27 June 2004 Sunday 08 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425 KARACHI: Rs32.67bn city govt budget approved KARACHI, June 26: A Rs32.67 billion development-oriented budget for the year 2004-05 of the city district government was presented in the city council by City Nazim Naimatullah Khan on Saturday. ... KARACHI: 309 women in Sindh jails: CM KARACHI, June 26: A total of 309 women including 243 married, 11 unmarried and 55 widows are confined in various women jails in Sindh, the House was informed by the Chief Minister ... KARACHI: Transfer orders of 140 KWSB men cancelled KARACHI, June 26: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan, who is also the chairman of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, on Saturday cancelled the transfer orders of 140 employees of KWSB on humanitarian grounds. ... KARACHI: Hotel employee shot dead KARACHI, Jan 26: A man was shot dead near his home in Kharadar on Saturday.Police said the man was present at a roadside eating place in Kaghzi Bazaar, Kharadar, when unknown people shot him dead and fled. ... KARACHI: Protesters turn violent, damage nazim office: Hoarding auction KARACHI, June 26: A group of around 20 persons, protesting against the auction of outdoor hoardings, broke glasses on the ground floor of Civic Centre on Saturday. ... KARACHI: Contraceptives good for women's health: experts KARACHI, June 26: Speakers at a public awareness seminar, highlighting the impact of repeated pregnancies on women's health, have stressed the need of sensitizing both women and health care providers regarding importance of proper use of contraceptives. ... KARACHI: Appeal against professor's transfer allowed KARACHI, June 26: A full bench of the Sindh Services Tribunal, comprising its chairman Justice Abdul Ghani Shaikh, besides Yousuf Ali Mirza and Nur Ahmad Shah as its members ... KARACHI: Doctors' recovery sought KARACHI, June 26: The Staff Action Committee of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, on Saturday, urged the hospital management and provincial government to recover Dr Akmal Waheed and Dr Arshad Waheed who had been missing since June 17. ... KARACHI: Measures to eradicate polio reviewed KARACHI, June 26: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, on Saturday, held a high-level meeting to consider measures for eradication of polio from the province. ... KARACHI: PPP activists demand killers' arrest KARACHI, June 26: The protesting activists of the Pakistan Peoples Party on Saturday asked President Pervez Musharraf and the Sindh chief minister, Arbab Rahim as to why had the killers of Munawwar Suhrawardy not been apprehended yet. ... LAHORE: Pervaiz pledges amenities for dwellers LAHORE, June 26: Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi said here on Saturday katchi abadis (slums) in the Punjab would be provided with all basic amenities under the National Housing Policy. He was presiding over a meeting on katchi abadis ... ISLAMABAD: Pindi girls clinch most of top positions: FBISE declares SSC-II results ISLAMABAD, June 26: Girl students belonging to different institutions of Rawalpindi clinched most of the top positions in the matriculation examination ... RAWALPINDI: Civil Defence dept braces for floods RAWALPINDI, June 26: The Civil Defence authorities are gearing up for the impending floods in the district in the wake of a warning of heavy rains next month, official sources told Dawn. ... RAWALPINDI: 2 die in separate incidents RAWALPINDI, June 26: Two persons were killed in separate incidents here on Saturday, police said. Mansoor Qureshi, a salesman at a shop in Ganjmandi area, was shot dead by some unidentified persons while he was crossing a road. ... PESHAWAR: Police must change 'thana' culture: CM PESHAWAR, June 26: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani on Saturday warned police officials to respect rights of individuals as their activities had been creating hatred among the people against the entire police department. ... PESHAWAR: Awareness against narcotics stressed PESHAWAR, June 26: Governor Iftikhar Hussain Shah has said that students should play a leading role in creating awareness against the narcotics menace. ... PESHAWAR: NWFP govt to monitor NGOs PESHAWAR, June 26: The NWFP government has set up monitoring committees to check accounts and activities of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in all the 24 districts of the province, sources said. ... PESHAWAR: 345 