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    • News Desk
    • Dec 30th, 2005
    • Comments Off on Balloting for retirement of 50 senators on January 2

    Balloting for retirement of 50 Senators would be held in the Parliament House at 10 am on Monday, January 2, 2006, official sources told Business Recorder here on Thursday. Under the Constitution, 50 percent of

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    • News Desk
    • Dec 30th, 2005
    • Comments Off on Saab and VVIP planes issue echoes in Senate

    The issue of the 'unilateral reversal' of the Senate's Standing Committee on Defence on purchase of Saab surveillance system and VVIP planes echoed in the upper house of Parliament on Thursday. Questioning impartiality of its

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    • News Desk
    • Dec 30th, 2005
    • Comments Off on ‘Separate department to improve standard of prosecution’

    Punjab Minister for Local Government, Law and Prosecution, Muhammad Basharat Raja said purpose of setting up a separate department of prosecution in the province was to improve the standard of pursuing cases in courts so

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    • News Desk
    • Dec 30th, 2005
    • Comments Off on Voluntary scheme to collect quake relief through e-forms

    The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has initiated a voluntary scheme for collection of contribution through e-forms, towards the Earthquake Relief Fund for the quake victims of Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas. The central bank

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  • Capital City Police Karachi has made arrangements for security and traffic on the eve of New Year night. The DIG (Operation) Karachi Mushtaq Shah and DIG Traffic, Falak Khurshid briefed the journalists about the details

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  • Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasneem Aslam has denied media report that Pakistan had requested World Bank (WB) to extend deadline for the reply to questions asked by its technical experts regarding Baglihar dam. Talking with PTV

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  • Abid Ali Syed, manager, public relations, Pakistan State Oil (PSO), has taken over as the head of the company's public affairs setup, according to a PSO announcement. Abid Ali Syed is a veteran journalist and

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  • The Sui Northern Gas Pipeline (SNGPL) Employees Union (CBA), while opposing the proposed privatisation plan of the company, has made an appeal to the President and Prime Minister to withdraw the decision. Addressing a news

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    • News Desk
    • Dec 30th, 2005
    • Comments Off on Corn ends mixed amid quiet exports, stocks

    Corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade closed mixed on Wednesday with routine exports and plentiful stocks of feed grains acting as an anchor on the market, traders said. But some support surfaced amid

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  • The Karachi Port handled 118,669 tonnes of cargo including 92,951 tonnes import and 26,718 tonnes export cargo including 6,041 containers during last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Thursday. The cargo comprised of 105,997

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