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Lahore - To paraphrase Shakespeare, when crises come to Pakistan they come not as single spies but in battalions. Among them is a burgeoning economic crisis with massive price increases and severe gas, electricity and fuel shortages, 15% inflation and the stoppage of a vital International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan, BBC has quoted Ahmed Rashid as saying.
There is unprecedented pressure on Islamabad from the US and Nato to eliminate extremists, with alleged terrorism plots linked to

Lahore - Struggle for Labour forum's President Abdur Rauf and General secretary Ashfaq termed 2010 as the year of anti labour, they said that through the implementation of Punjab Industrial Relation Act, rights of the labouers were seized, whereas less than 50 labourers would not be able to make trade unions, they added.

LOS ANGELES - On the surface, Mike Leigh makes movies about the humdrum lives of ordinary people, but there's nothing humdrum about the psychological revelations he brings forth, and his people are far too acutely observed to seem ordinary.
His latest movie, "Another Year," is a quintessential Mike Leigh performance. It deepens as it goes along until, in the end, in its final close-up, it overwhelms. Leigh's movies have a way of sneaking up on you. The mundane morphs into

LAHORE - The Punjab Emergency Service Rescue 1122 will mark 2011 as a year of safety by preventing the maximum number of emergencies, Rescue 1122 Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer said on Monday. He was speaking at a press conference at the Emergency Services Academy.
Naseer said that community safety initiatives would be implemented through district emergency boards in collaboration with chambers of commerce & industry, district governments and community emergency response

LAHORE - The National Highways & Motorway Police (NH&MP) N-5 Central has decided to declare 2011 as the "Year of Road Safety", NH&MP Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Syed Ibne Hussain said on Monday while chairing a meeting of senior officers at the agency's zonal office.
Hussain asked officers to perform their duties efficiently in foggy conditions and educate people about road safety measures for minimising chances of any untoward incidents.
He said that reducing accidents

LAHORE - Pakistan team manager Intikhab Alam is confident that the year 2011 be different for the national side and will also improve the image of Pakistan cricket. "I am confident the way things are going now, this year will see improved performance and a better image of Pakistan cricket," Intikhab said in a television interview.
The former Test captain said the reason for his optimism was not only the improving spirit and discipline among the players, but also the recent steps

Anna Chapman, the undercover Russian spy who was expelled from the US, has been named Woman of the Year by a Russian TV station.
The channel dedicated a prime time slot to Chapman, where she was presented with a lion cub live.
She revealed that she would secure her own Russian TV show in the New Year, following a lingerie shoot in November.

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani urged the nation to get united for people's welfare, country's security and for the promotion of democracy.
In his New Year message, the prime minister congratulated the nation on the arrival of New Year and prayed to Allah to save the nation from natural disasters and keep it on the path of progress.
"Nations do face good and bad times and wisdom demands that humans should devise their future strategy in the light of their past

ISLAMABAD - In an ironic gift to the already struggling nation, the government on Friday night jacked up POL prices by up to 9.2 percent. Resultantly, POL prices will shoot up by between Rs 4.04 and Rs 7.69 per litre with effect from today, January 1, 2011.
Addressing a news conference, Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) spokesman Syed Jawad Nasim said OGRA had notified an increase in petrol price for January by Rs 6.71 to Rs 79.67 per litre, HOBC up by Rs 7.69 to Rs 94.36

ISLAMABAD - The crime ratio showed an upward trend in the year 2010 as over eight hundred cases of car theft, over seven hundreds cases of robbery, dacoity, burglary and theft, near two hundreds cases of kidnapping and over hundred cases of murder were reported to the city's different police stations.
In 2010, over 851 vehicles were stolen, 786 cases of robbery, dacoity and burglary occurred, 131 people were murdered and 133 cases of attempt of murder and 147 cases of kidnapping

ISLAMABAD - The Foreign Ministry approved a comprehensive plan on Friday to observe 2011 as a 'year of friendship' between Pakistan and China and both countries will celebrate the year at leadership, government, business and public level.
The year also marks the 16th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
According to the foreign office statement, a meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Task Force including provincial representatives

KARACHI - The year 2010 was the worst year for the wildlife in Sindh, which has always been a low priority of the provincial or the federal government. In the past the wildlife faced threats from the humans but this year it was the nature's fury that took the flora and fauna of Sindh literally by storm -in the form of devastating floods.
The year began as usual with the man-made threats to the wildlife. In February last, former prime minister and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif made

LAHORE - Smartly turned-out buglers of Pakistan Rangers (Punjab) sounded the "Fanfare" during New Year's midnight service held in St Andrew's Presbyterian Church Nabha Road on Friday midnight.
Sounding of bugles is an annual tradition of Pakistan Rangers and St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, signifying close cooperation between government troops and the Christian community, and harmony between Muslims and Christians.
Rev Ernest Shams who organises this exciting event for a

YANGON - Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi called for citizens of her country to rejuvenate their struggle for national reconciliation in 2011 in a New Year's message released on Friday.
She asked the people of Myanmar "to struggle together with new strengths, new force and new words in the auspicious new year", in the message released by her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.
"We must struggle by establishing people's political and social networks to get

Shah Rukh Khan has reason enough to celebrate. 2010 wasn't such a bad year for the man whose film My Name Is Khan - hailed India's first global film - hit the theatres.
Then there was the shooting of his ambitious 'Ra.One' that kept him busy all year. SRK, now has a host of new things to look forward to as well - his small screen reality show 'Zor ka Jhatka' and the release of 'Ra.One'. And so, our dear Khan is celebrating, the end of good things and the begining of better ones,

ISLAMABAD - The United States (US) broke its previous records of drone attacks inside Pakistan in 2010 which crossed the 100 figure, killing reportedly 930 suspected militants despite strong protest from almost all major opposition political parties of the country.
The US drones carried out 16 attacks in January, 2010 killing reportedly 96 suspected militants and around 100 suspected militants were killed in February in 13 drone attacks in the tribal region.
As many as 53

ISLAMABAD - Fake degrees scam topped the list of the year 2010 as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and Higher Education Commission (HEC) caught the attraction of the media and general public when it was found that leading politicians had filed fake degrees with the ECP.
While the ECP remained under the top government officials' pressure and turned out to be a mere impotent body while the HEC Chairman Dr Javed Leghari came out as a hero though he faced one of the worst