03 July 2004 Saturday 14 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425 KARACHI: Arbab asks bureaucrats to rise above political affiliations KARACHI, July 2: The chief minister, Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, has said that government employees are servants of the people, and should employ full honesty and sincerity while taking part in social service to solve the problems of people. ... KARACHI: Nazim pledges support to health centres KARACHI, July 2: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan, citing health and education among top priorities of his government, has pledged all necessary support and protection to non-commercial health care institutions. ... KARACHI: No betterment in law, order, says MQM-H KARACHI, July 2: The Mohajir Qaumi Movement alleged on Friday that there was no improvement in law and order in Sindh and claimed that despite court orders, Afaq Ahmad, Aamir Khan and other party leaders were not being allowed to meet their relatives. ... KARACHI: SHC allows sale of old buildings without NOC KARACHI, July 2: The Sindh High Court allowed the registration of sale deeds in respect of buildings constructed before the promulgation of the Sindh Building Control Ordinance, 1979, without no-objection certificates ... KARACHI: KESC restores power supply to water board - Dispute settled KARACHI, July 2: The managing directors of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation and the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board - both serving brigadiers - agreed to sort out their long-drawn dispute over outstanding dues ... KARACHI: Unannounced loadshedding KARACHI, July 2: Power failures continued to occur in many localities in the city on Friday, as some complaint centres of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation admitted to consumers that they were carrying out unannounced loadshedding. ... KARACHI: NICH seeks Rs30m for running BMT unit KARACHI, July 2: The Child Aid Association, National Institute of Child Health have jointly appealed President Gen Pervez Musharraf to grant Rs30 million from his special fund to make operational the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at the NICH. ... KARACHI: PR-Karachi earned Rs6bn during last fiscal KARACHI, July 2: The Pakistan Railways, Karachi Division, surpassed the revenue target by Rs135 million with more than six billion rupees annual income during the fiscal 2003-04. ... KARACHI: Lahori's appeal hearing put off KARACHI, July 2: An appellate bench of the Sindh High Court, comprising Justice Musheer Alam and Justice Muhammad Sadiq Leghari, on Friday adjourned the hearing of appeals filed by Mohammad Ajmal alias Akram Lahori ... KARACHI: People's help in education sought KARACHI, July 2: The naib nazim of the City District Government Karachi Tariq Hassan has called upon the masses to cooperate with the government for improving the country's education system ... KARACHI: Admissions to technical institutes from August 1 KARACHI, July 2: The process of admission to 15 polytechnic and mono-technic institutes in the city would begin from August 1, said an official of the City District Government Karachi. ... KARACHI: Patients, staff at Lyari hospital face problems KARACHI, July 2: Patients and staff members of Lyari General Hospital (LGH) have been facing a lot of problems owing to poor planning and mismanagement of development works initiated a couple of months back by a government agency. ... KARACHI: Teenaged girl, youth axed to death KARACHI, July 2: A teenage girl and a young man were axed to death by her cousin in Ibrahim Hyderi on Friday morning. Police said that Nazar Mohammad attacked his cousin Noorzadi, 18, and Qadir, 27, with axe in Ali Mohammad Goth. ... LAHORE: New measures to check illegal travel LAHORE, July 2: The Federal Investigation Agency's immigration cell and various airlines have introduced "certain new measures" to check illegal travelling to the developed countries through eastern Europe. ... LAHORE: Quality control lab planned LAHORE, July 2: The Punjab government has approved a Rs96.248 million project for the establishment of a quality control laboratory at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences. ... LAHORE: PBC criticizes Punjab govt LAHORE, July 2: The Pakistan Bar Council has condemned the provincial government for causing uncertainty about the polls in the Punjab Bar Council, and called lawyers to mount pressure on the government to hold elections ... LAHORE: Lawyers strike across Punjab LAHORE, July 2: Lawyers prepare for a strike across the Punjab on Saturday to register their protest on the situation obtaining in Gujrat where lawyers are agitating against the district police officer for about nine months now. ... LAHORE: Nothing is going right in northern Lahore LAHORE, July 2: Northern Lahore is only about three kilometres from the Punjab Assembly, which has presented a development budget of Rs43.44 billion for the next year ... LAHORE: Work on ring road begins in a month LAHORE, July 2: The construction of the Lahore ring road and widening and improving several link roads will start in a month. This was told to the participants in a meeting which was presided over by Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi here on Friday. ... LAHORE: Universities' curriculum board meets LAHORE, July 2: Governor Khalid Maqbool has stressed that all public and private sector chartered universities should introduce a uniform students' weekly assessment and final examination system at the end of each academic session. ... KARACHI: LPP vows to continue struggle KARACHI, July 2: The Labour Party Pakistan on Friday vowed to continue struggle for liberating Karachi from "religious and linguistic" forces and announced to reorganise labourers. ... PESHAWAR: Official faces action for defying leader PESHAWAR, July 2: The NWFP health department has sought removal of the medical faculty secretary who refused to carry out an allegedly irregular