KARACHI: Consumers who are still trying to cope up with the sky rocketing flour prices received another gift in the shape of hike in milk prices which has increased by two rupees per liter to reach 42 rupees in the retail market of Karachi.President of Pakistan Dairy Farms Association Haji Akhtar told Geo News that because of the rising cost of fuel and cattle fodders the hike was overdue. He said that they did decrease the prices of milk in the holy month of Ramazan on the request of City Nazim Mustafa Kamal in an effort to provide relief to common man. He added that now, as the holy month is over there is no obligation left on them for not raising the prices.
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ISLAMABAD: Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior, Rehman Malik Thursday lauded the performance of all the Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) for extraordinary vigil maintained by them for peaceful celebration of Eid. In a statement issued here, he also apprecaited their services for maintaining perpetual vigil and alertness for the safety and security of their fellow brethren. In view of the prevailing security environment, Ministry of Interior had placed law enforcement agencies at the highest vigil and alert on the eve of Eid and by the grace of Almighty Allah no untoward incident took place on Eid day.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan | The U.N. ordered children of its international staff to leave the Pakistani capital and other areas it considers unsafe, officials said Thursday.
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ISLAMABAD: The U.N. has declared the Pakistani capital unsafe for the children of its international staff and ordered them out, putting the once tranquil city on par with Kabul and Somalia. Underlining Pakistan’’s crumbling security situation, a suicide bomber on Thursday failed in an attempt to assassinate a prominent anti-Taliban politician, and troops reportedly killed 27 militants in the restive northwest. Pakistan is under intense U.S. pressure to combat militants responsible for rising attacks in neighboring Afghanistan. Its faltering efforts so far have been met with a blur of suicide attacks in Pakistani cities. The U.N., which employs more than 2,000 people in Pakistan including about 100 foreigners, has not been hit. However, the truck bombing of Islamabad’’s Marriott Hotel, which killed 54 people including three Americans and the Czech ambassador, prompted the world body as well as foreign missions to review security.
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WASHINGTON: Leading Democrats voiced optimism on Thursday that the House of Representatives would back a revised financial rescue package amid intense negotiations ahead of the pivotal vote. “We are not going to take a bill to the floor that doesn”t have the votes. I am optimistic that we will take a bill to the floor,” Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, told reporters. The Democrat and leaders from both parties saw their efforts to pass the bailout bill collapse Monday when rebel Democrats and a majority of Republican lawmakers refused to support the measure, sending US and global markets into a tailspin. Pelosi urged prompt passage of the amended proposal to stave off more economic turmoil.”If we do not act, hard-working Americans and millions of people will see the American dream evaporate. So that is why it is very important to pass this legislation and we are working hard to do so,” she said. The vote on the revised bill, passed by the Senate on Wednesday, is expected in the House on Friday. Pelosi said she was optimistic changes to the measure, including tax breaks, would attract more support while retaining the 141 Democratic members who voted for the earlier proposal.”We still want to see if we have the 141 votes that we had before and that seems to be coming in pretty well,” Pelosi said. She said an amendment to raise the ceiling on federal insurance for bank deposits from 100,000 to 250,000 dollars was also a “welcome” change that should secure votes for passage. Pelosi said party members were fighting to add a 1,000-dollar family tax deduction, saying “that was an important issue for some of us to take home for homeowners.”
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — War has come to Pakistan, not just as terrorist bombings, but as full-scale battles, leaving Pakistanis angry and dismayed as the dead, wounded and displaced turn up right on their doorstep.
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LAHORE: The new look Pakistan hockey team will hope for the change of fortune as they play their first match of the four-nation Hamburg Masters against Malaysia.The national hockey team, led by centre-forward Shakeel Abbasi, went through a revamp ahead of the tournament being played on single league basis.They will play Belgium in their second match of the tournament before taking on the hosts and the Olympic champions Germany in their last league match on Sunday. The greenshirts finished 8th in the 12 nation Olympic Games, a performance after which the management as well as senior players were shown the door.
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The next U.S. president must revamp policy toward Pakistan, mixing deft diplomacy, security support and economic aid to help Islamabad defeat a grave threat from extremists, an experts’ report said on Thursday.
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The United Nations and Britain said Thursday that they will withdraw the children of international staff from Pakistan in the wake of the deadly bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.
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A suicide attacker targeting the home of a provincial party leader in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) killed four people and injured seven on Thursday, according to the Interior ministry and local police.
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