The present government is quite conscious to raise the literacy rate in the country and has decided in principle to enhance the budgetary allocation for education sector to 4 percent of the GDP for budget

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Rice exports prospects of Pakistan have significantly improved following China's indications of importing 50,000 tones of quality rice from Pakistan. According to Rice exporters, China had almost absolved import duty from agriculture commodities and was

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An accountability court Friday adjourned till January 03, 2006 the proceedings in a reference against former federal minister and secretary general PPPP Jehangir Badr and called for prosecution witnesses to record their statements. The accused

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The LCCI President Mian Shafqat Ali, Senior Vice President Abdul Basit and Vice President Aftab Vohra have urged the government to take immediate measures for the restoration of gas supply to over a hundred textile

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Taking notice of long shortage and non-procurement of medicines in City District Government Karachi hospitals, City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has approved the procurement of Rs190 million worth of medicines. Addressing a meeting on Friday,

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The bomb blast at Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) Hub Chowki Grid Station cut off power supply to Vinder, Uthal and Bella in Balochistan late Thursday night, a KESC spokesman said here on Friday. Power

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Sindh Home Department issued orders for immediate arrest of personnel of all those private security companies operating in the province without any license. "All private security companies operating under the license are directed to submit

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Pakistan Plastic Manufacturers Association (PPMA) Chairman Zafar Saeed has urged the government to impose ban on import of plastic scrap. Talking to newsmen on Friday, he said that due to import of huge quantity of

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Exports of confectionery, especially of bubble gums, may come to a grinding halt if the duty drawback rates on these items are not revised upwards immediately. Maqsood Ismail, Chairman, Pakistan Biscuit & Confectionery Manufacturers Association

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The Sindh government has declared that the following holidays will be observed as festival holidays by all the workers during the year 2006. Eid-ul-Azha (10 Zil Haj l426) Tuesday and Wednesday 10 and 11 January,

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