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ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari told US congressmen on Thursday to play their role in urging the United Nations and the international community to work out plans to promote cultural and religious harmony in order to stop the decline of rationality and sanity.
In a meeting with a US congressional delegation led by House Armed Services Committee Member Rob Wittman at Aiwan-e-Sadr, the president once again condemned the burning of the Holy Quran by what he described as a

LAHORE - MQM chief Altaf Hussain has said that members of the army are part of the 98 percent oppressed population, and invited them to carry out joint efforts to bring a revolution to change the lives of the "have-nots".
Altaf said this in a telephonic address to party leaders and workers from London during the inaugural ceremony of the party's new office, to be called the MQM Punjab House, in Muslim Town. Altaf said the looted money lying in foreign bank accounts should be

LAHORE - Punjab University Sports department has asked the Pakistan Rugby Union to help the university build its rugby team and prepare it for major national competitions. PU Additional Director Sports Farhat Hussain Saddiqi and Sports Officer Zubair Butt met PRU President Fawzi Khawaja and asked for his help in launching rugby in the university.
Farhat came with some of the PU athletes to the DHA ground, where the coaches and players were given an introduction to the game and

WASHINGTON - Two US aerospace firms are jostling with global rivals to win a $11-12 billion Indian fighter jet contract, hoping a nascent US-India strategic partnership can help seal the deal. As defense contracts go, Delhi's bid to replace 126 aging MiG fighters is large, but hardly a show stopper. Still, in an industry where billion dollar contracts are commonplace, the project is turning heads. "It is not the price," explained Ron Somers, president of the US-India Business Council,

LAHORE - Punjab University Society of International Law (PUSIL) met under the chairmanship of Justice (r) Ali Nawaz Chowhan on Friday. PUSIL members expressed grief over the recent loss of life and property in Japan due to an earthquake and tsunami and offered their services for the Japanese victims. Vice Chancellor (VC) Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran and Principal Samee Uzair Khan endorsed the society's resolution and expressed sympathy for the people of Japan. PhD cases reviewed: A meeting

SAHIWAL - Regional Police Officer Dr Arif Mushtaq Chaudhry has asked the citizens to cooperate with, and assist, police to maintain law and order effectively. He said this while talking to a delegation of Citizens-Police Liaison Committee in his office. Chairman Sh Azmat Saleem, Convener Syed Alamdar Hussain Shah, Abraham Azeem Daniel, District Bar President Malik Muhammad Hussain, Rotary International former assistant governor Chaudhry Abdul Quyyom and Mian Saghir Anjum were also

LAHORE - Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), a banned religious outfit, offered condolences over the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and has offered to help the Japanese government in rehabilitation of victims. In a letter written to the Japanese prime minister, JUD Ameer Hafiz Saeed reiterated that JUD was a welfare organization and had enough experience to tackle floods and calamities.
He wrote, "We showed this skill inside and outside our country. With such an experienced background, we

KARACHI - Nepal will take help from the Constitution of Pakistan in designing the same document for itself, Chief Justice of Nepal Ram Prasad Shreshta said on Sunday.
He was talking to the media during his visit to the mausoleum of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. He said that in the near future, there would be a federally administered system in his country and that Nepal is undergoing a process to prepare a constitution.
"We will take help from the

KARACHI - National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK) has sought the opinion of the Sindh Government on the formulation of a framework on the resolution of the inadequate compensation and rehabilitation of those displaced by floods as well as the resettlement policy of those who are displaced through the implementation of hydroelectric projects of Pakistan and other major efforts.
In a letter send by NESPAK Geotechnical and Geo environmental Engineering Division Vice

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday directed official provincial and federal lawyers to assist the court in a petition seeking the disqualification of MPA and former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim due to his unauthorised absence from assembly sessions. An SHC division bench comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi directed Deputy Attorney General Rizwan Ahmed Dodani and Assistant Advocate General Sarwar Khan to assist the court in

WASHINGTON - At the age of 14, Laba Kamana was captured by rebel soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They took her from her home, and for two years, raped her nearly every day. She finally escaped into the Congolese jungle; one of the world's most dense, then discovered she was pregnant with the child of one of her captors.
Tuesday the actor Ben Affleck used the nightmare of the young woman - now 22 years old, studying law and advocating for women's rights - to

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif urged the army once again on Tuesday to safeguard the country against terrorism, and said that the administration, police, civil society, media and people from all walks of life would have to contribute their share to rid the country of the menace. The CM told assembly members from Faisalabad and Sargodha at Chief Minister's Secretariat that it was the collective responsibility of all Pakistanis to strive for national development and

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday urged Muslim scholars to play their role in bringing back on path those deviated from the teachings of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). Addressing the inaugural session of the International Seerat Conference, Gilani said the youth was falling prey to intolerance and extremism and the situation demanded the religious scholars realise their responsibilities and strive for the promotion of the teachings of the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
He

LAHORE - In a report published by the Washington Post on Saturday, President Asif Ali Zardari wrote that just days before her assassination, his wife, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, wrote presciently of the war within Islam and the potential for a clash between Islam and the West, "There is an internal tension within Muslim society. The failure to resolve that tension peacefully and rationally threatens to degenerate into a collision course of values spilling into a clash between Islam and

KARACHI - Power plants of 3,000MW are running on furnace oil in Pakistan, and if measures are taken to convert them to coal, the country would be in a position to save approximately $1 billion a year, said Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) Strategic Planning and Business Development Manager Muhammad Ammar Ali Talaat on Saturday. He was speaking at an Energy Awareness Conference, with the KESC as the lead sponsor, at the NED University.
The conference was aimed at creating

KARACHI - Pakistan, with five percent of its population estimated to comprise thalassaemic minor patients, can make use of a simple and cost-effective blood test to prevent thalassaemia Major, haematologist Dr Tahir Shamsi said on Saturday.
"Gynaecologists can play a crucial role in the prevention of the genetic blood disorder that holds extremely debilitating impact on the patients, including early deaths of the sufferers," he said He advised obstetricians and gynaecologists to

ISLAMABAD - While eulogising late Shahbaz Bhatti's remarkable contribution for advocating moderation, human rights, justice, tolerance and interfaith harmony, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday said Bhatti's assassination should not be projected negatively, as it would only help advance the nefarious agenda of terrorists. The prime minister was talking to a Canadian delegation led by Jason Kenney, minister for multiculturalism, citizenship and immigration that called on here