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LAHORE: The Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) has announced three and four to five hours of load shedding in urban and rural areas, respectively, from December 26.
Addressing a press conference at WAPDA House on Friday, PEPCO MD Rasul Khan Mahsud called his organisation one of the biggest social welfare institutes in the country, as it was providing relief to the masses for Rs 2.86 per units. He said formal load shedding schedule would be announced in the coming days, as

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani will start the three-year extension period in his tenure from tomorrow (Monday).
General Kayani was due to retire from service on November 29, 2010 but was given an extension of three years by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on July 22.
Making the announcement in the shortest-ever televised speech by any Pakistani prime minister, Gilani said the vital decision was taken for the sake of the continuity of counterterrorism

ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan will consider deepening their cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking in Islamabad on November 24 and 25.
The ministers and senior officials of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan will discuss deepening their cooperation in their fight against drug trafficking in a series of meetings under the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The Minister of Counter Narcotics of Afghanistan Zarar Ahmad Moqbel Osmani, the

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Airlines' special flight operations for pilgrims returning after haj began on Sunday, albeit after a three-hour delay. The first returning haj flight arrived in Peshawar three hours behind schedule, with families of the pilgrims waiting in agony at the airport.
Religious Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi will arrive in Pakistan on Tuesday with important documents and proofs regarding irregularities in haj operations. Kazmi will present a detailed report

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) has summoned its joint parliamentary party meeting on Thursday at Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's residence to discuss prevalent political situation in the country.
Sources told Pakistan Today on Tuesday that party's top brass particularly the Chaudhry brothers would take the party lawmakers into confidence over the PPP and PML-Q parleys as well as the party's stance on a PML unification move.
They said a number of party MNAs

ISLAMABAD: Shortage of funds will force the World Food Programme (WFP) to cut 50 percent of its food supplies to flood victims from November 1, while it may roll back the operation completely by December.
"The WFP has extreme shortage of funds, as fresh funding is not available and we have no choice apart from cutting down our supplies by 50 percent. In fact we have stocks for November only. Now in this scenario we have made a strategy to cut down the food supplies to make them

ISLAMABAD: Close aides of former president Pervez Musharraf will release a charge sheet against PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and his brother Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday (tomorrow).
The charge sheet against the Sharif Brothers will be a response to the PML-N's charge sheet against Musharraf released on October 11. The PML-N charge sheet had demanded Musharraf's trial under Article 6 and called on the government to bring him back to the country through Interpol.