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BEIRUT - Tens of thousands of Lebanese opposition supporters on Sunday demanded Hezbollah be disarmed as they rallied to mark the sixth anniversary of a popular uprising against Syrian troops in the country. "The people want the fall of arms," the demonstrators chanted as they poured into to Martyrs' Square in central Beirut amid tight security, waving the national flag and the banners of pro-Western political parties.
"We are here to say yes to life and no to their arms," said

SIALKOT - As many as 20 deserving couples got married in a mass-wedding ceremony held at village Kharotta Syedaan-Sialkot under the auspices of a local non governmental organisation "Royal Friends Welfare Association". Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Rana Mashhud Ahmad and Human Rights Minister Kamran Michael were the chief guests.

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

LAHORE - Mass Communication Department Queen Mary College (QMC) organized a seminar on "Social issues and the role of media" at the college campus on Thursday. Imminent journalists from different TV channels and newspapers addressed the seminar.
Speakers said that the role of media is increasingly becoming crucial in the wake of ever increasing social issues and growing democracy. They said, "Nevertheless, the prevalent trend being followed by media organizations needs to be

LAHORE - An accountability court on Monday extended the physical remand of Danish Shamshad, accused of involvement in the Lahore Mass Transit System Project scam until February 26. Danish is a shareholder in more than 10 properties purchased by his father and key accused in the said reference.
Former Punjab Transport Department cashier Shamshad Gulzar embezzled Rs 401.155 million from funds allocated for the Lahore Mass Transit System Project. Separately, National Accountability

LAHORE - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab on Monday arrested Danish Shamshad involved in the Lahore Mass Transit System Project reference from the accountability courts' premises. Danish is son and bona fide beneficiary of key accused Shamshad Gulzar who embezzled Rs 401.155 million from funds allocated for the Lahore Mass Transit System Project. NAB arrested him with permission of the accountability court.
Earlier, Advocate Saadia tried to take the accused out of

CAIRO - Egypt's all-powerful army on Monday said the people's demands were legitimate and vowed not to fire on them as protesters, who are demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, prepared a general strike and million-strong marches. In what is seen as a sop, a new cabinet line-up was announced in which widely hated interior minister Habib al-Adly and the previous finance and culture ministers were axed.
But protesters massed in downtown Cairo vowed they would only be

KHARTOUM - As street protests sweep Egypt, neighbouring Sudan watches nervously, faced with its own political and economic malaise, opposition calls for popular uprisings and the likely secession of the south. Around 10,000 people have so far joined a Facebook group calling for anti-government protests across Sudan on Sunday, the day preliminary results are due out for the vote on southern independence that is widely expected to split the country in half.
The call coincides with

LAHORE - The contractual appointment of Mian Mumtaz Ahmad Wattoo, Solicitor to Government of the Punjab, has been terminated on payment of one month's salary in lieu of the notice and his terms & conditions have been settled at the minimum of BS-20 for the period he has served as Solicitor to Government of the Punjab.
Riaz-ud-Din, Deputy Secretary, Higher Education Department, Government of the Punjab, has been transferred and posted as District Officer (Coordination), Kasur,

GORLEBEN: A convoy of 123 tonnes of highly radioactive nuclear waste arrived at its storage site in Germany Tuesday, following days of furious protests that massively delayed the shipment.
Accompanied by swarms of riot police and dozens of armoured police cars, the convoy of 11 white containers on lorries crawled slowly into its storage site at Gorleben, northern Germany, after a 20-kilometre (12-mile) road trip.
The shipment left France on Friday and endured a tortuous