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LAHORE - Lahoris are all set to witness the battle between the traditional rivals in cricket, Pakistan and India, as various communities have arranged for the big screens for match viewing.
The trend of watching the match on the big screens have been attracting people from all walks of life and classes, as the match screening is being organised in the posh areas of city and relatively lesser posh areas alike. Citizens are excited, to say the least to view tomorrow's match, and

TEHRAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's 1977 Peugeot 504 sold for $2.5 million (1.8 million euros) in an international auction on Tuesday, the State Welfare Organisation website reported. The "company who purchased the car for 25 billion rials wanted to remain anonymous," it said after the auction in the southwestern city of Abadan.
"My client bought the car because of a personal interest in President Ahmadinejad and his spirit of anti-arrogance and anti-Zionism," said

KARACHI - There is bad news for all those who travel by bus: fares are set to be raised. What remains uncertain, however, is the exact increment, with the government and transporters still negotiating whether fares will be increased by Rs 2 or by Rs 3, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Sources told Pakistan Today that after the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority's (OGRA) decision to increase the price of petrol by Rs 7.23 per litre and diesel by Rs 7.76, provincial authorities have

ISLAMABAD - Senate Sanding Committee on Culture and Tourism here on Tuesday strongly demanded of the ministry to devise a code of ethics for artists going abroad for performance. The committee, while appreciating the ongoing Iranian exhibition week at Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA), observed that the ministry and PNCA were playing a commendable role in promoting friendly relations between Pakistan and other countries.
Senator Nilofar Bakhtiar, while presiding, directed

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, in consultation with the president, has decided in principle to dissolve the federal cabinet in a few days and a majority of ministers to be named in the new cabinet are likely to be new faces.
"Some of the ministers may be reappointed while a majority of them will make it for the first time to the federal cabinet," a source said, adding that an exercise to evaluate the performance of the ministers had already started to screen out

LAHORE - More than 10,000 members of the Lahore Bar Association (LBA) will cast votes on Saturday to elect their 117th representative cabinet for 2011-12. Polling arrangements have been completed at the Zila Katchery where polling will be held from 9am to 5pm with one hour prayer break from 1pm to 2pm. Candidates have been campaigning for several months for coveted slots while the official campaigning time ends on Thursday night. According to details, LBA annual elections are going to

LAHORE - The Punjab police are dragging their feet into investigations into 33 bomb blasts and suicide attacks that occurred in various cities over the last two years while 12 such incidents have been left untraced.
From January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2010, the Punjab Police registered 61 cases of bomb blasts and suicide attacks.
These include attacks on Sri Lankan Cricket Team, GHQ (Rawalpindi), Parade Lane Masjid (Rawalpindi), Data Darbar (Lahore) and two suicide

LAHORE - The markets and business centres of the city will remain closed today and two rallies will be taken out against a possible change in blasphemy laws.
The decision was made during a meeting of traders of different markets of the city, including Liberty Market President Zahid Javed and Hafeez Centre President Malik Kaleem. The traders said all city markets will be closed completely, including fruit and vegetable markets.
It was decided that Shah Alam Market, Azam

Sanjay Dutt is taking a fortnight long vacation with friends in Macau. The actor loves the Hongkong casinos and he has decided to take a short break from biwi, Manyata and the twins. Sanju has even invited his friends Ajay Devgan and director Milan Luthria to join him on the trip. Actually, Sanjay, Ajay and Milan have formed a new-born fathers' club. Ajay had his son, Yug in September, Milan had his daughter in October and Sanju had his twins, Iqra and Shahran in October. So these

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has decided to expand the scope of the inquiry into Benazir Bhutto's murder by including officials of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligence (MI) and Intelligence Bureau (IB).
FIA Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfikar said on Thursday that during the investigations, senior police officials had named some ISI, MI and IB officials. "We will also interrogate these officials," he told reporters after court proceedings

LAHORE: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President and renowned human rights activist Asma Jahangir said on Tuesday that she was happy on Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Khawaja Muhammad Sharif's retirement and hopes that upcoming LHC CJ Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry would not repeat his predecessor's mistakes.
She made these remarks while talking to journalists at the LHC premises. Commenting on the LHC CJ's statement that he would work for people's welfare, Asma said that

KARACHI: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Sindh Assembly on Monday lambasted state-run universities over the manner in which their expense logs were maintained, and ordered an inquiry into the expenses made without record.
Reviewing audit reports of four universities - NED University of Engineering and Technology, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology and Agriculture University - PAC Chairman Jam Tamachi and

This is a first of sorts and it also sounds like a fan girl's dream come true. Robert Pattinson is being auctioned off for charity. The British actor is currently listed on an auction site with the current offer standing at $30,000.
According to the terms, the winning bidder will also get the opportunity to spend a day on the Vancouver set of his upcoming film, the fourth movie in the Twilight series, and meet the rest of the cast including Robert's girlfriend Kristen Stewart,

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has directed the Pakistan People's Party to take all-out measures to keep the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the coalition.
The president was chairing a meeting of the PPP Core Committee on Tuesday that took stock of the current political and economical situation of the country and decided to carry on with the new party strategy adopted around two weeks ago. The meeting discussed in length the violence in Karachi, the judiciary-executive