18 November 2004 Thursday 05 Shawwal 1425 KARACHI: Ibad orders action against criminals KARACHI, Nov 17: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad ordered on Wednesday to keep vigilance and take strict legal action against drug dealers, gamblers, obscene film players and those who harbour criminals in the province. ... KARACHI: Sindh govt's appeals against service tribunal dismissed KARACHI, Nov 17: The Supreme Court has dismissed two provincial government appeals against the Sindh Service Tribunal order allowing petitions of two former information directors against their removal from service for embezzlement. ... ISLAMABAD: Stranded pilgrims to be airlifted in a week ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: The ongoing operation to airlift 20,000 stranded Pakistanis will be completed within a week, managing director of PIA Ch Ahmad Saeed said on Wednesday. ... KARACHI: 5 tanneries in Korangi likely to be sealed KARACHI, Nov 17: The Sindh Environment Protection Agency in its drive to make industries and public sector organizations compliant to environment concerns is likely to seal five tanneries and four sugar mills after Eidul Fitr holidays. ... KARACHI: Handing over of Dawood College to NED proposed KARACHI, Nov 17: The Pakistan Engineering Council has recommended the Higher Education Commission to move a summary to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz for handing over the Dawood College of Engineering and Technology Karachi to the NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi as its constituent college. ... KARACHI: World Fisheries Day on Nov 21 KARACHI, Nov 17: The Pakistan Fisher folk Forum has planned to celebrate World Fisheries Day falling on Nov 21 holding different colourful cultural programmes. At least 50,000 participants representing the community and NGOs have been invited to attend the programme, PFF spokesman told PPI on Wednesday. ... KARACHI: Changes likely in laws to protect rights of children KARACHI, Nov 17: The government is working on a national plan of action on child rights under which suitable amendments would be incorporated in the existing laws to protect rights of children. ... KARACHI: Fake mummy on display at museum KARACHI, Nov 17: The National Museum is holding a special exhibition of the fake mummy discovered in a house near the Afghan and Iranian border in 2000, says a press release. It adds that the exhibition, titled "The legacy of the Persian mummy", will remain open for a month. ... KARACHI: Sports in Lyari on decline KARACHI, Nov 17: Although the old city area of Lyari, once known for producing famous sportsmen, has still a large number of sports organizations, sports lovers and players see bleak future owing to government's indifferent attitude towards this area. ... KARACHI: Traffic mess around Lea Market irks people KARACHI, Nov 17: Haphazardly parked vehicles around Lea Market have become a persisting menace for commuters, pedestrians and residents in Lyari Town, who hold transporters and area police responsible for the situation. ... KARACHI: 100 truckloads of waste being dumped daily near Rehri KARACHI, Nov 17: The second largest coastal village, its surrounding area and the sea are under dual threat of pollution by the industrial waste as well as the urban garbage thrown by the administration of different towns. ... KARACHI: Four shot dead in separate incidents: Pedestrian dies KARACHI, Nov 17: Four persons were shot dead in separate incidents in different parts of the city on Wednesday and late Tuesday night. Bullet-riddled bodies of two young men were found in Lyari on Wednesday morning. ... KARACHI: Murder suspect arrested KARACHI, Nov 17: Police arrested a suspect, involved in the murder of two women on Chand Raat in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, from Gulshan-i-Hadeed on Wednesday. DSP Javed Aslam told Dawn that the suspect, Mubashir Husain, was nabbed by the Sharea Faisal investigation police on the identification of an 11-year-old housemaid, Nadia, who had survived the incident. ... KARACHI: Body to decide shifting of centres to colleges KARACHI, Nov 17: A high-powered committee of the University of Karachi will look into a plea of a group of college teachers with regard to setting up degree examination centres outside the KU campus, said sources on the campus. ... KARACHI: University employee reinstated KARACHI, Nov 17: The Federal Service Tribunal has reinstated an employee of the Pakistan Study Centre, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, with retrospective effect. M. Shahid Mughal was employed as a storekeeper at the centre in 1996. He was dismissed from service in September 2001 under the efficiency and discipline rules. ... KARACHI: Film festival at Goethe begins today KARACHI, Nov 17: The Goethe Institut will screen seven feature films on its newly opened premises over a month. The film festival will begin on Thursday. The movies will be screened on Thursdays and Mondays at 7pm. ... ISLAMABAD: Flyover project - firm hired to oversee construction ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has hired the services of a consultant firm for designing and supervising the construction of Zero Point Flyover, a source in the authority told Dawn on Wednesday. ... ISLAMABAD: More facilities for Patriata demanded ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: The Patriata Hill Resort, also known as New Murree, needs improvements for making it a more joyous spot for the visitors. Thousands of visitors, who throng this resort on special events and during holidays, are often caught in rush as facilities here prove to be insufficient. ... LAHORE: Call to review decision on new bus-stand LAHORE, Nov 17: The Pakistan Motor Transport Federation has demanded review of the City District Government decision to allow operation of buses from its newly-developed bus stand on Bund Road after bidding. ... LAHORE: House-owner freed after questioning LAHORE, Nov 17: Intelligence agencies on Wednesday set free owner of the house from where four men suspected of having supplied weapons to terrorists had been picked up on Monday. ... LAHORE: Vegetables, fruits short on Eid days LAHORE, Nov 17: Fresh fruit and vegetables are no longer available in the provincial metropolis for the past three days. The supply has been suspended on account of closure of the fruit and vegetable markets for the Eid holidays. Only the left over stale fruits and vegetables are available at a few shops. ... HYDERABAD: Demand for probe into water theft HYDERABAD, Nov 17: The Rahuki Tail Abadgar Association has demanded an investigation into the corrupt practices of the concerned irrigation officials who have deprived the tail-end growers of the Rahuki distributory of their due share of water. ... LARKANA: Establishment of college delayed LARKANA, Nov 17: Objections raised by the Sindh health department are the main cause of delay in the establishment of a dental college in the city. Sources told this correspondent on Wednesday that the district government had planned the first ever big dental college for the benefit of students and patients of the upper Sindh and committed itself to pay the lion's share for the project. ... DADU: 'Load shedding has ended' DADU, Nov 17: Federal Minister for Water and Power Liaquat Jatoi has said that power load shedding has ended throughout the country and it has surplus electricity now. ... HYDERABAD: Liquor death toll rises to 19 HYDERABAD, Nov 17: The toll in the poisonous liquor tragedy rose to 19 as three more people died on Wednesday. The latest victims were identified as Javed, Ibrahim (residents of Juriyal Shah Colony) and Saeed, a resident of Millatabad. ... HYDERABAD: Protest against police 'excesses' HYDERABAD, Nov 17:A large number of residents of the Kotri SITE area, including women, staged a sit-in outside the press club here on Wednesday to protest against Kotri ADPO Mazhar Shaikh and the SHO. ... ABBOTTABAD: Japan approves Rs1.2bn water plan for Abbottabad ABBOTTABAD, Nov 17: The Japanese government has approved a Rs1.2 billion water supply scheme for the Abbottabad district and work on the project will start in January, district nazim Mustafa Khan Jadoon told a pres conference here on Wednesday. ... PESHAWAR: Action urged against units violating rules - Waste disposal PESHAWAR, Nov 17: The Environment Protection Agency has proposed that registration of those private hospitals, maternity homes and laboratories should be cancelled which do not conform to the standard procedure outlined for waste disposal in the draft Hospital Waste Management Rules 2003. ... HYDERABAD: Jeddah airport's PIA staff criticized HYDERABAD, Nov 17: People's Party Parliamentarians MNA Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur has lashed out at the PIA staff posted at Jeddah airport and said that it is due to their inefficiency that hundreds of Pakistanis who had gone to Saudi Arabia for performing Umrah could not celebrate Eidul Fitr with their families. ... RAWALPINDI: Re-designing of Rawal Road soon RAWALPINDI, Nov 17: Rawal Road would shortly undergo re- designing to reduce the number of accidents that have risen sharply in the recent past. The re-designing work will commence once the Committee Chowk underpass becomes fully functional. The project is estimated to cost up to Rs2 million. ... RAWALPINDI: Construction flaws in underpass RAWALPINDI, Nov 17: Hasty completion of the Committee Chowk underpass project speaks volumes for poor standard of construction. Talking to Dawn, in charge project Riaz Akhtar Khan admitted