outlaws arrested, says SSP PESHAWAR, June 26: The city police is said to have arrested 101 proclaimed offenders and 244 other outlaws besides seizing a large quantity of weapons from the city suburbs, said a senior official. ... PESHAWAR: Doctors accused of getting 'donations' PESHAWAR, June 26: Doctors at the teaching hospitals of the city are illegally receiving money from the admitted patients in the garb of donations, health workers told Dawn. ... PESHAWAR: JI wants economic ban lifted PESHAWAR, June 26: NWFP Jamaat-i-Islami has demanded of the government to lift economic sanctions against Ahmadzai Wazir tribe in the South Waziristan tribal region. ... PESHAWAR: Court takes notice of SHO's inaction PESHAWAR, June 26: An additional district and sessions judge, Ahmad Sultan Tareen, has taken exception to the non-compliance of the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance by the local police and has directed the Chief Capital City Police to take action against the officials concerned. ... QUETTA: Gwadar housing scheme restored QUETTA, June 26: The Balochistan government has withdrawn the cancellation orders of Singhar Housing Scheme Gwadar with immediate effect. The provincial government had cancelled the housing scheme in December 2003. ... LANDI KOTAL: Restrictions on newsmen condemned LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), June 26: Journalists from all the seven tribal agencies held a demonstration in front of the Governor's House in Peshawar on Saturday to protest the restrictions imposed on journalists by the political administration of South Waziristan. ... HARIPUR: Anti-drug walk HARIPUR, June 26: A walk against narcotics was organized here on Saturday by a local NGO, Anti-Narcotics Organization, to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse. ... HYDERABAD: Judicial commission on karo-kari proposed HYDERABAD, June 26: A judicial commission be appointed to hold inquiries into the incidents of karo-kari and terrorism and deterrent punishment be awarded to the perpetrators of the crimes. ... SUKKUR: Five killed in accident SUKKUR, June 26: Five persons were killed when a jeep and a trailer collided head-on near Faiz Abad, Lakhi Ghulam Shah police station jurisdiction, some 20 kilometres off here, on Saturday. ... SUKKUR: Upper Sindh receives heavy rain SUKKUR, June 26: Hundreds of trees and hoardings were uprooted when a dust storm, followed by heavy rain, lashed Sukkur, Jacobabad, Thul, Garhi Khairo, Kashmor, Kandhkot, Shikarpur, Lakhi and other parts of interior of Sindh on Saturday evening. ... NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: District budget unveiled NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, June 26: District Naushahro Feroze's Rs2.85 billion budget for the year 2004-05 was presented by District Naib Nazim Hassan Ali Shah in the council meeting on Friday. ... DADU: Farmers stage long march DADU, June 26: Hundreds of farmers staged a long march from the Mir Hassan Gadhi village to Khairpur Nathan Shah on Saturday to protest against the acute shortage of water in the channels originating from the Rice Canal. ... MULTAN: Call to evolve high-yield varieties MULTAN, June 26: State minister for food, agriculture and livestock Sikandar Hayat Bosan has urged the farm scientists to evolve high-yield varieties to increase the agricultural production. ... FAISALABAD: Deceased outlaw was 'hired assassin' FAISALABAD, June 26: The local police claimed that Iftikhar alias Ifti who was shot dead with his two accomplices in an 'encounter' on Friday night was a vehicle-lifter, abductor and hired killer. ... FAISALABAD: TMA 'defies' Punjab govt orders: Building fee contracts FAISALABAD, June 26: The Tehsil Municipal Administration (City) has once again reportedly refused to follow the instructions of the Punjab government and the Rural Development Department under which it was asked not to award contracts for building fee collection. ... JHANG: Two POs killed in 'encounter' JHANG, June 26: Two proclaimed offenders were killed while as many were arrested after a two-hour encounter with Qadirpur police near Doaka Balouchan village, some 40kms from here on Saturday. ... FAISALABAD: Five killed as two buses collide FAISALABAD, June 26: Five passengers, including two women, were killed and nine others sustained serious injuries in a head-on collision between two buses on Chiniot-Pindi Bhatian Road on Saturday. ...

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