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Print - 2004-02-29
17 arrested in Malaysia in protest against police

17 arrested in Malaysia in protest against police

Seventeen people including activists and politicians were arrested in Kuala Lumpur for illegal assembly Saturday in a protest against alleged police brutality and abuse of power.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Government committed to uplift of rural women

Government committed to uplift of rural women

PML-Q Vice-President and Senator, Tahira Latif said here on Saturday that the government is taking all necessary measures for the uplift of rural women and urged them to come forward and realise their rights.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Flag-march in Multan

Flag-march in Multan

Pakistan Army and police organised a flag-march in Multan on Saturday for maintaining peace and tranquillity during the 10th of Muharram when Shias take out processions and beat their chests to commemorate the incident of Karbala.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
53rd flower show on March 5

53rd flower show on March 5

The 53rd traditional flower show is being held on March 5, at DHA Sea View Park, under the auspices of Pakistan Horticultural Society.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
PML-N terms Musharraf threat to democracy

PML-N terms Musharraf threat to democracy

Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) has termed President Musharraf as a threat to democracy and democratic institutions of the country and he would not allow democracy to flourish in the country to save his own skin.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Chinese companies keen to invest in Pakistan

Chinese companies keen to invest in Pakistan

Representatives of some prominent Chinese business companies from various sectors attended a business seminar held here on Saturday and showed keen interest in taking part in investment activities in Pakistan.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
ARD stages demonstration against killing of girls in Gadap

ARD stages demonstration against killing of girls in Gadap

Component political parties of Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) Sindh on Saturday staged a massive protest demonstration at Karachi Press Club (KPC) against killings of two minor girls by police personnel in Gadap Town a few days back.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Women urged to keep account with FWBL

Women urged to keep account with FWBL

The First Women Bank Limited (FWBL) would soon be linked with MCB switch, enabling its customers to use MCB's Automated Transaction Machines (ATMs), besides its own ATMs in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
US report on HR violations not based on facts: Faisal

US report on HR violations not based on facts: Faisal

Interior Minister Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat has said that allegation in the US State Department's annual report regarding alleged excesses of police's extra-judicial killings and victimisation of political opponents was not based on facts.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Gandhara University workshop

Gandhara University workshop

Gandhara University has organised a three days primary trauma care course workshop from March 3, 2004 with the technical assistance of Primary Trauma Care Foundation, UK.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Performance of KESC engineers, recovery officers lauded

Performance of KESC engineers, recovery officers lauded

Major General Muhammad Ashraf Saleem, GOC 4 Army Air Defence Division, has observed that the positive efforts of the KESC engineers and recovery officers have finally put the Corporation on road to profitability.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
EPB invites Aptma to March 9 meeting on cotton yarn export

EPB invites Aptma to March 9 meeting on cotton yarn export

The protest lodged by the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) over the holding of meeting on Saturday (February 28) by the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) to discuss the all important question of exports of cotton yarn, bypassing the powerful bod
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Plea for stakeholders meeting to solve exporters problems at QICT

Plea for stakeholders meeting to solve exporters problems at QICT

The Pakistan Bedwear Exporters Association (PBEA) has requested the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) to convene a meeting of stakeholders to discuss the serious issue of shutting out of export containers at Qasim International Container Terminal (QICT) of Po
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Pakistani trade team to visit Canada in October

Pakistani trade team to visit Canada in October

Haroon Rashid, Chairman, Pakistan-Canada Business Council of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), and his Canadian counterpart Andy Merchant have agreed to plan Pakistan's trade delegation to Canada in early October this y
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
SHC orders inspection of wheat godowns

SHC orders inspection of wheat godowns

A bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprising Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany on Friday ordered official assignee (OA) of the court to inspect the godowns of Sindh Food Department and to take stock of wheat storage, if any, and to seal them in case godowns
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
20 Pakistanis return from Guantanamo Bay: Kasuri

