PPI - Pakistan Press International back issues from February 2004:
SPORTS: PROVINCIAL BODIES ABOLISHED TO PROMOTE CRICKET AT DISTRICT LEVEL.
Feb 01, 2004 ... HYDERABAD, Feb.01 PPI: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Shahryar Khan has said that provincial associations of cricket have been abolished with aim to promote cricket at District level and now the District cricket bodies have to work hard as whole responsibility of promotion of the game ...
Nazim accuses Hesco of creating civic problems.
Feb 01, 2004 ... HYDERABAD, Feb.01 PPI: Hyderabad Taluka City Nazim Haji Moeenuddin Sheikh has said that Hyderabad Electric Supply Company was creating problems for citizens by disconnecting power connections of pumping stations of Water and Sewerage Agency which cause disruption of disposal of drain ...
District: Woman protests against feudal lord.
Feb 01, 2004 ... HYDERABAD, Feb.01 PPI: An elderly woman Mst. Ashraf Khatoon belonging to Warah taluka of Larkana District observed token hunger strike before press club here against an influential wadera Saeed Ahmed Khan Chandio. She told newsmen that her three son Roshan Sunder Chandio, Nazir Hussain ...
District: PRORTEST ON ARREST OF PARTY LEADER.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Hyderabad, Feb.01 PPI: The workers belonging to Sindh National Party held demonstration in front of press club against arrest of their party chief organizer for ...
District: District GOVERMENT to observe Kashmir day.
Feb 01, 2004 ... HYDERABAD, Feb.01 PPI: EDO Community Development Ibrahim Qureshi has announced that District government Hyderabad has planned to observe Kashmir Day on Februay 5 with zeal and enthusiasm. In a release issued here he ...
DISTRICT: Funds demanded for Commerce Colleges.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Hyderabad, Feb.01 PPI: District Council Hyderabad has asked provincial government to provide budget to 26 commerce colleges in Sindh instead of 81 Commercial Training Centers which ...
District: HDA makes arrangement for Eid ul Azha.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Hyderabad, Feb.01 PPI: Director General Hyderabad Development Authority Ali Ahmed Lund has said that he has directed the MD WASA and all concerned engineers to remain alert on Eid days to ensure uninterrupted supply of water and disposal of sewerage so as to save citizens from ...
District: Robberies in Nausheroferoze.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Naushehro Feroze, Feb.01 PPI: In six different incidents armed men deprived people of two motorcycles, cash, gold jewellery and other valueables and injured three persons at different places last night. In first incident near Mithiar city in village Niazi Mashori three unknown armed ...
PML-Q LEADER HELD.
Feb 01, 2004 ... MULTAN, Feb 01, PPI: Yazman police have arrested a homeopathic doctor Abdul Majid Shah who is local President of Muslim league-Q with 1000 bottles of alcohol and registered two cases against him. "We have caught a homeopathic doctor Abdul Majid shah who was involved in supply of liquor ...
District: Security tightened.
Feb 01, 2004 ... MULTAN, Feb 1 PPI: Security has been tightened in Southern Punjab following the reports of secret agencies to avert any eventuality on the eve of Eidul Azha. "Leaves of police officials have been cancelled and they have been asked to join duty in view of Eidul Azha. Police contingent ...
District: PTI worker, her children recovered.
Feb 01, 2004 ... MULTAN, Feb 01 PPI: Under the orders of District and Session Judge, Muzaffargarh an activist of Pakistan Tehrik-i- Insaf, Karachi, Saeeda Begum and her two children were recovered by a bailiff from the residence of one Khawaja Khalil Ahmed. Police have registered a case under the orders ...
Cold and Dry weather Forecast.
Feb 01, 2004 ... KARACHI, Feb.01 (PPI): The Meteorological department has forecast fair weather with cold night in Karachi on Monday. The minimum temperature in the city is expected between 8.00 to 10 degree centigrade. The cold and dry weather would prevail in Sindh ...
Eidul Azha to be observed with religious fervour.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Ahmedpur East Feb 01 PPI: Eidul Azha will be observed with religious fervour in Subdivision Ahmedpur East on Monday. Main Eid congregation will be held in Markazi Eidgah Mehmood Park where MMA leader Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Mehmoodi will lead the prayers. Leading members of Abbasi family ...
