August 10, 2003	Sunday	Jumadi-us-Sani 11, 1424

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Darra arms makers seek govt support PESHAWAR, Aug 9: Arms manufacturers of Darra Adamkhel have asked the government to relax rules and regulations in order to help them export their products to European and American markets....		Efforts to boost tea cultivation assured MANSEHRA, Aug 9: NWFP Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Qari Mahmood has said that the MMA government is making efforts for the promotion of tea cultivation and its production....
29 forms of child labour exist: expert BANNU, Aug 9: The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SARC) organized a one-day consultation meeting on the ILO Convention No182 on the worst forms of child...		NWFP govt, LGs differ over funds allocation PESHAWAR, Aug 9: Differences have emerged between the NWFP finance department and district governments over the allocation of developmental funds to social and non-social sectors, an official said....
Millions spent on uplift of tribal units: governor PESHAWAR, Aug 9: NWFP Governor Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said that millions of rupees are being spent for the socio-economic uplift of tribal units....		Rains lash Swabi, suburbs SWABI, Aug 9: Thunderstorm along with torrential rain destroyed crops and forced the residents of the district and its suburbs to suffer a long power breakdown....
Occupation of sovereign states by US flayed PESHAWAR, Aug 9: The Mazdoor Kissan Party has called upon the military rulers to get rid of the United States imperialism and its exploitative wings, reshaping the political structure of under-developed...		Four bodies recovered from river CHITRAL, Aug 9: Four bodies of the victims of a road accident were recovered from Gram Chashma river on Saturday....
Self-rule sought for N. Areas GILGIT, Aug 9: Political and religious bodies have demanded self-rule for the Northern Areas (Gilgit-Baltistan) on the lines of Azad Jammu and Kashmir till the constitutional status of the Northern Areas...		Appointment of governor president’s privilege: CM QUETTA, Aug 9: Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Muhammad Yousuf has said that he has been kept in the loop with regards to the appointment of the new governor of Balochistan....
Indo-Pakistan lawmakers conference from today ISLAMABAD, Aug 9: Law-makers, experts and journalists from India and Pakistan will begin a two-day conference here on Sunday in a non-governmental effort to foster goodwill between the two countries....		Foreign media highlights Benazir’s conviction LONDON, Aug 9: Leading British dailies on Friday carried articles about a Swiss court’s judgment against former prime minister Benazir Bhutto for money laundering....
Plan to raise Mangla Dam rejected MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 9: Kashmiri leaders on Saturday asked Islamabad to abandon the Mangla Dam upraising project and go for some alternative options to avoid unrest in AJK....		100 arrested in operation SUKKUR, Aug 9: More than 100 persons were detained on Friday and Saturday in an operation launched by the Bhambhor Riffles against outlaws in the RD-109 area on the Sindh-Balochistan border....
Ex-minister booked for attacks on FC posts QUETTA, Aug 9: The Kohlu police have registered a case has been registered against Mir Mahabat Khan Marri, a former provincial minister, and five others on charges of attacking various government...		Legislators call on PM ISLAMABAD, Aug 9: Legislators, including federal food minister, on Saturday called on Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali at the Prime Minister’s Secretariat....
Action to be taken against terrorists, says FO ISLAMABAD, Aug 9: The government on Saturday promised action if it was provided any information that the perpetrators of the car bombing in Jakarta were trained in Pakistan....		Giyal blast probe begins GILGIT, Aug 9: The inquiry officer appointed by the Northern Areas chief court to investigate into the Giyal village blast which killed 49 and injured 150 people has started proceedings....
Movement for Benazir’s return needed: PPP HYDERABAD, Aug 9: People’s Party Parliamentarians leader Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said a 1983 MRD-like movement is needed to ensure return of party chairperson Benazir Bhutto to the country....		Water shortage deplored KHAIRPUR, Aug 9: The growers of the Meerik minor continued their protest against a shortage of water on Saturday by holding a demonstration outside the Hingorja press club....
Rally staged against attack on MPA NAWABSHAH, Aug 9: More than 1,500 activists of the People’s Party Parliamentarians took out a procession here on Saturday against an attack on MPA Ghulam Qadir Chandio and Taluka Nazim Ali...		Highway blocked NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Aug 9: A large number of people staged a protest rally on the national highway near Kandioro on Saturday against an increase in theft cases in the area....
Man kills wife, brother over Karo-kari LARKANA, Aug 9: Two people were killed in Ali Jan Raitti village on the pretext of Karo-kari on Saturday....		MMA leader’s arrest flayed HYDERABAD, Aug 9: The activists of Tahrik-i-Islami Pakistan and other religious parties staged a protest demonstration outside local press club on Friday to protest against the arrest of vice-president of MMA,...
Protest against Wasa continues HYDERABAD, Aug 9: Residents of Qadamgah Maula Ali blocked the main road and held a sit-in at the Kohinoor Chowk on Saturday to protest against the accumulation of sewage which was...		HDA asked to prepare master plan HYDERABAD, Aug 9: The district Nazim, Hyderabad, Dr Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman, has directed the HDA and management of Works and Communication to prepare a short-term and long-term ‘master plan’ for the development...
No-trust move passed HYDERABAD, Aug 9: A no-confidence motion has been passed against the Nazim, Union Council-9 of Latifabad Taluka, Irshad Kaimkhani, with a majority vote on Saturday....		Mills pay low rate: growers MIRPURKHAS, Aug 9: The growers have condemned the ‘illegal’ practices of cotton factory owners of giving low prices to them on different pretexts....
Man killed by thieves NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Aug 9: A man was killed by some thieves in Mian Bachal Pirzado village, Kandiaro taluka on Saturday....		Tribute paid to Nazir Abbasi HYDERABAD, Aug 9: Tribute was paid to Shaheed Nazeer Abbasi for the services he rendered in the cause of democracy and the masses at his 23rd death anniversary at the press...
Laloo links prosperity to peace LAHORE, Aug 9: The leader of the visiting Indian parliamentarians delegation, former chief minister of Bihar Laloo Prasad Yadav, has said peace is a prerequisite for the progress and prosperity...		Woman drowns as flood persists SHEIKHUPURA, Aug 9: A woman was swept away by strong gushing water when she was washing clothes of her children near Nullah Dek on Saturday....
Till death do us apart? DERA GHAZI KHAN, Aug 9: As their appeals for help fail to evoke any response from the ranks of government or the NGOs, the parents of conjoined twin-sisters Rania and Tania...		Nazim to form front for Haj flights restoration MULTAN, Aug 9: District Nazim Riaz Hussain Qureshi announced on Saturday that he would form a front to get Haj flights restored from the Multan airport....
Three injured in fireworks explosion HAFIZABAD, Aug 9: Three people were injured when fireworks exploded in a house at Thatha Gahra village, some 8 kms from here, on Saturday....		Lady doctor, daughter die on road GUJRANWALA, Aug 9: A lady doctor of Vehari and her three-year-old daughter were killed while her husband and three other children suffered injuries on Saturday in an accident on GT Road...
Mandi district, tehsil, 34 UC nazims resign: ‘Punjab govt against LG system’ GUJRAT, Aug 9: The district nazim, tehsil Nazim and market committee chairman of Mandi Bahauddin and 34 nazims of different union councils on Saturday tendered their resignations to Gen Pervez Musharraf...		Three of a family kidnapped SIALKOT, Aug 9: Ten gunmen kidnapped three members of a family from their house in Shamsa Cheema village in Daska tehsil on Saturday....