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Last-modified: 1997/02/14
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Copyright 1993,1994,1995,1996,1997

Pakistan News Service ([email protected]) &
Asim Mughal ([email protected])

Redistribution for profit, or in altered content /format
prohibited without permission of the authors. Any other
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attribution.

***** ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS *********

READ THIS BEFORE YOU POST A QUERY.

This message is automatically posted once a month to provide
answers to commonly asked questions on this forum.

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Contents:

1) About bit.listserv.pakistan (PNS).
2) Welcome to Pakistan News Service (PNS)
3) History & Data on PNS
4) Introduction to PNS Forums.
5) Pictures of Pakistan on FTP site
6) Services Offered by PNS
7) List of files on the Listserv
8) Pakistan News Service Reference Guide
9) Where to Send Contributions
10) PNS Staff & how to contact them
11) Archived Publications ('93-Current)
12) WWW Home Page & Links
13) This FAQ- Archive Info, History & Credits.

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Subject: 1) About bit.listserv.pakistan (PNS).

The newsgroup 'bit.listserv.pakistan' is distribution of
BITnet LISTs "PAKISTAN@ASUACAD" & "PAKISTAN@PSUVM" called
"The Pakistan News Service."

The gateway established at American Univ. is bi-directioal.
This allows digest/newsletter posted by the editors on LISTSERV
to appear on USENET 'bit.listserv.pakistan.'

Any submission sent to 'bit.listserv.pakistan' is routed to the
editors of PNS automatically.

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Subject: 2) Welcome to Pakistan News Service (PNS)

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P A K I S T A N N E W S S E R V I C E

Founded on: 3 Safar 1412 Hijri, Wednesday, 14 August 1991
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| I M P O R T A N T |
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| Newsletter contents may be copyright protected. The |
| person contributing the news is the only one responsible |
| for copyright violations, if any. No legal responsibility |
| accepted by List-Owners, Editors, founders and Sponsors. |
| Please, avoid reproduction on a public forum without prior |
| permission from the List Owners/Editors. |
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| Please forward all contributions to: |
| "[email protected]" |
| or "[email protected]" |
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| Founders : Muhammad Javed Shaikh, Asim Mughal, |
| Muhammad Javed Iqbal, Kamran Aftab, |
| Syed Irfan Ashraf, Syed Asim Ali, |
| Nauman Kassim Mysorewala |
|_________________________________________________________________|

Salaam o Alaekum,(Greetings)

We are pleased to announce the commencement of Pakistan News Service. Its
first official posting was on 14th August 1991.

The Pakistan News Service is a community based volunteer group. The goal is
to share the information concerning or regarding Pakistan with the rest of
the network community in general & with Pakistani community in particular.

The Pakistan News Service thrives on contributions, in terms of news, info
& articles from its readers. All the information gathered is made available
free of charge to the readers/subscribers.

The Pakistan News Service provides news from various sources and info on a
variety of topic, this includes but is not limited to the following:

1. Radio Pakistan News
2. News Clips from Pakistani Newpapers
3. News about Pakistan from internation News Agencies.
4. Exchange rates for Pakistani Ruppee
5. Radio Pakistan Frequency Chart & Timings
6. Pakistan- U.S. Tax Treaty: Filing Income Tax Return in the U.S.
7. Info on Travel Agents dealing with travel arrangements to Pakistan
8. Info on remitting money to Pakistan.
9. Articles, news briefs, receipies, miscellaneous info etc
10. Moderated discussions on Pakistan
11. Discussion on Computer Technology

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Subject: 3) History & Data on PNS

PNS HISTORY:

August 14, 1991. Pakistan News Service (PAKISTAN @ ASUACAD) commences
March 30, 1992. An automonous subsidiary of Pakistan News Service,
"Muslim News Network (MNN)" (MUSLIMS @ ASUACAD) established.
April 30, 1992. Pakistan News Service reaches 1,000 direct subscribers.
May 2, 1992. Pakistan News Service (PNS) Peers on PSUVM.(PAKISTAN @ PSUVM)
August 10, 1992. Muslim News Network (MNN) Peers on PSUVM. (MUSLIMS @ PSUVM)
August 14, 1992. MNN renames to IINN (Islamic Information & News Network).
Sept. 1, 1992. Independent SuperComputing Forum (SCF) formed.
Feb. 1, 1993. SCF formally linked to PNS.
July 20, 1993. Internet Relay Chat Bot for PNS Headlines: /msg PakNews Help
Sept 1, 1993. PNS FTP Site - Major Reorganization
Sept 15, 1993. PNS Mailing List established for difficult email addresses.
Oct 1, 1993. PNS-L @ PSUVM Pakistan News Service Discussion Opens.
Dec 15, 1993. PNS, PNS-L & IINN gatewayed to USENET.
Feb 1, 1994. PNS-L Archives available from 'listserv@psuvm'
March 1, 1994. SCF renamed to CTF (Computer Technology Forum) & revitalized.
April 1, 1994. CTF moved to site: gnu.ai.mit.edu.
May 15, 1994. Frequently Asked Questions Document Approved for IINN.
June 15, 1994. Frequently Asked Questions Documents Approved for PNS & PNS-L
August 14, 1995. WWW Pages setup for PNS Forums.

