10 December 2004 Friday 27 Shawwal 1425 ISLAMABAD: 'All About Lifestyles' show opens tomorrow ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: A two-day "All About Lifestyles-2004" exhibition, organized by the Dawn Group of Newspapers, will open at the Jinnah Convention Centre here on Saturday. ... KARACHI: City's farming community struggling for survival KARACHI, Dec 9: Despite persisting drought-like situation in rural areas of Karachi, neither provincial nor the city government has prepared any plan to save livestock and fertile lands. ... KARACHI: Students protest against govt's policies KARACHI, Dec 9: Hundreds of students from various educational institutions of Karachi on Thursday took out a rally against changes in the educational curricula establishment of the Aga Khan University Board ... KARACHI: Handing over of city colleges challenged KARACHI, Dec 9: A division bench of the Sindh High Court issued notices to education secretary and others in a petition questioning the competence of the provincial government to privatize two leading colleges of the city and other educational institutions. ... KARACHI: Media's role in social change discussed KARACHI, Dec 9: Speakers at a seminar on Thursday lauded the role of media in highlighting local issues, especially facing people of rural areas, and stressed it should now focus on wrong doings and abuse of resources by elite class in urban areas. ... KARACHI: SESSI course on professional expertise concludes KARACHI, Dec 9: Sindh Minister for Labour and Industries, Mohammad Adil Siddiqi, has exhorted the doctors of Sindh Employees Social Security Institution to perform their duties with professional skill and spirit of service. ... KARACHI: More uplift projects to be initiated soon KARACHI, Dec 9: Work on over two dozen important development projects, including 14 pedestrian bridges, four major parks, eight underpasses, two flyovers ... KARACHI: 3 policemen arrested for extortion KARACHI, Dec 9: Three policemen were arrested on Thursday, for extorting money from six people in Gulberg. Police said three policemen picked up six people on December 5, for being Bengalis and levelled charges of illegal stay against them. ... KARACHI: Seniority list sought KARACHI, Dec 9: Sindh Minister for Social Welfare and Culture, Shabbir Ahmed Qaimkhani, has sought a report about the seniority list of officers of social welfare department within two days. ... KARACHI: Four mini-forests in city planned KARACHI, Dec 9: The city government plans to grow mini-forests in four different parts of Karachi, it is learnt. Sources in the city government said on Thursday that these mine-forests would be grown at Thado Dam in Gadap Town ... KARACHI: Kidnapping of judges condemned KARACHI, Dec 9: Kidnapping of three judges from the interior of Sindh has been widely condemned by the legal community and political parties. ... KARACHI: Transfer of NRL official stayed KARACHI, Dec 9: The Federal Service Tribunal stayed on Thursday the transfer of a senior manager (accounts) from the National Refinery Limited to a newly established organization. ... KARACHI: Police nab kidnappers, recover child KARACHI, Dec 9: Police arrested two alleged kidnappers and recovered a child from their captivity in Chakiwara on Thursday. ... KARACHI: PWD official shot dead in Liaquatabad KARACHI, Dec 9: A senior official of the public works department was shot dead by unknown persons in Liaquatabad on Thursday morning. ... KARACHI: Judgment reserved in multiple murder case KARACHI, Dec 9: An anti-terrorism court in Karachi reserved on Thursday judgment in the murder case of four women and a young man. Judge Arshad Noor Khan of the ATC-3 fixed Dec 15 for pronouncement of the verdict ... ISLAMABAD: Police torture case referred to trial court ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: The Supreme Court on Thursday referred a police torture case to a trial court directing its settlement within three months and submission of the compliance report to the apex court. ... LAHORE: Wheat release to mills may be liberalized LAHORE, Dec 9: The Punjab government may liberalise the release of wheat from January next and end the current quota system for mills, sources in the Food Department claimed here on Thursday. ... PESHAWAR: Recovery of kidnapped teacher demanded PESHAWAR, Dec 9: The NWFP chapter of the All Teachers Association on Thursday observed a one-day strike in the educational institutions of the city to protest against what it said the government's failure to recover the SET teacher kidnapped ... PESHAWAR: Prayer leader threatens to reoccupy mosque PESHAWAR, Dec 9: Maulana Mohammad Shoaib, the prayer leader of the Shoba Bazaar mosque who was removed from the mosque by local traders, has asked the provincial government to help him get back the possession of the mosque ... PESHAWAR: 12 officials held for corruption PESHAWAR, Dec 9: The National Accountability