01 December 2004 Wednesday 18 Shawwal 1425 KARACHI: Ibad hints at hiring army men as pro-VCs KARACHI, Nov 30: The Sindh Governor, Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan, on Tuesday said that persons from outside the faculty, including army personnel, could be inducted as pro-vice chancellors into public sectors universities ... KARACHI: SHC stays water plant in education city KARACHI, Nov 30: The Sindh High Court restrained on Tuesday the Nestle Milkpak from initiating 'any commercial or industrial activity, including setting up of a bottling plant' ... KARACHI: 856 NED students awarded degrees - 13th convocation KARACHI, Nov 30: As many as 856 graduates were conferred bachelors and masters degrees at the 13th convocation of the NED University of Engineering and Technology on Tuesday. ... KARACHI: Two inspectors held for detaining senator KARACHI, Nov 30: Sindh Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui has said that two inspectors of excise police, Muhammad Ali Soomro and Mushtaq Khokhar, who kept Senator Ismail Bulaidi in illegal confinement and subjected him to torture, are arrested ... KARACHI: Upsurge in kidnapping cases clarified KARACHI, Nov 30: A spokesman for the Sindh police has clarified that 41 cases of kidnapping were registered this year, and not 36 cases as reported in Dawn on November 29. ... KARACHI: Hearing in SBC case adjourned KARACHI, Nov 30: The ordinance amending the Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act is incapable of being enforced uniformly, Sindh Bar Council executive chairman Abrar Hasan argued before the high court on Tuesday. ... KARACHI: Japan offers construction of steel flyovers KARACHI, Nov 30: The city government has decided to lay a network of flyovers, numbering over 25, at all important and busy traffic intersections as they are urgently required to help resolve the city's ever-growing traffic jams and congestion problems. ... KARACHI: Absenting teachers, students to be penalized KARACHI, Nov 30: In order to check the trend of getting tuition from their own college teachers at tuition centres, and to ensure the holding of classes in colleges ... KARACHI: Faiz remembered KARACHI, Nov 30: Lavish complements were paid to Faiz - the person and the poet -at a meeting held in his honour by Pakistan Academy of Letters on Monday at the City Officers Club. Dr Mohammad Ali Siddiqui presided over the function. ... KARACHI: Removal of tinted glasses ordered KARACHI, Nov 30: The Sindh Home Minister, Rauf Siddiqui, on Tuesday gave three days time to owners of vehicles with tinted glasses to remove them for being unlawful, warning of strict legal action otherwise. ... KARACHI: SC dismisses petition KARACHI, Nov 30: The Supreme Court upheld on Tuesday a Sindh Service Tribunal order against removal of a college principal and dismissed a petition for leave to appeal. ... LAHORE: Sugarcane arrivals to mills pick up LAHORE, Nov 30: The Punjab chapter of the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association has no plans to suspend cane crushing as harvest of the crop has started picking up in the province. ... ISLAMABAD: 1.64kg heroin seized ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: The Special Investigation Cell of the Anti-Narcotics Force, Islamabad, in collaboration with the Regional Directorate, Rawalpindi, seized 1.640 kilogramme heroin, an ANF spokesman said here on Tuesday. ... LAHORE: Lahore Bar to resist commercial court LAHORE, Nov 30: The Lahore High Court Bar Association on Tuesday resolved that it would put up a strong resistance and hold a country wide agitation if the government established commercial court. ... LAHORE: Policemen assault journalist at secretariat LAHORE, Nov 30: Security officials at the Punjab Civil Secretariat beat up a senior Dawn staffer on Tuesday when he tried to enter the premises. According to Zaheer Mahmood Siddiqui ... LAHORE: Fakharunnisa to struggle for rule of law LAHORE, Nov 30: Ms Fakharunnisa Khokhar, who retired as a Lahore High Court judge in June this year, on Tuesday formally announced her candidature for the office of the Lahore High Court Bar Association president. ... LAHORE: 'Pollution causing reduction in yields' LAHORE, Nov 30: Environment pollution is causing an alarming reduction in the yield of crops especially wheat, rice, soybean, gram, sunflower and canola. ... PESHAWAR: NWFP boards reduce exam fees PESHAWAR, Nov 