October 29, 2003	Wednesday	Ramazan 2, 1424

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Prices of food items soar: 25 to 50pc increase recorded ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: Prices of consumer items went up by 25 to 50 per cent in Islamabad on the first day of Ramazan, some of the customers in sector G-9 weekly...		1.6 tons of charas seized RAWALPINDI, Oct 28: Customs authorities here on Tuesday seized 1.6 tons of charas concealed in 1,293 drums of paint in a shipping container at the customs dry port, the authorities said....
PPP submits resolutions to Senate secretariat: ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) has submitted various resolutions to Senate, which called for inquiry into the Kargil war and army officials conduct with the civil administration, and...		Legislators support repeal of Hudood laws ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: Parliamentarians representing various political parties except for MMA unanimously agreed on Tuesday with the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) that the Hudood Ordinances must be...
ARD to hold protest march on Nov 4 ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: The Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) will hold a march towards Supreme Court building on November 4 to protest against the detention of Asif Ali Zardari and...		Surveillance cameras to be installed soon: Faisal ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: The government will install surveillance cameras at strategic places in all the four provincial capitals and Islamabad, Interior Minister Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat told a delegation comprising chief...
Benazir urges people to demand rights ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: Pakistan People’s Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto has felicitated the Muslims on the advent of Ramazan and urged them to seek forgiveness for their sins and the blessings of...		HEC to launch joint higher education project ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: The Higher Education Commission has decided to launch a joint higher education linkage programme with British Council, a press release of the commission said here on Tuesday....
HR award for Nawabzada Nasrullah announced RAWALPINDI, Oct 28: The Human Rights Society of Pakistan (HRSP) has decided to give human rights award to late Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan for his lifelong services for democracy....		‘Active US role on Kashmir issue sought’ WASHINGTON, Oct 28: Scholars at a seminar on Monday described Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee as “a real statesman” who wanted to resolve the Kashmir dispute peacefully....
Jamali asks MPs to attend sessions ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Tuesday asked members of parliament to participate in the proceedings of the House and ensure that the quorum is maintained....		PBC backs Punjab lawyers’ strike ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Tuesday announced its support to the Punjab lawyers, who are observing a strike on Wednesday to protest against the demolition of lawyers’...
CNIC must to get passport: minister ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: The National Assembly was informed on Tuesday that the condition of presenting Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) for renewing or getting a new passport would not be waived....		Kasuri calls for composite talks MADRID, Oct 28: Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri on Tuesday emphasized the need for a composite dialogue to resolve all outstanding issues with India....
MMA’s bid to woo JUI-S ISLAMABAD Oct 28: An MMA delegation on Tuesday left for Kulachi near Dera Ismail Khan to meet with provincial chief of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Samiul Haq group) Qazi Abdul Latif in...		JUI-F leader’s bail cancelled QUETTA, Oct 28: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday cancelled the bail of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl) Naib Amir Maulana Abdul Ghani for not appearing in the hearing of a murder case....
Powell, Kasuri discuss situation ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: US Secretary of State Colin Powell telephoned Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri in Madrid and discussed the situation in South Asia....		‘Troops to Iraq after parliament’s approval’ RAWALPINDI, Oct 28: Troops will be sent to Iraq only after approval from parliament, Information and Broadcasting Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Tuesday....
‘Prize bonds business to be probed’ ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz told the National Assembly on Tuesday that a report on the prize bonds business would be presented before the house in two weeks....		Report denied ISLAMABAD, Oct 28: A spokesman for the food and agriculture ministry has termed concocted the contents of a news item that stated that a duty free bullet-proof car was being imported...
Arrest ordered QUETTA, Oct 28: A Balochistan High Court division bench on Monday directed the station house officer of the Sariab police station to arrest and produce in the court two persons accused...		UNDP withdraws financial support GILGIT, Oct 28: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has decided to withdraw its financial support from the Northern Areas Development Project (NADP) due to mismanagement of the project....
Three killed over marriage dispute NOWSHERA, Oct 28: Three people, including an assailant, were killed and a young girl injured when some gunmen barged into a house in Maira Misri Banda and opened fire on the...		Two students injured LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), Oct 28: Two schoolchildren were slightly injured when a mortar shell hit a classroom of Shah Zamir Killi primary school in the Zakhakhel area of Landi Kotal...
Meeting reviews BADP progress PESHAWAR, Oct 28: The NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq has emphasized the need for solving problems of the rural people, especially joblessness, through joint ventures like Barani Area Development Project (BADP)....		Rs700m to be spent on Saidu College PESHAWAR, Oct 28: The NWFP Minister for Information Technology and Science and Technology Hussain, Mr Ahmed Kanju, has said that the new building of Saidu Medical College and Saidu Teaching Hospital...
