September 28, 2003	Sunday	Sha’aban 1, 1424

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World women conference in Peshawar on Oct 4 PESHAWAR, Sept 27: The NWFP minister for Ushr, Zakat, Social Welfare and Women Development, Hafiz Hashmat Khan, has said that 40 women delegates would arrive in the provincial metropolis from 40...		Major water project under way in Tank TANK, Sept 27: Tank Zam Dam is the second major water project of the area after the Gomal Zam Dam and it was inaugurated by NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani...
Women’s college to get university status ABBOTTABAD, Sept 27: The Army Burn Hall College for Women will be upgraded to the university level by converting the postgraduate classes into university in near future....		CM orders probe against police: Beating of JUI workers MARDAN, Sept 27: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has ordered a judicial inquiry into the alleged violence of the police officials over “peaceful workers” of the Jammiat-i-Ulama-i-Islam (Fazal Rehman) group...
Rs2.8m released for Madressahs PESHAWAR, Sept 27: The NWFP government on Saturday released Rs2.8 million for the maintenance and rehabilitation of seminaries in the province, officials said....		Metallurgy project’s revival likely PESHAWAR, Sept 27: The prospects for the revival of Pak-Holland Metal Project brightened after NWFP’s planning and development department forwarded the PC-I for its third phase, officials maintained on Friday....
Polluted water causing diseases in Mingora MINGORA, Sept 27: Mingora municipal committee authorities have failed to supply clean drinking water to the people....		Unavailability of X-ray films affecting patients PESHAWAR, Sept 27: Non-availability of X-ray films at the Khyber Teaching Hospital has been causing problems for patients, doctors told Dawn here on Friday....
PML-Q CEC meets tomorrow ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: The central executive committee of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q will meet at the party’s secretariat here on Monday, Sept 29....		Afghanistan releases three scouts KHAAR (Bajaur Agency), Sept 27: Three officials of the Bajaur Scouts, who were arrested by the Afghan border security forces for alleged border violation last week, were set free on Saturday...
Convicted QUETTA, Sept 27: Accountability court Quetta judge Mohammad Naeem Kakar convicted former official of the PWD Quetta for one-year rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs100,000 in the corruption reference filed...		BNM-BNDP merger plan approved QUETTA, Sept 27: The Central Committee of the Balochistan National Movement has approved the decisions of joint negotiation and merger committees regarding provisional constitution, central organizing committee and other issues for...
Jobless doctors to be employed: Jam QUETTA, Sept 27: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousuf announced on Saturday that jobless doctors will be accommodated on contract in the provincial health department....		1,200 doctors without jobs in Balochistan QUETTA, Sept 27: More than 1,200 doctors in the province are unemployed and 200 of them have crossed the age-limit for government services....
Veteran newsman Burki dies ISLAMABAD, Sept 27: H.K. Burki, one of Pakistan’s most prominent journalists, died at a private hospital in Islamabad on Saturday night after a prolonged illness. He was 82....		PTDC abandons Balochistan QUETTA, Sept 27: The Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) has made a complete exit from Balochistan by giving its hotels and rest houses to private contractors on rent to run them....
Jobs for local people in gas firm urged DADU, Sept 27: A large number of people held a demonstration in Johi on Saturday to protest against BHP, an oil and gas company. They were led by the president,...		Enmity claims two lives SUKKUR, Sept 27: Two villagers, Gul Bahar Shaikh, 22, and Hub Ali Shaikh, 30, were shot dead in Lal Bukhsh Kokhar Goth near Gullo Sial, Khairpur district on Saturday....
Hostage recovered, four arrested NAWABSHAH, Sept 27: The Bandhi police arrested four dacoits and recovered a kidnapped man after an encounter near Bandhi on Saturday....		ATC seeks early submission of jail challan GUJRANWALA, Sept 27: Local Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 judge Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah directed the investigating team that challan of the Sialkot jail case should be completed and submitted to court...
