19 November 2004 Friday 06 Shawwal 1425 KARACHI: Arbab reviews mass transit, water supply schemes KARACHI, Nov 18: The Chief Minister, Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, on Thursday presided over a high-level meeting held to review the Karachi Mass Transit and leakage in Karachi's water supply schemes. ... KARACHI: City nazim, minister leave for Islamabad KARACHI, Nov 18: City Nazim Naimatullah Khan left for Islamabad on Thursday to attend a high-level meeting, to be chaired by President Pervez Musharraf on Friday ... KARACHI: Nazim declines to attend international seminar KARACHI, Nov 18: City Nazim Niamatullah Khan has refused to attend an international seminar currently being held in France as a protest against the Sindh chief minister's recent statement concerning the nazim's visits abroad. ... KARACHI: Six hydrants to be closed, four given to KWSB KARACHI, Nov 18: A high-level meeting here on Thursday decided, in principle, to close down six, of the 10, KWSB hydrants presently being managed by the rangers ... KARACHI: Edhi booth at CHK set on fire KARACHI, Nov 18: An Edhi centre booth situated at Civil Hospital was set on fire by unknown persons on Thursday. "Some unknown suspects threw some chemical on the wooden booth which set it on fire. ... KARACHI: Two youths found murdered KARACHI, Nov 18: Bodies of two youths were found in different areas of the city on Thursday morning. Police said that a trussed up body, which had torture marks and bore bullet wounds in the head was found in Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society. ... KARACHI: Fate of medical students hangs in balance KARACHI, Nov 18: Many students of the Dow Medical College and the Sindh Medical College, enrolled with the University of Karachi, are still in a state of confusion as authorities concerned are failing to do the needful in their case. ... KARACHI: Displaced people hold demo against demolition KARACHI, Nov 18: Members of the families dislodged from their houses in Shah Rasool Colony by the KBCA on the eve of Eid staged a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club on Thursday. ... KARACHI: DCO asked to submit report KARACHI, Nov 18: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has directed the Karachi DCO to submit to him within 24 hours a report on the recent anti-encroachment operation in Clifton. ... KARACHI: Notices issued on plea challenging ordinance KARACHI, Nov 18: The Sindh High Court on Thursday issued notices to a deputy attorney-general and the advocate-general for Friday in a petition challenging an ordinance promulgated on Nov 3 to amend the Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act 1973. ... KARACHI: Supreme Court stays restoration of plot KARACHI, Nov 18: The Supreme Court stayed on Thursday the operation of a Sindh High Court order restoring a 48-acre lease of land in Gadap to a petitioner. ... KARACHI: Children fall prey to polio despite vaccination KARACHI, Nov 18: More than 85 per cent of the children in Sindh, who were diagnosed as having polio this year, were administered anti-polio drops several times ... KARACHI: Work on Korangi Zoo aquarium to start soon KARACHI, Nov 18: The renovation and remaining construction work on Korangi Zoo's aquarium building is expected to start in the next few days as the City Nazim, Naimatullah Khan, has approved the plan in this regard. ... KARACHI: KU's medicine faculty gets new dean KARACHI, Nov 18: The Sindh governor, who is also the chancellor of the University of Karachi, has appointed a new dean for the varsity's faculty of medicine with immediate effect. ... KARACHI: Hawkesbay villages lack amenities KARACHI, Nov 18: Residents of Hawkesbay's remote areas falling in Keamari Town limits have been facing a lot of problems due to non-availability of public transport and absence of proper road network. ... KARACHI: Contaminated water being supplied to Lyari KARACHI, Nov 18: Around 5,000 houses, situated on either side of Baghdadi's Fida Hussain Sheikha Road and Saifee Lane, are receiving contaminated water for the last one month. ... LAHORE: CBR urged to start ST registration in Lahore LAHORE, Nov 18: Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Mian