September 22, 2003	Monday	Rajab 24, 1424

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‘Peace key to eradicate poverty, deprivation’ ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: Lighting of candles and singing of songs for peace, tolerance and a conflict-free world were the major features of the International Day of Peace, which the United Nations...		PRM for discussion on Greater Thal Canal ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: The People’s Rights Movement (PRM) and one of its member organizations, Thal Bachao Tarla, have demanded that the government should make public all relevant details of the Greater...
CDA demand for Rs4bn dues payment turned down ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: The government has turned down the plea of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) regarding payment of Rs4 billion outstanding dues reportedly spent by the authority on various mega...		Row erupts over employees’ transfers RAWALPINDI, Sept 21: A serious row has developed between the station commander, Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB), and the director-general Military Lands and Cantonments (MLCs) over the transfer of RCB and Chaklala...
Man stabbed to death RAWALPINDI, Sept 21: Two persons were killed, one of them stabbed to death, in separate incidents in Rawalpindi Islamabad, police said on Sunday....		Package termed last chance to save system RAWALPINDI, Sept 21: Vice-president of the Pakistan Muslim League and chairman of the party’s media committee Syed Kabir Wasti has said the constitutional package of the government has given a last...
UN asked to stop Kashmir bloodshed ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: Jammu Kashmir People’s Freedom League (JKPL) chairman Mohammad Farooq Rehmani has expressed grave concern over stepped up human rights abuses and manifold incidents of state terrorism by Indian...		Illegal auto-rickshaws assembling goes on PESHAWAR, Sept 21: Unauthorized assembling of autorickshaws is going on in different parts of the provincial metropolis with the NWFP secretary industries expressing ignorance over illegal production of the tri-wheelers....
Kohat varsity told to cut admission fee by Rs4,000 KOHAT, Sept 21: Provincial Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has ordered the administration of Kohat University of Science and Technology to decrease the admission fee from Rs19,000 to Rs15,000....		ANP office-bearer quits party PESHAWAR, Sept 21: Awami National Party’s additional deputy secretary-general Qazi Anwar has quitted active politics bringing an end to his 35-year-long political career and his nine years’ association with the ANP....
Transporters oppose tax PESHAWAR, Sept 21: The local transporters association has criticized the deputy director terminals for charging double taxes from public transports of Khyber Agency at Karkhano markets bus stand in the city,...		IT contest begins on Thursday SWABI, Sept 21: The Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology would hold a three-day All Pakistan competition, Softcom 2003, on Thursday....
Funds for uplift needed: Nazim HARIPUR, Sept 21: District Nazim Dr Raja Amer Zaman stressed the need for taking measures aimed at poverty alleviation and putting the district on the road to sustainable development through exploitation...		Quake jolts Peshawar, Chitral PESHAWAR, Sept 21: Peshawar and Chitral were jolted by a moderate earthquake but no damage or injuries were reported, a meteorological official said on Sunday....
Anti-tetanus drive begins today in Mardan MARDAN, Sept 21: The district Health Department Mardan will launch a 10-day anti-tetanus campaign in 54 union councils on Monday....		PML-N submits reference to CEC to unseat Chaudhrys ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has submitted a reference to the chief election commissioner (CEC) asking him to unseat Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi from the...
Pension issue needs to be settled: SC ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: The Supreme Court has decided to settle the issue of categorizing pensioners into groups, and the payment of pension to the new and old pensioners on two different...		Judges’ retirement age under study: ‘Issue to be decided in talks with MMA’ ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: After agreeing to one-year extension in the retirement age of the judges of the superior courts, the government is having second thought, according to official sources privy to...
Maleeha calls for serving country’s cause LONDON, Sept 21: The newly-appointed high commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr Maleeha Lodhi, has urged Pakistani expatriates to rise above their differences for serving the cause of their country and...		‘Financial sector reforms successful’ DUBAI, Sept 21: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz said here on Sunday that as a result of the successful financial sector reforms in Pakistan, the private sector was playing a dominant role...
British judicial team arrives ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: A British judicial delegation arrived here on Sunday on a three-day-long visit to discuss the issue of abduction of children and their forced marriages by the British nationals...		Kasuri to address OIC, NAM, Saarc meetings ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, who accompanied President General Prevez Musharraf on his visit to New York to attend the 58th Session of the United Nations General Assembly,...
Quetta Bar chief returned unopposed QUETTA, Sept 21: Former Balochistan Bar Association president Ali Ahmed Kurd was returned unopposed from Balochistan as vice-president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA). The polls to elect the association’s...		Ties with UAE to stand test of time: Jam QUETTA, Sept 21: Chief Minister Jam Mohammad Yousuf has said that Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have cordial relations and their friendship will stand the test of time....
