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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry has warned officers and lower staffers of the court of strict action if they violated punctuality. Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry Wednesday undertook surprise visit to the offices of the court to check the overall performance of the staff.
During the visit the CJ said lethargic, unpunctual and irregular officers/officials have no room in the establishment of the LHC. He said punctuality in the judiciary is the

SOFIA: Prime Minister Boiko Borisov called on Wednesday for the sacking of 45 top diplomats identified by an historical commission as having been secret police agents under pre-1990 communist rule.
The commission said diplomats including the current Bulgarian ambassadors in London, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo and Moscow collaborated with the feared former Darzhavna Sigurnost security service when the Balkan country was a Soviet satellite.
Half of Bulgaria's ambassadors to European

LAHORE: Pakistan coach Waqar Younis on Tuesday said he wanted to earn respect and admiration of his fellows like he did as a player.
A day before the close of the camp training of the team, Waqar said: "As a coach I am giving the same commitment I gave as a player. The intensity and hunger has not gone down."
Waqar, who was named head coach of the team in place of Intikhab Alam this year after a disastrous tour of Australia, was also confident that the present Pakistani team

STOCKHOLM: The far-right Sweden Democrats on Tuesday demanded a debate in parliament on Islamic extremism following the weekend's twin blasts in Stockholm that probably aimed to wreak carnage among Christmas shoppers.
"The Sweden Democrats demand a current debate in parliament about violence-prone Islamic extremism," said the party, which won its first parliamentary seats in September.
"The party proposes that the debate, due to large public interest, be held as soon as

KARACHI: Pakistan, in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), will seek to raise the quantum of trade with Japan through promotion of its textile products.
JICA members have recently toured the textile factories located in Karachi to examine the quality and market value of Pakistani textile products which hold a meager share in the Japanese market.
The tour was organised by Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) as part of a concerted effort

ISLAMABAD: India wants to resume talks with Pakistan on Kashmir from where former president Pervez Musharraf left and to carry forward almost "80 percent progress" made then towards the settlement of core issue, a source told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
"Pakistan and India were able to resolve '80 percent' of the Kashmir dispute during the year-long talks between the Musharraf regime and the Indian government, mostly through back channel diplomacy," said a senior Pakistani

LAHORE: Pakistan's chief coach Waqar Younis wants the spot-fixing scandal to be quickly resolved so that his team can play in the forthcoming NZ series with a free mind and prepare properly for the next year's World Cup.
Waqar said that he was not clear about the availability of the players. "We need a clear picture so that whoever is eligible to play for Pakistan can focus on the job ahead," Waqar said. He added that the spot-fixing allegations surrounding Salman Butt, Mohammad

ISLAMABAD: Senator Muhammad Khan Sherani of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) in his official capacity as chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) ordered his subordinate staff to switch to 'Urdu' from English language for official correspondence as he could not comprehend 'English' properly.
A source in the CII told Pakistan Today on Saturday Sherani had ordered his staff to draft summaries and official correspondence in 'Urdu'. Sherani was appointed the 13th chairman

MOSCOW: A top aide to Dmitry Medvedev on Friday said that he believed the Russian president would like to serve a second term after his mandate expires in 2012.
"I believe he does," Kremlin economic adviser Arkady Dvorkovich told the BBC when asked whether Medvedev wanted another term in the Kremlin.
"I think that from what anyone can see when they look at what President Medvedev does, he believes that President Medvedev wants to continue his term and continue the agenda he

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board appointed Thursday its long serving official Subhan Ahmed as new Chief Operating Officer.
The PCB stated that governing board has approved the appointment of Subhan Ahmed.
Earlier, Wasim Bari was holding this post. The post was lying vacant following the end Bari's term who quit after the enforcement employment code that disallows over 60 years of age official on regular job. Subhan Ahmed has been serving the board as Senior General Manager

KARACHI: The Sindh government has asked the Interior Ministry to ensure that the Pakistan Army stays prepared during Muharram 8, 9 and 10 in case it has to be called out to maintain law and order during these sensitive days. The Home Department has made this request in a letter recently dispatched to the Interior Ministry.
"Even though there is no need to deploy troops in the province, they will only remain alert to help the law enforcing agencies in case any major incident takes

Former Bond girl Michelle Yeoh has jetted into Burma to shadow recently released political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi as she prepares to play the democracy campaigner in a big screen biopic.
The actress spent Monday with Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, who was freed from house arrest in the country last month. The democracy icon had been detained for 15 of the past 21 years because of her political views.
'Tomorrow Never Dies' star Yeoh

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has directed that one dish law and the observance of fixed timings should be ensured strictly at the weddings.
CM, while presiding over a meeting, said that action should be taken against the marriage hall owners for violating fixed timings and should be sent behind the bars. He said that the action should be taken against the violators without discrimination and all articles of such halls should be confiscated.
He said

MUMBAI: Ever since designer Nida Mahmood heard that Amitabh Bachchan was fascinated by her hand-painted 'Gabbar' jacket, she has been itching to make the Bollywood mega-star wear the 'Don' jacket.
Her quirky jacket, with actor Amjad Khan's famous Gabbar avatar painted on the back and adorned with famous dialogues from the blockbuster "Sholay", was being flaunted by restaurateur A.D. Singh at an event when it caught the eye of Amitabh - Bollywood's original "Don". Nida wants to

ABU DHABI: South African captain Graeme Smith said he would like to end the tour with a clean sweep in all three formats of the game as they take on Pakistan in the second Test starting here from Saturday.
South Africa beat Pakistan in both the Twenty20 matches and took the five-match one-day series 3-2 on the tour shifted to United Arab Emirates because of security fears in Pakistan.
Pakistan escaped with a draw in the first Test in Dubai on Tuesday after Younis Khan

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday asked donors to give more time to Pakistan to carry out structural reforms including expanding the tax base.
Addressing the plenary session of the Pakistan Development Forum (PDF), the prime minister also said his government was willing to take unpopular decisions to meet the long term challenge of flood reconstruction, institutional and structural reforms for a glorious tomorrow. "We are prepared to take political risks for

WASHINGTON: Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants the US military to scale back the visibility and intensity of its operations in Afghanistan and end night raids that he said incited people to join the Taliban insurgency, The Washington Post reported.
"The time has come to reduce military operations," Karzai told the Post in an interview. "The time has come to reduce the presence of, you know, boots in Afghanistan ... to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily Afghan life." The