Peshawar—NWFP Governor, Owais Ahmed Ghani has
stressed the need for providing emergency
passage facility to the people of Chitral
through the under construction Lowari Tunnel
during the ensuing winter season. Presiding over
a briefing to review pace of progress on the
project at Governor’s House Peshawar, the
Governor said, “ensuring security of this
project of vital importance is must but at the
same time there is a need to facilitate the
people on humanitarian grounds as well”, he
added.
Peshawar—Former National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB)
chairman and chief of the Devolution Trust for
Community Empowerment Daniyal Aziz has announced
struggle against the government move to extend
powers of judiciary to executive in the Nizame
Adle Regulation (NAR) recently implemented in
the Malakand Division and demanded of the
government to announce date for the election of
the local bodies election.
Abbottabad—The mother- child
health week was observed here in the Benazir
Bhutto Shaheed DHQ Hospital Abbottabad. NWFP
Health Minister, Syed Zahir Ali Shah, EDHO and
DCO Abbottabad, on Monday highlighted provision
of quality health care to the mother and child
to protect them untimely death in the district
Abbottabad. A large number of women and their
children, particularly from the remote areas of
Galyat valley participated in it.
Hyderabad—A research scholar Dil Nawaz Hakro
maintains that Sindhi Optical Character System
could be developed and the same could be used as
a foundation for further Sindhi language
characters’ recognition by applying recent
techniques of computer vision. The scholar
claimed this while delivering the final seminar
for his M.Phil thesis at the Institute of
Information and Communication Technology (IICT),
Jamshoro. A University spokesman said this is
first research initiative for Sindhi character
recognition, which has been taken by IICT.
Hyderabad—Out of 31 sugar mills, operating in
different parts of Sindh, two mills have started
cane crushing while 14 others have started
preparation by torching their boilers in the
on-going Cane Crushing Season 2009-2010.
According to Sindh Cane Commissioner, Tharparkar
Sugar Mills of Kot Ghulam Muhammad and Matiari
Sugar Mills Matiari have started crushing while
Al-Asif Sugar Mills Gharo, Army Welfare Sugar
Mills Badin, Digri Sugar Mills Digri, Faran
Sugar Mills Shaikh Bhirkio, Ghotki Sugar Mills
Ghotki, Habib Sugar Mills Nawabshah, Mehran
Sugar Mills Tando Allahyar, Mirpurkhas Sugar
Mills Mirpurkhas, Pangrio Sugar Mills Pangrio,
Sakrand Sugar Mills Sakrand, Seri Sugar Mills
Seri, Shahmurad Sugar Mills Jhoke Sharif, Sindh
Abadgar Sugar Mills Deenpur and Tando Muhammad
Khan Sugar Mills Tando Muhammad Khan are at the
pre-stage of crushing with flaming to boilers.
