April 20, 2003	Sunday	Safar 17, 1424

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Eight retired servicemen inducted into banks ISLAMABAD, April 19: Eight ex-personnel of the armed forces were inducted in different banks and development financial institutions (DFIs) on a contract basis in January, 2001....		Help sought to check drug smuggling ISLAMABAD, April 19: Pakistan played a key role in adoption of a resolution regarding assistance to developing countries for controlling drug smuggling and production in the international conference on drug control...
Officials cautious about Indian offer ISLAMABAD, April 19: While at the highest political level there has been an enthusiastic response to Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s peace talks offer to Pakistan, Foreign Office professionals here...		PPP demands Asif’s release ISLAMABAD, April 19: The Pakistan People’s Party on Saturday demanded immediate release of former senator Asif Ali Zardari or his shifting to Karachi for facing trial in various criminal cases pending...
Govt to launch legislative business in NA: Shujaat ISLAMABAD, April 19: The president and parliamentary leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Q Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Saturday that the government had decided to bring its agenda of legislative business in...		Growers of poppy demand compensation QUETTA, April 19: Armed tribesmen demanding compensation for their destroyed poppy crop on Saturday refused to vacate their positions on hilltops in the Gulistan area and vowed to resist the operation...
Arms, drugs cache seized QUETTA, April 19: The Chagai militia, a wing of the Frontier Corps, has seized huge quantities of drugs, arms and ammunition from the general area of Badi near the Pakistan-Afghan border....		Newsman’s kidnapping condemned PESHAWAR, April 19: A delegation of Kohat journalists called on the deputy inspector-general of police, Kohat region, on Saturday and lodged a protest against the kidnapping of Dawn correspondent Abdul Sami...
Sajjad wins AJK Bar polls MUZAFFARABAD, April 19: Raja Sajjad Ahmed Khan, an advocate from Bagh district, was elected vice-chairman of the AJK Bar Council, here on Saturday....		Three rockets fired QUETTA, April 19: At least three rockets were fired from Jandaran mountains on Kohlu and militiamen retaliated with RPG shells on Thursday, but no loss was reported....
OIC mission to visit LoC ISLAMABAD, April 19: A fact-finding mission of the Organization of Islamic Conference will visit the Line of Control to meet the victims of Indian firing....		‘Effective foreign policy adopted’ ISLAMABAD, April 19: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has said the government has adopted an effective foreign policy and a principled stand on international issues, including Kashmir....
Natural resources to be used for development: CM PESHAWAR, April 19: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has said the MMA government is working on formulating a natural resource-based programme for the economic development of the province....		Defence team WASHINGTON, April 19: A 13-member delegation from the National Defence College completed a week-long visit to the United States and is leaving for Pakistan on Friday, officials said....
NWFP receives Rs500m from Wapda PESHAWAR, April 19: The Water and Power Development Authority has released Rs500 million to the NWFP against its net hydel profit share for the current financial year, official sources told Dawn....		Anti-defection law not to affect PPP Patriots ISLAMABAD, April 19: Members of the People’s Party Parliamentarians Patriots are not threatened by the anti-defection law, as they severed their relations with the PPP before it came into effect and...
Smoking among youth to be checked PESHAWAR, April 19: The causes behind the youth’s increasing tendency to smoke need to be highlighted urged NWFP governor Iftikhar Hussain Shah  at a”Youth and Tobacco “ seminar, on Saturday. Remedial measures could then be...		Presence of ‘ghost’ schools in Swat condemned MINGORA, April 19: Swat Nazim Dr Mehboobur Rehman has taken a strong notice of the presence of ghost schools in the district and termed it a negligence on the part of...
JSQM calls for end to tribal feuds KHAIRPUR, April 19: Hundreds of workers belonging to the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz on Saturday took out a procession to protest against tribal clashes....		Transporters told to reduce fares NAWABSHAH, April 19: Sindh Chief Secretary K. B. Rind has asked transporters to reduce fares after the fall in prices of petroleum products....
