22 August 2004 Sunday 05 Rajab 1425 KARACHI: City Council seeks ban on charged parking KARACHI, Aug 21: In view of traffic jams and certain other causes of inconvenience to general public, the City Council has adopted a resolution calling for a complete ban on charged parking and cancellation of the current year's contract in this regard. ... KARACHI: City to get a model park every week, says nazim KARACHI, Aug 21: About a dozen of model parks are being developed in various towns of the city and Karachiites will get a model park every week. This was announced by City Nazim Naimatullah Khan while inaugurating the model park ... KARACHI: Six wounded as APMSO, IJT clash KARACHI, Aug 21: Six students were wounded when two groups clashed in North Nazimabad on Saturday. Four activists of the All Pakistan Mohajir Students Organization were wounded, one of them seriously ... KARACHI: Man shot dead KARACHI, Aug 21: A man was shot dead in Mauripur by unidentified gunmen on Saturday. Police said the man, in his mid thirties, suffered two bullets, in his chest and head, and died instantaneously at 500-quarters area on Hawkesbay road. ... KARACHI: Cinema owner laments police raid KARACHI, Aug 21: With eyes brimming with tears, the owner of the Prince Cinema said on Saturday he had no idea why the Sindh home minister and police had raided his cinema and taken unsuspecting viewers, some accompanied by women, into custody. ... KARACHI: Awareness of heart diseases stressed KARACHI, Aug 21: Ischemic heart diseases have taken on epidemic proportions in the region urgently calling upon clinicians to understand its management and also be informed about established and new modalities like angioplasty employed in its treatment. ... KARACHI: Petition seeking land allotment dismissed KARACHI, Aug 21: The Sindh High Court dismissed on Friday a writ petition seeking allotment of land in the Saddar area in exchange for about 69 acres acquired from the petitioner by Port Qasim. ... KARACHI: Chargesheet submitted in killing case KARACHI, Aug 21: The final chargesheet in the case of a young man allegedly killed by a gang of kidnappers was submitted on Saturday in an anti-terrorism court. ... LAHORE: Lahore to have helicopter service for the injured LAHORE, Aug 21: Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that a helicopter service will be introduced in the Lahore region for transporting people injured during natural calamities and other accidents. ... LAHORE: Work on theme park to start in a month LAHORE, Aug 21: The work on the estimated multi-million modern theme park near the Qadhafi Stadium will start in a month or two. This was decided at a meeting held to review the progress on the park and other recreation projects in the province here on Saturday. ... LAHORE: First degree college for special children LAHORE Aug, 21: The first degree college for special children being established in Special House Gulberg, Lahore, will be inaugurated by Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Sept 1. ... ISLAMABAD: Summer art show continues ISLAMABAD, Aug 21: The exhibition of works by painters and miniaturists goes on at Nomad Art Gallery. The summer art show, which was participated by 14 painters and miniaturists, was opened on Tuesday last. ... RAWALPINDI: Students urged to earn good name for country RAWALPINDI, Aug 21: The Fatima Jinnah University Vice-chancellor, Dr Najma Najam has stressed the students to prepare themselves for the future challenges and the competition in the international job markets while dealing with various professions. ... RAWALPINDI: LG employees' regularization RAWALPINDI, Aug 21: Provincial minister for local government and rural development Mohammad Basharat Raja has said the daily wage employees of local bodies would be regularized in phases. ... PESHAWAR: Free treatment for critically-ill patients planned: NWFP to allocate Rs170m PESHAWAR, Aug 21: The NWFP Health Department has decided to allocate Rs170 million to provide free treatment to critically-ill patients at the public sector hospital, an official said. ... PESHAWAR: KMC girls campus to house women's medical college PESHAWAR, Aug 21: The NWFP government plans to convert the recently established the girls campus of the Khyber Medical College (KMC) into a women's medical college within a year after it fulfils