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Rs555m to be spent on police reforms: NRB ISLAMABAD, June 15: The government has earmarked a sum of Rs483 million under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for police reforms for the fiscal year 2003-2004, an official of the...		Water filters to be installed at tubewells: minister ISLAMABAD, June 15: State Minister for Environment Tahir Iqbal has said water purification plants will be installed at all tubewells and water tanks and other water supply sources....
Rs80m fixed for workers’ children scholarship ISLAMABAD, June 15: The Ministry of Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis has decided to give about Rs80 million as scholarship to 5,000 children of workers all over the country....		‘UK to enhance social sector support’ ISLAMABAD, June 15: Britain has pledged more assistance in social sector development, including poverty alleviation. British assistance to Pakistan for development projects now amounts to $100 million....
Tenants flay PTV policy ISLAMABAD, June 15: Activists of Anjuman Mazarain Punjab (AMP) and the People’s Rights Movement (PRM) on Sunday held a protest demonstration outside the Pakistan Television (PTV) building against, what they termed,...		CCB fails to deliver RAWALPINDI, June 15: The bifurcation of Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) has not served the purpose, as the newly formed Chaklala Cantonment Board is still defendant on the former, it is learnt....
QJP defends local govt system ISLAMABAD, June 15: President Qaumi Jamhoori Party (QJP) Asghar Khan on Saturday said the concept of basic democracy was introduced by the Britishers to control the people of subcontinent. “Today, same...		Over 17,000 cases pending in SC ISLAMABAD, June 15: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has disposed of 6,112 petitions and appeals from January 1 to June 13, 2003....
Overseas job-seekers cautioned ISLAMABAD, June 15: The government has not granted permission to any overseas employment promoter for sending job-seekers to Malaysia, officials in the Bureau of Emigration and Overseas Employment told Dawn....		Rs60m allocated for cenotaph at Shakarparian ISLAMABAD, June 15: The government, he said, had allocated Rs60 million for the establishment of ‘unknown soldier’ monument at Shakarparian in the fiscal year 2003-2004, a CDA official told Dawn on...
Balochistan govt to table Shariat bill QUETTA, June 15: Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Mohammad Yousaf said on Sunday that a committee comprising representatives of the component parties of the coalition government would prepare and table a Shariat...		PPP criticizes NA speaker’s ruling ISLAMABAD, June 15: The Pakistan People’s Party has denounced the National Assembly Speaker’s ruling on the LFO, and vowed to continue fight for the restoration of the Constitution....
Sikandar warns against agitation MUZAFFARABAD, June 15: AJK Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan on Saturday accused opposition People’s Party of being enemy of democracy and democratic system, and made it clear that no one...		AJK parties’ APC opposes Kashmir’s division ISLAMABAD, June 15: The leaders of 10 political parties of Azad Kashmir on Saturday demanded resignation of AJK Prime Minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan for “breaching” the AJK constitution and “betraying”...
Minister flays opposition’s attitude ISLAMABAD, Jun 15: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Sunday deplored the opposition’s attitude towards the National Assembly speaker....		Incumbency of Justice Mansoor challenged ISLAMABAD, June 15: The Lahore High Court has been approached for a declaration that Justice Mansoor Ahmad, who was nominated for the International Tribunal for Rwanda working under the UN, has...
Chinese border opens today BEIJING, June 15: The Pakistan-China seasonal border via Karakoram Highway will be reopened on Monday....		Operation against criminals launched QUETTA, June 15: Special Police Task Force has launched a massive operation in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan against elements involved in terrorist and criminal activities, and to ensure maintenance...
New CPNE chief LAHORE, June 15: Jang/News editor-in-chief Mir Shakilur Rehman was elected president of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors at the council’s annual meeting held here on Saturday....		Jamali holds talks with Fazl, Durrani ISLAMABAD, June 15: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali met MMA leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Saturday and discussed with him the current political situation....
Agricultural land along River Kabul inundated PESHAWAR, June 15: Abrupt discharge of water from the Warsak reservoir has inundated agricultural land and damaged sugarcane crop along the banks of the River Kabul, officials and farmers said....		200 held, 65 houses bulldozed in anti-bandit operation SUKKUR, June 15: At least 65 houses were bulldozed and over 200 suspects were arrested in Sindh-Balochistan border area of Jacobabad district on Sunday as the operation against outlaws by the...