20 Pakistanis return from Guantanamo Bay: Kasuri

Nearly twenty Pakistani nationals imprisoned at the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay have already returned and around 38 or 40 were still there, disclosed Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri here on Saturday.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Report on Osama's arrest denied

Report on Osama's arrest denied

Major General Shaukat Sultan, ISPR director-general, has categorically denied reports regarding arrest of Osama bin Laden from the Pakistani territory.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Sacked Wasa employees reinstated

Sacked Wasa employees reinstated

Tehsil Nazim and Chairman Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) Hamid Nawaz Raja has turned down the termination orders of 100 employees of Water and Sewerage Agency (Wasa) and reinstated all the sacked employees with immediate effect.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
All elections were rigged

All elections were rigged

A group of elderly politicians on Saturday claimed that general elections held in Pakistan so far were rigged and illegitimate. It demanded free, fair and transparent elections in the country and to bring unhealthy practice of maligning people to an end.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Shah Nawaz made PIA director

Shah Nawaz made PIA director

The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has promoted its general-manager, fleet planning to the position of director.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Iran's first vice president due on March 4

Iran's first vice president due on March 4

Iran's First Vice-President Dr Mohammad Reza Aref will pay a two-day visit to Pakistan next week as a follow-up of recent visit to Tehran of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Road sector projects for next year discussed

Road sector projects for next year discussed

Sindh Minister for Works and Services Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim held a meeting here, at District Nazim Secretariat, which was attended by Sukkur District Nazim Nasir Hussain Shah, representatives of various Taluka/local councils, notables and technical expert
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Three awarded life terms for kidnapping for ransom

Three awarded life terms for kidnapping for ransom

Naimatullah Phul-poto, Judge, Anti-Terrorism Court-III, Sukkur and Larkana Divisions, at Sukkur, on Friday convicted and sentenced three accused to two times life imprisonment and ordered forfeiture of their movable and immovable property.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Effective security on Ashura ordered

Effective security on Ashura ordered

Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Ellahi has directed the law enforcing agencies to adopt effective security measures to maintain law and order during the month of Muharram-ul-Haram.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Former Parco official arrested

Former Parco official arrested

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab on Saturday has arrested Abul Hassan Shah son of Mahmood Ali Shah resident of Chak No 201/JB, Faisalabad, on the charges of corruption.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Use of fertilisers in judicious way stressed

Use of fertilisers in judicious way stressed

Representatives of sugar mills and sugarcane growers and sugarcane experts have called for using fertiliser in a balanced way so as to improve 'sugar recovery' as well as sugarcane production.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Zuljinnah procession arrangements reviewed

Zuljinnah procession arrangements reviewed

The District Nazim Lahore Mian Amer Mahmood on Saturday inspected the route of main Zuljinnah procession in Lahore and directed the authorities concerned to adopt foolproof arrangements for maintaining peace on Ashura.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
LHC dismisses appeal of Mashreq Bank

LHC dismisses appeal of Mashreq Bank

Justice Muhammad Ghani of the Lahore High Court (LHC), while dismissing an appeal filed by Mashreq Bank, has observed that a bank waived its right in invoking the penalty clause in the deed of compromise if it failed to exercise the same at appropriate ti
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Lahore High Court postings and transfers

Lahore High Court postings and transfers

The Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has made transfer and posting among two Additional Registrars (ARs) of the august court.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Previous management involved in corruption: IEP president

Previous management involved in corruption: IEP president

President and Administrator of Institution of Engineers Pakistan (IEP) Engineer Aftab Islam Agha has claimed that he has unearthed embezzlement of millions of rupees in the accounts of the association at the hands of its previous management.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Lahore High Court benches for next week

Lahore High Court benches for next week

As many as 12 division benches and 28 single benches will work at principal seat of the Lahore High Court (LHC) during the week commencing from Monday, March 1.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
30 TV channels to start transmission this year

30 TV channels to start transmission this year

Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) Chairman Mian Muhammad Javed has said that about 30 TV channels would start its transmissions by the end of this year.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Book fair inaugurated

