The launching ceremony of an anthology edited by celebrity writer Bapsi Sidhwa will be held at a local hotel on November 9. The event would be organised under the auspices of the OUP Pakistan. The

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The environmental activist and Chairman Subha-e-Nau, Shahida Farooq on Wednesday said the government should take steps for disaster management on top priority in areas, which are earthquake prone but still safe from a major catastrophe.

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The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (Unisame) has urged the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) to strictly debar trade associations from politics. Zulfikar Thaver President Unisame in a message to federal secretary commerce has drawn

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Preparations underway for third international conference on e-governance to be hosted by the Lahore University of Management Sciences (Lums), from December 9 to 11, 2005. This is the first time that Pakistan is hosting such

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The Punjab government has fixed targets for wheat sowing and production; said sources in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture here on Wednesday. Talking to APP here, the sources said wheat crop would be cultivated

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As winter closes in, little or no relief has reached this devastated mountainous region, which accounted for more than half of the 1,300 deaths from October 8 in Indian occupied Kashmir. "In this town, people

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Unknown assailant on Wednesday morning killed a primary school teacher by opening indiscriminate firing here on Sariab Road, Police said. SHO Sariab Police Station Abdul Rauf Barech informed APP that an unknown armed man opened

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Four aftershocks measuring up to 5.2 on the Richter scale shook northern Pakistan early Wednesday, sparking fears of more landslides after the devastating October 8 earthquake, an official said. There were no immediate reports of

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Former Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry has urged the government to write off the loans of the quake affected people in the state. Talking to newsmen, Chaudhry said loans might also

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The NWFP Governor Khalil-ur-Rehman has ordered detail assessment of damages the recent earthquake caused to the infrastructure of Hazara University, and experts must visit the institution and put on conclusion within shortest time. Presiding over

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