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Subject: 4) Introduction to PNS Forums.

The Pakistan News Service Group enjoys four feathers in its cap. Ranging
from mainstream NewsLetter to digest on computer technology in Pakistan.
Two of those forums, namely, IINN & CTF are considered "sister forums"
or "independent subsidiary of Pakistan News Service."

The following is a list of Pakistan News Service Forums:

PNS (Pakistan News Service Newsletter)

Provides almost daily coverage of news on Pakistan & events in
Pakistan. Contact Address: [email protected].

PNS-L (Pakistan News Service Discussions)

A moderated discussion forum on topics related to Pakistan. It
also covers special events e.g. elections. Publication is put
out once a week. Contact Address: [email protected]

IINN (Islamic Information & News Network)

A weekly digest covering news & events in Islamic World. Articles
& info on Islam in non-political & academic environment.
Contact Address: [email protected]

CTF (Computer Technology Forum)

Monthly digest covering Computer Technology as it relates to
Pakistan. Contact Address: [email protected]

The administrative tasks & public relations for all four forums is
combined. The resources & information gathered is shared. However, the
editorial boards are independent have different policies.

The in-house developed resources available include two sets of scripts,

1) 'Publish' - Strips off the headers/minor format
2) 'Nebula' - A newsletter generation package.

LISTSERV/USENET GATEWAYS:

List: PAKISTAN <--> USENET: bit.listserv.pakistan
List: PNS-L <--> USENET: bit.listserv.pns-l
List: MUSLIMS <--> USENET: bit.listserv.muslims

WORLD WIDE WEB URLs for PNS Forums:

Pakistan News Service:(PNS)
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/bit-pakistan-faq/faq.html

Pakistan News Service Discussions:(PNS-L)
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/bit-pns-l-faq/faq.html

Islamic Information & News Network:(IINN)
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/bit-pns-l-faq/faq.html

SUBSCRIPTION: Free

Readership: Listservs - 3,500 (December '95)
USENET - 14,000 estimated (May '94 statistics)

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Subject: 5) Pictures of Pakistan on FTP site

Pictures of Pakistan in '.gif' format are available thru Pakistan
News Service. These files are on 'listserv@asuacad' and most of
them are on anonymous FTP site.

Anonymous FTP Site:
____________________________________________________________________
This site hosts .gifs on Pakistan gathered from the net
for free distribution.

host: ftp.ugcs.caltech.edu
login: anonymous
password: <your email address>
dir : /pub/gifs/Pakistan

Information on the files is listed in ...

images.doc

P.S. Please use BINARY format to retrieve files.

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Subject: 6) Services Offered by PNS

The following is a concise list, please also see 'Introduction
to PNS Forums' and 'Welcome to Pakistan News Service.'

o Files on Listserv
o Old publications on Listserv
o Pictures of Pakistan thru FTP
o Moderated discussion on Pakistan
o Database of Pakistani Students

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Subject: 7) List of files on the Listserv

T H E P A K I S T A N N E W S S E R V I C E
__________________________________________________________________

As a continued effort to provide information on Pakistan,
Pakistan News Service manages number of files open for anyone to
retrieve from the LISTSERV. We encourage our readers to send us
files on any other subject which they think will be beneficial to
the Pakistani community.The following is a summary of how to access
these files and a list of info files currently available.

