May 9, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari,said Pakistan has important relationship with European Union based on shared democratic values, principles of mutual respect, trust and cooperation. The President made this statement while addressing a dinner reception on Wednesday. “Pakistan attaches great importance to its excellent relations with the European Union,” said the President while addressing a dinner [...]
May 9, 2012
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BEIJING: Chinese textile producers aim to more than double the country’s textile output by 2020 from the 2010 level, according to a 10-year plan from the textile industrial association. The textile industry is planning to increase textile and clothing exports by an annual rate of about seven percent and boost the export value of fiber [...]
May 9, 2012
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LAHORE: According to sources, Canadian Cricket Board have showed their willingness to send their cricket team to Pakistan. Such an indication came out on Wednesday. Pakistan Cricket Board has thanked Cricket Canada for their interest in sending their cricket team to Pakistan. “ Pakistan Cricket Board believes in strengthening the relationship further between the two [...]
May 9, 2012
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NOWSHERA: Late Politician Ajmal Khatak’s mausoleum severed a major blast late on Wednesday. The mausoleum is situated in the area of Akora Khattak. A huge explosion was heard within the area. Sources have reported that as per the explosion, a large quantity of explosive material must have been used for the blast. The offenders have [...]
May 9, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday said the reform process in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) will continue in consultation with the people of the tribal areas and all stakeholders. He said that meaningful political reforms in FATA will be doable and durable only with the backing of its people. The President expressed these [...]
May 9, 2012
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LONDON: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani attended the Joint Session of British Parliament on Wednesday. The Joint Session was addressed by Her Majesty the Queen. Prime Minister Gilani was the only Head of Government who was specially invited to attend the session. Pakistan’s High Commissioner to UK Wajid Shamsul Hassan also accompanied the Prime [...]
May 9, 2012
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KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday clearly announced its disassociation with the tour of World XI cricket team to Pakistan. “We were never a part of this event and we were totally not involved in it from the start, besides on the other hand, the Pakistani cricket team is busy preparing for the [...]
May 9, 2012
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Nine men in northwest England were sentenced to jail terms Wednesday for luring girls as young as 13 years old into sexual encounters using alcohol and drugs — a case that has stirred racial tensions and sparked claims that authorities are failing to protect vulnerable children in state care. Judge Gerald Clifton said the men, aged [...]
May 9, 2012
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MIAMI: The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family’s teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan’s elders show no interest. The orangutans at Miami’s Jungle Island apparently are just like people when it comes to technology. The park is one of several zoos [...]
May 9, 2012
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AIDS advocates say a pill proven to protect against the HIV virus could promote unsafe sex by creating a false sense of security. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will meet Thursday to discuss whether Truvada, a drug already approved to manage HIV, should be approved to prevent the infection in high-risk patients, including men who have sex [...]
May 9, 2012
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KARACHI: The students of National College Bahadurabad, Karachi, in a condemning act, thrashed the Principal of their college after they were held back from cheating. The disgraceful act was committed on Wednesday when numerous outsiders forcefully entered the college after students had been stopped from cheating. According to reports, the outsiders belonged to different political [...]
May 9, 2012
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The world is clearly excited about Seth MacFarlane’s Ted this July 13. The extended preview featured fairy tale style narration in a British accent, telling the story of the teddy bear magically brought to life thanks to a young boy’s wish. The reel had plenty of the familiar vulgar jokes between Ted voiced by MacFarlane [...]
May 9, 2012
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United Stated embassy spokesman, on Wednesday, stated that Hafiz Saeed is a wanted criminal with respect to the Mumbai attacks. He further stated that the International community should come forward and raise their voice over Hafiz Saeed’s issue and that the culprit should be brought before justice. As per the US embassy spokesman, the resolution [...]
May 9, 2012
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Mention the name Missoni, and most think of a fashion empire that revolutionized textile patterns, spawned the no-bra look on the catwalks, and is now a global brand that designs everything from sweaters to sheets to hotels. But none of it would have happened had it not been for the 1948London Olympics, where one kind of [...]
May 9, 2012
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Hillary Clinton made major headlines on her trip through Asia, while she managed to avert a full out diplomatic crisis between America and China over a blind dissident and pressed India to reduce its oil imports from that rogue nation Iran. The secretary of state shot down, again, that she plans to run for president [...]
May 9, 2012
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The grisly murder of a Red Cross worker and a video showing an American hostage pleading for his life highlight a perilous security situation in Pakistan that aid groups say is endangering their work. Humanitarian organisations are reviewing operations in Pakistan after the killing of Khalil Dale, whose decapitated body was found on April 29, four months after he was abducted in Quetta, [...]
May 9, 2012
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A hardline Islamic group warned Wednesday it would not let Lady Gaga set foot in Indonesia, challenging an army of fans awaiting a concert in the nation with the world’s largest Muslim population. The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) vowed to mobilise 30,000 demonstrators to protest the US artist’s June 3 performance in Jakarta and to intercept her at the airport. [...]
May 9, 2012
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RATO DERO: Sindh National Front (SNF) Leader, Mumtaz Bhutto, announced his party’s inclusion to the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday. The SNF leader made a formal announcement of this while attending PML-N’s public gathering held in Rato Dero. “We are now the members of PML-N and would strive for the prosperity of [...]
May 9, 2012
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Pakistani giant Ali Zafar who is making long strides in Bollywood with the days gone by, the actor-singer recently awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for upcoming talent and now feathering towards Cannes Film Festival, a source mentioned that Ali got an invitation to attend the festival to be held later this month. Ali, who made [...]
May 9, 2012
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A roadside bomb struck a Syrian military truck Wednesday, wounding six soldiers just seconds after a convoy carrying the head of the U.N.observer mission passed by. An Associated Press reporter who was traveling in the U.N. convoy said the blast blew out the military truck’s windows and caused a plume of black smoke. The U.N. convoy [...]
May 9, 2012
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Over the past two years Wang Wei and her husband Liu Yiqian dropped a reported $317 million on their hobby. Now they need somewhere to display the collection they’ve amassed. The solution: a private art museum that Wang hopes will impart some class to China’s flashy nouveau riche. Wang and billionaire investor Liu are part of a new generation of [...]
May 9, 2012
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Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas got 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary. The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999. Obama received [...]
May 9, 2012
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The Punjab Assembly presented a scene of loud slogan bashing from PML-N members for the Prime Minister and support from PPP members for their PM. After the ministers were done shouting Go Gilani and Pro Gilani slogans at the same time; the Punjab Assembly finally came to a resolve and unanimously adopted the Bhawalpur and [...]
May 9, 2012
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The ex Power Minister, current Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, has said, that Interior Minister Rehman Malik and certain Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) elements might be involved in criminal activities, and if found guilty, they will be arrested. Speaking to the media outside Punjab Assembly, he said that the Pakistan Peoples Party is trying to create complications [...]
May 9, 2012
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Sudanese war planes have launched renewed air strikes againstSouth Sudan, violating a UN Security Council resolution to end weeks of a bitter border conflict, the South’s army said Wednesday. “The Republic of Sudan has been randomly bombarding civilian areas,” said Southern army spokesman Kella Kueth, who said the air strikes hit the border states of Upper Nile, Unity and Western Bahr el-Ghazal on [...]
May 9, 2012
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC has tabled an offer to take over U.S. drug maker Human Genome Sciences Inc. which values the target at nearly $2.6 billion. GlaxoSmithKline, which has profit-sharing agreements with HGS on three drugs, said Wednesday it is offering $13 per share for the company. The offer was rejected by HGS management. GSK said its offer was 81 percent more than the [...]