25 July 2004 Sunday 07 Jamadi-us-Saani 1425 KARACHI: 9 crew of capsized vessel missing KARACHI, July 24: Maritime agencies have spotted wreckage of a 120-feet cargo vessel 40 nautical miles from Karachi without a crew. It is feared that the crew might have drowned. A decomposed body, believed to be a member of the same vessel's crew, washed ashore at Sonara beach on Saturday. ... KARACHI: Four die in different accidents KARACHI, July 24: Four persons died in three separate road accidents in different parts of the city on Saturday. Police said that Abdul Ghaffar, 16, and an unidentified man (about 50-year-old) sustained fatal injuries when the bus they were travelling in rammed into a parked bus in Zaman Town. ... KARACHI: ATC reserves judgment in killing case KARACHI, July 24: An anti-terrorism court in Karachi, headed by Judge Arshad Noor Khan, on Saturday reserved judgment in a killing case against 10 activists of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan after hearing final arguments from both sides counsels. ... KARACHI: Reward money announced KARACHI, July 24: The Sindh Home Department announced on Saturday a reward of one million rupees to the person who would provide information leading to the arrest of criminals involved in the murder of Abdullah Murad. ... KARACHI: Water board engineers told to launch new schemes KARACHI, July 24: The managing director, Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB), Brig Iftikhar Haider, has directed engineers of the KWSB to prepare schemes envisaged under the Karachi Development Package and ensure their immediate implementation. ... KARACHI: City govt finalizes hospital by-laws KARACHI, July 24: The city government has finalized by-laws for Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases, being established in the old building of Karachi Medical and Dental College. ... KARACHI: Local govt system key to uplift, says Tariq KARACHI, July 24: Naib Nazim Tariq Hasan has stressed on sustainable development at grassroots level through local government system. ... LAHORE: Release of tenants demanded LAHORE, July 24: The Labour Party Pakistan organized on Saturday province-wide protests to demand release of 80 tenants. ... PESHAWAR: Foreign debt burden on NWFP increases PESHAWAR, July 24: The proportion of foreign loans payable by the NWFP government surpassed the size of its internal borrowings at the close of the current fiscal year, according to official sources. ... PESHAWAR: Doctors accused of misusing hospital staff PESHAWAR, July 24: Dozens of employees of the teaching hospitals in the city are working as private servants of senior doctors, while drawing salaries from the hospitals, sources told Dawn on Saturday. ... PESHAWAR: Frontier requires to improve accounts PESHAWAR, July 24: The NWFP government will be required to take effective measures to raise further the monthly reconciliation rate of its different types of accounts in the current financial year, according to official sources. ... QUETTA: New power connections for tubewells banned QUETTA, July 24: The provincial government has banned new power connections for tubewells to control the falling water table in Balochistan. ... QUETTA: JUI opposes levies, police merger QUETTA, July 24: The Jamait Ulema Islam (JUI-F) and provincial ministers affiliated with it have opposed the government's decision to merge the Levies force with police. ... QUETTA: Two killed in accident QUETTA, July 24: Two persons were killed and two other were injured after their car overturned near Gwadar on Saturday, police said. ... HYDERABAD: 'Incentives to farmers being provided' HYDERABAD, July 24: Sindh Agriculture and Food Minister Arif Mustafa Jatoi has said the government has announced an agricultural package to provide incentives to farmers, including financial assistance ... HYDERABAD: Unsuccessful MUET students given chance HYDERABAD, July 24: The Academic Council of the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, on Saturdayallowed a last chance to unsuccessful students of 1991-94 batches to appear in an special supplementary examination. ... HYDERABAD: 'Govt determined to wipe out narcotics trade' HYDERABAD, July 24: The adviser to the Sindh chief minister on excise and taxation, M. A. Jalil, has said the government is determined to eliminating narcotics trade. ... HYDERABAD: Water rotation programmes announced HYDERABAD, July 24: The executive engineer of the Naseer division on Friday announced the water rotation programme of different waterways due to a shortage of water in the Indus river. ... HARIPUR: Small dams will render Haripur's lands barren HARIPUR, July 24: Federal parliamentary secretary finance MNA Omar Ayub Khan has said that the proposed small dams projects on River Dor in district Abbottabad would affect the agro-based economy of district Haripur and render scores of unskilled manpower ... LARKANA: Boycott of Tharparkar by-polls threatened: Hindu Panchayats on trader's kidnapping LARKANA: July 24: A 70-member delegation of Hindu Panchayats from different parts of Tharparkar visited the city on Friday and met with office-bearers of the local Panchayat. ... LANDI KOTAL: Kidnapped doctor recovered LANDI KOTAL, July 24: The political authorities in Bara Khyber Agency in collaboration with Bara peace committee recovered Dr Mubarak Shah on Friday. ... MARDAN: Rs1.4bn budget of Mardan DC presented MARDAN, July 24: Mardan District Nazim Haji Raza Khan presented a tax-free surplus budget of more than Rs1.452 billion for the district council for the year 2004-05 here on Saturday. ... SUKKUR: Embezzlement: FIA begins probe SUKKUR, July 24: Funds of the Baitul Maal have been embezzled in various post offices. In this connection an investigation has been started by the FIA. ... MULTAN: Factory closed after another gas leak MULTAN, July 24: The Pak-Arab Fertilizers factory has to be closed on Saturday following another gas leak, this time from its main ammonia plant. ... OKARA: Woman among 11 tenants remanded OKARA, July 24: A local court on Saturday sent 11 tenants, including a woman, to Sahiwal Central Jail on judicial remand. ... SIALKOT: Slain judges anniversary being observed SIALKOT, July 24: The first death anniversary of the four slain civil judges is being observed here on Sunday. Quran khawani will be held at the Sialkot district jail for the eternal peace of the departed souls. ... SHEIKHUPURA: Serial killer returns to Muridke SHEIKHUPURA, July 24: Unidentified serial killer retuned to haunt Muridke residents once again as a six-year-old child was found butchered on Saturday. ... SAHIWAL: Murder case against ASI, two constables SAHIWAL, July 24: Grain market police registered on Saturday a case against an ASI, two constables and a man acting as their informer for killing a salesman and robbing him of sale proceeds. ... SIALKOT: 8 killed in accidents SIALKOT, July 24: Eight people were killed in three road accidents in different parts of the Punjab during the last 24 hours. ... GUJRANWALA: Bodies formed to raid theatres GUJRANWALA, July 24: On the directions of the Punjab government, the district administration has constituted two special teams for conducting raids at theatres to curb vulgarity and obscenity. ... SHEIKHUPURA: Four of a family die as car hits oil-tanker SHEIKHUPURA, July 24: Four family members, including a woman, were killed while as many sustained critical injuries on Saturday in an accident on Sargodha Road, some six kilometres from here. ... FAISALABAD: Man kills wife over a minor issue FAISALABAD, July 24: A drug-addict allegedly axed to death his wife after a minor altercation in his house on Jhang Road on Friday night. ... BAHAWALPUR: Crime graph up in Bahawalpur BAHAWALPUR, July 24: The crime rate in the district registered an increase during the first quarter of the current calendar year as compared to the corresponding period last year. ... VEHARI: Vehari farmers complain of water shortage VEHARI, July 24: The growers from different villages strongly protested against acute shortage of irrigation water here on Saturday. ...

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