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Who do you believe is efficient reliable and sincere in helping flood troubled brothers of Pakistan all over Pakistan?

	The government (federal and provincial both)
	The energetic youth organizations of Pakistan working privately on their own for eg PYM,PKKH,MRP,PYR
	The area heads sardars,chauhdry's zamindars and waderas
	The NGO's of (national and international) eg EDHI,Al-khidmat etc
	Political workers of parties(MQM,PPP,ML)

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US Dollars In Short Supply In Pakistan

Anu Verma

Short supply of US dollars led to further depreciation of Pakistan rupees Tuesday.

In active forex trade Pak rupee lost 11 paisas against the dollar to close at 84.10 rupees to a dollar in the open market from the last week’s trading day close of 83.99. Trading activity was thin in the currency market during the day. The rupee depreciated over short supply of dollars as exporters were not active.

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Secret Erik Prince/Blackwater Tape Exposed

By Jeremy Scahill

Erik Prince, the reclusive owner of the Blackwater empire, rarely gives public speeches and when he does he attempts to ban journalists from attending and forbids recording or videotaping of his remarks. On May 5, that is exactly what Prince is trying to do when he speaks at DeVos Fieldhouse as the keynote speaker for the “Tulip Time Festival” in his hometown of Holland, Michigan. He told the event’s organizers no news reporting could be done on his speech and they consented to the ban. Journalists and media associations in Michigan are protesting this attempt to bar reporting on his remarks.

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Firm Run by Ex-Israeli Special Forces Soldier Wants US Security Contracts in Jerusalem, Iraq, Afghanistan

By Jeremy Scahill
The Obama administration has continued the Bush-era reliance on private contractors to sustain the US occupation of Iraq and the US operations in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, Obama has surpassed Bush’s reliance on contractors with current contractor levels surpassing 100,000 Defense Department contractors deployed. In Iraq, Obama has maintained the long-standing ratio of one contractor to every US soldier.

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Cotton Prices Hit The Roof In Pakistan

By Anu Verma

Cotton price hit record high of Rs6,950 per maund due to shortage of the commodity and sluggish trading on the cotton market today.

Dealers at the Karachi Cotton Exchange (KCA) said 400 bales of Haroonabad were sold at the historic high of Rs6,925/Rs6,950 per maund on credit, and 4,700 bales of Rahim Yar Khan changed hands at Rs6,800. Spot rates of the Karachi Cotton Exchange stayed unchanged at Rs6,700 a maund and Rs7,180 per 40kg.

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At Iraqi border outpost, a U.S.-Iran game of 'spy vs. spy'

By Hannah Allam | McClatchy Newspapers

JOINT SECURITY STATION WAHAB, Iraq — This windswept U.S. garrison on Iraq's border with Iran has no running water and sporadic mail service, and it's so easily overlooked that the military accidentally canceled its contract for portable toilets last month, forcing the 60 soldiers who live here to resort to disposable waste bags for a while.

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