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ISLAMABAD - The government has received four expressions of interest (EOI) from leading international banks to become financial advisors on the issuance of Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) exchangeable bonds by monetising up to 10 percent the government's share holding in the entity.
According a senior official of Privatisation Commission leading financial institutions send EOIs in the form of consortia including Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Barclays Bank, SCB,

ISLAMABAD - Amidst unusual emotional scenes, the Supreme Court accepted for regular hearing on Wednesday a presidential reference seeking to revisit the death sentence of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing the reference, filed under Article 186 of the constitution, seeking the reopening of the murder trial of the first democratically

ISLAMABAD - Demanding the government to take parliament into confidence over the mandate of the visit of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Ahmad Shuja Pasha to the US, Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday said it seemed parliament and the government had been made redundant and the ISI was running the country.
"It is the function of parliament to run a government, but the ISI DG is in the US and it seemed they are running the

LAHORE - Four armed robbers disguised as patients robbed the Government Hospital Shahdara on Wednesday. The criminals, riding on a car, entered the hospital and one of them pretended as a patient.
Later, they held the staff, including nurses and doctors, at gunpoint and snatched more Rs 40,000 in cash and four mobile phones before fleeing the crime scene. The duty officer of the hospital said only four to five employees were present at the time of incident.

KARACHI - The provincial Fisheries and Livestock Department informed the Sindh Assembly's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Wednesday that the department is unable to free the province's public water bodies from the control of influential people despite the abolishment of the contract system on fishing. Provincial Fisheries and Livestock Department Secretary Muhammad Laiq Memon told the PAC that the Sindh Assembly had abolished the contract system on fishing in public waters during

KARACHI - To eliminate targeted killing from the city, the government has adopted a two-pronged strategy under which it is contacting political parties and also taking administrative measures, said Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah. He said this at a press conference after presiding over a meeting regarding the law and order situation at the Chief Minister's House on Wednesday. This was the first meeting of the chief minister holding the portfolio of the Home Department, after

HAFIZABABD - Sunni Ittehad Council Pakistan central chief Sahibzada Fazal Karim MNA has said the government has failed to curb terrorism.
Addressing the Sunni Ittehad Council workers at Jaamia Masjid Al-Farooq Hafizabad the other day, he said the rulers were playing in the hands of Americans and their policies had been completely failed.
Under a planned international conspiracy, the Islamic identity was being tarnished, but those who gave sacrifices for establishing Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - During a hearing of the missing persons' case on Wednesday, Justice Javed Iqbal said it was government's responsibility and not Supreme Court's to recover these people whereas 222 missing persons had been traced due to the apex court's efforts.
According to a private TV, Justice Raja Fayyaz asked why this issue has not yet been raised in the parliament.
Moreover Justice Fayyaz ordered to submit complete details of the dead bodies found so far.
Defence of

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Commerce Tuesday asked the government to review its policy of sale of diesel to Afghanistan at cheaper rates and recommended that imported products should only be further exported to any third country at a cost equal or above the price being charged from consumers in Pakistan. The recommendation was made in a report laid in the national assembly by Chairman of the Standing Committee on Commerce Engineer Khurram Dastagir Khan on a

ISLAMABAD - The Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar said, on Tuesday, that the government plans to launch exchangeable bonds between $500 million and $1.0 billion for state owned Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) within this fiscal year. This would help permanently address the issue of inter-corporate circular debt in the power sector. Talking to the media after concluding session of the three day Pakistan Energy Conference 2011, the minister stated that

LAHORE - One day after stage artist Mastana passed away in Bahalwalpur, artists have been angered about the indifference shown by the government. The actor, who had been suffering from Hepatitis C could not afford treatment, eventually dying because of complications ending up with liver cancer. But the artist's family says that no government official bothered to help them out or even visit him at the hospital. Public Relations Officer of the Al-Hamra Arts Council Subhu Sadiq told

LAHORE - The Punjab government has formulated a new policy to bar entitlement of Class B prisons to those guilty of blasphemy and espionage among others to check the misuse of "discretionary" powers, Pakistan Today has learnt. Sources privy to the development said that the Pakistan Prisons Rules 1978 left wide room for "interpretation" and were subject to misuse due to political interference.
The Punjab Home Department formulated the new policy which states that only casual

KARACHI - Sindh Culture Minister Sassui Palijo said that the provincial government would take concrete steps to protect and promote all cultural sites and historical monuments

TRIPOLI - A Libyan government spokesman said the country is open to political reforms and elections, but Muammar Gaddafi must remain as the Libyan leader.
"We are ready for political solutions: constitution, election, anything, but the leader has to lead this forward," Mussa Ibrahim said.
The spokesman said the Libyan people, rather than other countries, must decide the country's future and whether the Libyan leader should stay or go.
He added no conditions could be

PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and academicians from the Peshawar University and its affiliated organs have endorsed the decision regarding the HEC dissolution. Backing the provincial autonomy in accordance with the 18th Amendment, the PK government made it clear that no problems and hardships would arise as a result of the HEC dissolution.
The Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa chief minister Saturday chaired a meeting of the vice chancellors of various universities. The

FAISALABAD - A delegation of senior officers of the Faisalabad City Government left for Singapore to sign an agreement with Singaporean authorities for the installation of a solid waste treatment plant in the district.
The delegation comprises Executive District Officer (Revenue) Liaqat Ali Chattha, Executive District Officer (Solid Waste) Liaqat Ali, Road Transport Authority Secretary Mohsin Rasheed and District Officer (Planning) Mehar Ramzan.
The group members will

DUBLIN - The Irish government promised full backing to their cricketers Friday in efforts to overturn their removal from the next World Cup, slamming the decision as flying in the face of sportsmanship. On Tuesday the International Cricket Council confirmed a decision to slash the 2015 and 2019 World Cups to just 10 teams in a move that was described by Cricket Ireland's chief executive Warren Deutrom as "frankly outrageous".
Sports Minister Leo Varadkar, at a special reception