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Karachi: National Twenty20 Cricket Cship starts
Police official gunned down in Karachi
Karachi: 15 Indian fishermen arrested
Lahore: Education institutions to reopen today
Zardari appreciates Chinas consistent support
New Libya forces enter Sirte from east gate
Turkish premier signals joint operation with Iran
Gaddafi gunmen cross border from Algeria to Libya
CIA compound in Kabul comes under attack
Forcefully project Pak case at UN, Gilani tells Hina
Syria sends troop reinforcements to Homs area
Abbas rules out talks without settlement halt
Russia's finance minister to quit over Medvedev
Oman to hold elections on October 15
Suicide bombing at Indonesian church injures 22

Karachi: National Twenty20 Cricket Cship starts

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In the first match of the day, Abbottabad Falcons defeated Quetta Bearers by 72 runs. Batting first Abbottabad Falcons piled up 190 runs and restricted their opponents to 118. In the second match Lahore Lions beat Hyderabad Hawks by 82 runs. Batting first, Adbur Razzaq-led Lahore Lions managed 194 runs for the loss of five wickets. Chasing the target of 195 runs to win, Hyderabad Hawks were bundled out for just 112 runs. In the third match of the day, Lahore Eagles edged out Karachi Zebras by two runs in a thrilling encounter. Batting first Lahore Eagles made 143 runs and kept their nerves to restrict Karachi Zebras to 141. Three more matches are scheduled for today in the championship.

Police official gunned down in Karachi

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According to Jamshaid Quarters Police, Sub-inspector Safeer Butt was on night duty. He received a phone call on his cell after which he went to Jahangir Road. Later, police was informed about an injured person near Utility Store on Jahangir Road.  The police mobile rushed to the spot and found that Safeer Butt was lying there in critical condition. He was shifted to Civil Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. Accoding to police, Safeer’s mobile was also missing.  Meanwhile, Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wasan has condoled the death of Safeer Butt and issued order for early arrest of his killers.

Karachi: 15 Indian fishermen arrested

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The MSA seized six Indian fishing boats. The arrested fishermen were handed over to the Docks police station for legal action. Police have registered a case against arrested Indian fishermen under Foreign Act and Fisheries Act. 35 Indian fishermen have been arrested so for in the current month for illegally fishing in Pakistani waters.

Lahore: Education institutions to reopen today

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The Punjab government had shut the schools, colleges and universities in Lahore on September 13 with instruction of fumigation and other preventive measures against dengue. According to EDO Education Lahore, Pervaiz Akhtar, informed that district government is conducting a survey of private schools and only those educational institutions will be allowed reopen who will make all efforts to prevent dengue.

Zardari appreciates Chinas consistent support

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President Asif Ali Zardari said that the government and people of Pakistan deeply appreciate the consistent support of the government and people of China on issues of concern. The President was talking to Ambassador Luo Zhaohui, Director General Department of Asian Affairs of the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry who was accompanied by the Deputy Ambassador of China in Islamabad Huang Xilian. Pakistan’s Ambassador in China Masood Khan was also present in the meeting, which took place at the Presidency. Bilateral issues were discussed during the meeting. The President also thanked the Chinese government for its assistance in the rescue and relief of flood victims in Sindh. Until last year Ambassador Luo Zhaohui has been China’s Ambassador in Islamabad for nearly three years. He arrived in Islamabad ahead of the visit of Meng Jianzhu State Councilor of China on Monday during which he will hold talks with senior political leadership of Pakistan. Later the President also hosted dinner for Ambassador Luo.

New Libya forces enter Sirte from east gate

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Hundreds of National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters entered Moammar Gaddafi s hometown of Sirte from the east on Sunday as others west of the city held their ground. Flashing V-for-victory signs, the fighters moved into Sirte on pickup trucks and larger lorries, backed by three artillery tanks as they shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest), one correspondent witnessed. Four ambulances with sirens blazing sped out of the east gate reportedly with casualties suffered by some fighters inside the city. "We had set up a checkpoint some kilometres (miles) inside the city when it was shelled by Gaddafi s forces. There are casualties from that attack," a fighter at the eastern gate said as the ambulances raced away east of Sirte. It was unclear how many fighters were injured or killed. "There are clashes inside the city. Two small girls were killed today when a Grad rocket fired by Gaddafi forces hit a home in Sirte," said Makhluf al-Farjani, spokesman of Sirte s military council. Mar ee Saleh of the Ali Hassan Jabar Brigade said his troops were inside Sirte, and that he had seen NATO warplanes carry out several air strikes during the day. "We are fighting with Kalashnikovs and small arms around the city centre," said Saleh. "We are firing at Gaddafi s men but their return fire is not very strong," he said as he exited the eastern gate and stray bullets flew around the area. A Sirte resident backed up his account of having seen the NATO air strikes. "I have left my home with my family after rebels told me to leave the city. NATO also carried out several raids since yesterday," Ahmed Faraj, 65, said. "There has been no electricity for the past few days in my area, while water is in short supply," said Faraj, whose family was leaving the city s eastern gate in three cars. Many of the pickup trucks entering the city carried food and water supplies, as well as mattresses, an indication the fighters were planning to take stranglehold positions inside Sirte. West of Sirte, however, NTC forces held their ground saying they had received instructions not to launch a fresh assault into Sirte to allow NATO to carry out some operations. Earlier one of the fighters stationed at the eastern gate said fighters were looking for land mines. "We fear that Gaddafi forces have buried land mines on the outskirts of the city. So we are careful. So far today it has been quiet after heavy clashes yesterday," said frontline fighter Abdul Hameed.

