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KARACHI - There is a need to formulate a national media policy - one that can bring about positive change in society and perpetuate the reality of women's vital role in building countries, said Sindh Women's Development Minister Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto on Friday while speaking at a seminar titled 'Women as agents of change." Arranged by the Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA)-Pakistan in collaboration with Women Media Centre (WMC), the seminar was organised to deliberate ways and

KARACHI - The pre-symposium workshops of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC)'s 48th annual medical moot would begin on Saturday (tomorrow). Over 20 workshops on wide-ranging subjects would include sessions on 'Improving Medical Response to Bomb Blasts', 'Effective Communication for Health Professionals', 'Primary Trauma Care', and 'Is Poison a Weapon of Mass Destruction.'
The symposium with the theme 'Health Profession and Community Understandings and Misunderstandings'

LAHORE - The second semi-final of the 26th M Yaseen Akhter Memorial Cricket tournament will be played between P&T Gym and Akhter Abdul Rehman Club on March 17 at Township ground.
The 20 overs match will start at 12:30 PM. Riffat Zaheer and Kaleem Asghar will be the umpires. Model Town Club have already qualified for the final.

LAHORE - The Pakistan Hockey Federation Executive Board will be meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) to take the final decisions on a number of issues. During the meeting, the team managements of the senior and junior teams will be finalised. The members will also review a number of complaints the federation received during the national and junior championships held at Faisalabad and Bahawalpur recently. Talking to journalists here on Monday, PHF Secretary Asif Bajwa said that apart from

ISLAMABAD - After having passed on the complete tariff hike on to the consumers by the National Electric Power Regulatory Power (NEPRA), the government would on Monday (tomorrow) notify an imposition of two percent surcharge on power tariff, applicable from April 1.
An official source said the IMF had asked for an increase in power tariff, but the government informed that the determined power tariff had been completely passed on to the consumers. The power tariff could be

LAHORE - Pakistan's football coach Tariq Lutfi hopes his young team will develop into international-caliber unit particularly as in two matches against Palestinethey conceded only two goals in 180 minutes. "It is normal for the public to expect a lot from this game but it is not fair to judge these young players because they need time to develop.
If you expect a lot, it will put a lot of pressure on them," said Tariq.
"You do not take results without giving time for

LAHORE - The second match of the friendly series between Pakistan and Palestine will be played on Friday at Karachi's Peoples Sports Complex.
The match will be the fourth clash between the two teams. Karachi's football followers will get a chance to witness a FIFA-recognized international game after a lapse of more than five years.
The last time Karachi hosted an international match was on March 1, 2006, when Pakistan faced UAE in the 14th Asian Cup Qualifiers. Palestine

LAHORE - Palestine are the first soccer team to visit Pakistan in the last four years since Lahore hosted the international match in 2007 when Pakistan faced the then-Asian Champion Iraq in World Cup qualifier. The Tuesday's Lahore clash will be the third between the two teams in soccer history.
Palestine were 3-0 winners on February 18, 2006 when Pakistan was in training camp at Manama, Bahrain for 14th Asia Cup QR preparation under former coach Salman Sharida (Bahrain), the

SIALKOT - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has planned to show its power in the district as senior PPP leaders, the AJK president, the Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister and Makhdoom Amin Fahim, will address public meetings here.
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Raja Zulqarnain, Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Syed Mehdi Shah and Federal Industries Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim will jointly inaugurate several socio-economic development and public welfare-oriented projects worth

LAHORE: The 1st National Women Road Cycling Championship will be held on February 13 at Kasur. Secretary Pakistan Cycling Federation Idris Haider Khawaja said that for the promotion of cycling among women, the PCF is organising the championship with the collaboration of District Sports Committee Kasur.
This is a national level cycling event and the affiliated units of the PCF including Army, Railways, Wapda, Sui Southern Gas Company and all the four provinces including FATA will

LAHORE - The 5th Regional Inter-district Senior Women's Cricket Tournament 2010-11 will roll into action from Monday here at different venues of the city. Bushra Aitzaz, chairperson PCB women's wing, will inaugurate the championship at 12.30 pm at the Kinnaird College ground.
Twelve teams of the city are participating in the tournament. The final will be played on January 31.

ISLAMABAD - Perturbed by the consistent gas shortage in Punjab, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has convened a meeting of gas utility companies tomorrow (Wednesday) to ask them about their load management plans.
Sources at the Petroleum Ministry said the managing directors of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) would brief the PM on the issue of gas shortage in Punjab and would give recommendations to counter them.
The sources

LAHORE - The Khayaban-i-Aman Media Cup Cricket Tournament will roll into action from Wednesday.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Punjab Union of Journalists secretary Rana Azeem, organizing committee president Ehtishamul Haq and secretary Aqeel Ahmed informed that 32 teams of print and electronic media have been divided into four groups and the tournament will be played on knock out basis while some of the matches will be played under lights. Rana informed that an

LAHORE - The trials to select the Punjab Ju-Jitsu team will be held at 3 pm at the Allama Iqbal Medical Complex on January 8.
The selected players will take part in the 8th National Ju-Jitsu Championship. Shamshad Ali Kham, President Punjab Ju-Jitsu Association will supervise the trials, which will feature players from all the affiliated units.

DOHA - Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer front a make-or-break anti-corruption tribunal in Doha this week with the threat of life bans hanging over their heads.
The three face charges of spot-fixing during Pakistan's tour of England last year. It is alleged that they bowled deliberate no-balls - claims they all deny.
They were provisionally suspended by the ICC in October, with the world governing body's code of conduct carrying a minimum

ISLAMABAD - A delegation of Afghan Peace Council will arrive in Islamabad on Tuesday on a two-day visit to hold talks with Pakistani leadership and furnish a formal request for Islamabad's help for the success of ongoing 'reconciliation process' with the Taliban.
Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani will lead the delegation of Afghan Peace Council, which is visiting Pakistan on the invitation of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. The 70-member council was formed by the

LAHORE - The 2nd Neurointervention and Therapeutic Training workshop will be held from January 3 at the Lahore General Hospital (LGH) during which senior consultants, including interventional neurologist of Western General Hospital Edinburgh Dr Peter Keston, will deliver lectures and perform various interventional procedures of Neuroangiography, mostly under general anesthesia.
A number of young doctors from LGH, Shoukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, Sheikh Zyed Hospital and