Power crisis continues : KARACHI: Severe load shedding continued today on alternate hours after furnace oil provided to Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) ended at 11:00 am.
According to KESC sources, Pakistan State Oil (PSO) provided 1000 tones of furnace oil to KESC on cash payment, ended Thursday morning, forcing electricity supplier for massive power load shedding.
Areas of Gilshan-e-Iqbal, PECHS, Gulshan-e-Jamal Garden and Jehangir Road were out of power supply since early morning.
Protestors force Islamabad admin to suspend fare notification : ISLAMABAD: Islamabad on Thursday that the administration acted sharply by accepting all the demands of peaceful demonstrators who took to the streets to protest against rising public transport fares.
Deputy Commissioner of Islamabad comment notification of the increase in freight, and the restoration of the old fees.
Earlier, and prevented the demonstrators angry Murree road. Police used tear gas and used batons against the demonstrators to disperse them.
The fire in the air, the demonstrators left the wounded who were taken to PIMS hospital in critical condition. This annoyed the demonstrators, who began throwing stones at policemen and wounding eight of them.
In addition, and also to the torture of demonstrators and police, their uniforms torn. One of the buses and police vehicles were damaged as a result of violent protests.
On the other hand, the cause of the demonstration worst traffic jams.
With notice of the accident, he went Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Minister of the Interior Rehman Malik immediately to render the report.
ISLAMABAD Pakistan News: Parliament’s Constitutional Reforms Committee has finalized its recommendations on proposed constitutional amendments and will start reviewing the final draft of the package from tomorrow, The committee in its meeting held here Wednesday finalized its proposals and wind up its work on the most of the contentious issues, including the subjects of provincial autonomy and renaming of NWFP. The committee decided to handover the collection of taxes on products to the federation and sales tax on services to the provinces. It was also agreed to carry out the management of the seaports by the Council of the Common Interests.
The consensus on the renaming of NWFP, one of the most contentious issues on which Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Awami National Party have locked horns, will be achieved outside the committee, the CRC members decided.
The committee will start Thursday reviewing the draft of the proposed Constitutional Package that will later be tabled before the Parliament, the channel added.
Indian delegation to reach Pak on March 25 :LAHORE: A twenty-member Indian delegation headed by former Chief Minister of Indian Punjab Captain Amrendar Singh will reach Pakistan through Wagha border on March 25.
The delegation comprised of Indian parliament members, ministers and senior journalists. Captain Amrender Singh will launch his book in Lahore during 10-day visit. The delegation also visits Islamabad.
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National Folk Puppet Festival would start from March 24 in Lahore.
During a press conference, Faizan Pirzada said the International Puppet Day would also be celebrated during the festival, adding that Indian artists hailing from Rajhistan would also participate in the event.
He noted that this year theme of the festival is village culture.
Asthma relief in Pakistan salt mine : KHEWRA: A centuries-old salt mine in Pakistan is offering experimental asthma therapy, attracting patients from all over the world.
Khewra, billed as the world’s second largest salt mine, has for centuries extracted the crucial mineral for export and has become a tourist attraction complete with a salt mosque and an electric train.
Now, the mine is cashing in on salt therapy, already a draw in the salt mines of eastern Europe and a synthetic clinic in Britain.
Clinics claim that asthma patients and sufferers of other respiratory illnesses benefit from inhaling antibacterial salt particles in a sterile environment, helping loosen mucus and clear the lung passages.
“We don’t use any medicine, because the asthmatic allergy patients recover through the air, so we provide them an environment in which their breathing can improve,” said Akhlaq Bukhari, head doctor at the Khewra clinic.
Although there have been few clinical studies, salt caves are seen by some as a therapeutic alternative to drugs and there are natural and synthetic salt caves springing up all over the world.
While other clinics offer treatment for bronchitis, cystic fibrosis, and even ear infections, Shah says the Khewra clinic only treats patients whose asthma is triggered by allergies.
“I have come here all the way from Canada. I could not recover there through medicine, but I am feeling better since my arrival here,” said Naeem Shamsher, a civil engineer from Canada.
Shamsher had tried medicine doled out by doctors back home but felt little relief and struggled to walk far without becoming breathless, so relatives in Pakistan suggested he visit the Khewra Mines.
“Now I can run and even play soccer just after spending three days in the mine,” said Shamsher, who says he feels 60 percent better after the treatment.
The mine, located 160 kilometres (100 miles) south of Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, was discovered in 320 BC by Alexander’s troops and first developed by British colonial rulers in 1872, mine officials say.
Located deep underground in the mine, the asthma clinic resembles an upmarket guesthouse, with 12 beds covered in white sheets and red blankets in six independent cabins separated with salt bricks and softly lit by lamps.
There is a reception area decorated with salt lamps and a lounge complete with a fountain, sofas and a television set.
The walls and roof of the clinic are made from pure salt and a fan helps maintain the temperature and humidity, creating the so-called “micro-climate” that offers patients relief, Shah says.
A 10-day course at the Khewra Mines salt therapy centre costs 5,300 rupees (62 dollars), with 11 hours a day spent in the caves while nights are spent in a nearby hospital.
Since opening in 2007, the clinic has treated about 500 patients. Shah claims that 60 percent of patients experience some relief from their symptoms and says patients have come from as far as Britain and Saudi Arabia.
