November 25, 2003	Tuesday	Ramazan 29, 1424

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Govt gives 6-month deadline to tobacco cos: New warnings on cigarette packs ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The government has given six months time to tobacco companies to print newly-approved health warnings against smoking by utilizing 30 per cent space of the cigarette packs....		Drug unit allowed to resume production ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench on Monday allowed a local pharmaceutical unit to resume operations....
Special police for Capital soon RAWALPINDI, Nov 24: The government has decided to form a special police force named as ‘Security Division’ for the protection of VVIPs and sensitive installations in Islamabad, official sources told Dawn...		Body to be set up for Moenjodaro conservation ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: An executive board will be established to work for conservation of the world heritage site of Moenjodaro....
Accommodation for Haj: date for submission of documents extended ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The Ministry of Religious Affairs has decided to further extend the last date for the submission of accommodation documents for private/hotel accommodation in Makkah Mukarramah and Madinah Munawwarah...		US govt seeks extradition of three Pakistanis RAWALPINDI, Nov 24: The US government has sought extradition of three Pakistanis accused of killing four Americans in a terrorist attack in Karachi, an official source Dawn on Monday....
PIA operates extra Umra flights ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: PIA operated a large number of extra flights to facilitate Pakistanis going to Saudi Arabia to perform Umra as well as those coming from various Arab and Middle...		PML-N chief asks democratic forces to unite ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: Chief of his own faction of Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has asked the democratic forces of the country to unite on one...
Mubarak greets Musharraf, Jamali ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has sent Eid greetings to Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali....		Freed prisoners vow not to fight again PESHAWAR, Nov 24: Pakistani Taliban prisoners released from prisons in Kabul on Sunday said they had enough and had no energy left in them to return to Afghanistan and fight again....
UN sees advance for Afghan women, children ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) on Monday reported a big progress towards the welfare of Afghanistan’s women and children in two years after the Taliban regime’s fall, but...		Centre approves Rs1.9 billion: AJK community development ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The federal government has approved Rs1.9 billion Azad Jummu and Kashmir Community Development Programme project to alleviate poverty, specially in the rural areas of the territory, officials say....
Ceasefire offer to India welcomed MUZAFFARABAD, Nov 24: AJK Finance and Rehabilitation Minister Shah Ghulam Qadir on Monday welcomed Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali’s offer to India for a ceasefire along the Line of Control...		Most of prisoners belong to NWFP PESHAWAR, Nov 24: Most of the Pakistani prisoners who were released by the Afghan government from the Kabul jail on Sunday belong to Frontier....
PML-N criticizes govt’s policies QUETTA, Nov 24: The president of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Balochistan, Sardar Yaqoob Khan Nasar, on Monday urged all the political forces to come forward for ousting the military generals...		‘Govt taking steps for girls education’ QUETTA, Nov 24: Education Minister Zubaida Jalal said on Monday that the government was making concerted efforts to improve the quality of education and special attention was being paid to girls’...
Jamali for peaceful Kashmir solution ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said that Pakistan wants peaceful solution of Kashmir issue according to the wishes of Kashmiris and through the United Nations resolutions....		US mediation sought for Kashmir WASHINGTON, Nov 24: The Executive Director of the Kashmiri American Council, Dr Ghulam Nabi, has called upon the United States to make Kashmir “the centerpiece of its peace and non- proliferation...
SHO’s arrest warrants issued QUETTA, Nov 24: A Balochistan High Court division bench on Monday bailable arrest warrants of the station house officer of the Gwalmandhi police station for not appearing to present the record...		10 Pakistanis nabbed in Poland WARSAW, Nov 24: Polish border guards nabbed 10 Pakistanis and two Indian illegal immigrants on Monday when they were heading towards Germany, a border guard spokesman said....
WHO team probes hepatitis spread in Buner PESHAWAR, Nov 24: The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended steps to put brakes on the increasing number of patients suffering from hepatitis in Buner district....		Jobs for locals in oil firms demanded DADU, Nov 24: The villagers and social workers held a protest demonstration in Mehar on Monday against three multinational oil and gas companies for not proving jobs to the local people....
Parliament has no powers: Qazi PESHAWAR, Nov 24: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s (MMA) parliamentary leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said the religious alliance is not going to budge on its stand because during the last one year, parliament...		Timely distribution of textbooks urged PESHAWAR, Nov 24: Officials of the provincial government have been directed to ensure timely distribution of free textbooks and uniforms among students of the public sector primary schools....
