15 March 2004 Monday 23 Muharram 1425 KARACHI: Development projects for NEC session discussed KARACHI, March 14: Sindh Chief Minister Ali Mohammed Mahar, on Sunday, discussed the development projects of Sindh at a meeting held in connection with the National Economic Council session, which would be held in Islamabad on Monday. ... KARACHI: People urged to take their problems to area nazims KARACHI, March 14: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan has said that there should not be any cause of confrontation between the district and provincial governments because the powers and scope of working as well as the nature of work for both governments are different from each other. ... KARACHI: Construction work on in protected building KARACHI, March 14: Illegal construction, repairs and renovation work is going on in a building protected under the Sindh Cultural Heritage Act, in Saddar, it is learnt. ... KARACHI: Health care units may face action - Improper waste disposal KARACHI, March 14: The City government and Sindh Environmental Protection Agency have decided to come hard on the hospitals responsible for unsafe or careless disposal of their hazardous waste. ... KARACHI: KESC's campaign KARACHI, March 14: On the instructions of the managing director of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation, Brig Tariq Saddozai, the power utility has launched a new connection drive in Millat Garden Malir ... KARACHI: 3 towns to be without water till 17th KARACHI, March 14: Water supply to three towns - Baldia, Orangi and Site - will remain suspended for three consecutive days, starting Monday (March 15) on account of repair and development works. ... KARACHI: MQM-H activist shot dead KARACHI, March 14: A local leader of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement, Mullah Ashraf, was shot dead by unknown persons in Liaquatabad on Sunday. Mullah Ashraf's killers were riding on motorcycles and managed to escape from the crime scene soon after the incident. ... LAHORE: New underpasses under repair LAHORE, March 14: The newly-built underpasses on The Mall and along the FC College are under repair, exposing the substandard work on the two important projects of the city. ... LAHORE: Tourism likely to be merged into new dept LAHORE, March 14: The Punjab Tourism Department is likely to be merged into a new department being created to primarily develop the multi-billion rupee New Murree. ... HYDERABAD: March held against disputed projects - World Day Against Big Dams HYDERABAD, March 14: Activists of different political parties and social welfare organizations staged a march here on Sunday to mark the International Day Against Big Dams. ... MIRPURKHAS: 26 detained Haris freed by police - 15 still held hostage by landlord MIRPURKHAS, March 14: Twenty-six scheduled caste peasants were freed by police from the confinement of a landlord in the jurisdiction of the Jhuddo police station on Saturday night. ... HYDERABAD: Sedition case transferred to Thatta court HYDERABAD, March 14: An Anti-Terrorism Court here on Friday ordered transfer of a sedition case to the Thatta sessions court, observing that the case did not fall in the jurisdiction of Anti-Terrorism Act. ... HYDERABAD: Idea of province division opposed HYDERABAD, March 14: Political leaders have termed the prime minister's statement about conversion of administrative divisions into provinces as a conspiracy to cut Sindh into pieces. ... KHAIRPUR: Four villagers kidnapped KHAIRPUR, March 14: Ten armed men kidnapped four villagers from Khedo and Gulo villages, Khairpur taluka, late on Saturday night. ... LARKANA: Conservation, research centre at Moenjodaro planned LARKANA, March 14: The federal ministry of culture and tourism has decided to establish the Moenjodaro Conservation and Research Centre for the preservation of Indus Valley Civilization remains at Moenjodaro. ... PESHAWAR: Fata meter installation campaign hits snags PESHAWAR, March 14: A dispute between the Tribal Electric Supply Company (Tesco) and political administration in the South Waziristan Agency over the payment of dues, has halted Wapda's meter installation campaign in the tribal area bordering Afghanistan, sources said. ... HARIPUR: Hattar industries causing pollution HARIPUR, March 14: The laws meant to protect the ecosystemhave miserably failed to check environment-related crimes being committed by the Hattar-based industrialists with impunity. ... RAWALPINDI: Imambargah bomber identified RAWALPINDI, March 14: Superintendent of Police, Investigation Wing, Mian Akhtar Hayat on Sunday said the suicide bomber, who had attacked Imambargah Yadgar-i-Hussainia in Satellite Town on February 28, had been identified. ... SUKKUR: Minister accused of occupying plot SUKKUR, March 14: The president, People's Party Parliamentarians Minority Wing, Sukkur, Eshwar Lal, has accused a federal minister, his son and son-in-law of encroaching upon a plot of the Hindu Panchayat. ... KARACHI: 1,948kg charas seized KARACHI, March 14: Charas weighing 1,948 kilograms of was seized from a bungalow in North Nazimabad during a raid conducted by the intelligence branch of the Sindh Excise and Taxation Department, an official spokesman said here on Sunday. ...

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