But Shahid Abbas, a doctor who runs the private Allergy and Asthma Centre in Islamabad, said that although an asthma or allergy sufferer may get temporary relief, there is no quick-fix cure.
“There is no scientific proof that a person can permanently get rid of asthma by breathing in a salt mine or in a particular environment,” he said.
Khaled Sajjad Khokhar, managing director of the Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation, a government body which owns the mine, says they will assess the success of the Khewra clinic before approving its expansion to 100 beds.
But some patients are returning, happy to get even temporary relief.
“This hospital is a blessing, it gave me a second life. I never had problems breathing after spending 10 days over there in 2007,” said Pakistani patient Adnan Khan, on his second visit to the clinic.
British boy Sahil handed over 
to father : ISLAMABAD: The British boy kidnapped two weeks ago has been handed over to his his father at the British High Commission in Islamabad.
On Thursday British High Commissioner in Pakistan, Adam Thomson, said Sahil and his father had been reunited at his house, along with other relatives who had brought the boy to Islamabad.
“I can imagine it’s a very emotional moment for them all,” he said.
Sahil was seized while visiting his family in Pakistan on 3 March and freed 13 days later.
Sahil was taken when robbers broke into his grandmother’s house in Jhelum, in the Punjab region.
On 16 March Sahil was left near a school in Danga in Jhelum before wandering into a field where he was found by locals.
Sahil Saeed’s father Raja is now due to fly back to Britain with his son.
BB’s Murder: Head Of UN Probe Team In Karachi : The head of UN investigation team Harold Wooms into former Benazir Bhutto’s murder has reached Karachi today to collect further evidence.
During his two-day stay, he would meet with police high-ups and officials of interior department and would gather information about Karsaz incident.
Wooms would also call on Sindh National Front Chief Mumtaz Bhutto to record his statement
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Lahore, Pakistan :- President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday became the first President to donate all his body organs, after signing a landmark bill to regulate transplant of human organs in the country. The President made the announcement of “donating his whole body” after his life, as he inked the document in a ceremony held at Aiwan-e-Sadr, also attended among others by Federal Ministers and health experts.
President Zardari said he took the decision in light of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto’s philosophy of living for others. The President said Pakistan was singled out in the world community due to the notorious trade of organ transplant of body organs and urged the Parliament and the doctors to create awareness about the issue among the masses. He asked the doctor’s community to inform the government in case of any violation and help save precious lives.
“No law can be effective without people’s support,” the President said and sought the help of the masses in countering the illegal trade.
The law that now makes sale and unauthorised transplant of body organs punishable with up to 10 years in prison provides for a regulatory mechanism, including a high-level federal monitoring authority and evaluation committees, for the removal, storage and transplantation of human organs and tissues for therapeutic purposes.
The President said by using modern technology, Pakistan can be made a better place to live in and appreciated the political consensus evolved to make the legislation a success.
The bill states that any living donor, who is not less than 18 years of age, may voluntarily donate any organ or tissue of his body during his lifetime to another living person genetically and legally related. The other person must be a close blood relative of the donor and the donation of an organ or a part or tissue by a person for therapeutic purposes shall be regulated in the manner as may be prescribed.
The bill also provides for donation to be effective after death if a person aged at least 18 years, authorizes any medical institution or hospital approved by a 10-member monitory authority headed by the health minister and including heads of organizations of the medical profession and specialists.
It says transplants and removal of human organs shall only be carried out by recognized professionals after a written certification from an evaluation committee. The bill prescribes an imprisonment for up to 10 years and a fine of up to one million rupees for those involved in the removal and human organs without the prescribed authority as well as their sale. Contravention of other provisions of the law will be punishable with up to three years of imprisonment or with a fine of up to Rs 300,000, or with both.
A medical practitioner convicted for unauthorized removal of human organs for transplant will also be liable to ‘appropriate action’ by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, including removal from its register for three years for the first offence and permanently for the subsequent offence.
The bill further states that any person, who is not less than 18 years of age, may donate any of his organs or tissues for transplantation before his death – after a written authorization duly signed and verified by the respective evaluation committee – and authorize any medical institution or hospital duly approved by the monitoring authority for this purpose.
The evaluation committee, to comprise of a surgical specialist, a medical specialist, a transplant specialist, a nephrologist and a neurophysician and local notables having a good record of social service, would be notified by the federal government soon after the passage of the bill.
The monitoring authority would be headed by the health minister and consist of the health secretary as secretary of the authority. Members of the authority would include the Pakistan Army surgeon general, the Transplantation Society of Pakistan president, the Pakistan Medical Research Council executive director, the Ophthalmological Society of Pakistan president, the Pakistan Medical Association of Pakistan president, the Pakistan Society of Gastroenterology president, a surgical transplant specialist and any other important medical specialists whom the government may nominate as members.
Water level down to dead level in Tarbela, Mangla : Lahore: power and deficit increased from 4000 MW, resulting in eight hours to 12 hours of power outages throughout the country.
Ministry of Water and Electricity, said that demand for electricity in the country stands at 12000 MW compared with the total production, which is still 8200 MW.
Water level in Tarbela, Mangla has been reduced to a dead, says the report issued by the Indus River System Authority.
Says that the flow of water in Nowshehra that was recorded 15, 000 cusecs, while the remaining 10, 000 cusecs in Marala.