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High Jumping in Karachi

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  • Kiss and tell

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    An official selection at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival and shown at the 33rd Festival des film du monde Montreal (Montreal World Film Festival), Chan di Chummi (Kiss the Moon) is a revealing documentary about the lives of transsexuals in Pakistan. In the opening scene, script writer and director Khalid Gill says that as a child he was mystified by the transsexuals and he has tried to demystify them in the film.

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  • A Harmfull news for PTCL

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  • PTCL in crises

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  • Microsoft launches Windows phones

    Mobiles sporting the latest release of the Windows Mobile operating system are now available for sale worldwide.

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    Microsoft is also formally launching its application store, known as Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

    While the service will launch with about 60 applications available in the UK, Microsoft’s Alex Reeve said that number will soon rise sharply.

    Windows-run phones can also make use of the My Phone service, a synchronisation service managed “in the cloud”.

    The new operating system and the application store were first announced in February, when a “beta” testing version of the My Phone service also launched.

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  • Wedding photo damages for Madonna

    Madonna has accepted damages from the Mail on Sunday after it breached her privacy and copyright by printing photos of her wedding to Guy Ritchie.

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    Last year, a judge in London found in her favour over the paper’s publication of 11 photos of the 2000 wedding.

    He heard they were “surreptitiously” copied by an interior designer working at her Beverly Hills home.

    The singer, 51, will donate the substantial undisclosed damages to her Raising Malawi charity.

    Madonna, who was not at London’s High Court on Tuesday for the settlement, had been seeking more than £5m in damages in her action against Associated Newspapers.

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  • Petroleum lobby

    Is very strong in Pakistan and they are against any other means of

     power generation except for the imported oil. This lobby is major

    beneficiary of the increasing oil bill that is estimated above

    15 billion dollar this year. Even GOV. is planning to Sell all these

     reserve to a company on a very low price.
    When Pervez Musharraf was president he gave green signal to

     embark upon the initiation of work on exploiting energy potential

     of these coal reserves of Thar under a modern strategy.

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  • Environmental Pollution Monitoring

    Pakistan is confronted with a number of severe environmental problems such as degradation of natural resources, industrial and vehicular pollution, pollution of marine environment, degradation of human health. Summarizing in monetary terms, the annual cost of environmental degradation in the country is about 4.3 % of GDP (US $ 4.3 billion). Specific examples are; air, land and water degradation, drought and desertification, water logging, forest depletion, loss of biodiversity, vehicular & industrial pollution and climate change.
     
    The growing awareness and concerns about the impacts of environmental pollution have triggered a number of national and international actions in recent years. SUPARCO has carried out a several environmental studies, environmental impact assessments, pollutants emission, transport and transformation, preparation of source inventories, and environmental audits of industrial units and made policy recommendations for proper management of industrial pollution. Studies on important global issues such as global warming, ozone depletion, causes of thick winter fog, acid rain, effects of photochemical oxidants and aerosols characterization have been published in international journals. SUPARCO also provides environmental consultancy / services to various users.
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