Colin Powell to be named first-ever Black US state secretary
President-elect George W. Bush is set to name General Colin Powell as his Secretary of State on Saturday to launch Washington's quadrennial revolving door process that will see some prominent faces trickle into the Republican administration.



In Pakistan's city of strife, 82-year-old fights for her community's dead
Rachel Joseph may well be Karachi’s last surviving Jew. And the battle the 82-year-old is fighting today is already a lost cause in the face of the city’s increasingly powerful builders’ mafia and the growing religious intolerance.



Pak to impose 30 pc duty on Indian sugar
In a bid to boost domestic industry, Pakistan has decided to impose 30 per cent import duty on Indian sugar, media reports said on Saturday.



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