August 17, 2003	Sunday	Jumadi-us-Sani 18, 1424

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Need for understanding crime motives stressed KOHAT, Aug 16: There is a need to treat criminals for psychological disorders besides understanding the multiplicity of crime motives like old enmities, prejudices and social factors....		Exhibition on Fatima Jinnah next week PESHAWAR, Aug 16: Information and Broadcasting Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed will inaugurate an exhibition on Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah here at a local hotel on Aug 20....
4m drug addicts in region SWABI, Aug 16: Illiteracy and unemployment are two main reasons why young people fall prey to drug addiction....		MMA asked to stick to stance on LFO PESHAWAR, Aug 16: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has advised the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal against showing flexibility on the Legal Framwork Order, saying his party would continue struggle for the revival of democracy...
DCO’s absence angers Nazim MINGORA, Aug 16: Acting Nazim of Swat district Malik Sardar Ali has criticized the district coordination officer (DCO), Hafiz Abdul Haye, for not attending the function held in connection with the...		Report on power rate revision presented ISLAMABAD, Aug 16: The Chairman, Tariff Rationalization Committee, Mr Mirza Hamid Hassan, presented an interim report regarding reducing/ rationalization of power tariff to Federal Minister for Water and Power Aftab Ahmad...
Quetta irrigation plan allocated Rs8 billion QUETTA, Aug 16: The National Economic Council (NEC) has allocated Rs8 billion for greater Quetta irrigation project....		Ex-CM told to submit assets documents QUETTA, Aug 16: A division bench of Balochistan High Court has granted four weeks to Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi, the ex-chief minister of the province, to furnish documents of his assets....
Benazir demands minister’s sacking ISLAMABAD, Aug 16: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has demanded sacking of Petroleum Minister Chaudhry Noraiz Shakoor and initiating of a parliamentary inquiry into the chartering of a ship...		Pakistani’s film wins top prize in Switzerland LOCARNO (Switzerland), Aug 16: Pakistani filmmaker Sabiha Sumar Saturday won the top prize at Switzerland’s principal film festival with her story of a woman whose son becomes an extremist....
PML-Q leaders to meet Shujaat ISLAMABAD, Aug 16: A delegation of senior leaders of ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q from Balochistan, including MPAs, arrived here to meet party president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Sunday and to inform...		UC Nazims’ inclusion in relief work urged MIRPURKHAS, Aug 16: The district council has demanded that the Sindh government should declare Mirpurkhas a calamity-affected area and suspended recovery of all taxes as the people of the district have...
Imtiaz condemns anti-Thal body HYDERABAD, Aug 16: Sindh minister for population welfare Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh has reacted to the remarks of the Anti-Greater Thal Canal Action Committee leaders against the Sindh government and its ultimatum...		Inquiry against officials begins DADU, Aug 16: An inquiry has been initiated against PTCL officials of the Southern Telecommunication Region-V for misappropriating million of rupees since January 2003....
Relief operation resumes in Badin BADIN, Aug 16: Relief operation for rain victims restarted in the district on Saturday after a two-day boycott of the process by Awam Dost Panel Nazims....		PMCH lacks paediatricians NAWABSHAH, Aug 16: A team of journalists visited the paediatrics ward of Peoples Medical College Hospital and found 100 patients, half of them infected with gastroenteritis, adjusted on 65 beds....
Cop injured SHIKARPUR, Aug 16: A police party raided the hideouts of bandits in forest areas on Friday morning but could not succeeded to catch one....		Nazim not satisfied with relief efforts HYDERABAD, Aug 16: Badin District Nazim Kamal Khan Chang has said relief goods are not being distributed in a proper way and goods sent to union and taluka council Nazims for...
Special package for students urged: Rain-hit areas HYDERABAD, Aug 16: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) at a meeting held here on Friday demanded of the Sindh government to announce a special package for the students of...		Four leaders of JSQM resign HYDERABAD, Aug 16: Cracks have appeared in the leadership of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz as a result its four office-bearers have resigned from their posts in protest against the policies...
Sindh govt criticized SHIKARPUR, Aug 16: The Jeay Sindh Mahaz (Z) chairman, Syed Zain Shah, has said that Muttehida Qaumi Movement and its allied parties in the provincial government are not sincere in the...		Man killed LARKANA, Aug 16: A private guard of the DIG Sukkur was killed on Thursday near Nasirabad town while on his way to Mangio Massan village....
Concern over delay in release of funds FAISALABAD, Aug 16: The district council has expressed its dismay over delay in release of funds for the construction and maintenance of roads....		Opposition urged to fight dictatorship MULTAN, Aug 16: Mutahhida Majlis-i-Amal central leader Liaquat Baloch has urged the opposition to concentrate on the struggle against dictatorship instead of finding faults in its own ranks....
Traders flay raise in petrol price GUJRANWALA, Aug 16: The business community and transporters sharply criticized the government for increasing the prices of petroleum products and demanded that it should be withdrawn instantly as it would cause...		Two prisoners die in Sahiwal jail SAHIWAL, Aug 16: Two under-trial prisoners of the central jail died under mysterious circumstances here early on Saturday morning....
ATC rejects accused’s plea for A class GUJRANWALA, Aug 16: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 rejected on Saturday the Sialkot jail former superintendent’s plea of granting him A class in jail, and directed him to see the Punjab...		Faisalabad SP to work in place of Lak FAISALABAD, Aug 16: SP (investigation) Muhammad Omar Sheikh on Saturday formally took over the additional charge of the district police officer from Zafar Abbas Lak....
Three teams finalize jail probe reports SIALKOT, Aug 16: Three teams, holding probe into the July 25 jail tragedy, have finalized their reports, it was learnt....		Toba Nazim ‘thwarting’ uplift TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 16: District Nazim Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq is creating hurdles in the way of completing uplift schemes which were proposed by parliamentarians of the district....