May 28, 2003	Wednesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 25,1424

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Industrial growth country’s biggest challenge, says Sartaj ISLAMABAD, May 27: Former finance minister Sartaj Aziz on Tuesday said the IMF and the World Bank were not independent bodies and their policy prescriptions had political motivations as was evident...		People-to-people contact a must for peace: speakers ISLAMABAD, May 27: Pakistan and India should replicate the model of Indo-China agreement of 1993-96 and endeavour to convert the Line of Control (LoC) into a quiet border, the only viable...
Over 1,000 inductions in CDA soon ISLAMABAD, May 27: Capital Development Authority (CDA) will induct over 1,000 new employees before the forthcoming federal budget 2003-2004, a source told Dawn....		NA Speaker for Pakistan, Lanka friendship group ISLAMABAD, May 27: National Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain, who is leading a nine-member parliamentary delegation to Sri Lanka, has said a ‘Pakistan-Sri Lanka parliamentary friendship group’ should be set up...
Court rejects Asif’s plea against double jeopardy ISLAMABAD, May 27: An accountability court on Tuesday rejected the application of Asif Ali Zardari, challenging his prosecution in the SGS reference, on the principle of double jeopardy and asked the...		Meaningful talks on Kashmir urged ISLAMABAD, May 27: The political and religious parties of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir have rejected the proposal of division of Kashmir and stressed a result-oriented dialogue to resolve the issue peacefully....
Appointments of 38 MOs at JPMC recommended ISLAMABAD, May 27: The Federal Public Service Commission has recommended 38 candidates for appointment as medical officers (BS-17) at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), Karachi....		Death sentence RAWALPINDI, May 27: Additional district and sessions judge Chaudhry Imtiaz Ahmed on Tuesday awarded death sentence to a person on charges of killing a youth. The court awarded capital punishment to...
Wasa in a fix over complaints RAWALPINDI, May 27: The Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) is in a fix over the mounting complaints regarding the constant supply of contaminated water to various parts of the city, official...		Railways sets up heritage centre RAWALPINDI, May 27: The Pakistan Railways (PR) has set up a heritage centre outside its station here to preserve and display more than 100-year-old railway heritage and to attract visitors to...
Rehabilitation centre for disabled to be set up ISLAMABAD, May 27: The ministry of women development, social welfare and special education will set up an assistive devices’ bank and a rehabilitation centre for the disabled in Islamabad, adviser to...		Nuclear assets unsafe, says PML-N ISLAMABAD, May 27: The Pakistan Muslim League (N) has claimed that Pakistan’s nuclear assets are unsafe in the hands of Gen Pervez Musharraf and his “puppet” civilian government....
Probe into irregularities in recruitment promised QUETTA, May 27: Irregularities have been committed in the recruitment of Levies in Turbat, Balochistan home minister Sardar Sanaullah Zehri conceded on Tuesday, adding that an inquiry will be instituted to...		Alternative land offered to refugee ISLAMABAD, May 27: The Punjab government on Tuesday said that insistence of a “refugee from India” to get prized land of 88 kanals in Faislabad was unreasonable, and the government was...
Debate over the army chief’s uniform HARDLY ever in the history of Pakistan has the army chief’s uniform become the subject of such contention and controversy and its wearer exposed to such public debate as these days....		MPAs’ detention condemned ISLAMABAD, May 27: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League (N) leaders have condemned the detention of opposition MPAs on the orders of Speaker Punjab Assembly in Lahore....
US policy to breed terrorism, says Asma NEW YORK, May 27: Well-known human rights activist Asma Jehangir has asserted that “the policy of the United States government to control the population of the world through puppet regimes will...		Jamali greets PFUJ office-bearers ISLAMABAD, May 27: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has greeted the new office-bearers of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ)....
Three injured in Indian shelling MUZAFFARABAD, May 27: Three persons, including a woman, were wounded in overnight shelling by Indian troops from across the Line of Control, officials said on Tuesday....		President’s visit ISLAMABAD, May 27: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will visit Saudi Arabia in the first week of June, an official said on Tuesday.—Staff Reporter...
Parliament session on talks with India advocated PESHAWAR, May 27: Leaders of various political parties have asked the government to convene a joint sitting of parliament and hold a discussion on resumption of dialogue between Pakistan and India....		Karak faces acute water shortage PESHAWAR, May 27: Water shortage can hit the people of drought-affected semi-arid Karak district with the advent of summer....
AIDS case detected in Larkana LARKANA, May 27: A case of AIDS has been detected in the Larkana central prison, Dr Ghulam Shabir Shaikh of the Chandka Medical College Hospital told this correspondent on Tuesday....		Recruitment of women teachers in July: Marwat SUKKUR, May 27: Sindh minister for education Irfanullah Marwat has said that vacant posts in the education department will be filled after July 1 and the process will begin with the...