Book fair inaugurated

Finance Minister Punjab Sardar Hasnain Bahadur Dareshek on Saturday inaugurated the Lahore Book Fair organised by the Pakistan Publishers and Book Sellers Association in collaboration with Lahore Arts Council.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Industrial fair in Gujranwala

Industrial fair in Gujranwala

The Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry will organise an industrial exhibition at Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park here on March 5.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Mehfil-e-Masalma

Mehfil-e-Masalma

A "Mehfil-e-Masalma" was held under the management of Faisalabad Arts Council in connection with the Muharrram at lqbal Stadium here.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Commercial banks and agriculture financing

Commercial banks and agriculture financing

The Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, Dr Ishrat Husain, addressing the 53rd Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Bankers Pakistan, in Karachi on February 21, discussed the impact of the past four years of financial sector reforms on the effort
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Investors' unprecedented response

Investors' unprecedented response

According to the Federal Minister for Investment and Privatisation, Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, who addressed a press conference in Islamabad on February 20, the initial public offering of 5 percent govt holdings of the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited, evoke
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Towards poverty reduction in Pakistan

Towards poverty reduction in Pakistan

Allama Iqbal, the thinker of Pakistan, underscored the relationship between economic activity and human psychology and raised the question of the effect that it would have on a man's body and mind which would affect his human soul very deeply.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
VVIPs and traffic jams

VVIPs and traffic jams

Now-a-days, the practice has become very common that during the VVIPs visits, the security personnel stop the traffic long before the arrival of the important person, to just secure him from any terror attack and to make his visit hindrance-free.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Disrespect of national flag

Disrespect of national flag

Flag of any country represents the country itself the world over. Soldiers die for its dignity and pride. A raised flag means there is peace and harmony in the country. Its position on different occasions signals the feelings experienced by the nation as
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Brazil: investment and the funds industry

Brazil: investment and the funds industry

In December - 2002 the Brazilian funds industry had a total of R$ 344 billion in Assets Under Management - AUM, the same figure as at the end of 2001.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Cheap atta scheme fails in Multan

Cheap atta scheme fails in Multan

The provincial chief minister's 'cheap atta scheme' is at stake following complaints lodged by a number of local government representatives, including Tehsil Nazim, against the purity of 'atta' bags and the scheme is facing serious crisis in the district,
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
NBP to open two more branches in Afghanistan

NBP to open two more branches in Afghanistan

National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) will open two more branches in Afghanistan in next three to four months to support the growing trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Pakistan has potential to export $4 billion worth items to India

Pakistan has potential to export $4 billion worth items to India

Pakistan has a potential to export its items worth 4 billion dollars to India, while short-term export is of 700 million dollars. However, it can't say about India's expectation, said Tariq Ikram Chairman of Export Promotion Bureau (EPB).
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Britain to keep key report on Iraq war under wraps

Britain to keep key report on Iraq war under wraps

The British government said on Saturday it would not disclose a key report on the legality of the Iraq war, as requested by the opposition and anti-war militants, citing a "long-standing convention that advice to governments in office is not disclosed".
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Aristide urges calm after gangs rampage in Haiti

Aristide urges calm after gangs rampage in Haiti

Embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide called on Saturday for an end to looting and violence after many of his armed loyalists terrorised residents of Haiti's capital as rebels advanced on the city.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
North Korea talks end without breakthrough

North Korea talks end without breakthrough

Six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis ended on Saturday without a breakthrough but a senior US official said the meetings had advanced Washington's agenda of disarming Pyongyang.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Thousands march in Rome against education reform

Thousands march in Rome against education reform

Tens of thousands of teachers, students and trades unionists marched through the centre of Rome on Saturday to protest at planned education reforms by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Blix suspects US spied on him over Iraq

Blix suspects US spied on him over Iraq

Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said on Saturday he suspected the United States bugged his office and home in the run-up to the Iraq war, but had no hard evidence.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Chen leads huge human chain against China