-Asim Mughal
PNS Spokesman
updated: April 4, 1993
###########################################################################

FOR BITnet Subscribers:
For interactive access: $ SEND/NOP LISTSERV @ ASUACAD

FOR EVERYONE (BITnet,INTERnet etc) Subscribers:
1. Send an electronic mail message to either

LISTSERV @ ASUACAD.BITnet or LISTSERV @ ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU

2. The COMMANDS should be the text of the message.

COMMANDS:
To get a latest listing of available files: INDEX PAKISTAN
To retreive a file from the server : GET PAKISTAN filename
(example) : GET PAKISTAN INFO
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LISTING OF FILES:

As of Jan 01, 1996

* PAKISTAN FILELIST for LISTSERV@ASUACAD.
*
* PAKISTAN Newsletter available from LISTSERV
*
* :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

* filename filetype date time File description
* -------- -------- --------------- ----------------
PAKISTAN INFO 92/09/13 23:18:45 What is Pakistan Listserv
PAKISTAN RADIO_FR 92/09/14 01:20:48 Radio Pakistan Frequencies (Javed)
PAKISTAN EXCH_RAT 92/09/14 01:24:21 Foreign Exchange Rates in Rupees
PAKISTAN HISTORY 91/08/22 13:38:17 A Brief History of Pakistan
PAKISTAN NAT_ATHM 92/09/13 23:19:19 Pakistan's National Anthem
PAKISTAN RECIPE_A 94/03/03 20:04:22 Pakistani recipes of Main Dishes
PAKISTAN RECIPE_B 92/09/13 23:19:14 Pakistani recipes of Sweet Dishes
PAKISTAN KKH_GIF 91/09/01 15:59:06 Gif of Karakoram Valley (uuencoded IBM)
PAKISTAN K2_GIF 91/09/01 15:59:24 Gif of K2 peak (uuenoded IBM)
PAKISTAN EMBASSY 92/09/14 01:24:16 Listing of Phone Numbers of Embassy
PAKISTAN INFOTAX 92/09/14 00:23:02 US-Pak TAX Treaty
PAKISTAN INFOINS 92/09/14 01:22:29 US Immigration laws for Students & other
PAKISTAN URDUFONT 91/11/15 01:29:22 Urdu font for Sun Work Station
PAKISTAN SHLMR_GI 92/02/16 18:50:51 Shalimar Garden Gif file (uuencoded IBM)
PAKISTAN TOMB_GIF 92/02/16 18:49:33 Gif of a tomb in Pakistan(uuencoded IBM)
PAKISTAN HALA_GIF 92/02/24 10:51:39 Hala Mosque Gif file(uuencoded IBM)
PAKISTAN IQBALGIF 92/02/24 10:52:23 Iqbal poem Gif file(uuencoded IBM)
PAKISTAN BALUCHGF 92/02/24 11:04:55 Picture of scenery in Baluchistan
PAKISTAN INDUSGIF 92/02/24 11:04:22 Picture of the Indus River
PAKISTAN DCOD_BAS 92/02/24 11:13:34 XXdecode.bas file to generate
UUDECODE.COM file for IBM PC
PAKISTAN AL_QURAN 92/09/14 01:20:42 Translation of Ayats of Quran
PAKISTAN MINARET 92/09/14 01:24:04 Macintosh program to calculate prayer
timing, Qibla direction, etc.
PAKISTAN FREEDOM 93/03/18 01:23:04 PIA Diary on Freedom Fighters of
the Independence
PAKISTAN EDITORS 93/05/25 07:02:08 Addresses of Editors of various
publications in Pakistan
PAKISTAN NAMAZFOR 94/02/12 10:47:29 Fortran Source Code for SALAT Time
Calculator.
PAKISTAN PNSFAQ 94/09/10 15:19:04 Pakistan News Service (PAKISTAN)
Frequently Asked Questions
PAKISTAN PNS-LFAQ 94/09/10 15:19:04 Pakistan News Service Discussions
(PNS-L) Frequently Asked Questions
PAKISTAN IINNFAQ 94/09/10 15:18:59 Islamic Information and News Network
(IINN) Frequent Asked Questions
PAKISTAN WELCOME 95/10/16 20:49:03 Pakistan News Service Welcome Message

___________________________________________________________________________
Note: LOG files of previous issues can be retrieved in a similar manner.