Yazman council takes govt depts to task BAHAWALPUR, Sept 27: The Yazman tehsil council criticized the police, health, education and livestock departments’ apathy at its monthly meeting held on Friday....		All set for mega water project: Growers fears dispelled FAISALABAD, Sept 27: City Tehsil Nazim Mumtaz Ali Cheema said on Saturday arrangements had been finalized to launch the mega water supply project to be completed at a cost of Rs3,025...
US diplomat says Pakistan is investor-friendly SIALKOT, Sept 27: The commercial consular of the US in Pakistan sees bright prospects for expansion of bilateral trade, describing the business environment in Pakistan as conducive to foreign investment....		Mepco issues inflated bills in Vehari VEHARI, Sept 27: Mepco officials have issued power supply disconnection notices to most consumers of Vehari circle after issuing them inflated bills....
Action against two Kharian judges GUJRAT, Sept 27: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry on Saturday transferred the Kharian additional district and sessions judge and the civil judge-cum-judicial magistrate on disciplinary grounds....		Dist Nazim flayed for misusing uplift funds GUJRANWALA, Sept 27: Ruling party leaders, including MNAs, MPAs, tehsil Nazims and federal parliamentarian secretary for information, on Saturday condemned the district Nazim for not providing funds for uplift projects....
District admn urged to monitor govt depts SARGODHA, Sept 27: The district administration and members of the provincial assembly at a meeting on Saturday pledged to eradicate corruption in the government departments....		Nawabzada’s death widely condoled BAHAWALPUR, Sept 27: The people belonging to every strata of society expressed profound grief and sorrow over the death of ARD chief Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan....
Under-trial, new-born die in Sahiwal jail SAHIWAL, Sept 27: An under-trial accused and a two-day-old baby have died in the central jail here on Saturday....		Seven children hurt as school bus overturns OKARA, Sept 27: Seven schoolchildren suffered minor injuries when their bus overturned on the Okara-Faisalabad Road, hardly five kilometres from here, on Saturday morning....
Passerby dies in crossfire SHEIKHUPURA, Sept 27: Trade of fire between two groups in Dhari Kot village near Nankana Sahib on Saturday evening left a passerby dead and two others injured. Enmity between the Abbas...		Two bandits held after encounter JACOBABAD, Sept 27: The police arrested two alleged bandits after an encounter in Jacobabad on Friday....
Six villagers arrested KHAIRPUR, Sept 27: The Kot Diji police arrested six persons in Din Mohammad Rind village on Friday for creating hindrances in official duty....		MoU signed with China for TV programmes BEIJING, Sept 27: Pakistan and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for exchange of television programmes on regular basis....
Kashmiris hold rally at UN UNITED NATIONS, Sept 27: Kashmiris living in New York organized a peace rally on a yatch which went right past the UN headquarters, overlooking the East River, as Indian Prime Minister...		Mixed media reaction to Musharraf’s Canada visit OTTAWA, Sept 27: Canada’s leading newspapers have given a mixed reaction to President Pervez Musharraf’s visit to Ottawa and his government’s role in the war against terrorism....
Four wounded in LoC shelling MIRPUR (AJK), Sept 27: Three civilians were wounded as Indian troops shelled from across the Line of Control (LoC) on various villages in Khuiratta and Fatehpur Thakiala sectors in Kotli District...		PM’s visit will cement ties with US: Kasuri WASHINGTON, Sept 27: The just-concluded visit of President Musharraf will not overshadow the visit of Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali to the US, says Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri....
Man killed in road accident HARIPUR, Sept 27: A man was killed while two others sustained injuries when a speeding truck rammed into a stationery truck near Shahra-i-Saleh, some two kilometre from here in the early...		Pakistani beheaded RIYADH, Sept 27: Saudi Arabia beheaded on Saturday a Pakistani man for smuggling heroin into the kingdom, Interior Ministry said....