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LAHORE - The former Federal Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar has said that fairs and exhibitions are pivotal to identify the untapped potential of key sectors and to introduce Pakistani merchandise in the world market.
The senator was speaking at the LCCI Investment Conference at Expo Centre. LCCI President Shahzad Ali Malik, Senior Vice President Sheikh Mohammad Arshad, Vice President Sohail Azhar, SAARC Vice President Iftikhar Ali Malik, former WAPDA Chairman Tariq Hameed,

LAHORE - Samir Iftikhar has won his final trial match to make his way into the national Davis Cup team which faces Hong Kong in the Asia/Oceania Group II tie at Victoria Park, Hong Kong from March 4 to 6. Samir, who has won four ITF Junior World Ranking titles, powered past some of the top national players to book a place in the Davis Cup team, along with first cousin Aisam-ul-Haq, Aqeel Khan and Yasir Khan.
In the last trial match, Samir crushed Davis Cupper and Pakistan number

LAHORE - Gamblers and bookmakers come to business as Cricket World Cup 2011 begins today in Dhaka, with an opening match between Bangladesh and India.
STAKES: Underground bookmakers or bookies have already put bets worth billions on the world cup winner. According to one estimate, nearly Rs 40,000 crore could exchange hands through illegal betting in this world cup. According to a bookmaker's rates, India's rate is set at Rs 3.20 (if one bets Rs 1000 on India and it wins, the

ALMATY - Hosts Kazakhstan secured top place in the Asian Winter Games medal table after they won five more gold medals on Saturday's penultimate day. With only 11 gold medals still at stake, Kazakhstan top the table with 28 gold medals and 62 overall, while second-placed South Korea have 12 golds and 35 overall.
Masako Hozumi of Japan increased her team's gold medal tally with a confident win in the women's 5,000m speed skating. The 24-year-old finished 6.4 seconds ahead of

VALENCIA - Team Lotus unveiled their 2011 Formula One car ahead of Lotus-backed rivals Renault on Monday with an online presentation setting a target of scoring points and fighting for seventh place overall. "This year's car is a much more contemporary design," said technical director Mike Gascoyne over images of the T128 car in classic Lotus green and yellow livery.
"The car really will be a midfield runner. It's a modern F1 car I'm very confident it is a big step up and it's

PARIS - Australian Open winner Kim Clijsters has risen to second place in the world rankings and within close range of Caroline Wozniacki who holds on to the top spot despite once again failing to win a Grand Slam title.
China's Li Na, who lost in Saturday's final in Melbourne, moves up to a career-best seventh place with Francesca Schiavone of Italy up to fourth behind Vera Zvonareva.
Former world number one Serena Williams, who has not played since winning the Wimbledon

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan will move to a secret location with her mother and siblings soon after being released from rehab. A friend of Lohan said that she would be staying at a secret location with her family, mother and siblings.
The actress' father, Michael Lohan, too is happy that she is not returning to her Hollywood home. "Being away from her old so-called friends and haunts in Hollywood would only behoove Lindsay as long as when she gets to New York, she stays away

Noor Muhammad, 88 years of age, shifted to Lahore from Bengal. Before partition, he worked at the Calcutta Harbour.
Upon arrival, he was allotted a house, demolished without compensation when the Mughulpura bridge was constructed. Today he is without home and without an NIC card.
His only source of income is this clothes stall outside Amritsar Park.

NEW YORK: Forty-two journalists were killed around the world this year and Pakistan was the deadliest country of all, a study by the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday.
Pakistan led the list of fatalities with eight, followed by Iraq with four and three each in Honduras and Mexico, the New York-based CPJ said.
The total number of reporters killed in connection with their profession was much lower than in 2009, when the record figure of 72 worldwide was skewed

LAHORE: Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram has blasted the Pakistan Cricket Board for all the controversies troubling Pakistan cricket currently.
"Pakistan cricket is in shambles. There is no leadership. Nobody knows what's happening in there. That's why the players are there where they are. Look at the guy Zulqarnain Haider, he disappeared and still nobody knows why? And it comes up to the Cricket Board, up to the Chairman of the cricket board. And whatever happened in England

KARACHI: The Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) board has approved an increase of 15 percent in the salaries of PSM employees, as per the announcement made in the federal budget. The board has also directed the PSM chief executive officer (CEO) to assess whether the 50 percent rise in salaries, as announced in the federal budget 2010-11, would be feasible for the PSM or not.
The decision was made in the PSM board meeting held on October 7 in the wake of a letter written by PSM officers