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Subject: 8) Pakistan News Service Reference Guide

T H E P A K I S T A N N E W S S E R V I C E
__________________________________________________________________

A QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
_______________________

BASIC CONCEPTS:

a. Email addresses of Pakistan News Service are:

[email protected]
[email protected]

[email protected]
[email protected]

Any contributions of News/Articles/comments may be sent to any
of the above email addresses.

b. A number of services are handled automagically by the LISTSERV.

c. These services include:

SUB PAKISTAN name - Subscribe to Pakistan News Service (PNS)
SIGNOFF PAKISTAN - Cancel Subscription to PNS
SET PAKISTAN NOMAIL - Put subscription on hold
SET PAKISTAN MAIL - Re-activate subscription
INDEX PAKISTAN - Get listing of files available thorough PNS
GET PAKISTAN filename - Get a copy of available file named 'filename'

d. To use the LISTSERV services:

Step 1: Send email to: [email protected]
Step 2: 'Subject' field is optional (can be left blank)
Step 3: List the appropriate service (listed in 'c') as text of
your email.

e. Example: To subscribe from a unix machine my screen should look as
follows:

__________________________________________________________________

% mail [email protected]
Subject: subscription to PNS

SUB PAKISTAN Asim Mughal

<CTRL-D>
%
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f. Accessing Pakistan News Service forums thru USENET.

As of Oct 1, '93. PNS forums are available thru usenet as:

bit.listserv.pakistan
bit.listserv.pns-l
bit.listserv.muslims

To access: On Unix machines: type: 'rn' or 'trn'
go <name>

On VAX/VMS : type: 'VNEWS'

If USENET is not available on your site or your site doesn't get PNS
forums, please contact your system administrator and request for PNS
forums to be available.

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Subject: 9) Where to Send Contributions

Please send your contributions to any of the following addresses:

A- PAKISTAN @ PSUVM.BITNET
PAKISTAN @ PSUVM.PSU.EDU

B- PAKISTAN @ ASUACAD.BITNET
PAKISTAN @ ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU

C- [email protected]

D- USENET: % Pnews bit.listserv.pakistan

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Subject: 10) PNS Staff & how to contact them

STAFF:
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| Pakistan News Service - Executive Board |
| ------------------------------------------ |
| Syed Mohammad Irfan Ashraf, Syed Asim Ali, |
| Nauman Kassim Mysorewala, Asim Mughal |
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ASSOCIATE EDITORS:

CONTACT: Email Address: Pakistan @ Asuacad.Bitnet

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Subject: 11) Archived Publications ('93-Current)

The Publications of Pakistan News Service are automatically created &
stored on "[email protected]". To retrieve a full listing
(filelist) of archived publications & files available in public, send an
email message to "[email protected]", the text of the message
must be:

INDEX PAKISTAN

A file similar to the one below will be mailed back. Select the archived
publication desired. To retrieve a copy of the archived publication,
again write an email message to "[email protected]" with the
following format for your text message:

GET PAKISTAN LOGyymmx

Note: yy == year (e.g. 94)
mm == month (e.g. 08 for August)
x is alphabet (a-f)
a == first week
b == second week & so on...

Hence the command would have been.

GET PAKISTAN-L LOG9512E

A copy of Filelist retreived as of January 01, 1996 listing only the
archived publications is attached.