Iran`s First Vice President to visit Pakistan soon.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Islamabad, Feb 1 (PPI): First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref is due to visit Pakistan in the near future, Iran's Ambassador to Islamabad Mohammad-Ebrahim Taherian announced Sunday. " The regular visits of the high-ranking officials of the two countries in the preceding year, ...
Commemorative stamp.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Bahawalpur. Feb 01 PPI: Postal Services Department has issued a commemorative stamp with a photograph of Last Ruler of Fomer Bahawalpur State Nawab ...
Crime: Drug Pedlar arrested with 2 Kg. Hashih.
Feb 01, 2004 ... KARACHI, Feb.01 (PPI): The divisional intelligence staff of Sindh excise & taxation department arrested one Hafeezullah son of Abdul Habib from Mowachh Goth on Hub road, ...
Madadgar 15 cycle race organised.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Karachi, Feb. 01 PPI: It is very difficult for any department to improve its performance without co-operation from public, said DIG Training Saud Mirza while speaking at prize Districtribution ceremony of Great Madadgar 15 Human Rights Gold Cup Cycle Race here Sunday. He said that it ...
Lines Area problems will be resolved: Minister.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Karachi, Feb. 01 PPI: Sindh Minister for Excise and Taxation Rauf Siddiqui has said that the elected representatives of present government were making efforts to resolve the problems of masses at their doorsteps on priority basis. He stated this while speaking to an open kutchery held ...
Ibad to offer Eid prayers at Bagh-e-Quaid-Azam.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Karachi, Feb. 01 PPI: The largest Eid congregation will be held by city District government Karachi in Bagh-e-Quaid-e-Azam (formerly Polo Ground) where Governor Dr. Ihsratul Ibad, City Naib Nazim Tariq Hassan, ministers, ...
Aftab Shaikh orders removal of Gambling Dens from Malir Town.
Feb 01, 2004 ... KARACHI, Feb.01 (PPI): Advisor to Sindh Chief Minister on Home Affairs Aftab Ahmed Shaikh responding to public complaints has directed the Malir Town police to remove all the gambling dens from the area immediately. He issued the directives at an open Kutchehry held on Saturday evening ...
Pakistan-US joint efforts to `rid world of oppression`: Powell.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Islamabad, Feb 1 (PPI): The US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said the people of Pakistan and USA have made joint efforts to rid the world of 'oppression and terror' so that the people of the world could live in 'peace and freedom'. Powell said this in a message of best wishes to ...
CITY: Beautification Plans for Chundrigar and other city roads delayed.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Karachi, Feb.01 (PPI): The City District Government Karachi and other concerned agencies have not yet prepared the beautification plan for I.I. Chundrigar road as decided at a high level meeting in the middle of December 2003. A Master Plan in this respect was to be prepared in three ...
District.(Hyderabad): 20 BAGS OF EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL SEIZED,1 ARRESTED.
Feb 01, 2004 ... HYDERABAD, February 1(PPI): Pinyari police in Hyderabad has seized 20 bags of explosive material and arrested one person who had come to get the bags from a local transport company. Police had got tip off that large quantity of explosive material which is used to make the explosives had ...
Problems of Landhi, Korangi to be resolved.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Karachi, Feb. 01 PPI: The previous governments gave a step-motherly treatment to the areas of Landhi and Korangi but the present government is committed to resolve problems of people of these areas, said provincial Advisors Wasim Akhter and Faisal Malik at an open kutchery held in ...
Governor Sindh to meet general public on Eid day.
Feb 01, 2004 ... KARACHI, Feb.01 (PPI): Governor Sindh Dr. Ishratul Ibad Khan will offer Eid-ul-azha prayer at 0800 hours on Monday at Polo ground. Later, he will exchange Eid greetings with representatives of armed forces at the Governor's ...
Emergency cells set up in civil hospitals.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Karachi, Feb. 01 PPI: Advisor to Sindh Chief Minister for Health Nauman Saigal said on Sunday that emergency cells have been set up in all civil hospitals of the province where doctors and paramedical staff would be present round the clock. Besides he asked the doctors and paramedical ...
