13 October 2004 Wednesday 27 Shaban 1425 KARACHI: CM pledges to ensure women's rights KARACHI, Oct 12: The Chief Minister, Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, has said Islam is the only religion of the world which provides the most rights to women. ... KARACHI: 70 more buses added to UTS fleet KARACHI, Oct 12: Seventy new large buses have been added to the existing fleet raising their total number to more than 300 under the Urban Transport Scheme. ... KARACHI: NRB asked to ful fill its responsibilities KARACHI, Oct 12: The Nazim Karachi, Naimatullah Khan, has said the National Reconstruction Bureau will have to reconsider the Sindh Local Government Ordinance for real and complete devolution of powers to the grassroots level ... KARACHI: Water shortage in many city areas KARACHI, Oct 12: An acute water shortage continued to persist in various parts of the city on Tuesday, forcing residents of affected localities to either buy private water tankers or consume sub-soil water. ... KARACHI: Benefits of imaging in diagnosis discussed KARACHI, Oct 12: Imaging - a comparatively new specialty in the field of medical science which during first 100 years of its inception focussed on structural abnormalities in the nervous system ... KARACHI: ATC awards 40-year RI to Harkat man KARACHI, Oct 12: An anti-terrorism court sentenced on Monday a worker of the banned Harkatul Mujahideen Al-Aalmi to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 40 years on three different counts. ... KARACHI: Encroachments removed KARACHI, Oct 12: The Liaquatabad Town Municipal Administration in its major campaign against encroachment, on Tuesday, removed over 1,000 pushcarts ... KARACHI: Winners of BSE contests notified KARACHI, Oct 12: The Board of Secondary Education, Karachi, has announced the names of position holders of various competitions held recently by it at its office in connection with the students' week. ... KARACHI: Man dies mysteriously in DHA KARACHI, Oct 12: A young man died mysteriously after falling from an apartment building in DHA late on Monday night. Police said Shah Fawad Alam, 32, came to meet his friends in Galaxy Skyline in Phase-V late Monday night. ... KARACHI: Goethe Institut reopens after two-year gap KARACHI, Oct 12: The Goethe Institut reopened on Tuesday after a gap of more than two years. It was closed in May 2002 for security reasons. ... KARACHI: Telephone complaints fall on deaf ears KARACHI, Oct 12: The so-called complaint number of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company, known as '18' in common parlance, has lost its utility, as most complaints registered through it go unattended. ... KARACHI: PIA, govt seek time in planetarium case KARACHI, Oct 12: Federal law officer and the counsel for PIA on Tuesday requested time to file comments on a petition against the wining up of Karachi Planetarium. ... KARACHI: SST orders reinstatement of retired NED official KARACHI, Oct 12: The Sindh Service Tribunal ordered on Tuesday reinstatement of a retired deputy registrar of NED University of Engineering and Technology. ... KARACHI: SHC orders registration of FIR on mother's plea KARACHI, Oct 12: The Sindh High Court directed the police on Tuesday to register a case on the complaint of a petitioner mother about the arrest and detention of her two sons. ... LAHORE: Punjab estimates Rs30bn investment in Sundar LAHORE, Oct 12: The Punjab government estimates Rs30 billion investment in the Sundar industrial estate which may create around 600,000 jobs. ... LAHORE: Police kill three alleged robbers LAHORE, Oct 12: Police on Tuesday killed three alleged robbers and arrested as many after an "encounter" in Manawan. Lahore Investigation police chief Chaudhry Shafqaat said they had been proclaimed offenders and involved in dozens of house and highway robberies ... PESHAWAR: Police told not to arrest mentally-ill PESHAWAR, Oct 12: The Peshawar Criminal Justice Coordination Committee decided on Tuesday to fully implement the Mental Health Ordinance, 2001, and directed police not to imprison a person suffering from a mental disorder. ... PESHAWAR: Case of juvenile offender sent back to lower court PESHAWAR, Oct 12: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday set aside the capital punishment given to a juvenile offender and remanded his case to the trial court with the direction that he should be tried under the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance (JJSO), 2000. ... HYDERABAD: SPLA observes black day HYDERABAD, Oct 12: Member of the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association on Tuesday observed a black day throughout the province in protest against what they called inordinate delay in the acceptance of their demands. ... HYDERABAD: Court asks applicant to approach DPO for FIR HYDERABAD, Oct 12: The Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit bench, has ordered registration of a case against a forensic expert if the DPO finds that the report of autopsy on the body of a woman ... HYDERABAD: Book fair at varsity opens HYDERABAD, Oct 12: A four-day book fair, organized by the Oxford University Press at the Allama I.I. Kazi Library of the University of Sindh was inaugurated by its vice- chancellor Mazharul Haq Siddiqui on Monday. ... MUZAFFARABAD: Cylinder blast in bakery kills three MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 12: At least three people were killed and six others wounded, two of them seriously, when a gas cylinder exploded on Tuesday morning in a bakery in Khaigalla Bazaar near Rawalakot in Azad Kashmir ... HYDERABAD: Tharparkar declared calamity-hit area HYDERABAD, Oct 12: The Government of Sindh Relief Department in a notification issued on Monday and faxed to Dawn on Tuesday declared the entire district of Tharparkar as calamity affected area. ... KOHAT: Demand for release of LMH staff KOHAT, Oct 12: An association of nurses has demanded that the government should immediately quash an FIR registered against three staff members of the Liaquat Memorial Hospital (LMH) in a kidnapping case and order their release. ... MINGORA: Journalists urged to pinpoint govt's weaknesses MINGORA, Oct 12: Provincial Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Qari Mehmood has said the MMA government has adopted policies purely on merit and is trying to serve the people without any discrimination. ... LAHORE: Security beefed up LAHORE, Oct 12: In the wake of suicide bomb blast incidents at different places, security has been beefed up in the provincial metropolis with deputing extra contingents of law enforcing agencies at different points, main roads and public buildings. ... FAISALABAD: Suspects being grilled FAISALABAD, Oct 12: Interrogation of the two suspects arrested from a mosque here on Monday does not suggest that they have any association with a militant outfit or had plan to carry out a sabotage activity. ... SIALKOT: Sialkot blast toll 35 with 4 more deaths SIALKOT, Oct 12: The death toll of the blast at the Zainabia mosque rose to 35 on Tuesday, as another four of the injured breathed their last at different hospitals. The deceased included Sajid Naqvi, a serving major, and Asad Karblai. ... SARGODHA: Two ACE men booked for corruption SARGODHA, Oct 12: Two officials of the anti-corruption establishment were booked on Tuesday for `receiving bribe.' Reports said Assistant-Director Afzal Tarar and Sub-Engineer Ramzan allegedly received Rs45,000 from ex- Khushab district forest officer Imdad Hussain for favour in a corruption case. ... LARKANA: JSQM activist buried LARKANA, Oct 12: The district president of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, Munir Shahani, who was allegedly killed in an encounter with the Naushahro Feroze police two days back, was buried in Choharpur village on Tuesday. ... DADU: Protest against closure of 350 schools DADU, Oct 12: A large number of activists of political, social and religious parties took out a procession here on Tuesday in protest against the closure of 350 primary schools in the district. ... SUKKUR: Murder of clerics, bomb blasts denounced SUKKUR, Oct 12: Activists of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F held a demonstration at the Clock Tower Chowk here on Monday.... MIRPURKHAS: Two awarded 5-year term for hijacking of car, torture MIRPURKHAS, Oct 12: District and sessions judge Mohammad Iqbal Arain here on Tuesday sentenced Mohammad Aslam and Nazeer Ahmed Khaskheli to five years of imprisonment on charges of hijacking a car from the Mirpurkhas-Naokot road and torturing its driver, Shankar. ... NAWABSHAH: Deployment of Rangers at varsity decried NAWABSHAH, Oct 12: Students of the Quaid-i-Awam University of Engineering and Technology, belonging to the Sindh People's Student Federation and Jeay Sindh Students Federation ...

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