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Pakistan stresses dialogue, development in terrorist-hit areas to combat scourge of terrorism -

UNITED NATIONS, May 18 (APP): Pakistan Friday called for sharper focus on dialogue and development in terrorist-hit areas, while maintaining military pressure as part of efforts to eliminate the scourge of terrorism. “When terrorists defy the writ of the state, kill civilians, spread terror, they have to be stopped; stopped by the use of force; stopped militarily,” Ambassador Masood Khan told more than 100 delegates attending a Pakistan-sponsored seminar at U.N. Headquarters in New York. “There is absolutely no doubt about that,” the Pakistani envoy said of using military means against terrorists. “But,” he added, “by killing the terrorists, we do not defeat terrorism. To eliminate terrorism, we have to go into the causes and deconstruct the mindset that launches them into terrorism.”

Outgoing Pakistan ambassador Sherry Rehman urges trade, end to drone strikes -

WASHINGTON, May 18 (APP): Pakistan's outgoing ambassador to the United States Sherry Rehman has said the Pakistan and the United States have improved their ties considerably from a low-point in 2011 but asked Washington to end drone strikes in the tribal areas in order to help put the relationship on sustained upward trajectory. In a farewell speech to a gathering of senior American officials and Pakistani-Americans, Ms. Rehman who resigned from her post this week after May 11 election, also called for using trade as the engine for enhanced bilateral partnership.

Pak to become Chinese Beidou navigation system's fourth overseas user -

BEIJING, May 18 (APP): China's Beidou navigation system is set to increase its presence in the Asia-Pacific region, with Pakistan expected to become its fourth overseas customer later this month.Huang Lei, international business director of Beijing BDStar Navigation, which helps promote Beidou, or Compass, in the international market, told China Daily the company will build a network of stations in Pakistan to enhance the location accuracy of Beidou. These continuously operational reference stations will be built after the two countries sign a cooperation agreement, which will see Pakistan follow in the footsteps of Thailand, Laos and Brunei in becoming a Beidou customer.

Pakistani artist’s large-scale installation atop Metropolitan Museum’s Roof Garden opens -

NEW YORK, May 17 (APP): Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi’s large-scale site-specific work atop New York’s Metropolitan Museum’s Roof Garden opened Thursday in the presence of a big gathering of art lovers. Qureshi, 41, is known worldwide for his unique style of combining the motifs, symbolism, and ornamental techniques of Islamic art with modern conceptual approaches. The exhibition, Entitled The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi, the project represents the artist’s emotional response to violence occurring across the globe in recent decades and his earnest hope for regeneration and lasting peace in the aftermath of man-made disasters. Using the nearly 8,000-square-foot open-air space as his canvas, Qureshi edhas worked areas of his spilled and splattered red acrylic paint into patterns of lush ornamental leaves that evoke the luxuriant walled gardens that are ubiquitous in miniatures of the Mughal court; they also echo the spectacular verdant foliage of Central Park surrounding the Roof Garden.

U.S. Pakistan have a lot to build on for long-term partnership: Scholar -

WASHINGTON, May 16 (APP): The United States and Pakistan have convergence of interests in a lot of areas to foster an enduring strategic partnership,beyond 2014,a Pakistani scholar researching relations between the two countries said.Simbal Khan, who as Woodrow Wilson scholar focused her research on U.S.-Pakistan security relationship, said the U.S. engagement with the region would transition into a new phase after its military drawdown from neighboring Afghanistan.She cited geo-strategic imperatives and commonality of objectives in areas where both countries can build on cooperative ties to secure their long-term interests.For instance, both Washington and Islamabad want stability in Afghanistan, where they have cooperated for more than a decade to eliminate al-Qaeda terrorist threat, she noted at a presentation on U.S. Pakistan Security Relations: From 9/11 to 2011, with an Eye on 2014.”

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Recent spot-fixing scandal has tarnished cricket’s image further: ex-players

ISLAMABAD, May 17 (APP): Former Pakistan cricketers feel that the recent spot-fixing scandal that has rocked ongoing Indian Premier has tarnished the image of the game of cricket. Erstwhile skipper Zaheer Abbas in an interview on Friday said that he was shocked by the scandal involving Indian Test player, Sreesanth and two others—Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan. “What worries me is that this apparently is just the tip of the iceberg as far as corruption in cricket is concerned. There have always been fears that the IPL was a soft target for bookmakers but no one took this seriously,” he said.

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World Intellectual Property Day marked

ISLAMABAD, Apr 26 (APP): People across the globe including Pakistan marked the World Intellectual Property Day today to acknowledge the contribution made by innovators and artists to the development of societies.The theme of World Intellectual Property Day this year was “Innovation - Linking the World.”World Intellectual Property Day is observed annually on April 26 and the event was established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2001 to raise awareness about the role of intellectual property in our daily lives and to recognise the efforts made by innovators in the societies.

April 26 was chosen as this was the date on which the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization entered into force in 1970.
World Intellectual Property Rights Organization (WIPO) celebrated both the 10th anniversary of World Intellectual Property Day and the 40th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention establishing WIPO Convention.
Following a statement made at the Assembly of the Member States of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in September 1998, the Director General of the National Algerian Institute for Industrial Property (INAPI) proposed on April 7, 1999 the institutionalization of an international day for intellectual property, with the aim of “setting up a framework for broader mobilization and awareness, opening up access to the promotional aspect of innovation and recognizing the achievements of promoters of intellectual property throughout the world.”
On August 9, 1999, the Chinese delegation to the WIPO proposed the adoption of the “World Intellectual Property Day” “in order to further promote the awareness of intellectual property protection, expand the influence of intellectual property protection across the world, urge countries to publicize and popularize intellectual property protection laws and regulations, enhance the public legal awareness of intellectual property rights, encourage invention-innovation activities in various countries and strengthen international exchange in the intellectual property field.”
In October 1999, the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) approved the idea of declaring the day as a World Intellectual Property Day.

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