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ASTANA - The campaign started Thursday for Kazakhstan's presidential election with a victory by strongman President Nursultan Nazarbayev so certain he has decided not even to bother campaigning. Nazarbayev, whose rule over Kazakhstan dates to before its independence from the Soviet Union, faces a challenge from only three relatively obscure candidates in the April 3 polls.
The president called the snap elections after scrapping a plan to hold a referendum on extending his term

Karachi - Acting on the directives of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has started razing illegal structures - including libraries and union council offices - built on the city's parks. A special operation started on Wednesday and would continue until the razing of constructions at 164 listed parks of city.
Additional EDO Revenue Matanat Ali Khan monitored the operation while Land Management-II District Officer Saif Abbas, Enforcement

KARACHI - The Department of International Relations of the University of Karachi (KU) has organised the third SAARC Simulation Exercise, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation Islamabad, from today (Monday) till March 3.
A KU official said on Sunday that 56 students from various universities of Pakistan would participate in the simulation exercise whose inaugural session is to be held today with KU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Pirzada Qasim Raza Siddiqui as the chief

BANGALORE - India look set to beef up their spin options for their blockbuster clash against England on Sunday as both sides face the first major Test of their World Cup credentials. India, strongly fancied to add a second World Cup trophy to their 1983 success, are expected to go into the day-night match with a second specialist spinner in addition to their clutch of part-timers.
Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla looks likely to join off-spinner Harbhajan Singh at the expense of paceman

Lahore - The third Pakistan Children's Film Festival will be launched on Saturday. Participants from 26 countries will participate in this five day long festival where 83 films will be screened. The festival has been organized by Little Art in collaboration with EyeBee. Little Art is a youth-led organization that engages children and youngsters in innovative artistic avenues.
The organization believes in promoting ideals of democracy, equality, civil rights, community,

LAHORE - The 2nd International Conference of Plant Scientists kicked off at the Government College University (GCU) Lahore on Tuesday under the auspices of Pakistan Botanical Society and GCU Botany Department. Botanists from Germany, Egypt, China, Canada, and Turkey and across Pakistan gathered at the varsity to deliberate on scientific solutions to food and fuel challenges.
GCU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Khalid Aftab chaired the opening session of the three-day conference. The

LAHORE - The second round of the Faysal Bank Pentangular Cup Cricket Tournament began here on Saturday. On the opening day of the four-day match, Punjab scored 347 runs for three with Mohammad Ayub scoring 117 runs while Azhar Ali, Imran Farhat and Taufeeq Umer hit half centuries against Sindh at the Gaddafi Stadium.
At LCCA ground, Saeed Anwar Jr missed century by five run but he along with Gulraiz Sadaf and Rizwan Haider took Balochistan total to 320 for nine against Federal

ISLAMABAD - Leading Danish Food Company Castus has commenced import of Pakistani dates from southern of Pakistan to produce healthy fruit bars for children in Denmark. It plans to import around 800 tonnes of dates each year with a total value of $650,000. This is the first time that Pakistan will be exporting dates to Denmark and it aims to develop a new niche for Pakistani products on the Danish market.
Castus is a well known Danish enterprise which has been producing fruit bars

LAHORE - An international colloquium started at LUMS on Saturday in Faiz Ahmed's honour, while Alhamra hosted an evening with Shabana Azmi, an eminent Indian actress and daughter of Faiz Ahmed's close friend; Kaifi Azmi; also a poet. The two-day international colloquim, to continue till February 13, features an array of scholars, writers, poets and theatre and TV personalities from all over the world; Pakistan, India, Canada, USA, and UK.
Some of the prominent speakers include

LAHORE - The 5th World Conference on 21st Century Mathematics 2011, the biggest ever international conference in Pakistan, will start today (Wednesday) at the Government College University (GCU), Lahore at 9:45am under auspices of the European Mathematical Society (EMS), International Mathematical Union (IMU), UNESCO, International Centre for Theoretical Physics Italy, Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences and the Higher Education Commission (HEC).
European Mathematical

DAKAR - Some 10,000 people marched through Dakar on Sunday at the start of the annual World Social Forum, an annual leftist gathering taking place as anti-government protests sweep the Arab world. The 11th edition of the forum, an alternative to the elite World Economic Forum held in the posh Swiss ski resort of Davos last week, brings together anti-globalisation activists opposed to capitalism.
This year participants are focusing on the popular revolt spreading across northern

LAHORE - The Pakistan Rugby Union will start the national team camp for the A5N for central zone here in Lahore on Sunday (today). Boys from Lahore, Punjab, Police, HEC, LUMS, Army, WAPDA and Railways will attend the camp.
President Pakistan Rugby Union Fawzi Kawaja said that this was a great opportunity for boys of the central zone to try out for the national team. He added hat the tournament was very important for Pakistan. He also declared 2011 as 'rugby year'. Pakistan is

LAHORE - Participants of the consultative workshop on "Formulation of National Policy for Home-Based Workers" on Friday discussed draft of the National Policy on Home-Based Workers and agreed to go ahead with it at the national level. The consultation was organised by the Labour and Manpower Ministry's Labour Welfare Wing in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and UN Women.
The workshop was attended by senior officials of the Punjab Labour Department,

LAHORE - Third international conference on medical education was inaugurated at the FJMC Thursday by President College of Physician and Surgeons Pakistan Prof Zafarullah. International delegates from UK, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore and USA are also attending the two-day gathering, planned to share with the rest of the world, the development have made in medical education in our part of world. In this connection, eight pre-conference workshops, attended by over 170 participants,

HUNZA - Water level in Attabad Lake, at Gojal valley, has started receding at about 7 inches per hour after Frontier Works Organization (FWO)'s detonation of the blocked spillway of Hunza river. Water has gone down by around 3.5 feet since opening of the spillway on Sunday.
A scale has been fixed near the lake to measure water level. Lower parts of the Gojal valley were dammed because of blockade of the river, as a result of Attabad landslide disaster that killed 19 persons

LAHORE - As the D-Day for the tainted trio approaches, one of the three players Mohammad Aamir has started training to prepare for the next month's World Cup. It is believed that the International Cricket Council has indicated that Aamir and Mohammad Asif might be exonerated while Salman Butt is likely to bear the brunt.
Salman, Asif and Amir were alleged to have accepted payment for bowling no-balls at pre-arranged times during the fourth Test against England at Lord's last

The ODI series between New Zealand and Pakistan which starts today, offers a final opportunity to both the teams to experiment with their 15-men squads for the World Cup.
Pakistan will aim to continue their winning momentum after a good show in the Test series. In their last two ODI series they took both England and South Africa to the wire before losing out in the final game of the series to lose 3-2.
Shahid Afridi and his charges will be aiming for early damage. Pakistan