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Palestinian activists told Israel on Monday not to interfere in a planned aid flotilla to Gaza in late June, a little more than one...

Amendments in the rules of procedure for the election of the Punjab chief minister have made the opposition in the provincial assembly retune its...

Due to a lack of planning and half-backed strategy, the Punjab government’s mega plan to establish nine food streets hit a stumbling block after...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on a visit to Afghanistan on Thursday, said India strongly supported a plan by Kabul to reconcile with Taliban-led...

The Bank of Punjab (BOP) has recently got permission from the Banking Policy and Regulations Department of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to...

President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday directed the ministers of interior and information to jointly devise a plan for the protection of journalists against...

ISLAMABAD - The government on Thursday unveiled its energy conservation plan for the year 2011, which it claimed would save between 1,000MW to 1,100MW in six months until September, as power shortfall increased to 3,135MW from 2,965MW.
Minister for Water and Power Naveed Qamar informed the National Assembly that the government had finalised an energy conservation plan to combat the power shortage during the next six months. Qamar said that a two-pronged policy had been devised

LAHORE - Adviser to the Punjab chief minister (CM) and Lahore Transport Company (LTC) Chairman Khawaja Ahmed Hassan said that a comprehensive plan of action had been devised to execute the new transport system in the city. Presiding over a meeting at the CM's Secretariat on Thursday, Khawaja said that state of the art infrastructure for transport would be provided under which bus terminals and depots were being set up in order to provide standardized and affordable transport

ISLAMABAD - An energy saving plan was presented to the National Assembly by the government on Thursday.
According to the proposed energy saving plan presented by the Federal Water and Power Ministry, shops and markets are to close at 8:00pm and the number of active streetlights on roads and highways would be decreased.
According to the plan, up to 50percent of the lights of all federal and provincial secretariats, chief ministers' houses, the Presidency, the PM House and

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia, on Tuesday, unveiled a plan to more than double its capital market size to 4.5 trillion ringgit ($1.5 trillion) by 2020.
Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is also the finance minister, said the government will allocate more funds to develop venture capital and private equity firms. "We must do everything we can to ensure that Malaysia's capital market doesn't just grow, it grows with minimal risks in a well-regulated environment," he told fund managers and

SANAA - Yemen opposition parties on Tuesday urged Gulf mediators to spell out whether President Ali Saleh would hand over power early under their proposal to end a two-month crisis over leadership and political reforms.
Gulf Arab foreign ministers said this week they would invite Saleh and the opposition coalition to mediation talks in Riyadh, a key financier of Sanaa who analysts say Saleh trusts, on a transition of power.
The opposition said on Monday they rejected the

BENGHAZI - Muammar Gaddafi accepted an African Union (AU) plan to end the Libyan civil war but rebels on Monday said there could be no deal unless he leaves power, and there was no sign of a let-up in the fighting. Rebels in the besieged western city of Misrata told Reuters Gaddafi's forces fired Russian-made Grad rockets into the city, while insurgents in eastern Libya were preparing to advance. South African President Jacob Zuma, head of an AU peace mission, said Gaddafi had

TRIPOLI - Muammar Gaddafi has accepted a roadmap for ending the conflict in Libya including an immediate ceasefire, the African Union said on Monday, but an opposition representative said it would only work if Gaddafi left power.
South African President Jacob Zuma, who met Gaddafi at the head of a delegation of African leaders, urged NATO to stop air strikes on government targets to "give ceasefire a chance".
Earlier truce offers from Gaddafi have come to nothing and the

FAISALABAD - The city government has shelved the long-awaited Rs 50 million public parking plan conceived by its predecessors to address the parking chaos in different areas. During the tenure of former City District Nazam Rana Zahid Tauseef, Rs 50 million were earmarked for the construction of four multi-storey parking plazas at Kutchehary Bazaar, Aminpur Bazaar, former municipal corporation house and Mayor House.
The city government has termed the proposed venues of parking

GUJRANWALA - Punjab Census Commissioner Dr Jamal Yousaf has urged the officers and staff to complete the national task of census in time with responsibility. He stated this while addressing a meeting attended by Gujranwala Division Commissioner Saeed Iqbal Wahla and the DCOs of Gujranwala, Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin, Narowal and Hafizabad, Additional Commissioner Riaz Ahmad Butt, EDO Revenue Sialkot Tariq Zaman Khan and SSP Muhammad Afzal Butt.
Dr Jamal Yousaf said a field operation

ISLAMABAD - Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has said that a restructuring plan for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is being finalized and that the plan is aimed at improving PIA's efficiency and making the organization a profit-earning entity.
"We are planning restructuring of the whole organization in consultation with professionals. We will definitely come out with the programme within the next 15 to 20 days," he revealed during the recent proceedings of the

DUBLIN - The Irish government promised full backing to their cricketers Friday in efforts to overturn their removal from the next World Cup, slamming the decision as flying in the face of sportsmanship.
On Tuesday the International Cricket Council confirmed a decision to slash the 2015 and 2019 World Cups to just 10 teams in a move that was described by Cricket Ireland's chief executive Warren Deutrom as "frankly outrageous". Sports Minister Leo Varadkar, at a special reception