Thursday, November 7, 2013

TTP to launch wave of revenge attacks in Pakistan

Pakistan News
Dera Ismail Khan: The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (Ttp) reported on Friday they might organize a wave of reprisal ambushes against the legislature in the wake of naming hardline administrator Mullah Fazlullah as their new guide. The ascent of Fazlullah, who is known for his heartless notoriety and denial of peace talks, by the Taliban shura (administration board) a day prior, takes after the killing of the prohibited outfit's past pioneer Hakimullah Mehsud

Roadside bomb kills eight civilians in Afghanistan

Muslim World News
Kabul: A roadside shell split through an auto in fretful southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing eight citizens, the majority of them ladies and kids, authorities said. Five ladies, two youngsters and an elderly man were murdered when their vehicle hit a roadside shell. The besieging close Qalat, the capital of the pained southern Zabul territory

Indian Mars mission on track, makes first engine burns

World News
New Delhi: India's Mars shuttle has finished the first of an arrangement of motor firings intended to free it from Earth's gravitational force and drive it towards the Red Planet, researchers said Friday. The leading "circle raising manoeuvre", which includes the terminating of a fluid fuel thruster, was performed Thursday emulated by the second terminating on Friday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) said. "The second circle raising

Bus accident claims five lives near Bannu

Pakistan News
Bannu/lakki Marwat: A traveler transport, making a trip from Karachi to Peshawar, met with a mishap on Friday killing five individuals and harming a few others in Manjhiwala zone close Lakki Marwat area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dawnnews reported. Salvage sources said that the victimized people were moved to an adjacent healing center where the state of some harmed was

One of most intense typhoons ever recorded hits Philippines

World News
Manila: One of the most extreme storms ever recorded attacked the Philippines on Friday, triggering glimmer surges and tearing down edifices as a large number of individuals crouched inside. Super Typhoon Haiyan crushed into angling groups on the focal island of Samar, in the vicinity of 600 kilometres southeast of Manila, before sunrise on Friday with greatest maintained winds of 315 kilometres a hour. The quality of the wind made

Did Fazlullah come to Pakistan recently?

Pakistan News
Islamabad: If a clue dropped by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan in the Senate on Thursday is anything to pass by, the recently selected head of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Mullah Fazlullah, came to Pakistan of late from Afghanistan as an aftereffect of deliberations made by the Pml-N government to expedite peace banters with activists. "How Maulana Fazlullah has come (to Pakistan) from Afghanistan?" the clergyman said in a momentous manner while reviewing the exertions he had made for carrying the aggressors to the table for talks in light of the choices of

Five killed in ‘tit-for-tat’ Lyari attacks

Pakistan News
Karachi: At slightest five young people were killed in what police portrayed as battling between two charged groups in Chakiwara on Thursday. The police accepted the killings were the aftereffect of the 'blow for blow' ambushes between purportedly breakaway factions of the banned Peoples Amn Committee as a "break" between them had developed emulating the homicide of a nearby relative of

BHC seeks report on kidnapping of employees

Pakistan News
Quetta: A division seat of the Balochistan High Court involving Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Muhammad Kamran Mulakhel has steered the commonplace home secretary to submit a definite report about the grabbing of four workers of the Balochistan Rural Support Programme (Brsp) who were purportedly discharged after installment of payoff. The seat was hearing on Thursday an appeal recorded by one Muhammad Din against the common government. On the off chance that the legislature neglects to submit the report, then the home secretary may as

Irritants in UAE ties to be removed

Mulim World News
Islamabad: The Joint Ministerial Commission of Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates set up a trustees on Thursday to uproot "aggravations" in reciprocal ties. Executive Adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said in the wake of marking the minutes of the eleventh session of the requisition in addition to Uae Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah canister Zayed Al Nahyan that consular matters were

Military base bombings, attacks in Iraq kill 30

Muslim World News
Baghdad: An arrangement of strike in Iraq, incorporating a twofold suicide auto besieging focusing on an army installation, killed 30 individuals the nation over Thursday, authorities said. The deadliest assault occurred when the two suicide assault aviators drove their hazardous laden autos into an army installation in the town of Tarmiyah late Thursday, killing no less than 19 warriors and wounding 41, powers said. Officers guarding the build started shooting with respect to the first auto assault plane as

Country being run on ad hoc basis: SC

World News
ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Muneer A. Malik assured the Supreme Court on Thursday that he would urge the government to appoint a permanent chairman of the power regulator instead of running it on an ad hoc basis. The assurance came after Advocate Azhar Siddiq, representing the Judicial Activism Panel, drew the attention of a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry that Khawaja Naeem was running the National Electric Power

