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PAKISTAN TELEVISION CORPORATION LIMITED
NATIONAL NEWS BUREAU
English News Headlines 1800 hrs dated 02-07-1998

NEWS IN DETAIL:

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A SPOKESMAN OF PAKISTAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION HAS CATEGORICALLY DENIED THE BASELESS, MALICIOUS, FABRICATED AND CONCOCTED STORY OF AN ALLEGED ENGINEER IFTIKHAR KHAN CHAUDHRY HAVING SERVED IN THE PAKISTAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION AND NOW DESERTED ABROAD. THE SPOKESMAN SAID, NO SCIENTISTS OF ANY SUCH NAMES HAS EVER WORKED IN ANY OF THE PAKISTAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION'S SENSITIVE NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS. THE SPOKESMAN ADDED THE IDENTITY CARD PRODUCED BY THE CLAIMANT IS NOT ONLY FAKE AND AGAINST THE STANDARD DESIGN OF THE SECURITY CARDS ISSUED TO THE EMPLOYEES OF PAEC BUT EVEN THE DESIGNATION OF ASSISTANT RESEARCH OFFICER DOES NOT EXIST IN THE ORGANISATION. MOREOVER, EVEN THE REFERENCE NUMBER AND PLACE OF DUTY MENTIONED ON THE CARD ARE FICTITIOUS. THE SPOKESMAN FURTHER CLARIFIED THAT BESIDES THE MONOGRAM SHOWN ON THE CARD IS OF DIFFERENT NATURE AND THE CARD ITSELF SIMULTANEOUSLY CARRIES THE NAMES OF TWO DIFFERENT INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS NAMELY, PAKISTAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION AND THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. MOREOVER, THERE IS NO DIRECTOR BY THE NAME OF DR.ALTAF HUSSAIN IN PAEC UNDER WHOM THE PSEUDO SCIENTIST IFTIKHAR KHAN CHAUDHRY ALLEGES TO HAVE WORKED, THE SPOKESMAN SAID. IT HAS LATER BEEN LEARNT THAT IFTIKHAR CHAUDHRY WAS AN EMPLOYEE OF FORTE PAKISTAN (PVT) LIMITED, KARACHI, AND LEFT THAT SERVICE TOO SOMETIME LAST YEAR.

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WEATHER:

RAIN WITH DUST AND THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED AT SCATTERED PLACES OF UPPER PUNJAB, LOWER SINDH, KASHMIR AND AT A FEW PLACES ELSEWHERE IN THE COUNTRY.



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