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KARACHI - The poverty survey being conducted by the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in Sindh would help in learning useful facts and figures on poverty and benefit the poor being covered in the survey, BISP Director General Akbar Aleem Shamim said on Wednesday. He was speaking at in a meeting presided over by Sindh Culture Minister Sassui Palijo, who is assisting the programme on the directives of President Asif Ali Zardari. Palijo was briefed by Shamim on the overall progress

LAHORE - The Chengdu office of the Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) shall play an important role in promoting economic cooperation between Pakistan and China and help achieve bilateral trade target of $15 billion by 2015, stated FPCCI President Senator Ghulam Ali at a visit of the first ever overseas office of FPCCI.
"FPCCI office has been provided by China Council for Promotion of International Trade, Sichuan Province, which is a reflection of

KARACHI - On the directives of the provincial Culture Minister Sassui Palijo, the newly appointed director general of the Culture Department, Muhammad Ramzan Awan has ordered the Thatta district administration to take appropriate measures for salvaging an 'ancient ship' - discovered in Thatta recently - with the help of Pakistan Navy authorities. Awan held an introductory meeting with his department officers on Saturday, where financial stipends to poets, artists and singers, and

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Mir Israrullah Zehri has directed to facilitate exporters, who are crucially important for the national economy. "Criteria to meet the international standards must be fulfilled in compliance with the international standards," Zehri said after a briefing on Agriculture and Livestock Products Marketing and Grading Department (ALPMGD) here on Saturday.
"Stringent measures must be implemented to ensure export of produces that

KUWAIT - President Asif Ali Zardari and Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Friday vowed to further strengthen ties between the two countries through enhanced trade cooperation and joint ventures. Zardari also sought Kuwait's support to enhance relations with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and said Pakistan had initiated strategic dialogue with the council.
After his arrival in the Gulf state, President Zardari discussed with Sheikh Sabah the potential of

LAHORE - The Pakistan Industrial and Traders Associations Front (PIAF) has urged the government to immediately announce the rehabilitation plan for the victimised traders of Shah Alam market inferno. These views were expressed by the PIAF Chairman Sohail Lashari, while talking to a delegation of Shah Alam market businessmen here on Thursday.
He grieved that the government had not taken any steps for the rehabilitation of the sufferers of Shah Alam market fire. In addition, no

KARACHI - Before sowing any crops or launching water schemes in the flood-hit Dadu district, the government should determine if the soil is fertile enough or not and also create awareness among the flood survivors about using clean potable water for preventing waterborne diseases. This was recommended by civil society and media representatives at a media workshop titled 'Post Flood Related Issues in Dadu' jointly organised by Participatory Development Initiatives (PDI) and OXFAM at a

TOKYO - Seeking cooperation of investors to explore enormous possibilities of strengthening and expanding business relations with Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday invited the Japanese business community to rejuvenate Pakistan's economy through their individual contribution, joint venture or consortia.
Commenting on investment-friendly environment established by the present government, the president said, "The government has designated a 2000-acre Special Economic

COMMENT - Nowadays corruption is not only the focus of the print and electronic media, it is a topic on which nearly every Pakistani, rich or poor, educated or un-educated, has something to say and can and does speak ad nauseam - so rampant it is. Stories of corruption by sections of the military, judiciary, politicians, personnel of different state departments, abound and add to the despair and hopelessness of the situation.
Discussions on corruption usually begin with problems

SAHIWAL - Sahiwal Division Commissioner Qazi Muhammad Ashfaq has urged the revenue officers to solve the problems being faced by the common man on priority basis and save them from corrupt patwaris. He was addressing a meeting of the revenue officers which was also attended by DCO Sahiwal Waqas Ali Mahmood and Additional Commissioner Nasir Jamal Hotiana.
He said most of the problems being faced by the common man are related to the revenue department, so the revenue officers

ISLAMABAD - The central government has sought assistance from Balochistan in mustering local tribal chieftains' support in providing adequate security to the state-owned Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) and the Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) to help them continue unhindered exploration and production activities in the province.
A source said a delegation, led by Petroleum Secretary Imtiaz Kazi and including managing directors of the OGDCL, PPL and the Sui

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday urged British Cabinet Minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi to use her influence for setting up opportunity zones in the conflict-hit areas and pleading Pakistan's case for enhanced and preferential trade access to the markets of European Union countries for put the country's economy back on track.
Talking to Warsi, who called on him at the President's House, Zardari said it would help addressing the issues of poverty and unemployment

KARACHI - Pakistan's current account deficit has dwindled 97.34 percent to $81 million in the first seven months of the current fiscal year. This decline, analysts cited, is spurred by healthy dollar inflows from exports and worker remittances.
However, analysts believe that an expected rise in prices of oil on the back of political unrest in Middle Eastern countries might take Pakistan's current account deficit to $4.0 billion during 2010-11.
"The overall deficit may swell

KARACHI - Pediatricians and oncologists on Tuesday recommended allocation of a regular specific amount under Baitul Maal funds for the treatment of children suffering from different forms of cancers in the country. The suggestion was forwarded at a seminar organised at the Children Cancer Hospital on the International Childhood Cancer Day on Tuesday.
"The efforts under way to contain infant mortality caused due to conditions such as diarrhoea and acute respiratory infections also

PHNOM PENH - Cambodia said it would ask the UN Security Council to help secure a "permanent ceasefire" with Thailand as both countries prepared to brief the world body on Monday about a deadly border dispute. The Security Council is set to hold a closed-door meeting in New York with the foreign ministers of Cambodia and Thailand to discuss four days of fighting near an 11th-century temple that left at least 10 people dead earlier this month, according to a new toll.
Both sides

PESHAWAR - Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has urged the international community to support the government for eradication of terrorism, calling it not only a problem of this region but also a threat to the global peace. He said that fighting terrorism required the support of the world community and warned if the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government was not helped against terrorists the world would never find committed people like them who were sacrificing their

KARACHI - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has requested the American and British consulates to help arresting the absconders of the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam, FIA Sindh Director Moazzam Jah said at a press conference held at the FIA camp office in Karachi.
"We have contacted the consulates and provided them with copies of the culprits' red warrants. We shall bring the absconders back and try them in a Pakistani court," Jah said. The FIA is making