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ISLAMABAD - Senior officials of the Interior Ministry on Wednesday informed the special committee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that there was serious threat to the lives of JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman, ANP President Asfandyar Wali Khan, PML-Q President Shujaat Hussain and former information minister Sherry Rehman.
The PAC special committee, which met with Riaz Hussain Pirzada in the chair, was told this by Interior Affairs Secretary Qamar Zaman Chaudhry that intelligence

TOKYO - Japan is facing its worst crisis in the 65 years since the end of World War II, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Sunday, calling on the nation to unite after it was devastated by a huge earthquake.
The situation at a quake-stricken atomic power plant also remains grave, Kan said as engineers battled a nuclear emergency sparked by the massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake and the devastating tsunami it triggered.
"The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the

LAHORE - The Punjab government is facing a deficit of Rs 136 billion owing to gross financial indiscipline in the province. "Of the outstanding amount, Rs 51 billion have been converted into a loan, while another Rs 37 billion have been obtained from the State Bank of Pakistan to run the government's affairs," PPP's former Punjab finance minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira said on Thursday while exposing the ill practices of the Punjab government during the last three years.
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Bosses at an epilepsy organisation are calling for Kanye West's latest music video to be taken off the internet over fears it could cause seizures among sufferers. The hip-hop star's promo for 'All of the Lights,' which features Rihanna, uses so much flashing imagery that regulators have deemed the video unsuitable to be broadcasted on television.
Experts at Cambridge Research Systems claim the video contains flashes that could trigger seizures in people with photosensitive

LAHORE - Survivors of the 2005 earthquake and the 2010 floods are facing acute problems including abuse, exploitation for distribution of resources especially for unaccompanied women, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi Lecturer Salman Haider said on Tuesday while presenting his research paper at a seminar.
The seminar, Findings on Internally Displaced Persons with Special Focus on Women, was organised by the Legislative Watch Group of the Aurat Foundation, Lahore. The

LAHORE - The Punjab Police faces difficulties in investigation, screening equipments and locating suspects, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told the Punjab Assembly (PA) on Tuesday. Sanaullah admitted that police did not have facility of phone locator, as this equipment is only being used by intelligence agencies. The law minister said that the Punjab government had demanded the federal government to provide locators nothing has been done in this regard.
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Some elements in the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid are opposed to joining the Pakistan People's Party-led coalition, Pakistan Today learnt on Tuesday.
According to a source close to Chaudhrys, the PPP move to rope in the PML-Q might not work as the party does not only want to join the coalition in the centre but also wants a power-sharing deal in Punjab. The source said that the PPP had invited the PML-Q to join the PPP-led coalition government in the centre.