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KARACHI - Members of the Sindh cabinet approved a bill on Saturday drafted by Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza for providing protection to witnesses in cases filed by the prosecution at the courts.
Briefing media persons about the cabinet members' decisions, Chief Minister's Adviser on Information Sharmila Farooqui said that the bill would be presented at the Sindh Assembly for necessary legislation. "Despite the police arresting suspects in several criminal cases, especially

SIALKOT - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Shairf has issued a grant for Government Qaumi High School for its up gradation. According to the Headmaster Hafiz Akhtar Tanveer the chief minister has issued Rs 19,75,000 for development of school.
The district officer for buildings also issued tender for construction of school.

LAHORE - Punjab Education and law ministers disregarded the dance at Government College University in the provincial assembly despite attention sought by a lawmaker from treasury benches.
Neither did the ministers concerned nor the Speaker give importance to the incident of using GCU, one of the most respected and widely-acclaimed institutions of the country, for a dance by stage dancer, Deedar at the Bonfire Night held at the varsity on the last Wednesday last.
During the

NEW DELHI - After a dull 2010, Bollywood has started 2011 on a high note. Four much anticipated films - "No One Killed Jessica", "Yamla Pagla Deewana", "Turning 30" and "Dhobi Ghat" - have opened to good reviews and profits at the box office.
"No One Killed Jessica", the year's first release Jan 7 that stars Rani Mukerji and Vidya Balan, is still going strong at the box office two weeks on and has grossed Rs.380 million ($8.3 million) so far. It has been co-produced by UTV

KARACHI - A court on Saturday sentenced a former Sindh government officer to 17 years' rigorous imprisonment in a case relating to attempt of murder, illegal confinement and robbery.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Sagheer Ahmed Shaikh handed down the verdict to former agriculture officer Ilyas Hulio after examining five prosecution witnesses. According to the prosecution, Hulio along with four unidentified accomplices on October 29, 2009 had kidnapped Rashid Rajar, the

JUBA - South Sudan achieved the simple majority needed to secede in its independence referendum, preliminary results collated by AFP showed on Wednesday, even with many counties still to report.
As several areas returned landslides of 99 percent or more for separation of the mainly Christian, African south from the mainly Arab, Muslim north, the majority was achieved although with some of the region's 10 states, including its most populous, Jonglei, yet to announce any

MELBOURNE - Top seed Rafael Nadal was handed an easy win at the Australian Open Tuesday, as Kim Clijsters humiliated Dinara Safina 6-0, 6-0 and former number one Ana Ivanovic was another high-profile casualty. Nadal, the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open champion, was leading 6-0, 5-0 when Brazilian journeyman Marcos Daniel threw in the towel after being troubled by a left knee problem.
In an action-packed day two, Britain's Andy Murray went through in similar circumstances

LAHORE - 'Bol' is Shoaib Mansoor's second dramatic breakthrough of revealing life with its complexities. After 'Khuda Kay Liye', that went on to win several international awards, 'Bol' is another gripping story authored by him.
A story that shows how a poor makes ends meet. On top of the poverty, the father subscribes to a set of values that embody contradictions and values that have not been questioned. 'Bol' is a roller coaster of emotions, yet carries subtleties that make

SANAA - Yemen on Monday sentenced to death a Yemeni teenager convicted of killing a Frenchman, and handed down a 10-year jail sentence in absentia on US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi whom it accuses of motivating the crime. A Sanaa criminal court specialised in terrorism passed the death sentence on Hisham Mohammed Assem after convicting him of killing French energy contractor Jacques Spagnolo near Sanaa last October. "I reject the verdict and will appeal," 19-year-old Assem, wearing a

LAHORE - Guard Group/Diamond Paints, The President's Bodyguard and Ciro's Pomodoro won their opening day matches of the Caanchi & Lugari Pakistan Polo Cup here at the Lahore Polo Club ground on Monday.
Guard Group/Diamond Paints defeated Lahore Garrison 8-5, The President's Bodyguard beat Mac & Rains 8-4 and Ciro's Pomodoro defeated Master Paints (Black) 8- 4.

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Friday gave another deadline to Techno Energy, a Sialkot-based firm, to refund a mobilisation advance of Rs 780 million along with a mark up by January 17 for its failure to import machinery for a 150MW rental power project despite keeping the amount for over two years.
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, was hearing a suo motu case involving allegations of

LAHORE - The proxy attendance issue remained the hot topic during the Punjab Assembly (PA) session on Friday, as Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Member of the Punjab Assembly (MPA) Sanaullah Mastikhel exchanged hot words with Unification Bloc Member Sheikh Allauddin over the issue.
The heated arguments created a tense situation in the assembly, as PA Speaker Rana Iqbal's ruling was violated thrice but both the treasury and opposition benches did not notice it. The speaker

LOS ANGELES - Frances McDormand has been cast to voice the villain in "Madagascar 3," DreamWorks Animation's latest installment of the zoo animal-based franchise.
Eric Darnell, who co-directed the previous two movies and was a writer on them as well, is helming solo with this new venture.
Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith are slated to reprise their roles as big-game animals who escaped a New York zoo and end up on the island off the African

KARACHI - Bowing to MQM's demands, the Sindh government has decided to give special powers to Karachi district and town administrators for utilising development funds on their own.
The decision was taken after the coalition partner in the Sindh government demanded Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to release development funds of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK), which is facing several problems in having them released, reliable sources told Pakistan Today.
The MQM

LAHORE - The Punjab University Inter-collegiate Badminton Championship rolled into action here at the PU Gymnasium Hall on Tuesday.
The newly-constructed four courts are equipped with all the basic facilities of the game complete game's equipment and state of the art fitness centre while timings for training and practice has also been ear-marked.
Dr Zafar Rasheed, PU Director Sports, formally inaugurated the championship. Dr Rasheed, who is a former international table

LONDON - Dathan Ritzenhein, a three-time US cross-country champion, has been added to the list of runners at this year's London Marathon, organisers said Monday.
Ritzenhein will be up against Ethiopia's defending champion Tsegaye Kebede and the Kenyan duo of Olympic champion Sammy Wanjiru and world champion Abel Kirui in a strong field for the men's race on April 17. The 28-year-old Ritzenhein, set his personal best of two hours 10 minutes for the marathon in London in 2009 and

MUMBAI - It's been a bad year for Bollywood in 2010 and industry analysts are blaming exorbitant movie budgets for scampering the chances of many potential blockbusters. With film budgets soaring to 800 million rupees and stars averse to pay cuts, high acquisition costs and massive marketing budgets have added to industry woes, leading to more turkeys at the box-office.
"Studios alone have lost more than 300 crore (three billion rupees) this year, mainly because budgets have been