13 September 2004 Monday 27 Rajab 1425 KARACHI: LEAs set to cordon off many areas for security - Defence exhibition KARACHI, Sept 12: General public in the metropolis would experience great inconvenience for several days this week due to the security and traffic arrangements being made for the defence exhibition 'Ideas 2004' which opens on Monday. ... KARACHI: Arrangements reviewed for defence exhibition - 36 countries' delegations to participate KARACHI, Sept 12: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim reviewed arrangements for the international defence exhibition 'Ideas 2004' at a high-level meeting held at the CM's House here on Sunday. ... KARACHI: Completion of work on Scheme-33 stressed KARACHI, Sept 12: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan has said that the city government is keenly waiting for early completion of the Scheme-33 and taking measures for speedy execution of development works there. ... KARACHI: Hotels' room rent survey planned KARACHI, Sept 12: The Excise and Taxation Department has planned to carry out a survey of the hotels to ascertain their actual room rent, amid reports that the hotel owners show the room rent as low as 50 to 75 per cent to evade taxes. ... KARACHI: Security steps irk Frere Hall visitors KARACHI, Sept 12: Tight security on Fatima Jinnah Road inconvenienced book lovers, who, in some cases, were frisked before being allowed to walk to the book bazaar held on the lawns of the Frere Hall on Sunday. ... KARACHI: Local doctors advised not to follow West blindly KARACHI, Sept 12: There are several medical procedures that were once banned in the West but which are now performed regularly there. ... KARACHI: Workers' unity urged for attaining rights KARACHI, Sept 12: The speakers at a seminar on Sunday urged the workers to join hands and forge unity among their ranks, so that struggle to create a just social order for all could be launched. ... KARACHI: Shifting of planetarium opposed - Students hold demo KARACHI, Sept 12: Speakers at a demonstration by students on Sunday demanded the construction of a new planetarium before dismantling and relocating the present one. ... KARACHI: Education City project out of cold storage KARACHI, Sept 12: The bureaucratic wrangling that had been blocking progress on yet another mega project - Education City - in Karachi seems to have been losing strength with the initiative ... KARACHI: Non-political figure to resolve FCS crisis urged KARACHI, Sept 12: The leader of seven elected directors, Haji Shafi Mohammad Jamote, has suggested that a non-political figure should head the Fishermen Cooperative Society to save it from further financial disaster. ... KARACHI: Minister visits Madadgar 15 KARACHI, Sept 12: Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui has said that all centres of Madadgar 15 will be equipped with latest facilities so that these could deliver upto people's aspirations. ... KARACHI: Govt institution in a shambles KARACHI, Sept 12: The residents of Korangi area have called for the safety and survival of Sindh government's skill development centre in the area. ... KARACHI: Car jackers' network busted KARACHI, Sept 12: The Anti-car lifting Cell (ACLC) of police department on Sunday broke a network of car jackers by arresting five of its gang-members and recovering five stolen vehicles from their possession. ... KARAHI: Schoolboy shot dead KARACHI, Sept 12: A school boy was shot dead when he resisted a cellular phone snatching bid in Korangi late Saturday night. Mohammad Rafiq Khanzada, 16, was going to his home, located in Korangi 2-1/2 ... KARACHI: Arrests of registered drug-users criticized KARACHI, Sept 12: The programme director of the Marie Adelaide Rehabilitation Centre, Brother Norman, has urged the police not to harass or arrest the registered injecting-drug users, visiting the MARC's Drop-in Centre near Burns Road. ... LAHORE: Car dealers continue to block roads LAHORE, Sept 12: Car dealers of Samanabad, Gulshan-i-Ravi and Jail Road continue to block roads and footpaths by parking cars despite the Punjab chief secretary's directions in respect of checking the practice. ... LAHORE: Board formed to retrieve land from grabbers LAHORE, Sept 12: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi has constituted a board for the implementation of an action plan for retrieving the government land in Murree and other hill stations from grabbers. ... LAHORE: Offence may be declared non-bailable - Increase in water theft LAHORE, Sept 12: Canal water shortage has resulted in an alarming increase in the incidence of theft compelling the government to promulgate a law for declaring the offence non-bailable besides prosecution of the accused under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance provisions. ... PESHAWAR: Scrutiny of police recruits begins PESHAWAR, Sept 12: Federal and provincial security agencies are scrutinising records of new lower cadre recruits in the NWFP police and ascertaining if they have any leanings towards extremist organizations, sources confirm. ... PESHAWAR: Landi Kotal faces water shortage PESHAWAR, Sept 12: About 30,000 inhabitants of Landi Kotal are facing acute shortage of drinking water. Engineers say that the water table in the area has gone down by 30 feet in seven years because of extensive boring and prolonged drought which hit the region in the late 1990s. ... SARGODHA: Facility for taxpayers SARGODHA, Sept 12: Under the directive of the CBR, Sargodha Income Tax Commissioner Muhammad Asif Hashmi has set up two tax facilitation centres for providing guidance and necessary help to taxpayers of the Sargodha Income Tax Zone ... PESHAWAR: Experts term unemployment main cause of depression PESHAWAR, Sept 12: Speakers at the concluding session ofthe 'National psychological counselling and training skills conference' at the Khyber Medical College on Sunday ... HYDERABAD: Desilting of water lagoon postponed HYDERABAD, Sept 12: Desilting of one of the two lagoons of the Water and Sanitation Agency has been postponed because this may result in mixing of sub-soil water with fresh water in the lagoon. ... HYDERABAD: Blood screening camp HYDERABAD, Sept 12: The district health department has launched a free blood screening programme and the first camp in this connection was established at the rural health centre, Odero Lal station, on Saturday. ... MIRPURKHAS: Shortage of water hits cotton crop MIRPURKHAS, Sept 12: The Sindh Abadgar Board at a meeting held here on Sunday expressed concern over acute shortage of water, saying it was affecting cotton and other crops in the district. ... NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: Sale of substandard pesticides criticized NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Sept 12: Activists of the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Hari Sangat and farmers took out a procession in Moro on Sunday to protest against sale of substandard pesticides. ... SWABI: Four killed in Swabi SWABI, Sept 12: Four people were killed and three injured in separate incidents in the district during the past 24 hours. In Kalabat, a land dispute claimed the life of Mohammad Islam and his nephew was seriously injured on Sunday. ... SUKKUR: Nine villagers injured in attack SUKKUR, Sept 12: Nine people were injured in a clash near Pano Akil on Saturday night. A group of 20 men attacked a vegetable market and assaulted persons of the rival group with sticks and hatchets. ...

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