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Karachi: The developed countries including United States and Britain should persuade their investors to invest in Pakistan, as one of root causes of the growing militancy in the country is poverty, Sindh Governor Dr Ishrat Ul Ebad Khan told British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister Alistair Burt on Wednesday. The UK Minister along with his delegation met with Dr Ebad. In order to curb militancy in Pakistan, the developed countries should come up with investment for the creating employment opportunities [...]

Islamabad: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has sent a message of felicitations to the Prime Minister of Republic of Cameroon, Mr. Philemon Yang, on their national day falling on May 20. In his message to his Cameroon counterpart, the Prime Minister said: “On behalf of the Government of the Pakistan and on my own behalf, it gives me pleasure to convey to your Excellency and to the Government of the Republic of Cameroon our heartiest felicitations on the occasion [...]

Islamabad: 1. A high level meeting, with representation of PPOs and Home Secretaries of the provinces was held in Ministry of Interior. Federal Minister for Interior, Senator A. Rehman Malik chaired the meeting and Secretary Interior along with officials of MoI participated. After detailed discussions, Minister for Interior gave following directives:- a. It was decided in the last meeting that SIMs without proper identity to be blocked. In follow up of that decision, PTA has worked out to block telephones [...]

Islamabad: Dr. Asim, Minister for Petroleum has approved and signed the Tight Gas Policy and said that the Government is concentrating its efforts on exploration and extraction of gas in the country to overcome the energy-shortage in the country. He said this while chairing a meeting with the heads of gas exploration companies. The Minister said that the 2009 Gas Policy will be revised and new 2011 Gas Policy will be issued with a better pricing structure to encourage investors [...]

Islamabad: Federal Minister for Sports and SAFRON Eng. Shaukat Ullah will proceed to Saudi Arabia for attending 2-day “8th Asian/Oceana Regional Inter governmental Ministerial meeting on Anti Doping in Sports”. Delegations from 48 countries will be participating in this meeting. This meeting will be held at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 21 to 22 May, 2011. For more information, contact: Haji Ahmed Malik Principal Information Officer Press Information Department (PID) Tel: +9251 925 2323 and +9251 925 2324 Fax: +9251 925 [...]

Islamabad: Chairman NAVTEC Muhammad Mumtaz Akhtar Kahloon has said that NAVTEC has approved 196,645 unskilled youths under the Prime Minister’s “Hunarmand Pakistan Programme”, and President’s “Fanni Maharat Programme”. Out of which 112,000 have completed their courses while 11,000 are under training and the rest number of students has yet to get training. He said that in the light of Prime Minister’s directions, NAVTEC has taken the initiative of offering short term skill development programmes, of mostly up to 6 months [...]

Islamabad: US Special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Ambassador Marc Grossman called on President Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr today. US Ambassador in Islamabad Mr. Cameron P. Munter was also present during the meeting besides other US officials. Pak side included Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Federal Minister for Finance, Mr. A. Rehman Malik, Federal Minister for Interior, Ms. Hina Rabbani Khar, MOS for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Hussain Haqqani, Pak Ambassador in US. Today’s meeting was in the context of [...]