* NOTEBOOK archives for the list
* (Weekly notebook)
* rec last - change
* filename filetype GET PUT -fm lrecl nrecs date time Remarks
* -------- -------- --- --- --- ----- ----- -------- -------- -------------------------------
PAKISTAN LOG9301B ALL OWN V 80 605 93/01/13 08:27:53 Started on Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:36:00 EST
PAKISTAN LOG9301C ALL OWN V 80 1217 93/01/18 10:23:58 Started on Fri, 15 Jan 1993 09:58:00 EST
PAKISTAN LOG9301D ALL OWN V 80 529 93/01/28 22:03:10 Started on Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:28:00 EST
PAKISTAN LOG9302A ALL OWN V 80 1552 93/02/06 07:03:34 Started on Fri, 29 Jan 1993 23:09:00 EST
PAKISTAN LOG9302B ALL OWN V 80 593 93/02/14 05:28:02 Started on Sun, 14 Feb 1993 01:43:00 -0500
PAKISTAN LOG9302C ALL OWN V 79 58 93/02/15 23:40:11 Started on Mon, 15 Feb 1993 22:48:42 MST
PAKISTAN LOG9302D ALL OWN V 79 1189 93/02/27 05:10:22 Started on Mon, 22 Feb 1993 22:55:23 MST
PAKISTAN LOG9303B ALL OWN V 80 1304 93/03/14 23:08:58 Started on Tue, 9 Mar 1993 16:53:00 EST
PAKISTAN LOG9303C ALL OWN V 80 1374 93/03/18 23:26:54 Started on Tue, 16 Mar 1993 01:33:03 EST
PAKISTAN LOG9303D ALL OWN V 80 994 93/03/25 05:10:16 Started on Wed, 24 Mar 1993 03:11:05 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9304A ALL OWN V 80 3835 93/04/06 22:19:52 Started on Fri, 2 Apr 1993 13:42:49 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9304B ALL OWN V 80 1186 93/04/14 13:31:37 Started on Fri, 9 Apr 1993 05:23:28 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9304C ALL OWN V 80 1756 93/04/21 21:24:01 Started on Sun, 18 Apr 1993 16:33:02 MST
PAKISTAN LOG9304D ALL OWN V 79 289 93/04/25 01:22:59 Started on Sun, 25 Apr 1993 01:21:34 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9304E ALL OWN V 79 362 93/04/29 06:38:24 Started on Thu, 29 Apr 1993 06:08:58 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9305A ALL OWN V 80 3678 93/05/07 08:58:53 Started on Sat, 1 May 1993 03:53:47 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9305B ALL OWN V 80 1744 93/05/14 09:26:57 Started on Sun, 9 May 1993 12:22:11 -0400
PAKISTAN LOG9305C ALL OWN V 79 1229 93/05/20 14:51:07 Started on Sat, 15 May 1993 14:54:20 -0400
PAKISTAN LOG9305D ALL OWN V 80 1537 93/05/27 09:51:58 Started on Tue, 25 May 1993 03:01:00 EDT
PAKISTAN LOG9305E ALL OWN V 80 2210 93/05/31 07:09:31 Started on Sat, 29 May 1993 14:15:34 -0400
PAKISTAN LOG9306A ALL OWN V 78 331 93/06/05 12:15:00 Started on Wed, 2 Jun 1993 14:20:10 -0400
PAKISTAN LOG9306B ALL OWN V 80 1204 93/06/11 01:54:55 Started on Fri, 11 Jun 1993 01:51:19 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9306C ALL OWN V 80 1899 93/06/19 05:23:27 Started on Tue, 15 Jun 1993 00:56:20 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9306D ALL OWN V 80 928 93/06/27 16:39:32 Started on Wed, 23 Jun 1993 18:30:40 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9306E ALL OWN V 80 579 93/06/30 20:22:18 Started on Tue, 29 Jun 1993 20:03:02 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9307A ALL OWN V 80 1529 93/07/07 21:24:18 Started on Fri, 2 Jul 1993 23:38:27 -0400
PAKISTAN LOG9307B ALL OWN V 80 1590 93/07/14 12:35:01 Started on Fri, 9 Jul 1993 22:18:41 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9307C ALL OWN V 80 2688 93/07/20 19:45:44 Started on Thu, 15 Jul 1993 03:57:00 EDT
PAKISTAN LOG9307D ALL OWN V 80 1760 93/07/28 18:42:08 Started on Thu, 22 Jul 1993 03:51:57 -0400
PAKISTAN LOG9307E ALL OWN V 80 496 93/07/31 19:09:06 Started on Thu, 29 Jul 1993 16:33:28 -0400
PAKISTAN LOG9308A ALL OWN V 81 1333 93/08/06 13:09:31 Started on Mon, 2 Aug 1993 16:23:36 -0400
PAKISTAN LOG9308B ALL OWN V 80 1287 93/08/14 11:54:31 Started on Sun, 8 Aug 1993 19:39:12 PDT
PAKISTAN LOG9308C ALL OWN V 80 1338 93/08/21 05:26:04 Started on Mon, 16 Aug 1993 00:31:19 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9308D ALL OWN V 80 974 93/08/28 14:49:13 Started on Mon, 23 Aug 1993 01:49:19 PDT
PAKISTAN LOG9308E ALL OWN V 80 838 93/08/31 18:33:12 Started on Mon, 30 Aug 1993 12:38:00 EDT
PAKISTAN LOG9309A ALL OWN V 80 2647 93/09/07 20:50:35 Started on Wed, 1 Sep 1993 20:25:42 PDT
PAKISTAN LOG9309B ALL OWN V 79 1174 93/09/14 03:15:46 Started on Wed, 8 Sep 1993 15:06:31 PDT
PAKISTAN LOG9309C ALL OWN V 79 739 93/09/21 14:54:47 Started on Sat, 18 Sep 1993 00:39:26 PDT
PAKISTAN LOG9309D ALL OWN V 79 509 93/09/27 14:44:02 Started on Mon, 27 Sep 1993 14:30:06 PDT
PAKISTAN LOG9309E ALL OWN V 79 398 93/09/29 19:48:09 Started on Wed, 29 Sep 1993 19:43:43 PDT
PAKISTAN LOG9310A ALL OWN V 80 2967 93/10/07 22:42:00 Started on Sat, 2 Oct 1993 15:26:30 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9310B ALL OWN V 80 2290 93/10/12 22:40:22 Started on Sat, 9 Oct 1993 08:45:44 MST
PAKISTAN LOG9310C ALL OWN V 109 707 93/10/19 02:53:08 Started on Fri, 15 Oct 1993 00:12:22 PDT
PAKISTAN LOG9310D ALL OWN V 80 1954 93/10/26 02:12:00 Started on Fri, 22 Oct 1993 04:34:00 EDT
PAKISTAN LOG9311A ALL OWN V 80 1224 93/11/06 20:14:11 Started on Tue, 2 Nov 1993 17:40:54 PST
PAKISTAN LOG9311B ALL OWN V 80 2893 93/11/14 23:10:06 Started on Tue, 9 Nov 1993 18:25:28 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9311C ALL OWN V 80 826 93/11/21 12:24:13 Started on Mon, 15 Nov 1993 19:29:38 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9311D ALL OWN V 80 329 93/11/24 18:11:44 Started on Mon, 22 Nov 1993 07:44:52 -0500
PAKISTAN LOG9311E ALL OWN V 80 1900 93/11/30 02:10:25 Started on Sun, 28 Nov 1993 23:04:16 -0700
PAKISTAN LOG9312A ALL OWN V 80 1537 93/12/07 14:00:45 Started on Thu, 2 Dec 1993 01:47:28 -0500
PAKISTAN LOG9312B ALL OWN V 79 357 93/12/14 13:05:02 Started on Wed, 8 Dec 1993 11:27:20 -0500
PAKISTAN LOG9312C ALL OWN V 80 1351 93/12/19 22:41:06 Started on Wed, 15 Dec 1993 12:51:38 -0500
PAKISTAN LOG9312D ALL OWN V 80 782 93/12/26 21:48:22 Started on Wed, 22 Dec 1993 08:48:15 MST
PAKISTAN LOG9312E ALL OWN V 78 203 93/12/30 00:35:46 Started on Thu, 30 Dec 1993 02:28:11 -0500
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Subject: 12) WWW Home Page & Links

