| ‘Deal with president’ claims merely PPP propaganda: CM
LAHORE: Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is engaged in propaganda of a deal with President Pervez Musharraf only to gain popularity.
Addressing a public meeting at Pindi Ghaib, district Attock, he said that the PPP leaders had done nothing except operating as dealers and commission agents.
He said that PML-Nawaz had lost its political identity after becoming the PPPs B team and had no independent political thinking or agenda. He said that the people should reject those who were responsible for disintegration and plundering of the country.
The Pakistan Muslim League is equally popular in all the provinces and has undertaken a record number of development projects during its tenure, he said. He announced a package of Rs 1.5 billion for the development of Attock.
Essential Scottish opera
Essential Scottish Opera is on the road again. The formula is familiar - four singers, a pianist (the unshakeable Ian Shaw), bare-essential props and a fast-flowing sequence of operatic numbers sewn together with the intention not to fly over the heads of its audiences. With at least one of Tuesday's Kilmarnock audience opting to join in the odd aria - a kind of karaoke Puccini - it would seem these intentions were well met. .
Living Standard Increases
The direct causes of per capita income and living standard increases are technologies, new and old. These are the tools, machines, materials, power sources, medicines, and manufacturing and commercial practices) that are transformed into consumable goods and services comprising basic living standards that are summarized in per capita income statistics. Technologies affect living standards in three ways: (1) They create goods and service that people want, but don't have. Automobiles, telephones, most medicines and medical care did not exist at one time, but were created by innovators. (2) They improve the quality of goods and services that people already have. Medicines, foods, clothing, medical care are improved compared to those available in former times. (3) They increase the availability of goods and services to more people by reducing the effort, waste, and cost to produce them.
Injured military personnel race in Miami Marathon
MIAMI A group of more than 50 disabled athletes that included military personnel recently injured in Iraq led out the I-N-G Miami Marathon this morning. More than 9-thousand runners competed in the fifth annual race. The injured military personnel were from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and part of the Avis Achilles Freedom Team. Team members rolled the marathon course in specially designed wheelchairs. Ethiopian runner Teshome Gelana won the men's marathon in 2:17:54 and Ramila Burangulova won the women's race in 2:40:25. Burangulova is from Russia. ___ Information from: The Miami Herald, http://www.herald.com Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
|
