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LAHORE - Gender Reform Action Plan's (GRAP) Punjab chapter is holding a "Spring Festival" in Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) on Thursday (today) with Pakistan Today as its media partner. This festival is aimed at providing up-to-date knowledge to our future generation of efforts being made by Punjab government to address gender biases in the society and to develop alliances with the youth to take forward gender reforms.
PROFILE: GRAP has been working as a flagship

ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE - After the government's failure to convince the All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) to continue the two-day gas curtailment, the association announced an indefinite strike across the country from 12 midnight today (Wednesday). The Petrol Retailers Association (PPRA) will also support this strike and will keep their petrol pumps closed in Lahore. APCNGA Supreme Council Chairman Ghiyas Abdullah Paracha told reporters that all CNG stations in Punjab would go on an

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court will today (Wednesday) take up for preliminary hearing the presidential reference seeking a review of the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanging case. A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani will conduct the hearing and will be assisted by the attorney general.
The reference was filed by President Asif Ali Zardari under his advisory jurisdiction to seek an opinion on revisiting the

LAHORE - The eighth All Pakistan National Bank Cricket Cup 2011 will start from Tuesday (today) at Okara. On the opening day, Khanewal will face Okara at the Okara Gymkhana ground. The match will start at 10am. Mr Shakeel will be the umpire for the match.

LAHORE - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) senior party members from Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been called in the presidency to discuss the party strategy regarding Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) case in the Supreme Court on Tuesday (today). The PPP sources said the meeting was called by the President Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the co-chairman of PPP, to discuss the reference about the re-opening of the ZAB case, relief for people in the upcoming budget and

LAHORE - The Government College University (GCU), Lahore Career Guidance and Placement Center will organise one of its biggest career fairs for university students and Old Ravians today (Tuesday) on the varsity campus. The career fair will allow final year students and graduates to explore career opportunities at reputed organisations besides giving them opportunities to avail foreign scholarships.
Around 30 well-reputed banks, NGOs and multinational companies are coming to the

KARACHI - A workshop titled 'Advances in ecophysiology of salt tolerance' will commence at the University of Karachi today (Monday). A university official said on Sunday that the three-day workshop is being held under the auspices of the Institute of Sustainable Halophyte Utilisation, University of Karachi. Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr. Muhammad Qaiser will be the chief guest at the inaugural session. The event will focus on recent

ISLAMABAD - Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha will leave for Washington today (Monday) to iron out ISI's differences with the CIA. Sources told Online that the purpose of Pasha's visit was to remove some misunderstandings between ISI and CIA which arose over the issue of Raymond Davis.
Sources said General Pasha would also raise the issue of drone attacks in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. The ISI director general has been invited by CIA

ISLAMABAD - On the call of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, the Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) will hold a demonstration today (Monday) in front of the Parliament House to protest against the non-implementation of 7th Wage Award, targeted killing of media persons, non-payment of salaries and illegal retrenchment of workers from newspapers and news channels.
The RIUJ has urged the journalists, media workers and civil society members to participate in the

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court will today (Monday) start hearing a petition against the dissolution of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to the provinces and the government's petition seeking a review of the court's verdict on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).
The petition against the HEC dissolution will be heard by a three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani. Senior advocate Anwar Mansoor

WAH CANTT - Around 3,000 Sikh yatris, mostly from India, are expected to arrive on Monday (today) at Gurdwara Punja Sahib, Hassan Abdal, to offer religious rituals in connection with 312th Besakhi festival.
Talking to newsmen here at Hassan Abdal on Sunday, Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Deputy Secretary Syed Faraz Abbas said that Indian Sikh yatris would arrive at Hassanabdal on Monday (today) through special trains via Wagha border for a three-day stay to offer religious

LAHORE - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is using all its political devices and diplomacy to astound the masses and its rivals in Punjab by putting up a successful public show of power in Lahore today.
That is why the party has placed all its major leaders, as well as MQM office bearers in Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to coax the masses in Punjab to attend its meeting titled Istahkam-e-Pakistan. Party sources told Pakistan Today that MQM chief Altaf

LAHORE - National Project Management Conference (NPMC) will kick off today in Lahore to tackle the development in Pakistan. More than 150 professionals will attend the conference including most renowned speakers including the Expert Systems CEO Khalid Ahad Khan, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Prof Rizwan Amin Sheikh, LUMS Associate Prof Dr Faheem-ul-Islam and others.
As a part of PMI's focus on education and advocacy for the project management profession and its

ISLAMABAD - After a delay of five months, the barge-mounted rental power plant of a Turkish company, Karkey Karadeniz Elektrik Uretim AS, will undergo commissioning test to prove reliable supply of 230MW power in Karachi on Saturday.
An official source at the Ministry of Water and Power said that the test would continue for two hours and certified by independent engineers to ensure that the plant could provide power consistently without any hiccup. After approval, the rental

LAHORE - The 5th Acquafina Royal Palm Golf Team Championship will commence at the exquisite and testing par 72 Royal Palm Golf Course on Friday (April 8) and the team event and individual gross competition will be contested over three rounds with final round to be played on Sunday.
Addressing a press conference here, Lt Gen (retd) Mohammad Tariq, Captain Golf, said that around a dozen teams have entered and a couple are expected more before the events starts. The press

ISLAMABAD - World Health Day was observed on April 7 across the globe including Pakistan. This year theme of the World Health Day is "Antimicrobial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow."
Each year, the World Health Organization selects a key global health issue and organizes international, regional and local events on the day and throughout the year to highlight the selected area. World Health Day 2011 focuses on antimicrobial resistance and its global spread.

LAHORE - The full dress rehearsal of 71st Samsung Punjab Games was carried out here at the Punjab Stadium on Wednesday while the formal opening of the games will be held today (Thursday) at 7.30 pm when Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif will declare the event open.
Organising secretary Idris Haider Khawaja said that all the nine divisions of the province have reached Lahore and took active part in the rehearsal. He said that different events will start at different