Turkish premier signals joint operation with Iran

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Turkey s prime minister on Sunday signaled a joint military offensive with Iran against their common enemy: Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq. Turkey and Iran were working together and "determined," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. "There is no question of any postponement," Erdogan said in a clear reference to a possible joint military operation against the main Kurdish rebel base on Qandil Mountain which sits on the Iraqi-Iranian border deep inside northern Iraq. "I regret to say this but there will be a price for it," Erdogan said, apparently referring to possible military losses in a cross-border offensive. A wing of the Kurdish rebel group, which is waging a war for autonomy in Turkey s southeast, is also fighting against Tehran from Qandil. Kurdish rebels have dramatically escalated their attacks in Turkey since July, killing dozens of security personnel and at least 10 civilians including three people in a car bombing in the Turkish capital last week. On Saturday, the rebels attacked a Turkish army outpost, killing six soldiers and wounding 11 in the country s southeast, authorities said. Three rebels also were killed in the ensuing clash near the town of Pervari in Siirt province. The attacks came after Turkish warplanes started to bomb suspected Kurdish rebel hideouts in neighboring northern Iraq in mid-August in response to the surge in rebel violence. The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people alone in Turkey since the rebels took up arms in 1984.

Gaddafi gunmen cross border from Algeria to Libya

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Gunmen loyal to Moammar Gaddafi have crossed the Libyan border from Algeria and attacked National Transitional Council (NTC) forces in a town near the frontier, killing six people, officials said Sunday. The cross-border attack on Saturday shows loyalist forces have managed to escape Libya and regroup and collect arms, bolstering fears the North African nation could face a protracted insurgency. Fighters who took up arms against Gaddafi have seized Tripoli and have gained control of the rest of the country, but they are still battling forces loyal to the ousted regime on several fronts. Libya officials also announced on Sunday the discovery of a mass grave believed to hold the remains of 1,270 inmates killed by Gaddafi s regime in a 1996 prison massacre. The site a desert field scattered with bone fragments was found outside the walls of Tripoli s Abu Salim prison, where the victims were killed on June 26, 1996, after protesting conditions at the facility. A demonstration by women demanding justice for the victims of that prison massacre was one of the things that touched off the uprising against Gaddafi in February. A Tripoli military spokesman, Khalid al-Sharif, said authorities found the site after getting information from witnesses and former security guards who had been captured after the capital fell. Officials will ask for international assistance in excavating and identifying the remains because the Libyans don t have sufficient expertise and equipment to test the DNA, he said. Libyans are eager for those who committed crimes under the old regime to face justice and have been moving forward with efforts to account for the past even as fighting continues in parts of the country.

CIA compound in Kabul comes under attack

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A compound in Kabul used by the US s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) came under attack Sunday, officials said, the latest in a series of assaults in the Afghan capital. Afghan interior ministry spokesman Siddiq Siddiqui said police had heard "a couple of minutes" of gunfire from inside the Ariana Hotel compound at around 9.15pm (1645 GMT). "Our police heard there were some shots from inside the Ariana compound," he said. But he added that Afghan forces could not go inside as the site "belongs to coalition forces" and was "not within the reach of police". An Afghan government source said the Ariana compound was used by the CIA. A US official in Washington confirmed an attack against a facility used by US officials in Kabul, saying "the situation is fluid, and the investigation is ongoing" over the incident. The CIA has not commented, but Afghan counter-intelligence sources said at least one attacker was killed in the incident. The CIA declined to comment. A spokesman for the US embassy in Kabul, Gavin Sundwall, also said he could not comment on the incident. Major Jason Waggoner, spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul, confirmed that "there were shots fired" near the hotel but did not have further details. In another incident of violence in eastern Afghanistan, a suicide bomber on a motorbike detonated his explosives outside a local police headquarters. Four people were killed in the incident. Abdul Rahman, who coordinates security in Paktika province, says two policemen and two civilians died in the attack Sunday in Yahya Khel district near Afghanistan s eastern border with Pakistan. After the attack, gunmen fired bullets at the police headquarters from two or three directions, but the gunfire ended after 15 minutes and no other casualties were reported. In Kabul, President Hamid Karzai appointed a panel of high-ranking officials, led by Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, to investigate the assassination of former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who headed the nation s peace council.

