July 14, 2003	Monday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 13, 1424

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ALP to strengthen agri research system: Soomro ISLAMABAD, July 13: The Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) chairman, Dr Badaruddin Soomro, has said the Agricultural Linkage Programme (ALP) will strengthen the national agricultural research system....		Project to develop new Brassica varieties okayed ISLAMABAD, July 13: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has approved a research project for the development of Desi Sarsoon (Brassica Carnpestris) varieties through conventional and modern techniques....
New housing schemes to be launched: CDA to auction confiscated goods ISLAMABAD, July 13: The government has decided to launch new housing schemes across the country to fulfil the requirement of 5.4 million houses, which would accommodate about 30 million people....		Pakistan to be made tourist resort by 2005 ISLAMABAD, July 13 : Minister of State for Tourism, Culture and Youth Affairs Rais Munir Ahmad has said the government is planning to make the country a tourist resort by year...
International Shah Latif conference organized ISLAMABAD, July 13: Hundreds of people attended the International Shah Latif Conference organized by Sindh Graduates Association (SGA) at Shah Abdul Latif Community Centre (SALCC) here on Saturday....		Silt amasses in power channel ATTOCK, July 13: The rapid fall of heavy silt in the power channel of Ghazi Barotha Hydropower Project (GBHP) during the current rain spell is posing a serious threat to the...
Kamalabad Chowk Rs11.9m to be paid for remodelling RAWALPINDI, July 13: The government will pay Rs11.9 million to various departments for removing their installations from the site of Kamalabad Chowk extension and remodelling project, official sources told Dawn on...		Delay in Quetta inquiry flayed RAWALPINDI, July 13: The Islami Tehrik Pakistan president, Allama Syed Sajjid Ali Naqvi, has expressed his concern over delay in completion of the inquiry report on Quetta killings....
Two commit suicide ISLAMABAD, July 13: Two persons committed suicide here on Saturday, police said....		‘No compromise on Kashmir, N-plan’ MURREE, July 13: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Sunday said Pakistan will not make any compromise on its integrity, freedom of Kashmir and nuclear programme....
PPP delays legal action against dissidents ISLAMABAD, July 13: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) has decided to delay filing of disqualification references against its dissidents — now the Patriots members — and to wait for the outcome...		Talks to be fruitful, hopes Noorani TORONTO, July 13: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal chief Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani said here on Sunday that the government-opposition negotiations were likely to begin in the third week of July....
Minister dissatisfied with FIA probe: Human smuggling ISLAMABAD, July 13: The interior ministry has formed a joint investigation team to probe into the human smuggling cases of Malik Bashiruddin, a proclaimed offender who was arrested by the Federal...		Eight killed, 10 hurt in accident GILGIT, July 13: At least eight people, including a woman, were killed in an accident on Sunday at Guru Jaglote, 27km north of here....
Quetta attack: doubts, mistrust abound QUETTA, July 13: The people of Quetta are still trying to come to grips with the July 4 killings. They wonder how and why the atmosphere of tolerance in their province...		Kashmiri leaders held on Martyrs Day SRINAGAR, July 13: Police in held Kashmir detained 14 people on Sunday, including two senior leaders of freedom struggle, for staging a march to mourn 21 Kashmiris slain 72 years ago...
Wapda finds faults in supplier’s meters LAHORE, July 13: Barely three days after awarding a contract for 333,000 single-phase electricity meters to M/s Escorts, the Water and Power Development Authority has found technical faults with the meters...		‘S. Arabia keen to invest in Pakistan’ ISLAMABAD, July 13: Prince Faisal Abdullah Al Faisal Al Saud of Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that Saudi businessmen would explore opportunities for investment in Pakistan....
Help offered to India for gas pipeline project ISLAMABAD, July 13: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has said Pakistan is ready to help India for the building of gas pipeline from Turkmenistan....		Junejo’s widow laid to rest MIRPURKHAS, July 13: The wife of the former prime minister, Mohammad Khan Junejo, was laid to rest near the grave of her husband at the Khan Sahib Din Mohammad Junejo village,...
Jamali promises compensation to rain victims ISLAMABAD, July 13: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Sunday assured a delegation from Balochistan that the people affected by recent rains would be provided compensation and help....		BHC order QUETTA, July 13: The BHC has declared that the district government will inherit the municipal corporation’s property. Justice Ahmed Khan Lashari, on an appeal filed by District Nazim Mohammad Rahim Kakar...
Increase in subsidies opposed ISLAMABAD, July 13: People’s Party Parliamentarians Senator Akbar Khawaja on Saturday criticized the over two-fold increase in subsidies in the budget from Rs20 billion to Rs64 billion....		Multan Nazim election today: Feudals, bureaucracy bet on same horse MULTAN, July 13: The existing electoral college of 2,500 voters elects the Multan Zila Nazim on Monday (today) to fill the vacant slot for the remaining term of two years....
