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1. Election in March next year: PM

   Sunday, 19 February 2012 GMT : (Top News/Front Top News)

   RECORDER REPORT KARACHI: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday said general election would take place in March next year and the present government would complete its five-year term by presenting five budgets. He claimed the present coalition government would form the next setup. “I see election in March,” he said. He termed the US congress debate on Balochistan issue a move ag...

2. Section 165 of IT Ord: SRO to amend WHT statement shortly: FBR

   Sunday, 19 February 2012 GMT : (Top News/Front Top News)

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3. Apple shares soar, edges ExxonMobil in market cap

   Thursday, 26 January 2012 GMT : (Business & Finance/Industries & Sectors)

   NEW YORK: Apple shares soared on Wednesday following blockbuster quarterly earnings and the California gadget-maker leapfrogged over ExxonMobil to become the largest US company in terms of market value. Apple shares were up 6.37 percent at $447.20 in mid-day trading on Wall Street, giving the maker of the iPhone, iPad, iPod and Macintosh computer a market capitalization of $414.52 billion. Exx...

4. Pak, India discuss TAPI pipeline

   Wednesday, 25 January 2012 GMT : (Top News/Pakistan Top News)

   KARACHI: Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Senator Dr Asim Hussain has held a bilateral meeting on Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project with Indian Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas, S. Jaipal Reddy in New Delhi Wednesday. According to information reaching Sui Southern Gas Company, the issues relating to the pipeline project including transit fee a...

5. Four killed in north Iraq violence

   Wednesday, 25 January 2012 GMT : (World/Middle East)

   KIRKUK: Gun and bomb attacks in Iraq's multi-ethnic northern oil province of Kirkuk killed four people, including two policemen, on Wednesday, security officials said. In Kirkuk city, gunmen killed two brothers, both policemen, security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The pair were part of the Facilities Protection Service, which is responsible for security at key governmen...

6. US Marine tells court he is sorry for Iraq killings

   Wednesday, 25 January 2012 GMT : (World/Middle East)

   CAMP PENDLETON: A US Marine accused of leading a 2005 massacre of 24 civilians in the Iraqi city of Haditha was spared jail time when he was sentenced on Tuesday for his role in killings that brought international condemnation on US troops. The harshest penalty Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, 31, now faces for his guilty plea on Monday to a single count of dereliction of duty is a demotion to the...

7. Ricciardo braced for Toro Rosso tough love

   Sunday, 19 February 2012 GMT : (Sports/Other Sports)

   LONDON: Australian Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo insists he has no worries about living up to the high expectations of Toro Rosso, despite the team's no-nonsense reputation with its rookies. The 22-year-old from Perth made his F1 bow with Hispania mid-way through last season, but as a Red Bull protege, he will team up with Jean-Eric Vergne at the world champions' sister team for the 2012 c...

8. Gold surges 2pc, above $1,700 after Fed statement

   Thursday, 26 January 2012 GMT : (Markets - Commodities/Americas)

   NEW YORK/LONDON: Gold rallied 2 percent on Wednesday, rising above $1,700 an ounce for the first time since mid-December after the US Federal Reserve said it will likely not raise rates for longer than previously expected due to a sluggish economic recovery. Bullion sharply outperformed equities and industrial commodities after the Fed said it was unlikely to raise interest rates until at least ...

9. PM orders promotion of 1046 teachers

   Thursday, 26 January 2012 GMT : (Pakistan/General News)

   ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Wednesday ordered the promotion of 1046 federal government school teachers from grade 16 to 17 as per special package. Spokesman Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) Rafique Tahir told APP that as many as 474 male and 572 female teachers have been promoted in the next higher grade.The promotees were working in the same garde from...

10. President Zardari confers SMBB Award for Democracy on Aung San Suu Kyi

    Wednesday, 25 January 2012 GMT : (Top News/Front Top News)

    YANGON: President Asif Ali Zardari in recognition of the outstanding services of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi for the promotion of democracy conferred upon her Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Award for Democracy here at her residence on Wednesday. The Award was presented to Daw Suu Kyi by Ms. Aseefa Bhutto Zardari. The ceremony that was witnessed by a large number of media representatives representing M...

