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KARACHI - Keeping in view the future potable water requirements, the Pakistan Steel Mills, the Port Qasim Authority and other major organisations must be convinced to set up seawater desalination plants, said Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan told the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) managing director on Wednesday.
"Apart from the K-IV and S-III projects, there should be a plan on the desalination of seawater as well," he said during a briefing by the KWSB held at the

CAIRO - Hundreds of Egyptians on Monday protested against the appointment of a Christian governor in the southern city of Qena, as officials scrambled to end the four-day crisis, security officials said. Protests first kicked off on Friday after Emad Mikhail was appointed governor of Qena which has a large Coptic Christian population and a history of sectarian strife.
Interior Minister Mansur Essawy, who made an impromptu visit to the southern province late on Sunday, failed to

LARKANA - Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governors Sardar Muhammad Latif Khosa and Barrister Masood Kausar on Sunday visited the mausoleum of the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, on the eve of his 32nd death anniversary.
But Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad did not visit Bhuttos' native place. They laid wreath at the grave of the PPP's founder chairman and former prime minister and offered Fateha. They also visited the graves of Benazir Bhutto, Mir Murtaza Bhutto and

GUJRANWALA - Punjab Governor Latif Khosa has said that he is the first governor who belongs to lawyers' community and will solve their problems on top priority. He was talking to a delegation of People's Lawyers Forum Gujranwala at the governor's house the other day. The delegation was led by PLF President Ahwar Tufail Warraich while other members Aftab Zaidi, Asif Nadeem, Sheikh Ezad Masood, Muhammad Nauman Aziz and Ahad Mahmood Ramay were among the participants.
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RAWALPINDI - The police commando charged with killing governor, who had urged reform of a blasphemy law, asked to be one of his bodyguards, a witness told.
Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri has been charged with terrorism and murdering Punjab governor Salman Taseer on an Islamabad street on January 4.
Qadri has confessed to killing Taseer, saying that he objected to the politician's calls to amend the blasphemy law.
"Three prosecution witnesses, all policemen, made their

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa said on Sunday that Raymond Davis was released by the court as he was pardoned by families of murdered persons after taking blood money of Rs 200 million which was in accordance with Shariah laws.
Talking to the media at the marriage ceremony of daughter of Habibur Rehman aka Mani Pehalwan, a senior worker of the PPP, he said that the court had quizzed all 19 members of the family before the decision and their affidavits were presented

PESHAWAR - Tribal Electricity Supply Company (TESCO) Chief Executive Officer Pervez Khankhel Swati has said that Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KP) Governor Barrister Masood Kausar has assured of safe recovery of TESCO's abducted staff. While talking to the office bearers of Pakistan WAPDA Hydro Electric Central Labour Union at WAPDA House Peshawar on Monday Pervez Khankhel Swati said that every kind of support would be extended to the families of the abducted staff. He added the matter of

PESHAWAR - The Swiss high-level delegation called on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Governor Barrister Masood Kausar at the Governor's House on Saturday and informed him about the efforts of the government and the people of Switzerland for ensuring socio-economic uplift programmes. The delegation led by Swiss Development Corporation Director General Martin Dahinden consisted of the South Asia Division head and the Swiss Ambassador in Pakistan, Christopher Bubb besides others.
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LAHORE - Punjab Governor Latif Khosa is likely to clear the chief minister's summary seeking removal of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ministers from the provincial cabinet soon, PPP sources told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
The governor told reporters at an official engagement that he would follow the constitution while responding to the summary. The PPP sources said that the governor was scheduled to meet President Asif Ali Zardari in Karachi on Sunday evening to discuss the

KARACHI - Gilgit-Baltistan Governor Karam Ali Shah visited the Mazar-e-Quaid on Wednesday and offered fateha. The governor paid rich tributes to the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in his remarks in the visitor's book there.
Shah said that the Quaid-e-Azam was a son of the soil as he was born in Karachi and lauded the leader's greatness and character. Talking to the media, the governor said that efforts are under way for the rehabilitation of the people affected from the Attabad

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa has assured MQM of its constitutional right regarding its plan to hold a procession on April 10 at Minar-e-Pakistan. The governor said he was hopeful that no objection would be raised from any quarter about MQM's plan to hold a gathering at Minar e Pakistan.
Khosa was taking to media after meeting with a delegation of senior leadership of MQM including Dr Farooq Sattar, Babar Ghouri, Raza Haroon and others.

PESHAWAR - Amidst the slogans of "Long Live Bhutto," Barrister Masood Kausar was administered oath as the 28th governor of Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa, replacing Engineer Owais Ahmad Ghani on Thursday. Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Afzal Khan administered oath to Masood Kausar.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti was also present. The oath-taking ceremony was arranged in the lawns inside the Governor's House and it was attended by hundreds of PPP stalwarts

PESHAWAR - President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday appointed Barrister Syed Masood Kausar as Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa governor on the advice of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. Barrister Kausar is likely to assume the office after taking oath on Thursday (tomorrow).
He will replace Owais Ahmad Ghani, who assumed the office in May 2007. Masood is amongst a few civilians to be posted against the highly sensitive office in the country as mostly former military generals remained governor

KARACHI - The hidden realities behind incidents of targeted killing in Karachi must be exposed, Sindh Governor Ishratul Ebad said on Tuesday. "After creating a situation in the metropolis that is similar to the Malakand-Swat situation, extremists now want to destabilise the city as well as the country," the governor told a delegation of Kashmiri journalists at the Governor's House.
He said that the worsening law and order situation in the city could be solved only after exposing

ISLAMABAD - Syed Karam Ali was appointed the new governor of Gilgit Baltistan by President Asif Zardari on the advice of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday. Sources said Karam was appointed against the wishes of CM Mehdi Shah. Soon after the appointment of the governor, some religious party leaders, mainly Sunnis, expressed concerns over the nomination of a candidate belonging to the Ismaili sect.

KARACHI - The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), warning of risks related to e-banking components like Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), has urged banks to mitigate perils prudently.
"The rapid development of e-banking capabilities, in addition to benefits, carries risks of its own," State Bank Deputy Governor Muhammad Kamran Shehzad told participants of a discussion on 'Managing ATM Security and Risks in its Operations', organised by Messrs Phoenix Armor at a local hotel on

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa has asked vice chancellors from the public sectors universities to mobilize the youth in order to check brain drain in the country.
"It is our responsibility to mobilize the youth and inculcate in them the spirit of serving the country", he said while chairing a meeting of the VCs from seventeen public sector universities at the Governor's House here Saturday. The administrative secretaries from the various provincial departments