Stolen antiques of Sadiq Garh Palace retrieved BAHAWALPUR, July 13: Costly antiques stolen from Sadiq Garh Palace at Dera Nawab Sahib have been retrieved from a jeweller and his son in Lahore....		Kashmiris remember Srinagar martyrs SIALKOT, July 13: Kashmiri people residing in Sialkot and Narowal districts remembered on Sunday their brethren martyred by Dogra police at Srinagar on July 13, 1931....
Garments termed key to earn more forex RAHIM YAR KHAN, July 13: The country could earn 2,000 per cent more foreign exchange by exporting garments instead of cotton....		Nazims barred from taking unilateral action: Relieving TMA officials FAISALABAD, July 13: The Punjab government has put its foot down to stop tehsil nazims (TNs) from taking ‘unilateral’ action of relieving ‘unwanted’ officials from tehsil municipal administration (TMA) duties....
Excess canal water causes water-logging SADIQABAD, July 13: The Panjnad Canal, filled beyond capacity, has rendered thousands of acres water-logged and saline besides causing seepage in several villages and forcing people to migrate to drier places....		Woman killed in train-car collision FAISALABAD, July 13: A woman was killed while her husband and driver sustained multiple injuries when a passenger train hit their car at an unmanned railway crossing here on Saturday night....
Govt urged to revise its Afghan policy GUJRANWALA, July 13: The demonstration in Kabul and the attack on Pakistani embassy are the outcome of defective Afghan policy which needs to be changed....		15 injured as mud houses collapse in rain VEHARI, July 13: At least 15 people were injured and around 20 mud houses collapsed when heavy rain lashed town and its surrounding areas here on Sunday....
JAC starts another round of anti-LFO protests MULTAN, July 13: The Joint Action Committee of lawyers vowed to continue its struggle against what its leaders described as “illegal and extra-constitutional acts of the military junta in collaboration with...		Politician held for assaulting Fesco SDO TOBA TEK SINGH, July 13: An influential politician of Gojra was arrested on Sunday for injuring an SDO of the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco)....
People warn cantonment board of locking hospital PESHAWAR, July 13: The residents of Nauthia area have expressed concern over the ban on their treatment in the Cantonment Board Hospital and have set a deadline of three days for...		Wapda is a white elephant, says Mahar SHIKARPUR, July 13: The Sindh chief minister, Ali Mohammad Khan Mahar, has said that the government was determined to serve the people of the province from the platform of the Pakistan...
Budget of Haripur tehsil presented HARIPUR, July 13: Tehsil Nazim Iftekhar Ahmad Khan presented on Saturday Rs74.77 million surplus budget of the tehsil municipal administration for 2003-04....		Tribesmen welcome troops deployment PESHAWAR, July 13: The Mohmand tribal elders have welcomed the deployment of army troops along the Pakistan-Afghan border in the agency and termed it inevitable after the establishment of Indian consulates...
PR officials vex passengers SUKKUR, July 13: At least 50 per cent passengers of bogies No13, 14, 15, 16 and lower A/C of the 146-Down Sukkur Express were left stranded at the Sukkur Railway Station...		Five dacoits arrested SUKKUR, July 13: The Kandhkot police arrested five dacoits after a brief encounter and recovered a huge quantity of arms and ammunition on Sunday....
11 hurt in accident MIRPURKHAS, July 13: Eleven people, including three children, were injured when a pickup overturned near Mirwah town on Sunday....		Dealers reject Rs2 per kg tobacco cess SWABI, July 13: The tobacco growers and dealers have rejected the imposition of Rs2 per kilogramme cess on Virginia and White Patta tobacco, alleging that instead of taking steps for the...
24-hour alert urged in Badin dist BADIN, July 13: An urgent meeting, convened by the district coordination officer and attended by all EDOs, managers of sugar mills, the director of Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority and other...		3 abductors, kidnapped man killed WANA, July 13: Three bandits and a man kidnapped for ransom were killed near Maichan Baba shrine here late Saturday night....
Power cut off to 6 villages NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, July 13: The Hesco staff disconnected power supply to six villages, near Moro on Friday....		No approval sought for sanitation fees LAHORE, July 13: The city district government has imposed from this month sanitation fee equal to 30 per cent of sewerage charges on water bills of nearly five million consumers without...
ARD to agitate if LFO talks fail: Saad LAHORE, July 13: Gen Pervez Musharraf should accept the MMA’s offer to retain presidency and the office of the army chief as he can’t expect a similar package from the ARD,...		Finance dept official shown the door LAHORE, July 13: A Punjab Finance Department’s additional-secretary was transferred on June 7 for demanding details of financial affairs of the defunct Board of Governors of the Jinnah Hospital....
Shariat laws termed protest against LFO LAHORE, July 13: Supreme Court Bar Association President Hamid Khan has said that Hisba Act and Shariat Bill were declaratory laws adopted in protest against the Legal Framework Order....		Weather remains humid LAHORE, July 13: The westerly front currently over Kashmir has resulted in widespread rainfall in several cities of the northern Punjab, Northern Areas and the NWFP during the past 24 hours,...