District.(Shahpur Chakar): Breach in canal inundates 100 acre land.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Shahpur Chakar, Sindh,, Feb.01 (PPI): A 40-feet wide breach occured in Rono Minor emanating from Sada Wah (canal) on Sunday morning inundating about 100 acres of land damaging the standing crops. The local landlords using their own tractors and manpower plugged the breach as ...
UCs' performance improved: Town Nazim.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Karachi, Feb. 01 PPI: Nazim Saddar Town Farooq Faria has said improvement is visible in the performance of union councils as a result of utilisation of development funds in an effective manner under a co-ordinated policy. This he said while handing over tractor trolley worth ...
SPORTS: KCCA meeting on Thursday.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Karachi, Feb. 01 PPI: An emergency meeting of the executive council of Karachi City Cricket Association has been called on Thursday at 4 p.m. at KCCA office to consider the situation arising out of allowing only one team from Karachi to play in Quaid-e-Azam Trophy by Pakistan Cricket ...
District: 16 get released.
Feb 01, 2004 ... HYDERABD, Feb 01 PPI: Sixteen convicts were released from two prisons one day before Eidul Azha after remission granted by government on ...
District: Five gunned down.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Osta Mohammad, Feb 01 (PPI) - has many as five persons belonging to a same family were brutally killed in a village, Zahid Hussain under the jurisdiction of Manjoo Shora Police station here on Sunday. According to report four arms persons invaded in the house of one Mohammad Punah and ...
District (Chiniot): Burnt dead body found.
Feb 01, 2004 ... CHINIOT Feb 01-(PPI): Sadar Police Station recovered a unknown burnt dead body from sugarcane field of Thata Kaamoka, a suburb village here on Sunday. Some unknown killer having murdered the man on an enmity set ...
District (Chiniot): Land disbursement continues among landless.
Feb 01, 2004 ... CHINIOT Feb 01-(PPI): Provincial Colonies Minister Manazar Ali Ranja has said that the government is continuing free Districtribution of more than 1.5 lac acre land among the landless farmers without any hinderance. While talking to landless peasants at residence of Manzoor Anjum here on ...
District (Dipalpur): Musharraf to solidify democracy.
Feb 01, 2004 ... DIPALPUR Feb-01(PPI): Pakistan Muslim League District president and former District council Chairman Mian Muhammad Moeen Khan watter has said that General Musharraf being as elected president will strengthen the democracy. Talking to journalists, here on Sunday, he said after procuring ...
District (Dipalpur): People must join MP to make Pakistan prosperous.
Feb 01, 2004 ... DIPALPUR Feb-01 (PPI): Pakistan Millat Party Okara president Tariq Farid Khan Sunday asked the people to join party to help prove true deam of prosperous Pakistan. Talking to newsmen here on Sunday at the residence of ...
PG:PHA unveils two-week long Jashan-e-Baharan festivities.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE Feb 01-(PPI): In order to celebrate the Jashan-e-Baharan (Spring Festival 2004) in a befitting manner and depicting native culture in full sway, the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has unveiled its two-week long festivities and celebrations starting from February 6. The ...
Health: Doctor's Eid warning.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE Feb 01-(PPI): Different city doctors have advised the people, particularly those suffering from hypertension and cardiac problems, to avoid earning too much meat on Eidul Azha. They said while overeating was not good in any case, those suffering from diabetes or hypertension ...
District (Chiniot): Maqbool Ahmad made PML-N Jhang president.
Feb 01, 2004 ... CHINIOT Feb 01-(PPI): Pakistan Muslim League (N) Youth Wing Punjab president Mian Ghulam Hussain Shahid has nominated Maqbool Ahmad Ansari as president of Jhang. Provincial general secretary Rana Ejaz Ahmad, ...
Politics: Saeed urges people to serve Mujahidin physically, financially.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE Feb 01-(PPI): Jamat ul Dawa Amir Prof Hafiz Muhammad Saeed Sunday urged the people to render physical as well as financial sacrifices in the path of Allah for Mujahidin at the time of ordeal. In his statement issued today on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, Jamat ul Dawa Amir said ...
District (M Bahaudin): Bus looted.
