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LAHORE - The 43rd National Athletics Championship started here at the Punjab Stadium on Tuesday morning. The event is sponsored by Pepsi. PML-Q League Parliamentarian Humayoun Akhtar was the chief guest of the opening ceremony. Apart from the heat categories of different disciplines, four finals were decided on the opening day of the meet. Bilqees Hashami of WAPDA won the gold medal in females pole vault. She dashed in the height of 2.30 metres. She was followed by Army's Sidra Bashir

ISLAMABAD - The Ministry of Health has failed to form any national antibiotic policy for doctors and the pharmaceutical industry, thus allowing them to play with the lives of poor people as micro-organism resistance in Pakistan is increasing due to the unnecessary use of antibiotics.
Micro-organism resistance or the Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) is the resistance of a micro-organism to an antimicrobial medicine to which it was previously sensitive. According to health experts,

LAHORE - PML-N central leader MNA Ahsan Iqbal has said that Bhutto case is the PPP issue instead a national issue and Zardari government has initiated ZAB reopening case to divert public attention towards alarming national issues.
National issues are drone attacks, Balochistan deprivations, energy crisis, target killing, terrorism, poverty, unemployment and price hike on which government has been playing a blind eye. He was talking to journalists after the seminar Institute of

LAHORE - The National Powerlifting Championship which was to be held this week will now be held on May 3 to 5. The final of the championship will be held on May 5, at the Old Campus Punjab University Sports Complex.
According to the secretary Mohammad Rashid Malik, Army, Police, WAPDA, Railways, HEC and all the provincial teams will participate in the event.

KARACHI - The PPP government is determined to maintain a stable democracy, rule of law, social development and peace in the country at all costs through political reconciliation and consultation with all stakeholders, Provincial Information and Archives Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon said on Friday.
"President and PPPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari believes in the policy of reconciliation and all efforts are being made to take all political parties on board to remove differences and

LAHORE - Frontier College, who earned a surprise quarter-final spot in last year's National Women's Championship, will face Striker Club on Friday, April 15 when the fourth edition of the National Women's Football Club C'ship 2011 commences at Peshawar. The event will be played at five zones. PFF has announced the draws, with matches in Islamabad set to start from April 19, while the matches in Karachi, Quetta and Lahore will be played from April 21.
Group A: (At Aga Khan

LAHORE - Pakistan International Airlines hosted a dinner in honour of the Pakistan cricket team and awarded all the members of the team with frequent-traveller PIA Diamond Cards. Speaking on the occasion, Managing Director PIA, Nadeem Khan Yousufzai said that PIA has always supported sports in Pakistan and will continue to play its role for the promotion of sports in the country.
He appreciated the performance of the team and said that it was the efforts of the entire team that

LAHORE - The 26th National Kabaddi Championship will be held from May 15 to 18 here at WAPDA Sports Complex. According to Secretary PKF Muhammad Sarwar, 14 teams are participating in the event. All matches will be played in flood lights. Participating teams are Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, KPK, WAPDA. Railways, Army, Police, Navy, PAF, FATA, Islamabad and HEC. WAPDA are defending champions.

KHANEWAL - Two brilliant cricketers from Khanewal were included in the national cricket women's team of Pakistan for the tour of Sri Lanka. Sana Gulzar and Samaim Adeeb, both from Khanewal, were included in the national women's cricket team. The national women's cricket team is touring Sri Lanks in May, 2011.
These players are busy in practice at the camp in the LCCA ground Lahore. All the sports circles of Khanewal have appreciated the players and declared it as an honour for

LAHORE - Johar Town's Lahore Grammar School, Sargodha University and Abbottabad's Hazara Shaheen will make their debut in the fourth edition of National Women's Football Club Championship 2011, which will be played from April 15 to 27 simultaneously in Quetta, Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar. The top two teams from the Lahore and Islamabad zones will move into the 7th National Women's Championship, along with champions of Quetta, Karachi and Peshawar zones. The event is slated

LAHORE - The National Project Management Conference kicked off Saturday to tackle the issues relating to development in Pakistan. More than 150 professionals attended the conference. Noted speakers included Expert Systems CEO Khalid Ahad Khan, Prof Rizwan Amin Sheikh and Dr Faheem-ul-Islam.
As part of PMI's focus on education and advocacy for project management and its role in the social and commercial development in Pakistan, a two-day NPC conference is being held on the 9th and

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Secretary General Senator Jahangir Badr on Saturday said that PPP Co-chairman President Asif Ali Zardari would make a final decision on whether or not the PPP would attend the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)'s meeting today (Sunday).
On Saturday, an MQM team led by Farooq Sattar met Jehangir Badr at his residence and invited the PPP to attend MQM's Istehkam-e-Pakistan rally today. Badr welcomed the call but made it clear that a final decision

LAHORE - Librarians and research scholars on Friday condemned the purposed devolution of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and said that it will directly affect the research culture in public and private-sector universities, as after the devolution, the HEC National Digital Library Programme will be stopped immediately due to lack of funding, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to sources, the HEC is giving millions of rupees annually to various public and private-sector

LAHORE - MQM chief Altaf Hussain on Friday said that the day Punjab would wake up, all the country would come to life too and move towards progress.
Altaf Hussain during a telephonic address to the MQM Punjab workers said the people of Punjab were distanced from the MQM by creating hatred against the party, but they now had ascertained the fact that all the allegations against the MQM were baseless.
He appealed to the people of Punjab to make the April 10 public meeting the

ISLAMABAD - Perturbed by the delay in commissioning of new gas discoveries because of litigation and chronic law and order issues, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Petroleum recommended the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) to award its exploration and production contracts to key national strategic organisations to counter the delay tactics of multinational companies.
Committee Chairman Sheikh Waqqas Akram had given the direction to the OGDCL when its

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Religious Affairs approved the new Haj Policy of 2011 on Thursday with directions to the Religious Affairs Ministry to take measures to ensure proper implementation of the policy to provide as much relief to the pilgrims as possible.
The committee, which met here at ministry offices with Maulana Qasim Jan in the chair, also told the ministry to rectify the mistakes that had previously caused embarrassment for pilgrims,

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court dismissed an application seeking prosecution against government functionaries who allegedly facilitated Raymond Davis' release by paying Diyat money from the national exchequer. The court dismissed the application because the petitioner counsel failed to appear in court on Wednesday.
Justice Iftikhar Hussain was hearing the plea filed by Rana Ilamuddin Ghazi submitting that trial judge left lacunas in the case and acted in haste. He alleged that