Chen leads huge human chain against China

Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian and up to two million of his supporters formed a human chain down the length of the island on Saturday in its biggest ever protest against China.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Libya and African Union to work together

Libya and African Union to work together

Presidents and top officials from African Union (AU) countries on Saturday formally ended a two-day AU summit in Libya agreeing to work together to tackle the crucial issues of water and agriculture and politely dismissing their host's idea of a creating
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
US pays informant reward for Saddam's sons

US pays informant reward for Saddam's sons

The informant who helped lead the US military to ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's two sons has been paid most of a $30 million reward for the tip-off, the State Department said on Saturday.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Uganda army kills 30 rebels

Uganda army kills 30 rebels

The Ugandan army said on Saturday it killed 30 Lord's Resistance Army rebels this week, including 15 believed to be behind one the east African nation's worst massacres in years.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Jodia Bazar

Jodia Bazar

Milk powder and raw rubber had a few changes in Milko Veg down Rs 50 to Rs 3650, sweetened Comella up Rs 20 to Rs 1650. Raw rubber Ceylon's RSSV up Rs 2 to Rs 43.50.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Ivorian coffee exports fall

Ivorian coffee exports fall

Ivory Coast coffee bean exports totalled 31,236 tonnes from October to January of the 2003-2004 season, down about 15 percent from the same period last year, port data showed on Friday.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Modest trading before Muharram holidays

Modest trading before Muharram holidays

Spinners took advantage of low prices of cotton at home despite world rate showing sharply upward edge and lifted modest quantity ahead of long Muharram holidays.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Oil cake market rates

Oil cake market rates

The March vaida opened unchanged at Rs 433.50 and ws incidentally highest also at the same amount. Later trading depressed and it was shown lowest at Rs 433 and closing was also seen at the same level.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
CBOT wheat futures down

CBOT wheat futures down

Wheat futures at the Chicago Board of Trade closed lower on Friday on pressure from the delivery market and from forecasts for showers in the US Plains winter wheat-growing region, traders said.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Bush replaces advisers on cloning, medical issues

Bush replaces advisers on cloning, medical issues

US President George W. Bush reshuffled his advisory council on cloning and related medical issues on Friday, adding a prominent neurosurgeon known for his work on conjoined twins and two conservatives who have spoken out strongly against cloning.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Foul play ruled out in Macedonian leader's death

Foul play ruled out in Macedonian leader's death

Bad weather, human error or technical failure may have caused the air crash that killed Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski, but foul play can be ruled out, officials said on Saturday.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
GCC calls for help to Iraqis, Arab League reform

GCC calls for help to Iraqis, Arab League reform

A meeting of foreign ministers of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) opened here on Saturday with a call to help Iraqis chose their government and to prepare to reform the Arab League.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Venezuela's opposition to continue protests

Venezuela's opposition to continue protests

Venezuela's opposition planned further protests Saturday, a day after demonstrations in favour of a referendum on recalling President Hugo Chavez turned deadly, with two people killed and 54 injured just outside the summit of the Group of 15 developing na
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Sudan rebels and government extend truce

Sudan rebels and government extend truce

Sudan's government and main rebel group signed a one-month truce extension on Saturday amid hopes the extra time would help them resolve two issues blocking a final agreement on ending Africa's longest civil war.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Two killed as dome of Turkish mosque collapses

Two killed as dome of Turkish mosque collapses

Two people were killed and 10 others injured when the dome of a mosque under construction collapsed in the western Turkish city of Usak on Saturday, a local official said.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Zawahri to be re-tried in Egypt

Zawahri to be re-tried in Egypt

A brother of al Qaeda terror network number two, Ayman al-Zawahri, already sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian court, will be re-tried here, a court official said Saturday.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Italy rejects sky marshals

Italy rejects sky marshals

Italy opposes using armed guards on transatlantic flights, preferring tough pre-boarding measures instead, the interior minister said in an interview published on Saturday.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Communists compare Putin to Matrix movie robots