that there were many construction flaws. ... TAXILA: Archaeology dept yet to take action against official - Removal of slab from Shish Mahal TAXILA, Nov 17: High-ups of the Department of Archaeology and Museums have hushed up an inquiry that found an official guilty of removing a marble slab from the floor of Shahi Takht at Shish Mahal in Lahore and later gifting it to a representative of an international cultural organization to get undue favour. ... RAWALPINDI: Detained housemaid recovered RAWALPINDI, Nov 17: A teenage housemaid, believed to have been tortured and detained in an apartment of a former deputy secretary for the last four days, was recovered on Wednesday night, police said. ... RAWALPINDI: Meat prices surge again RAWALPINDI, Nov 17: The end of Ramazan has brought an unprecedented increase of Rs15-25 per kilogramme in meat prices. The butchers are now selling beef at Rs120 per kg and mutton at Rs200 per kg instead of the official rate of Rs90 and Rs185 per kg respectively. ... BAHAWALPUR: Punjab may disband post of DIG range BAHAWALPUR, Nov 17: The Punjab government is examining a proposal to disband the office and rank of the deputy inspector general of police at range levels across the province, it is learnt on Wednesday. ... SARGODHA: Naib Nazim, many others arrested: Police station fire SARGODHA, Nov 17: Mela police have rounded up UC Naib Nazim Ansar Mehmood, his 12 supporters and others for 'instigating' people who set ablaze Bhabra police post on Eid days as a protest on the killing of a youth. ... TOBA TEK SINGH: 'Educators appointed in violation of merit' TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 17: A committee will probe into the scam of appointment of more than 500 educators in the education department in violation of merit. This was stated here on Wednesday by Punjab Forest Minister Dr Ashfaqur Rehman. ... FAISALABAD: Girl shot dead over marriage dispute FAISALABAD, Nov 17: A girl was shot dead while his sister sustained serious bullet wounds when a youth opened fire on them over a marriage issue in Railway Colony here on Tuesday night. ... GUJRANWALA: Worker dies in Gujranwala shoe factory fire GUJRANWALA, Nov 17: A worker was burnt alive when a shoe factory caught fire on Mian Sansi Road here on Wednesday. Reports said the chemical dumped in a factory's room caught fire when someone threw a cigarette there. Within no time, the fire engulfed the entire building reducing shoes and machinery to ashes. ... SHEIKHUPURA: Arrangements for Guru Nanak's birth celebrations SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 17: Preparations to celebrate 536th birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikh religion, in Nankana Sahib, some 56 kilometres from here, are in final stages. ... SIALKOT: School lacks human, material resources SIALKOT, Nov 17: People from various walks of life have protested against the shortage of teachers and non-availability of buildings and basic facilities in government schools. ... GUJRANWALA: Couple stabbed to death GUJRANWALA, Nov 17: A couple was stabbed to death and three others injured over a marriage issue in Kamoki on Wednesday. Reports said Sakina Bibi of Habibpura married Amjad of Daska on her own accord. ... DERA GHAZI KHAN: Dera cemetery being 'vandalized' DERA GHAZI KHAN, Nov 17: The old cemetery, which is better known as Gora Qabristan, is being vanalized by some people who are digging the graves for picking material for use. ... KASUR: Demand for lenient visa policy KASUR, Nov 17: Haryana State Assembly member Ajey Singh Chutala, who is the son of the chief minister, said lenient visa policy between India and Pakistan would strengthen trade and agriculture sectors in both countries. ... SIALKOT: AEO, three headmistresses suspended SIALKOT, Nov 17: The district government has suspended from service an assistant education officer, three headmistresses, three teachers and a senior clerk for misconduct and violating recruitment rules. ... DADU: Nazim seeks funds for LUMHS DADU, Nov 17: 'A diagnostic and research laboratory, a girls' hostel and an administration block in the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences have been constructed with the efforts of its vice-chancellor but some elements have been creating problems for the university administration.' ... SUKKUR: Breach floods crops SUKKUR, Nov 17: About 40 acres of cotton and rice crops were inundated when a 150-foot-breach occurred in the Old Masso Wah near Jehan Khan Unnar village near Mirpur Mathelo on the Eid. ... LARKANA: SHO and ASI suspended LARKANA, Nov 17: Protesting against the SHO of the Waleed police station the residents of Shaikh Zayed Colony and union council-2 blocked the Larkana Ratodero road near Gharwah. ...

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