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KARACHI - The Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has warned the government that its Letter of Credit (LC) for oil imports would default if the government does not release Rs 40 billion immediately. The PSO management, through SOS letters, has requested the Ministry of Petroleum to immediately release Rs 40 billion for fresh import of petroleum products, as the oil marketing company has to pay at least Rs 16 billion to international suppliers.
According to sources in PSO, current

LONDON: Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Czech president Vaclav Havel on Sunday demanded "the unconditional release" of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, in an article published by a British newspaper.
Ahead of the Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo on Friday and writing in The Observer, Tutu and Havel said the dissident's imprisonment was "sadly emblematic of the Chinese government's intolerance to individual expression".
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in October

ROME: The expected release of classified US documents by Wikileaks will be the "9/11 of world diplomacy", Italy's foreign minister said on Sunday, urging Italian prosecutors to investigate the whistle-blowing website.
Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, on a trip to Qatar, said he did not know the content of the files to be released but warned they would "blow up the relationship of trust between states", according to Italian news agencies. "It will be the September 11th of world

LONDON: Britain condemned on Sunday the release of classified US documents by whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, echoing US concerns that it "may put lives at risk".
"We condemn any unauthorised release of this classified information, just as we condemn leaks of classified material in the UK," a Foreign Office statement said, as WikiLeaks prepared to publish classified US documents.
"They can damage national security, are not in the national interest and, as the US have

WASHINGTON: The State Department has warned the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks that its expected release of classified US documents would endanger countless lives, jeopardize
American military operations and hurt international cooperation on global
security issues.
The department's top lawyer urged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in a letter Saturday to keep classified documents off the website, remove records of them from its database and return any material to

LAHORE: The All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) staged a protest at the Lahore Press Club on Sunday demanding immediate release of blasphemy accused Aasia Bibi who was awarded a death sentence.
The protesters urged the federal government to suspend discriminatory laws including 295 B/C, which was being used for revengeful activities against minorities.
They said that Aasia was innocent and due to a personal grudge she was trapped in a fake case of blasphemy. Addressing

PARIS: World leaders hailed the release of Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi from years of house arrest on Saturday but warned the country's junta not to restrict her, even as a senior government official insisted she was "completely free".
US President Barack Obama said that "while the Burmese regime has gone to extraordinary lengths to isolate and silence Aung San Suu Kyi, she has continued her brave fight for democracy, peace, and change in Burma. She is a hero of mine

ISLAMABAD: Close aides of former president Pervez Musharraf will release a charge sheet against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and his brother Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday (tomorrow).
The charge sheet against the Sharif Brothers will be a response to the PML-N's charge sheet against Musharraf released on October 11. The PML-N charge sheet had demanded Musharraf's trial under Article 6 and called on the government to bring him back to the country through Interpol.