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FAISALABAD - Government College University Faisalabad Vice Chancellor Professor Doctor Zakir Hussain has said that Sindh Taas Water Treaety between Pakistan and India has deprived Pakistan of three main rivers while by constructing dams on remaining two rivers, India has laid down a plan to turn Pakistan into a barren territory.
He was addressing as a chief guest at the closing ceremony of a 10-day training workshop on Farm Water Management organised by Water Management Research

JERUSALEM: Israel and the Palestinians are sending top officials to Washington for talks, the two sides announced on Wednesday, to try to rescue a Middle East peace process in crisis.
The peace process appeared to be in tatters after Washington on Tuesday admitted defeat in its efforts to secure an Israeli freeze on settlement building, the Palestinians' condition for resuming direct peace talks.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat is to meet US Secretary of State

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly courtyard turned into a battlefield on Wednesday when students from various government educational institutions trespassed four security barricades in an attempt to enter assembly premises and even tried pulling down the main door of the Punjab Assembly.
The students, led by the Joint Action Committee of Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association (PPLA), were protesting against the privatisation of public schools and colleges outside the Punjab

LAHORE: After every thirty minutes a group of four Daewoo buses are seen entering and leaving its terminal located at the Ferozepur Road near the Kalma Chowk congesting the traffic on the chowk while taking U turns to commute between its terminal and the workshop located opposite to its terminal.
While entering the city from the motorway the buses turn right from the canal bank on Maulana Shaukat Ali Road towards Jinnah Hospital and joins Usmania Road and Main Boulevard Garden

BRISBANE: England are on course to salvage the opening Ashes Test after a dominant batting display to overturn a massive innings deficit into a mounting lead on the fourth day at the Gabba on Sunday.
England surged back after Saturday's fruitless third day in the field to trail by 221 runs and hit the front on the back of a ground record stand between skipper Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook.
At the close, the Ashes holders, cheered on by their chanting Barmy Army fans, were

GUANGZHOU: China's Wang Shixian shocked world number one Wang Xin to win the women's Asian Games badminton title Saturday as the hosts completed a clean-sweep of all seven table tennis gold.
The action came as India inflicted more pain on arch-rivals Pakistan in the field hockey, storming into the semi-finals with a 3-2 win for their fourth success over their bitter-rivals this year.
Victories by their paddlers and shuttlers helped push China's gold medal haul to 138 while

ISLAMABAD: The government tabled the Reformed General Sales Tax (GST) Bill in both houses of the parliament on Friday as coalition partners - the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the Awami National Party (ANP) and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl - joined the opposition to reject the proposed controversial law.
While the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the PML-Quaid (PML-Q) announced that they would block the passage of the reformed GST bill in the National Assembly and the