Nadra sets up screening cell for pilgrims PESHAWAR, Oct 28: The National Database & Registration Authority (Nadra) has set up a screening cell at the Directorate of Hajj to counter-check the antecedents of Pakistani pilgrims from the NWFP....		Court orders new timings PESHAWAR, Oct 28: Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court has ordered that the Peshawar High Court and its benches at Abbottabad and D I Khan should observe new timings during...
Pakistan-India bus, train links urged MIRPURKHAS, Oct 28: The district council, Mirpurkhas, through a resolution, has demanded the restoration of bus and train services between Pakistan and India through Khokhrapar to facilitate the people....		Court directs police to produce couple SUKKUR, Oct 28: A double bench of the Sindh High Court, Sukkur, on Tuesday directed the regional police officer, deputy inspector general of police and district police officers concerned to produce...
Khuhro critical of chief ministers’conference LARKANA, Oct 28: Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, president, People’s Party Parliamentarians, Sindh chapter, and leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly, has said that the conference of chief ministers was a...		Two outlaws killed SHIKARPUR, Oct 28: Two outlaws were killed and another injured in a police encounter in Kamal Shah Mohalla here on Tuesday....
SHC allows woman to get divorce SUKKUR, Oct 28: A double bench of the Sindh High Court, Sukkur, on Tuesday allowed a woman, Shamshad Solangi, to get divorce from her husband, Munir Ahmad, and remarry according to...		PML groups wary of Q-League’s efforts LAHORE, Oct 28: Three smaller factions of the Pakistan Muslim League have expressed reservations about the organizational work being carried out by the PML-Q, specially in the Punjab, despite a principled...
MPAs may be empowered to inspect police stations LAHORE, Oct 28: The Punjab government has agreed to authorize all MPAs to inspect police stations falling in their respective constituencies....		UHS revises results of MBBS, BDS exams LAHORE, Oct 28: The University of Health Sciences (UHS) has revised the results of some candidates of MBBS and BDS examinations despite claims that it has introduced a strict and foolproof...
Separate boards for monuments ordered LAHORE, Oct 28: Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool has ordered formation of separate conservation boards for each monument in the province....		Laws to curb obscenity soon: CM LAHORE, Oct 28: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi told the house on Tuesday that the government was considering enactment of new laws and removal of flaws from the old ones...
Asif wants case heard in Lahore LAHORE, Oct 28: Asif Ali Zardari, husband of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, has written a letter to the chief justice of the Lahore High Court for transferring a reference against...		Baitul Maal committees to be dissolved LAHORE, Oct 28: All Baitul Maal committees in the Punjab will be dissolved on completion of three years term on Nov 13 except four committees....
Indian national dies in prison LAHORE, Oct 28: An Indian died in mysterious circumstances in the Kot Lakhpat Jail on Tuesday....		Minority legislators stage walk out LAHORE, Oct 28: Two minority representatives in the Punjab Assembly walked out of the house on Tuesday when the minister for excise and taxation, Dr Muhammad Shafiq, refused to tender an...
Price hike goes unchecked FAISALABAD, Oct 28: The district government has failed to check price-hike and artificial shortage of consumer goods....		Tehsil Nazim’s plea rejected TOBA TEK SINGH, Oct 28: Additional District and Sessions Judge Sheikh Muhammad Rashid on Tuesday rejected Tehsil Nazim Chaudhry Muhammad Rafiq’s application in which he had sought dismissal of Ghayasuddin Janbaz’s...
Tail-enders may stop paying water charges KASUR, Oct 28: Farmers’ bodies in tail-end villages and union council Nazims and Naib Nazims have warned the government that they would stop paying abiana and ask the residents to migrate...		Kidnap case against tehsildar registered TOBA TEK SINGH, Oct 28: Carrying out the orders of the Lahore High Court, Gojra city police on Tuesday registered a case against a tehsildar, who got a villager kidnapped and...
Three of a family killed RAJANPUR, Oct 28: Three females, two of them minor sisters, were killed in an attack on their house by their rivals at the Rojhan tehsil, on Monday night....		Three die in tractor-truck collision GUJRANWALA, Oct 28: At least three people were killed while about six others sustained injuries when a fodder laden tractor-trolley overturned after colliding with a truck near Wazirabad by-pass on Tuesday....
Remodelling of road to be completed before Eid LAHORE, Oct 28: The Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency will complete remodelling of Khayaban-i-Jamia Punjab for removing traffic congestion in front of the Shaikh Zayed Hospital gate before Eidul Fitr....		Two cars hijacked SIALKOT, Oct 28: In almost a dozen strikes in the district during the last 24 hours, outlaws took away two luxury cars, three motorcycles, gold ornaments, cash, electronics and other valuables...