07 July 2004 Wednesday 18 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425 KARACHI: City govt's tender policy reviewed KARACHI, July 6: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan has directed the officials concerned to make the process of calling tenders and issuing contracts of development works in the city government departments transparent. ... KARACHI: Ibad orders 24-hour work on roads KARACHI, July 6: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad visited various areas of the city and inspected progress of the ongoing development schemes on Tuesday evening. During the two-hour visit along with City Nazim Naimatullah Khan ... KARACHI: SC waives costs imposed by Sindh High Court KARACHI, July 6: The Supreme Court has waived the costs imposed on a petitioner by the Sindh High Court for indulging in wastage of the court time. ... KARACHI: Closure of roads cause traffic jams - Security further tightened KARACHI, July 6: Police on Tuesday closed several roads and thoroughfares for vehicular traffic, causing nuisance to motorists and people travelling by public transport, who got stuck in traffic jams. ... KARACHI: NAB given three months to review loan case KARACHI, July 6: The Sindh High Court gave the National Accountability Bureau three months to consider and decide the plea bargain of a bank loan defaulter within three months or contest his petition pending in the court on merit. ... KARACHI: Japanese team briefs nazim on plan for city's uplift KARACHI, July 6: A Japanese delegation, headed by urban planning expert and president of the Free Time International Inc, Mr Yuske Nambe, during a presentation given to the City Nazim Naimatullah Khan on Tuesday ... KARACHI: Urdu fiction in Bihar discussed KARACHI: Noted story writer Dr Ahmad Yousaf and famous critic/poet Dr Muzaffar Hanfi were welcomed at the reception co-hosted in their honour by the Anjuman Taraqi Pasand Mosannefin and the Pen for Peace on Monday ... KARACHI: Hospital in old city area facing funds shortage KARACHI, July 6: The Gazdar General Hospital in old city area has been victim of neglect for the past many years due to indifferent attitude of the authorities concerned. ... KARACHI: DHA begins revamping facilities in Phase-I KARACHI, July 6: The Defence Housing Authority on Tuesday launched a Rs200 million plus project for the refurbishment of of the existing water supply, sewerage, drainage and road network system in the localities which fall under Phase I. ... KARACHI: Three suspects killed in shootouts KARACHI, July 6: Three men were killed in two separate armed encounters in the city on Tuesday. A suspect was shot dead in Garden, and two suspects were killed in what police claimed to be an encounter in the limits of the Samanabad police station. ... KARACHI: Three LJ activists get death penalty KARACHI, July 6: Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch of the Anti-Terrorism Court No. 5 on Tuesday awarded death penalty to three workers of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi in five sectarian murder cases. ... KARACHI: College admissions to begin in August KARACHI, July 6: The process of admissions to first year classes in city colleges is likely to begin in the first week of August, said sources in the city government's education department. ... LAHORE: Punjab police 'fail' on another front LAHORE, July 6: The Punjab police have not created separate investigation wings at the district level because of their inability to provide the manpower through promotions or recruitments ... LAHORE: No funds - all sanctions go waste LAHORE, July 6: The Punjab government servants whose out-of-turn house building, motorcycle and car advances were sanctioned during the last fiscal year should not approach the accountant general's office for payment because it has no funds for the purpose. ... LAHORE: Plea against Usman put off until 9th LAHORE, July 6: The Lahore High Court adjourned until July 9 the hearing of the writ petition, which challenges the action of the Data Ganj Bakhsh Town Naib Nazim of returning a non-trust motion against Nazim Khwaja Ahmad Hassaan. ... LAHORE: PAC orders fresh inquiry into medicine scam LAHORE, July 6: The Punjab Assembly's Public Accounts Committee-I on Tuesday expressed its displeasure over penalizing of subordinates by the health authorities for the alleged fault of higher-ups. ... PESHAWAR: Boys held in drive against obscenity PESHAWAR, July 6: Dozens of teenaged boys frequenting internet cafes have been rounded up, chained and produced before magistrates in the last two weeks on alleged charges of watching pornography ... PESHAWAR: DG wants priority for health sector PESHAWAR July 6: Director-general of health Dr Jalilur Rehman has stressed the need for giving priority to health management and health planning sector in order to ensure better utilization of funds. ... KHAIRPUR: Law and order main problem, says MNA KHAIRPUR, July 6: People's Party Parliamentarians MNA Manzoor Wassan has said that people are more interested in restoration of law and order in Sindh than in change of faces