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KARACHI - Third session of the World Trade Organisation (TWO), to be held on Monday, to discuss trade concessions to Pakistan is likely to prove fruitless as WTO is yet to develop a consensus on this burning issue. Countries, which had earlier objected the EU, continue to express reservations and so nothing positive is expected in the forthcoming session of WTO, sources told Pakistan Today. Similar to the previous session, held on January 31, 2011, the next session would also fail to

LAHORE - Pakistan Football Federation President Faisal Saleh Hayat will attend the AFC Executive Committee (EXCO) meeting on Thursday, March 17. He will become the first Pakistani to attend an EXCO meeting. The AFC Executive Committee is responsible for implementing AFC statutes and decisions of AFC Congress.
All decisions made by AFC standing committees and judicial bodies must also be ratified by the Executive Committee. Chaired by AFC President Mohamed bin Hammam, the

ISLAMABAD - The government has convened a meeting of the ministries of Water and Power and Law on Tuesday to resolve the issue of imposition of two percent surcharge per unit on electricity from April 1. An official source said the meeting was called after the Ministry of Law and Ministry of Water and Power failed to devise a mechanism for imposing the surcharge. The Ministry of Law had refused vetting the summary of the Ministry of Power, saying the reasons cited for the surcharge

LAHORE - The Pakistan Hockey Federation Executive Board will be meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) to take the final decisions on a number of issues. During the meeting, the team managements of the senior and junior teams will be finalised. The members will also review a number of complaints the federation received during the national and junior championships held at Faisalabad and Bahawalpur recently. Talking to journalists here on Monday, PHF Secretary Asif Bajwa said that apart from

KARACHI - Many uncertainties surround the meeting between the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) - scheduled to be held on Sunday but cancelled on Saturday night.
The two parties had decided to hold the meeting when an MQM delegation led by Dr Farooq Sattar met with President Asif Zardari in Islamabad. The final decision on the PPP-MQM ties had to be decided in this crucial meeting. The two parties did not make any official announcement, but sources

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Punjab President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi had called a provincial parliamentary party meeting on Friday to show off the party's strength in the assembly, party sources told Pakistan Today on Wednesday. The sources said that the meeting was not only aimed at sending a message to opponents about the fate of the dissident Unification Bloc, but also to devise a strategy for the upcoming provincial assembly session. The sources said that the

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) remained locked in consultation for around three hours late on Tuesday night to sort out their differences, with President Asif Ali Zardari making a last ditch effort to save the coalition by calling MQM chief Altaf Hussain and assuring him that all differences between the two parties would be removed. A source told Pakistan Today that the meeting ended on a positive note as both parties agreed to

ISLAMABAD - The government has convened a meeting of provinces to settle the issue of granting new petroleum concessions agreements for exploration and production of oil and gas on March 10. An official source stated that the meeting has been called to sort out issues arising after the passage of 18th amendment that has given all the rights over mineral resources to the provincial governments.
The Petroleum Secretary would chair the meeting in the absence of the petroleum

LAHORE - The attendance of only 22 members of the Punjab Assembly out of the 80 who were invited to the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Unification Bloc's meeting here on Friday shows that all is not well in the bloc's camp.
Unification Bloc's parliamentary leader Dr Tahir Ali Javed claimed, however, that around 41 legislators from the bloc had attended the meeting, invitation cards for which were issued by Chief Minister's Secretariat with its official stamp. The

LAHORE - With the Pakistan Muslim League-Q's Unification Bloc facing a troubled situation and members getting out of control, bloc leader Dr Tahir Javed called an emergency meeting of the party on Friday in the committee room of the Punjab Assembly.
In a shrewd tactical decision, Javed invited not only the original bloc members but the rest of the PML-Q parliamentarians to attend the crucial meeting as well, which was followed by a grand feast. "We have been served notices of

LAHORE - A general house meeting of the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) will be held on Friday (today) to discuss two resolutions tabled on Thursday in condemnation of alleged attack on former chairman of Pakistan Bar council (PBC) Malik Kazim and his son on the premises of Supreme Court. Two local lawyers Malik Muhammad Awan advocate and Chaudhry Jawad Zafar Advocate tabled separate but identical resolutions in the LHCBA requesting the secretary of the bar to call the bar's

ISLAMABAD - The government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will hold talks for the release of at least one tranche of $1.7 billion during the current financial year on February 28. An official source said that the government was hopeful of obtaining one tranche during the current financial year, as despite difficulties improvements were made on the economic front.
The release of one tranche from IMF was crucial as it would help in getting the release of committed funds

LAHORE - With two days left for the expiration of the timeline given to the government to implement the PML-N 10-point agenda, party chief Nawaz Sharif has called its central organising committee (COC) meeting on February 25. The venue, however, is yet to be will decided.
The Unification Bloc has also been invited to attend the meeting. The meeting is likely to take on board party leaders on the PML-N's future strategy in case the 10-point agenda was unimplemented and will

ISLAMABAD - Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has convened a meeting of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) on February 19 at the Supreme Court Building. The JCP will consider the appointment of two ad-hoc judges in the Supreme Court and confirmation of nine additional judges of the Sindh High Court.
While chairing a full court meeting on February 14, the CJP had proposed that in order to clear the backlog, Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday,

ISLAMABAD - Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi had a "closed doors" meeting with Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif at Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan's residence on Tuesday. Online sources said Qureshi went to offer condolences over the death of Nisar's mother, knowing that Shahbaz would be there. The sources insisted it was not a coincidence.
"The interaction between Qureshi and PML-N leaders was somewhat planned and was intended to give out a message to

KARACHI - The PPP Women Wing Karachi Division held a meeting on Tuesday to repose confidence in the leadership of President Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the co-chairman of the PPP, and Faryal Talpur, president of the PPP Women's Wing Pakistan. The meeting was held at the People's Secretariat and chaired by PPP Women Wing Sindh Information Secretary Sharmila Farooqui.
It was attended by all PPP women wing information secretaries of Karachi's 18 towns.
The meeting

ISLAMABAD - The meeting of the parliament's National Security Affairs Committee, scheduled to take place on February 15, was cancelled due to resignation of former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Raza Rabbani, chairman of the committee said on Sunday. Shah Mehmood Qureshi, was to brief the National Security Affairs Committee about important security issues. The chairman of the committee Raza Rabbani also said that the meeting would be called soon.