Rabbani presents 11-point plan for talks with Taliban

Pakistan News
Islamabad: Ppp pioneer Raza Rabbani displayed on Thursday a 11-focus want to the Pml-N government for controlling the country out of the present confounded scenario identifying with converses with the Taliban. He thought of the arrangement as resistance proceeded their challenge and held a parallel Senate session outside the Parliament House. The session managed by Ppp Senator Ahmed Hassan proceeded for more than 90 minutes

Iran FM says nuclear understanding possible

Muslim World News
Geneva: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Thursday it was conceivable to achieve an arrangement with planet powers on Tehran's atomic programme by the close of talks in Geneva on Friday. "I accept it is conceivable to achieve a comprehension or an understanding before we close these transactions tomorrow nighttime," Zarif told Cnn a first day later of talks between Iran and six

Balochistan govt owes Rs102bn to Qesco

Pakistan News
Quetta: The Balochistan government owes Rs102 billion in exceptional bills to the Quetta Electric Supply Company (Qesco). As per sources, the areas have power levy of Rs173bn exceptional against them. The sources said the Sindh government owed Rs43.74bn, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government

Twitter surges in trading debut

World News
New York: If Twitter's investors and executives were trusting for a surge upon the arrival of the stock's open debut, they got it. The stock opened at $45.10 a portion on its first day of exchanging, 73 for every penny above its introductory offering cost. ''It's gone on pretty immaculately,'' says Jj Kinahan, head strategist at Td Ameritrade. The stock is presently exchanging on the New York Stock Exchange under the image ""Twtr."" It's the most remarkably foreseen introductory open stock offering since Facebook

Britain's Cameron to demand Sri Lanka war crimes investigation

World News
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday he will request that Sri Lanka examines assertions of war unlawful acts and human rights ill-uses when he visits the nation for a gathering of Commonwealth pioneers one week from now. Cameron said he needed to "gleam the universal focus on the absence of advancement" in the Indian Ocean island since the finish of a long common war in 2009. Shielding his choice to go to the

Kerry warns of a third intifada if peace talks fail

World News
AMMAN: US Secretary of State John Kerry delivered on Thursday a grim warning to Israel that failure to make peace with the Palestinians could trigger a new uprising. “The alternative to getting back to the talks is the potential of chaos,”Kerry said in a joint interview with Israel's Channel 2 and the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. “I mean, does Israel want a third intifada?” the top US diplomat asked, using the Arabic word for uprising. The first Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation ran

Girl expelled from school for getting married

Pakistan News
Chakwal: The headmistress of a school in Chakwal has dislodged a female scholar after she got hitched, expressing that a wedded learner could have a negative effect on her cohorts, Dawn has learnt. Madiha Fatima was mulling over at Government Girls High School Chakwal in Class 10. A month ago, she got hitched with her relative. "When I submitted a requisition for marriage abandon, it was not acknowledged by my instructor who is responsible for

Federer stays in semi-final hunt

Sports News
London: Roger Federer stayed in the chase for a semi-last spot at the Atp World Tour Finals on Thursday when he beat Richard Gasquet 6-4, 6-3 in round-robin play. The 81-moment win implied that Federer stayed away from the humiliation of losing two straight assemble matches in succession despite any precedent to the contrary at the year-close occasion after the six-time champion was decimated by Novak Djokovic in his opening match. Federer still required six match indicates finish the

Officials say Indian troops ambushed in Kashmir; two killed

World News
Srinagar: Suspected radicals trapped Indian officers watching a parkway in Kashmir Thursday and killed two of them, said authorities. Paramilitary controller general Nalin Prabhat said the activists spread the fighters with immediate fire soon after the officers could react. No activist gather has yet asserted avocation regarding the assault in the town of Awantipora, in the ballpark of 35 kilometers (22 miles) south of Srinagar, the principle city in Indian-regulated

Australian unemployment steady at 5.7pc

World News
Sydney: Unemployment in Australia remained unaltered at 5.7 for every penny in October notwithstanding the misfortune of almost 28,000 full-time employments as the mining speculation blast unwinds. Economists had been wanting a figure of 5.8 for every penny, which might have matched the four-year high arrived at in August. The September number was amended upwards from 5.6 for every penny. While the rate was consistent, what added up to 27,900 full-time employments were lost, generally counterbalance by low

