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PCSIR working to overcome energy crisis: chairman

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) is working at the Thar Coal project in order to overcome the energy crises in the country.
Chairman PCSIR Dr Shaukat Pervez stated that PCSIR is also planning to produce gas from coal on a larger scale and work on this project will commence within two weeks. Furthermore, he mentioned that the Institute of Fuel Technology of PCSIR is already producing gas from coal on a small scale.
Designs to produce

Elahi says working with Sharifs ‘impossible’

LAHORE: Former Punjab chief minister and PML-Q leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that it was "almost impossible" to work with PML-N leaders Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif.
Talking to reporters after offering condolences to the family of late Haji Maqsood Butt on Saturday, Elahi said the government was at the verge of financial collapse owing to faulty governance in Punjab.
He said if the PPP parted ways with the PML-N, Shahbaz would be back in Jati Ummrah. Elahi said price

SBP confirms restoration of six-day working week

KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Wednesday notified all commercial banks, development financial institutions (DFI) and microfinance banks (MFB) on the restoration of the six-day working week from November 27, 2010.
Referring to the federal government's November 22, 2010 notification, the central bank informed banks, DFIs and MFDs that Saturday will be observed as a working day.
"As per decision of the federal government, the six day working week will be observed

Pro-MML PML-Q leaders working towards Chaudhrys-dissidents reconciliation

ISLAMABAD: Leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) opposed to the party's possible alliance with the Pakistan People's Party have geared up efforts to mend fences between the Chaudhrys and the PML-Q dissident group in order to pave the way for the party to join the Muttahida Muslim League (MML).
PML-Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Sayed was likely to meet PML-Functional (PML-F) chief Pir Pagara within the next few days to remove misunderstandings between the