Fake foreign currency seized; two DPs arrested PESHAWAR, June 15: The city police sized a big haul of fake US dollars and Pakistani currency and arrested two Afghan refugees on Grand Trunk Road near general bus stand here...		Gadoon traders demand EPZ SWABI, June 15: The president of Gadoon Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Tariq Majeed, and other traders’ representatives have demanded of the government to set up the Export Processing Zone (EPZ)...
Dist Nazim criticizes bureaucrats KHAIRPUR, June 15: The district Nazim, Khairpur, Nafisa Shah, has said that bureaucrats were creating hindrances in development works but they would not succeed in their nefarious designs....		Man kills two wives SUKKUR, June 15: A man killed his two wives in a village near Khanpur Mahar, Ghotki district on Sunday....
Demo held against Thal canal LARKANA, June 15: The leaders of the Sindh National Front (SNF) on Sunday held a protest demonstration against the construction of the Thal canal and other anti-Sindh projects....		Man appears in matric exams for 16 others DERA GHAZI KHAN, June 15: The Dera Ghazi Khan Education Board authorities have found out that one person has appeared for the matriculation examination at least 22 times using different names...
Nine court officials may be produced before ADSJ today: Rs1 million theft MULTAN, June 15: Nine officials of local courts are likely to be produced before the additional district and sessions judge on Monday (today) on a habeas corpus petition filed against their...		Man kills his children FAISALABAD, June 15: A man murdered his two children and injured another after a quarrel with his wife in Samanabad here on Sunday....
Nine villages exempted from taxes TOBA TEK SINGH, June 15: The Punjab government has exempted nine villages of Pirmahal from abiana and local rate of last year for cotton crop....		Kidnapped man recovered GUJRANWALA, June 15: Naushera Virkan police claimed to have recovered a landlord kidnapped for ransom by a proclaimed offender some two weeks ago and arrested the accused on Sunday....
Woman held with 6kg hashish GUJRANWALA, June 15: City police claimed on Sunday to have recovered six kilogrammes of hashish from a woman....		Heat claims four lives in Vehari VEHARI, June 15: Four people lost their lives and some 17 others fainted in different parts of the district as mercury shot up to 48.5 degree Celsius on Sunday....
Farmers unable to get ADBP loans SIALKOT, June 15: The farmers residing in border villages in Sialkot and Narowal districts are unable to get Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan (ADBP) loans due to the revenue department’s failure...		Shot dead TOBA TEK SINGH, June 15: The son of former district council member Chaudhry Muhammad Boota and younger brother of Pacca Anna union council Nazim Chaudhry Farooq Ahsan advocate was shot...
Shujaat still willing to talk with opposition: LFO termed non-issue LAHORE, June 15: The president of the ruling PML-Q, Chaudhry Shujaat Husain, says despite the negative attitude of the opposition, his party is still willing to hold talks on the seven...		Monsoon to dump 137mm rain: Met LAHORE, June 15: The Met department has predicted normal rainfall during the monsoon season starting from July 1....
Water sector takes large ADP share LAHORE, June 15: The water sector seems to have taken the lion’s share of the Punjab’s Annual Development Pro-gramme —- Rs3.750 billion directly going to the irrigation and Rs544 million reserved...		Kashmir division opposed LAHORE, June 15: The JUP (Nifaz-i-Shariat) has advised President Gen Pervez Musharraf neither to recognize Israel nor accept division of Kashmir formula during his forthcoming visit to the US....
Pay, pension raise to cost additional Rs5.5bn LAHORE, June 15: The Punjab’s decision to allow 15 per cent raise in the pays and pensions of its 750,000 employees from July 1 in line with the federal government’s announcement...		Law soon to regulate govt borrowing LAHORE, June 15: Federal Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that a law prescribing parameters for government borrowing will be presented in the next session of the parliament....
Meraj’s Qul largely attended LAHORE, June 15: Political leaders, lawyers and people from other walks of life participated in large numbers in the Qul of the late Malik Meraj Khalid here on Sunday....		Panic in Cantt LAHORE, June 15: A firecracker blast created panic in the Cantonment area on Sunday night....