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LAHORE - Lahore City Traffic Officer (CTO) Captain (r) Ahmad Mubeen said on Thursday that additional wardens would be deployed to control traffic flow on New Year Eve and traffic rules violators would be punished.
Giving details, he said that 12 DSPs, 76 inspectors, 1,610 wardens and around 11 emergency squads have been formed under provision of divisional officers, which would be deployed at the Mall Road, Jail Road, Ferozepur Road, Main Boulevard, Defence and on other

LAHORE - Light drizzle has left the city with a dreary, somber mood. Mist hangs low and sometimes not even the dark outline of trees is visible. But the bleak winter weather has not been able to replace the excitement of New Years' eve. Almost everyone has something planned out for the night. Whether it is dance parties or family reunions, people in Lahore are ready to say goodbye to the last night of 2010, filled with hope and excitement. Event managing businesses are flourishing and

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday termed the unanimous passage of the 19th Amendment Bill from the Senate as a new year gift to the nation, which reflected maturity of all the political leadership of country.
Speaking in the House after it unanimously passed the landmark bill, the prime minister said that it had dispelled the impression as if the parliament was ineffective or a rubber-stamp one. "The upheaval task which the current parliament has

KARACHI - President and the CEO of the Turkish Airlines Dr Temel Kotil has said that the calendar year 2011 would be an impressive year for the airlines industry.
The air industry was faced with crisis in 2008, which improved in 2009. He noted that 2010 was a mediocre year for the industry; however he firmly believed that 2011 would be a prosperous year marked by expected growth in the number of air travelers across the globe.
The CEO expressed these views while talking to

KARACHI - Most of the indicators for trading and non-trading affairs at Karachi Stock Exchange marked a negative trend if examined in totality on the eve of fast approaching new calendar year 2011.
Holistically saying, the outgoing year did not see the country's largest bourse proving to be an investor-friendly equity market with most of its belongings continuing to lose their face value over the last couple of years.
According to sources, the KSE's membership card, which

LAHORE - New Year's night is a special night. The weather, the lighting, the feeling have to come together and be perfect. What is the perfect weather for the day? What is the perfect weather for the night? were the two questions Pakistan Today put to the Lahoris' it encountered. The night must be accompanied with a drizzle and the day must be clear, they confess. The day is to be spend in the open.
The outdoor's are best without a drizzle or rain. The night is pleasant when it

ISLAMABAD - Despite a lapse of three years, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto remains a mystery that has led many to cast aspersions on the government sincerity to apprehend the killers.
Immediately after her assassination, it was believed that Pervez Musharraf, the former military dictator, was insincere in conducting the probe, as some elements of his regime might turn out to be part of the assassination. For many, the suspicion fortified when Musharraf reluctantly allowed

LAHORE - Former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has predicted that next year will bring the election season citing the active connections between political parties as reason while talking to reporters in Lahore on Sunday.

LAHORE - 2010 was a crucial year for the education sector as teachers and students were seen protesting the entire year for their rights, while authorities failed to prove that education was their top priority. A series of corruption at schools, colleges and universities, teachers' abductions, violence and protests against various policies, governmental and institutional, was recorded during the year. The tragic incidents that the year witnessed include murder of a female teacher at

Singer Annie Lennox is heading to Africa in the New Year as she pushes forward with her campaign to stamp out the deadly HIV/AIDS virus. The former Eurythmics star is a leading campaigner for AIDS initiatives, and works closely with politicians in her native Scotland on ways to combat the disease.
And she is now planning a trip to Malawi to review the progress of anti-HIV projects set up in the country five years ago. She tells, "There is a huge pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa and

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan-Indonesia Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA), expected to be signed in the first quarter of 2011, would give the necessary impetus to bilateral trade. This was stated by Pakistan Ambassador to ASEAN and Indonesia Sanaullah, while delivering a public lecture on "Pakistan-Indonesia Economic Cooperation", at the country's premier National University (UNAS), Jakarta, received a press release on Wednesday.
He said that the recent visit by Foreign Minister Shah

LONDON: There were few more thrilling sights in world cricket in 2010 than Mohammad Aamer bowling and there were few more controversial too. The teenage Pakistan left-arm quick's entrancing spell of swing bowling saw Australia dismissed for just 88 at Headingley in July. But Aamer and new-ball partner Mohammad Asif, together with Pakistan captain Salman Butt, soon found themselves facing 'spot-fixing' allegations.
Butt was accused by British tabloid The News of the World of

MADRID - Jose Mourinho on Saturday rated 2010 as "the best year of my career" after guiding his former club Inter Milan to the Italian league, Cup and Champions League titles.
"If I had to give 2010 a mark from 1 to 10 it would be an 11," the ever modest Portuguese coach told a press conference here. "I won everything with Inter. And then with Real Madrid every possibility is still available. The championship is open, we are still in the (Spanish) Cup, and the Champions

ISLAMABAD: The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has incurred an approximate loss of Rs 21 billion during the outgoing calendar year 2010.
Well-informed source in power sector informed Pakistan Today on Tuesday that there was a serious threat of power riots in the largest metropolis of the country during the coming summer, as KESC lacked funds to meet its operational expenses for the year 2011.
According to source, KESC's approximate revenue during last 12 month was

KARACHI: The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) was given "The Best Bank Award 2010" during a ceremony held at London on December 02, 2010. This coveted award was received by Chief Operations Group SEVP Dr Asif A Brohi.
The award is country based and is given to recognise and promote industry wide excellence in the global banking industry. According to the recently announced "The Best Bank Award 2010" by The Banker magazine of UK, NBP has performed remarkably compared to all other

LAHORE: Renowned TV actor Jamil Fakhri's son is still unaccounted for, even after the lapse of over a year. In this regard he held a press conference appealing for any kind of help to at least locate his son's body, in case he had died during this time.
Pakistan's diplomats in Washington said that the FBI had completed its investigations, and a report in this connection was expected in the next week. Pakistan's envoy in the US Hussain Haqqani had earlier filed a report with the

KARACHI: The government is incurring a loss of around Rs 3.5 billion a month or Rs 41.8 billion a year in exemptions granted in duties and sales taxes to tankers supplying fuel to NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Hundreds of tankers transport thousands of litres of fuel to NATO troops each month. "Each day, 120 oil tankers transport fuel from two oil depots of Karachi to NATO troops. Each tanker carries as much as 50,000 litres," a source in the Petroleum Ministry told Pakistan