Archive for the October 27, 2005
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In a nondescript warehouse in Jakarta, treasure-hunter Luc Heymans dips into plastic boxes and pulls out jewels and ornaments that lay hidden at the bottom of the Java Sea for 1,000 years. An ornately sculpted
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A few night ago I saw an interview on a TV channel of Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Federal Minister for Privatisation, on how much the corporate sector is co-operating for donation to the President's Relief Fund
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Drawing your attention to a news item pblished in your newspaper in the issue of 22nd October under the heaadline "FPCCI apathy towards relief efforts deplored". We strongly feel that the news item is baised
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The aftershocks of a truly epic earthquake are measured not by magnitude or distance but by centuries. Exactly 250 years after one of the world's most devastating quakes transformed regal Lisbon into a ghost town,
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Issues in capacity building: There are nevertheless some challenges that capacity build-ing face as far its further growth is concerned. First of all there has not been a thorough evaluation of the service quali-ty of
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Coming in the midst of anxiety, caused by the tremors being felt in the coastal areas of the city, the call for separate building rules for the marked areas, which the technical committee of the
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While the government, various social welfare organisations and individuals continue making hectic efforts for providing every kind of relief to the people affected by the earthquake of 8th October, there have been wild guesses about
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Senate Chairman, Mohammedmian Soomro has condoled the sad demise of a leading Sindhi folk singer Zarina Baloch, wife of Rasool Bakhsh Palijo, who died of brain haemorrhage in Karachi on Tuesday. In his message of
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The Dubai-based Emirates airline has marked its 20th anniversary of successful operations, announces a statement of the airline issued here on Wednesday. It said that carrying some 12.5 million passenger and 838,000 tonnes of cargo
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District government has so far despatched 200 truckloads of relief commodities for the quake affectees, while 30 more trucks will be sent within the next fortnight. District Nazim Rana Muhammad Hayat, speaking at a meeting
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