Feb 01, 2004 ... MANDI BAHAUDIN Feb 01-(PPI): Four unknown armed highwaymen looted a passenger bus at gunpoint on highway here on Sunday. Reportedly, a bus (BUB-6859) was going to Lahore from Mandi Bahaudin and halted by the four unknown armed robbers at ...
District (Jhang): Security beefed up on Eid ul Azha.
Feb 01, 2004 ... JHANG Feb 01-(PPI): The security has been beefed up in the city to maintain law and order situation to avoid any untoward incident on the occasion of Eid ul Azha. This was disclosed by the District Police Officer (DPO) Jhang Khadam Hussain Bhatti in a press conference held here on ...
District (MB' Uddin): 4278 flour sacks to be Districtributed.
Feb 01, 2004 ... MANDI BAHAUDDIN Feb 01-(PPI): Pakistan Muslim League (Q) District President and MPA Riaz Asghar Chaudhry announced to Districtribute 4278 flour sacks among the deserving people this month and two coupons valuing Rs. 30 each would be given to a family under subsidy scheme. While talking ...
District (Jhang): Sacrificial animals' skin collecting banned.
Feb 01, 2004 ... JHANG Feb 01-(PPI): The government has strictly banned the collection of sacrificial animals' skins by the defunct religious and Jihadi organizations on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. In order to check such violations, the law enforcement agencies had be instructed to deal with the ...
PG: Musharraf-Vajpayee parleys to resolve all issues including Kashmir: CM.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE Feb 01-(PPI): Punjab Chief Minister Ch. Pervaiz Elahi has said that President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has taken a bold initiative for breaking the impasse and hence the Musharraf-Vajpayee parleys will help to resolve all outstanding issues including Kashmir between both the ...
District (Jhang): Artificial flour shortage hits city, its outskirts.
Feb 01, 2004 ... JHANG Feb 01-(PPI): The flour mills owners in connivance with the food department officials have created artificial dearth of flour in the city and its outskirts to earn undue profit on the occasion Eid ul Azha. The people of the locality are in troubles due to this artificial shortage ...
District (Jhang): PML-Q to support MP candidate in by election.
Feb 01, 2004 ... JHANG Feb 01-(PPI): Pakistan Muslim League (Q) has decided in principal to support the contesting candidate of Millat party (MP) Sheikh Waqas Akram during the by election of the constituency of NA-81 Jhang. All the matters have been finalized in the meeting between Millat Party ...
Amrindar rules out Khalistan move clue, minorities victimization in India.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE Feb 01-(PPI): Indian Punjab Chief Minister Capt. (Retd) Amarindar Singh has categorically ruled out any clue of the Khalistan Movement as well as any victimization of minorities including Christians and Muslims by the majority Hindu population in India. "There has never been any ...
PG: CDG hosts luncheon for Indian delegates.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE Feb 01-(PPI): District Nazim Mian Amir Mahmood from the City District Government Sunday hosted a luncheon for the visiting Indian Punjab Chief Minister Capt. (Retd) Amarindar Singh and his delegation here ...
Politics: Shujat says he will visit India in April.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE Feb 01-(PPI): President Pakistan Muslim league (Q) Ch. Shujat Hussain has said he will visit India this year some time in April with a parliamentary delegation. He was talking to the reporters here on Sunday before leaving for Gujrat where he will celebrate Eidul Azha. Shujat said ...
Governor's Eid message.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE, Feb 01-(PPI): Islam teaches the Muslims to sacrifice for each other, to share in each other's joy and sorrow and sub-ordinate the individual wishes and desires to the greater good of society. This was started by Governor Khalid Maqbool in his message on the occasion of Eidul ...
Governor to offer Eid prayers at Badshahi Mosque.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE, Feb 01-(PPI): Governor Punjab Lt. Gen. Khalid Maqbool (r) will offer ...
Eidul Azha today.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE, Feb 01-(PPI): Eidul Azha will be celebrated in the provincial capital with traditional fervour and enthusiasm on Monday (today). Hundreds of thousands of believers, accompanied by their children and dear ones, will throng the mosques and Eid gahs and offer Eid prayers at more ...
