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LAHORE - Pakistan might have to wait further for the revival of international cricket back home as their series against Sri Lanka later this year is still awaiting clearances. Sri Lanka, going by the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Future Tours Programme (FTP), are scheduled to play three Tests and five One-day Internationals in Pakistan.
"We are happy to go but we need clearance from our government agencies which is awaited," Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) honorary secretary

KASUR - It has been observed that the teachers of private schools are in a better position in imparting education to their students as compared to the teachers of government schools. The teachers of government schools are burdened with many activities ordered by the federal, provincial or district governments. They spend most of their time in extracurricular and other activities.
Normally, the higher authorities ask the government schools' teachers to conduct census and prepare

KARACHI - Even though the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) is a coalition partner of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), the PPP-led Sindh government neither takes the PML-F into confidence on any issue nor invites it to the core committee meetings, PML-F leader Imtiaz Shaikh said on Sunday while talking to party activists at his residence.
Shaikh said that President Asif Ali Zardari always gives importance to the PML-F as an ally of the PPP in Sindh and the federation.

ISLAMABAD - With the deadline set by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for the verification of educational degrees and certificates of all federal government employees approaching fast, the authorities tasked with the job seemed to be moving at a snail's pace, with heads of department setting their own deadlines for the completion of the process, documents available with Pakistan Today revealed.
Gilani had ordered the Establishment Division on February 5 to complete the process

WAZIRABAD - PPP central information secretary and ex-federal minister Qamar Zaman Kaira on Sunday said the government had taken concrete steps and difficult as well as unpopular decisions for the betterment of the country, its economy and democracy.
Addressing a seminar, chaired by Editor Pakistan Today Arif Nizami, under the aegis of Hameed Nizami Memorial Society, Wazirabad chapter, he said the PPP-led coalition government had restored the constitution to its true spirit,

KARACHI - The government will segregate advertisement budget of print and electronic media soon in an attempt to create a balanced budget for the print media, said Federal Information Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan on Saturday while talking to Karachi-based editors.
Awan said that she would hold meetings with the senior media officials to evolve a balanced budget for both the print and electronic media, explaining that print media organizations have pointed out that a large chunk of

KARACHI - Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar, who is also chairman of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), pledged the government's full support to energy conservation measures and for the protection of environment.
Mukhtar was speaking on Saturday at PIA's joining ceremony of Earth Hour campaign. As part of the Earth Hour campaign, all non-essential lights at the PIA buildings and the PIA business centres were switched off for one hour, between 8:30pm and 9:30pm.
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KARACHI - The provincial government has officially ended all flood-relief activities in the province, saying that the efforts will be now concentrated on the rehabilitation of flood survivors.
This was confirmed by Sindh Rehabilitation Minister Haji Muzzaffar Shujra, who while talking to Pakistan Today on Saturday, said that shifting its efforts from relief towards rehabilitation, the Sindh government will soon hand over 2,000 houses to flood-affected families in the first

ISLAMABAD - Leader of the House in Senate, Syed Nayyar Hussain Bukhari on Saturday said that government was mulling to affiliate all federal colleges with Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) for awarding degrees.
While addressing an Annual Sports Prize Distribution Ceremony 2010-11 arranged by the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE), he said that federal institutes would be affiliated with the QAU so that the students could get degrees from QAU instead of the

LONDON - Tens of thousands of Britons opposed to government austerity cuts were expected to join the biggest rally in the capital since protests against war in Iraq in 2003. Union leaders say more than 200,000 people angry at deep public spending cuts, rising unemployment, tax rises and pension reforms could join the demonstration on Saturday. Police fear simmering resentment could lead to a repeat of violence seen last December when student protests against higher university tuition

ISLAMABAD - The government plans to draw investment of up to $500 million from overseas Pakistanis through different national saving schemes (NSS) offered by the Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS), an official source has revealed.
The proposal under consideration, would allow the Pakistani Diaspora to conduct direct investment online in any of the national saving schemes. The investment could be made in any currency but the principal amount and profit is to be

OTTAWA - Angry opposition parties are set to vote Canada's ruling Conservatives out of office on Friday and trigger an election in a risky gamble that they can claw back a widening gap in opinion polls. But the Conservatives, in power since 2006 with two successive minority governments, are riding high. Polls show Prime Minister Stephen Harper holding onto power in an early May election and most likely strengthening his position.
"The Prime Minister and his Conservatives are in

LAHORE - As some Provincial Management Service (PMS) officers return to work from the ongoing strike, administrative secretaries have proposed the chief secretary take action against those PMS officers who have dug their heels in and refused to call off their strike, Pakistan Today has learnt. A majority of section officers belonging to PMS have been abstaining from work due to the ongoing strike. Sources in the Punjab government told Pakistan Today that the authorities were assessing

KARACHI - The cash-strapped government, despite opening additional revenue channels through imposing a special excise duty and flood surcharge on payable taxes, is continuing to draw upon the banking system for meeting its still heavy budgetary expenditures. The embattled coalition government eyes the realisation of an additional collection of at least Rs 51 billion thorough levying the IMF-backed 15 percent flood surcharge and 2.5 percent special excise duty on the import of luxury

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Wednesday welcomed the transfer of security and development responsibilities from NATO/ISAF to Afghanistan government and facilitated the Karzai administration with assurance of full cooperation in future. "We have noted the important statement made by President Karzai on Tuesday in Kabul regarding the transfer of security and development responsibilities to the Afghan government," said the foreign office spokesperson, Tehmina Janjua, in a statement.
She

KARACHI - The ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP)'s Karachi chapter on Tuesday released a list of 104 PPP activists whose lives, according to the party, were claimed by incidents of targeted killing since the PPP came to power in 2008.
According to the party, PPP workers are being killed even now as some 19 activists were murdered since the beginning of this year, whereas eight of them were killed this month alone. The list has been issued by PPP Karachi President Najmi Alam who

KARACHI - The worst victims of the last year's flood have been the women of the province as the government and other relief agencies did not give them priority while their issues still remain largely unaddressed.
This was pointed out by speakers at a dialogue held on women rights hosted by women wing of Sindhi Association of North America. SANA vice-president Noor Nisa Ghanghro presided over the session, which was attended by a large number of political and women rights'