September 29, 2003	Monday	Sha’aban 2, 1424

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50 vying for 16 posts at Pakistan missions: Interviews for trade ministers, ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: The minister and secretary commerce have short listed 50 candidates for interview for the 16 vacancies of trade ministers, commercial counsellors and commercial secretaries to be posted abroad,...		CM suspends SP, DSP, other staff RAWALPINDI, Sept 28: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi on Sunday paid surprise visits to the police stations of various districts while coming to Rawalpindi from Lahore....
H.K. Burki buried, mourned ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Veteran journalist H.K. Burki, who died on Saturday after a long illness, was buried at the Islamabad graveyard on Sunday....		PM, ministers yet to receive funds: Tameer-i-Watan Programme ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali and a number of his cabinet ministers have not yet received their share of development funds from the Tameer-i-Watan Programme under which...
Pakistan unlikely to ink Rome Statute of ICC ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Pakistan is unlikely to sign the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in its present form because among other reservations it is against giving the UN...		Ministry reluctant to reimburse money: Islamabad New City project scam ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: The housing ministry has backed out of its promise made with the affected people of a fake Islamabad New City (INC) housing scheme to reimburse their money deposited...
Balochistan needs loan for PSDP, says Wasay QUETTA, Sept 28: Federal Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz will discuss the release of Rs5.8 billion loan for Balochistan Public Sector Development Programme with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) representatives....		Saarc-Japan special fund suspended ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: The Japanese government has withheld the Saarc-Japan Special Fund this year citing non-utilization of the money as the reason, Dawn has learnt through well-placed diplomatic sources....
Five injured in landmine blast QUETTA, Sept 28: Five persons were injured, two of them seriously, when a pick-up hit a landmine on Saturday in the RD-109 area at the Sindh-Balochistan....		10 mega water plans face fiscal gap ISLAMABAD, Sept 28: Pakistan will be facing a financing gap of around Rs336 billion ($5.6 billion) in the construction of 10 mega irrigation and water storage projects costing about Rs454 billion...
Jurists team arrives in India WAGAH, Sept 28: A 22-member team of Pakistani jurists arrived in Chandigarh on Sunday via the Wagah border to attend the International Legal Conference on Monday....		DAP bag price to go down by Rs23: Rind: Opinion sought on hybrid cotton MULTAN, Sept 28: The DAP fertilizer price will be reduced by Rs23 per bag within a couple of days, says Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind, Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock....
AMP leader’s arrest flayed OKARA, Sept 28: Over a 100 tenants of villages 4/4.L and 10/4.L took out protest processions against the arrest of Anjuman Mazareen’s Okara president Ghulam Hasan, who was picked up by...		Pervaiz Elahi seeks report on rape attempt BAHAWALPUR, Sept 28: Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi has directed the IGP to submit a report on the course of investigation into the rape attempt case at Chak 55-DB, Yazman, it...
Patrolling along canals to be enhanced TOBA TEK SINGH, Sept 28: The Irrigation department has decided to recruit hundreds of baildars who will be deployed on canals to check water theft besides strengthening embankments. The deployment will...		Co-op officials warned against failure to recover loans BAHAWALPUR, Sept 28: Punjab Cooperatives Minister Lt-Col Malik Muhammad Anwar has warned that officials of his department who fail to show 100 per cent recovery of loans and arrears by...
Two friends injured at mosque SAHIWAL, Sept 28: Two persons were injured after being clubbed by unidentified people at a mosque, here on Sunday....		Man injured by rivals LAHORE, Sept 28: A man suffered grievous injuries when his rivals opened fire on him at Cantonment, on Sunday....
Terrorized GUJRAT, Sept 28: Two rival groups resorted to aerial firing outside a mosque in Mohallah Khwajgan here on Sunday morning....		MP won’t be merged with any party: Durrani LAHORE, Sept 28: The Millat Party will not be merged with any other political party, secretary-general Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani says....
95 per cent industrial units issued notices LAHORE, Sept 28: The Punjab government has issued notices to over 95 per cent of the industrial units in the city for not filing declaration in respect of compliance of the...		Growers fear shortfall in cotton target LAHORE, Sept 28: Contrary to official claims, the farmer bodies claimed on Sunday that heavy pest attack, dearth of pesticides and availability of spurious drugs had hit them hard....