order of a Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leader, sources said. ... PESHAWAR: Pushto TV channel starts test transmission PESHAWAR, July 2: AVT Khyber, Pakistan's first Pushto satellite television channel, started its test transmission on Thursday. ... PESHAWAR: 2,800kg hashish seized, two held PESHAWAR, July 2: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) have seized 2,800kg of hashish from a truck and arrested two persons who were attempting to smuggle the contraband abroad via Punjab, said a press release issued here on Friday. ... PESHAWAR: Court accepts plea of 1st professional students - Reserved order released PESHAWAR, July 2: A full bench of the Peshawar High Court on Friday accepted five identical writ petitions filed by students of different medical colleges and declared that students, who had failed in two subjects in their first year were entitled to appear in the second-year examinations. ... HYDERABAD: Nazim says work orders to be issued on 25th - Development schemes in union councils HYDERABAD, July 2: District Nazim Dr Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman on Thursday told a meeting that work orders for development schemes of Rs1.3 million each submitted by union council nazims will be issued on July 25. ... HYDERABAD: Demand for free education up to matric in Sindh HYDERABAD, July 2: Speakers at a two-day workshop "Protection to working children" organized by the All-Pakistan Federation of Trade Union on Friday demanded that on the pattern of Punjab, education up to matric should be made free in Sindh. ... HYDERABAD: DPSC calls for action against police officer HYDERABAD, July 2: The District Public Safety Commission has recommended action against an SHO for falsely implicating a man in a narcotics case. ... LARKANA: Neurology unit at Chandka inaugurated LARKANA, June 2: The medical superintendent of the Chandka Medical College Hospital inaugurated a neurology unit in the hospital on Friday. He said that initially, the unit would be a 10-bed facility ... HYDERABAD: Varsity expansion - call to speed up work on projects HYDERABAD, July 2: The vice-chancellor, University of Sindh, Mr Mazharul Haq Siddiqui, has directed the authorities concerned to complete the ongoing construction work within stipulated time. ... HYDERABAD: Protest against water shortage HYDERABAD, July 2: Residents of Hussain Soomro, Yousuf Soomro, Mohammad Soomro and Tahir Soomro villages and Sehrish Nagar on Friday marched from the Soomra Market to the HDA office to protest against shortage of drinking water in the area. ... HYDERABAD: Hunger strike in protest against power disconnection HYDERABAD, July 2: A local journalist, living near the Wapda residential colony here, staged a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Friday to protest against disconnection of power supply to his house. ... HYDERABAD: Warrant issued for FIA official HYDERABAD July 2: Justice Azizullah M. Memon of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, on Friday issued bailable warrant of arrest against a sub-inspector of Federal Investigation Agency and restrained him from harassing the petitioner. ... SUKKUR: Boys outshine girls in SSC examinations SUKKUR, July 2: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Sukkur, on Friday announced the results of Secondary School Certificate examinations. ... KHAIRPUR: Team to look into land dispute KHAIRPUR, July 2: An inquiry committee, headed by ASP city Javed Jiskani, will probe into a dispute between People's Party Parliamentarians MPA Nawab Wassan and Mallah clansmen over 16 acre land in Deh Kathoro. ... DADU: Bandit held near Dadu after 'encounter' DADU, July 2: An alleged bandit, Mohammad Bachal Zardari, was arrested after an encounter between police and a group of bandits on the Dadu-Shaheedan jo Muqam road near here on Thursday. ... HARIPUR: Police clueless about cause of factory fire HARIPUR, July 2: Police remain clueless about the cause of fire at a cement factory in Hattar last week that had left at least nine workers dead and scores of others wounded. ... KARACHI: LJ activists' statements recorded in murder case KARACHI, July 2: An anti-terrorism court put off on Friday the hearing of a sectarian murder case against two workers of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi after recording their statements. ... FAISALABAD: TMA defies rules in awarding contract - Publicity fee FAISALABAD, July 2: The Tehsil Municipal Administration (City) has once again awarded the contract for the collection of publicity fee without formulating any guidelines for the contractor ... DERA GHAZI KHAN: Headmistress at the mercy of vagabonds DERA GHAZI KHAN, July 2: The education and police departments have turned a deaf ear to the plea of a primary school headmistress, who was beaten up and deprived of valuables by some 'influential' people demanding cooking oil tins from the share of students. ... KASUR: Sweltering weather claims four lives KASUR, July 2: Four people were killed and dozens of others fell unconscious due to sweltering weather conditions in and around the city during the last 24 hours. ... JHANG: Uneven distribution of funds alleged JHANG, July 2: Union council nazims belonging to the opposition in the district assembly have strongly objected to the diversion of massive district govt funds, supposed to be evenly distributed among all union councils of the district ... FAISALABAD: 70 women bank officials fired FAISALABAD, July 2: Over 70 women officials of the First Women Bank, who have been serving in different grades since 1996, have reportedly been terminated during the process of what, the bank management said, restructuring. ... OKARA: Inadequate health facilities in Okara OKARA, July 2: The Punjab health department is providing facilities to 2.5 million people of the district with a network of a DHQ and a THQ hospital, 11 rural health centres (RHCs) and 96 basic health units (BHUs). ...

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