PNS HOME PAGE:
http://alumni.caltech.edu/~mughal/pns/pns.html
http://www.wmich.edu/psa/news

PNS-L HOME PAGE:
http://alumni.caltech.edu/~mughal/pns-l/pns-l.html

CTF HOME PAGE:
http://alumni.caltech.edu/~mughal/ctf/ctf.html

IINN HOME PAGE:
http://alumni.caltech.edu/~mughal/iinn/iinn.html

PNS FAQ URL:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/pakistan/news-service-faq

PNS-L FAQ URL:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/pakistan/news-service-list

IINN FAQ URL:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/bit-muslims-faq/faq.html

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Subject: 13) This FAQ- Archive Info, History & Credits.

ARCHIVE INFO:

This FAQ is archived & availble thru anonymous FTP & world-wide web.

Anonymous FTP:

1. SITE: rtfm.mit.edu
Directory: /pub/usenet/news.answers/bit-pakistan-faq.Z

2. SITE: ftp.uu.net
Directory: /pub/usenet/news.answers/bit-pakistan-faq.Z

Word-Wide Web:
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URL for USENET FAQs:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html

URL for this FAQ:
www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/pakistan/news-service-faq

HISTORY:

Version 1.0 Released June 26, 1994
Version 1.2 Released July 04, 1994 Distribution to scp & s.answers.
Version 1.3 Released Aug 14, 1994 Copyright Info Included
Version 1.4 Released Oct 12, 1994 Item #7 updated. Files List of Listserv
Version 1.5 Released Aug 10, 1995 New Items #11 & #12. Total=13
Version 1.6 Released Oct 05, 1995 Updated Subject: &
Version 1.7 Released Jan 01, 1996 Updated header, #3, #11, #12
Version 1.8 Released Feb 14, 1997 Updated #12 & Headers/Archive name.

CREDITS: Pakistan News Service Staff

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