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ISLAMABAD - The embassy in Tripoli and other foreign missions in the neighbouring countries had been directed to provide all possible assistance to the Pakistanis stranded in Libya and facilitate their evacuation on emergency basis, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar told the National Assembly Tuesday.
"Pakistan's embassy in Tripoli and Pakistani foreign mission in Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria and Turkey have been directed that passports or other necessary

ISLAMABAD - President Zardari and PM Gilani have ordered Foreign Affairs Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir to ensure the safety of Pakistani expatriates in Libya, Foreign Office Spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua said in a statement on Sunday.
"In implementation of this directive, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has set up a Special Task Force that is working round-the-clock to monitor the situation and provide assistance through our embassies in Tripoli and

ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Office said on Saturday that Pakistani expatriates had been advised to maintain close contact with their embassy in Tripoli owing to deteriorating situation there.
Foreign Office Spokesperson Tehmina Janjua said the Foreign Ministry was closely following the developments in Libya and added that a special task force had been set up in the ministry to monitor the situation round the clock and to provide assistance to the Pakistani expatriates.
She

LAHORE - A seminar on Pak-China relations was held at Government College Township on Thursday. The college's principal Dr Ejaz Butt introduced the seminar's theme, which was on the year 2011 that has been declared as 'Pak-China friendship year', and said Pakistan needed to further strengthen ties with China.
He greeted the speakers which included senior political analysts and diplomats including Dr Farooq Hasanat, Col (r) Sikander Sultan Ghuman, Imran Iqbal, Dr Imtiaz Bukhari,

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Ambassador in Libya Ali Javed Sunday said all the Pakistanis living in the country were safe and attending their offices but the children were not going to schools because of security reasons.
Talking to a private TV channel from Tripoli, he said the Pakistanis were not taking part in any protest and they had nothing to do with the latest developments. He said the situation in Benghazi was critical where most of the Pakistanis were living and working,

ISLAMABAD - Only around 15 percent of Pakistan's urban population and 18 per cent of the rural population have access to safe drinking water and 1.44 pc of the GDP is spent annually on treatment of water-born diseases whereas the allocation for water treatment is less than 0.05 pc of the GDP, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Science and Technology was told on Friday.
Dr Aslam Tahir, Chairman of Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) told the

LAHORE - The Pakistanis are part of the highest giving community in the world when it comes to philanthropy. Chairman of the Board Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP), Dr Shams Kassim Lakha said this while speaking at the Global Philanthropy for Development Forum at The Frederick S Pardee Centre Boston. He said the developed world, in terms of philanthropy, has now become not only a potent donor, but is driving the development agenda of the underdeveloped world.
"Philanthropy

ISLAMABAD - In every minute 11 Pakistanis join a cellular community, more than 430,000 SMS are sent and 160,000 calls made. Even though the cellular industry pays the highest tax, it contributes 3 percent to the country's GDP with revenue of Rs 357.7 billion in the year 2009-10 compared to Rs 333 billion in the previous year.
According to official sources, incomes of 6 out of every 1,000 Pakistanis are dependent on the telecom industry. Half of Pakistanis including women have

ISLAMABAD - All Pakistanis in Egypt are safe and if needed, they will be rescued from the troubled country, said the Foreign Office here on Sunday.
The Foreign Office spokesman, Abdul Basit, in a statement, said there were at least 150 Pakistani families in Egypt and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and embassy in Cairo were in close contact.
He said the government of Pakistan would take every possible step to ensure the wellbeing and safety of Pakistani citizens.

KARACHI - Interpol has been requested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for the issuance of arrest warrants against "all corrupt elements" who have escaped the country in the past for trial before a Pakistani court of law, claimed the Agency's Sindh Director Muazzam Jah at a press conference on Thursday.
Jah demanded that the Pakistan Steel Mills provide the FIA with names of all those involved in the corruption case of Rs 22 billion. He said that although the FIA

ISLAMABAD - The relatives of 350 prisoners including 16 women in different jails of China staged a protest demonstration in support of the release of their dear ones on Wednesday. They demanded the government bring the jailed Pakistanis back to the country for trials under the Geneva Accord.
Wajahat Ali, who had been fighting to get his brother released for the last four years, said that Pakistan had inked an agreement with China in December 2007 for the repartition of the

KARACHI - "Every minute, roughly 11 Pakistanis become a part of the cellular community. More than 430,000 SMS messages and 160,000 voice minutes are being exchanged even as I speak," said Mobilink President and CEO Rashid Khan, at the ceremony to mark the completion of 100 million cellular subscribers in Pakistan.
Khan also said that the sector contributes three percent to the country's GDP whereas the total telecom sector revenue reached at Rs 357.7 billion in 2009-10, compared

ISLAMABAD - Around 4,220 Pakistanis are languishing in the jails of the Middle East countries over different charges, the National Assembly was told on Friday.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Malik Amad Khan told the House that they crimes, the Pakistani inmates have been accused of, include murder, rape, theft, drug pushing, smuggling, forgery, embezzlement and overstaying the period of their visas in the host countries.
The minister speaking during the Question-Answer

KARACHI - Sri Lanka is the next economic miracle success story emerging in Asia and Pakistani investors should look to enter this promising market. These views were expressed by the Consul General of the Republic of Sri Lanka in Karachi DW Jinadasa, while talking to the media.
Giving details, Jinadasa said that the Sri Lankan economy is expected to record an astounding growth of eight percent in 2010, while the GDP per capita has more than doubled to over $2,000 in the last five

ABU DHABI - Two Pakistani brothers accused of collecting money and recruiting jihadists for Al-Qaeda went on trial in the United Arab Emirates and appeared in a court on Monday, a daily reported on Tuesday.
The pair, charged with running a jihadi organisation and aiding and abetting Al-Qaeda, have confessed to having links with the jihadist network, the court was told according to the report. They also had direct communication with a senior member of Al-Qaeda, the daily said.

ISLAMABAD: The World Food Programme (WFP) will launch a relief operation with US $ 600 to address the food security issues of 12 million Pakistani people.
"This will be the second largest operation of the WFP in the world after Sudan and it will address the food issues of 12 million vulnerable people facing food insecurity owing to high inflation and floods in the country and unrest in the tribal areas", Amjad Jamal, the WFP spokesman told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
He said

LAHORE: Khalid Mahmood, Chairman Provincial Mohtasib and Moulana Zafar Ali Khan Trust, has praised the planning and efforts behind Pakistan hockey team's gold medal win in the Asian Games.
Khalid Mahmood specially visited the Pakistan Hockey Federation offices and congratulated PHF President Qasim Zia, Secretary Asif Bajwa and the team for their achievement.He said the win has come as a ray of light for the Pakistanis in dusky conditions.
Later he presented a bouquet to