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ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday assured the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government of his full cooperation to improve the security situation in the province. He said the provincial government would be fully assisted as the PPP-led government at Centre was committed to ensuring peace and further improving the security situation in the country.
He was chairing a high-level meeting here at the Ministry of Interior to review the security matters in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan on Sunday stepped up efforts to engage Afghan leadership in initiating reconciliatory process in the war-torn neighbouring country, assuring the leadership in Kabul that it would take all possible steps for the success of ongoing peace and reconciliation process between the Karzai administration and the Taliban.
Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir extended the assurance during his meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other senior officials on the first

GENEVA - The US could play a key role in allaying Pakistan's fears about India by getting involved in a solution to the Kashmir dispute, a senior Pakistani diplomat said on Friday. Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Zamir Akram, said attempts by India and Pakistan to negotiate a settlement were derailed after 2006 by Hindu or Muslim "extremist" groups in each country.
"Unfortunately the momentum has been lost," he told journalists. When asked what single

LAHORE - The members of the Technical Study Group (TSG) will help Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) develop strong national as well as age group teams for the future international assignments.
They will select 50 upcoming players from the 32-matches of ongoing PFF-KESC Lyari U-14 Football League that commenced at Karachi's Peoples Sports Complex on January 8. As many as seven matches are being completed in 17-day event so far whose final is scheduled for same venue on January

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry urged bar associations and lawyers to cooperate in eradication of bribery and corruption from courts and government departments with the same passion that was seen during the lawyers' movement for the restoration of independent judiciary. CJ Ijaz Chaudhry, while talking to a delegation of Tax Bar Association (TBA) Lahore, said, "If lawyers start pointing out corrupt elements with a national mission, they can root out the

ISLAMABAD - The Afghan High Council for Peace, a body formed by Kabul to reconcile with the Taliban, on Wednesday asked Pakistan to use its "good office" for the success of ongoing negotiations between the Karzai government and the Taliban.
"The request for Pakistan's help for the facilitation of peace talks between the Taliban and Karzai government was made here at a crucial meeting between the 25-member delegation of the High Council for Peace in Afghanistan led by former

SEOUL - The United States sought China's help in persuading its long-time ally North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons, sending its envoy to Beijing on Wednesday as part of a campaign to press the North. The US envoy for North Korea policy, Stephen Bosworth, met South Korean officials in Seoul before heading to China. Washington hopes talks on dismantling North Korea's nuclear work can start soon, though a breakthrough may prove elusive.
North Korea issued a statement demanding

Barry Sandrew, the founder of Legend films that specializes in coloring few of the best Hollywood black and white films is very impressed by Dev Anand's classic 'Hum Dono'.
Legend films has colored the black and white version of film 'Hum Dono' with the most advanced technology in US. The film has been colored using 65,000 colors while 'Mughal-e-Azam' and 'Naya Daur' had used the color scheme of 16 and 32 colors respectively. Legend films have colorized films like 'Holiday Inn',

KARACHI - Federal Women's Development Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has pledged that her ministry will help First Women Bank Limited (FWBL) resolve all issues hindering development projects of the bank. She was speaking to the top management of the bank during her visit to the head office in Karachi.
The First Women Bank Limited (FWBL) has requested government aid to deal with major challenges such as the State Bank's (SBP) minimum capital requirement (MCR).
FWBL President

ISLAMABAD - Bangladesh High Commissioner Suhrab Hossain called on Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani at the PM House, and extended request for cooperation in counsel's matters in Afghanistan as Bangladesh did not have a diplomatic mission there.
Prime Minister Gilani assured the envoy that every possible assistance would be extended to Bangladesh through Pakistan's ambassador in Kabul. Pakistan considers Bangladesh more a brother than a friend given the commonalities of religion,

LAHORE: Lahore Police on Monday finally sought public help for recovering the snatched Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) tanker and issued the tanker's picture to journalists. According to a press release issued from the Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Aslam Tareen's office, a WASA water tanker bearing registration number W-B-2, engine number 01053 and chassis number 47100199 was snatched by unidentified men from a WASA mini workshop located inside the Aziz Bhatti Town

ISLAMABAD - The business community has stressed the need for utilising the country's huge labour force by introducing it to Chinese markets, attracting investments into the country by offering low labour wages.
"As compared to China, labour wages in Pakistan are low and we have an opportunity to utilise our labour force in Chinese markets to generate foreign exchange," Vice President of SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry and former FPCCI President Iftikhar Ali Malik told the

ISLAMABAD - Iran has asked Pakistan to help the country in its investigation of the Chabahar bombing that was claimed by the Jandullah outfit.
Iranian Ambassador Mashallah Shakri called on Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday in Islamabad and handed him a letter from the Iranian government in which the country requested Pakistan to help into the investigation of Chabahar incident.
The interior minister assured the ambassador that Pakistan would provide full support in

KARACHI: Japan would provide dredgers for Pasni Fish Harbour under its general economic development program of Balochistan. This was disclosed by assistant director economic affairs South-West Asia at Ministry of Foreign Affairs Takashi Miyata, in a meeting with diplomats and representatives of multinational companies that was held in Karachi. He said these Dredgers would be provided to the federal government of Pakistan. The Japanese government has also given its final consent to

KARACHI: Global Hospitals Group (GHG) Vice President Khalid Rasheed, based in India, in an exclusive interview to Pakistan Today said that he had conducted his visit to meet representatives of the health ministry, directors of private hospitals and to offer the general services of Global Hospitals for the betterment of health sector.
He revealed that a major goal was to inculcate awareness and ultimately to provide the liver transplant facility the Global Hospitals Group to

GUJRANWALA: Provincial Minister for Food Abdul Ghafoor has said that the menace of sectarianism is over in the province due to sincere efforts of religious clerics and now it is time to eradicate the scams designed against sovereignty of the country.
He stated this while addressing a meeting held at circuit house to review security measures in Gujranwala division. The meeting was attended by religious clerics, MNAs, MPAs, DCOs and DPOs of all six districts of the division.