October 10, 2003	Friday	Sha’aban 13, 1424

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Museum of Natural History in need of funds ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: Pakistan Museum of Natural History (PMNH), the only national repository for permanent storage of plants, animals, rocks, minerals and fossils, is in need of Rs13 million financial assistance,...		RDA, TMA fail to achieve targets: Beautification plan RAWALPINDI, Oct 9: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) and the Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) have so far failed to achieve the targets set for them by the provincial and district governments...
IIU women campus project approved ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: The Higher Education Commission’s Departmental Development Working Party has approved a project worth Rs30 million for women campus of the International Islamic University (IIU)....		First phase to be completed by Jan: Oil spill damage assessment ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: A special meeting of the Environment Donors Coordination Group held here on Thursday was told that the first phase for assessing the damage caused by Tasman Spirit oil...
99 most-wanted terrorists on Red Book RAWALPINDI, Oct 9: The government has compiled a ‘Red Book’ containing photographs and information about 99 most-wanted sectarian terrorists, an official source said....		4 promoted as AVMs ISLAMABAD, Oct 9 Four Air Air Commodores have been promoted to the rank of air vice marshal, a notification issued by the defence ministry said here on Thursday....
Centre’s operation in tribal areas flayed ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: The NWFP chief minister, Mohammad Akram Khan Durrani, on Thursday lashed out at the central government for conducting military operations against the alleged Al Qaeda operatives in the...		PTA to hold public forum on tariffs ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has asked Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) to enforce the new tariff after approval of the authority....
Shortage of doctors RAWALPINDI, Oct 9: The Cantonment General Hospital (CGH) is facing shortage of qualified doctors to cater to the healthcare needs of the burgeoning population in the cantonment areas....		Commonwealth team told about affects of LFO ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: Top leaders of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) have briefed the Commonwealth on the state of democracy in the country and praised its decision of keeping...
Nahid Raza’s enigmatic women ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: Nahid Raza is much too much of a woman to be an artist in her entirety. There is a distance that is quite easily discernible between her warm...		Tax officials transferred ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: The Central Board of Revenue (CBR) has transferred two senior officials of income tax group....
Status quo sought in Kashmir till polls: Initiative with militants: report WASHINGTON, Oct 9: “Both India and Pakistan want to avoid any dramatic development in Kashmir during the Indian election season,” a South Asian expert in the United States said on Thursday....		SC puts jail official on notice ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the suspension of the Lahore Central Jail superintendent and issued a contempt of court notice against him for releasing a convict whose...
Cantonments’ construction in Balochistan opposed QUETTA, Oct 9: Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri has said that on one hand President Gen Pervez Musharraf has apologized for the past excesses committed in Balochistan and on...		Ministry asked to accommodate DPs : Ballot for Haj applicants ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: A standing committee of the National Assembly has asked the Religious Affairs Ministry to accommodate the Haj applications of Afghan refugees living in the country for more than...
Babu Abdur Rehman passes away QUETTA, Oct 9: Babu Abdur Rehman Kurd, vice-president of the Awami National Party (ANP), passed away on Thursday in Karachi after a prolonged illness. He was over 75....		MNAs call for curtailing Nazims’ powers ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: Various lawmakers of the treasury and opposition on Thursday demanded curtailment of the extra-ordinary powers given to district Nazims in the local government system, a source in the...
Muslims want better ties with West, says Benazir ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: Former prime minister and PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto has said that to avoid crisis between the Muslim and the non-Muslim world the communication gap should be covered....		Pakistani women speak about their success NEW YORK, Oct 9: Six Pakistani women, who have excelled in the American workforce, expressed their life experiences in getting to the top of their chosen professions at a meeting organized...
Farmers demand loans written-off QUETTA, Oct 9: Hundreds of farmers staged a protest demonstration on Thursday and demanded that agriculture loans in Balochistan be written off and the Quetta Electricity Supply Company (Qesco) postpone the...		148 operations conducted to catch Al Qaeda men ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: Pakistan security forces have conducted 148 operations to apprehend Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters since Islamabad became a partner in the global war against terrorism, sources in a...
Four officers made AVM ISLAMABAD, Oct 9: The government has promoted Air Commodore M. Ikram-Ullah Bhatti, Air Commodore Sabeeh Hussain, Air Commodore Rao Qamar Suleman and Air Commodore Muhammad Yousaf to the rank of Air...		Hisba Act draft again sent to governor PESHAWAR, Oct 9: NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said that the provincial government had again sent the proposed Hisba Act after removing his reservations, adding that he would not...
Interest-free banking in NWFP on cards PESHAWAR, Oct 9: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal-led government will introduce interest-free banking system in the NWFP shortly before the holy month of Ramazan....		Check urged on duplication of activities: Funds being wasted, workshop told PESHAWAR, Oct 9: Duplication of work due to lack of coordination among authorities of various foreign-funded projects is resulting in financial and human resource losses, according to officials....
