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ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday asked the five-member committee formed for dialogue with all the parliamentary parties to immediately contact the leadership of the parties to ascertain their availability for consultation on national economic challenges.
"Since the budget was passed unanimously by the parliament, the financial challenges of the country also need to be shared to find solution through collective wisdom.
The people of Pakistan

LAHORE - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Friday expressed it concern and sorrow over killing of private TV channel reporter Wali Khan Babar in Karachi and demanded a full investigation in order to bring his killers to justice. The HRCP said that it was grieved at murder of yet another journalist in Pakistan and expressed sympathies and conveyed condolences to Babar's family and colleagues. The fact that Babar was the second Pakistan journalist killed in 2011

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday sought a reply from three retired army generals over leasing Pakistan Railways land in Lahore for a meager sum, causing a loss of over Rs 25 billion to the government.
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday also warned the generals that if they failed to reply, the allegations leveled against them would be considered to be correct. Former ISI chief Javed

KARACHI - Sindh Food Minister Nadir Magsi has urged the Federal government to either discontinue the supply of wheat flour (Atta) from Punjab to Sindh, province or allow the Sindh government to export its wheat abroad. The Sindh government has around 900,000 metric tones wheat in its warehouses, Magsi said at the Sindh Assembly (SA) session on Thursday, arguing that this needed to be sold at the earliest for fear of the food supplies frittering away "Sindh is unable to sell its wheat

WELLINGTON - New Zealand's top six batsmen have been given a short, sharp reminder as to what is expected from them when they face Pakistan in the second test that starts in Wellington on Sunday. "Bat time," coach John Wright told reporters when asked what he had told his team after New Zealand were bowled out in a session in their second innings in the first test. "We've got to try and get that top order functioning better," Wright added. "Whatever we plan, and they're pretty simple

LONDON - UEFA President Michel Platini believes the 2022 World Cup controversially awarded to Qatar could be played across the whole of the Gulf region, it was reported Thursday. In comments widely reported in British media, Platini said there was no reason why matches for the 2022 tournament could not be held across several countries surrounding Qatar. "I hope it will be a World Cup of the Gulf," Platini was quoted as saying in several reports. FIFA's decision to award the World Cup

KUALA LUMPUR - Korea's teen golf sensation Noh Seung-Yul, the newly crowned Asian Tour number one, says he will be working to build more consistency in his game as he bids for even greater glory in 2011. The 19-year-old was a big hit in Asia last year, thanks to one victory in Malaysia, four top-10s and commendable performances in the Majors but he will not be resting on his laurels as he seeks to maintain his rise in world golf. "I want to be more consistent with my game," said

PESHAWAR - The administration of Peshawar University has requested the government to stop political intervention at Azakhel Botanical Garden by a specific lobby who want to disturb the academic and recreation environment at the garden.
Through a press release on Wednesday, the administration informed the reporters that the university has started exclusive BS degree program in which hundreds of students were enrolled and more than ten PhD students were doing their research at the

KARACHI - National Party (NP) Senior Vice President Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo appealed to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Wednesday to support the thousands of missing persons of Balochistan.
Bizenjo was leading an NP delegation that held a meeting with MQM Rabita Committee Deputy Convener Dr Farooq Sattar at the Khursheed Memorial Hall.
He hoped that the MQM would support the Balochistan cause as it had in the past.
The NP leader said that the people of Balochistan

KARACHI - The Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) is providing gas to the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) without an agreement and the latter's claim of not being provided 276mmcfd gas by the gas utility is baseless, said SSGC Managing Director Dr Faizullah Abbasi.
"Although the SSGC wants to sign a gas sale agreement with the KESC but the power utility wants to do this on its own terms and against the proper procedure of agreements signed between the utility supplier and the

LAHORE - Indigenous resources need to be harnessed to achieve economic prosperity, Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif said while introducing the Star Farm Model at the inaugural session of Star Farm Initiative Suppliers Conference 2011 at chief minister's Secretariat on Monday.
He said that development of agriculture, livestock and dairy farming sectors are essential to achieve economic stability and to decrease dependency, adding that the introduction of Star Farm

LAHORE - Runaway wicket-keeper Zulqarnain Haider has urged the Pakistan Cricket Board to clear his dues amounting to Rs 1.5 million.
Zulqarnain, who attended a hearing of the British home department in London last Thursday, said that before leaving the team in Dubai in November last year, he had featured in two T20s and four ODIs against South Africa in UAE. "Therefore the PCB owes around Rs 1.5 million to me which I dearly need as I have been finding it difficult to meet my

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Wednesday demanded the government introduce new legislation to stop the abuse of blasphemy laws. Condemning the assassination of Salmaan Taseer, Shujaat said the government should draft new laws by taking all political and religious parties on board to stop the abuse of the existing blasphemy law.
Addressing the PML-Q Central Working Committee meeting, Shujaat said, "The government should not touch or

KARACHI - Members of the extended family of Waseem Shahzad, who was accused in October of alleged blasphemy in Malir, have appealed to the government for justice and protection after the brutal assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer.
Shahzad and his immediate family had gone underground and later left the country, after an ambiguous organisation called 'Muhibaan-e Quran Pakistan', backed by Sindh Zakat and Ushr Minister Muhammad Sajid Jokhio, had accused him of using

Jennifer Lopez is so desperate to land a guest slot on 'Glee', she pesters Matthew Morrison at parties and asks him to recommend her to the show's creator Ryan Murphy.
Hollywood A-listers are queuing up to appear on the U.S. TV hit, with Anne Hathaway and Javier Bardem both recently expressing their desire to be part of the series. And Lopez is so determined to land a cameo role, she always targets lead star Morrison at celebrity parties and begs him to speak with his boss in a

ISLAMABAD - As the country's political drama approaches a climax, the JUI-F wants to take the move it started for the removal of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to its logical end and is striving hard to form a JUIF-PMLQ-MQM bloc to worsen the miseries of the crumbling PPP government.
The alliance-in-the-making would also put the biggest opposition party, the PML-N, in isolation and fix it on the question whether it should let the PPP government stay under the pretext of

LAHORE - New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori wants reduction in the number of one-dayers, especially in bilateral series against Pakistan.
His statements came at a time when the ICC was reviewing its Future Tours Program, with plans to conduct a one-day league over four years.
"Why are we playing these extended one-day series?," Vettori was quoted as saying by New Zealand Herald.
"What's the point? Hopefully the ICC follows these proposals through because I'd like to