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KUJI - Survivors searched for loved ones on Monday in emergency centres across the northeast coast of Japan, with thousands of people still missing after an earthquake and tsunami that probably killed more than 10,000. "I am looking for my parents and my older brother," a weeping Yuko Abe, 54, said at an emergency centre in Rikuzentakata, a nearly flattened town of 24,500 people in far-northern Iwate prefecture. "Seeing the way the area is, I think perhaps they did not make it. I also

PESHWAR - The government should find a political solution to the problem of militancy which has ruined the country instead of complying with the US' wish of 'do more,' central leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Iqbal Zafar Jaghra Saturday said.
He was speakint at a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club.
He said militants were not only killing innocents but were also affecting the business and education.
He maintained the PML (N) Chief Mian Nawaz Sharif was the

KARACHI - Home-based workers (HBWs), 65 percent of whom comprise women, have demanded ratification and implementation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention C 177. Representatives of these women, through the platform of the National Organisation of Working Communities and Home Net said the ratification of the international law would help the regularisation of the unregistered workers, who are exploited due to their status. "We are not only denied the officially

RAS LANUF - Britain, France and Gulf states on Monday said they were seeking UN authority for a no-fly zone over Libya, as Muammar Gaddafi's warplanes counter-attacked against rebels and aid officials said a million people were in need.
Rebels swiftly rejected an olive branch offered by an associate of Gaddafi, and fighting escalated around one of the country's key oil ports. The ageing autocrat warned that if he fell thousands of refugees would "invade Europe". With civilians

KARACHI - US President Barrack Obama and the United Kingdom have condemned and expressed deep sorrow and grief over the assassination of minorities' minister Shahbaz Bhatti. "I am deeply saddened by the assassination of Pakistan's Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti today in Islamabad, and condemn in the strongest possible terms this horrific act of violence," a White House statement quoted the president as saying. The statement was issued by Office of the Press Secretary on

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan will seek conversion of 50 percent of its annual diesel imports from Kuwait to grant along with the proposal to extension credit facility from 60 days to 90 days. An official source on Friday said the proposals would be discussed with the leadership of Kuwait during President Asif Ali Zardari's two-day official visit to the country.
Pakistan imports nearly 3.4 million tonnes of diesel and 1 million tonne of furnace oil from Kuwait annually. The government is

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Wednesday informed the National Assembly that his ministry was devising a new strategy to tackle terrorism by introducing a new performa for foreigners and Pakistanis visiting abroad.
"Under the new mechanism, which will be introduced within a few days, there will be a proper check on foreign scholarships offered to Pakistani students, while Pakistani artistes visiting other countries will also have to seek a no-objection certificate

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly on Tuesday referred a bill pertaining to amend the Constitution to a committee while another bill was withdrawn and four reports of the National Assembly standing committees were submitted to the House.
The Bill to further amend the Civil Servants Act 1973, titled as the Civil Servants (Amendment) Bill 2008, was moved by MNAs Dr Donya Aziz, Khurram Dastgair Khan, Ghulam Hyder Samejo and others. Moving the Bill, Khurram Dastagir said the bill

NEW DELHI - The Indian government will seek a peaceful resolution of all issues with Pakistan through talks as long as Islamabad does not allow its soil to be used for terrorist activities against India, Indian President Pratibha Patil said on Monday.
"With Pakistan, we seek a peaceful resolution of issues through a meaningful dialogue as long as Pakistan does not allow its soil to be used for terrorist activities against India," PTI quoted her as saying in her address to a joint

ISLAMABAD - The government is likely to seek more time from the PML-N for the implementation of its 10-point reforms agenda during the stock taking exercise on Tuesday. PML-N had announced on February 15 that it would hold no more parleys with the government on reforms agenda and would hold stock taking on the implementation of reforms on February 22 to decide its future course of action.
It had categorically linked support to the government's plans for additional revenue

KARACHI - Pakistan would seek Japanese assistance in five broad areas including trade, development, security, energy and institution-building during the upcoming visit of President Asif Ali Zardari to Japan. The president is likely to visit Japan by the end of current month as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sought proposals from various government institutions, trade bodies and chambers of commerce for enhancing the existing trade volume between the two countries, sources say.