21.   A senior provincial minister, who did not want to be named, held the MQM wholly responsible for the bloodshed.

22.   A Pakistani provincial minister implicitly accused India of being behind a bomb blast on a bus near here Wednesday in which police said seven people were killed.

23.   The provincial minister for local government in central Gauteng province, Dan Mofokeng, told journalists that the trouble started after IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi visited Thokoza.

24.   Twenty seven miners were killed when a coal mine owned by a Baluchistan provincial minister collapsed after an explosion, officials said Monday.

25.   Tshabalala-Msimang and the provincial ministers would not speak to journalists after the meeting in a Johannesburg hotel.

26.   Peter Miller, the provincial minister in charge of the poll, declared himself satisfied with the ballot.

27.   Police Friday fired tear gas shells and charged hundreds of Moslem fundamentalists who were demonstrating here to demand dismissal of a Pakistani provincial minister, witnesses said.

28.   Provincial chief minister, Liaquat Jatoi, is due to meet Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif next week in a bid to resolve the crisis.

29.   Provincial agricultural minister Tienie Burgers said victims could apply for assistance from a disaster fund.

30.   Provincial chief minister Mumtaz Bhutto told AFP the cellular phone services in Karachi were restored as the law and order situation in Karchi was improving.