26 October 2004 Tuesday 11 Ramazan 1425 KARACHI: Major power breakdown hits many localities KARACHI, Oct 25: A major power breakdown plunged most parts of the city into darkness in early hours on Monday. The localities that suffered power failure included Defence, Clifton, North Nazimabad ... KARACHI: Mills not supplying atta at fixed rates KARACHI, Oct 25: Flour mills are still reluctant to fully comply with the city government orders vis-a-vis flour rates though the wheat they are grinding is of the Ramazan quota. ... KARACHI: SHC reserves order in water plant case KARACHI, Oct 25: The Sindh High Court reserved its order on Monday in an application moved by a number of medical and educational institutions against installation of a water bottling plant by a multinational concern in the area allotted to them. ... KARACHI: 34 vehicles hijacked KARACHI, Oct 25: At least 34 vehicles, seven cars and 29 motorcycles, were either hijacked or stolen on Monday by bandits. Official sources said four cars were snatched at gunpoint and three others stolen in different areas of the city. ... KARACHI: Death of woman sparks violence KARACHI, Oct 25: The death of a young woman and injuries to her fiance in a road accident at Nagin Chowgrangi on Monday sparked violence as three trucks were set on fire by the area people. ... KARACHI: Police advisory on cell phone safety KARACHI, Oct 25: Sindh police have informed mobile phone users to preserve a 15-digit special number in their cell phones, which can be ascertained by dialling *#06#, to check cell phone theft or snatching. ... KARACHI: Abbasi Shaheed Hospital facing many problems KARACHI, Oct 25: The Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH), the largest healthcare facility in control of the city government, is beset with many problems. Many of its departments remain underutilized as it faces a host of administrative and financial difficulties. ... KARACHI: Supplies for surgery not available at Abbasi Shaheed KARACHI, Oct 25: The persons to be operated upon at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital are supposed to provide to its operation theatre staff surgical gloves, inquiries made by Dawn have revealed. ... KARACHI: Hospital remains a hotbed of political strife KARACHI, Oct 25: When you enter the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital from one of the side-entrances, you see a slogan that has been put on the wall in green and which calls for the arrest of a doctor's killers. ... KARACHI: ENT operation theatre closed for last six months KARACHI, Oct 25: Surgeries at one of its two operation theatres of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital's Department of Ear, Nose, and Throat have been stopped for the last six months due to non- functioning of major and minor equipment ... KARACHI: No such thing as free medicine at ASH KARACHI, Oct 25: The most common complaint among the people visiting the hospital's outpatient department pertains to the failure by its management to provide medicines free of charge, inquiries made by Dawn have shown. ... KARACHI: BIE decides to penalize 3 employees: Answer script tampering KARACHI, Oct 25: The Board of Intermediate Education, Karachi, has decided to demote three employees involved in the issue of "dubious answer script" of the HSC annual examination, 2004, said a source privy to the board's meeting held on Monday. ... KARACHI: TMOs given 15 days to get city cleaned KARACHI, Oct 25: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Local Government Waseem Akhtar has warned all town municipal officers (TMOs) to ensure cleanliness throughout the city within 15 days or face disciplinary action. ... KARACHI: Doctors be told about banned drugs: PMA KARACHI, Oct 25: The health department does not have any mechanism through which they could inform the local doctors of the medicines which were banned worldwide, according to the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA). ... KARACHI: Construction of bus terminus in Baldia to begin soon KARACHI, Oct 25: The long standing problem of illegal inter- city bus termini seems to get resolved to some extent when the city government would initiate construction of bus terminus at Yousaf Goth ... KARACHI: Power breakdown hits hospital KARACHI, Oct 25: More than 10 operations were postponed and hundreds of other patients suffered, as they could not get ultrasound and X-ray tests at Sindh Government Hospital, New Karachi, due to power breakdown on Monday. ... KARACHI: Affectees of rains get relief cheques KARACHI, Oct 25: Sindh Minister for Planning