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The Sports Board Punjab on Saturday discussed the progress of the board in various sports and also looked at the hurdles coming in way...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is all set to harvest a bumper wheat crop of 24.4 million tonnes from the wheat crop sown over 8.8 million hectares acreage, says the second estimate of the crop issued by the provinces to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. According to the report, Punjab would be producing 18.2 million tonnes of wheat from acreage of 6.68 million hectares, Sindh 4.2 million tonnes from 1.14 million hectares, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa 1.1 million tonnes from 0.74 million hectares

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court on Monday issued directives to intelligence and law enforcement agencies to investigate the murder of Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) official Muhammad Arif Noor and submit the inquiry report in court within a month. A division bench comprising Justices Gulzar Ahmed and Shahid Anwar Bajwa was hearing a constitutional petition filed by Arif Noor's brother Abid Noor, seeking to locate the whereabouts of his brother when he had gone missing on October 31

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court restricted the Sindh government on Monday from removing those officials, whose posting on absorption was declared illegal by the same court, till April 29. Allowing a request of the officials including Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, a bench headed by Justice Shahid Anwar Bajwa ordered the provincial government not to follow the SHC's prior directive till the given date.
Earlier on April 14, the SHC had declared two dozen government high ranking officers'

WASHINGTON - Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh is expected to highlight Pakistan's progress towards economic reforms, export trajectory, growth prospects and the importance of international partnership in the country's development in a series of talks at annual World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) meetings.
The finance minister will lead a team of Pakistan's top economic managers at spring meetings that bring together leaders of the world finance and heads

KARACHI - Pakistan on Thursday freed 89 Indian fishermen imprisoned for fishing and violating its territorial waters as the nuclear-armed rivals resume a fledgling peace process.
"Today we released 89 Indian fishermen from Malir prison as a goodwill gesture," prisons chief Ghulam Qadir Thebo told AFP.
These fishermen were caught during the past 13-19 months fishing in Pakistani territorial waters, he said.
Two buses set off for the eastern city of Lahore, where they

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's economy is expected to grow 4 percent in the coming financial year starting July 1, picking up steam again after devastating floods pushed back growth to around 3 percent this year, officials said on Thursday.
"We are looking at a growth rate of 4 percent for the next year because of a good services sector and on hopes of better farm output," said a Finance Ministry official who did not want to be identified.
The figure compares with a 3.7 percent

LAHORE - Two Lahore Development Authority (LDA) big wigs, involved in the high-rise building scandal, are back on lucrative posts after they were suspended by the Punjab CM's high-powered committee in 2008 and named in a FIR registered against them in 2009.
Chaudhry Akram and Khalid Mehmood Sheikh were among the 24 officials who were found involved in construction of illegal high-rising buildings. Now, the LDA has issued orders and reinstated Akram as chief town planner and

LAHORE - A division bench of the Lahore High Court Tuesday granted bail to Saud Aziz, former City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi, and then SP Rawalpindi City Khurram Shehzad in the murder case of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
The bench comprising LHC Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry and Justice Ijazul Ahsan allowed bail to Saud Aziz and Khurram Shahzad on surety bonds of Rs 1 million each. The court also directed the accused to surrender their passports to stop them

ISLAMABAD - The China Three Gorges Project Corporation (CTGPC) Chairman Cao Guangjing will be given a detailed presentation on investment opportunities in the hydroelectric power sector by the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) today.
An official source said that the CTGPC chairman will be holding meeting with the Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar and other officials on Tuesday while he was expected to meet with the President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday.

KARACHI - The housing census in Karachi would take place from April 5 to 19 in which more than 8,000 officials would participate wearing special caps issued by the government, Karachi Administrator Muhammad Hussain Syed said on Tuesday.
Addressing a press conference at the DCO Camp Office, he appealed to the citizens to take special interest in the campaign and cooperate with the staff deputed for the housing census as all future planning and allocation of resources relies

LAHORE - National Highway and Motorway Police (NHMP) elite commandoes will patrol crime affected areas to check criminal activities on all national highways and motorways, NHMP Inspector General (IG) Dr Wasim Kausar said on Monday.
He was chairing a meeting to review the crime situation on national highways and motorways at his office. Kausar directed sector commanders to do personal patrolling in the night shift and deploy special crime checking squads to check criminal

LAHORE - The Pakistan Volleyball Federation (PVF) has announced Technical Officials for the 46th National Senior Men's Volleyball Championship which will be held at WAPDA Sports Complex, Lahore form March 25-31.
Shoaib Ahmed Usmani, Secretary Pakistan Volleyball Referee Board, will act as the Chairman of the refereeing committee during the Championship, along with Najamul Hassnain Sajid (secretary), while the 14 referees who will control the Championship are Muneer Amed, Sajjad

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday issued summon orders for the Sindh Chief Secretary, Cooperative Societies Secretary among others seeking explanation on a constitutional petition regarding corruption and mismanagement in different cooperative housing society schemes.
The SHC division bench headed by Justice Maqbool Baqar after hearing preliminary arguments by the petitioner issued notice to the respondents and directed them to submit their comments on the next

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday adjourned hearing for three weeks on a contempt-of-court plea, seeking explanation from senior officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)-Passport Circle for their non-compliance with the court's prior order to provide a citizen with a passport.
A division bench, comprising Chief Justice Mushir Alam and Justice Hassan Azhar Rizvi, was hearing a contempt-of-court application moved by Haseena, wife of Hashim, seeking

WASHINGTON - The assassinated minister for minorities affairs Shahbaz Bhatti was an ardent proponent of Quaid-e-Azam's vision for an egalitarian Pakistan and devoted his efforts to a moderate and united country amid a spate of challenges, Christian leaders and officials said on Sunday.
Paying tribute to the slain leader at a service held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania they said that in Bhatti's death, Pakistan lost a vibrant voice for moderation and a great son of the soil. Deputy

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Saturday sent on forced retirement three sub engineers and building inspectors for involvement in the construction of illegal high-rise buildings in the city while departmental proceedings against another official were dropped due to his death.
The officials sent on retirement are Riaz Akhtar Khokhar, Aamir Rashid and Pervaiz Khurshid Shah while Muhammad Farooq has died. The High Rise Commission, constituted under the directions