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    • News Desk
    • Nov 7th, 2005
    • Comments Off on Unsold stocks, new arrivals may lessen cotton prices

    Despite pre-Eid holiday mood, enough seed-cotton has reached ginneries during the fortnight ended October 31, 2005. According to the cotton arrival report of the Pakistan Cotton Ginners' Association (PCGA), at least 2,195,897 bales equivalent to

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    • News Desk
    • Nov 7th, 2005
    • Comments Off on Unsold stocks, new arrivals may lessen cotton prices

    Despite pre-Eid holiday mood, enough seed-cotton has reached ginneries during the fortnight ended October 31, 2005. According to the cotton arrival report of the Pakistan Cotton Ginners' Association (PCGA), at least 2,195,897 bales equivalent to

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    • News Desk
    • Nov 7th, 2005
    • Comments Off on Europe gets a taste of Caucasus ‘blood vengeance’

    In a tidy Zurich courtroom, the facts of the case were heard, the law of Switzerland was applied and Vitaly Kaloyev, a Russian national from the Caucasus province of North Ossetia, was pronounced guilty of

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    • News Desk
    • Nov 7th, 2005
    • Comments Off on Post-war chaos leaves Liberians battling leprosy

    Like many young girls her age, 11-year-old Fatu Kerkular likes to dance, enjoys basketball and wants to be a nurse when she grows up. But above the chipped red nail varnish on her toes, her

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    • News Desk
    • Nov 7th, 2005
    • Comments Off on Border closures shut door on Gaza revival hopes

    Palestinian construction magnate Mahmoud el-Farah wishes he could buy his cement direct from Turkey now that Israeli troops have left the Gaza Strip. However, all imports and exports still have to go through Israel because

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    • News Desk
    • Nov 7th, 2005
    • Comments Off on October 8 earthquake – technical aspects and economic repercussions

    On October 8, an earthquake of magnitude 7.6 on Richter scale, at the shallow depth of 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) hit at 08.50 Pakistan standard time with its epicenter at 34 degrees 29' 36" N73

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    • News Desk
    • Nov 7th, 2005
    • Comments Off on Smugglers and insurgents share Iraqi-Syrian border ‘rat-runs’

    Barbed wire marking the Syrian-Iraqi frontier is crushed in places, ripped apart elsewhere, or simply buried in the sand. "It looks like Swiss cheese," says a US marine. Trying to control the 600-kilometer (370-mile) border

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  • The high intensity tremor of 6 minutes on 8/10 that rocked approximately 40,000 sq.km. of the Northern belt of Pakistan, not only caused colossal deaths and destructions but also shocked the entire nation. Many towns

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  • Of and on we come to know that, educational certificate of so and so sitting MNA/MPA has been found bogus, the legislator has been unseated. All these are done very casually and matter-of-factly. Nobody seems

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  • Many persons are desirous to donate generously towards President's Relief Fund for Earthquake Victims through their credit cards. However, they face a great obstacle in their way ie the throat-cutting charges y the card-issuing banks.

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