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    • News Desk
    • Dec 5th, 2012
    • Comments Off on Protest staged against prolonged power outages

    Power consumers belonging to different villages of suburban parts of provincial metropolis on Tuesday held a protest demonstration against the prolonged power suspensions and warned to come to the streets and the responsibility will rest

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    • News Desk
    • Dec 5th, 2012
    • Comments Off on Award to contracts: SECP, PPRA, TI Pakistan level accusations against PSO

    Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, Public Procurement Regulatory Authority and Transparency International Pakistan have raised serious objections on the award of two contracts by Pakistan State Oil to Pakistan National Shipping Corporation and five

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    • News Desk
    • Dec 5th, 2012
    • Comments Off on ‘Germany is largest trade partner of Pakistan among EU’

    Germany is the largest trade partner of Pakistan among European Union and trade volume between the two countries is US $2.3billion, according to German Ambassador to Pakistan Dr Cyrill Nunn here on Tuesday. Both the

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    • News Desk
    • Dec 5th, 2012
    • Comments Off on Tourism industry fetches $350 million

    The tourism industry of Pakistan has added 350 million dollars to the national exchequer in 2011-12 and despite security issues around one million tourists visited the country in the year 2012. Managing Director Pakistan Tourist

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  • PML-Q MPA and deputy parliamentary leader in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, Nighat Yasmin Orakzai on Tuesday quitted her party and formally announced joining the ruling PPP. Speaking at a news conference, the PML-Q lone female lawmaker

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    • News Desk
    • Dec 5th, 2012
    • Comments Off on Partly Facetious: PPP leaders have better understanding of English

    "Imran Khan says we do not have democracy, we have kleptocracy." "What does kleptocracy mean?" "You are obviously not a PPP man." "Where does that come in?' "PPP leaders have a better understanding of English

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  • This refers to an op-ed piece titled 'Petroleum industry' carried by Business Recorder on December 2, 2012. The author raises pertinent issues regarding the oil and gas industry, especially with respect to security challenges in

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    • News Desk
    • Dec 5th, 2012
    • Comments Off on New Louvre brings high culture to France’s coal belt

    A lotus flower has metaphorically sprouted from the slag heaps of France's Pas-de-Calais former coalmining region. The Louvre Museum on Tuesday opened a new outpost in the northern town of Lens, where a glass and

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    • News Desk
    • Dec 5th, 2012
    • Comments Off on Child servants a blot on Haiti’s abolitionist past

    Dayana Denois was always the last to go to bed and the first to wake up. By dawn, she had washed the dishes and clothes, cleaned and swept the floor and emptied the chamber pots.

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  • To create consistent wins takes a degree of conviction in one's self. Gnothi Seauton! - 'Know Thyself' was the warning/advice inscribed at the door of the Temple of Apollo: if you wanted to ask the

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