10 January 2004 Saturday 17 Ziqa'ad 1424 PPP debunks ex-ISI chief's allegations, demands probe: Nuclear sale to Libya ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: The Pakistan People's Party has dismissed the former ISI chief's claims about Libyan help in making nuclear bomb as false and malicious and demanded an inquiry into the matter through parliament. ... Rulers must take lesson from history: SNF chief KARACHI, Jan 9: Expressing grave concern on serious law and order situation in the province, Sindh National Front's chairman Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has said that the rulers should learn a lesson from the history ... Voters betrayed, says PMAP QUETTA, Jan 9: Pukthunkhwa Milli Awami Party leaders on Friday castigated the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leadership for strengthening the military dictatorship by backing the 17 Amendment ... Concessions made to India: MMA ISLAMABAD Jan 9: AMuttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) leader on Friday expressed apprehensions that President Gen Pervez Musharraf had given several concessions to India even before the start of formal talks between the two countries. ... Minfal sits on wheat herbicides notification MULTAN, Jan 9: Bureaucracy at the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock has reportedly been delaying issuance of a notification about the import of wheat herbicides, anticipating a reshuffle in the federal cabinet. ... Opening of borders may be discussed with India: Faisal visits Wagah LAHORE, Jan 9: Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said on Friday that a suggestion to open borders with India was a part of the composite dialogue expected to start next month. ... Fencing along LoC criticized KARACHI, Jan 9: Any compromise on the exercise of right of self-determination by the people of Jammu and Kashmir will not lead to a durable peace in the region. ... Wagah immigration to be computerized LAHORE, Jan 9: Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat has directed the immigration authorities to install the Personal Identification Secure and Comparison Evaluation System (PISCES) at the Wagah railway station by Jan 15. ... MMA has lost credibility, says Zia LAHORE, Jan 9: PPP's Punjab president Qasim Zia said on Friday that the MMA had impaired its credibility by accepting the LFO and supporting Gen Musharraf as president. ... Maimoona criticizes jail officials' attitude ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: Maimoona Hashmi, MNA and the daughter of jailed ARD president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, has criticized the attitude of the officials of the Adiala Jail and accused them of creating hurdles in her meetings with the father. ... JI condemns change in Kashmir policy RAWALPINDI, Jan 9: Amir Jamaat-e-Islami, Rawalpindi, Muhammad Abbas Butt has criticised the foreign minister, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, for terming the UN resolutions old and obsolete ... Asif seeks 'coercive action' for early trial: Justice Nizam case KARACHI, Jan 9: The defence counsel for Asif Ali Zardari in the Justice Nizam murder case sought on Friday "coercive action" for an early trial.... Jamali terms Delhi's readiness for talks significant ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Friday that India's willingness to enter into a composite dialogue with Pakistan next month constituted a major breakthrough in the regional situation ... Frontier likely to soften stand: Net Hydel Profit PESHAWAR, Jan 9: Following the federal government's assurance to facilitate the arbitration process between NWFP and Wapda over the contentious issue of net hydel profit, the NWFP government is likely to retract from its earlier announced hard line ... UN resolutions bedrock of Pakistan's stand: JI LAHORE, Jan 9: United Nations resolutions are the bedrock of Pakistan's legal, political and moral stand on Kashmir, and indication by President Pervez Musharraf that the world body's documents can be set aside ... Indian flights resume LAHORE, Jan 9: The first regular Indian Airline flight (IC- 846) arrived here from New Delhi carrying nine passengers at 2:15pm. ... Call for more water reservoirs HARIPUR, Jan 9: Chairman South Asia Technical Advisory Committee on World Commission on Dams (WCD and director Pakistan Water Partnership (PWP) Sardar Tariq Khan said that owing to the fast depletion of water resources and low per capita water storage, the construction of new reservoirs was imperative for sustainable agriculture development in Pakistan. ... 'Pakistan cooperating with IAEA' WASHINGTON, Jan 9: Pakistan's cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and its debriefings of nuclear scientists have made clear "it takes its non-proliferation obligations seriously," says ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi. ... WHO plans to enhance cooperation with govt KARACHI, Jan 9: The World Health Organization (WHO) has planned to enhance its cooperation with Sindh government during the current biennium 2004-2005 that has just started. ... 'Coal-based power plants to boost economy' MITHI, Jan 9: Work on infrastructure development is going on at a fast pace for establishment of coal-based power plants in Tharparkar which would boost the economy of the country and also bring the sandy region at par with the more developed parts of the country. ... Privatization of power units opposed ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: Wapda workers on Friday demanded of President Gen Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali to stop the proposed privatization of the authority's profitable units ... Recovery plan for KESC, Wapda under study ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: After having failed to bring about improvement in the performance of the state-run power utilities despite the deployment of army personnel, the government is considering developing a medium-term financial recovery plan ... Pensioners can be classified as old, new: SC ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that classifying pensioners as being old and new was permissible under the law and there was nothing un-Islamic in it. ... Govt working on senior citizens welfare project ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: The government is working on a ten-year project on ageing in collaboration with United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) to improve the health of senior citizen in the country. ... Riyadh reviews expatriates burial policy RIYADH, Jan 9: Relatives of expatriates who die in the kingdom will have to decide within two months of expatriates death whether they want to bury them here or to take their body to their home country for burial. ... 'Gwadar port to open by July 2005' ISLAMABAD, Jan 9: Communications Minister Ahmad Ali said on Thursday that the Gwadar port would become operational by July 2005. ... Govt's move unlikely to prove beneficial: Shifting of salary budget to LGs PESHAWAR, Jan 9: The NWFP government's intended move to hand over the salary budget of the district government employees to the newly established district governments from next year ... Fata uplift fund to be spent on renovation of Governor's House PESHAWAR, Jan 9: The NWFP governor's Fata secretariat would spend Rs30 million on the renovation of the Governor's House Peshawar under the annual development programme 2003-04, for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata). ... NALC's majority agrees to proposed amendments GILGIT, Jan 9: Majority of the Northern Areas Legislative Council (NALC) members agreed to adopt the proposed amendments regarding the upgradation of the council status. ... 'Police Order will stand excluded after six years': Sixth schedule of Constitution PESHAWAR, Jan 9: The Police Order, 2002, will stand excluded from the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution after six years, claimed legal experts. ...

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