December 1, 2003	Monday	Shawwal 6, 1424

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JACOBABAD, Nov 30: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali has said that he would be pleased to meet his Indian counterpart, Atal Behari Vajpayee, in the forthcoming Saarc summit.

He said this while talking to newsmen in Sohbatpur, Jafarabad district, Balochistan, on Saturday.

He expected that contentious issues would come up for discussion in his meeting with Mr Vajpayee and it would be followed by the restoration of air and rail links between India and Pakistan.

He hoped that the tension between the two countries would be reduced with the help of this summit.

Mr Jamali said that with these confidence building measures, the peoples’ difficulties would be lessened.

He said that the unilateral ceasefire initiative taken by Pakistan was a positive step and would help in improving bilateral ties between the two countries.

IRRIGATION SYSTEM: Earlier, while addressing a gathering in Sohbatpur, the prime minister announced four and a half billion rupees for improving the irrigation system and constructing a two-tracked road from Dera Allahyar to Sohbatpur and a girls college in Sohbatpur.

DEVELOPMENT PACKAGE: The district Naib Nazim, Asghar Khan Panhwar, said that the prime minister had announced that Jacobabad district would receive Rs3 billion for development works.

Mr Asghar said this while talking to newsmen on Sunday.

He said that he had met with the prime minister at the Jacobabad airport before the latter departed for Islamabad.

He said that under the development package announced by the prime minister, more schools would be opened and roads would be constructed, and added that the hospitals would be renovated and streetlights set up in Jacobabad.

Earlier, the prime minister was received by senior officials before leaving for Islamabad.

He was accompanied by the provincial minister for fisheries and livestock, Manzoor Khan Panhwar; the coordinator to prime minister for development programmes in Sindh, Mansab Khan Jakhrani, and other officials of Sindh and Balochistan.

YOUTH KILLED: A youth, Abdul Sattar, 20, was shot dead by robbers in the Shah Mohammad Brohi village in the jurisdiction of the Mauladad police early on Saturday.

Six robbers entered the house of Abdul Sattar but he woke up and offered resistance.

The robbers fired at him as a result he died on the spot while the killers fled.

His body was taken to the Jacobabad Civil Hospital for autopsy.

Jafar Mari, father of the dead man, has lodged an FIR against unidentified accused.

ACCIDENT:A minor boy, Mohammad Hassan Bhayo, 3, died in an accident near the Karan police station on Saturday.

As the toddler was playing near the highway, a car (PG-5724) hit him.