Two accused remanded LARKANA, Nov 24: The Larkana police, investigation, obtained eight days remand of two accused policemen in the murder case of two children from the court of the senior civil judge on...		MQM criticizes opposition HYDERABAD, Nov 24: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has called upon the opposition to give up the politics of confrontation in view of the prevailing situation and work for the...
Woman attempts suicide SUKKUR, Nov 24: A woman tried to commit suicide at the Darul Aman, Sukkur, on Sunday night....		Target raised HARIPUR, Nov 24: Wheat would be sown on 36,981 hectares in the district as the target has been increased by five per cent, an official said on Monday....
Nazim defects KHAIRPUR, Nov 24: Tando Masti Khan Union Council Nazim and Khairpur district council member Syed Yar Ali Shah has announced that he is quitting the Awam Dost Panel to join the...		Afsheen died unnatural death: Initial autopsy report MULTAN, Nov 24: A medical board conducted postmortem on the body of Afsheen Mussarrat after exhumation at Marri Sahu village in Khanewal district on Monday amid strict security....
Four of a family Found murdered SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 24: Four members of a family were tortured to death by unidentified people in Sherokay village early on Monday....		Custodian of Eidgah, 12 others arrested DERA GHAZI KHAN, Nov 24: The local police on Monday arrested 13 people of two rival groups, including Eidgah custodian, to avert any untoward situation on Eid day....
Warrants for arrest of MPA, aides GUJRANWALA, Nov 24: A local court issued non-bailable warrant for arrest of an MPA and his men, who did not appear in court on Monday in a murder case registered against...		Rs3.3m worth cigarettes looted SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 24: A cigarette consignment worth Rs3.3 million was taken away on Monday by eight armed highwaymen on the GT Road near Muridke....
Punjab CM calls for expediting road project LAHORE, Nov 24: Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has announced starting of work on the Rs7 billion Lahore Ring Road project in next four months....		Four killed in accident LAHORE, Nov 24: Four people were killed and nine others injured in a pile-up apparently due to thick fog at the Sherakot Motorway Interchange on Monday....
Reimbursed amount not Benazir’s, says PPP LAHORE, Nov 24: The PPP claimed on Monday that the money reimbursed to the government reportedly from the accounts of a Swiss company did not belong to Ms Benazir Bhutto or...		Need to Train teachers stressed LAHORE, Nov 24: The Punjab chief minister’s adviser on teachers’ training, Sadia Shahzad Chaudhry, has said a majority of the primary schoolteachers serving all over the province are not capable of...
Jamali’s peace moves lauded LAHORE, Nov 24: Peace activists in the region see reasons for optimism after Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali’s offer of a ceasefire across the Line of Control....		Plea against Eid mela dismissed LAHORE, Nov 24: The Lahore High Court on Monday disposed of a petition challenging permission to set up Eid mela at the parking lot of Allama Iqbal Town’s Moon Market....
LHC resents police excesses LAHORE, Nov 24: The Lahore High Court has taken exception to police excesses against the public, and showed displeasure over the way the City Kotwali police have stepped beyond its authority....		Ministers told to focus on welfare projects LAHORE, Nov 24: Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has asked the newly inducted provincial ministers to formulate concrete proposals for the welfare-oriented projects for the masses....
Abida, Fakhr not to change political thinking LAHORE, Nov 24: Former PML-Q information secretary Begum Abida Husain says as a mother she is happy on the induction of her daughter, Sughra Imam, into the Punjab cabinet....		Governor calls for promoting graphic arts LAHORE, Nov 24: Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool on Monday directed to launch an MA in Art Education and a two-year diploma course in calligraphic art at the Punjab University’s Institute of...
Nazim acquitted of corruption charges LAHORE, Nov 24: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday acquitted Farrukh Javed Ghumman, a former Punjab minister and chairperson of Sargodha district council, of corruption charges....		Badr flayed for Attending Patriots’ party LAHORE, Nov 24: Some leaders of the PPP’s Lahore Coordination Committee took exception to Secretary-General Jehangir Badr’s participation in an Iftar party organized by Seth Shaukat Ali who is said to...
Dry weather forecast LAHORE, Nov 24: The Punjab Meteorological Department on Monday forecast dry weather (with mist in the morning) during the next 24 hours....		Judge made OSD LAHORE, Nov 24: District and sessions judge Mahmood Maqbool Bajwa has been made an officer on special duty....