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For the love of animals
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India and Foundation for a Drug-Free World (FDFW) Pakistan signed an agreement last month for launching...
FY 2011-12 ‘go slow’ year for poor CDA
Popularly known as a moneyed civic agency, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) is reportedly so strapped for funds that its high-ups have asked different...
PPP, PML-Q finalise alliance for AJK polls
The ruling coalition partners, the PPP and the PML-Q, Wednesday agreed on seat adjustments for the upcoming general election in Azad Jammu and Kashmir,...
Sangakkara ready for final captaincy tilt
Former skipper Kumar Sangakkara admitted he was a reluctant captain of Sri Lanka heading into the third and final Test against England at the...
Moral victory for Yasir in spot-fixing case
Pakistan’s discarded Test player Yasir Hameed scored a moral victory over British tabloid in a spot-fixing scandal last year after his complaint was upheld....
Pakistan Special Olympics team departs for Athens
The team representing Pakistan at the “Special Olympics World Summer Games 2011” will depart for Athens, Greece on June 20, 2011. The Pakistani contingent...
Finnish foreign ministry wins prize for sauna diplomacy
Finland’s foreign ministry on Monday won the Steam Spirit Prize for promoting sauna culture abroad, organisers said, hailing Finnish diplomats for using saunas to...
Facebook hires ex-press secretary for Bill Clinton
Joe Lockhart, a former press secretary for President Bill Clinton, is joining Facebook to oversee the company’s policy, international and corporate communications efforts.
Lockhart, who...
Major relief for Sindh workers in new budget: Sharmila
The Sindh budget 2011-12 is a balanced and worker-friendly as government employees and pensioners will get major relief from increase in salaries and pension,...
Its either power or gas for load shedding-hit consumers
With long hours of power load shedding across the country becoming a norm, the citizens are forced to run in-house power generators but with...
PCB names umpires for ICC panels
The Pakistan Cricket Board Monday announced the umpires for ICC international panel of field and TV umpires for next 12 months. Zameer Haidar, who...
Court summons CPO for not producing ANF men
The police on Saturday failed to produce the two majors and six personnel of Anti-Narcotics Force arrested on a court’s orders in a murder...
Children Parliamentarians for laws against trafficking
Children Parliamentarians demanded strict laws against child trafficking and special trainings for their self defence in this regard, in a session of Children Parliament...
1,350 applicants apply for admission in PGMI
Around 1,350 applications from all over the country have been received so far for admission in the Post Graduate Medical Institute (PGMI) for specialisation...
Sherpao for national anti-terror initiative
Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, the chief of his own faction of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP-Sherpao), has urged the government to lead a national policy...
Yellow cabs for MSF members only?
The Muslim Students Federation (MSF), a pro-Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) student wing, is likely to be the main beneficiary of the Yellow Cab Scheme...
‘60pc ADP 2011-12 for infrastructure development’
The provincial government has paid special attention towards infrastructure development in the new financial budget as over 60 percent of the funds under Annual...
