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THE REALITY CHECK - The Broader Perspective: The mother of all battles, the final before the final, a blockbuster, a sub-continental party, a made-for-television encounter... call it whatever you like. It's a massive clash under any circumstances but, in the context of a World Cup semi-final in Mohali, the coming together of India and Pakistan is one of colossal and monumental proportions.
Pakistan haven't played in India since 2007 and the build up to today's game is massive. It's

KARACHI - If an earthquake strikes, Karachi faces the mother of all disasters, while construction in the city has been completed without technical monitoring; in fact the whole construction industry is being run here without an active monitoring mechanism.
The Gulestan-e-Johar area would be worse affected due to massive construction of buildings that have been constructed without initial geo-technical monitoring reports that are necessary to design a building, yet inefficiency of

NEW DELHI - A tiny north Indian city has overnight become a hottest tourist destination, drawing Prime Ministers, corporate czars, showbiz celebrities and passionate fans for what is touted as the "mother of all cricket contests".
Nothing gets bigger in this part of the globe than a cricket match featuring India and Pakistan, who fought three wars since their independence from Britain in 1947. The rivalry would be renewed in Wednesday's World Cup semi-final in Mohali in the state

NEW YORK - CBS has renewed the comedy 'How I Met Your Mother' for two more years, bringing a degree of certainty to at least one show in its Monday-night lineup.
The deal announced Monday between CBS and producer Twentieth Century Fox Television keeps the show on through the 2012-2013 season. The five central actors - Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris and Cobie Smulders - are each signed for two more years.
If the current troubles between CBS and

RAWALPINDI - Sickened with grief and riddled with cancer, Nazima Bibi died 10 days after a woman snatched her five-year-old daughter from a busy hospital's waiting room in Islamabad.
35-year-old housewife had been sitting on a bench with her baby son and daughter Rabiea in the reception of Islamabad's main public hospital when the girl was led away by a woman into a noisy crowd. Bibi said she was too weak to give chase or shout as her daughter was stolen, and was then forcibly

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said that KP is the beautiful banquet of various mother tongues and all these tongues will be given due representation according to their status both at educational and administrative level.
Mian Iftikhar said this while addressing two separate gatherings arranged in connection with the Universal Day of Mother Tongues here at Peshawar Press Club on Monday. The functions were arranged by Peshawar Press

LAHORE - Punjabi Language Movement (PLM) chief Chaudhry Nazeer Kahut along with other Punjabi writers, intellectuals, activists and supporters on Monday went on a hunger strike against what they termed was a 'discriminatory attitude' meted out to the Punjabi language by the establishment.
The hunger strike was staged in connection with the International Mother Language Day in front of the Punjab Assembly in support of the Punjabi language rights. Kahut was joined in the hunger

LAHORE - Punjabi Language Movement (PLM) staged a protest outside the Lahore Press Club on Sunday, and demanded that Punjabi language should not be discriminated and students should be given basic education in Punjabi.
Speaking on the occasion, PLM Convener Chaudhry Nazeer Kahut said, "Punjab wants its mother tongue back. The 150-year old undeclared and unofficial ban on basic education in Punjab should be abolished and systematic cleansing of the language must be stopped. We

ISLAMABAD - Opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan's mother was laid to rest at Chakri graveyard on Thursday. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani also visited the residence of Nisar Ali Khan to offer his condolences. The prime minister expressed deep sorrow and grief over the death of Nisar's mother, who breathed her last on Wednesday.
Those who attended the funeral included Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, Raja Zafarul Haq, Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Zulfiqar Khosa, Khawaja Asif, Senator Ishaq

LAHORE - Molly Campbell, the Scottish schoolgirl who fled her home in Scotland to live with her father in Pakistan four years ago amid a custody battle, has returned to Britain - although it is unclear whether the move is permanent, The Guardian newspaper reported on Monday.
The teenager, also known as Misbah Rana, was 12 when she moved to Lahore after a highly-publicised disappearance from her school on the Isle of Lewis, flew in last week from Pakistan with her brother, Adam,

LAHORE - Former Lahore High Court chief justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif's mother was laid to rest at Miani Sahib Graveyard on Thursday. Punjab Chief Minster Mian Shahbaz Sharif, LHC Chief Justice of Lahore High Court Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry and other notables attended the funeral.
Quran Khawani are scheduled for today at GOR-I after the Friday prayer.

KARACHI - Every morning Ruth Pfau stands short and frail before a tall crucifix in Karachi's St Patrick's Cathedral. She bows her head, shuts her eyes, places her right hand on her heart and prays. It is the beginning of another long day for the 81-year-old nun known locally as Pakistan's Mother Teresa, who has spent half a century caring for some of the country's poorest and most ostracised people.
Sister Pfau, who needs a stick to walk, admits some disquiet over security, but

KARACHI: A protest was staged outside the press club by a grieved 17-year-old boy's mother with the assistance of civil society organizations to condemn the kidnapping of her son by the police five months ago.
On May 20, Imran Jokhio was on his way to his village in a rickshaw when Head Constable Ilyas Sehto and Constable Ghulam Rasool Marri 'abducted' him at Mafi Faqir Bridge in Naushehro Feroze district, Shahina, his mother, said.
"My son worked at a tailor's shop in