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ISLAMABAD - Bumper wheat harvest of over 24 million tonnes is expected during the current crop season in comparison to 22 million tonnes required for domestic consumption. Wheat Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MinFA) Development Commissioner Dr Shakeel Ahmad Khan has said that crop harvesting was in full swing in Sindh where over 115,000 tonnes of the commodity has been procured.
He informed that the harvesting has also started in Punjab Province where as the procurement

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 - Bumper Kharif crops are expected this year as the Advisory Committee of the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) on Thursday concluded that there was no likely shortage of irrigation water during the April 1 to September 30 period and total water availability would remain around 118 million acre feet (MAF).
Briefing reporters, IRSA Chairman Rao Irshad Ali Khan said provinces would get water releases as per the water accord, as the season was to start with a carry

ROME - The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Wednesday that Pakistan could expect a good wheat harvest despite severe flooding last year as seeds distributed to flood victims begin to ripen.
"FAO spent $54 million of international donor funding buying and distributing quality wheat seeds as part of its emergency intervention that began last August," the Rome-based UN agency said in a statement. "Once the harvest is completed, this donation will have produced a crop

The much-anticipated clash between Pakistan and India is set to be played on a batting pitch which will also offer some purchase to the fast bowlers as "slight" grass will be left on it, say groundsmen.
The pitch at the PCA Stadium still sports some grass two days before the match and sources said that the groundsmen will have slight cutting at the most, fearing breaking up of the surface.

HONG KONG - The world's highest hotel opened its doors in Hong Kong on Tuesday, housed in the city's tallest skyscraper and offering unrivalled panoramic views of the world famous Victoria Harbour.
Towering some 490 metres (1,600 feet) above the bustling, chaotic streets of the Southern Chinese city, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel is making a grand comeback after temporarily closing in 2008.
Visitors peered out of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the 118th floor of the International

MOHALI - It will be batting-friendly for most part but the pitch at the PCA Stadium, which will host the eagerly-anticipated World Cup semifinal between India and Pakistan on Wednesday, would assist seam bowlers under the floodlights. "The ball will seam a bit under the lights," Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) curator Daljeet Singh was quoted as saying by PTI.
He said it will be a typical Mohali wicket, with generally good pace and bounce, which is its basic nature. Singh said

Central bank expected to leave its key policy rate unchanged at 14 percent when it meets on Saturday for the subsequent two months because of an improving external current account and some respite in government borrowing.
Pakistan's current account deficit for July-February period was a provisional $98 million, compared with a deficit of $3.027 billion in the same period last year, which provides a window of opportunity for the State Bank of Pakistan to keep the key policy rate

KARACHI - The Sindh Assembly might start legislation from Wednesday (today) after the expected return of Pakistan People's Party (PPP)'s major coalition partner - the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) - to the House as the latter is likely to end its boycott of the Provincial Assembly.
The freshly convened Sindh Assembly session started on Tuesday with Speaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro in chair. Sindh Local Government Minister Agha Siraj Durrani told the chair that legislation was delayed

LAHORE - Provincial metropolis witnessed a rainy day as predicted by the met office earlier, which made the weather pleasant in Lahore and filled the low lying areas with water.
Commuters also faced problems while traveling to their desired destinations. Met Office informed that most parts of Pakistan are in the grip of a westerly weather system that will produce intermittent rains during next three days. Under the influence of this weather system, widespread rain is predicted

LAHORE - The outlawed Jamaatud Dawa (JD) will hold countrywide protests on Friday against the expected release of US national Raymond Davis, JD leader Ameer Hamza said on Monday. He was addressing a rally at the Qurtaba Chowk. Hamza alleged that Davis is a terrorist who should be hanged for killing innocent Pakistanis.
If the rulers tried to give him immunity, they would face the same face as former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak faced. Participants of the rally chanted slogans

The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) observed a protest day on Friday against possible release of US national Raymond Davis on immense US pressure.
Rallies were held in the federal and provincial capitals, which were attended by JI leaders and other religious leaders. Addressing Friday prayer sermon at Mansoora, JI chief Munawar Hassan said that the rulers were US slaves and nothing good was expected from them. He made it clear that if rulers handed over Davis by compromising national honour

KARACHI - Fears of a political backlash with regards to increasing product prices may compel the government to trim the deemed duty on High Speed Diesel to five percent in March, but this move is likely to be resisted by local refineries and any changes made to deemed duty may prove to be short-lived.
While deemed duty on local production is collected and retained by refiners; 7.5 percent duty on HSD is collected by the government on imported HSD. Freezing HSD consumption at