September 20, 2003	Saturday	Rajab 22, 1424

Please Visit our Sponsor (Ads open in separate window)

 

Capital Zoo loses another leopard cub ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: ‘Ronak’, the seven-and-a-half months old leopard cub found from the Margallas died in Islamabad Zoo on Wednesday....		Provinces not following criteria, says minister: Quality assurance of universities ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: The provincial governments are not following the criteria laid down by the federal government to ensure quality assurance of the public sector universities, Federal Minister for Education Zobaida...
Crop damage to be compensated: Troops movement ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: An amount of Rs915 million has been sanctioned for disbursement among farmers of Bahawalnagar where crops were damaged because of troops movement during the military standoff between Pakistan...		Cell set up for AJK power project ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: The government has set up a special cell to construct the 969MW Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project, costing Rs87 billion, in Azad Kashmir on “war footing” to protect Pakistan’s priority...
Pakistan elected to IAEA body ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: Pakistan has been elected a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors for 2003-05....		Two shot dead in twin cities RAWALPINDI, Sept 19: Two persons, including a woman, were killed in separate incidents in the twin cities on Friday....
Power project in Capital suspended, Senate told ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: The work on installation of high tension wires crossing over the Orchard Scheme in the capital has been suspended after pointing out of health hazards by a senator...		‘US wants to increase economic cooperation’ RAWALPINDI, Sept 19: US Treasury Secretary John Snow on Friday separately called on President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali....
Opposition MPAs asked to propose uplift schemes QUETTA, Sept 19: A joint meeting of the treasury and opposition benches was held here on Friday to discuss the latter’s grievances regarding the Public Sector Development Programme and decided to...		Microsoft to train 50,000 IT teachers ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: Information technology company Microsoft has decided to make substantial investment in the country and it would train 50,000 teachers in the field....
President, PM’s US trip to cost Rs60m ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: Two supplementary budgetary grants of over Rs25 million have been approved by the prime minister for a 15-day trip by three delegations of around 50 parliamentarians to the...		US bombs land in Pakistan PESHAWAR, Sept 19: US warplanes on Friday dropped two bombs along Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Friday, witnesses said they landed in Pakistani territory....
UN group’s call for ceasefire welcomed ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: Pakistan’s troops deployed along the Line of Control would positively respond to the appeal made by the United Nations Military Observer Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) to...		Govt urged to help implement wage award ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: Journalists based in Rawalpindi and Islamabad and their children on Friday staged a protest demonstration in front of the parliament house to press for the implementation of the...
Bodies of 9 Pakistanis identified in Greece ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: Pakistan’s embassy in Athens has identified nine Pakistanis among the 23 illegal immigrants who lost their lives on Sept 9 near Alexandropoulos while attempting to cross the Evros...		Traders call off strike ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: The traders on Friday withdrew a strike call given for Sept 23 after the government accepted their demands regarding income tax returns....
‘Experts may check Australian sheep’ ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: Agriculture Minister Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind has said the government is trying to send experts to Dubai to check the sheep offered by the Australian government....		Tribesmen demand protection QUETTA, Sept 19: The Hazara Democratic Party on Friday asked the government to take measures to ensure the safety of the Hazara tribesmen in the province and said terrorist groups were...
Probe ordered into custodial death GUJRANWALA, Sept 19: A proclaimed offender, who was involved in a murder case, was allegedly tortured to death by police on Thursday night....		Villagers slam police apathy: Girl’s abduction SIALKOT, Sept 19: Hundreds of residents of Shakargarh sector’s bordering Bara Bhai Masroor village took out a procession on Friday to protest police’s failure to recover an abducted girl even after...
Farmer beheaded by rivals SADIQABAD, Sept 19: A farmer was shot at and his head cut off by his rivals at Mauza Laran, near Zahir Pir....		Textile students continue protest FAISALABAD, Sept 19: The National Textile University students boycotted classes for the second consecutive day on Friday to protest the management’s plan to increase the number of seats for the regular...
Kasur district jail overcrowded KASUR, Sept 19: As many as 1,551 prisoners are housed in the district jail, which was built to accommodate only 446....		Pesticides’ shortage endangers cotton MULTAN, Sept 19: The cotton crop management group at a meeting on Friday expressed concern over shortage of pesticides....
Robbers take away cotton worth Rs3m FAISALABAD, Sept 19: Robbers on Thursday night looted cotton worth Rs3 million at a godown at Mustafaabad in Sargodha Road police station precinct....		50pc Afghan adults are drug addicts: UN PESHAWAR, Sept 19: About 50 per cent of the adult population regularly use hashish in rural eastern Afghanistan, says an unpublished report of the United Nations Drug Control Programme (UNDCP)....
District govts not paying heed to instructions: Payment of power charges PESHAWAR, Sept 19: The NWFP government’s instructions to the district governments to pay their electricity charges in time have failed to attract serious consideration, officials told Dawn ....		Woman kills herself in police custody MINGORA, Sept 19: A woman shot herself dead in police custody here on Thursday....
LBs be placed under govt, says MPA NOWSHERA, Sept 19: A woman member of the NWFP Assembly, Fauzia Farrukh, has said that the local bodies should be made subservient to the provincial government as enunciated in the 1973...		1,000 posts in NWFP police to be filled ABBOTTABAD, Sept 19: The NWFP Inspector General of Police Riffat Pasha said that committees would soon be constituted to fill 1,000 vacant posts in police department....
Reduction in sugarcane prices condemned MARDAN, Sept 19: The growers of sugarcane and beet crops have accused the sugar mill owners and government officials of hatching a conspiracy by reducing prices of their crops....		Campaign for chamber polls accelerates LAHORE, Sept 19: As the election of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) draws closer, the rival candidates have stepped up their door-to-door campaign to reach as many voters...
Saad moves LHC for quashment: FIR against MPs LAHORE, Sept 19: PML-N’s MNA Khwaja Saad Rafique on Friday moved the Lahore High Court for quashment of an FIR against him and 16 others on charges of creating a law...		Talks attempt to hoodwink nation: Nawaz LAHORE, Sept 19: Deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif says talks between the “B-team” of the dictator and the MMA on the LFO issue are nothing but an attempt to hoodwink the...
Diplomacy not to affect liberation drive LAHORE, Sept 19: The Track-II diplomacy between Pakistan and India would not affect liberation movement in held Kashmir, claimed Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat....		Mangla Dam victims LAHORE, Sept 19: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Friday directed the Board of Revenue to remove hurdles in the way of compensating the victims of Mangla Dam raising project....