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LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that despite heavy odds, Pakistani cricket team displayed an outstanding performance in the World Cup by defeating leading cricket teams. He said that the entire cricket team, its management and coach deserved rich appreciation for their achievement.
While addressing a reception held in the honour of the team, he said that the aim of holding an impressive ceremony was to encourage the players who had earned a good name for

LAHORE - The Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) remained range bound and closed in green zone, while the volume stayed stagnant on Thursday. The LSE 25-shares added 4.16 points to close at 3,342.56 against its opening at 3,338.40 levels. Out of total 97 active scrips, 24 went up, 37 dwindled and 36 closed without any change in their opening values. Volume of the market remained 2.46 million shares, which was 0.04 million shares more than Wednesday's turnover of 2.02 million shares. Lotte

LAHORE - It was comparatively a dull sight in the city after Pakistan lost the World Cup semi-final to India on Wednesday.
"We missed out on all the crucial catches. Had we cashed in all such moments we would have been in a better position," said Arkam Chaudry, while Aasia Afzal said, "I think it was a good cricket match and Pakistan did work hard and that is what counts."
"It brought the nation together and the Pakistani team did well in the tournament," said Shaukat and

KARACHI - All public transport vehicles including mini buses and large passenger buses will be converted to pollution free and economical fuel compressed natural gas (CNG).
This was stated by Sindh Minister for Transport Akhtar Husain Jadoon, while speaking at the seventh CNG Conference and Exhibition CONEX 2011 at a local hotel. The conference was organised by the national forum for environment and health. The All Pakistan CNG Association Minister said that President Asif Ali

LAHORE - The release of Raymond Davis is just a green light for more killings and assassinations by the US government and the CIA in Pakistan, Robert Anderson, a former CIA operative has said in an interview with Talkhaba.
Anderson, who operated in Vietnam around 60 years ago, talked about undercover work the CIA did back then and the similarities with it now in terms of running operatives like Raymond Davis working in Pakistan. "The pillage and slaughter of Pakistanis will

LAHORE - Pakistan is the world's sixth most populous country. The Economic Survey 2009-2010 indicates an estimated population of 169.9 million at end of June 2009, and an annual growth rate (revised) of 2.05 percent, it is expected that Pakistan will become the fourth largest nation on earth in population terms by 2050. But unfortunately, the burgeoning population is asymmetrical with the depleted land resources and in future we have to feed this massive population with these depleted

LAHORE - Actress Reema Khan inaugurated Earth Hour 2011 at World Wildlife Fund - Pakistan's Green Schools including American School of International Academics, The City School Ravi Campus and Beaconhouse School System Garden Town in Lahore.
WWF - Pakistan has launched an intensive Earth Hour campaign in collaboration with the Green Schools to celebrate a worldwide commitment to the betterment of the planet. Environmentally aware students from the schools lit candles and marched

LAHORE - The Farmers Associates Pakistan (FAP) has a vision of working not only for the capacity building of farmers but also to introduce the concept of sustainable agriculture. It is working for achievement of yet another dream "The Next Green Revolution" in Pakistan.
FAP officials are now celebrating its 20th anniversary. The association was established in 1991 by its founder members Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Malik Khuda Bux Bucha (Late), Malik Afaq Ahmad Tiwana,

PARIS - A first meeting to set down the ground rules of a fund to channel hundreds of billions of dollars to poor countries exposed to climate change has been postponed, a UN official said on Thursday. Representatives from 40 countries had been scheduled to meet in Mexico City on March 14 and 15 for the maiden meeting of a panel designed to breathe life into the Green Climate Fund (GCF) established last December.
"The meeting has been postponed," a spokesman for the UN Framework

LAHORE - As many as 10 people were injured and one died in a scuffle between two cable network groups over cable distribution rights in Green Town on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Qaisar (20), a Satukatla resident.
The injured were identified as Muhammad Hussain, Khaild Hussain, Mazhar Hussain, Akram, Yousaf, Ghulam Murtaza, Faryad and others. The scuffle started between two groups: Faryad Group and Bhola Group on the ownership of a cable contract in PCSIR (Staffers

LAHORE - The Green Card, established in the AFC Festival of Football to identify good behaviour and sportsmanship, will also be one of the main features during the 33 matches of the upcoming Yazd City's AFC U13 Festival of Football, according to Pakistan Football Federation President Faisal Saleh Hayat.
Pakistan and host Iran, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Maldives, Afghanistan are among the participants in the event. Faisal said: "The Green Card was one of the

LOS ANGELES - When Michel Gondry was hired to helm Columbia Pictures' 'The Green Hornet', we became immediately more enthusiastic about the project than we were before. Even after all the publicized production woes, we were sure that his avant-garde aesthetic and bittersweet style of storytelling would put a fresh spin on the standard superhero flick. However, sandwiched between the frat-house comedic sensibilities of Seth Rogen and the energetic guidance of explosion-savvy producer

Green Day will release its new live CD/DVD, "Awesome As ****," on March 22, the band confirmed Wednesday. The set, whose title Green Day officially announced earlier this week in a YouTube trailer, was recorded during the punk trio's 21st Century Breakdown tour in 2009-2010. The DVD footage was shot at the band's Tokyo, Japan shows last January. As previously reported, Green Day first revealed it was working on a new live album at an August 2010 concert in Denver. "Awesome As ****" is

LOS ANGELES - Seth Rogen shed a few pounds and packed on the muscle to star in the new "Green Hornet" film. He plays Britt Reid, the playboy son of a wealthy newspaper publisher who inherits a media empire after his father dies. With the help of Kato, an employee in the company, he becomes a crime fighter named the Green Hornet. Diaz, 38, plays Lenore Case, his sexy secretary.
Christoph Waltz of "Inglourious Basterds" fame also stars as the villain Benjamin Chudnofsky, a Russian

DURBAN - Fresh from leading India to only their second Test win on five tours of South Africa, Mahendra Singh Dhoni said he would welcome playing the decisive third and final Test in Cape Town on a lively pitch. "It will be interesting to see what kind of wicket is prepared," said Dhoni. "The greener the track the better it may be for us." Dhoni said the Indian bowlers relied on skill rather than express pace.
"They are swing bowlers which means the greener the wicket the better

LAHORE - Rejecting media reports on audit observation and irregularities in the Green Tractor Scheme 2008-09, the Punjab Agriculture Department spokesman clarified on Thursday that utmost care was exercised by the department to obviate any chance of omission and negligence in implementation of the Green Tractor Scheme.
The spokesman said that alleged irregularities regarding implementation of the scheme were primarily based on audit commissioned by the auditor general and the

ADDIS ABABA: At the climate-change summit in Copenhagen last December, political leaders expressed a strong will to urgently combat global warming. As we approach the next climate-change summit in Canc