and Development Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari at a ceremony here on Monday handed over relief cheques to the affectees of July 2003 rains in the city. ... KARACHI: Nazim worried over reports of bias in recruitment KARACHI, Oct 25: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan has expressed concern over the reports that provincial ministers have become active in recruiting their party workers in government departments. ... KARACHI: Education dept to be revamped, says minister KARACHI, Oct 25: Sindh Education department would be streamlined to enhance academic standards in the province for ensuring provision of quality education to the youngsters enrolled at the public schools. ... KARACHI: City gets 72mgd less water KARACHI, Oct 25: A major electricity breakdown affected all pumping stations of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board on Monday that caused serious hindrance in bulk water supply to the city. ... LAHORE: Teething troubles during test-run: Children's Hospital incinerator LAHORE, Oct 25: There are teething troubles with the only incinerator installed in the public sector Children's Hospital during its test-run. ... LAHORE: Faizpur interchange LAHORE, Oct 25: Governor Khalid Maqbool on Monday opened the Faizpur interchange on the Lahore-Islamabad Motorway, 17-KM off here. ... PESHAWAR: Traders advised not to keep over Rs10,000 in shops PESHAWAR, Oct 25: Police have officially advised local traders not to keep more than Rs10,000 in their shops as they cannot ensure safety. ... PESHAWAR: Drive launched to replace defective bus silencers PESHAWAR, Oct 25: Traffic police have launched a 15-day campaign to replace defective silencers of passenger buses plying in the city. ... PESHAWAR: Early sugarcane crushing urged PESHAWAR, Oct 25: Sugarcane growers on Monday staged a protest demonstration in front of the Peshawar Press Club, demanding that sugar mill owners should start early crushing of sugarcane without any further delay. ... PESHAWAR: Protests against rising prices PESHAWAR, Oct 25: Workers of the Pakistan Muslim League on Monday staged a demonstration against the provincial government to protest against the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal's failure to check the spiralling of prices of commodities of daily use ... PESHAWAR: Security for foreigners to be beefed up PESHAWAR, Oct 25: Law-enforcement agencies have been directed to beef up security for Chinese nationals and other foreigners working in the NWFP and Fata in order to avoid any untoward incident in the future. ... PESHAWAR: Nine booked for student abuse: Accused get pre-arrest bail PESHAWAR, Oct 25: The NWFP government has registered an FIR against nine former employees of a school, including three former headmasters, in a case of sexual abuse of students. ... PESHAWAR: 'Steps taken for women welfare' PESHAWAR, Oct 25: NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq said on Monday that the provincial government was giving top priority to the promotion of education and taking revolutionary steps in this regard despite financial constraints. ... PESHAWAR: Psychiatric patients complain of poor service PESHAWAR, Oct 25: Poor treatment facilities and a recent decision to stop providing free medicines to patients at the Sarhad Hospital for Psychiatric Diseases has increased patiens' woes, shows a survey. ... PESHAWAR: Woman gets bail in murder case PESHAWAR, Oct 25: The Peshawar High Court on Monday granted bail to a woman in a murder case against sureties of Rs400,000. A single-judge bench of Justice Tariq Pervez directed that Ms Rajmeena be released against two sureties of Rs200,000 each. ... MARDAN: Rights bodies claim credit for reforms MARDAN, Oct 25: Chairman of Citizen Action Committee, Izzat Mohammad Khaplwak, has said that the Aurat Foundation is struggling for the rights of women and claimed that because of its efforts ... HARIPUR: Dengue fever hits villages HARIPUR, Oct 25: Dengue fever is reported to have struck some villages in Khanpur and Hattar areas and a large number of people are reported to have been hospitalized after being exposed to people already running the fever. ... HYDERABAD: Protest mars district council session: Women councillors demand funds HYDERABAD, Oct 25: Women members of the district council on Monday disturbed proceedings of its session here on Monday, forcing the presiding officer to adjourn it for Tuesday after hardly 15 minutes of deliberation. ... HYDERABAD: MUET students win awards HYDERABAD, Oct 25: Students of