Twitter to hit Wall Street with hefty price tag

World News
New York: Twitter will make its Wall Street make a big appearance Thursday with a sticker of $26 for every stake, offering to raise up to $2.1 billion in the most anxiously expected stock offering since Facebook. A tweet from the organization said it might offer 70 million imparts on the New York Stock Exchange, creating $1.82 billion, and give supporters a 30-day choice to buy an extra 10.5 million imparts of normal stock. The first sale of stock (Ipo) appoints a business worth of around $14.4

Rebel group claims revenge assassination of Iran prosecutor

World News
Tehran: The Sunni fanatic assembly Jaish-ul Adl has guaranteed authority regarding the death of an open prosecutor in Iran's unsettled southeast, media reports said Thursday. The reports came a day after Mousa Nouri, prosecutor of the city of Zabol which lies close to the Afghan fringe in Sistan-Balochistan area, was gunned down in a "terrorist strike," as per authorities. Jaish-ul Adl, the renegade assembly

World powers start two-day nuclear talks with Iran

World News
Geneva: World forces started two days of chats with Iran in Geneva on Thursday, wanting to achieve a "first stage" bargain over Tehran's atomic programme, despite the fact that both sides said a leap forward was a long way from certain. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif communicated watched hope that a consent to begin determining the decade-old question might be arrived at in Geneva without much fanfare. "In the event that everybody tries

LHC orders Punjab LG polls on party basis

Pakistan News
Lahore: The Lahore High Court has decided that Punjab's nearby government races be held on gathering premise rather than what the commonplace government had initially imagined, Dawnnews reported. The governing issued on petitions looking for Lg races on gathering premise further expressed that Sections 14 and 18 of the Punjab Local Government Act 2013 were in violation of the Constitution of Pakistan. The petitions making the case for gathering based

Unanimous NA resolution seeks more time for LG polls

Pakistan News
Islamabad: The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a determination calling to defer neighborhood government decisions truism it is basically challenging to convey free and reasonable races in the given time plan. The Election Commission of Pakistan (Ecp) reported on Wednesday the calendars for neighborhood government surveys in Sindh and Punjab, obviously published on legal weight. The Supreme Court has denied any deferrals in neighborhood figures' races and has requested the Ecp to lead surveys

Pakistani Taliban elect Mullah Fazlullah as new chief

Pakistan News
Miramshah: The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (Ttp) have chosen Swat Taliban pioneer Mullah Fazlullah as their new boss, a week after previous supremo Hakimullah Mehsud was executed in a Us ramble strike in North Waziristan. "Fazlullah is the new Ttp head," Ttp guardian pioneer Asmatullah Shaheen said at a question and answer session at an undisclosed area in northwest Pakistan. "The choice was taken at a shura (board) gathering today," remote news organization Afp cited Shaheen

Achakzai requests opposition to end boycott of Senate sessions

Pakistan News
Islamabad: In the wake of proceeding political competition between restriction parts and the legislature, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, leader of the Balochistan-based and government-united Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, met with resistance representatives on Thursday and asked for them to end their blacklist of Senate sessions over an Oct 30 disputable answer submitted by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Dawnnews reported. Restriction representatives, mostly having a place with Pakistan Peoples Party (Ppp), have been challenging against what they call "overconfidence" indicated by Chaudhry Nisar after purportedly furnishing wrong information to the house on Oct 30

Euro edges up ahead of ECB rate decision

World News
Tokyo: The euro prodded up against the dollar in Asia on Thursday, in front of an European Central Bank gathering, with merchants looking to check whether policymakers slice rates according to feeble swelling information. The European single cash purchased $1.3520 in Tokyo evening exchange, contrasted and $1.3517 in New York where it got a support from playful German plant information. The euro edged down to 133.33 yen from 133.40 yen in Us exchange on Wednesday. The dollar purchased 98.64 yen, against 98.69 yen in New York. Investigators anticipate that the Ecb will hold rates at

Tajik president reelected in landslide victory

World News
Dushanbe: Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon won a pounding triumph in presidential races to secure a fourth term at the rudder of the poorest state in the previous Soviet Union, the race requisition said Thursday. Rakhmon won 83.6 for every penny in Wednesday's decisions against five additionally ran applicants, full outcomes demonstrated, a change even on his demonstrating in the 2006 surveys when he won 79.3 for every penny. "The regarded Emomali Rakhmon is re-chosen president of

US must investigate alleged Afghan killings: HRW

World News
Washington: Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called for an "intensive and unprejudiced examination" into affirmations Us extraordinary powers were complicit in the torture and killings of Afghan regular folks. The Us-based rights assembly refered to a report distributed Wednesday in Rolling Stone that raised crisp inquiries concerning the part of Us Army Green Berets in the passings of 18 men in 2012-2013 in the Nerkh area of Wardak territory, outside the capital Kabul. "The Nerkh occurrences ought to be explored

