May 18, 2003	Sunday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 15, 1424

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Rangers chief, tenants stick to their positions LAHORE, May 17: There was no meeting point between the positions of the director-general of the Punjab Rangers and protagonists of tenants when the two sides got together here on Saturday...		Uproar in Balochistan PA over police role QUETTA, May 17: The session of the Balochistan Assembly witnessed on Friday an uproar when the opposition members tabled a motion to condemn the killing of a truck driver and demanded...
Colonies for govt employees planned MIRPUR, May 17: AJK Minister for Revenue Chaudhry Tariq Farooq has said that a plan was being evolved to provide residential facilities to low-paid government employees in Azad Jammu & Kashmir....		Plan chalked out to promote investment in Azad Kashmir MIRPUR (AJK), May 17: A comprehensive strategy has been chalked out to encourage foreign investments by the overseas Pakistanis and especially the Kashmiri expatriates based in United Kingdom to ensure speedy...
District audit system from July PESHAWAR, May 17: The district government audit system will formally start functioning in the NWFP from July 1, which will ensure 80 per cent audit coverage of the government departments as...		Five die in accident MARDAN, May 17: Five people died and 15 others received injuries when a speeding Toyota Hiace van (PRK-3776) rammed into a roadside tree on Mardan-Charsadda Road here on Saturday....
Zakat staff told to mend ways PESHAWAR, May 17: Provincial Minister for Zakat, Ushr, Social Welfare & Women Development Hafiz Hashmat Khan has taken notice of habitual absence of the Zakat department staff and directed them to...		Forging units’ strike leaves 60,000 jobless SIALKOT, May 17: The strike of surgical forging units has rendered 60,000 daily-wagers jobless and blocked the supply of raw material to the export-oriented surgical industry, which is suffering from a...
PPP drive against LFO from 20th GUJRANWALA, May 17: The PPP-Parliamentarian will launch a protest campaign against the LFO, price increase, lawlessness, unemployment and safe return of the party chairperson with a token hunger strike outside the...		Raise in teh bazaari fee suggested TOBA TEK SINGH, May 17: The Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) of Gojra has suggested raise in teh bazari fee by 1,400 per cent to 2,000 per cent, it is learnt on...
Patwari held for taking bribe SAHIWAL, May 17: The local Anti-Corruption Establishment on Saturday caught red-handed a revenue patwari while taking illegal gratification....		Human trafficker arrested FAISALABAD, May 17: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) claims to have arrested a human trafficker, Mohammad Yaseen....
Woman, daughter hanged SHEIKHUPURA, May 17: Five members of a family hanged a woman and her daughter to death over suspicion of loose morals in Hajipura locality of Sharaqpur Sharif and threw their bodies...		Robber held GUJRANWALA, May 17: An alleged robber was caught by police after an encounter while his accomplice managed to escape in the Cantonment area on Saturday. — Correspondent...
Bank manager succumbs to injuries VEHARI, May 17: The bank manager, who was injured seriously by armed men on Friday during a dacoity bid in MCB’s Sardarpur Jhandir branch at Mailsi, died here on Saturday....		Photographer dies TOBA TEK SINGH, May 17: Senior photographer and press club founder member Ismail Shaheen died of heart failure here on Saturday....
Moot demands water release below Kotri THATTA, May 17: A seminar on “Problems of Fishermen and Destruction of Sindh Coast” has demanded that federal and Sindh governments should ensure release of 35 million acre feet water downstream...		Recruitment of non-locals in oil firms flayed KHAIRPUR, May 17: The chairman, JSQM, Basheer Khan Qureshi, has said it was the height of injustice that non-local people were being employed in the Sawan Gas Field and Qadam Gas...
Woman’s body exhumed LARKANA, May 17: A medical board consisting of Prof Anwar Akhund, Dr Mir Mohammed Sahito and a lady medical officer from the People’s Medical College Nawabshah exhumed the body of Samina...		Dust storm hits Khairpur KHAIRPUR, May 17: A dust storm hit many areas of Khairpur district, including Sobhodero Taluka, Gambat Taluka, Hingorja, Khanwahan and Mangna Pota, late Friday evening and continued till Saturday in some...
PPP holds demo NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, May 17: About 300 activists of the People’s Party Parliamentarians took out a procession here on Saturday against registration of what they called false cases against party activists....		Nine injured in accident HYDERABAD, May 17: Nine passengers were injured in a head-on collision between a Datsun pickup and a bus on the National Highway near Hatri on Saturday....
Fears of Gwadar’s locals allayed QUETTA, May 17: Governor Balochistan, Lt-Gen (retd) Abdul Quadir, and Chief Minister, Jam Mir Mohammad Yusuf, have dispelled the impression that the local people would be turned into a tiny minority...		Rangers, army officials be punished: PML: Land-grabbing ISLAMABAD, May 17: The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has demanded that all generals and other officers of the armed forces and Rangers involved in land grabbing be tried for tarnishing the...
IDB offers $100m for road projects ISLAMABAD, May 17: The Islamic Development Bank has offered $100 million for the construction of roads linking Gwadar port with Central Asia and major economic centres of the country....		No progress in Karachi blasts inquiry KARACHI, May 17: Police are still groping in the dark and have failed to make any headway in their inquiry into the blasts which occurred at different petrol pumps in Karachi...
Top officials transferred, promoted ISLAMABAD, May 17: A number of officials of BS-22 and BS-21 were transferred and promoted on Saturday....		Ord giving PM power to sack officials flayed ISLAMABAD, May 17: The People’s Party Parliamentarians and the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) have criticized the promulgation of the Removal from Service (Special Powers) (Second Amendment) Ordinance, 2003, under which the...
4 policemen, 5 students injured in clash QUETTA, May 17: At least four policemen and five students were injured in a clash in the Balochistan University on Saturday....		People want Kashmir talks: Fazl ISLAMABAD, May 17: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s parliamentary leader in National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said people in India and Pakistan want a negotiated settlement of the Kashmir issue....