NRB eyes extending LG system to cantonments ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: The local government system has not been extended to the cantonment areas in the country because the armed forces have some reservations about it, a source in the...		Senate to resume its session today ISLAMABAD, Sept 21: Senate will resume its session on Monday evening after a two-day recess....
Torture of minor by police termed ‘barbaric’ JHANG, Sept 21: The arrest and torture of a 10-year-old boy in police lockup, without being nominated in a case, has evoked sharp reaction among various non-governmental organizations fighting for the...		Farmers being ‘implicated’ in water theft cases GUJRANWALA, Sept 21: Farmers of Naushera Virkan tehsil resented against the police and irrigation officials for implicating wrongly over 200 farmers in canal water theft cases....
Nishtar principal still on BZU syndicate: Affiliation with UHS MULTAN, Sept 21: The Bahauddin Zakariya University has not so far cancelled the syndicate membership of the principal of the Nishtar Medical College despite its affiliation with the University of Health...		Gang-rape victim’s mother threatens to commit suicide FAISALABAD, Sept 21: A woman member of the Mamukanjan union council has threatened to commit suicide in front of the offices of SP (Investigation) if the culprits involved in the gang-rape...
Robbers strike nine times in Sialkot SIALKOT, Sept 21: Robbers took away a Pajero, two motorcycles, ornaments, cash, electronic items, buffaloes and other valuables worth millions of rupees in nine strikes in Sialkot district during the last...		Police fail to arrest killers of six family members VEHARI, Sept 21: Luddan police failed to arrest the accused who had shot dead six family members, including his wife, over a marriage issue in Kot Sadaat village on Sept 7,...
Two brothers murdered in revenge TOBA TEK SINGH, Sept 21: Two minor brothers were murdered on Sunday by their teenaged cousin over a farmland dispute in a nearby Chak 269-GB, Kot Khitran....		Sharifs to be contacted indirectly: Shujaat OKARA, Sept 21: ‘United’ PML president Chaudhry Shujaat Husain has said that “we will not contact the ‘Jeddah leadership’ directly for asking it to join the PML. We will invite the...
Sial Morr interchange SARGODHA, Sept 21: Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali will lay the foundation stone of Sial Morr interchange on Sept 26....		Man killed in fireworks explosion SHEIKHUPURA, Sept 21: A salesman died, six people critically injured and a number of houses were damaged in a fireworks blast in a small town on Jaranwala Road, 32km from here,...
Struggling for life MULTAN, Sept 21: A 20-year-old bride, torched allegedly by her mother-in-law, is struggling for her life in the burn unit of the Nishtar Hospital....		Rs4bn sewage treatment plan awaits WB funding LAHORE, Sept 21: A Rs4 billion sewage treatment project has been lying stuck up since 1980s because of inordinate delay in the promised World Bank funding....
Better facilities in hospitals urged LAHORE, Sept 21: Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi ordered on Sunday the provision of adequate and brisk medical facilities in the emergency wards of all hospitals in the province....		Lawmakers forced to change loyalties: ARD LAHORE, Sept 21: An ARD leader alleged here on Sunday that government agencies were forcing opposition legislators to change loyalties, offering incentives as well as threats....
11,506 appear in medical entrance test LAHORE, Sept 21: At least 11,506 students are reported to have appeared in the entrance test for medical and dental colleges at five centres throughout the province, officials confirmed on Sunday....		IT syllabi in Pakistan termed obsolete LAHORE, Sept 21: Only 2 per cent of 16,000 information technology graduates qualifying in the country every year get proper employment be-cause of obsolete education syllabi being taught in the universities....
‘Nadra delaying urgent CNICs’ LAHORE, Sept 21: The national identity cards being applied on an urgent basis are even being delayed by Nadra in Lahore, causing a great deal of inconvenience to the people....		Military farms LAHORE, Sept 21: A spokesman for the Punjab government said on Sunday that land of Okara military farms had been leased out to the Pakistan Army, and its proprietary rights could...
Ex-serviceman, wife found slain LAHORE, Sept 21: Decomposed bodies of a retired wing commander and his wife were recovered from their house at canal bank in Gulberg-II on Sunday....		Mian Azhar slams party leadership LAHORE, Sept 21: Mian Muhammad Azhar, former president of what was PML-Q until a few days ago, on Sunday criticized the decision making process being followed by the present leadership....