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ASIF MAHMUD is expecting plenty of calls in the coming weeks. Mahmud, 44, and his team are people London's thousands of small, tourist-related businesses in post-11 September distress can turn to for advice that is free for three days and cheap for up to another five. BUSINESS Link for London's callers are wondering where all the people went, says Mahmud. The numbers were 26% down in October alone, according to the British Incoming Tour Operators Association. They'll be back in the medium- term, say within 18 months from now, says Mahmud's boss, Business Link for London chief executive Judith Rutherford. Mahmud says what his tourism business callers want to know is how to be still around when the tourists do return. He and his Business Link for London advisers can't go out and find London's small businesses another million or two overseas visitors - although LTAG does have a parallel marketing campaign under way. What Mahmud's advisers can do is give an ailing business a health check and then perhaps help them to cut costs, to market themselves better.

Here, photographer Sayed Mahmud is featured. Mahmud, who trained at business school before turning to photography, says he is motivated by a simple emotion. He is always fascinated by love, though it has never worked well in his case. Maybe that irony is why he is so fascinated by human relationships. His more recent work, Sleep Driver, focuses on a parallel world of a different variety: A latitude of his observations, realizations and recurrences of the unknown. In that same atmospheric monochrome, Mahmud's more contemporary work is a romantic, somnambulist depiction of Bangladeshi culture.

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad has praised cooperation with Pakistan at the launch ceremony for construction on the Pakistani section of a pipeline carrying Iranian gas to its neighbour to the south-east. In a speech at the event, Ahmadinezhad said the two \"fraternal\" countries \"complete each other\" in terms of resources and should stand together to resist outside interference. He stressed that the \"peace pipeline\" project had no ties to Iran's nuclear programme and that there was no basis for other countries engaging in \"negative propaganda\". He also praised Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari for his strong commitment to seeing the project through. The following is the text of Ahmadinezhad's speech, broadcast live by the state-run news channel IRINN on 11 March: Pakistan can supply an important part of Iran's requirements, and Iran can provide for Pakistan's requirements, as well as those of all regional countries. This gas pipeline is an indication of the resolution of the two governments and the two nations to use all their capacities to complete each other, to help build and bring progress to each other's countries, to cater to our brothers' requirements and to become independent from those who want to humiliate us and break us and achieve dominance over us. He [Zardari] insists that more opportunities will be created for the people of Pakistan to develop and live in welfare. I thank him from the bottom of my heart for his efforts which were aimed at improving the brotherly ties between the two nations and peoples of the region. I thank the ministers; ministers of energy and minister of oil. They truly made efforts and worked hard. [I thank the] Foreign ministers and other officials. I thank the honourable head of Pakistan's Naitonal Assembly who honoured us by attending our ceremony. I thank all the honourable guests who have arrived from fraternal and friendly countries in order to attend this historic and great ceremony. I congratulate the Iranian and Pakistani peoples and the people of the region upon this blessed event.

Reiterating Pakistan's unwavering support to Palestinian cause, the president said that Pakistan would continue to voice its support for Palestinian cause at every forum as it did at the 67th UNGA [United Nations General Assembly] session, and conveyed its fullest support to the admission of Palestine as a full member of the United Nations. Terming the visit of the Palestinian delegation to Pakistan as meaningful, the president said that PLO was first recognized as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people at the Islamic aummit held in Lahore in February, 1974 which also led to the establishment of diplomatic relations between Pakistan and Palestine. Acknowledging the support of Pakistan to Palestine in international foras particularly during the voting in the General Assembly to upgrade status of the state of Palestine into an observer state status, he reiterated that Palestine will continue to work hard to achieve their right to freedom and independence by ending the accumulated suffering of Palestinian refugees through 65 years of homelessness.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said he has assured Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad during...

Islamabad, 16 February: Pakistan and Iran Thursday [16 February] expressed their firm resolve to enhance bilateral cooperation, particularly in energy and infrastructure sectors and to work jointly to achieve the target of 5bn-dollar bilateral trade. To enhance educational linkages and people to people contacts, President [Asif Ali Zardari] suggested translation of old Persian literature into Urdu. The president welcomed Iranian President [Mahmud Ahmadinezhad] and expressed the hope that his visit to attend the trilateral summit provided an immense opportunity for the two countries to further bolster bilateral cooperation in diverse areas. The delegation level meeting was attended among others by Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar, Foreign Affairs Ms Hina Rabbani Khar, Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Textile Industries Minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin, Adviser to Prime Minister on Petroleum Dr Asim Hussain, Minister for Water and Power Syed Naveed Qamar, Railways Minister Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir, Spokesperson to the President [Farhatullah Babar], Pakistan's Ambassador to Iran Khalid Aziz Babar, and other senior officials.

President [Asif Ali Zardari] proposed that the Iranian government consider creating an Integrated Border Management Regime between Pakistan and Iran. He said Pakistan and Iran had vital interests in the stability and peace of the region. President Zardari mentioned the growing problem of narcotics and human trafficking in the region, which he said, required mutual coordination among the governments. President Zardari said considerable work had been done on the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project and it was important now to move towards its implementation phase. He said there was a need to bring about a quantitative increase in Pakistan-Iran bilateral trade to at least 4bn dollars in the next few years that at present was 1bn dollars. Iranian President [Mahmud Ahmadinezhad] appreciated the role Pakistan was playing in the promotion of regional stability and peace. Separately, President Asif Ali Zardari called on the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamene'i, and discussed bilateral relations, stressing the need for further strengthening them in all areas.

Pakistani President [Asif Ali Zardari] for his part said that the foreigners do not know anything about the cultures and values of Muslim countries of the region and even if they want to help the regional nations, they cannot do so. \"For example, foreigners instead of building schools Afghanistan and utilizing that country's mineral resources for the welfare of Afghan people are engaged in other affairs,\" President Zardari added.

Discussing regional situation particularly Syria, the President said that Pakistan has abiding interest in the stability and peace of the region and expressed Pakistan s firm resolve to continue supporting every effort that is aimed at bringing peace, stability and development to the region. The President said that Pakistan supports independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria and that it would continue supporting all out efforts aimed at resolving the Syrian crises and bringing peace and stability to that country.