the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology have obtained third position and cash award of Rs20,000 at the sixth South Asian Telecommunication Regulators' Council held at the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority headquarters in Islamabad. ... HYDERABAD: Writers oppose Kalabagh, Thal projects HYDERABAD, Oct 25: The Sindhi Adabi Sangat at its central executive committee meeting here on Sunday issued a seven-point declaration on various problems confronting Sindh. ... HYDERABAD: Probe officer accused of negligence in abduction case HYDERABAD, Oct 25: The DSP, CID unit, Hyderabad, on Monday informed the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, that the officer who investigated the caseof abduction of 14-year-old girl Nayab had spoiled the case. ... KHAIRPUR: Arrangements completed for Sachal Sarmast Urs KHAIRPUR, Oct 25: Arrangements have been completed for three-day 183rd annual Urs celebration of multi-lingual poet and Sufi saint Sachal Sarmast, scheduled to begin at his shrine in Daraza near Ranipur on Friday, October 29. ... SUKKUR: Train escapes mishap SUKKUR, Oct 25: The Peshawar-bound Khyber Mail narrowly escaped a disaster near Ghotki railway station at about 6am on Monday when its driver applied emergency brakes after seeing a piece of the track missing at a newly-constructed railway underpass. ... SWABI: 596 teachers appointed for primary schools SWABI, Oct 25: The district government has appointed 596 primary school teachers (PSTs) in the district on contract-basis, official sources told Dawn here on Monday. ... LARKANA: HSC-II exams position holders LARKANA, Oct 25: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Larkana, on Monday announced names of position holders in the Higher Secondary Certificate-II (humanitiesgroup) examinations of 2004. ... SUKKUR: Tribal feud settled by jirga: Root cause not addressed SUKKUR, Oct 25: A jirga settled a dispute between the Jagirani and Solangi tribes here on Monday. The dispute, which started some three months back resulted in clashes which left 17 people dead and 14 others, including two women, wounded from both sides. ... THATTA: Rangers continue fishing despite ban, allege fishermen THATTA, Oct 25: In violation of a ban on transporting fish catch out of four union councils of the Badin district, more than 60 vans loaded with fish are being transported to Karachi daily. ... MIRPURKHAS: Two killed on road MIRPURKHAS, Oct 25: Two people were killed and 10 others injured when a coaster rammed into a donkey-cart and then hit a tractor-trolley on the Digri-Mirpurkhas road near Junejo Mori on Sunday night. ... MULTAN: TCP role yet to benefit cotton growers MULTAN, Oct 25: Cotton prices remain below the officially announced minimum procurement price of Rs925 per 40kg despite the much-hyped role of the Trading Corporation of Pakistan to ensure fair returns to growers. ... TOBA TEK SINGH: Irregularities in educators' merit list TOBA TEK SINGH, Oct 25: Punjab Forest Minister Dr Ashfaqur Rehman, who has been appointed to supervise the transparency in the appointment of hundreds of educators, has refused to distribute appointment letters to the appointees. ... BAHAWALPUR: PML-N MPAs' bail before arrest extended BAHAWALPUR, Oct 25: A local court on Monday extended interim bails before arrest to two PML-N MPAs Malik Muhammad Iqbal Channar, Begum Parveen Masood Bhatti, two former MNAs, Punjab PML vice-president and 10 other office-bearers and activists till Nov 11. ... SARGODHA: Stone crushers for action against lease holders SARGODHA, Oct 25: Labourers of stone crushing units at Pull-11 have threatened to go on strike against the 'inhuman attitude' of the lease holders of hills and the Mineral department. ... SIALKOT: Subsidized flour 'missing' SIALKOT, Oct 25: The sale of subsidized flour bags remained suspended for the third consecutive day on Monday in various parts of the Sialkot city, Daska, Bhopalwala ... GUJRANWALA: Industrial workers' protest continues GUJRANWALA, Oct 25: Industrial workers continued their protest here on Monday against the privatization of social security department. ... KASUR: Electrification, education under CCBs KASUR, Oct 25: The district government has decided to include education sector and electrification of villages in the uplift schemes to be started under citizen community boards (CCBs). ... GUJRANWALA: Husband and wife commit suicide GUJRANWALA, Oct 25: A couple committed suicide by taking poisonous pills over monetary problems at Satellite Town here on Monday. ...

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