ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has approved technical assistance worth $38 million for Pakistan in order to support the management and development of water

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HYDERABAD: The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has appreciated the proposal to commute death sentences to life imprisonment and hoped that the law which allows capital punishment by hanging would be abolished. An AHRC press release issued here on Tuesday welcomed the directives of the Prime Minister to Interior Ministry to send a summary to the President for the conversion of capital punishment into life imprisonment. This AHRC sources said will benefit around 7,379 persons awaiting death sentence. They said the initiative taken by the Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani was a befitting way to honor and pay tribute to Shaheed Benazir Bhutto.

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LONDON: Spanish fifth seed David Ferrer was knocked out of Wimbledon on Friday by Croatia’’s Mario Ancic in the third round. Ancic won 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/3) and faces Spain’’s Fernando Verdasco for a place in the quarterfinals.

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KarachiAlmost two-and-a-half months after the eruption of two mysterious fires at the Board of Revenue (BoR) Department, no action has been ta

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ISLAMABAD: The finance ministry has plainly told the Ministry Of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (MINFAL) that financial constraints during the coming

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IslamabadThe Capital Development Authority (CDA) will execute over 100 development projects costing Rs19.3 billion during the financial year 2

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CHARSADDA: PML-N leader and former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif Friday said the entire nation was aware of the reasons behind his disqualification

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EUGENE: American 400-meter star Sanya Richards begins her bid to reach the Beijing Olympics here Sunday with confidence she will bounce back from an illness-related setback a year ago. The 23-year-old Jamaican-born sprinter missed the 2007 world championships at Osaka in her specialty after a fourth-place finish in the US finals, one spot shy of a berth despite what was a world-best effort in the semi-finals. Richards, who reached Osaka at 200m and helped the US 4×400 relay win gold, was slowed by Behcet’’s syndrome, an immune system disease that hurt her stamina. But since starting a new medication this year she has been fine. “It’’s completely under control,” Richards said. “The medication I”ve been taking has worked great. It has really made a world of difference. I haven”t had a flare-up since January 1, which is just incredible. It’’s a miracle.” Richards has 400 heats Sunday, a Monday semi-final and a Thursday final here at the US Olympic Track and Field Trials on the same Hayward Field track where she won the Prefontaine Classic 400 crown in 50.10 seconds earlier this month.

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ROTTERDAM: Barry Anderson, tournament director of the men’’s field hockey Champions Trophy, has suspended Germany’’s Sebastian Biederlack and Australia’’s Desmond Abbott for the last round robin matches on Saturday. Australia play Netherlands and Germany play Spain on Saturday. Germany, with four points, have no chance of making the final. Spain, with seven points, need to beat Germany to make the final and Spain will have an advantage over Germany as a result of the suspension of Beiderlack. Australia, also on seven points, need to beat Netherlands to secure a finals place and will be disadvantaged by having one less substitute. Anderson said: “In Thursday’’s match the Germany player fouled the Australia player and pulled him to the ground and after that in a separate incident the Australia player knocked the Germany player to the ground in back play.

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LAHOREIN a bid to woo the PML-N leadership, two rival traders groups decided to show their strength by calling shutter down strike on Friday a

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