Bureau here on Thursday arrested 12 officials of various departments on charges of embezzlement and corrupt practices, said a press release. ... PESHAWAR: Health plan funds largely unused PESHAWAR, Dec 9: Non-availability of adequate funds and hurdles in projects' execution are affecting timely completion of the improvement and standardisation work of 21 district headquarters Hospitals in the province. ... PESHAWAR: Compensation, aid for widow PESHAWAR, Dec 9: IGP NWFP Mohammad Riffat Pasha on Thursday announced the shaheed police package for the widow of constable Khan Bahadur, who recently laid down his life in line of duty the other day, said a press release. ... PESHAWAR: Number of women in drug cases rising PESHAWAR, Dec 9: Eight women convicted of drug trafficking have been jailed for life and fined up to Rs1 million in the NWFP, official sources said here on Wednesday. ... PESHAWAR: Demand for recovery of kidnapped paramedic PESHAWAR, Dec 9: The NWFP Paramedical Association has warned of strike at all teaching hospitals in the city if their colleague, who was kidnapped in August, was not recovered within a week. ... HYDERABAD: CM blames farmers for impasse - Suspension of cane crushing HYDERABAD, Dec 9: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim on Thursday accused growers of blackmailing sugar mills to gain maximum price for their produce. ... HYDERABAD: Tax collection by market committees stopped HYDERABAD, Dec 9: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has taken strong notice of illegal tax collection by market committees and directed the RPO of Hyderabad and the RPO of Sukkur to arrest people ... SARGODHA: Teachers observe strike SARGODHA, Dec 9: Teachers of all the government-run educational institutions in the district on Thursday observed strike to protest against the alleged harsh and humiliating attitude of the EDO. ... SAHIWAL: Case against inspector, UC Nazim SAHIWAL, Dec 9: Farid Town police on Thursday registered a case against a union council Nazim and an inspector for misusing powers and snatching a camera from a local journalist after three months. ... FAISALABAD: TMA to lease out its property for commercial use FAISALABAD, Dec 9: The Tehsil Municipal Administration (city) has decided to lease out its properties for commercial purposes after constructing plazas on these lands. ... HYDERABAD: Call to free union leaders HYDERABAD, Dec 9: The All-Pakistan Trade Unions Organization has condemned registration of what it called false cases against workers of the Thatta Sugar Mills and demanded that the cases should be withdrawn forthwith and arrested union leaders be released. ... HYDERABAD: 50-bed hospital in Matiari opens HYDERABAD, Dec 9: Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has said the president and the prime minister are interested in spreading an industrial network to provide jobs to people and alleviate poverty in the province. ... RAWALPINDI: Imambargah firing case: 4 sentenced to death RAWALPINDI, Dec 9: Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 Judge Manzoor Ahmed on Thursday awarded death sentence to four convicts in Shah-i-Najaf firing case. Those who got the death sentence are Habibullah, Fazal Hameed, Hafiz Naseer Ahmed and Tahir Mehmood. ... SHIKARPUR: Police failure to recover judges condemned SHIKARPUR, Dec 9: Lawyers of the district took out a procession here on Thursday against the failure of police to recover two additional session judges and nine other people. ... MIRPURKHAS: 35,000 channels to be lined in Sindh - official MIRPURKHAS, Dec 9: The Sindh secretary for agriculture has said 35,000 watercourses will be lined in the province under the national programme at a cost of Rs22 billion in four years. ... BANNU: Protest against elders' arrest BANNU, Dec 9: Hundreds of tribesmen took out a procession and marched to the office of Bannu DCO to register their protest against the arrest of tribal elders during the continuing operation in the FR Bannu areas. ... KHAIRPUR: 15 held over land dispute KHAIRPUR, Dec 9: Fifteen people were arrested by police in connection with a land dispute on Wednesday. Shar and Samoo groups clashed in Noor Mohammad Samoo village in the Thari Mirwah police area. ... LARKANA: Govt urged to procure sugdasi rice LARKANA, Dec 9: The Larkana district government has urged the federal agriculture ministry to make arrangements for the procurement of the sugdasi variety of rice lying in huge quantities in warehouses in upper Sindh and Balochistan. ... SUKKUR: Major part of barrage repairs completed SUKKUR, Dec 9: Lt-Gen Zubair of the Army Engineering Corps and Maj-Gen Shahid Niaz of the Frontier Works Organization, along with Sukkur Barrage chief engineer Mohammad Nawaz Memon and project director and consultant Noor Mohammad Baloch, on Thursday visited the barrage and reviewed the repair work. ...

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