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Dec 1:
A law forcing tobacco firms to sell cigarettes in plain packets came
into effect in Australia on Saturday inan effort to strip any
glamour from smoking and prevent young people from taking up the
habit.
The new law,the first of its kind anywhere the world, came into force
despite a vigorous legal challenge by big tobacco, whichargued that the
legislation infringed its intellectual property rights by banning
trademarks. All cigarettes will nowhave to be sold in identical, olivebrown packets bearing the same typeface and largely covered with
graphichealth warningsDec 1: At least 15 people dead bodies recovered,
including eight Pakistani soldiers, and three people are stillmissing
after being hit by landslides in the Kel are of mountains Kashmir
region. In April, 140 Pakistani soldierswere buried when a huge wall of
snow crashed into the remote Siachen Glacier base high in the
mountains inKashmir.Nov 30: Pakistan stocks hit record high for the
fourth day. KSE 100-share index surged as high as 16,651.10 inintraday
trading and closed at 16,573.86.Nov 30:
Former England cricket captain Andrew Flintoff came off the
canvas to mark his professional boxingdebut with a points win over
American heavyweight Richard Dawson on Friday.
The 34-year-old was floored inthe second round of a lively affair but
after dominating the other three rounds had his hand rightly raised in
victoryon a score of 3938 on the referees scorecard.
Nov 30: Former paceman Munir Malik who played three Test matches
for Pakistan died. He was 78, made hisdebut in the famous first Test
against Australia in 1959-60 in Karachi in which Intikhab Alam took a
wicket with hisfirst ball in Test Cricket, that of opener Colin Mcdonald.
Little Master Hanif Mohammad also scored an unbeaten104 to save the
match. He also toured England under Javed Burki in 1962 and ended his
career with seven wickets.
Nov 30: The mysterious wreckage that fell on some villages in Dadu
district of Sindh on Wednesday nightbelonged to HatfV (Ghauri) missile, tested by the Armys Strategic Force Command
at the conclusion o
f its fieldexercises
.Nov 30:
Pakistans foreign exchange reserves dropped nearly two per cent
to $13.575bn in the week ending Nov
23, from $13.814bn in the previous year. Remittances from
Pakistanis abroad rose 15.04% to $4.964bn from$4.315bn in the
first four month, July to October, of the FY 2012/13.
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7 September: the government has decided to convert tow inefficient
thermal power plants in Sindh
Watson and George Bailey to 11-1 befor Umar Akmal andAbudl Razzaq
hit the required runs, the winner coming off the last delivery. Pakistan
had made 151-4 with M.Hafeez and Nasir Jamshed 45 each and Kamran
Akmal (43 not out) contributing with the bat. George Bailey led
theAustralian run chase with a solid 42.7 September: Former Pakistan
football skipper Abdul Ghafoor Majna died. Majna , who nicknamed as
the
Pakistani Pele, represented Pakistan as a midfielder in the 1960s and
1970s.
He was skipper of Pakistan team inthe 1974 Tehran Asian Games. He
also represented Pakistan in the Olympic Qualifiers.7 September 2012:
India foreign Minister S.M Krishna arrived in Islamabad on 3 days
visit.7 September 2012: A new super-earth has been discovered in the
habitable zone around the red dwarf star Gliese163. Astronomers
found it using the European Southern Observatory HARPS telescope
(or High Accuracy RadialVelocity Planet Searcher). It has been billed
as Gliese 163c, and has a mass of 6.9 times that of Earth and an
orbitalperiod of 26 days. It orbits a red dwarf star 49 light years away
in the Dorado constellation. On their research
announcement the team said that Gliese 163c could have a size b/w 1.8
to 2.4 Earth radii, its surface temperaturemight be around 60C.
Along with their latest discovery the team has also found a larger
planet, Gliese 163b,
orbiting the star much closer with 9 days period. They also announced
that an additional third, but unconfirmedplanet, might be orbiting the
star much farther away. The new exoplanets were discovered by the
European HARPSteam led by Xavier Bonfils from the UJFFrenoble/CNRS-INSU, Ins
titure de Plane Tologie et dAstrophysique of
Grenoble, France. Scientists from France, Germany, Portugal,
Switerzaland, and Belgium also took part.6 September 2012: MUMBAI,
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams has set a new world record
for theMaximum number of spacewalks by a women astronaut. She
th
fifty and Maxwellhit a 38-ball 56 not out to round off a challenging
chase of a target of 245 in 47 over spoili
ng Pakistans chances of
beating Australia for the first time since 2002. (Other two matches
info given under, dated 28 and 31)1 September 2012: Federal Cabinet
unanimously passes bill to increase minority representation and is
accepted tobe tabled in the next National Assembly session on
September 3. If Govt. succeeds in getting to passed in theshape of 23
rd
Constitution Amendments with a two
third majority, minorities seats would be increase from 33 to
53 in the National Assembly and Provincial Assemblies. Non-Muslims
represent
4.5% of the countrys
totalspopulation of 180 million. Therefore, the total number of
minorities
seats will increase from 33 to 53, out of which16 seats will be added to
NA from 10, 12 in the Punjab Assembly from 8, 13 in the Sindh
Assembly from 9 and sixeach in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and
Balochistan assemblies from 3 each. Remember, the 21
st
Amendment(creation of new provinces) and 22
nd
Amendment (dual nationality)
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