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ISLAMABAD: The House Business Advisory Committee of the National Assembly on Monday decided that the National Assembly would take up various bills pending for legislation during the current session apart from discussion on other issues concerning the public. Faisal Karim Kundi, NA Deputy Speaker chaired the meeting.
The government bills which are ready for passage and likely to be tabled in the House include: the National Commission for Human Development (Amendment) Bill, 2009;

KARACHI: More than 200 people have been abducted from various parts of the country in the tenure of the incumbent government - swelling the unofficial count of missing persons to more than 10,000 over the past nine years, Defence of Human Rights Pakistan (DHRP) Chairwoman Aamna Masood Janjua told Pakistan Today on Monday.
"Of the updated list provided by the DHRP to a federal-level inquiry commission, some 244 people have gone missing in the recent past. As many as 135 people

KARACHI: The current account (C/A) surplus of the country was squeezed to $35 million in the month of October 2010, in large part due to an unexpected surge in oil imports.
In September of this year, the current account surplus stood at $424 million, but the surplus fell to $35 million in October, indicating that the slide in the surplus would likely lead to a deficit in 2010-11. The monthly decline in the current account is the outcome of the growing trade deficit, which rose by

KARACHI: Pakistan's current account deficit for July-September diminished to a provisional $545 million, in comparison to $587 million in the same period last year, the Central Bank disclosed on Tuesday.
According to the State Bank of Pakistan, the current account refreshingly stood at a provisional surplus of $447 million in September, compared to a deficit of $372 million in August.
"The two primal reasons for surplus in September are an increase in private current