“I don't have an answer,” Misbah says as Pakistan slip again

Sports News
Abu Dhabi: Pakistan chief Misbah-ul-Haq approached his top request to have impact to anticipate South Africa securing the one-day arrangement after the fourth match on Friday. Pakistan trail 2-1 after South Africa secured a charging 68-run win in the third match in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. Pursuing a testing 260-run target, Pakistan were rejected for 191 with leg-spinner Imran Tahir taking 4-53. Pakistan's top request

Nato's top commander questions Turkish missile deal with China

World News
Adazi: Nato's top military authority urged Turkey on Wednesday to purchase a rocket defence framework that is good with other Nato frameworks, addressing if the $3.4 billion Chinese framework that Ankara is inclining towards is suitable. The remarks by Us Air Force General Philip Breedlove, Nato's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, include to weight Ankara to reconsider its choice to assemble a rocket defence framework with a Chinese firm. Nato part Turkey said in September it had picked

Govt enjoys support of 50 pc Pakistanis: IRI survey

Pakistan News
Islamabad: Fifty for every penny of the nation's populace helps the present government, with 49 for every penny favouring the restriction, the most recent review of popular feeling in Pakistan directed by the International Republican Institute (Iri) said. The Iri, which works with the expressed objective for progression of majority rules system worldwide, directed the study throughout August 1-26, 2013. It is a national delegate specimen of grown-ups from 70 areas in all territories, prohibiting Fata and Chitral. Male, female, ignorant and learned respondents from

India MP, wife in police custody over maid's death

World News
New Delhi: A New Delhi court on Wednesday requested an Indian official and his wife to be held in police authority over the asserted torture passing of a servant at their home. Dhananjay Singh, an official from the local Bahujan Samaj Party, and his dental specialist wife were captured late Tuesday over the expiration of their 35-year-old servant, Rakhi Bhadra, who had professedly been mercilessly struck. The case was the most recent in a series of reports of

UN protests 152 Bangladesh death sentences

World News
United Nations: The Un's top human rights official has communicated genuine alert at capital punishments passed on in Bangladesh to 152 outskirt protects after mass trials that she says were unreasonable. Un Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said Wednesday the trials ''neglected to meet the most basic models of due process.'' A Bangladesh court sentenced 152 gatekeepers to passing Tuesday for a 2009 uprising. The sentences accompanied

Army driver killed, colonel injured in Gujrat ambush

Pakistan News
Gujrat: A driver was killed and a colonel genuinely harmed when a guard vehicle was pitfell close Kot Mojdeen in the Kunjah range on Wednesday. The vehicle was heading off to a petrol pump when three aggressors who were on a cruiser started shooting at it, murdering driver Mohammad Ramzan and harming Col

Three people killed in Balochistan violence

Pakistan News
Quetta: At minimum three individuals were killed in two differentiate terminating episodes in the southwestern territory of Balochistan on Thursday, Dawnnews reported. Consistent with the police, obscure motorcyclists opened aimless fire in Pasni Bazaar, 720 kilometres (447 miles) southwest of the commonplace capital Quetta. In this manner, one individual was murdered and an alternate maintained intense damages. The harmed individual burned out

Anti-terror ordinances presented in NA

Pakistan News
Islamabad: Three hostile to fear statutes were exhibited in the National Assembly on Thursday as Intelligence orgs cautioned of conceivable dread ambushes throughout Muharram though the administration said it had ready a secure security want to handle the danger, Dawnews reported. Elected Minister for Science and Technology Zahid Hamid displayed the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013 (No 7, of 2013), the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013, (No 8 of 2013) and the Protection of Pakistan Ordinance

Asian shares slip as focus moves to US data

World News
Hong Kong: Asian markets slipped on Thursday as gurus expected the arrival of Us information on occupations and monetary development, while the euro held up in front of a nearly viewed European Central Bank gathering. Tokyo maneuvered 0.76 for every penny, or 108.87 focuses, to 14,228.44, Sydney lost 0.22 for every penny, or 11.8 focuses, to end at 5,422.0 and Seoul fell 0.53 for every penny, or 10.54 focuses, to 2,002.90. Shanghai surrendered 0.48 for every penny, or 10.21 focuses, to 2,129.40 and Hong Kong shut around 0.68 for every

