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LAHORE - A hundred and six golf playing amateurs will tee off at the challenging 18-hole, par 72 Royal Palm golf course in the Meezan Bank Golf Trophy on Saturday, February 26. The participating competitors include over 20 single handicappers, most of them capable of hitting the ball with fearsome rhythmic power.
Some of the competitors who fall in this group are Sardar Murad, Amir Mehmood, Faisal Malik, Shoaib Shams, Tariq Misbah, Mahd Zafar, Hussain Hamid and Asad I.A. Khan.

LAHORE - All major doctors' associations have announced holding awareness walk today regarding a special salary package for doctors, office bearers of doctors' associations said on Friday.
All major doctors' association including Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Young Doctors Association (YDA), Pakistan Dental Association (PDA) and Punjab Rural Doctors Association (PRDA) will start the awareness walk from Mayo Hospital to The Mall.
The walk is a part of the first phase of

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is set to decide in a meeting today whether or not to continue its alliance with the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) in Punjab, as well as to determine its future course of action following an increasingly sour fall-out with the PPP.
With the extended deadline to implement the PML-N's 10-point reforms agenda expiring today, the organising committee of the PML-N will discuss the party's future strategy vis-a-vis the PPP with two

LAHORE - All eyes are set upon the PML-N's crucial meeting in Islamabad today (Friday) that will likely decide the fate of politics of reconciliation and of PPP's ministers in the Punjab government. Following the failure of the PML-N and PPP teams to arrive at a conclusion over the 10-point agenda, the workers referendum, held by Nawaz Sharif in Model Town on Thursday, opposed further negotiations with the PPP and supported the PPP's ouster from the Punjab cabinet.
As a last

LAHORE - A court is to begin proceedings on Friday at a hearing into double murder charges against Raymond Davis, a US citizen who shot dead two men in Lahore last month, lawyers said.
The court where police filed double murder charges against Davis this month is to sit on Friday inside Kot Lakhpat jail, where Davis is being held, ahead of a High Court hearing to determine the diplomatic immunity issue, set for March 14.
"The hearing will be held inside Kot Lakhpat jail and

LAHORE - The Annual Sport Day of Kinnaird College will be held on February 25 (today) at Kinnaird College ground. The chief guest of the event will be Haseeb Athar, Sectary Higher Education and Begum Latif Khosa, wife of governor Punjab. The events starts at 10 am.

LAHORE - Members of the Ajoka Theatre, led by Madeeha Gauhar, along with Usman Peerzada from the Rafi Peer Theatre Workshop and Samina Ahmed from Samina Ahmed Productions will be holding a press conference at the Lahore Press Club on February 25 at 6 pm on Friday.
The conference will be held in response to the statement of the Interior Minister Rahman Malik in which he said that all artists will require an NOC prior to leaving the country. The statement came after prominent

LAHORE - Government College University (GCU) Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Khalid Aftab's 18-year tenure officially ends today and Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has ruled out the chance of any extension in his tenure. University officials and educationists are wondering who will be given the charge of GCU's additional VC, in Dr Aftab's absence.
GCU sources said Dr Aftab was reluctant to hand over the charge to anybody till the formal appointment of a VC, for which the

ISLAMABAD - A seven-member special bench of the Supreme Court will resume hearing today (Monday) on intra-court appeals of dysfunctional and retired judges of the superior courts, seeking overturning of the SC February 2 decision of charging them with contempt for taking oath under the PCO.
The bench consists of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, Justice Sarmad

MUMBAI - The High Court in Mumbai will decide today (Monday) the fate of Mohammed Ajmal alias Amir Kasab, the alleged terrorist of Pakistani origin who was sentenced to death by a special court for his role in the terror attacks on the financial capital.
The High Court is likely to vindicate the death sentence given to Kasab by the special Indian court last May, sources said.
According to Indian law, death sentence given by a lower court has to be confirmed by the High

LAHORE - 'Ehd-e-Wafa', sixth and the last telefilm of the season one of the drama series, 'Faseel-e-Jaan Se Aagay', will be aired today on PTV Home at 7:40 pm. The telefilm is based on real life story of two childhood friends Lt Atif Qayyum and Lt Zeeshan Khan, who embraced 'shahadat' during operation Rah-e-Raast in Swat and South Waziristan in 2009.
It has been written by Zafar Meraj and has been directed by Amir Yousaf. Cast includes Nirvaan Nadeem, Capt Imran Khan, Firdous

ISLAMABAD - The joint committee of the government and the PML-N will today (Tuesday) finalise a list of loans waived off on political grounds, and sort out differences on the accountability bill. An informed source said the two parties would discuss the mechanism of recovery of waived off loans, as the government was of the opinion that recovery was not possible without bringing in a legislation allowing the recovery of the written off loans.
"At present, there is no law under

ISLAMABAD - Two Sindh High Court (SHC) judges, Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany and Justice Amir Hani Muslim, will today (Monday) take oath as permanent judges of the Supreme Court. They will be administered oath by the CJP. The appointment summary of these judges was approved by President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday and a notification was issued by the Law Ministry.
With the inclusion of these judges, the number of SC will rise to 18 judges. Now the Supreme Court would be in a

LAHORE: The final of the 1st Raaziq Cricket Premier League will be played today (February 12) at Railway Stadium Lahore Ufone will take on Nestle and Chairman and CEO Raaziq Group Muhammad Nadeem Khan will be the chief guests along with international cricketer Nasir Jamshed.
The Raaziq CPL League is the tournament played among 12 teams divided in two groups. Four teams qualify for the semi-finals. In the first semi-final, Ufone beat Telenor and in the second match, Nestle beat

LAHORE: A meeting of the general council of the Pakistan Olympic Association will be held on February 12 (today) at 11:00 a.m. at Avari Hotel here under the chairmanship of Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Arif Hasan HI (M).
President POA Lt Gen (retd) will address the press conference at about 2.00 p.m. at the venue and brief the media about the decisions taken in the meeting.

LAHORE - The 111th Annual Sports competitions of the Government College University are going to start on Friday (today) and will continue till February 13 (Sunday). The opening ceremony, grand march past and athletics (boys and girls) will be held at Punjab University Old Campus Ground at 9:30am.
On the opening day, the following events will be held after the march past and oath; 800, 100 meters races, long jump, shot putt, 100m hurdles, 100m (girls), high jump, javelin throw,

ISLAMABAD - A smaller cabinet is likely to take oath today (Friday) with three-to-four new faces while talks to woo the leadership of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) to join the cabinet continued on Thursday.
President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday accepted the ministers' resignations. President's spokesman Farhatullah Babar said so far the president had not formally signed the ministers' resignation "but most likely the legal formality