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LAHORE - Maulana Fazlur Rahman, head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F, in an exclusive interview has said that the destruction of educational institutions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA is nothing new, as similar crimes are committed in wars, reported Radio Free Europe.
He was asked about the destruction of schools in tribal areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. "Look, this is war and such crimes are committed from all parties," Rahman said. "In this connection, the leadership of the Afghan

VIEUX FORT - Pakistan team manager Intikhab Alam has promised that Caribbean fans will be attracted to the style of play of the visiting Pakistani team. The Pakistanis made a quiet arrival in the Caribbean, when they touched down at the Hewanorra International Airport in the south of this island, but Alam said that belied the style of play fans can expect from his relatively young side.
"I have brought a very young side with me, and I am quite sure you are going to enjoy the type

ST JOHN'S - Reports that senior players in the West Indies team may be dropped permanently have been greatly exaggerated, Chief Executive Officer of the West Indies Cricket Board Ernest Hilaire said Saturday.
West Indies have excluded former captains Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle, and Ramnaresh Sarwan, their three most capped players, from their squad for the first the opening exchanges in their home series against Pakistan, starting this coming week. The move has prompted

ST JOHN'S - Chief executive of the West Indies Cricket Board Ernest Hilaire has tried to allay fears that senior members of the West Indies team have been sidelined permanently. The comments from Hilaire come following selections of squads for the Twenty20 and first two One-day Internationals against Pakistan later this month in his homeland of St Lucia.
Experienced batsmen Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan as well as left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn have been excluded

TEHRAN - Iran has called on the UN Security Council to protect opposition activists in Bahrain, where, it said, unrest and suppression could destabilise the entire region, the official IRNA news agency said on Friday. Tehran has been outspoken in its criticism of the Bahraini Sunni Muslim ruling family's suppression of protests by members of the Shi'ite majority.
Bahrain's Gulf Arab allies -- some of which sent troops to the island state to bolster government forces -- have

DUBAI - Bahrain's foreign minister said on Friday the Gulf Arab state was not trying to dissolve the biggest opposition party, in comments that came after the United States criticised legal action against the group, Wefaq. Bahrain's Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs said on Thursday it would dissolve Wefaq and another group in Bahrain's toughest crackdown yet on Shi'ite dissidents who led an uprising to demand more say in the Sunni-ruled monarchy. "A clarification: Bahrain is

COPENHAGEN - Danish artist Kurt Westergaard, known for his controversial caricature of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) , said Friday that he had not been informed of a trial against him in Jordan and said that he would in any case not attend.
"I have not heard about this trial and have not been informed," the 75-year-old cartoonist told AFP when asked about upcoming court proceedings in Amman.
Zakarya Sheikh, spokesman for a group of local media outlets that sued Westergaard in

NEW DELHI - India's Tata Chief Ratan Tata has confirmed for the first time that his half-brother Noel Tata is in the running to replace him as head of the giant steel-to-telecom conglomerate. Ratan Tata, one of India's most powerful industrialists who has propelled the group's global expansion, is to step down in December 2012 at age 75 and the question of who will succeed him has been a subject of intense speculation. Noel Tata, a senior Tata executive, "is one of the candidates that

KARACHI - To eliminate targeted killing from the city, the government has adopted a two-pronged strategy under which it is contacting political parties and also taking administrative measures, said Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah. He said this at a press conference after presiding over a meeting regarding the law and order situation at the Chief Minister's House on Wednesday. This was the first meeting of the chief minister holding the portfolio of the Home Department, after

SANYA - Japanese authorities may be exaggerating the scope of the country's nuclear disaster to reduce the liabilities of insurance companies, Russia's nuclear chief said on Wednesday. Japanese officials on Tuesday upgraded the severity of the emergency at the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant to a 7, putting it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the world's worst. "It is hard for me to assess why the Japanese colleagues have taken this decision.
I suspect,

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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

HAFIZABABD - Sunni Ittehad Council Pakistan central chief Sahibzada Fazal Karim MNA has said the government has failed to curb terrorism.
Addressing the Sunni Ittehad Council workers at Jaamia Masjid Al-Farooq Hafizabad the other day, he said the rulers were playing in the hands of Americans and their policies had been completely failed.
Under a planned international conspiracy, the Islamic identity was being tarnished, but those who gave sacrifices for establishing Pakistan

DOHA - The African Union is seeking a way to establish a ceasefire in Libya and is trying to convince rebels in the eastern city of Benghazi to join in the effort, a spokesman for the group said on Wednesday.
Despite the collapse this week of an African Union-sponsored peace plan, Nouredin Mezni, spokesman for the chairman of the African Union Commission, said he hoped a ceasefire could be established "hopefully within days or hours."
"It is up to the people of Libya when

ISLAMABAD - The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday released a programme note on Pakistan, saying the real GDP growth was unlikely to exceed 2.8 percent during the current fiscal year due to adverse security developments which continue to hurt domestic and foreign investor's confidence, while electricity shortages continue to prevent the economy from achieving its potential. The IMF programme note said the fiscal policy had been affected by low economic activity and a difficult

ISLAMABAD - Hearing a petition against the worsening law and order in Balochistan, the Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request by the advocate general for conducting in-camera hearing on the case. A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing a petition filed by the Balochistan High Court Bar Association president against target killings, abductions for ransom and the overall poor law and order in

WASHINGTON - A top US general expressed concern to Congress on Tuesday about the expanding reach of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, warning it was no longer solely focused on India or even South Asia. LeT regarded as one of the largest and best-funded Islamic militant organisations in the region, is blamed for the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people in India's commercial capital. The group is said to be nurtured by Pakistan's Inter-Services

KARACHI - The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that the migration of people from the arid zone areas of the province due to drought has forced their children to leave schools where they were enrolled. The project director of the WFP's Assistance to Girls Primary Education in Sindh (AGPES), Dr Shamaroza has informed Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah in a report that students in the arid zone areas are not dropping out of schools due to the closure of the project, but the actual