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ASTANA - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Friday said he was ready to work for as long as required, as his country is expected to hold a referendum on whether to extend his term until 2020. Nazarbayev's comments delivered during an annual state-of-the-nation address appeared to leave little doubt that he intended to extend his grip over the Central Asia's largest oil producer despite strong criticism from the West.
"I am ready to work for as long as my health allows me.

TUNIS - Tunisia plans to overhaul the lineup of its interim government on Thursday, a move expected to see key loyalists of ousted leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali step aside in a bid to end persistent protests. Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on Jan 14 when weeks of violent protests against poverty, repression and corruption toppled him after 23 years in power.
Since then, an interim government that includes many former ruling party officials has struggled to impose order. Protesters

LAHORE - Synthetic Products Enterprises Limited (SPEL) has been declared one of the fastest growing and dynamic companies of Pakistan. The competition is held on an annual basis to discover the fastest growing, most dynamic entrepreneurs in Asia and builder's of Asia's future wealth and employment.
The competition takes place in 20 Asian countries and 25 companies are selected from each country. All World Network's Advisory Board Chairman Michael Porter of the Harvard Business

BEIRUT - Lebanese Christian leader Samir Geagea called on Saturday for caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri to be re-appointed as the government leader as the country's political groups jockeyed for power.
"We are in a tense conflict over every parliamentary vote," Geagea told a news conference at his residence in Maarab, 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of the capital Beirut. "We will do everything possible to bring back Hariri as premier," he added.
Lebanon has had only a

KARACHI - PPP leader Agha Javed Pathan, who became famous after hitting former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim with a shoe, is annoyed with his party's top leaders for delaying the opening of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Medical College (SBBMC) in Lyari.
"The ongoing fight among PPP leaders over the appointment of their favourite principal is delaying the opening of this important medical college," said Pathan, adding that he was recently appointed as public relation

KARACHI - Two men, who allegedly tried to assassinate ANP's deputy general secretary Bashir Jan, were remanded into police custody on Saturday.
Judicial Magistrate East Zabiha Khattak remanded the two alleged accused identified as Zeeshan and Shahnawaz until January 25.
According to the prosecution, the police had arrested the two suspects in an injured condition from the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) on Friday and they had confessed before the police about their

ASTANA - Kazakhstan's strongman President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Friday rejected the idea of extending his term until 2020 through a national referendum that has been flatly denounced by the United States.
The country's first and only post-Soviet leader did not explain why he was overruling his entire political and business elite in a decision that received almost no attention from state media outlets.
The three-sentence presidential decree said only that Nazarbayev - who

PESHAWAR - Unidentified attackers on Thursday gunned down Awami National Party's KP Information Secretary Jahar Hoti.
Reportedly, Hoti was going to participate in a jirga for reconciliation with the opponents of his brother when the killers attacked his car on Muhab Road at Parhoti. According to DPO Waqif Khan, the police are investigating the case and will reach the criminals soon. One of has close relatives said he had no enmity with anyone. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister

Quaid-i-Awam Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was born on 5th January 1928 at Larkana. His father Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto was an eminent political leader of the sub-continent. He led the movement for separation of Sindh from Bombay to save the people of Sindh from the long and arduous journey to Bombay for attending courts or other official matters.
Sir Shahnawaz paid special attention to the political grooming of his son by narrating to him the stories pertaining to the family prestige,

ABIDJAN - African mediators flew in to Ivory Coast on Monday, armed with inducements but vowing no compromise in their bid to get incumbent Laurent Gbagbo to stand down following disputed polls.
Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the African Union's envoy, arrived in Abidjan, with three heads of state due to join him to try to end the stand-off between Gbagbo and the man the world says beat him to the presidency, Alassane Ouattara.
"It is necessary to give Mr Gbagbo the

LAHORE - The president of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Okara died here on Monday at the Doctors Hospital allegedly because of negligence by the doctors. He was under treatment at the hospital for some respiratory disorder.
The hospital is situated with the Johar Town Police precincts. The outraged relatives of the deceased thrashed the doctors and vandalised the hospital premises. The deceased Chaudhary Mehar, according to deceased's son Zahid, had been brought to

ISLAMABAD - The JUI-F decided against joining the PML-Q to form a coalition government in Balochistan as it did not have even a single Baloch member in the provincial assembly to be appointed the chief minister.
The JUI-F Central Executive Council (CEC), which met on Wednesday, was divided over whether to continue as part of the present political set up in Balochistan or make a move to form its own government with its parliamentary leader Abdul Wassey as the chief minister, a

ISLAMABAD: The telecom giant China Mobile's subsidiary in Pakistan, Zong, has emerged as the leader in solar cell sites by converting 150 cell sites on solar power.
According to industry sources, the company has opted for the solar power keeping in view the persistent energy crisis in the country as well as the immense opportunities to generate efficient energy from the sun. Zong currently has the largest solar-powered telecommunication network in Pakistan with over 150 cell

LONDON - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir siphoned off nine billion dollars (6.79 billion euros) of oil money into British bank accounts, according to US diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks on Saturday. A senior official in Bashir's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) denied the claim.
The document quotes the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court as saying US officials should go public with the allegations about Bashir in order to turn Sudanese public opinion

KABUL: The New York Times said on Tuesday that a man it had described as a "Taliban leader" who had taken part in "secret peace talks" with the Afghan government was in fact an impostor.
The newspaper said the man had held three meetings with NATO and Afghan officials but that US officials had confirmed on Monday "they had given up hope" he was the leader identified as Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour. "The fake Taliban leader even met with President Hamid Karzai, having been

QUETTA: Haji Jeelani Khan, tribal elder and central leader of the Awami National Party, who died after being injured in an armed attack, was buried in the border town of Chaman on Sunday amidst a large gathering of people from different sections of society.
Jeelani, the ANP joint secretary and head of his clan Asheyzai of the Achakzai tribe, was critically wounded when unidentified, armed militants opened indiscriminate fire at his vehicle when he was on his way home from the

ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast opposition leader Henri Konan Bedie has challenged the results of an election in which he came third, failing to make the second round run-off, a spokesman said on Friday.
Ivory Coast's first election in a decade left Bedie with around 25 percent of the vote, against President Laurent Gbagbo's 38 percent and challenger Alassane Ouattara's 32 percent. Gbagbo and Ouattara now head to the second round scheduled for Nov 28.
The long-delayed poll in the