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RABAT - Several hundred people gathered Sunday in Rabat and Casablanca for the start of protests expected in several Moroccan cities to call for further democratic reforms and social justice.
More than 1,000 people, including many Islamists, rallied in Rabat in the morning. "The Moroccan people demand change!" protesters shouted in the city, calling for the government to resign and holding up placards reading: "For the freedom and dignity of the Moroccan people."
No major

LAHORE - Contrary to the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO)'s claims regarding a reduction in load shedding, the city witnessed even greater power closures on Thursday. A couple of days ago, PEPCO officials assured the electricity consumers of a 'better summer' but the situation is entirely different. The power shortfall in the recent days has increased sharply owing to an increase in electricity demand while electricity production remained stagnant.PEPCO Director General

MOSCOW - A US team may arrive in Russia next month to inspect the country's latest range of nuclear missiles under a new disarmament treaty signed by the two sides this year, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov exchanged documents formally bringing the new START treaty into force in Munich on February 5. Besides slashing existing nuclear warhead and missile ceilings, the treaty allows the two sides to inspect

KARACHI - The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) is about to start work on K-IV Water Supply Project with an estimated cost of Rs 20 billion to meet the increasing demand of water, KWSB Managing Director (MD) Misbahuddin Farid said in a meeting on Tuesday.
The meeting was also attended by Karachi District Coordination Officer (DCO) Muhammad Hussain Syed, Municipal Services Department Executive District Officer Masood Alam, officials of the City District Government Karachi

KARACHI - Students from class I to IV in the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) schools will be taught about road safety, emergency, disaster and rescue issues in their curriculum. A sub-committee has also been formed by the CDGK's Transport and Communication Department (TCD) while the CDGK will be supported by the NED University faculty and the Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Traffic.
According to the minutes of a recently held meeting, the TCD executive district officer

LAHORE - The Matriculation Annual Examination 2011, to be held under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore, is starting from today.
As many as 461,856 candidates are appearing in the exams for which 624 examination centres in five districts have been established, while special squads and monitoring teams have also been formed. BISE Chairman Prof Dr Akram Kashmiri, addressing a press conference on Friday, said the board had completed all arrangements for

KARACHI - Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) is set to launch much-awaited margin trading system (MTS) from March 7, 2011, that would bolster the trading volume and sentiment of the market, sources told Pakistan Today on Thursday. From Thursday the KSE has started the mock trading of the shares to be traded under the Margin Trading System with the aim to streamline the system ahead of its launching. Sources said that Finance Minister Hafeez Sheikh is scheduled to visit Karachi Stock

BEIJING - A fleet of 50 electric cabs has started operation in suburb areas of the Chinese capital Beijing. The cabs, manufactured by the Beijing-based Foton Motor Group, will mainly operate in suburban Yanqing district where the government has set up a recharging hub and 25 recharging posts at street sides, city traffic officials said Tuesday. Each of the electric cabs can run 140 kilometers on full battery and saves more than 30,000 yuan on fuel per year, a spokesman with the Foton

SEOUL - South Korea will start carbon emission trading from January 1 of 2015, local media said on Saturday quoting senior government officials, while industry still strongly opposes the plan. A presidential secretary told Reuters this month South Korea, OECD's fastest-growing carbon polluter, would start cap-and-trade between 2013 and 2015 after strong opposition from industry to the government's initial plan to start in 2013.
Powerful export-led conglomerates in Asia's

KARACHI - The City District Government Karachi (CDGK), which has previously completed various development projects in the metropolis spanning over eight years, is about to start maintenance work of the city's infrastructure, sources have informed Pakistan Today.
Various committees working under 50 executive engineers (XENs) of the Works and Services Department (W&SD) are conducting survey of main corridors, flyovers, underpasses and other roads to prepare a list for maintenance

LAHORE - In response to the PML-N's decision to part ways with the PPP in Punjab, PPP leaders on Friday renewed their pledge to continue politics of reconciliation in the province. However, other political forces called the move "a start of a new power game in Punjab".
Federal Minister for Labour and Manpower Khurshid Shah said the PPP would play the opposition's role in Punjab, adding however, that it would continue its policy of reconciliation. He said PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh looked to put his government's recent corruption troubles behind him and make up for lost time as a new parliamentary session opened on Monday. Opposition parties wrecked the last session of 2010 by holding protests every day demanding a probe into the fraud-tainted sale of telecom licences in 2008 that could have cost the country up to $40 billion.
In a bid to end the deadlock, the government has reportedly agreed to hold a

KARACHI - Expressing concern at the grave condition of the national economy, Pakistan Business Council (PBC) has asked the government to implement urgent steps to steer the derailed economy back on track. The PBC members said that the council is ready to fulfill its role as a catalyst to support the government in crafting a precise agenda to put economy on path towards stability and growth.
Former Commerce Minister Abdul Razzak Dawood, MCB Chief and PBC Chairman Mian Muhammad

LAHORE - Pakistan coach Waqar Younis and team manager Intikhab Alam called Tuesday for a fresh start for the national side after three key players were handed lengthy bans on corruption charges. "It is important that it's finished now and we can start afresh," Waqar told reporters at Lahore airport.
"We can now make a fresh start after a lot of controversies affected Pakistan cricket and I am happy that it's over now." Waqar was coach during England tour where the scandal

KARACHI - Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah spoke at the Livestock, Fisheries, Dairy and Poultry Exhibition and Seminar at Karachi Expo Centre organised by Sindh Board of Investment.
On the occasion, he said that particularly Sindh was an agricultural oriented province and besides food items, orchards, and vegetables, it is famous for prominent breeds in cattle, dairy farming, having vast area in coastal belt with fisheries, shrimps and poultry.
He said that the best

SEOUL - South Korea will start carbon emission trading between 2013 and 2015 after strong opposition from industry to the government's initial plan to start in 2013, a presidential secretary said on Monday.
The decision is a breakthrough for the country's powerful export-led conglomerates which have been pushing for a delay given competitor nations such as Japan and the United States have delayed or shelved emissions trading schemes for now.
"It is no longer an issue

MUNICH - The president of Afghanistan said on Sunday he would announce the start of a process to transfer the responsibility for security to Afghan forces from international forces on March 21. NATO agreed with President Hamid Karzai at a summit in November to begin the handover to Afghan forces this year with the aim of completing the process by the end of 2014.
The Western military alliance has said it hopes to launch the process, which is aimed at a gradual reduction of the