13 July 2004 Tuesday 24 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425 KARACHI: Community urged to make anti-polio drive a success KARACHI, July 12: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, speaking at a ceremony on Monday, held to launch the national immunization campaign against polio across the country from Tuesday (today) ... KARACHI: Ibad orders removal of illegal bus stands KARACHI, July 12: Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad on Monday said all encroachments from Northern Bypass and Lyari Expressway sites be removed and the projects completed within the stipulated time. ... KARACHI: CBs merger with city govt sought KARACHI, July 12: "Extension of Cantonment Boards be stopped immediately and they be merged in the City District Government Karachi. ... KARACHI; Clashes in Lyari paralyse bus service KARACHI, July 12: The armed conflict between two criminal groups in Lyari paralysed the operation of bus service between Sindh and Balochistan on Monday. ... KARACHI: Decline in fresh water degrading Indus delta KARACHI, July 12: Less quantity of fresh water and over exploitation of natural resources are described as the two basic causes of expeditious degradation of the Indus Delta Eco-region (IDER) at a workshop ... KARACHI: Drizzle disrupts power supply KARACHI, July 12: The little amount of drizzle that Karachi received on Monday morning - and which the Met Office summarily described as traces or less than one millimetre - caused power breakdowns in many localities of the city. ... KARACHI: 401 students pass HSC Home Economics exam KARACHI, July 12: The Board of Intermediate Education, announced the results of HSC Parts-I and II, Home Economics annual examinations- 2004 on Monday. ... KARACHI: Evacuation of dangerous buildings advised KARACHI, July 12: The Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA) has identified dangerous buildings in Saddar Town and asked their occupants to move to safer places before some tragic incident amid the monsoon rains. ... KARACHI: Metro service irks commuters KARACHI, July 12: The air-conditioning units of the majority of the Metro Buses, being plied on city roads under the Karachi Public Transport Society, are not functioning properly for the last many months, causing immense hardships to commuters. ... KARACHI: Man killed, wife injured by robbers KARACHI, July 12: A fifty-year-old man was shot dead and his wife was wounded for putting up resistance against armed bandits in Kharadar on Monday. ... KARACHI: Bail granted to Orangi Nazim KARACHI, July 12: The Judicial Magistrate, West, Mohammed Sohail, granted bail to the interned nazim of the Orangi in a case pertaining to an attack on the house of acting town nazim. ... ISLAMABAD: Play highlights effects of forced marriages ISLAMABAD, July 12: Sheema Kirmani took to the stage at the National Library Auditorium on Monday evening but this time it was not a dance performance. ... LAHORE: CJ orders arrest of women freed by Fakhrunnisa LAHORE, July 12: Chief Justice Iftikhar Husain Chaudhry on Monday directed the Anti-Narcotics Force to arrest two of the three women who were freed by former Lahore High Court judge Fakhrunnisa when their appeals were pending. ... LAHORE: Local govts 'escape proper audits' LAHORE, July 12: No one has so far been caught for 'corruption' in the local governments across the Punjab because of lack of proper auditing of their financial affairs and control by the provincial government. ... LAHORE: NOC a must for new schools in LDA schemes LAHORE, July 12; The City District Government will not allow opening of new schools in the Lahore Development Authority schemes without prior permission. ... LAHORE: UHS undecided in LMDC students' case LAHORE, July 12: The University of Health Sciences has not yet decided about the award of 10 per cent marks for internal evaluation in the aggregate to the Lahore Medical and Dental College's MBBS final year students ... LAHORE: German girl allowed to go with husband LAHORE, July 12: A special division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday allowed Hira Jessica Shafiq, a German girl of Pakistan origin, who married a Pakistani youth, to go with her husband. ... LAHORE: EPD fails to go by the book LAHORE, July 12: Residents of four villages of Kahoon Valley (Kallar Kahar) are at loggerheads with the owners of a cement factory due to alleged negligence of the Punjab Environment Protection Department. ... LAHORE: Video trial for select categories of offences LAHORE, July 12: The Lahore High Court has decided to introduce video trial of a select categories of offenders inside prisons. ... LAHORE: Light rain LAHORE, July 12: Lahore and several other cities in the Punjab, the NWFP and the Northern Areas received rain on Monday because of a westerly wave.... PESHAWAR: NWFP to be free of polio by year-end - Minister PESHAWAR, July 12: NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah has expressed the hope that polio will be completely eradicated from the province by the end of this year. ... PESHAWAR: NWFP governor leaves for