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		<title>Mansoor Ijaz given last chance to appear by Feb 9</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2012/01/24/mansoor-ijaz-given-last-chance-to-appear-by-feb-9/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2012/01/24/mansoor-ijaz-given-last-chance-to-appear-by-feb-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mansoor Ijaz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memogate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: The judicial commission investigating the high-profile memogate scandal gave Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz last chance to appear before it by February 9. During the fourth meeting of the commission, its chairman, Justice Qazi Faez ...]]></description>
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		<title>SCOPE, PPAF launch livelihood uplift programme</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2012/01/18/scope-launches-livelihood-uplift-programme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2012/01/18/scope-launches-livelihood-uplift-programme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livelihood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PPAF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saleem Shaikh]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SCOPE]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tanveer Arif]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thatta]]></category>
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Thatta,  January 18: Members of civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations and political leaders have pressed on need to take all-out efforts to launch livelihood development programmes to alleviate poverty in Sindh.
They also noted that rising ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bridging &#8216;research-policy-practice&#8217; gap must for sustainable development  &#8211; SDPI moot</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/16/bridging-research-policy-practice-gap-must-for-sustainable-development-sdpi-moot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/16/bridging-research-policy-practice-gap-must-for-sustainable-development-sdpi-moot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Asian Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture in Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[South Asia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD, Dec16: There is an urgent need of collaboration among academicians and researchers in order to determine actionable and creative research agenda for socio-economic growth of Pakistan and make the development more durable, said Dr ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kayani, Pasha file replies to memogate in Apex Court</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/15/16692/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/15/16692/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defence News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pak Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kayani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memogate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pasha]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD, Dec 15: Cheif of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, DG ISI Shuja Pasha and other respondent on Thursday submitted their replies to the Supreme Court in the memogate case, according to news media.
Speaking ...]]></description>
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		<title>Climate resilience, ownership of MDGs, and good governance unavoidable for food security in South Asia &#8211; SDPI Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/15/climate-resilience-ownership-of-mdgs-and-good-governance-unavoidable-for-food-security-in-south-asia-sdpi-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/15/climate-resilience-ownership-of-mdgs-and-good-governance-unavoidable-for-food-security-in-south-asia-sdpi-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Asian Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sanitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Asian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: December 14: Climate-resilient low carbon economy, ownership of MDGs, pro-poor good governance can help achieve food security and fight hunger, mal-nutrituion and bring livelihood to 600 million poor in South Asia, said today the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Flood relief work in South Pakistan at risk from lack of funds</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/08/flood-relief-work-in-south-pakistan-at-risk-from-lack-of-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/08/flood-relief-work-in-south-pakistan-at-risk-from-lack-of-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[floods in Pakistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saleem Shaikh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Sindh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: Widow Hoori Fatima, 76, was still struggling with grief over the death of her son Ali Raza, the family’s only breadwinner, in late October.
Wiping her tears away with her headscarf, Fatima said her son ...]]></description>
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		<title>Obama tries to mend strained ties with Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/05/obama-tries-to-mend-strained-ties-with-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/05/obama-tries-to-mend-strained-ties-with-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pak Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asif Ali Zardari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bonn Conferency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cliton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nato Strike]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pak-times.com/?p=16674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD — President Obama phoned the president of Pakistan on Sunday to offer “condolences” for the deaths of two dozen soldiers killed in NATO airstrikes along the Afghan border, the White House said.
The conversation, eight days after the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hindu Kush-Himalaya &#8216;vulnerable&#8217; to climate change &#8211; Study</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/05/hindu-kush-himalaya-vulnerable-to-climate-change-study/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/12/05/hindu-kush-himalaya-vulnerable-to-climate-change-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture in Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Durban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glacier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hindu Kush-Himalaya. Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICIMOD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA, December 4: Findings from the  most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt  in Asia’s mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region—site of Mount Everest  and many ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tackling water woes thru rainwater harvesting in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/10/26/tackling-water-woes-thru-rainwater-harvesting-in-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/10/26/tackling-water-woes-thru-rainwater-harvesting-in-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rainwater Harvesting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saleem Shaikh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sindh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sukaar Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tharparkar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pak-times.com/?p=16719</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tharparkar, Pakistan: Wearing colourful traditional dresses with silver jewellery and bangles on their arms, the women of Tharparkar district look festive. But the empty earthen pots they carry tell a different story.
“Walking for three miles ...]]></description>
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		<title>No information on U.S. citizen abductors: Grossman</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/18/no-information-on-us-citizen-abductors-grossman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/18/no-information-on-us-citizen-abductors-grossman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marc Grossman]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pak-times.com/?p=16507</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman reiterated that US has no information whatsoever concerning the abductors of Warren Weinstein, an American citizen said that Pakistan intelligence agencies are cooperating with FBI in ...]]></description>
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		<title>PPP and MQM strike deal on LG system</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/07/ppp-and-mqm-strike-deal-on-lg-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/08/07/ppp-and-mqm-strike-deal-on-lg-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 05:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pak Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Altaf Hussain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karachi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LG System]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MQM]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement struck a deal with Pakistan Peoples Party and decided to rejoin the coalition led by the Pakistan People’s Party on Saturday night after hectic consultations first in Islamabad and then at ...]]></description>
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		<title>ECNEC okays 15 projects worth Rs154.52 BN</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/29/ecnec-okays-15-projects-worth-rs154-52-bn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/29/ecnec-okays-15-projects-worth-rs154-52-bn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECNEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance Minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Economic Council]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science and Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) has approved 15 projects of national importance costing Rs154.52 billion.
The committee which was held here on Friday with Federal Minister for Finance, Dr. Abdul Hafeez ...]]></description>
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		<title>Better law, order key to foreign investment, says UK diplomat</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/29/better-law-order-key-to-foreign-investment-says-uk-diplomat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/29/better-law-order-key-to-foreign-investment-says-uk-diplomat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Deputy High Commissioner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francis Campbell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karachi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[KARACHI: British Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi, Francis Campbell has said that improved law and order situation will help encourage foreign investment in Pakistan.
&#8220;Peace in the port city will help attract foreign investment,&#8221; Campbell said ...]]></description>
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		<title>11 new crop varieties approved for sowing</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/29/11-new-crop-varieties-approved-for-sowing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/29/11-new-crop-varieties-approved-for-sowing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics & Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayub Agriculture Research Institute]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[FAISALABAD: Eleven high-yield varieties of Ayub Agriculture Research Institute (AARI) Faisalabad were approved for cultivation on commercial basis.
According to a spokesman of the AARI, a high level meeting of agriculture experts held in which 13 ...]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan ranks 5th in Asia in mobile phone users</title>
		<link>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/27/pakistan-ranks-5th-in-asia-in-mobile-phone-users/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pak-times.com/2011/07/27/pakistan-ranks-5th-in-asia-in-mobile-phone-users/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem Shaikh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISLAMABAD: Pakistan ranks 5th in Asia in mobile phone users as more than 100 million people are using mobile phones in the country. The number of mobile phone users in the world has reached 5 ...]]></description>
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