Suicide NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, April 19: A nine-year old boy committed suicide by taking pesticides in the Khair Mohammad Ujjan village, Bhirya Taluka, on Saturday....		Muzaffar visits hospital MIRPURKHAS, April 19: Acting Governor of Sindh Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah taking notice of the vacant posts of specialists, the acting governor directed the EDO (health), Mirpurkhas,...
Boy’s killing in police raid stirs protest SUKKUR, April 19: A group of 50 women, carrying the corpse of a 15-year-old boy, on Friday staged a demonstration causing a four-hour-long blockage on the Indus Highway....		Students drive against MUO LARKANA, April 19: By organizing a token hunger strike here on Saturday, the Sindh Students’ Alliance launched a movement against the proposed model university ordinance and privatization of educational institutions, rise...
Policemen served notices for torture MIRPURKHAS, April 19: The district and sessions judge the other day issued show-cause notices to three police officials of the Digri police station for keeping two men in illegal detention and...		Man killed KHAIRPUR, April 19: Some unidentified attackers shot a man, Abdul Rehman Kalhoro, dead in Gahno Kalhoro village of Khairpur taluka on Friday....
ACE raids district treasury office JACOBABAD, April 19: The circle officer, Anti-Corruption Establishment, Jacobabad along with the judicial magistrate, Ghulam Shah, raided the district treasury office and seized relevant records on Friday. However, the district accounts...		Taluka body seeks SHO’s termination SUKKUR, April 19: The taluka council on Friday demanded of the Sindh chief minister and the provincial IGP to dismiss the SHO of the C-section police station in Sukkur, Gulshan Mahar,...
Regular power supply to rice mills demanded LARKANA, April 19: The Sindh-Balochistan Rice Millers and Traders Association (SBRMTA) has demanded uninterrupted power supply to rice mills....		AMP gets acting president, secy OKARA, April 19: Tenants have nominated Liaqat Ali of 45/3R as the acting Anjuman Mazareen Punjab chairman and Shagufta Zafar of 4/4L as the acting secretary-general and launched a mass-contact programme...
17 journalists to record statements: Baton-charge case FAISALABAD, April 19: Around 17 local journalists filed their names before the senior civil judge, Faisalabad, for recording statements about April 14, 2002, incident in which over two dozen mediamen had...		Potatoes exposed to the elements SAHIWAL, April 19: Harvested potatoes lying open in the fields are spoiling in the hot weather as all the available cold stores in the district are packed to capacity....
UE students, clerks clash LAHORE, April 19: University of Education students and clerks clashed on the university campus leaving a number of them injured on Saturday....		Islamic states urged to strengthen defence LAHORE, April 19: Rulers of Islamic countries should learn a lesson from the fall of Saddam and strengthen their defence by normalizing relations with their neighbours and winning the confidence of...
Faisalabad TMA standing bodies’ chiefs elected FAISALABAD, April 19: Four nominees of the opposition-backed group in the Tehsil Municipal Administration (city) were elected chairmen of the standing committees on Saturday....		Elderly to be delivered Nadra NICs at doorstep GUJRANWALA, April 19: The Nadra will deliver computerized national identity cards to elderly persons at their doorsteps while rest of the cards will be distributed through swift centres....
Man dies trying to board moving train RAHIM YAR KHAN, April 19: An employee of a courier company died while trying to jump onto a moving train on Saturday....		Two murdered in Lahore LAHORE, April 19: Two people were murdered and as many injured in different parts of the city on Saturday....
38 members of 10 gangs held SIALKOT, April 19: The police claimed on Saturday to have arrested 38 members of 10 gangs of dacoits during the last 15 days....		Dawn staffer grieved MULTAN, April 19: The mother of Khalid Mehmood Sheikh, the Business Executive of daily Dawn, Multan, died due to cardiac arrest here on Friday....