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SIALKOT - Australian High Commissioner in Pakistan Tim George has said that there is a vast scope of agriculture business in Pakistan, besides assuring his full cooperation and technical assistance to develop agriculture education.
He said this while addressing a meeting at Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI).
He stressed the need to taker some effective and positive steps for boosting mutual trade ties between Pakistan and Australia, inviting the Pakistan

FAISALABAD - Production organisations like Interloop Limited Faisalabad are undoubtedly playing a vital role in the progress and prosperity of Pakistan, said Australia's High Commissioner Timothy George Spencer during his visit to Interloop Spinning & Hosiery Division, Khurrianwala, and Faisalabad along with his delegation.
He visited all the departments, including high tech spinning unit, effluent treatment plant, knitting, and dye house & finishing. Chief Operating Officer

FAISALABAD - Ugandan Ambassador Dr Muhammad Ahmed has said that his country sees Pakistan as a partner in the progress of their agriculture economy and Pakistani investors are warmly welcomed to visit Uganda for investment, adding a special package of multidimensional incentives and facilitations has been announced.
He was addressing the participants of a lunch hosted in his honour by Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) Board of Directors Chairman Nadeem Aftab Sindhu. Dr

SARAJEVO - Bosnia's international peace envoy decreed on Monday a regional parliament representing the Muslim-Croat population can continue to function despite a ruling it was formed illegally. The decision by the international community's High Representative in Bosnia stressed the need for a functioning government in the Balkan nation still beset by divisions 15 years after Europe's deadliest fighting since World War Two.
The dispute concerns the parliament for the Muslim-Croat

ISLAMABAD - In a rare show of anger by one of the most trusted friends of Pakistan, the Saudi envoy on Monday expressed his displeasure over the out of context involvement of his country in the release of Raymond Davis, the killer of two Pakistanis. During a meeting on Monday, Ambassador Abdul Aziz bin Ibrahim Al-Ghadeer told Senator Mohammad Ali Durrani that his country had no role whatsoever in Davis' release episode. "Saudi Arabia did not play any role in getting Raymond Davis

SANAA - Abdullah Alsaidi, Yemen's ambassador to the United Nations, has resigned in protest over violence against demonstrators, a Yemeni Foreign Ministry official said on Sunday.
"Mr. Alsaidi has sent his resignation to the president's office and the Foreign Ministry," the official said.
The resignation came after two prominent members of Yemen's ruling party also resigned in protest against the killing of dozens of anti-government protesters during a rally on Friday.

SIALKOT - Ambassador of Brazil to Pakistan Alfredo Leoni has underlined the need to take some effective and positive steps for strengthening mutual trade ties between the two countries.
Talking to leading industrialists during his visit to several industrial units in Sialkot, he invited Pakistan's business community to divert their business activities to Brazil. He vowed to make all-out efforts to boost mutual trade ties. He pledged full support and technical assistance to ensure

PESHAWAR - caAmbassador of France to Pakistan Daniel Jouaneau lled on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Governor Barrister Masood Kausar at the Governor's House Peshawar on Monday and discussed matters of mutual interest and different issues in the region.
The governor, Masood Kausar, informed the ambassador about the achievements of the government in curbing militancy and terrorism.
He also thanked the people and the Government of France for their humanitarian services for mitigating

NEW YORK - A former American ambassador to Pakistan highlighted the importance of the South Asian country for the US amid strains in Islamabad-Washington relations over the Raymond Davis affair that led to calls for a cut-off of US aid.
"Like it or not, Pakistan is our lifeline," Wendy Chamberlin was quoted as saying in the course of a New York Times' dispatch on Sunday, while talking about the activities of the detained Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operator and the adverse

ISLAMABAD - In his maiden visit to Islamabad, US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Marc Grossman made clear that the release of arrested US citizen Raymond Davis was a must for the continuation of friendly bilateral ties. Grossman, who met President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani, raised the issue of Davis in each of his meeting, with a strong demand for his release coupled with words of caution that the

PRISTINA - Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaci on Thursday appointed a special envoy for the EU-brokered talks with Serbia that are expected to begin soon, the government announced. Leading Kosovo's delegation for the dialogue on practical matters with Serbia will be deputy prime minister Edita Tahiri, the government said in the press release.
"Dialogue as independent and sovereign countries with neighboring countries, including the Republic of Serbia, and solving practical

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Ambassador in Libya Ali Javed Sunday said all the Pakistanis living in the country were safe and attending their offices but the children were not going to schools because of security reasons.
Talking to a private TV channel from Tripoli, he said the Pakistanis were not taking part in any protest and they had nothing to do with the latest developments. He said the situation in Benghazi was critical where most of the Pakistanis were living and working,

NEW YORK - Veteran diplomat Marc Grossman was officially named Friday as the US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, tasked with smoothing out two of the most complicated US relationships. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Grossman's appointment to succeed Richard Holbrooke, a legendary negotiator who suddenly died on December 13 of a torn aorta at age 69.
Grossman "knows our allies and understands how to mobilize common action to meet shared challenges,"

WASHINGTON - Retired diplomat Marc Grossman will replace late Richard Holbrooke as US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, The Washington Post reported. The Post said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would announce the appointment in a major speech on the embattled region on Friday at the Asia Society in New York, or before.
It said months of disagreements between the White House and the State Department over the parameters of the job had delayed the announcement. A

CAIRO - Egypt's embattled President Hosni Mubarak met a senior Russian envoy on Wednesday amid mounting protests against his three decade-long rule over the Arab world's most populous country. Mubarak met Alexander Sultanov, deputy Russian foreign minister and special Middle East envoy, at the presidential palace in Cairo, as thousands protested in the Tahrir Square and outside parliament.
State agency MENA reported the meeting but gave no details of the talks. Russia has

THE HAGUE - The Netherlands said on Monday it had summoned Iran's ambassador in The Hague to protest the hushed burial of a Dutch citizen after she was executed by the regime in Tehran. A foreign ministry spokesman said the Dutch ambassador to Tehran was also being brought back to The Hague for consultations after Zahra Bahrami was buried in the absence of her family who had wished to be present.
"We were taken aback by the manner in which Mrs Bahrami's remains were treated, and

BAGHDAD - France must act quickly to show its support for the Tunisian people following a series of misjudgments, the country's new envoy to Tunis said on Sunday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's administration has been accused of moving slowly to condemn the violent repression of protests earlier this month that led to the downfall of Tunisia's longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
"We must very quickly show France's solidarity with the Tunisian people - and show we