Misbahur Rehman has said that the Central Board of Revenue should establish a valuation collectorate ... RAWALPINDI: Aerial survey for ring road completed: Nazim RAWALPINDI, Nov 18: The aerial survey for construction of a 28-km-long ring road in the city has been completed, said district Nazim Raja Tariq Kiani here on Thursday. ... RAWALPINDI: Poor attendance in offices, educational institutions RAWALPINDI, Nov 18: Attendance at all government offices and educational institutions remained thin on Thursday, as they opened after four-day Eid holidays. ... RAWALPINDI: Ban on smoking at public places to be enforced in seven days RAWALPINDI, Nov 18: The district government on Thursday announced strict implementation of the ban on smoking at public places. ... PESHAWAR: Working women face accommodation problem PESHAWAR, Nov 18: Working women and self-financing university students hailing from remote areas of the province are facecing problems because of shortage of hostels in the city. ... PESHAWAR: Policy on rickshaws falls prey to apathy: Air, noise pollution PESHAWAR, Nov 18: The NWFP government's policy to gradually phase out environmentally harmful auto-rickshaws driven with two-stroke engines failed to achieve desired results because of official apathy ... PESHAWAR: Relief sought for Chitral PESHAWAR, Nov 18: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MNA from Chitral, Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali, has said that recent heavy snowfall had caused widespread damage in the valley and asked the government to announce a relief package for the affected people. ... PESHAWAR: Medical university proposal approved PESHAWAR, Nov 18: Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah has agreed to a proposal for establishing a medical university in the province, saying that every possible measure would be taken to implement it. ... PESHAWAR: Blood 'hoarding' in hospitals alleged PESHAWAR, Nov 18: Relatives of patients in teaching hospitals have alleged that doctors force them to arrange blood unnecessarily. ... PESHAWAR: Reshuffle in health department PESHAWAR, Nov 18: The NWFP government on Thursday ordered promotions, transfers and postings of several officers of health department. ... PESHAWAR: Accused in molestation case at large PESHAWAR, Nov 18: A teenager accused of having molested a four-year-old boy is still at large two weeks after he committed the crime. ... HYDERABAD: Sindh demands supply of more anti-snake vaccines HYDERABAD, Nov 18: The director-general of health services, Sindh, Dr Hadi Bux Jatoi has said that from Jan to Oct 2, 247 cases of snakebite were reported in different government hospitals of the Tharparkar district. ... HYDERABAD: Liquor tragedy toll rises to 20 HYDERABAD, Nov 18: A man, Shahnawaz, son of Bashir, died on Thursday due to consumption of poisonous liquor, raising the toll to 20. The victim was a resident of Makrani Para. His death was confirmed by Dr Kashif of the Civil Hospital. ... HYDERABAD: Road project okayed HYDERABAD, Nov 18: Dadu District Nazim Malik Asad Sikandar has said that the Sindh government has approved the project of a road from Kotri to Khanpur which will reduce distance and travel time. ... HYDERABAD: DPO says victims had consumed polishing spirit: 'Death toll 12, not 19' HYDERABAD, Nov 18: District police authorities have contradicted press reports that 19 people had died after consuming liquor and claimed that according to their investigation only 12 persons had died. ... HYDERABAD: Nazim accuses police of supporting land grabber HYDERABAD, Nov 18: Kotri Taluka Nazim Khuda Bux Joyo has appealed to the president and the prime minister of Pakistan to order a judicial inquiry by a judge of the Sindh High Court into police firing on the faithful on Eid day. ... SWABI: Goods worth Rs10m gutted in Swabi SWABI, Nov 18: At least 12 cabins were gutted when a fire broke out in the main bazaar of the Tordher area. The president of the Anjuman-i-Dokandaran said on Thursday that the cause of the fire was not known. ... CHITRAL: Power supply remains suspended CHITRAL, Nov 18: Small Hydel Development Organization (SHYDO) has failed to restore power supply