30: All intermediate and secondary education boards in the NWFP have decided to reduce the examination fees to a reasonable level and to make the examination system smoother. ... PESHAWAR: Steps urged to help Aids patients PESHAWAR, Nov 30: Women activists of civil society organizations held a walk on Tuesday and called upon the health department to make proper arrangements for symptomatic treatment of HIV/Aids patients at public sector hospitals. ... PESHAWAR: Two Afghans convicted in rocket case PESHAWAR, Nov 30: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday found two Afghan nationals guilty of the March 23 rocket attack on Peshawar and sentenced them to five years' rigorous imprisonment and fined them Rs50,000 each. ... FAISALABAD: Drive against smoky vehicles ordered FAISALABAD, Nov 30: The district government has directed the environmental protection department and the traffic police to jointly launch a campaign against noise and smoke pollution. ... GUJRANWALA: Mother of 4 killed by husband GUJRANWALA, Nov 30: A mother of four children was stabbed to death by her husband over a family feud in Baghbanpura here on Tuesday. ... TOBA TEK INGH: Case against SHO, others ordered TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 30: Additional District and Sessions Judge Ghulam Sarwar Qadri on Tuesday ordered registration of a murder case against Rajana SHO and other policemen for killing a villager in an encounter. ... FAISALABAD: Ten rusticated students fined FAISALABAD, Nov 30: As many as 10 students out of 18 who were rusticated from the University of Agriculture were awarded various penalties here on Tuesday for their involvement in in discipline and misconduct cases. ... QUETTA: Raids made to arrest Chechen accomplices QUETTA, Nov 30: Law-enforcement agencies conducted raids at various places on Tuesday in search of companions of a Chechen suspect who was arrested on Monday for hurling a hand-grenade and attempting to rob a money-changer. ... KHAIRPUR: Eight villages without power for 3 months KHAIRPUR, Nov 30: Supply of power to eight villages of the Kingri taluka remains disconnected for the last three months. Residents of the villages staged a sit-in outside the press club on Tuesday ... ISLAMABAD: Need for new aircraft on Chitral route stressed ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: People in Chitral have criticized the government for delaying the induction of new "all-weather" aircraft on the Peshawar-Chitral route. ... PESHAWAR: Uplift funds unutilized PESHAWAR, Nov 30: District governments in the NWFP have, during the first three months of the current fiscal year, utilized less than one per cent of theamount allocated to them by the government for development work, official sources said. ... PESHAWAR: Anti-polio drive begins PESHAWAR, Nov 30: The NWFP health department has launched an anti-polio campaign and it will vaccinate an estimated seven million children below the age of five years in the city, says Dr Mosam Khan, executive health officer, Peshawar District. ... PESHAWAR: Awareness among women stressed PESHAWAR, Nov 30: Speakers at a seminar have stressed the need to make women aware of the risks of the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) and said they constitute a highly vulnerable group. ... HYDERABAD: Council seeks report from DCO - Demolition of houses HYDERABAD, Nov 30: The Hyderabad District Council on Tuesday sought a report from the DCO on demolition of houses in Mir Fateh Colony on the ground that it had been done in haste and without consulting the district nazim. ... HYDERABAD: Sugar mills warned against arbitrary closure HYDERABAD, Nov 30: All sugar mills in Sindh have been warned in an official letter issued by the Sindh cane commissioner that they cannot close their mills without Sindh government's approval ... SUKKUR: Three killed, eight injured in clash SUKKUR, Nov 30: Three people were killed and eight were injured in an armed clash between two groups of the Shar tribe near Daharki, Khenjoo police station jurisdiction, on Tuesday. The clash followed two incidents of motorcycle robbery. ... SHIKARPUR: Protest against police failure to find kidnapped men SHIKARPUR, Nov 30: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz (Zain) continued their token hunger strike on the second day at the Lakhi Gate Tower Chowk here on Tuesday ...

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