December 15, 2003	Monday	Shawwal 20, 1424

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Experts call for land reforms: Moot on sustainable development concludes ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: Land reforms and asset redistribution be carried out to make Pakistan an egalitarian country and the government should also declare honour-killing a non-pardonable offence....		Wapda pricing system termed unjust ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: Deregulated electricity tariffs for the consumers on the one hand and regulated prices paid to the Independent Power Projects (IPPs) on the other render the pricing system in...
USAID to double Pakistan budget ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has a long-term commitment to assist social sector programmes in Pakistan and wants to double its aid budget to $150 million...		PAF air show commemorates flight centenary ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: People of the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Sunday witnessed an impressive air show presented by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) to celebrate 100 Years of...
NFC formula outdated, says Imran ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: The Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf chairman, Imran Khan, on Sunday said the NFC formula was outdated and was likely to exacerbate the growing disparity in the per capita incomes of...		Man killed ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: A security guard of a private company was killed after being hit by a speeding car in the jurisdiction of Kohsar police station on Saturday, police said....
Dams must to end water shortage: Sindh to benefit most: president SUKKUR, Dec 14: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has observed that reservoirs are necessary to overcome water shortage and said the people of Sindh should reject the politics over the issue....		Musharraf does not need MMA’s support: Shujaat: Meeting on constitutional package today LAHORE, Dec 14: The Pakistan Muslim League is scheduled to hold a meeting with the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal in Islamabad on Monday to finalize the constitutional amendments package, PML President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain...
The LFO and beyond IF PAKISTANIS ask what aborts their democratic governments, they might ask even more pertinently what impels their entrenched dictators towards democratic forms....		‘Provinces to get equitable share in overseas jobs’ KARACHI, Dec 14: Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis Minister Abdus Sattar Laleka on Sunday said all the provinces would get an equitable share in overseas jobs under a transparent procedure and...
Uniform power tariff sought ISLAMABAD, Dec 14: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority has asked the government to provide a formula for maintaining a uniform tariff for the distribution companies, Dawn has learnt....		Search on for opposition leader ISLAMABAD Dec 14: The chamber of leader of the opposition in the senate has fallen vacant following the demise of Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani, who, by virtue of being the president...
Benazir visits shrine NEW DELHI, Dec 14: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Sunday visited the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer....		Mingora traders observe strike against lawlessness MINGORA, Dec 14: All bazaars of Mingora city remained closed on Sunday in protest against the deteriorating law and order situation in Swat....
2 Afghans arrested on spying charge WANA (South Waziristan), Dec 14: The political administration has arrested two Afghans in the Zeri Noor refugee camp and seized from their possession a satellite phone, a wireless set and other...		Referendum on restoration of students union tomorrow PESHAWAR, Dec 14: Islami Jamiat Talaba is holding a referendum over the issue of restoration of students’ union on Tuesday, said a press release here on Sunday....
No room for extremism: Gustasap MANSEHRA, Dec 14: Leader of the opposition in the NWFP Assembly Shahzada Gustasap Khan has said that there is no room for extremism and intolerance in Islam as Islam negates all...		Three brothers among 4 shot dead in lock-up SARGODHA, Dec 14: Four people, including three brothers, were shot dead and two others injured allegedly by rivals in the Kirana police station lock-up late Saturday night, some 30kms from here....
Crackdown on water thieves FAISALABAD, Dec 14: A joint team of police and the irrigation department removed three direct outlets on the Lower Gogera Branch Canal at RD-285, RD-252 and RD-237 in the limits of...		12 arrested for humiliating woman councillor SARGODHA, Dec 14: Strike against the alleged humiliation of a woman councillor by close relatives of a ruling party MPA continued for the second consecutive day on Sunday in Shahnikdar, a...
Robbers kill three FAISALABAD, Dec 14: Three people were shot dead on resistance by robbers in different incidents here on Sunday....		ARD holds public meeting in Gujranwala GUJRANWALA, Dec 14: Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) chairman Makhdoom Amin Faheem has said that the campaign for restoration of the 1973 constitution and real democracy would continue at all...
54 remote girls’ schools closed SADIQABAD, Dec 14: As many as 54 girls’ primary schools of the district have not been functioning since long....		Polluted water: TMA officials booked SARGODHA, Dec 14: The cantonment police have registered a case against the water works superintendent and some other officials of Tehsil Municipal Administration on charges of supplying unhygienic water to police...
MMA wants ARD to ink deal against army rulers LAHORE, Dec 14: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has offered the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy that they (the MMA and the ARD) should sign a deal that they will not accept...		Ultralight aircraft show begins LAHORE, Dec 14: The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Sunday organized an ultralight aircraft and aero-modelling show at its Lahore base, old airport, as a part of aviation week celebrations to...
Punjab chief secretary refuses service extension LAHORE, Dec 14: The man who is supposed to be the major architect of the present Punjab government, outspoken Punjab Chief Secretary Hafeez Akhtar Randhawa, has refused extension of his service...		Housing problem worsening LAHORE, Dec 14: With a five-million shortfall in the number of housing units across the country, the housing problem is getting worse, particularly in big cities....
Cleanliness drive LAHORE, Dec 14: The Solid Waste Management of the City District Government will launch a special sanitation operation in the provincial metropolis from Monday (today)....		Court orders production of record LAHORE, Dec 14: The Lahore High Court has ordered production of the record of promotions of executive engineers in the Communications and Works Department for adjudication in a writ petition filed...
Farmers for linking water provision to productivity LAHORE, Dec 14: As the technical and parliamentary committees on water resources appointed by President Pervez Musharraf start working, farmers from the Punjab have demanded that provision of water be linked...		IGP vacates secretariat office for ministers LAHORE, Dec 14: The Civil Secretariat offices of the Punjab IGP and his team of senior officials are being vacated on the orders of the chief minister to accommodate new ministers....