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| Local polls postponed until end of the year |
| Lack of organisation at grassroots level and financial constrains have forced the major political players including ruling Pakistan People’s Party of President Asif Zardari and the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to postpone the local bodies (LB) elections by the end of 2010, official sources said yesterday. |
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| IMF to release $125mn tranche to Pakistan |
| The International Monetary Fund will release $125mn tranche to Pakistan next month as formal talks in this regard are being held from February 10 to 16 in Dubai, official sources said yesterday. |
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| Pakistan’s new national forest policy ready |
| The Pakistan government has formulated the national forest policy aimed to increase productivity of forests in order to meet requirements of timber, firewood, fodder and non-wood products besides promoting sustainable natural resources-based livelihoods. |
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| Road to Kabul ‘runs through Kashmir’ |
| Sometime in the last year, secret back-channel talks between India and Pakistan over Kashmir restarted, Newsweek magazine reports in its latest edition, quoting unnamed US and Indian sources. |
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