in those areas of Mulkhow tehsil which were hit by torrential rains and snowfall last month. ... TIMERGARA: Bodies of accident victims arrive TIMERGARA, Nov 18: Bodies of three persons who died in different incidents in Saudi Arabia during Eid holidays have reached the Lower Dir district. ... SUKKUR: Plot allotted for college leased to individual SUKKUR, Nov 18: The district coordination officer of Sukkur, Abdul Qadir Mangi, took a serious notice on Thursday of the leasing of a 75-acre plot at the Sukkur bypass to one Haji Mohammad Khan Leghari, resident of Daharki. ... SHIKARPUR: Five of a family die in accident SHIKARPUR, Nov 18: Six members of a family, three of them women, were killed when an oil tanker hit a donkey-cart near Khwasti Brohi village on the Kandhkot-Shikarpur road on Thursday. ... KHAIRPUR: Man gunned down, girl kidnapped KHAIRPUR, Nov 18: Four armed men gunned down Liaquat Ali Rind in the A-section police area on Thursday. The armed men who were on motorcycles opened fire on Liaquat when he was on his way to school in Mumtaz colony. ... KOHAT: Kohat nazim leads raid on women's institute KOHAT, Nov 18: A police party, led by Kohat district nazim, raided the Women Regional Institute for Teachers' Training on Thursday and allegedly manhandled senior instructors there. ... JACOBABAD: Jacobabad bifurcation plan on the cards JACOBABAD, Nov 18: The Federal Minister for Local Bodies, Justice (rtd) Abdul Razzaq Thaheem, has said that the Sindh chief minister will soon announce the bifurcation of the district. ... LARKANA: Conservation plan in doldrums LARKANA, Nov 18: The Moenjodaro Conservation and Research Cell has not started functioning as the department of archaeology has failed to appoint a project director for it. ... FAISALABAD: Youth killed by female bandit, her accomplice FAISALABAD, Nov 18: A female dacoit and her accomplice gunned down a youth on offering resistance in People's Colony here on Wednesday night. ... GUJRANWALA: Three die of cholera in Gujranwala GUJRANWALA, Nov 18: Three children died of cholera while eight were in serious condition at the DHQ Hospital here on Thursday. ... SAHIWAL: Crops, village inundated by breach in LBDC SAHIWAL, Nov 18: Crops on hundreds of acres and a village were inundated as 40 feet wide breach occurred in Lower Bari Doab Canal (LBDC) on Thursday morning between RDs 361 and 362 near Chak 96/6-R. ... MULTAN: Trader, son declared POs in liquor cases MULTAN, Nov 18: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 on Thursday declared a trader, his son and a servant proclaimed offenders in toxic liquor cases. ... SIALKOT: Couple among five killed in accidents SIALKOT, Nov 18: Five people, including a couple, were killed in separate road accidents in Sialkot and Narowal districts during the last 30 hours. ... LAHORE: Three murdered in Lahore LAHORE, Nov 18: Three people, including two friends, were reportedly murdered in different incidents in the city on Thursday. ... GUJRANWALA: GT Road section in a shambles GUJRANWALA, Nov 18: Motorists and transporters have demanded the re-surfacing of GT Road from Kharian to Lahore. The present condition of the road, according to them, is costing them heavily in terms of wear and tear. ... SIALKOT: Sambrial tehsil still without resources SIALKOT, Nov 18: Even after eight days of its elevation as tehsil, Sambrial is awaiting staff and other infrastructure facilities. ... TOBA TEK SINGH: Wanted man arrested TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 18: A proclaimed offender, who had escaped from a lock-up in Sheikhupura a few weeks ago, was arrested by the Gojra police on Wednesday night. ... QUETTA: Five delay-action dams to cost Rs140 million QUETTA, Nov 18: The Balochistan government is spending Rs140 million on the construction of five delay-action dams in different areas of district Lasbela to save rain water for irrigation. ... LARKANA: PPP foundation day on 30th LARKANA, Nov 18: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will celebrate its 38th foundation day here on November 30. The Larkana PPP finalized the arrangements for accommodating about 4,000 participants ...

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