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the mango season approaches its peak, the 46th national mango and summer fruits festival will kick off on May 30 (Monday) and continue...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor want to show footage of the "King of Pop" rehearsing shortly before his death in order to show he had no intention of ending his life.
With less than three weeks to go before the opening of the trial of Conrad Murray, the physician accused of manslaughter in Jackson's 2009 death, the defense is fighting against the presentation of the footage.
On Tuesday the prosecution requested permission to exhibit video

HAFIZABAD - A girl was abducted from village Atlay Ghulam 34km from here and raped for three nights in Karachi. Reportedly, Isha, resident of village Atlay Ghulam, was going to the fields at 10pm to answer the call of nature a weak before when Fida Hussain, Arif and Amanat Ali, all residents of village Delly Wali, abducted her at gunpoint and took her to their village where Fida Husain raped here.
The next day Fida Hussain took her to Karachi and raped her for three days. The

KARACHI - The Sindh government on Saturday asked the federal government to extend the ongoing house enumeration process by seven to 10 days because, according to the provincial government, it might be impossible to count all the houses within the scheduled time.
The house count process, which was initiated on April 5 is supposed to end on April 19. However, according to several reports received by the government, house enumeration has either not been initiated or might not be

CAIRO - Egypt's ailing ex-president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons have been placed in detention for 15 days as part of an inquiry into the use of force against protesters, prosecutors said Wednesday. A statement on the public prosecutor's Facebook page said chief prosecutor Abdel Maguid Mahmud authorised the detentions "as part of an inquiry into the use of force against protesters during the unrest in January and February." Security officials said Mubarak was placed under detention

CAIRO - Egypt's ailing ex-president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons have been placed in detention for 15 days as part of an inquiry into the use of force against protesters, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
A statement on the public prosecutor's Facebook page said chief prosecutor Abdel Maguid Mahmud authorised the detentions "as part of an inquiry into the use of force against protesters during the unrest in January and February."
Security officials said Mubarak was placed

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry told the Punjab chief secretary on Friday to submit a report within 15 days about who was responsible for the deaths of several patients during the 37-day doctors' strike.
The CJ questioned why the "ineligible" Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad was not transferred. The CJ told Fawad that if he could not run the affairs, he should quit. The CJ also clarified that the matter was worth taking suo motu notice of,

LAHORE - Around 97 percent of government land is still under illegal control of land grabbers despite a massive anti-encroachment drive running at full throttle for the last 25 days.
The anti-encroachment campaign was launched on March 11 and the government has retrieved only three percent of the total encroached upon land so far. According to sources in the DCO office, the drive is about to be wrapped up within the next two or three days, which means that the rest of the

LAHORE - After uncertain weather conditions during the last few days, the Met Office on Sunday said that dry weather is expected in most parts of the country for the next few days. Rain and thunderstorm in Upper Punjab made the weather pleasant in Lahore while the maximum temperature remained at 31 Degrees Celsius.
Isolated rain and thunderstorm is expected at a few places of Rawalpindi, Malakand, Hazara divisions, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir today (Monday). Due to the

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Supreme Court Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Friday that respecting the institutions would ensure strengthening of the system, as he allowed two provincial leaders of the Pakistan People's Party facing contempt of court charges for allegedly ridiculing a court verdict to submit their replies in 15 days.
A three-member bench comprising Justice Iftikhar, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani ordered that the reply be submitted

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday gave 10 days to the federal and Punjab governments to recover two Pakistani families which went missing after they granted pardon to CIA contractor Raymond Davis on March 16 in exchange for blood money.
Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry expressed annoyance when a federal law officer sought three weeks to submit the reply on part of the federal government. The judge inquired, "Why is the government seeking adjournment after

LAHORE - The anti-encroachment drive that set in motion in 35 different areas in nine towns on March 11 will end on April 5, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to a City District Government Lahore official, the decision came during a meeting to review the encroachment drive at District Coordination Officer (DCO)'s office on Thursday. He said that the deadline to stop the encroachment drive was March 31 but the meeting reviewed the results and decided to extend its deadline until

PARIS - The departure of Libya's foreign minister Mussa Kussa means the Gaddafi regime's "days are numbered," defected immigration minister Ali Errishi told on Thursday.
Kussa's arrival in Britain was a "sign that the regime's days are numbered. It is the end... it is a blow to the regime (and) others will follow," said Errishi.
"I always said they are all held hostages in Tripoli. It is amazing how Mr Kussa was able to flee the country," said the ex-minister who himself

KARACHI - The Sindh governor has sent the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) chairman on a month-long 'forced' leave and temporarily appointed the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) chairman in his place just 20 days before the start of the annual examinations 2011.
On Tuesday, Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan - the controlling authority - issued a notification appointing BIEK Chairman Anwar Ahmed Zai as BSEK chairman in place of Anzar Hussain Zaidi.

MELBOURNE - Ricky Ponting said on Sunday he will decide his international future over the next few days, but insisted he still has a lot to offer Australian cricket. The captain's return home after Australia's World Cup quarter-final elimination by India corresponds with calls for his replacement as Australia's Test and one-day skipper.
Ponting, whose captaincy has been under attack since Australia's Ashes series debacle against England in January, scored a fighting 104 but it

ISLAMABAD - The court hearing the Hajj scam case Saturday remanded Former minister for religious affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi in the physical custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for another four days.
Kazmi has been in FIA's custody since his arrest on March 15 for his alleged involvement in Hajj corruption case. Kazmi was brought to the court of Senior Civil Judge Rai Liaqat Kharal under tight security as dozens of his supporters had assembled outside the courtroom

LAHORE - Local Judicial Magistrate Ikhtisham Sadiq on Thursday extended the physical remand of Moonis Elahi, involved in National Insurance Corporation Scam, until March 28. Earlier, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) produced Moonis in court to get extension in his physical remand after the completion of the second term of his remand. During the hearing, defense counsel, Muhammad Iqbal Bhatti, argued that Moonis was innocent and was being politically victimized. He said that Moonis