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GENEVA - The office of the UN human rights chief on Friday urged Saudi Arabia to exercise restraint and allow free assembly, as protests were planned in the kingdom to press for democratic reform. "We are concerned about what may happen later today in Saudi Arabia, where the situation is very tense," said Rupert Colville, a spokesman for High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay. "As in other similar situations in the Middle East, we're calling for restraint on the part of the

LAHORE - On the occasion of the World Kidney Day, Sheikh Zayed Hospital's Institute of Kidney Diseases will set up a free camp to create awareness about kidney disorders on March 10 from 9am to 3pm. Institute of Kidney Diseases Head Dr Aizaz Mand will supervise the camp while Sheikh Zayed Hospital Chairman and Dean Dr Saeed will inaugurate it. An awareness walk will be held at 9am while lectures will be delivered by diabetes, heart, eye and kidney
disease specialists.

KARACHI - The Chhipa Welfare Association (CWA) announced the launch of its free food programme on Sunday. Prominent social worker and CWA patron-in-chief Ramzan Chhipa said that the programme aims to extend free food services to the poor across Karachi.
He said that the programme's launch is the result of planning, which aimed at receiving public donations and charity required to meet the expenses being accrued on providing free food to the deprived. Earlier, Chhipa was briefed

PESHAWAR - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday said corrupt rulers of the country would be ousted as had been witnessed in Tunisia and Egypt. Addressing Insaf Students Federation (ISF), Peshawar chapter youth convention, at Shahi Tehmas Ground, he warned, "Our leaders are helpless before the US, but if they try to release Raymond Davis, they will not escape from the anger of the masses.
Thousands of ISF activists hailing from different public and

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama urged Pakistan on Tuesday to free a detained US official, while insisting that he was not "callous" about the deadly shooting that led to the US employee's arrest. In his first public remarks on a case that has cast a chill over an already uneasy partnership, Obama said detained US citizen Raymond Davis enjoyed diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Conventions.
"We expect Pakistan... to abide by the same convention," Obama told a news

LAHORE - Dozens of beggars hold protest demonstration at Kalma Chowk on Wednesday against traffic police for stopping them from begging on main roads two weeks ago. Beggars during the protest have demanded that the government to create job opportunities for them or allow them to beg on main roads.
Over 50 beggars lodged protest demonstration at on Main Boulevard Road and kept the road blocked for about 20 minutes. Beggars while protesting chanted slogans against Chief Traffic

LAHORE - According to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's policy, free diagnostic and treatment facilities are being provided to patients coming to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and administration of the hospital has taken various measures for creating patient-friendly atmosphere, Pakistan Today has learnt. The number of patients coming to the hospital has increased manifold and during last year, 0.4 million patients visited the OPD while 0.3 million patients were provided treatment

QUETTA - Jamhoori Watan Party Balochistan President Shahzain Bugti was released on bail from Quetta district jail on Tuesday, however, his 26 guards and party workers would be released tomorrow.
Shahzain, grandson of slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti, was arrested by Frontier Corps and local police on December 22 with his 26 men on charges of possessing a lager quantity of illegal arms. The Balochistan High Court on Monday granted him and 26 companions bail after the Quetta

LAHORE - On the directions of the Punjab chief minister, Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Aslam Tareen has launched the Lahore Drug Free City Project in his capacity as its chairman, and has ordered immediate crackdown on all drug peddlers throughout the city.
CCPO said drug peddlers and dealers not only affected the targeted individuals but their families as well. CCPO ordered the Lahore Police to take stern action against such drug peddlers so Lahore could be made a

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved provision of free medical treatment facility to gold medalist workers of the Pakistan Movement and their families in all government-sector hospitals of the province. Complying with the CM's orders, Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad issued a notification in this regard on Saturday. The Punjab Health Department issued written instructions to all principals of autonomous institutions and medical superintendents of

DASKA - The provincial health secretary ordered the medical superintendent of Civil Hospital Daska to bring the six-member blind family to the hospital for check-up and provide them with free medical facilities after the story of this poor family was published in Pakistan Today on December 14.
Rehmat Ali, 65, appealed to the government for help stating that his income was very low and he could not afford medical treatment of his family. When the news was published in Pakistan

OTTAWA: Canada and the European Union are on track towards signing a free trade agreement by the end of 2011, trade representatives said Wednesday. After "taking stock of progress" made to date, Canadian Trade Minister Peter Van Loan and EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said that they were "satisfied with the substantial progress that has been made in the negotiations."
Official talks for a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the EU were launched in

NEW DELHI: China hopes to have free trade discussions with India during the Chinese Premier's visit to New Delhi this week, a signal of how the two Asian powerhouses may try to smooth tensions over their economic and border rivalries.
"The free trade agreement is the next stage (of India-China relations). It is our hope that we can start the process," China's envoy to India, Zhang Yan, told reporters in New Delhi on Monday. "We are very much positive on these issues. I think

LAHORE: Zafar managed hard to stand in line when as he saw his colleagues enter bluntly in the office of the reserve inspector and leave one after the other carrying sweaters.
Zafar was standing at the Police Lines Qila Gujjar Singh to get a new sweater for himself and his friend, as the intensifying cold was making his job a little difficult.
Zafar is a constable and he joined the Punjab Police about eight years ago. He is currently posted in Lahore Police Cantonment

PARIS: World leaders hailed the release of Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi from years of house arrest on Saturday but warned the country's junta not to restrict her, even as a senior government official insisted she was "completely free".
US President Barack Obama said that "while the Burmese regime has gone to extraordinary lengths to isolate and silence Aung San Suu Kyi, she has continued her brave fight for democracy, peace, and change in Burma. She is a hero of mine

YANGON: Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walked free on Saturday after seven years as a prisoner in her own home, calling on a sea of jubilant supporters to unite in the face of repression.
Waving and smiling, the Nobel Peace Prize winner appeared outside the crumbling lakeside mansion where she had been locked up by the military rulers, to huge cheers and clapping from the waiting crowds. "We must work together in unison," she told thousands of waiting people,