Govt asked to deploy army for Muharram

Pakistan News
Peshawar: The commonplace section of Tehreek Nafaz-i-Fiqa Jafria (Tnfj) has communicated disappointment over the efforts to establish safety taken by police for Muharram and requested arrangement of armed force in the most delicate locale of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to guarantee security of weeper parades. Tending to a question and answer session here on Wednesday, Tnfj common general secretary Haider Jamil Alvi said that setup was unstable owing to conceivable subversion acts in distinctive areas. The legislature might as well benefit the administrations of armed force for Muharram security, he included. Mr Alvi said that legislature may

Outsiders involved in Quetta crimes: official

Pakistan News
Quetta: Groups from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Karachi are included in partisan roughness, shell impacts, focused on killings and other terrorist and criminal exercises in Balochistan, especially Quetta, as per a senior government official. "Despite the fact that some nearby gatherings were included in subversion acts in Balochistan, we have insights data that a few packs of rapscallions assemblies have moved to Quetta from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Karachi and they are additionally included in partisan savagery, shell impacts and focused on killings

Punjab to suspend cellphone service

Pakistan News
Rawalpindi: The Punjab government has chosen to suspend cellphone and remote telephone administrations in the regions encompassing the tracks of Muharram 9 and 10 parade, Dawn has learnt. The sources said the choice in this respect was taken in the light of the suggestions of the law implementation and knowledge orgs. A senior official of an insights org, on state of namelessness, uncovered that the commonplace government had looked for recommendations from knowledge organizations in regards to suspension

Brisk cotton buying at falling prices

Pakistan News
Karachi: Fear of intense lack of gas and power throughout the winter season in the company of slack worldwide request kept assumptions discouraged on the cotton showcase on Wednesday as ginners were hurried venders while spinners and exporters were obliging them at further lower costs. Floor representatives said even the exceptional news of giving fare concessions to the nation by the Eu under its Gsp+ status from the begin of the following year couldn't help capture the falling nearby cotton costs. They said reports of mellow gives in some

Stocks roar past 23,000-level

Pakistan News
Karachi: Stocks crossed 23,000-level on Wednesday, adding 374.51 focuses to the Tuesday's solid increases of 412.87 focuses. The Kse benchmark 100-file settled at 23,165.21 focuses, reflecting a rally of 3.48 for every penny in two days. Figures discharged by the National Clearing Company of Pakistan demonstrated outside inflows at $3.62 million on Wednesday. Around the neighborhood members, organizations, banks and common trusts were the purchasers of $1.96m, $0.08m and $0.03m worth of

SC orders immediate appointment of PTA chairman

World News
Islamabad: The Supreme Court requested the legislature on Wednesday to instantly delegate executive of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (Pta) and said it might survey the matter a week later. "We control the secretary concerned to consume the issue promptly and release his capacity by delegating the Pta administrator without further misfortune of time," said a three-judge seat headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. The seat had consumed a request of Khurram Shehzad Chughtai, a data innovation

Way opens for grant of GSP+

Pakistan News
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Commerce Khurram Dastgir Khan said on Wednesday that the grant of GSP Plus status by the European Union would give Pakistani products, especially textiles, access to additional markets. Talking to journalists, he said: “We are expecting $700 million to $1 billion additional exports to the EU.” Pakistan’s exports to EU countries stood at $6 billion last year. An application for the GSP Plus status was submitted by the caretaker government in

Barca and Atletico sail into last 16

Sports News
London: Barcelona and Atletico Madrid headed a Spanish Armada into the Champions League keep going 16 with home wins on Wednesday and in-structure Aaron Ramsey steadied Arsenal's vessel with a doing combating win against rough Borussia Dortmund. Barca met seven-times champs Ac Milan at the Nou Camp yet the supply of the floundering Italians has fallen so much that even a normal showcase from the hosts fixed a 3-1 triumph in Group H, Lionel Messi scoring a punishment

Nine shot in Detroit barber shop, at least two dead

World News
Chicago: Nine individuals were shot and no less than two were killed at a hairstyling parlor in Detroit, Michigan where betting regularly happens, police said Wednesday. Police were searching for two men who fled the scene in differentiate vehicles. "The area truly is regarded as a spot where betting occurred so we're not certain in the event that this was over awful obligation, we have no clue," Detroit Police Chief James Craig told

Musharraf now a free man

Pakistan News
Rawalpindi, Nov 6: After staying in confinement for more than six months in his sprawling farmhouse which had been transformed into a sub-prison, previous president resigned Gen Pervez Musharraf is currently a free man. The request for his discharge was issued after his attorneys submitted two surety obligations of Rs100,000 each on Wednesday, two days after a court had allowed him safeguard in the homicide instance of Lal Masjid minister Abdul Rasheed Ghazi