10 March 2004 Wednesday 18 Muharram 1425 KARACHI: Rocket fired at building of slain MPA KARACHI, March 9: A rocket was fired at the under- construction building of the slain MPA Abdullah Murad in Al-Falah on Tuesday. Police said that the rocket landed on sand outside the premises of the under-construction building ... KARACHI: Gadap tragedy accused denied bail, sent to jail KARACHI, March 9: The accused police officials in the Gadap tragedy were given in judicial custody after two of them, including the former SHO, were refused bail by the judicial magistrate of Malir. ... KARACHI: Atta price shoots up to Rs18 per kg in Karachi KARACHI, March 9: Wheat crisis persisted as consumers continued to suffer the effects of spiralling wheat flour prices as its price swung between Rs16 and Rs18 (atta no.2.5) since the past week. ... KARACHI: Power failures persist KARACHI, March 9: The Karachi Electric Supply Corporation on Tuesday claimed that it had normalized power supply to those areas which had suffered an electricity breakdown on Monday. ... KARACHI: Nazim wants completion of projects in time KARACHI, March 9: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan has directed officials of various departments to complete the development projects within the stipulated time. ... KARACHI: City areas suffer 61mgd water shortfall KARACHI, March 9: The city suffered a shortfall of 61 million gallons of water from Indus source on Tuesday in the wake of a power breakdown which occurred at Dhabeji pumping station on Monday. ... KARACHI: Endowment fund increased by 50pc KARACHI, March 9: The Sindh Education department has decided to make a 50 per cent increase in the endowment fund awards meant for poor meritorious students, intending to take up graduate and post-graduate programmes at private institutions. ... KARACHI: Experts call for progress on liver transplant KARACHI, March 9: The lack of will to donate the liver is one of the main causes for slow progress in the area of transplantation. The was the main talking-point on the third day of the joint conference ... KARACHI: SSC exams held smoothly KARACHI, March 9: The SSC annual examinations-2004 were conducted peacefully at all the centres in the city on Tuesday, the examination controller of the education board said. ... KARACHI: Teachers' children exempted from fees KARACHI, March 9: Sindh Chief Minister Sardar Ali Muhammad Mahar has said that no nation can make progress without education and that there will be no compromise on standard of education. ... KARACHI: Chest diseases in industrial areas on the rise KARACHI, March 9: Alarmingly high occurrence rate of chest diseases and infections including Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) is reported among the residents of industrial areas of Karachi. ... LAHORE: 90 flour mills call off strike LAHORE, March 9: The 90 flour mills in interior Sindh, which went on strike on Sunday last, have decided to call off their strike by Wednesday after receiving permission from the provincial government to procure wheat. ... LAHORE: Scholarships increased for professional education LAHORE, March 9: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi said here on Tuesday that no talented student would be deprived of medical, engineering or other professional education because of want of resources which the government would provide to them adequately. ... LAHORE: Flour situation eases further LAHORE, March 9: The availability of flour improved further on Tuesday, but the price remained high despite raids by the city district government. ... LAHORE: Govt officials not cooperating - AG LAHORE, March 9: Punjab Accountant-General Wazir Ahmad Qureshi said on Tuesday that officers of the provincial and district governments were openly ridiculing the steps announced by the president ... LAHORE: Dawn staffer's murder mystery solved - Police LAHORE, March 9: Police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested the third suspect involved in the murder of Dawn's marketing executive Shehryar Safir. ... LAHORE: Accused dies in police custody LAHORE, March 9: A fraud accused died in police custody here at the Defence investigation wing on Tuesday. Claiming that Pervez Akhtar Lodhi, 40, died of heart attack in the lock-up, the police said he had been in their custody for some days. ... LAHORE: Another 1,500 trees to be uprooted LAHORE, March 9: At least 1,500 trees, mostly of fruit, will be uprooted during the construction of the Jinnah and Doctor's hospitals' underpasses along the Lahore Canal. ... LAHORE: Ijaz Batalvi laid to rest LAHORE, March 9: Noted jurist and litterateur Ijaz Batalvi was laid to rest at the Model Town G-Block graveyard on Tuesday in the presence of a large number of people from all walks of life. ... PESHAWAR: Debate on autonomy, rights extended - Judicial inquiry into student abuse urged PESHAWAR, March 9: The debate on the National Finance Commission and provincial government's assent to arbitration on the net hydel profit proposed by the federal government ... PESHAWAR: Opportunities for women sought PESHAWAR, March 