Lake not be handed over to dist govt THATTA, May 27: The provincial minister for culture and tourism, Shabbir Ahmed Qaimi, has said that the Sindh government shall retain the possession of the Keenjhar Lake and would never even...		Police officials reshuffled PESHAWAR, May 27: The NWFP government has issued transfer and posting orders of senior police officers....
132kv power supply tower blown up PESHAWAR, May 27: Some miscreants blew up an electricity tower of 132kv transmission line by detonating four bombs in Shabqadar, Charsadda district, near Mardan Koroona on Monday night, said a Peshawar...		Rohri Canal banks need strengthening SUKKUR, May 27: The Sindh minister for irrigation and power, Syed Sadruddin Shah, has said that 20 motors were being installed to drain out stagnant water from breach-inundated areas along the...
Sugar mill workers flay ban on union BADIN, May 27: A large number of workers of the Fouji Sugar Mills, Badin, held a protest demonstration here on Tuesday against ban on the CBA union imposed by the mill...		Jirga sets ablaze 50 houses BAJAUR, May 27: A tribal jirga has set ablaze some 50 houses and shops of five assailant who had killed seven people and injured other three in Pushat area, Salarzai....
Women stage protest CHITRAL, May 27: For the first time in the history of Chitral, women took out a protest procession against the government and the elected representatives for breach of promise....		PPP holds protest demo DADU, May 27: About 2,000 activists of the People’s Party Parliamentarians took out a procession in the Mehar taluka here on Monday to protest registration of what they called a false...
Lawlessness hinders uplift in Rajanpur, DG Khan DERA GHAZI KHAN, May 27: Deteriorating law and order situation of the two border districts of Punjab, Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur, has badly affected the socio-economic life of the area...		Robber ‘commits’ suicide in lock-up GUJRANWALA, May 27: One of the alleged robbers, who was caught by the villagers after he shot dead an elderly man and injured his wife and two sons a few days...
275 to get jobs on permanent basis MIANWALI, May 27: The Punjab government has authorized the district government to fill in 275 posts, out of the 1,130 vacancies in the education department, on a permanent basis....		Man freed from illegal custody JHANG, May 27: A shop employee, who was illegally detained at the Qadirpur police station’s post for the last four days, was set free by the district and sessions judge on...
Procurement of wheat closer to target FAISALABAD, May 27: The food department has procured 359,000 tons (93 per cent of the target) of wheat from the district growers....		Pre-historic site in Dera discovered MULTAN, May 27: A Bahauddin Zakariya University PhD intern has discovered an archeological site at Vohawa in Dera Ghazi Khan....
Teachers demand a raise SIALKOT, May 27: The Muttahida Mahaz-i-Asataza Pakistan has urged the government to increase by 100 per cent the salaries of teachers’ in the forthcoming budget....		Two held with 46kg hashish SHEIKHUPURA, May 27: Motorway police claim to have seized 46kg of hashish from a car bearing green number plate near Khanqah Dogran late Monday night....
Youth shot dead by father SHEIKHUPURA, May 27: A youth was shot dead allegedly by his father and uncle in Murad-i-Kalan here on Tuesday....		Motorway SP summoned BAHAWALPUR, May 27: Justice Farrukh Mahmood Malik of the Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench, on Tuesday summoned motorway police SP Rao Muhammad Aslam and other officials for May 28 (today)....
Rumpus in PA for 2nd day running LAHORE, May 27: Pandemonium prevailed in the Punjab Assembly for the second day running on Tuesday as the opposition found a fresh cause —- the arrest of its 22 members, including...		Pervaiz defends speaker’s action LAHORE, May 27: Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi defended Speaker Afzal Sahi’s action against some opposition leaders, saying it was strictly in conformity with the rules....
New export strategy ‘need of the hour’ LAHORE, May 27: Prime Minister Mir Zafrullah Khan Jamali has emphasized the need for developing a new national export strategy based on public-private sectors partnership....		Rs1 million dacoity in Sattukatla LAHORE, May 27: Robbers looted cash, gold and prize bonds worth Rs1 million from a house in Sattukatla on Tuesday....
No clue to alleged killers of five men LAHORE, May 27: Police on Tuesday failed to arrest any of the alleged killers of five men gunned down on Monday....		Plea for release disposed of LAHORE, May 27: The chief justice of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday disposed of a petition for the release of 22 MPAs who had been arrested during a Punjab Assembly...
PML-N celebrates N-tests’ anniversary LAHORE, May 27: The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leaders on Tuesday cut a cake to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the country as a nuclear power....		‘Outsiders harassing’ students LAHORE, May 27: Allama Iqbal Medical College students have condemned harassment by outsiders on the college campus....