Archive for  December 2012
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US Senior Deputy Special Representative David Pearce Friday said the United States and Pakistan have made real progress on issues critical to the interests of both the nations. The visiting top US diplomat, according to
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The Ministry of National Regulations and Services has diverted 122 out of 140 hardship cases of price increase in medicines to the concerned provincial health departments to decide the fate of these drugs, informed sources
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Federal Minister for Communications Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan has said that overloading is responsible for destruction of national roads and is extremely dangerous for national economy. He said that no overloading would be allowed on
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The controversy over the construction of the Kalabagh Dam (KBD) has once again come in the open following the directive of the Lahore High Court (LHC), to the government to implement the 1991 and 1998
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Shipping in the Arctic region is predicted to boom as ice sheets that formerly proved impenetrable recede due to global warming, opening up faster sea routes between Europe and Asia. The increased activity in the
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and state-controlled gas giant Gazprom have secured another victory by launching construction of the South Stream pipeline under the Black Sea to take Russian gas to southern Europe. The 2,380-kilometre pipeline
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The controversy has erupted again and Kalabagh Dam (KBD) is in the limelight. The debate that I am witnessing on TV is based on not appreciating the actual facts on the ground. First, whoever speaks
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The Balochistan Assembly is unique in many ways and to its credit it has some unique records. Its one-member opposition has never been able to attend its sessions, nor is there a Leader of the
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The National Assembly's Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources chaired by PPP MNA Jamshed Dasti after a briefing by All Pakistan CNG Association's (APCNGA) chairman Paracha stated that the committee would recommend that all
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An electoral alliance between the ruling coalition partners - Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Awami National Party (ANP) - is unlikely, as the PPP provincial chapter has categorically conveyed to the leadership that it would
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