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Friendship with Pakistan has always remained the United States’ top priority, US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter said on Tuesday. “The US has always...

HAFIZABAD - Punjab Task Force on Education Chairperson Saira Afzal Tarar has said that promotion of education is the top priority of the provincial government which is spending billions of rupees for this purpose. She was addressing a foundation stone-laying ceremony of development schemes in "model village" Rasoolpur Tarar declared by the Punjab chief minister during his visit to the district last year. She said 47.5 percent funds would be spent on the completion of various schemes

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Punjab Law Minister Rana Sana Ullah Khan has said that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has been focusing on the promotion of quality education in the province.
"To achieve the desired results, various revolutionary policies have been introduced for the encouragement of outstanding students and provision of scholarships to them for higher studies in well reputed educational institutions under endowment fund," he said and added this was in addition

KARACHI - Standard Chartered has launched a new enhanced priority banking offering for Pakistan's increasingly sophisticated and discerning banking customers.
The new service for customers, with high investment assets, combines highly customised financial solutions covering banking, borrowing, protection and investments, with exclusive new products such as the Visa Platinum Debit and Credit Cards. It also includes a range of international banking services and exclusive lifestyle

LAHORE - US Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Assistant Secretary Robert O Blake, Jr told the House Foreign Affairs Committee in a testimony on Wednesday that US' global strategic partnership with India would remain among its "top foreign policy priorities."
Blake told the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia that US President Barack Obama had told the Indian parliament last November that with India assuming "its rightful place in the world, we have an historic

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani Saturday said the development of Balochistan was on the top of the government's priorities.
Talking to Minister for Science and Technology Changez Jamali, who called on him at the PM's House, Gilani said the introduction of Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan was a manifestation of the stern resolve of the government.
The prime minister observed that the government was keen to develop the damaged irrigation infrastructure of the

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that the development of Balochistan is the priority of the Government.
The Prime Minister expressed these views while talking to Mr Changez Jamali, Minister for Science & Technology who called on him at PM's House on Saturday.
The introduction of Aghaz-e-Haqooe-e-Balochistan, he added, is the manifestation of the stern resolve of the Government.
The representation of Balochistan in the Federal Cabinet shows that

FAISALABAD - The Punjab government has placed women education on top priority and all resources are being utilised to provide ample facilities of higher education to female students near their homes," said Law Minister Rana Sana Ullah Khan.
Speaking as the chief guest at the convocation of Government College for Women Karkhana Bazaar, he said, "It is due to the undeniable role of women in the national development and their valuable contribution could not be neglected. Our future

TOKYO - Japan put its top priority on Wednesday on efforts to cool down a plutonium-fuelled nuclear reactor, attempting at one stage to water-bomb the facility without success amid fears that authorities were running out of options to avert disaster. The No.3 reactor is the only one of the quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant's six reactor units to be powered with plutonium, which is far more hazardous to health than uranium, which is used to power the other five reactors.
High

LAHORE - District Coordination Officer Ahad Cheema, MPA Khawaja Saad Rafique and Rescue 1122 Director General Rizwan Naseer held a joint press conference at the Mochi Gate Garden on the rescue operation going on in the fire-hit area of Shah Alam Market on Saturday.
"Our first priority is to recover bodies from the debris," DCO Lahore Ahad Cheema said, "after the bodies are recovered we will start removing the debris." Dr Rizwaan Naseer said that the bodies were between the Qadri

ISLAMABAD - Improving political, economic, administrative and law and order situation in Balochistan was the present government's priority, President Asif Ali Zardari said while meeting separately with Deputy Chairman Senate Mir Jan Muhammad Jamali and Sardar Muhammad Saleh Bhootani, former caretaker chief minister of Balochistan at the Aiwan-e-Sadr.
He reiterated the commitment of the government to alleviate the sense of deprivation of the people of Balochistan and bring the

LAHORE - Federal Minister for Sports Mir Ijaz Jakhrani said that the government is taking measures to promote the sports standard in the country on a priority basis. He said this during the meeting with the newly elected office bearers of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Sports Journalists Association (RISJA).
The minister said that the media has a very important role in promoting sports in the country. He said that Pakistan can win back its lost glory in the world of sports through hard

HAFIZABAD - Punjab Education Secretary Muhammad Aslam Kamboh has said that the provincial government is spending billions of rupees on the promotion of education as it was its first priority. He was addressing a meeting held here at education office on the other day.
He called upon the officers of the education department to perform their duties honestly, in a professional manner and with the spirit of serving the nation. He directed the teachers to ensure 100 per cent enrolment

LAHORE - Pakistan's one-day skipper Shahid Afridi has said that he never ran after the captaincy in his entire career. "I have never run after the captaincy in my entire career.
It is something for the cricket board to decide. If they feel I am good enough to lead the team in the World Cup they will retain me if not, that is life," Afridi told reporters before leaving for New Zealand for the one-day series, starting from January 22. Afridi said he was just focusing on the

LAHORE: Providing speedy justice to aggrieved parties has been my priority as a Lahore High Court (LHC) judge and I would continue the same as the Islamabad High Court (IHC) chief justice, Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman said on Tuesday.
Talking to Pakistan Today, Justice Rehman said that he would make efforts for providing justice to his fellow countrymen. He said that ever since becoming a judge, the court has been a worship place for him and by providing justice to people on

LAHORE: Healthcare is the top most concern of the government, which has already spent billions of rupees on different healthcare projects, Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Saturday.
He expressed these views during the inaugurating ceremony of the country's first kidney transplantation project at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital. The PM also announced a grant of Rs 100 million for the operational cost of the project and expressed hope that the funds be utilised "diligently

Solving problems of the litigants at the earliest by appointing honest and hardworking judges to ensure the supremacy of law was the top priority of the judiciary Chief Justice Lahore High Court (CJ LHC) Khawaja Muhammad Sharif said on Sunday while talking to delegation of various lawyers led by Zulfiqar Abbas Naqvi.
The legal profession demanded honesty and integrity from the lawyers and the judges because people trusted them with their personal affairs and lives, he said.