Bishop's Eid message.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE, Feb 22-(PPI): Bishop of Lahore Dr Alexander John Malik has said that Eidul Azha is a priceless gift of Almighty Allah to humanity and a source to get Allah is mercy, blessing and grace. In his message of Eid, he extended cordial greetings to all the Muslims on behalf of ...
Qasim Zia Eid message.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE, Feb 01-(PPI): PPP-Punjab chief Qasim Zia has said that Eid has brought us joy besides renewed pledge to sacrifice the best thing we have. In a joint message, he said ...
PG: CM's message on Eidul Azha.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE, Feb 01-(PPI): Punjab Chief Minister Ch. Pervez Elahi has said that Eidul Azha is the day of earning the blessings of Allah as well as reiterating our determination to make every sacrifice for safeguarding the collective interests of Muslim Ummah besides the country. In his ...
PG: Pervez Elahi bids farewell to Amrindar.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE, Feb 01-(PPI): Punjab Chief Minister Ch. Pervez Elahi Sunday bade farewell to Chief Minister Indian State of Punjab Capt. (Retd) Maharaja Amrindar Singh at Wahga Border. ...
PG: Pervez Elahi, Amrindar vow to extend cooperation.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE, Feb 01-(PPI): Punjab Chief Minister Ch. Pervez Elahi has said that negotiations have started between India and Pakistan for resolving all disputes including Kashmir. Direct contact between masses and political parties of both the countries would leave a positive impact on ...
PG: Amrindar visits Nankana.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE, Feb 01-(PPI): Chief Minister Indian State of Punjab Capt. (Retd) Maharaja Amrindar Singh, alongwith his delegation, Sunday visited the birthplace of Baba Guru Nanak Devaji, founder of Sikhism in Nankana. He performed his religious rites and met individually the caretakers ...
Politics MMA announces to protest against scientists'de-briefing on Feb 6.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE, Feb 01-(PPI): MMA Sunday announced to observe a country-wide strike against N-scientists' arrest and allegation on Dr. Qadir on Feb 06. It also demanded of government to hold open trial against al charges leveled against Dr. Abdul Qadir. This was stated by MMA acting president ...
Politics: PDP to observe Kashmir solidarity-day.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE Feb 01-(PPI): Pakistan Democratic Party (PDP) will set up camps in various cities to show solidarity with Kashmiris on February 5. According to its schedule issued here on Sunday, a camp in this regard will be arranged at Nicolson Road Lahore and besides the party's senior vice ...
Politics: Qazi clarify support to resolution on scientists in BA.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE, Feb 01-(PPI): MMA acting president Qazi Hussain Ahmed has held communication gap responsible of its alleged paradoxical step of supporting the government resolution on scientists' de-briefing in Balochistan Assembly and opposing the same on Federal level. He was talking to PPI ...
Politics: KTP protests against dismissal of Dr. Qadir.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE, Feb 01-(PPI): Khaksar Tehreek Pakistan (KTP) staged a protest demonstration against the dismissal of renowned atomic scientist Dr. Abdul Qadir at Ichhrah Chowk here on Sunday. While leading the demonstration, party chief Hameed-u-Din Allama Mashraqi termed the ...
Politics: Qazi greets nation on Eid.
Feb 01, 2004 ... Lahore, Feb-02 PPI: Jamat-e-Islami Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmed extending his Eid-ul-Azha greeting to nation said that 10 Zilhaj renewed the memories of the great sacrifice presented by Hazrat Ibrahim thousand years ago. In a statement on Sunday, he said all the Muslims of Islamic world ...
National: Chaudries shocked over Mina incident.
Feb 01, 2004 ... LAHORE, Feb 01-(PPI): PML President Ch. Shujat Hussain and Punjab Chief Minister Ch. Pervez Elahi have expressed shock and grief over the death and injuries of Hajjis as a result of stampede at Mina. Describing this incident as a major tragedy, Ch. Shujat, in a condolence message ...
PPP (BB Greets Muslims On Eid-ul-Azha).
Feb 01, 2004 ... ISLAMABAD Feb. 01 (PPI) Former Prime Minister and Chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto has greeted the Muslims throughout the world on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha falling today (Monday). "Eid-ul-Azha has a two-fold theme for the Muslims throughout the world. ...