UK PESHAWAR, July 12: Governor Iftikhar Hussain Shah on Monday left Islamabad for Manchester on a four-day official visit to the United Kingdom. ... PESHAWAR: NGO criticizes rights violations PESHAWAR, July 12: The Society for Human Rights and Prisoners Aid has expressed concern over large-scale violations of human rights in the NWFP, and has appealed to the government to take measures to improve the situation. ... ABBOTTABAD: Hotel body wants guest houses into tax net ABBOTTABAD, July 12: The Nathiagali Hotel Association has asked the government to bring into tax net all private guest houses and rest houses in the area as they are doing business without paying any tax or duty to the government. ... HYDERABAD: Water shortage hits cotton crop in Sindh HYDERABAD, July 12: Experts of the Sindh agriculture department have found that plants were dwarfed in some fields in four districts of the province. ... HYDERABAD: Task force formed to resolve Hesco-govt dispute HYDERABAD, July 12: The chairman, National Assembly standing committee on water and power, Saleem Jan Mazari, has appointed a task force to resolve a dispute between Hesco and the Sindh government over power arrears. ... HYDERABAD: Community help sought in anti-polio campaign HYDERABAD, July 12: Community leaders and NGOs should chalk out a programme to ensure success of the second phase of the anti-polio campaign, scheduled for Aug 24. ... RAWALPINDI: Man hacks four family members to death RAWALPINDI, July 12: A man hacked his father, sister and two minor daughters to death with a butcher's boning knife, and critically wounded his wife, mother and a minor nephew in Islamabad on Monday, police said. ... HARIPUR: Tax-free budget for Haripur tehsil HARIPUR, July 12: The tehsil municipal administration on Monday presented Rs196.541 million tax-free budget for fiscal 2004-05, with a Rs5 million raise in non-development expenditures and a meagre allocation for uplift plans ... TANK: 26 POs held, arms seized in Tank TANK, July 12: Tank police arrested 26 proclaimed offenders and recovered arms and ammunition during a 15-day campaign against the anti-social elements in the district. ... NAWABSHAH: CM's grant yet to be released NAWABSHAH, July 12: Release of a Rs50 million grant, announced by former Sindh chief minister Ali Mohammad Mahar for development works in Nawabshah district, is still awaited. ... DADU: Four killed in accident DADU, July 12: Four passengers were killed and 20 others were injured when a Dadu-bound coach collided with a truck on the Indus Highway, near the mausoleum of Lakki Shah Saddar, on Monday. ... LARKANA: Two child kidnappers arrested LARKANA, July 12: The police on Monday arrested two persons who after kidnapping children used to sell them for their subsequent trafficking to the United Arab Emirates. ... SUKKUR: Jirgas resolve tribal disputes SUKKUR, July 12: A jirga was held on Monday in Garhi Chakkar, Ghotki, to resolve a dispute between Mahar and Korai tribes and another on Sunday in the district to resolve a Mahar-Pitafi dispute. ... SKARDU: Monument to first K-2 climb for Skardu SKARDU, July 12: A monument is going to be built in the heart of Skardu city to commemorate first scaling of K-2, the world's second highest peak, some 50 years back by Italian mountaineer Lino Lacedelli. ... MULTAN: A thorn in BZU's flesh MULTAN, July 12: The estimated cost of the Bahauddin Zakariya University's convocation hall has exceeded Rs60 million with the additional allocation of Rs20 million during the current fiscal. ... FAISALABAD: TMA 'ignores' govt's orders FAISALABAD, July 12: Despite a ban imposed by the Punjab local government and rural development department, the Tehsil Municipal Administration (City) once again called tenders on Monday for awarding the building fee collection contract. ... DERA GHAZI KHAN: Demo against supply of polluted water DERA GHAZI KHAN, July 12: Residents of Model Town held a demonstration on Monday in protest against the supply of contaminated water. ... FAISALABAD: Crime rate drops after UC plan, say police FAISALABAD, July 12: District Police Officer Muhammad Amin Wains has claimed that the crime rate has dropped after the implementation of the Union Council Security Network in both rural and urban areas of the district. ... GUJRANWALA: NGOs get 33pc of Baitul Maal funds GUJRANWALA, July 12: The government has provided 33 per cent funds to NGOs from the Baitul Maal funds. This was stated by provincial Baitul Maal Minister Ijaz Shafi while speaking at a meeting here on Monday. ... BADIN: Minister calls for enforcing '91 water accord BADIN, July 12: Sindh Irrigation Minister Nadir Akmal Khan Leghari has called for distribution of water among the provinces in accordace with the 1991 water accord. ... LARKANA: Board's inaction delays award of scholarships LARKANA, July 12: The refusal of the administration of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Larkana, to verify the list of deserving students had hampered the process of distributing scholarships among them. ...

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