friday summoned a Rangers official for July 17 on a habeas corpus petition filed for the recovery of 10 tenants of the Okara...
LDA, EME society ‘fighting’ for land LAHORE, July 11: A 400-kanal piece of land has become a bone of contention between the Lahore Development Authority and the EME Housing Society, it is learnt on Friday....		Journalists’ housing scheme announced LAHORE, July 11: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Friday announced a housing society for Lahore-based journalists....
MMA stages protest over Quetta killings LAHORE, July 11: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal observed Friday as a protest day against the 50 plus killings caused by an attack on a Quetta mosque a few days ago....		Contractors fined LAHORE, July 11: The City District Government on Friday checked the parking stands and found that all contractors were overcharging the motorvehicle owners....