9: Speakers at the Annual Day celebration of the Khyber Medical College on Tuesday said equal opportunities for men and women were necessary for the development of any country. ... PESHAWAR: WHO to provide medicines to quake victims PESHAWAR, March 9: The World Health Organization will provide free drugs to the victims of earthquake-hit areas of Mansehra and Battagram districts, said Dr Quaid Saeed ... PESHAWAR: Law officer without practice licence PESHAWAR, March 9: The NWFP advocate-general on Tuesday faced an awkward situation as a deputy advocate-general appointed recently did not possess practising licence of the high court. ... HYDERABAD: DDOs asked to submit council uplift schemes HYDERABAD, March 9: The DCO has directed deputy district officers of nation building departments to collect development schemes up to Rs1.3 million from union council Nazims and submit the same in a week so that they could be approved by councils concerned. ... LARKANA: SHC issues notices to five officers - Police harassment LARKANA, March 9: The Sindh High Court, Larkana circuit bench, here on Tuesday issued notices to the Kambar DSP and four SHOs to appear before it on March 10 in connection with a petition alleging police harassment. ... HYDERABAD: Election of commission chairman questioned HYDERABAD, March 9: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, on Tuesday issued notices to the chairman of District Public Safety Commission and the Sindh additional advocate-general ... HYDERABAD: Canal closure plan changed HYDERABAD, March 9: According to a revised plan, the Akram Wah will now remain closed from March 10 for 15 days instead of 24 days as suggested by the DCO. ... HYDERABAD: Chakkis remain closed:Non-supply of wheat HYDERABAD, March 9: Local chakki owners have said all of the 234 chakkis (small grinding units) in the district are lying closed as the food department has failed to supply wheat to them. ... HYDERABAD: Municipal officials criticized HYDERABAD, March 9: Members of the City Taluka Council on Tuesday walked out of the council session to protest against what they called indifferent attitude of taluka municipal administration officers. ... QUETTA: 12-hour curfew break in Quetta QUETTA, March 9: Amid tight security and the presence of army troops in the central areas of the city, people got busy in their business and other activities during the 12-hour-long relaxation in curfew restriction on Tuesday. ... MINGORA: WF Students disrupt forest conference MINGORA, March 9: Students of the Government Postgraduate Jehanzeb College Swat disrupted a one-day forest conference organized by the NWFP forest department here on Tuesday. ... LARKANA: Three AIDS cases detected LARKANA, March 9: The number of AIDS cases in Larkana has risen to 63 as three more cases have been detected in the district, people connected with the AIDS control programme told this correspondent on Tuesday. ... TOBA TEK SINGH: Police register case four months after rape TOBA TEK SINGH, March 9: The police have registered, on the order of Kamalia's additional district and sessions judge, a case against five men who kidnapped a woman and her son four months ago and gangraped her. ... GUJRANWALA: Contractor shot dead by cousins - Three children injured GUJRANWALA, March 9: A contractor was shot dead while his three children were injured by his cousins near Ghakhar Town on Tuesday. ... GUJRANWALA: By election - nine elected unopposed GUJRANWALA, March 9: Nine candidates, including seven women, were unofficially declared elected unopposed to the local bodies here on Tuesday. Fifty-six seats of women councillors, including 25 seats of city tehsil council, have been lying vacant. ... LAHORE: 'Artistes know no borders' LAHORE, March 9: Sitting in the semi-darken hall at the Alhamra Arts Council here, Jatinder Kaur and other members of Manch Rangmanch, the Amritsar-based Punjabi theatre group, prepare for their first performance in Pakistan. ... THATTA: PPP activists stage sit-in: Killing of MPA THATTA, March 9: Hundreds of People's Party Parliamentarians activists on Tuesday staged a sit-in on the Badin-Karachi highway passing through Sujawal to protest against the killing of party MPA Abdullah Murad Baloch. ... HYDERABAD: Teachers boycott SSC exams in Sindh HYDERABAD, March 9: The Government Secondary Teachers Association boycotted class IX and X annual examinations which started on Tuesday in Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Nawabshah, Badin, Khairpur, Naushahro Feroze, Shikarpur, Dadu, Thatta and other districts. ... QUETTA: PIA resumes flights to Zhob QUETTA, March 9: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has resumed its Peshawar - Zhob - Quetta weekly flight after remaining suspended for more than two years. ... FAISALABAD: PPP warns of protest demo: Toll collection in Faisalabad FAISALABAD, March 9: PPP MPA Jahanzeb Imtiaz Gill threatened on Tuesday that his party would stage protest demonstration, if the district government failed to withdraw toll on three rural area roads. ...

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