June 2, 2003	Monday	Rabi-us-Sani 1, 1424

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Capital police to get over Rs50m grant ISLAMABAD, June 1: The capital police will receive over Rs50 million grant to improve their performance in the next fiscal year, Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat told Dawn on Sunday....		Tenants body rejects army’s ownership claim on farms ISLAMABAD, June 1: The Anjuman-i-Mazarain Punjab (AMP) on Sunday challenged Maj-Gen Mehmood’s claim that the AMP was not a representative body of the Okara tenants and was instigating the tenants to...
CDA faces shortage of sanitation equipment ISLAMABAD, June 1: The capital’s civic body is finding it difficult to maintain cleanliness in the city as it is facing shortage of latest sanitation equipment, sources told Dawn....		Probe into govt buildings construction begins ISLAMABAD, June 1: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has started a probe into the alleged irregularities committed in the construction of Prime Minister House, Parliament Lodges and Convention Centre, a source...
Four killed in separate incidents RAWALPINDI, June 1: Four persons were killed and another was critically injured in separate incidents in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, police said on Sunday....		Confrontation in nobody’s interest: Wasti RAWALPINDI, June 1: PML-Q central vice president Syed Kabir Ali Wasti on Sunday said confrontation between the government and opposition was in nobody’s interest....
CGH seeks Rs13m to enhance facilities ISLAMABAD, June 1: The Cantonment General Hospital (CGH) authorities have sought Rs13 million grant to enhance facilities besides appointment of more staff in the hospital....		Additional lanes on VIP route planned ISLAMABAD, June 1: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has prepared a Rs220 million PC-I for the construction of an additional third lane on both sides of Murree Road from Faizabad Chowk...
Iesco asked to pay RCB taxes RAWALPINDI, June 1: The Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) has been directed by the defence ministry to pay all kinds of taxes to the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board, it has been learnt....		Demo staged against US forces’ presence QUETTA, June 1: Hundreds of students, political workers and other people staged a protest demonstration in Kharan on Sunday against the presence of United States forces at Shamsi Airport, some 80km...
New force to be set up in Balochistan: PM ROJHAN JAMALI, June 1: A new law enforcement force — Balochistan constabulary — will be set up soon to ensure peace and law and order in the province while work on...		Payment of NWFP’s share in Wapda profit urged ISLAMABAD, June 1: Awami National Party (ANP) Vice-president Haji Mohammad Adeel has asked the federal government to ensure payment of NWFP’s remaining share from the net annual profit of Wapda before...
40 houses gutted, 7 injured DADU, June 1: Seven people were injured and 40 houses reduced to ashes in two separate incidents of fire in Mehar taluka on Sunday....		Strike observed against murder QUETTA, June 1: A strike was observed here on Sunday in protest against the murder of a leading goldsmith of the province, Abdul Ghafoor....
Section 144 imposed in Gilgit GILGIT, June 1: The district magistrate has imposed section 144 in the city after four days of violent protests by students of a group against the curriculum....		Road reopens GILGIT, June 1: The Frontier Works Organization on Saturday restored the road link between Astore and Gilgit that had been suspended due to heavy landslides at 146 points since May 1....
Passing-out parade held KAKUL, June 1: The passing-out parade of the 26th integrated course of the Pakistan Military Academy was held at the PMA here on Sunday....		Jamali, Shujaat offer condolences ISLAMABAD, June 1: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and PML-Q Leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Sunday condoled the tragic loss of at least 25 persons belonging to the same family...
Emergency cabinet meeting today ISLAMABAD, June 1: An emergency meeting of the federal cabinet has been convened on Monday, official sources told Dawn late Sunday night....		Five enterprises to pay Rs60bn in debt servicing ISLAMABAD, June 1: Five of the country’s major public sector corporations are estimated to pay Rs60 billion during the fiscal 2003-04 to service their public and private sector debts and are...
2 boys drown in pond QUETTA, June 1: Two boys drowned in a pond in Mehmoodabad area of Chaman on Sunday....		Police yet to locate accused armyman PESHAWAR, June 1: The police have so far been unable to locate the whereabouts of an army officer who was allegedly involved in the killing of three persons....
Recruitment on basis of merit alone: PM SUKKUR, June 1: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali has said that the Federal Public Service Commission (Amendment) Ordinance will permit the provincial government to provide jobs from grade 1 to grade...		Pat Feeder canal shut to protest kidnapping SUKKUR, June 1: Activists of the Upper Sindh Irrigation Employees Union, Gudu Barrage, closed the Pat Feeder Canal on Sunday in protest against the kidnapping of four employees of the irrigation...
Muttahida demands provincial rights BADIN, June 1: Senior Deputy Convener Muttahida Qaumi Movement Dr Farooq Sattar has deplored the denial of rights to the Sindhis, depriving the locals of job opportunities and benefits of their...		Salaries demanded ABBOTTABAD, June 1: The health department employees have demanded payment of their salaries, looted by armed men three years ago, from Baitul Maal....
Shariat Court fails to hear pleas PESHAWAR, June 1: For the last four months, criminal appeals against death penalties awarded to various appellants, including some juvenile offenders and women, could not be heard by the Federal Shariat...		Musharraf, opposition urged to end standoff MULTAN, June 1: Millat Party chief Farooq Leghari has said if he could fulfil the constitutional obligation of twice addressing the joint session of parliament in the face of opposition’s rowdyism,...
Two girls hurt in Indian shelling SIALKOT, June 1: Two minor girls sustained serious injuries on Sunday in mortar shelling by Indian troops in Koraal village of the Sialkot Working Boundary’s Shakargarh-Narowal sector....		Gojra tehsil’s Resolution suspended TOBA TEK SINGH, June 1: The district council has under Section 64 of the Local Government Ordinance suspended the resolution passed by the Gojra tehsil council regarding construction of shops at...
ADB to probe ‘irregularities’ in Chashma-III DERA GHAZI KHAN, June 1: The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has authorized an inspection of the ADB-funded Chashma Right Bank Irrigation Project (CRBIP) Stage-III, which is supposed to...		Two ADBP defaulters in illegal custody DERA GHAZI KHAN, June 1: Two defaulters of the Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan have allegedly been detained at the tehsil office of revenue department for the last six days without...
15 freed from police lock-up SHEIKHUPURA, June 1: On the complaints of the local people, the Public Safety Commission chairman accompanied by members raided Sadder police station on Sunday and got freed 15 people detained illegally....		Pervaiz told to respond positively LAHORE, June 1: PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain on Sunday directed Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi that he should respond positively to any gesture by opposition parties to run the provincial...
NA budget session likely on 7th LAHORE, June 1: The budget session of the National Assembly is likely to be convened on June 7, Speaker Chaudhry Amir Husain said here on Sunday....		PML-N MPA arrested LAHORE, June 1: The police investigation wing on Sunday arrested the PML-N MPA, Ajasam Sharif, on charges of beating up a doctor on the panel of Punjab Assembly....
Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi in hospital LAHORE, June 1: Octogenarian poet, story writer and journalist Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi was admitted to the Jinnah Hospital on Saturday with a breathing problem....		Wheat yield estimates ‘shock’ ministry LAHORE, June 1: Conceding for the first time that the country may barely meet its food requirement from this year’s wheat production and that there will be no exportable surplus, the...