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LAHORE - The Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) has unveiled Modern Sanitation Plan for commercial markets and has launched as a pilot project in Barkat Market and Garden Town.
The plan, according to LWMC Managing Director Waseem Ajmal, will improve the cleanliness and local environment by providing effective waste collection system. An official from the DCO office told Pakistan Today that LWMC, subsidiary of City District Government Lahore (CDGL), had launched the sanitation

Singer/actor Plan B was wary about joining the panel for the prestigious Rising Star prize at the upcoming BAFTA Awards - as he feared the actors would think him unworthy to judge their performances. Plan B, real name Benjamin Drew, helped narrow down the talent list for the honour, and the contenders were announced on Monday, with Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield among those battling it out for prize at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) ceremony next month. But

KARACHI - The Sindh government has scrapped the plan to set up a coal-based power project for production of at least 50MW from the vast natural reserves in the Lakhra coalmine in Jamshoro, it has been learnt.
Well-placed sources in the Sindh Coal and Energy Development Department told Pakistan Today that the government had included the feasibility study for establishment of a 50MW coal-fired power plant in the Lakhra coalfield in the budget for 2010-11 with an allocation of at

LONDON - Manchester United and Manchester City will look to stay out in front at the top of the Premier League when they continue their push for the title on Tuesday.
Before then at least one, and possibly both, of the Manchester clubs' title rivals will have dropped points when third-placed Arsenal take on Chelsea in a London derby on Monday. United,
who top the table by two points from City, are away to Birmingham on Tuesday where Sir Alex Ferguson, having seen off a

LAHORE - Mocking its own slogan of good governance, merit and rule of law, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led Punjab government has scrapped its mega operation against high-rise buildings to save the skin of its leaders including Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, who are allegedly involved in a number of building violations, Pakistan Today has learnt. The decision is a sheer violation of the Supreme Court commission's report, which recommended partial and complete

LAHORE - Justice Nasir Saeed of the Lahore High Court Thursday, hearing a petition against possible grant of the presidential pardon to blasphemy convict Aasia bibi, reproached Deputy Attorney General Nasim Kashmiri for hiding facts from the court regarding the government's plan on the issue.
The judge was hearing four identical petitions filed by Shahid Iqbal, Nasir Rasool and others seeking the court's orders for stopping the government from granting the presidential pardon to

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday gave final touches to a reconciliation strategy with the Pakistan People's Party's major coalition partner - the Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) - as well as a contingency plan in case the MQM decided to part ways with the government in the near future.
An informed source told Pakistan Today that during the crucial meeting held at the Presidency, the two leaders agreed that in case of any

ISLAMABAD: In what seems to be a pre-emptive attempt to block the possible alliance of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) for overthrowing the Balochistan government, a threatened and perturbed Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani on Tuesday rushed to meet JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman.
Fazl, however, assured Raisani that he had no such plans and did not want to form a coalition with the PML-Q in Balochistan. "Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain

BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's plan to unveil a national unity cabinet was in disarray on Monday as political parties squabbled over posts and the timing of the announcement was put in doubt.
While Maliki had been expected to name his entire cabinet except for three sensitive posts linked to national security, politicians said that as many as half of the ministerial positions were still undecided.
The divisions come with no new cabinet having been formed

PESHAWAR: Mehsud tribal elders seem disappointed over what they say is a 'cold shoulder' response from the political authorities of South Waziristan Agency. They say the authorities are not fulfilling their commitments to provide financial assistance to returning displaced people.
A meeting of All FATA Mehsud Jirga is being convened today (Monday) to review the situation followed by a protest rally. Members of the jirga visited the area the other day and expressed dissatisfaction

PERTH - Australian paceman Peter Siddle said on Saturday that England had played batsman Michael Hussey back into form during the Ashes series by bowling too short to him.
The left-handed Hussey all but put the third Test out of reach of the tourists with a crisp 116, his second century of the series, as Australia closed in on an Ashes-levelling win at the WACA Ground in Perth. On the verge of being axed before the first Test, Hussey is now the top scorer in the series with 517

ISLAMABAD: The government's plan to implement a uniform education system in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) is likely end in fiasco owing to educational managers' inability to win approval of the required funds.
The uniform education system as well as upgrade of the teachers of the capital territory was announced by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on the international teachers' day two months back. Gilani, while addressing a function to mark the day, announced a

TOKYO: Japan's top business lobby on Tuesday hailed a government plan to shave five percentage points off corporate tax as "a first step" towards revitalising the nation's fragile economy.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan said late Monday that his centre-left government planned next year to cut the tax from 40.7 percent to boost investment, keep companies from moving abroad, create jobs and boost wages.
He did not explain how the government would make up for the revenue shortfall at

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

LONDON: The popularity of Nick Clegg, leader of Britain's coalition government's junior partner, has plummeted and supporters are deserting his party over plans to raise university tuition fees, said a poll published on Sunday.
Parliament voted on Thursday in favour of plans to allow English universities to almost treble current fees, a policy that has divided Clegg's Liberal Democrat party and led to violent protests in London.
Before May's election Clegg and all his

LAHORE: Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC)'s door-to-door waste collection plan, scheduled to be launched by the end of December in municipal limit, is nothing more than a pipedream, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Plans regarding door-to-door waste collection in the city were activated in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2009 spearheaded by City District Government Lahore (CDGL) but all of them fell flat. "This time LWMC, powered by CDGL on the direction of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz

ISLAMABAD: A comprehensive security plan with an appeal to all the religious leaders to create harmony and avoid any remarks which may hurt the sentiments of others was unveiled here on Monday that would help maintain peace in the month of Muharram.
A meeting was held at the Ministry of Interior under the chairmanship of Interior Minister Rehman Malik to review the arrangements for the month of Muharram. The meeting was attended by the secretary interior, all the provincial home