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LAHORE - Working Women's Organization (WWO) held a conference at WWO Office on Monday to celebrate Women's Day (8th March). The conference addressed needs of the women working in both informal and formal sector. WWO Executive Director Aaima Mehmood said, "Lack of access to education, training and economic resources is the reason why most women are suffering today. We must enable women to get more education and earn for themselves."

LAHORE - Stags and Amar Cables won the opening day matches of the 1st Amar Cables Veterans T20 Championship, which started here at the Aligarh Ground Model Town on Sunday. Sayid Paper Stags beat Lahore Whites in the opening matches of the day, while Amar Cables defeated Sayid Paper Bucks later in the evening. Stags defeated Lahore Whites by nine wickets.
Lahore Whites scored 122 runs for the loss of nine wickets, with Naveed Anjum scoring 35, and Mohammad Arshad adding 18.

LAHORE - The International Children's Day of Broadcasting was celebrated on Sunday on which children depicted their broadcasting skills on various TV channels. The day is celebrated on the 1st Sunday of March's1st week every year. The day has become UNICEF's most successful initiatives. Various Pakistani TV Channels including Dawn News and Geo News sent out child reporters; also children and even teenagers expressed their talent as a broadcaster.
Students said that broadcast

LAHORE - The Welfare Finishing School of Rukhsana Foundation, a school for underprivileged children, celebrated its annual music day last month. Foundation Chairperson Rukhsana Tahirkheli was the chief guest and students performed various acts, which were appreciated by the audience. The foundation supports more than 120 underprivileged and poor students by providing them with free education. The foundation mostly helps children whose parents are scavengers and work on daily wages.

KARACHI - First Women Bank Limited (FWBL) has chalked out programs for the International Women's Day throughout the country, said a statement issued on Friday. It said the celebration will be held in the business development and training centers and area offices of the bank. An exhibition is being held in area office, Lahore, on March 8. Products designed by the bank's entrepreneurs are being displayed in the exhibition. Asma Jehangir, Supreme Court Bar Association President would be

DHAKA Bangladesh skipper Shakib Al Hasan said his team's nine-wicket rout by the West Indies on Friday was the "worst day" of his career, but insisted his side's World Cup campaign was not over. "We did not play well at all," said Shakib after Bangladesh were shot out for their lowest one-day total of 58 in just 18.5 overs, with the West Indies cantering home in the 13th over of their innings.
"I did not expect that we would play so badly. This has to be the worst day of my

Lahore - Shirkat Gah in collaboration with Women Reclaiming and Redefining Culture program held a film festival at Ali Auditorium on Wednesday to create awareness about 'Violence against Women' (VAW). The film festival was held to mark 100 years of International Women's Day (1911-2011). The film festival showcased work of students of four different universities including Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Punjab University, Beaconhouse National University (BNU) and

LAHORE - Shirkat Gah along with Women Reclaiming and Redefining Cultures (WRRC) has scheduled a film festival titled "Violence Is Not Our Culture", which will be held on March 3 from 11 am to 3 pm at Ali Auditorium, in connection with centenary celebrations of International Day of Women on March 8. The film festival will include the work of film students of universities including Lahore University of Management Sciences, Kinnaird College, Punjab University, Beaconhouse National

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

LAHORE - Annual Parents Day-2011 was celebrated at the PAF Public School Sargodha on Monday. In address, Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman, who was the chief guest on the occasion, lauded the efforts of the institution in securing excellent academic successes.
He reminded the boys that they were lucky to be part of a prestigious institution where every effort was made to equip them with the best training and grooming.
Later, the students presented an

ISLAMABAD - The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is all set to celebrate tree plantation day on February 24. The CDA would plant 0.5 million saplings during the upcoming spring season in continuation of its "Clean and Green Islamabad" campaign launched in Monsoon 2008, according to a press statement issued on Monday.
Chairman CDA Imtiaz Inayat Elahi while presiding over a special meeting said comprehensive arrangements had been made to increase public participation in the tree

LAHORE - Punjabi Language Movement (PLM) chief Chaudhry Nazeer Kahut along with other Punjabi writers, intellectuals, activists and supporters on Monday went on a hunger strike against what they termed was a 'discriminatory attitude' meted out to the Punjabi language by the establishment.
The hunger strike was staged in connection with the International Mother Language Day in front of the Punjab Assembly in support of the Punjabi language rights. Kahut was joined in the hunger

SIALKOT - Valentine's Day was partially celebrated in Sialkot as people, especially youngsters, were witnessed in a large number at flower shops, but there was no significant activity in the educational institutions regarding the day. Many college and university students in colourful clothes marked the day along with their loved ones in parks, hotels and other public places.
The Garrison Park was filled with young couples, especially in the evening. The reports also revealed that

LAHORE - The FiLUMS 2011, an amateur short film festival, concluded on Sunday. An unprecedented total of 750 entries were received from all over the country and abroad. This year, the festival went global with submissions from Turkey, Iran, Brazil, Serbia, UAE, US, Ireland and Spain.
Over course of the three-day event, the short-listed 130 films were screened. These were divided into four categories including short films, feature length, documentaries and animations. The event

TEHRAN - Iran on Saturday revelled in US discomfiture at the loss of veteran ally Hosni Mubarak and pointedly ignored parallels, bluntly drawn by Washington, between the protest movements in Cairo and Tehran.
Iranian officials trumpeted the fact that the veteran Egyptian strongman's shock resignation after 18 straight days of protests came on February 11 -- the same day as the 1979 Islamic revolution which overthrew the US-backed shah. And disregarding US accusations of

LAHORE - On 12 February 1983, women were the first to publicly challenge General Zia-ul-Haq's military dictatorship and the 'Islamisation' of Pakistan. The impetus to protest was the proposed Law of Evidence which reduced the value of a woman's testimony to half than that of a man. The state responded violently. Despite the baton charge, tear gas shelling and massive arrests, the women fought back and stood firmly on their position.
Rejecting General Zia's use of Islam as a

LAHORE - Govt Fatima Jinnah College for Women, Chunna Mandi celebrated its silver jubilee by organizing its annual sports day and a number of other events here on Thursday. Justice