11. Call to overcome gas crisis

    Wednesday, 25 January 2012 GMT : (Pakistan/Industries & Sectors)

    FAISALABAD: Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) chairman Rana Arif Tauseef has demanded the government to pace up its efforts to overcome gas crisis and ensure uninterrupted gas supply to the industrial sector. In a press statement issued here on Wednesday, he said that textile industry was on the course of a total collapse due to gas and electricity load shedding in Punjab. He said ...

12. ‘We will embrace martyrdom or emerge Ghazi’

    Sunday, 19 February 2012 GMT : (Top News/Front Top News)

    PIR JO GOTH: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza on Sunday said that only fortunate embraced martyrdom. "I don't know whether we will embrace martyrdom or emerge Ghazi (triumphant). But only fortunate embrace martyrdom," Gilani said in response to a question while talking to newsmen here after visiting the residence of Pir of Pagara Sibghatullah Shah Rashidi to condole the death of Pir Pagara S...

13. African leaders say continent ready to lead world growth

    Thursday, 26 January 2012 GMT : (Top News/Front Top News)

    DAVOS: Africa is at last ready to shake off the shackles of poverty and strife and to play a new role in the global economy as a powerful driver of growth, leaders declared Thursday. Several members of the continent's newer generation of leaders came to the World Economic Forum in Davos, a summit of the world's business elite, to make their pitch for being taken seriously as emerging economies. ...

14. Stars pay tribute to Whitney Houston in US

    Sunday, 19 February 2012 GMT : (Top News/Arts & Leisure Top News)

    NEWARK: Hollywood stars, music greats and relatives praised the "sweet miracle" of Whitney Houston at a moving funeral service in her hometown Saturday, one week after the pop singer's sudden death. A gold-colored hearse delivered Houston's body to Newark's New Hope Baptist Church, where she sang as a child before her voice was shaped and nurtured into a spectacular vocal that arguably made her ...

15. CNG stations to close for 24 hours from Saturday morning

    Thursday, 26 January 2012 GMT : (Pakistan/General News)

    KARACHI: All the CNG stations in Sindh including Karachi will remain closed for 24 hours from 9 am on Saturday (January 28) till 9 am on Sunday (January 29, 2012). According to an announcement of Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) here Thursday, this step is being taken by the gas utility to improve the line pack position all over its franchise area, which has been badly disturbed due to increase...

16. KSE extends trading suspension of Noor Silk

    Thursday, 26 January 2012 GMT : (Pakistan/Markets)

    KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) has extended the suspension period of Noor Silk Mills Ltd for another 60 days effective from January 28, 2012. According to KSE here Thursday, the action has been taken in compliance with the order of Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP). Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2012 ...

17. NATO urges commitment to Afghanistan after French deaths

    Thursday, 26 January 2012 GMT : (World/Europe)

    BRUSSELS: NATO's chief called on allies Thursday to remain committed to the security transition in Afghanistan after France threatened to pull out early following the killing of four French soldiers. Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he understood French concerns after an Afghan soldier killed the unarmed troops, but he noted that NATO nations agreed on a 2014 date to withdraw combat ...

18. Fresh explosion in Nigeria's violence-hit Kano

    Thursday, 26 January 2012 GMT : (World/Africa)

    KANO: A fresh explosion rocked a bus terminal in Nigeria's violence-hit city of Kano on Thursday forcing the area to be evacuated, the police and army said. "We just had an explosion, nobody can confirm the cause. No loss of life or injuries were recorded. The area is being evacuated," a police spokesman in the city, Magaji Majia, told AFP. Army spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Iweha Ikedichi gave...

19. Nigeria arrests 200 after attacks, mostly Chadians

    Thursday, 26 January 2012 GMT : (Top News/World Top News)

    KANO: Nigeria has arrested 200 people, mostly Chadian "mercenaries," after last week's attacks in the north, a police source said Thursday, as pressure mounts on the security forces to stem the violence. Coordinated gun and bomb attacks in the northern city of Kano last Friday killed at least 185 people, the deadliest ever assault claimed by the shadowy Islamist sect Boko Haram. "Many arrests ...

20. Egypt slaps travel ban on head of American NGO

    Thursday, 26 January 2012 GMT : (World/Africa)

    CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have slapped a travel ban on the head of a US non-governmental organisation that prevents him from leaving the country, airport officials said Thursday. Sam Lahood, Egypt director for the International Republican Institute and the son of a US government minister, was not allowed to travel on Sunday "on the orders of the prosecutor general", the official told AFP. Th...