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KARACHI - The Master Mariners Society of Pakistan (MMSP) has decided to raise the issue of the Pakistani merchant marine officers, who are in Somalian pirates' custody, in international forums. According to MMSP Office Secretary MM Ahmad Zuberi, the society is set to raise the captivity issue of the officers if the MMSP is approached by the officers' families.
The case of now-deceased MMSP life-member Capt Syed Jafer Jafri was pursued at all local and international forums by the

JAKARTA - A Pakistani charter plane headed for Malaysia was reportedly forced to land in Sulawesi on Monday for flying over Indonesia without prior permission from authorities concerned. Per reports, the plane carrying army personnel was forced to land at the Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport in Makassar, South Sulawesi, at 1.50pm.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) spokesman Tajwar Mashood said the Boeing 737-300 with 54 people on board was chartered by UN peacekeepers

LAHORE - Pakistan has succeeded in the mango diplomacy with the United States. Pakistan will start sending the world's sweetest mango - validated by universal scientific sweetness measurements - to the US from this spring. This was disclosed in a press statement issued by the Harvest Trading chief executive officer Ahmad Jawad. He pointed out that currently, Pakistan exports some five percent of mango of the total crop, which are mainly exported to wholesale markets.
He said

KARACHI - Hasnat Mehmood's bookshelf portraits of fellow artists are very clever chronicles of contemporary Pakistani art that should not be missed by art enthusiasts, said a press release issued by the Poppy Seed Gallery where Mehmood's solo art exhibition titled 'The Inquiry of Art' is running until March 13. Mehmood is a visual artist who graduated in 2001 from Lahore's National College of Arts where he now teaches.
His artworks are a part of collections at the British Museum

LAHORE - Toa Dubai rugby club won the Sharjah 10s title as four Pakistan national team players, who are in Dubai for studies and work, shone for the top premiership club.
The Pakistani players playing in the series were Shiraz Niazi, Adnan Niazi, Azmat Niazi (all three play for Islamabad Jins rugby club) and Sair Riaz (plays for Punjab and Lahore Rams).
The Sharjah 10s had 25 teams competing from across the Gulf, consisting mostly of expats from rugby playing countries such

LAHORE - Palestinian coach Moussa Bezaz believes that the friendly series against Pakistan, which will open on March 1, will help them assess the skill level of their players before the coming events.
Pakistan and Palestine will play four-test series on home and away basis with the first being played tomorrow and the second on March 4 at Karachi while Pakistan will visit Palestine to play on May 24 and 27. Talking to journalists in his first interaction with the media here at

KARACHI - The Indian Navy on late Thursday night arrested 20 Pakistani fishermen while taking away three fishing vessels from the Pakistan territorial waters near Kajar Creek in the Arabian Sea.
Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) Chairman Mohammad Ali Shah said the Indian naval police had crossed international sea limits and came inside the Pakistan waters to arrest the 20 fishermen and seized their three fishing vessels named Al-Rehman (bearing registration number B-14984),

AMSTERDAM - Pakistani kinnow has drawn enormous response during the 2nd Annual Pakistani Kinnow Exhibition, which was held in Amsterdam on the other day. The exhibition was jointly organised by the Commercial Wing of the Embassy of Pakistan and Pakistan Horticulture Development and Export Company (PHDEC), which was aimed at promoting Pakistani citrus in the Netherlands.
It was mainly a B2B event, which attracted more than 400 visitors, including buyers, traders and consumers. In

LAHORE - The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will support the private sector waste management company, Waste Busters, which has recently concluded the financial of a 10 million euros project to divert over 300,000 metric tonnes municipal solid waste from landfills and convert it into energy.
It was disclosed in a seminar on "Pakistan's vulnerability to climate change and response measures", which was chaired by the UNFCCC Executive Secretary

ISLAMABAD - Around 27 languages spoken in Northern Areas, Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and surrounding border areas of Pakistan are facing extinction, said a UNESCO report. The report, in connection with International Mother Day observed on Monday (Feb 21), revealed that language is the source of communication, education and progress and their extinction discontinues the transfer of social values to the coming generation and eventually the language are declared as dead languages.