of the rulers. ... KAHIRPUR: Singer demands protection KHAIRPUR, July 6: Sufi singer Faqir Azizullah Maitlo has said that his own life and those of members ofhis family are in danger because people who kidnapped two women members of his family are issuing threats of 'dire consequences'. ... HYDERABAD: Roads, sewerage being given priority - Nazim HYDERABAD, July 6: District Nazim Dr Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman has said the devolution of power plan is a genuine democratic system which empowers public representatives to plan and execute social and development policies at grass-root level. ... HYDERABAD: Phulelli Canal overflow floods village HYDERABAD, July 6: Water overflowing from the old Phulelli Canal water has entered many houses in Goth Mulla Ismail Arain in union council-1, Hyderabad City taluka, on Tuesday. ... MIRPURKHAS: Rangers' deployment along canal urged MIRPURKHAS, July 6: The tail-end farmers of Mirpur distributary held a demonstration outside the press club here on Tuesday to protest against water theft by influential landlords in connivance with irrigation department officials. ... RAWALPINDI: Court summons JAG in army officers case on 15th RAWALPINDI, July 6: The Rawalpindi bench of Lahore High Court on Tuesday summoned the Judge Advocate General (JAG) of Pakistan Army in a case involving the detention of six army officers ... RAWALPINDI: 77 bonded kiln workers recovered RAWALPINDI, July 6: A bailiff of the court of the district and sessions judge here on Tuesday recovered 77 bonded labourers from a kiln located on Girja Road. The court set all the workers free. The labourers comprised 20 children, 26 women and 31 men. ... SUKKUR: Rice crop hit by shortage of water, says official SUKKUR, July 6: Water level at Dadu Canal, Rice Canal and the NW Canal has dropped to an alarmingly low level and farmers of Dadu, Garhi Yasin, Larkana, Shahdadkot have been staging sit-ins almost daily to protest against acute water shortage. ... SKARDU: Tour operators fear loss of revenue - Killing of passengers SKARDU, July 6: Tour operators, transporters and political figures condemned the firing on a passenger bus in which three people lost their lives and seven others sustained injuries in Kohistan area on Sunday. ... ABBOTTABAD: Abbottabad DC budget has no funds for development ABBOTTABAD, July 6: Abbottabad District Nazim Mustafa Jadoon presented Rs1.1billion annual budget for the Abbotabad district on Tuesday with no allocation for any development project or new scheme. ... PESHAWAR: Kilns face closure due to spiralling coal prices PESHAWAR, July 6: Brick prices have shot up as kiln owners struggle to cope up with spiralling coal prices. The owners warned that kilns faced imminent closure if the rates of the coal were not fixed ... MUZAFFARABAD: AJK dept withholds work orders MUZAFFARABAD, July 6: The AJK local government and rural development (LG&RD) department has withheld issuance of work orders of over 350 schemes reportedly under the directives of the LG&RD minister Raja Nisar Ahmed Khan, it was learnt. ... NAWABSHAH: Water thieves warned NAWABSHAH, July 6: Indus Rangers commandant Colonel Naeem Sadiq has said that any landlord, grower or irrigation official found involved in water theft would not be spared. ... NAROWAL: BHU turned into drugs' godown NAROWAL, July 6: The Manak Basic Health Unit has unofficially been converted into a drugs godown. Situated at a distance of five kilometres from the town ... BAHAWALPUR: 30 more diarrhoea patients in hospital BAHAWALPUR, July 6: The epidemic of diarrhoea in Fort Abbas in Bahawalnagar district has not yet been controlled as another 30 people were admitted to the Civil Hospital on Tuesday. ... GUJRANWALA: Wasa, GDA budgets approved GUJRANWALA, July 6: The Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) and Gujranwala Development Authority (GDA) approved its budget of Rs292.6 million and Rs149.6 million respectively for the fiscal year 2004-05 here on Tuesday. ... FAISALABAD: Rs8.5m wasted on road project in Faisalabad FAISALABAD, July 6: A huge amount of Rs8.5 million is going down the drain because of mismanagement and negligence of the Tehsil Municipal Administration (City), as the recently-constructed footpaths along the university and Jinnah Garden roads are being demolished. ... MIRPURKHAS: Mirpurkhas council approves budget MIRPURKHAS, July 6: The Mirpurkhas District Council unanimously approved its annual budget at a meeting here on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion ... KASUR: Maqbool inspects various depts KASUR, July 6: Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool has said that the provincial government will not cut the electricity connections of tube-wells during the process of cultivation. ... FAISALABAD: Govt cancels TMA's building fee contract FAISALABAD, July 6: The city Tehsil Municipal Administration has faced a serious financial setback when the Punjab government cancelled building fee contract worth Rs87.5 million on finding violation of rules. ...

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