‘Dabangg’ collects 6.75 cr on Wednesday, single screens are super-strong

DABANGG collected approx. Rs. 6.75 cr. nett on Wednesday, taking its 6-day total to approx. Rs. 74 cr. to Rs. 74.5 cr. nett. The film continues to perform exceedingly well at single screens, while multiplexes have shown the usual drops on weekdays. Like this writer pointed out yesterday, the first week distributors’ share will be on the higher side approx. Rs. 50 cr. or in that range since the rentals at single screens are as low at 15% to 20% to 30% and the distributors’ share, therefore, will be 85%, 80% or 70%, depending on the property and location.

3 IDIOTS had collected Rs. 79.55 cr. nett in Week 1 including Thursday previews and DABANGG is likely to cross this figure in Week 1, at the rate it’s faring.

Imran warns of protest if Zardari visits UK

LAHORE: Chairman Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan Sunday warned that a strong protest would be staged in case President Zardari went ahead with his scheduled visit to the UK.

Addressing his party’s worker convention here, Imran Khan pointed out that the whole country is in the grip of worst floods that unleashed widespread devastation. In view of these circumstances, President Zardari should suspend his planned visit to the UK, he asserted.

He said people are dying due to severe floods, needing government’s help, but the ruler’s focus is on the proxy war of the US.

Imran Khan demanded of the country’s politicians to bring in light the details of their properties outside the country.

Strict measures on card to stop sugar hoarding

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance, Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh said the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) would adopt strict measures to stop sugar hoarding.

He was talking to Geo News Monday.

He pointed out that monthly consumption of sugar was 278000 tones and the stocks were of 1246000 tones, enough till October.

The government would foil all bids to create artificial shortage of the commodity, he warned.

KP receives Rs25bn of net hydel power profit

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has received Rs 25 billion on account of net hydel power profit, KP Finance Minister Humayon Akhtar Khan told a gathering here today.

He pointed out that the provincial government was not facing any financial crunch. He denied reports about Rs 10 billion State Bank of Pakistan overdraft adding that the KP government would soon pay back all the SBP arrears.

The received amount would be spent on power generation projects, he added.

Israel dismisses UN resolution for probe of commando raid

JERUSALEM: Israel dismissed on Thursday a UN decision to set up a probe of the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, saying the Human Rights Council that adopted the resolution had no moral authority whatsoever.

“The authority of this council, which once again is working stubbornly against Israel, has reached rock bottom,” said foreign ministry spokesman Ygal Palmor.

He pointed out that some of the resolution”s signatories, like “Djibouti, Pakistan, Cuba or Saudi Arabia, are in a bad position to present themselves as defenders of human rights which they violate massively,” he told foreign news agency.

PIA flight leaves for Lahore

KARACHI: A flight of PIA en-rout to Lahore from Karachi took off after six hours of delay over passengers” protest upon announcement by the airline authorities at the eleventh hour to make an unscheduled stop at Faisalabad.

Three protesting passengers were offloaded.

According to sources, the Lahore bound PIA flight No.306 was scheduled to depart from Karachi at 7 PM. The passengers were informed two-minutes before the departure that the plane would make a brief stop at Faisalabad airport and then complete its journey to Lahore. This enraged the passengers and the captain of the plane had to stop the plane on the runway to sort things out.

A PIA spokesman said spare parts were being shifted for a grounded plane in Faisalabad and that the passengers were informed about this. “The passengers exchanged hot words in protest with the captain and tried to enter the cockpit, prompting the captain to call security,” he said.

More than 200 passengers including women and children had to bear the hot weather inside the plane without air-conditioning besides facing other difficulties.

Difficult to ask Swiss authorities for reopening cases: Mukhtar

LAHORE: It would be difficult for the government to write to Swiss authorities for reopening cases against its own president, Federal Minister for Defence, Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar said here today.

He was here with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to condole with Justice Khalil ur Rehman Ramday over his nephew”s death.

There was no clash between government and judiciary, Mukhtar said. He pointed out that the President enjoys immunity under the Constitution and only the Parliament can revoke it.

There was no talk of giving extension to Army chief, he said.

Former ADG FIA Riaz Sheikh released

ISLAMABAD: Former Additional Director General FIA Ahmed Riaz Sheikh was released from the jail, Deputy Superintendent Adiala Jail confirmed on Wednesday

Earlier, the Punjab government issued order for the release of Riaz Sheikh.

It may be reminded that the former additional director general FIA was taken into custody from the courtroom and was sent to Adiala jail as per Supreme Court order.

A six-member bench of SC headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, had restored the conviction of Ahmed Riaz Sheikh for five years imprisonment and Rs 20 million fine in a corruption case, the court also had ordered NAB to seize assets of Riaz Sheikh and directed to submit report within three days.

Hashmi backs Seraiki province

MULTAN: Backing new provinces PML-N senior leader Javed Hashmi has called for making a national commission to decide on the matter.

He was talking to Geo News from Multan. He pointed out that PML-N had serious reservations over the new name of NWFP but he accepted for the sake of national harmony.

‘New provinces have now become the need of the hour,’ he added.

Hashmi demanded for making southern Punjab and Hazara new provinces.

Liz Cheney Suggests Dad Dick As 2012 Presidential Candidate (VIDEO)

Full Story And Original Content.TrendPK.com In the midst of a discussion of the latest conservative scandal — an uproar over the fact that President Obama bowed to the emperor of Japan — Liz Cheney suggested her father take over the office in a few years. Host Chris Wallace pointed out that former Vice President Dick Cheney did

Full Story And Original Content.TrendPK.com In the midst of a discussion of the latest conservative scandal — an uproar over the fact that President Obama bowed to the emperor of Japan — Liz Cheney suggested her father take over the office in a few years.
Host Chris Wallace pointed out that former Vice President Dick Cheney did [...]