October 27, 2003	Monday	Sha’aban 30, 1424

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HEC receives 100 applications Hiring of foreign faculty begins ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: Despite serious concern shown by the local faculty of the public sector universities, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has launched its foreign faculty hiring scheme....		Pakistan-India detente on Russian agenda: envoy ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: Russia is concerned over the tense Pakistan-India relations and doing whatever it can to help improve ties between the two South Asian nuclear powers, says the Russian ambassador...
Market body asked to check price hike RAWALPINDI, Oct 26: District Nazim Raja Tariq Kiani has warned the market committee members of action if they fail to control commodities prices in the markets....		Tribute paid to Dr Akhtar Hameed Khan ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: Speakers, including Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz, on Saturday praised the services of late Dr Akhtar Hameed Khan, a renowned social scientist, for the betterment of the poor segment...
Imran asks Musharraf to quit COAS office ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman, Imran Khan, has said President General Pervez Musharraf should immediately set down as army chief....		Quaid backed labour struggle ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: A new publication of the All Pakistan Labour Federation entitled Productive Role of Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Pakistan reveals a less known fact about the Quaid’s...
NBP closes ATM service for 3 days ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has closed its ATM service in Rawalpindi and Islamabad for three days in connection with deduction of Zakat, sources in the bank told...		Encroachments RAWALPINDI Oct 26: The residents of Sadiqabad have demanded of the local government to take strict action against vendors who had encroached footpaths and roads, creating problems for them....
Dick Cheney’s firm may establish institute in Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: US vice-president Dick Cheney’s Halliburton company is likely to establish an institute in Pakistan to train oil engineers and technical experts from the Middle East and South Asian...		Concern voiced over militarization: Gwadar seaport development QUETTA, Oct 26: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has expressed concern at the continued political impasse and growing militarization of the policy-making institutions, besides emphasizing that the apprehensions of the...
Wheat support price may go up by 22pc ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: The federal cabinet is likely to enhance the support price for wheat by nearly 22 per cent. Existing price of Rs300 per 40kg was fixed in 1999....		Dialogue with Brazil to open today ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: Pakistan and Brazil will open a dialogue here on Monday after a span of almost two decades with the additional secretary-level talks at the foreign ministry....
PBC puts Punjab AG on notice ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has issued a notice to the advocate-general of Punjab asking whether a lawyer can be barred from practising law if it is established...		MMA asks UN to take notice of Indian firing in AJK MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 26: An eight-member parliamentary fact-finding mission of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has called upon the UN to play its role in preventing Indian occupation troops from targeting civilian population residing...
Kashmiris to observe black day today MIRPUR, Oct 26: Kashmiris living on both sides of the Line of Control and in all other parts of the world will observe Oct 27 as the Black Day to protest...		‘1,000 jobless to be sent abroad’ QUETTA, Oct 26: The Overseas Pakistani Foundation (OPF) will send 1,000 skilled and educated jobless youths to Malaysia from Gwadar for job....
NA session Resumes today ISLAMABAD, Oct 26: The National Assembly will resume its session at 10am on Monday after a two-day recess. The Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam) has summoned a meeting of its parliamentary party...		AI urges govt to implement laws: Juvenile justice system PESHAWAR, Oct 26: The Amnesty International has expressed concern over the non-implementation of the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance (JJSO) 2000 and has urged the government to ensure that the law was...
Teghanis kill four Chachars SUKKUR, Oct 26: Four Chachar tribesmen were killed and two injured when 12 Teghani tribesmen attacked the Saboo Chachar village, Sadhuja police station jurisdiction, near Pano Aqil, Ghotki district, on Sunday....		Two die of burns HARIPUR, Oct 26: Two of the six factory workers of Hattar Industrial Estate who received burn injuries died at a hospital on Saturday....
People urged to help solve health problems THATTA, Oct 26: A one-day conference on sustainable health has called for community participation, a vital strategy in easing up health, education, poverty and other problems at minimal cost....		Rs1.95 billion being spent on education in Northern Areas GILGIT, Oct 26: The federal government has earmarked Rs1,958.29 million for the education sector in the Northern Areas, officials say....
Traders’ body criticizes WTO, IMF policies LARKANA, Oct 26: The general body of the Sindh-Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association has threatened to switch over to oil generators if Wapda does not bring down the power tariff...		Funds delay hits hospital project HARIPUR, Oct 26: The provincial government is yet to released the funds surrendered by the district government from the account of district headquarters hospital project....
Lawyer shot dead MANSEHRA, Oct 26: A lawyer was shot dead allegedly over a money dispute here on Saturday night. The deceased, Shahnawaz Khan, was going home from his office when he was killed near Harimaira village, police said...		Drugs quota for hospitals enhanced SIALKOT, Oct 26: The district government has enhanced the 10 percent quota of medicines for all DHQ, THQ hospitals, RHCs and BHUs in the Sialkot district, ensuring free-of-cost medicines to the...
Kasur’s only library being neglected KASUR, Oct 26: Bulleh Shah library, the only reading place for the public in the district, is fast becoming a picture of neglect due to indifference of the authorities responsible for...		SCBA struggle to continue: Court order questioned LAHORE, Oct 26: The newly-elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Justice Tariq Mahmood (retired), has said the lawyers’ movement for a democratic rule and resolution of their problems are...
Paucity of funds to delay classes in medical college GUJRANWALA, Oct 26: The paucity of funds has affected the construction work of the medical college so badly that the classes could not be started from December this year, it was...		Three Children run over by train GUJRANWALA, Oct 26: Three boys, including two brothers, were run over and killed by the Karachi-bound Khyber Mail near Kamoke on Sunday....
Smuggling through trains SARGODHA, Oct 26: The district has become home to the sale of smuggled goods, which are being brought by trains, especially the Chenab Express, coming to Karachi from Peshawar....		No troops for Iraq unless parliament approves MULTAN, Oct 26: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shaikh Rashid Ahmed said on Sunday that Pakistan would send its troops to Iraq only after parliament approval....
Rs0.5 million cigarettes looted SARGODHA, Oct 26: Four armed dacoits allegedly took away several cartons of branded cigarettes worth around Rs0.5 million from its store near Khayam Cinema here on Sunday....		Trader shot dead SIALKOT, Oct 26: Armed bandits shot dead a trader and injured two other persons seriously on Sunday on resistance in different incidents in the district....
Kalabagh to be built by politicians, not generals: Abida LAHORE, Oct 26: Gen Fazle Haq created the Kalabagh dam problem, Gen Ziaul Haq complicated it and now Gen Musharraf is out to worsen it, said PML leader Syeda Abida Husain...		Shahbaz launches political activity LAHORE, Oct 26: PML-N President Mian Shahbaz Sharif holds politicians as well as generals responsible for the situation facing the country at present. But he says time has come that mistakes...
Struggle for democracy to continue: SCBA chief LAHORE, Oct 26: The newly-elected president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Justice Tariq Mahmood (retired), has said the lawyers’ movement for a democratic rule and resolution of their problems are...		Loans for doctors LAHORE, Oct 26: The Punjab Health Foundation (PHF) has decided to offer Rs400,000 loan facility to each medical graduate, having at least one-year house job, to set up clinic....
Qasim invites opposition leaders to Lahore LAHORE, Oct 26: Leader of the opposition in the Punjab Assembly Qasim Zia has invited his counterparts from the remaining three provinces to Lahore so that all of them could sit...		Suicide LAHORE, Oct 26: A vendor hanged himself over poverty in Usman Street, Sabzazar, on Sunday....