DERA GHAZI KHAN, July 16: President Gen Pervez Musharraf will take final decision about the distribution of National Finance Commission award and all provinces are agreed on his mediation. Punjab Finance Minister Husnain Bahadur Dareshak was talking to reporters here after prize distribution ceremony for position holders in the matriculation examinations.

The minister said the fifth NFC award could not be announced in time due to lack of consensus among the provinces. He said all the provinces had agreed on the president as mediator.

Replying to a question, he said Faisalabad and Toba Tek Singh districts would be excluded from official map of the south zone of the Punjab for the distribution of resources and funds.

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