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Fayyaz Yaseen
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USA welcomes teachers to teach Mandarin and Arabic languages

Twenty four teachers from China and Egypt have arrived in the U.S. to teach Mandarin and Arabic in U.S. elementary and secondary schools. They are participating in the Department of State’s Teachers of Critical Languages Program. Their program, sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, begins in Washington, D.C. July 23 with a […]

8 Killed during a checkpost attack in Gawadar

Quetta: (Saturday, July 21, 2012) 8 security personnel were killed in Gawadar as gunmen stormed a checkpoint of Pakistan coast guards and opened indiscriminate firing. According to the details, armed men surrounded Pashookan post of Pakistan coast guards near the town of Gwadar and gunned down eight soldier and four others were wounded. The assailants, […]

Zardari directs chief ministers to control prices during Ramadan

Islamabad: (Saturday, July 21, 2012) President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari has directed the respective chief ministers of all four provinces including Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Kashmir to effectively control prices of all the essential items during the holy month of Ramadan to facilitate the people. The President sent these directives to the respective provinces […]

Turkey-Iraq oil pipeline comes under attack

Istanbul: (Saturday, July 21, 2012) Turkish authorities are clamouring for attack on pipeline that carries petroleum from Iraq to Turkey’s Mediterranean coast due to which oil supply have been cut since this last Friday. According to the details, fire on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline erupted near the town of Midyat in southeastern Turkey. While the allegations […]

Govt. continues to borrow heavily from the SBP

Karachi: (Saturday, July 21, 2012) One of the reasons as to why there seems no end to inflation in Pakistan is thefederal government’s heavy borrowing from the central bank of the country. According to the sources at State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), in last six days alone, the government has borrowed about Rs51 billion from […]

WB approves $5mn grant for Balochistan province

Islamabad: (Friday, July 20, 2012) The World Bank has approved a grant of US $ 5 million for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Balochistan. The grant is to be provided for the Balochistan Disaster Management Project (BDMP) which will further build capacity of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Balochistan to prepare for […]

Crude oil prices down in Asia

After witnessing the ‘price increase’ trend, the crude oil prices observed a declining trend today. According to the details, the New York’s main contract, for the delivery of light sweet crude for the month of August, shed 53 cents to $ 92.13 a barrel. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in September slid about 38 […]

Ramadan Crescent sighted in Pakistan: First fast on Saturday

Karachi: (Friday, July 20, 2012) The Ramadan crescent has been sighted in Pakistan, and thus, the first fast will be observed on tomorrow (Saturday). A meeting of the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee, that took place in Karachi today for sighting the moon of Ramadan-ul-Mubarak  1433 A.H with Chairman Mufti Munibur Rehman made the announcement after confirming […]

Contempt of court law, larger bench to hear the petition

Islamabad: (Friday, July 20, 2012) Supreme Court of Pakistan, while accepting a petition to look over the contempt of court law, has constituted a five-member larger bench headed by the Chief Justice of Pakistan. The bench will review the petition challenging ‘Contempt of Court Amendment Act-2012’ Other honorable judges, who, along with the Chief Justice, […]

Pakistanis to face ban on international travel if polio not eradicated in a year

Islamabad: (Friday, July 20, 2012) The Senate Standing Committee on Inter-Provincial Coordination has expressed the fears for Pakistan might be facing international travel ban if polio disease is not completely eradicated by 2013. Sharing the details, Senator Karim Khawaja informed the committee members that the international community had hinted that if polio was not completely […]

No loadshedding if adequate gas supply is available: KESC

Karachi: (Friday, July 20, 2012) Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) said yesterday that if adequate gas supply is available, it would not only help eliminate the loadshedding, but will also help the KESC to provide electricity to the consumers on cheaper rates. According to the statement issued by the KESC, in order to maintain a […]

Bank Robbery: Dacoits loot 3.5m from a bank in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: (Friday, July 20, 2012) As the law and order situation deteriorates throughout the country, the phenomenon spreads to Hyderabad as well where armed dacoits looted Rs 3.5mn from a private bank today.   According to the police sources, armed men stormed into a private bank located in Latifabad No.7 and made the security guards […]

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