Tax relief on lower salaries likely

ISLAMABAD: The government is considering to propose tax concessions to low-salaried employees in the budget to be presented on Friday. According to official sources, the income tax exemption limit in this category is proposed to be increased form Rs300,000...

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‘Pak army more anti-American than radical’

Dr. Stephen Philip Cohen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, Washington DC, is a respected authority on the Pakistani army and the country’s politics. His book The Pakistan Army was published in 1998 and was translated into Urdu and Chinese....

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Games we do & do not play

IT is about this time of the year that we would arrive in Karachi to spend our summer vacations. There we would meet our cousins from Multan; only no one would call them Multani just as no one greeted us as guests from Lahore. We would be lumped together...

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Nepal’s royal massacre still a mystery 10 years on

KATHMANDU: A decade after Nepal’s crown prince stunned the world by gunning down nine family members, mystery still surrounds the massacre that plunged the monarchy into a crisis from which it never recovered. Many Nepalese believe they may never know...

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Tax relief on lower salaries likely

ISLAMABAD: The government is considering to propose tax concessions to low-salaried employees in the budget to be presented on Friday. According to official sources, the income tax exemption limit in this category is proposed to be increased form Rs300,000...

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Grade 21 officer to head NDMA

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has appointed a BPS-21 officer as chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). The post was vacant since April 13 when Lt-Gen (retd) Nadeem Ahmad resigned. According to sources, Dr Zafar...

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North Waziristan operation likely to be of limited scale

ISLAMABAD: The armed forces will carry out a limited operation in North Waziristan primarily targeting Al Qaeda, Taliban and foreign fighters, as against the widely held belief that the focus will be exclusively on the Haqqani network. In background...

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US files new charges against Sept. 11 accused

Self-described 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators were charged with conspiring with al Qaeda to carry out the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States. All are being held in a high-security prison...

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1/4 Carat Princess Cut Diamond Solitaire Ring - 14K White Gold

The dazzling look of a single solitaire diamond ring is a timeless classic whose simplicity and grace can never be compared. A fiery Princess cut diamond is securely prong set on a sleek band crafted in smooth 14k White Gold. The piece is masterfully...

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House of Harlow 3 Stack Jagged Rings

House of Harlow 3 Stack Jagged Rings Gold with Black enamel???? Tribal-inspired Zig zag stacked ??Two rings are gold with black enamel, the third is g...

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Pakistani Fashion Trends 2011

2011 is a start to a new decade, ‘fashion’ one of our favorite and most used term is in full swing. We all want to know what Pakistani fashion trends 2011 are all about. Winters are coming to an end and we all are gearing up to refresh our wardrobes...

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Cobalt Blue Brent

Top: Cobalt blue crepe silk shirt has traditional roll over look. Keyhole neckline. Very delicate embellishments on front. Satin borders on hemline and sleeves. High neck. Full sleeves. Fully lined. Hemming finish. Bottom: Black raw silk full length...

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Heavy rain floods N Japan

TOKYO: Heavy rain has flooded the already-devastated Miyagi area of northern Japan, hindering its reconstruction after a massive earthquake and tsunami in March. Torrential rains brought by typhoon Songda across the country caused landslides and floods,...

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JUI-F leader shot dead in Kark

KARK: Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday gunned down former District Ameer Maulana Salimullah, member of Jamiat-e-Ulama-a-Islam –Fazlur Rehman group (JUI-F), Geo News reported. According to police sources, unidentified gunmen opened fire on the former Ameer...

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Ed: 2 Steelers Draft Picks Mentioned in SI Article on Ohio State

Two Steelers draft picks were among many former Buckeyes accused of selling memorabilia in the Sports Illustrated article on Jim Tressel’s downfall at Ohio State.       Thaddeus Gibson and Doug Worthington, 2010 draft picks,...

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Game, set, brand for tennis star

When she won her first grand-slam title in 2004, at age 17, tennis player Maria Sharapova made the cover of Sports Illustrated. The photo showed the Russian teenager at the moment she became a household name, proudly beaming on the court at Wimbledon...

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Youngstown Ties Abound in Tressel Sports Illustrated Article

It's the end of an era at Ohio State University now that Jim Tressel is out as head football coach. The announcement came nearly three months after the original two-game suspension of Tressel in the wake of a tattoo parlor scandal. A Sports Illustrated...

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Kristin School

Kristin School is an independent co-educational school located in Albany, North Shore, New Zealand. Kristin is an IB World School with approximately 1,670 students. The school was established in 1973 by a small group of parents, and is owned by the...

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360Fashion

360Fashion began as a show of fashion blogs by high-level fashion professionals, with help from Nokia in 2004, and launched during fashion week October 2005 with an exhibition, cocktail, and conference sponsored by Nokia. 360Fashion is a convergence...

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Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American pop singer-songwriter. After performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side in 2003 and later enrolling at New York...

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Amara Fashion House

Amara is a fashion boutique in Mumbai, India. It houses collections from leading fashion designers of India including Varija Bajaj, Nachiket Barve, Cherie D, Namita Joshipura and many more. They retail traditional Indian clothes like lehenga cholis,...

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Cloth

Saris are woven with one plain end (the end that is concealed inside the wrap), two long decorative borders running the length of the sari, and a one to three foot section at the other end which continues and elaborates the length-wise decoration. This...

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan women wear saris in many styles. However, two ways of draping the sari are popular and tend to dominate; the Indian style (classic nivi drape) and the Kandyan style (or osaria' in Sinhalese). The Kandyan style is generally more popular in...

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Sari

A sari or saree[1] is a strip of unstitched cloth, ranging from four to nine metres in length that is draped over the body in various styles.[2] It is popular in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Burma, and Malaysia. The most common style...

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New York Fashion Week

  The first New York Fashion Week, then called Press Week, was the world's first organized fashion week. Held in 1943, the event was designed to attract attention away from French fashion during World War II, when fashion industry insiders were...

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Blue Angels Commander Grounds Himself

(CNN) -- The commander of the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels stepped down Friday in the wake of a subpar performance at a Virginia air show this week. "I performed a maneuver that had an unacceptably low minimum altitude. This maneuver, combined with other...

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Sorry Mate, New "Pirates" Movie Slow Moving

“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” the fourth installment of the Disney series, is everything you’d expect from a big-budget, action-adventure film. The scenery is lush, the costumes are impeccable, the action sequences are epic and...

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Blue Angels Commander Grounds Himself

(CNN) -- The commander of the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels stepped down Friday in the wake of a subpar performance at a Virginia air show this week. "I performed a maneuver that had an unacceptably low minimum altitude. This maneuver, combined...

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Polish Your Grace with Pakistani Footwear

 Traditional Pakistani footwear is no less. This summer, men and women both can carry a different fashion statement by looking equally trendy in wearing Kolhapuri chappals, Khussas and sandals. Are you already sick of buying diamond-studded...

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Paris Fashion Week Men’s Fall/Winter 2011-12

Paris Fashion Week started on January 19, 2011 with Roland Mouret and Thierry Mugler mens RTW collection followed by other designers like Louis Vuitton, Jean Paul Gaultier, Juun J. who presented 2011 fashion collection for men. Fashion week Paris....

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