MULTAN: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said Sunday the dictatorial laws of 2002 would be abolished soon.

He was addressing at the foundation laying ceremony of Multan Industrial State Workers Complex here.

The Prime Minister said the government would soon announce a new labor policy.

NEW DELHI: India’s External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said the US Pak-Afghan policy has ramped up the threats of terror attacks on India, adding India is still the target of the terrorists and it may be attacked in future as well.

He said the US has never pressed New Delhi 'directly or indirectly' to cut its presence in the violence-hit country.

WASHINGTON – A pair of House Democratic leaders predicted Sunday the final tally on President Barack Obama's historic health care bill will meet or exceed the 216 votes required for passage. But they acknowledged having yet to nail down commitments from a handful of members, some of whom remained concerned about the abortion issue.

"There are still members looking at it and trying to make up their minds," House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said on NBC's "Meet the Press" in the hours before the vote. He added that the holdouts numbered in "the low single digits."

What’s Shahid like as a ‘badmaash’? We’ll found out this Wednesday (March 24) as the promos of Yash Raj Films' next offering ‘Badmaash Company’ will simultaneously hit the Internet and the small screen.

Shahid, who plays the lead in the movie, tweeted about it earlier today: "Ok, people, so officially 'BADMAASH COMPANY' promo out on internet and news channels 24th theatres 26th and tv 28th March."

RAIWIND: Pakistan Muslim League-N Chief Nawaz Sharif Saturday said any more delay in the abolishment of the 17th amendment is intolerable.

He was talking to a 13-member delegation of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) at Raiwind.

Nawaz Sharif said the future of the country may be threatened if indifference is shown towards government policies and people’s problems.

KARACHI: Mobile phones worth $103 million were imported into the country during the first eight months of the current fiscal year, Geo News reported Sunday.

The mobile phones imports are three percent in excess of that of last fiscal year.

According to statistics issued by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), machinery and products used in telecom sector worth at least $476.3 million were imported during the first eight months of the current fiscal year, which is 7 percent less than that in the corresponding period last year.

ISLAMABAD: US ambassador to Pakistan Anne W Patterson called on Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani here and discussed various issues including Pak-US strategic negotiations, the PM’s upcoming US visit and the bilateral ties, Geo News reported Saturday.

Both the leaders mulled over matters relating the regional situation including anti-terrorism war and the rehabilitation of the IDPs at a meeting held at the PM House.

The leaders agreed on the establishment of long-term and enduring relations between the two countries and boosting the bilateral cooperation in various sectors.

NEW DELHI: In yet another blunder by government departments, an advertisement issued by the Indian Railways has placed New Delhi in Pakistan and Kolkata in the Bay of Bengal.

The Easter Railway issued the advertisement to newspapers during a flag off ceremony of the "Maharaja's Express."

Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee was to flag off the Maharaja'a Express trail at Kolkata Station on Saturday.

A box inside the advertisement panel showed the train route from Kolkata to New Delhi via Gaya, Varanasi, Bandhabgarh, Khajuraho, Gwalior and Agra.

LONDON: British and Italian doctors have carried out groundbreaking surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old British boy using stem cells developed within his own body, they said.

In an operation Monday lasting nearly nine hours, doctors at London's Great Ormond Street children's hospital implanted the boy with a donor trachea, or windpipe, that had been stripped of its cells and injected with his own.

BAGHDAD: The seventh anniversary of the start of the Iraq war dawned today with very little notice in the media--but at the start of the war, many more newspapers opposed it than we now remember.

PORT-AU-PRINCE: All-night rain made life even tougher on Friday for Haitians living in the many tent camps scattered around the capital Port-au-Prince.

It was the heaviest rainfall since a January 12 earthquake that killed more than 217,000 according to latest figures from Haitian President Preval.

One million lost their homes and are now living in tents or makeshift shelters.

''It rained all night last night and we had to stay up all night. If you look here, you have mud, dirty water, garbage everywhere,'' a woman said.

Actor Ranbir Kapoor, who has replaced superstar Shah Rukh Khan as the brand ambassador of Pepsi and actor Hrithik Roshan in ITC's John Players, feels obliged to get the opportunity to take forward their legacy.

INDIAN WELLS: Second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki downed good friend Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 6-3 on Friday to book a final showdown with former world number one Jelena Jankovic at the BNP Paribas Open.

By reaching the final, Wozniacki is projected to reach a career-high number two in the world next week, up two spots from her current number four.

"Right now I'm just happy about my result here," the 19-year-old Dane said. "I'm thinking about this tournament, and that's the most important thing for me right now."