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LAHORE - The city will be drug-free in a period of three years under the Lahore Drug-Free City Project, ANF Deputy Director General Muhammad Altaf Qumar said on Thursday. Addressing a seminar at Government College for Women Samanabad, arranged in joint collaboration of ANF and Aghaz-e-Nau, Qumar said the Lahore city had been divided into six zones to achieve the objective of a drug-free city.
He said non-government organizations were creating awareness among the masses about the

LONDON - Britain cut its economic growth forecast, on Wednesday, and said inflation would remain above target this year and next in a budget that stuck to ambitious deficit-busting goals. Seeking to support a faltering economy, Finance Minister George Osborne said corporation tax would be cut by two percentage points to 26 percent from April, rather than by just the one point originally planned. A levy on banks would be increased to help pay for it. Osborne also announced a surprise

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim denied on Monday that he was the man filmed having sex with an unidentified woman, describing the allegation as a "malicious slander" designed to discredit him politically.
The charges could tarnish the reputation of the former deputy premier, who is already involved in a protracted legal battle involving allegations that he had sex with a former male aide, and undermine the opposition's efforts to stem a recent slide in

INDIAN WELLS - Serbia's Novak Djokovic continued his blistering pace this season by beating Roger Federer to reach the Indian Wells final and snatch the Swiss star's world number two ranking. Djokovic reached Sunday's title match at the $4.5 million ATP Masters 1000 event, where he will take on Rafael Nadal, by defeating Federer 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 Saturday to extend his match winning streak this season to 17.
"I am playing the best tennis of my life," said Djokovic, who won the

TOKYO - Japan restored power to a crippled nuclear reactor on Sunday in its race to avert disaster at a plant wrecked by an earthquake and tsunami that are estimated to have killed more than 15,000 people in one prefecture alone.
Three hundred engineers have been struggling inside the danger zone to salvage the six-reactor Fukushima plant in the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl 25 years ago. In one remarkable story of survival, an 80-year-old woman and 16-year-old

TOKYO - One of six tsunami-crippled nuclear reactors appeared to stabilise on Saturday as Japan raced to restore power to the stricken power plant to cool it and prevent a catastrophic release of radiation. Engineers reported some rare success after fire trucks sprayed water for several hours on reactor No.3, widely considered the most dangerous at the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex because of its use of highly toxic plutonium. "The situation there is stabilising somewhat,"

ISLAMABAD - Upon the conclusion of the 3rd parliamentary year, PILDAT analysis reveals that there has been negligible change in the overall performance of the 13th National Assembly of Pakistan in its 3rd year and therefore the need for systemic reforms and improvement is as pressing as was a year ago.
A snapshot of performance shows that: 73% of the MNAs questions remained unanswered during the year. Average attendance of MNAs improved four percent from the previous year: 66% in

PALLEKELE - Pakistan batsman Mohammad Hafeez admitted on Monday that he and fellow struggling opener Ahmed Shahzad have let their team down, but a World Cup blitz could be just one innings away. Hafeez and Shahzad have managed opening partnerships of 11, 28 and 16 in three matches so far, a performance which captain Shahid Afridi and coach Waqar Younis have already insisted must improve.
Despite the lack of good starts, Pakistan's middle-order has fired to help the team win all

WASHINGTON - US national security officials say progress is being made to persuade Pakistan to free a CIA contractor held on murder charges but that Washington could take punitive diplomatic and financial action if the case is not resolved soon.
The officials said they believed private discussions between Islamabad and Washington have cooled anti-American rhetoric that erupted in Pakistan after the arrest of Raymond Davis, a former US Special Forces soldier employed by the CIA

CAIRO - The Arab League said on Saturday it was important that a March summit goes ahead in Baghdad due to what it described as "the grave, fateful developments" in the Arab world. Libya, which holds the rotating presidency of the Arab leaders' summit, said this week that the Baghdad meeting would be postponed because of the situation in the region, where protests are challenging leaders from Bahrain to Algeria.
The presidents of Egypt and Tunisia have been toppled by mass

KARACHI - Hundreds of youngsters from Sindh, and particularly from Karachi, hoping to head to the Gulf and Europe for employment, are falling prey to fake overseas recruiting agencies in the city that operate under the alleged patronage of Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) authorities, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The FIA has received many complaints against fake overseas recruiting agencies, but no punitive action has been taken against these agencies due to the influential

JAHANIAN - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Makhdoom Javed Hashmi Saturday said the system patronised by the United States was breathing its last around the world, adding that American hegemony would soon end and a new revolution had erupted in the third world.
Hashmi was talking to the party workers at the residence of Hakim Abdul Majid Sulemani.
"Our leadership is giving time only to promote the business abroad. Those claiming to love Pakistan if devote their

BRUSSELS - NATO-led forces have regained the momentum against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan but still face a tough fight this year, the head of the alliance's military committee said Thursday. Italian Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola told a news conference he was confident the international military mission would complete its objective of handing over security responsibility to Afghan forces nationwide by 2014.
"The tide has been reversed, that is in my humble assessment," he said

KARACHI - JUI chief Fazlur Rehman said on Saturday that the disturbance in Karachi was a conspiracy of the government to foil the planned rally and public meeting in Karachi of religious forces.
Speaking at a press conference after a meeting of Tahreek-e-Namoos Risalat, a platform comprising various religious parties, he said that the government's conspiracy will not work, and planned rally and public meeting will go ahead as planned. He also condemned to what he called a

RIYADH - A top Saudi cleric has slammed suicide attacks by Islamist martyrdom-seekers as devilish acts that do not qualify as jihad, a Saudi newspaper reported
on Friday.
"He (a suicide bomber) claims to be a mujahed (holy warrier) in the name of Allah, but he is not. He is fighting in the name of the devil who has tempted him and convinced him" to carry out the attack, said Sheikh Saleh al-Fawzan.
"A Muslim is prohibited from killing himself," the member of the Saudi

ISLAMABAD - Central leader of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and prominent lawyer Aitzaz Ahsen on Monday dispelled the impression that the incumbent government faced any threat and that no 'big change' was 'visible' on the political horizon.
"Unless and until no-confidence motion is moved against Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in the National Assembly, he will enjoy the majority and any threat to the present government is unlikely at the moment", he said while talking to

LAHORE - Pakistan team manager Intikhab Alam is confident that the year 2011 be different for the national side and will also improve the image of Pakistan cricket. "I am confident the way things are going now, this year will see improved performance and a better image of Pakistan cricket," Intikhab said in a television interview.
The former Test captain said the reason for his optimism was not only the improving spirit and discipline among the players, but also the recent steps