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JAKARTA - The IMF on Wednesday said it had learnt from its mistakes during the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis and had undertaken reform to give the region's countries a greater say in how the Fund is managed. IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the organisation wanted a fresh start with Asia as he visited Indonesia and met President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Indonesia was hit hard by the Asian crisis and the IMF remains deeply unpopular in the country of 240 million people

LAHORE - The second Chief Minister Sports Competitions (intermediate, inter-district level) continued for the third day running here in the province. In Faisalabad, girls volleyball, badminton and athletics competitions were held at divisional public school and cricket final was played at Boharanwali Ground, Faisalabad. In girls volleyball, Faisalabad beat Toba Tek Singh to win the title.
Jhang beat Faisalabad in the girls badminton. Faisalabad bagged first place in athletics

KARACHI - Sindh Chief Secretary Ghulam Ali Shah Pasha assured the Sindh Education Sector Reform Programme (SERP) Joint Review Mission of World Bank on Monday that the Sindh government would achieve its targets during the third year of the SERP.
"But there are certain challenges that the Sindh government confronts due to the recent floods," he said during a meeting with the SERP Joint Review Mission at the Sindh Secretariat. Pasha briefed the Mission about the progress of the

KARACHI - The degree of the suspended Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM), Imtiaz Lodhi, will be send to Higher Education Commission or a charter accountancy firm for verification in the board meeting of PSM scheduled on February 4, 2011.
While the current acting CEO Wasif Mehmood appointed by the board had been posted to Lahore as a Deputy Manager before being appointed as CEO, he was serving as Director Production in the mills for the last three years,

BRUSSELS - The EU's energy commissioner broke ranks on Monday when he labelled the Egyptian authorities' handling of mass street democracy protests as careless beyond belief. While European Union foreign ministers meeting at the same time deliberately shied away from criticising President Hosni Mubarak's regime, focusing on the need for elections, German commissioner Guenther Oettinger spoke bluntly.
"We are all very worried about what is happening in Egypt, with the images"

LAHORE - Every attempt of the federal and Punjab government to protect the US national involved in killing three Pakistanis will be foiled, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hassan said on Saturday. He was talking to journalists after visiting the residences of three people killed by two US nationals a couple of days ago.
The JI chief said that if four people hiding at the US Consulate and the vehicle involved in killing Ibadur Rehman were not taken in custody within the next

ISLAMBAD - Despite repeated reminders, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice (r) Deedar Hussain Shah has not submitted comments to the Supreme Court of Pakistan on the alleged disqualification of Sharmila Farooqi, adviser to the Sindh chief minister.
A well-placed source said for the past four months, the NAB chairman had "turned a deaf ear" to the SC order to submit comments on Sharmila's disqualification decided in a plea-bargain case on April 28, 2001. The

ABIDJAN - The African Union chief, Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika, is due in the Ivory Coast to meet rivals both claiming the presidency, a diplomat said, in another bid to end the impasse.
Mutharika is expected in Abidjan for talks with Alassane Ouattara, who is the internationally recognised winner of November 28 elections, and Laurent Gbagbo, who has resisted demands to step down. He "is coming to see the two presidents," the African diplomat told AFP without giving

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Monday observed that after passage of the 18th Constitutional Amendment, a political party chief seems to be more powerful than the prime minister.
He was hearing petitions challenging political activities of President Asif Ali Zardari while serving as the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) co-chairman. Other judges on the bench included Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry, Justice Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Ijazul

LOS ANGELES - Google co-founder Larry Page is to regain full-control of the internet phenomenon he created as a student in 1996, after Eric Schmidt announced he is to step down as chief executive more than a decade after he was brought in to provide "adult supervision".
The shock management shake-up, which will see Page become chief executive on April 4, came as the company reported a better-than-expected 29pc increase in full-year pre-tax profits to $10.8bn. Schmidt, who was

ISLAMABAD - United Kingdom's Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Stephen Dalton along with a delegation visited Air Headquarters Islamabad on Thursday.
On his arrival at Air Headquarters, Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman received the distinguished guest, said a PAF statement. A Pakistan Air Force contingent presented the Guard of Honour to the guest. After reviewing the Guard of Honour, the Royal Air Force chief was introduced to Principal Staff

LAHORE - Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ijaz Butt has secretly left for New Zealand to "sort out" the captaincy issue that is threatening to hamper the team's World Cup preparations.
Butt left for Wellington to be with the Pakistan team which will play six one-day internationals against New Zealand starting Jan 22.
Reports say the PCB chief has asked the officials to keep his visit a secret as he wants to quietly hold a few meetings on Thursday and Friday before deciding

Lahore - The Punjab government's efforts to meet demands of Provincial Management Service (PMS) officers got a jolt when the Punjab additional chief secretary (ACS) slashed the number of BPS-17 posts, further reducing numbers of the PMS cadre, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to details, the total number of posts in BPS-17 of the Services and General Administration (S&GAD) has been decreased from 1,204 to 984, showing a net decrease of 220. Moreover, the cadre strength of PMS

LAHORE - Former Punjab chief minister and Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q) senior central leader Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has said that on one hand, Punjab's chief minister is violating the orders of the Supreme Court by obstructing the arrest of a fugitive and, on the other hand, his elder brother Nawaz Sharif is talking about the supremacy of the judiciary.
In a press statement released in Lahore on Thursday, he added that by obeying the ad-hoc CM and not arresting fake

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Justice Farooq Shiekh on Tuesday called Auqaf chief administrator to appear on February 7 on a petition filed by a contractor at the Shrine of Hazrat Farid Ganj Shakar, Pakpattan.
The petition has been filed by Syed Sajid Hussain through Manzoor Ali Gillani submitting that the petitioner suffered a loss on account of closure of four of five main entry gates of the shrine. The petitioner says he was awarded shoes-safety (hifazate paposh) contract against

FAISALABAD - Indus River System Authority (IRSA) Chairman Rao Arshad Ali has warned that the capacity of the country's reservoirs has shrunk from 15.79 million acres feet (MAF) to 11.57 million acres feet due to accumulation of mud and silt under the surface of the storage facilities and if the trend continues unabated, Pakistan will have to face drought due to water shortage.
He was speaking as the chief guest at a seminar titled "Water Resources and Post-Floods Era in

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Secretary (CS) Nasir Mehmood Khosa on Monday directed the provincial health and finance secretaries to deliberate on demands of young doctors. A delegation of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) called on Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif a few days ago and presented their demands including a special pay package for doctors, pay protection and increasing slots for doctors on house job. The CM had constituted a committee consisting of all stakeholders to