Appointment of qualified teachers demanded
Islamabad: Though the FG Primary School No.5 in Sector G-7/3-4 has been upgraded and converted into Islamabad Model School, yet teachers have not been
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South Africa emerges as favourite to host IPL
MUMBAI: In a swift turnaround, South Africa has overtaken England as the preferred venue to host the IPL next month. Lalit Modi, the IPL chairman, was
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PCB to contact BCCI on IPL status
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board has said it would contact its Indian counterparts and seek advice from its government on the status of the national
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Basant death devastates family
LAHORETHE parents of a six years old boy, who died after being hit by a stray bullet on the eve of Basant has spoken of their devastation at l
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Electricity shortfall reaches 2,500mw
LAHOREELECTRICITY shortfall increased to 2,500 megawatts on Monday partly due to shutdown of two independent power plants (IPPS) after some te
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Musharraf enjoys life as nation reels under tensions
ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf spent the Pakistan Day playing a bridge tournament at the Islamabad Club, in a setting of almost no speci
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England ready to stage league despite problems
LONDON: England may be in pole position to stage the Indian Premier League (IPL), now that security fears have forced the event out of its home nation
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Completion of 11th Avenue facing delay
IslamabadDespite the announcement of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), the project of 11th Avenue from IJ Principal Road to Khayaban-e-
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Holbrooke urges EU aid for Pakistan
BRUSSELS: US envoy Richard Holbrooke urged the EU Monday to boost aid to Pakistan to help beat the Afghan insurgency, as President Barack Obama seeks a way to end more than seven years of fighting.Holbrooke was in Brussels to brief NATO and European Union officials on a new US strategy for Afghanistan.It puts Pakistan at the heart of efforts to beat the Taliban, who are backed by Al-Qaeda fighters, drug runners and criminal gangs.”He asked the commission to increase its economic aid to Pakistan,” an EU diplomat said, after Holbrooke held a series of “highly classified discussions” with officials, including members of the EU’’s executive commission.”We are all very concerned about what is happening in Pakistan. It is a major security issue for everybody, a problem of political stability,” the diplomat said, on condition of anonymity. “It’’s a zone that’’s even more sensitive than Afghanistan”, he added.The commission has already made plans to send a team to Afghanistan next month to assess whether security is ripe for an observer mission to monitor potentially-pivotal elections in August.The polls are seen as a litmus test of international efforts to stabilise Afghanistan and foster democracy and reconstruction, seven years after the former Taliban regime was ousted by a US-led coalition.”The commission indicated that it was planning to commit 50 to 60 million (euros) for the Afghan elections,” the diplomat said.The EU is already providing Afghanistan with some eight billion euros over the 2001-2010 period.The diplomat said that Holbrooke had also discussed Afghan government plans to boost the notoriously corrupt police, from around 78,000 personnel currently to around 180,000 officers.The EU agreed in May 2008 to double the size of its EUPOL police mission in Afghanistan, to some 400 personnel from around 200 police, law enforcement and justice experts initially sent. But it is struggling to do so.
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People escort CJ to SC today
RawalpindiChief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary is assuming the charge of his office for the third time today (Tuesday).A large nu
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