the criteria of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC). ... PESHAWAR: Alternative medicine centres to be set up PESHAWAR, Aug 21: The NWFP Health Department has decided to establish homoeopathy and Tibb-i-Islami dispensaries in every district headquarter hospital of the province. ... PESHAWAR: Large buses to be introduced: City Nazim PESHAWAR, Aug 21: The city district government will introduce double-decker bus service in the city in addition to ply 50 large-size buses on the busy city routes to meet the increasing traffic problems under control. ... PESHAWAR: Demo staged against LRH doctors PESHAWAR, Aug 21: The NWFP Printing Press Association on Friday protested against the alleged negligence of Lady Reading Hospital doctors towards an injured worker. ... HARIPUR: 250 CCBs registered in Haripur HARIPUR, Aug 21: At least 250 community-citizen boards (CCBs) had been registered in Haripur, while 30-lus were under-going registration process, sources told Dawn here on Saturday. ... KOHAT: 3 proclaimed offenders arrested KOHAT, Aug 21: Police arrested three proclaimed offenders, including a fugitive who had been at large for the last 21 years and also seized illegal weapons and fake currency being smuggled to down-country during raids conducted on Friday-Saturday night ... HARIPUR: Two lovers commit suicide HARIPUR, Aug 21: A young girl and her lover committed suicide together by consuming poison in a remote village of Bandi Labiyal, some 32 kilometres from here, on Saturday. ... FAISALABAD: Police fail to arrest culprits: Kidnap for ransom FAISALABAD, Aug 21: The district police freed on Friday night alleged criminal Muhammad Nawaz alias Nawaja Sikh and his 13 close relatives and friends after six-day confinement when they were found 'innocent' in a kidnap for ransom case. ... TOBA TEK SINGH: Regrouping for local body polls TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 21: Regrouping has been started in the district for the next local council elections which are expected to be held in 2005. ... SIALKOT: Police kill 'robber' in encounter SIALKOT, Aug 21: Police killed an alleged robber in an encounter and arrested another in Sorrangiyaan village near M. R. Link canal bridge in Pasrur on Saturday. ... SHEIKHUPURA: Six policemen booked for 'death in custody' SHEIKHUPURA, Aug 21: B-Division police on Saturday registered a case against 10 people, including six policemen, for allegedly torturing to death a sanitary worker. ... HYDERABAD: Ditches occur in Kotri Barrage, says union HYDERABAD, Aug 21: The Irrigation Workers' Union (CBA), Kotri Barrage, has alleged that gate No. 5 and 12 of the barrage's headworks have developed ditches due to negligence of the irrigation department. ... DADU: Highway, rail track blocked in protest DADU, Aug 21: On the call of the Abadgar Association, a shutter-down strike was observed in Phulji and Piyaro Goth towns on Saturday to protest against artificial shortage of water in the area. ... LARKANA: Project to improve watercourses to be launched LARKANA, Aug 21: A Rs22.52 billion four-year project will be launched to improve 29,000 watercourses in Sindh. ... SUKKUR: Teachers' protest SUKKUR, Aug 21: On the call of the Education Alliance, teachers and students of Kandhkot on Saturday took out a procession and staged a sit-in on the National Highway, demanding to make Kandhkot a separate district, instead of Kashmor. ... GILGIT: Floods damage houses, watercourses in Gilgit GILGIT, Aug 21: Floods and lightening have damaged at least three houses, irrigation channels and a power house channel in Nomal village ... QUETTA; Three foreigners held, 38kg heroin seized QUETTA, Aug 21: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) personnel arrested three African nationals and seized 38kg heroin on Saturday. ... PESHAWAR: Crackdown launched PESHAWAR, Aug 21: The political administration of the Orakzai Agency has launched a crackdown against Mamozai tribe for creating dispute over land during which heavy weapons were used by rival tribesmen. ... KHAIRPUR: Four killed in accident KHAIRPUR, Aug 21: Four persons were killed and seven others were injured when a wagon and an oil tanker collided head-on on the National Highway in the Tando Masti police station jurisdiction on Saturday. ...

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