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FAISALABAD - Punjab government is going to set-up a milk and meat safety agency to explore new horizons of business opportunities in dairy and livestock industry. Livestock and Dairy Development Provincial Secretary Jahanzeb Khan said this while addressing the participants of the concluding session of a three-day international conference titled "Technological and scientific aspects of dairy products with special reference to French Cheeses."
He was the chief guest at the seminar

GUJRANWALA - District Coordination Officer (DCO) Barrister Nabil Ahmad Awan has directed the city district government officers to remove encroachments to the facilitation of commuters and timely completion of development projects.
Presiding over a meeting at committee room, the DCO directed the Gujranwala Development Authority Director General to remove all encroachments from the College Road, Noshera Road and Gurunanikpura.
Six SHOs transferred in Gujranwala: Station House

ISLAMABAD - Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on Friday said the government was considering giving targeted subsidy on the petroleum products to the low income groups.
Talking to media at the golden jubilee celebration of Institute of Charter Accountants of Pakistan (ICAMP), the minister said the proposal would be considered for implementation if the prices of petroleum products go up further in the international market.
"Presently even the rich who could afford the

ISLAMABAD - The government is heading towards a confrontation with the judiciary by not sacking FIA Director General Waseem Ahmed despite a Supreme Court (SC) order to remove him within three days that ended on Friday, as no notification in this regard was issued suggesting that the government would not take dictation from the judiciary in administrative matters.
It was for the third time on Tuesday that the SC asked the government to sack the FIA DG and all other officials

KARACHI - The state and the government of Pakistan are panicking amidst immense pressure from the UN and human rights organisations to resolve the issues of the people of Balochistan and the recent statements issued by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani should be seen in this light, Baloch groups told Pakistan Today on Wednesday.
"This is all they can do. They go around spreading lies and misleading the people of the country through the media. Then people wonder why the people of

ISLAMABAD - The government has directed the Sui Southern Gas Company Limited (SSGC) to complete the tendering process for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) imports by June 30 this year so that the actual supplies could start from March 2013. An official source at the Ministry of Petroleum said the instructions had been given to the SSGC considering the fact that the consumption was growing at a rate of seven percent per annum. "If steps for timely imports are not taken, the energy crisis

ISLAMABAD - Parliamentary leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam in the National Assembly Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat Friday rejected Shah Mahmood Qureshi's claim that he had been offered a ministerial slot by the then PML-Q government. He said neither Rao Sikandar Iqbal nor Shaukat Aziz had made any offer to the former foreign minister. He was speaking in the National Assembly on a point of order. "I came to know Qureshi's contention through media reports.
In order to set

LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Syed Munawar Hasan has said that Federal Minister Shahbaz Bhatti's murder was a conspiracy to create bad blood between the Muslims and the Christians. In his Friday's sermon at Mansoora, he said the 'murder's responsibility rested with the govt' because it could not provide adequate security to Bhatti. He said the Pakistani Muslims respected the minorities and their worship places, and the minorities were free to lead their lives in accordance with their

GENEVA - The government on Thursday called on other countries not to link Wednesday's killing of its only Christian government minister, Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, to the wider issue of blasphemy. Bhatti, who had called for changes to the blasphemy laws, was shot in broad daylight in Islamabad.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan said they had assassinated him as a punishment for blasphemy. "We believe it would not be helpful to link the highly regrettable killing squarely in

ISLAMABAD - Irrespective of the fact that the government has tagged 1909 industries as 'sick units', the government has spent around Rs 10 million on sending official delegations abroad for boosting trade cooperation between Pakistan and friendly countries during the past three years. During the Question Hour in National Assembly on Thursday, Minister for Industries and Production Mir Hazar Khan Bijrani informed the legislators of the lower house of the parliament that a sum of Rs

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) sought on Thursday a reply within two weeks from the government and the Oil and Gas Regularity Authority (OGRA) chairman on a civil miscellaneous application against the recent increase in petroleum prices.
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed passed the order on the application, filed by Pakistan Consumer Rights Forum Secretary Muhammad Hanif Goraya through his counsel Mateenul Haq Chaudhry, into an already pending main writ petition on the matter.