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KU and UoG to join hands

KARACHI: The vice chancellors of the University of Karachi (KU) and University of Gujrat (UoG) on Tuesday agreed in principle that the two universities should collaborate on various sectors of education. A meeting was held in this regard between the KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui and UoG Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mohammad Nizamuddin. Nizamuddin along with his wife was on a visit to the KU, which is their Alma mater as well.
The UoG Sociology Department

Nawaz has no intention to join this assembly: Sidqiq-ul-Farooq

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Spokesman Sadiq ul farooq on Friday said that the PML-N chief was not interested in premiership in the sitting National Assembly, adding that they would demand fresh general elections.
Talking to reporters outside Punjab Assembly, he said that there was no restriction on Nawaz Sharif to take part in politics and he was actively participating despite negative propaganda. He said PML-N head was least interested in joining the current

AH Haroon ready to join politics

KARACHI: Formation of a new political party, led by Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nation Abdullah Hussain Haroon, is in the pipeline, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Haroon, a vocal critic of the government's treatment of Benazir's assassination case, has been meeting influential political leaders of Sindh including former Punjab governor Ghulam Mustafa Khar,
former national assembly speaker Illahi Bux Soomro, former provincial minister Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi

Taliban should join Afghan peace talks, says Karzai

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday urged the Taliban to join talks to bring peace to the war-torn country, despite the insurgents' leadership ruling out negotiations.
"On this holy day of Eidul Azha I once again call on those compatriots who are unhappy, I request them to join the peace efforts," Karzai said in a statement to mark the festival.
Karzai has previously appealed to the Taliban to come to the negotiating table and low-level commanders are said to

Jamali fails to persuade Shujaat to join MML

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and Muttahida Muslim League's (MML) Steering Committee Chairman Mir Zafarullah Jamali on Tuesday failed to convince Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain to join the four-party alliance.
Jamali called on Shujaat at his residence to thrash out differences on the issue of PML unification. "He tried to convince Shujaat that the alliance was in the greater interest of all Muslim Leagues," a source in the PML-Q told Pakistan

Sheikh Rashid invites MQM to join MML

KARACHI: Muttahida Muslim League (MML) leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmad asked the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) to join the newly-formed alliance of the different factions of the Muslim League, during his visit to the MQM headquarters Nine-Zero on Saturday.
On the ocassion, MQM leaders Federal MINister Babar Ghauri, Waseem Aftab and former Karachi deputy mayor Nasreen Jalil said that they would discuss this invitation at a meeting of their party. Nasreen said that her party would take

Taseer calls to join flood relief campaign

LAHORE
Punjab Governor Salman Taseer invited political workers from all political parties to join the Suraj Campaign to reconstruct houses in flood-hit areas, while addressing the press on Friday after a meeting with the vice chancellors and rectors of 42 private and public sector universities of Punjab and representatives from Chambers of Commerce.
He told the journalists that the meeting aimed at mobilizing the educational institutions to play their role in Suraj