Communists compare Putin to Matrix movie robots

Police detained 11 young Russian communists in Saint Petersburg on Saturday who staged a demonstration wearing masks of President Vladimir Putin and compared him and his officials to the robots who repeatedly replicate themselves in the science-fiction mo
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Former US adviser likens Iraq to Vietnam war

Former US adviser likens Iraq to Vietnam war

A former US national security adviser who served in the administration of the first president Bush, warned on Saturday that the war in Iraq threatens to grind on for years like the Vietnam conflict.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Rights group urges Sri Lankan rebels to allow free polls

Rights group urges Sri Lankan rebels to allow free polls

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels must let opposing ethnic Tamil politicians campaign freely for an April election and all parties must work to keep the poll peaceful, Amnesty International said on Saturday.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
MTL to invest 4 billion yuan in Suzhou port

MTL to invest 4 billion yuan in Suzhou port

Modern Terminals Ltd (MTL), the port operating arm of Wharf (Holdings), said on Friday it would take 70 percent of a four billion yuan (US$483.09 million) container terminal project in the Chinese city of Suzhou.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Activity at Karachi and Qasim ports

Activity at Karachi and Qasim ports

The Karachi Port handled 75,660 tonnes of cargo including 52,557 tonnes import and 23,103 tonnes export cargo during last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Saturday.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Renault has no plan to merge with Nissan

Renault has no plan to merge with Nissan

French carmaker Renault has no plans to merge with Japanese partner Nissan or increase its stake in the company, Renault's chairman was quoted as saying in a German paper on Saturday.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
US and EU sign marine safety equipment trade pact

US and EU sign marine safety equipment trade pact

The United States and the European Union said they had signed an agreement on Friday aimed at boosting trade in marine safety equipment, such as life rafts and echo-sounding equipment, across the Atlantic.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Parmalat to unveil rescue plan

Parmalat to unveil rescue plan

Crisis-hit Italian food group Parmalat will present a much-awaited recovery plan within days, Industry Minister Antonio Marzano, who is due to evaluate the plan, said on Saturday.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Strong growth to produce more jobs: Greenspan

Strong growth to produce more jobs: Greenspan

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Friday strong economic growth should soon produce more jobs but he warned US manufacturers they should not count on a Chinese currency revaluation being a major boon for them.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Iraq wins 60 percent debt cut, seeks funding

Iraq wins 60 percent debt cut, seeks funding

Iraq said on Saturday it had won assurances for a 60 percent cut in the $120 billion it owes and urged the world community to back its recovery with $4 billion in funding for key projects over the next 12 months.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Middle East's first budget airline expands

Middle East's first budget airline expands

Air Arabia, which bills itself as the Middle East's first low-cost airline, has taken delivery of the first of three new Airbus A320 to be leased this year to keep up with an expanding network, the company announced Saturday.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Bird flu crisis will cost Asia half-a-billion dollars

Bird flu crisis will cost Asia half-a-billion dollars

The bird flu crisis engulfing Asia will cost the region at least half-a-billion dollars and the bulk of that will be borne by individual countries, experts at a UN-backed conference said Saturday.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
US will consult Arabs on embattled initiative

US will consult Arabs on embattled initiative

The United States will consult with key Arab states next week as it seeks to defuse growing opposition to a sweeping plan for economic, political and cultural reform in the Middle East that has become a central feature of President George W. Bush's foreig
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Martha Stewart judge escapes most serious charge

Martha Stewart judge escapes most serious charge

Martha Stewart escaped the most serious charge in her trial on Friday when a federal judge threw out a securities fraud count that could have landed the lifestyle trendsetter in prison for 10 years.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am
Saudi-US divide widens on oil price

Saudi-US divide widens on oil price

Washington is chiding Opec for pushing oil prices too high but top world exporter Saudi Arabia is happy to feed the price boom as long as rocketing US and Chinese demand proves consumers aren't bothered, analysts said on Friday.
Published 29 Feb, 2004 12:00am