471 schoolteachers to be recruited HARIPUR, Oct 9: District Nazim Dr Raja Amer Zaman has said that 471 teachers would be recruited shortly to fill the posts lying vacant at different institutions....		Govt urged to fulfil commitment MARDAN, Oct 9: The Pakistan Islamic Medical Association, NWFP chapter, has demanded that the provincial government should fulfil its commitment regarding solution to the problems of contract doctors....
Shelling GHALLANAI, Oct 9: Afghan militia targeted Pakistan’s border checkpoints with mortar shells in the Mohmand region on Tuesday night....		Anti-polio drive from 14th ABBOTTABAD, Oct 9: The district health office has set a target of vaccination of at least 175,000 children in the three-day anti-polio campaign from Oct 14 and formed 471 mobile teams for...
Girl’s body found in lake HARIPUR, Oct 9: The body of a minor girl, who had drowned in the Tarbela lake along with six other children last month, was found floating near the lake’s bank here...		Teachers call off strike GILGIT, Oct 9: The Northern Areas college teachers called of their boycott of classes on Wednesday after four days of strike as the administration assured them that the autonomous status of...
Hospitals be provided medicines: Dist council DADU, Oct 9: Members of the district council, Dadu, have unanimously demanded provision of medicines to health centres and hospitals and action against those officials of the health department who were...		Pest damages cotton crop in upper Sindh KHAIRPUR, Oct 9: A pest, Lashkari Sundhi, has attacked cotton crop in upper Sindh badly damaging it....
Three held over couple’s death SANGHAR, Oct 9: The relatives of Shazia Hassan Khaskheli, 20, who was shot dead along with her husband on Wednesday, are neither mourning her death nor are ready to receive condolence...		Former bank employee seeks justice THATTA, Oct 9: A former messenger of the National Bank of Pakistan has appealed to the Governor State Bank of Pakistan and the President National Bank of Pakistan for the restoration...
Ulema urged to promote brotherhood SUKKUR, Oct 9: District Nazim Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has appealed to the Ulema of various sects to demonstrate a spirit of peace, brotherhood and tolerance in wake of the present...		Journalists being targeted: PBP SUKKUR, Oct 9: A meeting of the central committee of the Pakistan Brohi Party was held here on Thursday to pay homage to the late Amir Bakhsh Brohi, a journalist, who...
Obituary LARKANA, Oct 9: Ghulam Abbas Khuhro, the maternal uncle of Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, the leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly and the president People’s Party Parliamentarians, Sindh, died after...		Court staffer accused of blackmail NAWABSHAH, Oct 9: A man, Zahid Pervez Arain, has alleged that stenographer Mohammad Ali has demanded Rs30,000 from him to grant bail to his son, Amjad....
Govt extends give and take offer to MIP: Protest day LAHORE, Oct 9: The government has assured the Millat-i-Islamia Pakistan leaders that it will facilitate them in their protest against the killing of party chief Maulana Azam Tariq....		Police vow to ensure Section 144 LAHORE, Oct 9: The Punjab police is at loggerheads with the Millat-i-Islami Pakistan over a protest call given against the assassination of Maulana Azam Tariq....
Exhibition by 103 women exporters LAHORE, Oct 9: Governor’s wife Rubina Khalid will inaugurate WEXNET 2003, the fourth four-day annual exhibition of the Women Exporters’ Network, at the Aiwan-i-Iqbal here on...		Search of pillion-riders ordered LAHORE, Oct 9: Chief minister Pervaiz Elahi has directed police to frisk pillion-riders thoroughly as a security measure....
Rich tributes paid to Nasrullah LAHORE, Oct 9: Speakers at a condolence reference said on Thursday that the best way to pay tributes to the late Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan was to continue struggle for the restoration...		LHC again refuses to hear PLF’s review plea LAHORE, Oct 9: The Lahore High Court office refused for the second consecutive time on Thursday to mark Pakistan Lawyers Forum’s petition on technical grounds, through which it had sought review...
Pesticides shortage may cost 1m bales: KBP demands probe LAHORE, Oct 9: The Kissan Board Pakistan claimed on Thursday the shortage of pesticides at cotton maturity stage could cost the country at least one million bales....		Agriculture dept explains LAHORE, Oct 9: Apropos of the news item published in Dawn on Oct 8, regarding shortage of cotton pesticides, a spokesman of the Punjab Agriculture department clarified that during the early...
MPs leave for India on peace mission LAHORE, Oct 9: A six-member parliamentary delegation left for India through Wagah here on Thursday as part of mission to strengthen the peace movement and bring people of the two neighbouring...		Fugitives’ property to be forfeited: Sialkot jail tragedy GUJRANWALA, Oct 9: The local Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 has directed to forfeit properties of two fugitives — former jail deputy superintendent and former SHO Zulfiqar Ali Virk — involved in...