Forcefully project Pak case at UN, Gilani tells Hina

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The spokesman of the Prime Minister House on Sunday said Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani twice spoke to Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and directed her to forcefully project Pakistan’s point of view in the General Assembly on September 27. The spokesman said that the Prime Minister directed the Foreign Minister to return to Pakistan immediately after delivering her speech in the UN General Assembly in New York. Earlier, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was asked to return quickly from the United States to brief the parliamentarians over the situation.

Syria sends troop reinforcements to Homs area

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Syria pressed on with a crackdown on anti-regime dissent Sunday, dispatching troop reinforcements to the flashpoint province of Homs and security forces near Damascus, activists said. "Military reinforcements were sent to Rastan, deploying around the building housing military security, and others to Qusseir," a town on the border with Lebanon, they said. The Syrian army had strengthened its presence in Qusseir on Saturday and previous days after many civilians tried to escape the violence. The deployments come a day after activists reported that security forces had killed 12 civilians in Qusseir, in the central province of Homs, and one more in Hama, further north. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which carried the toll said that the 12 civilians were killed in Qusseir during raids for people wanted by the authorities. It also said that security forces had opened fire on protests in several Homs neighbourhoods, but did not immediately report possible casualties. The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva has said the death toll from the crackdown on dissent since March 15 has risen to more than 2,700. Also on Sunday, security forces were dispatched in large numbers to the restive suburb of Douma, northeast of Damascus, activists said. And 10 students, including a girl, were arrested Sunday by security forces in Dael, a city in Daraa province, birthplace of the anti-regime protests. "The fate of students is unknown," the Observatory said. Syria has been gripped by almost daily anti-regime protests since March 15. Initially the demonstrations appealed for greater reforms in the autocratic country but, faced with a brutal and bloody crackdown, protesters have openly called for President Bashar al-Assad to quit. Damascus does not accept that popular opposition to the authorities exists, instead blaming "armed gangs" and "terrorists" for trying to sow chaos.

Abbas rules out talks without settlement halt

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The Palestinians will not hold peace talks without a "complete halt" to Israeli settlement building, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas told cheering crowds on Sunday. "There will be no negotiations without international legitimacy and a complete halt to settlements," he said in an address to thousands who gathered to welcome him back from his bid to secure full UN membership for a state of Palestine. The comments appeared to be a rejection of a proposal for new talks from the international peacemaking Quartet, which on Friday proposed renewed negotiations but did not explicitly seek a settlement freeze. Abbas told the crowds he had conveyed their dreams of statehood to the international community with his address to the UN General Assembly and formal submission of the membership bid. "We went to the United Nations carrying your hopes, your dreams, your ambitions, your suffering, your vision and your need for an independent Palestinian state," he said. "I have no doubt that the whole free world from one end to the other received what we told them about you and your dreams with all due respect," he added as the crowds chanted "The people want a Palestinian state." Abbas arrived in Ramallah from Amman, and was greeted by a presidential honour guard at his headquarters, known as the Muqataa. He walked solemnly into the compound and went immediately to the grave of his predecessor Yasser Arafat where he laid a wreath before walking to a small stage to address the crowds, flanked by his prime minister Salam Fayyad. "Brothers, there is no doubt that we are strong, strong in our rights, strong in our determination; our eyes, our minds and our culture are strong," he said. "Lift your heads up high, you are Palestinian" The crowds applauded wildly, waving the Palestinian flag and the yellow banner of Abbas s Fatah party. Thousands had begun gathering at the Muqataa several hours before Abbas arrived, responding to calls from local unions, the Fatah movement and the campaign that was organised to back the UN bid. Buses laid on by different groups brought cheering Palestinians from cities including Hebron in the south and Jenin in the north, organisers said. Ahead of Abbas s arrival, Mohammed Amudi said he had come to show his support for the unassuming Palestinian leader.

Russia's finance minister to quit over Medvedev

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Russia s finance minister has said he will step down rather than serve under Dmitry Medvedev if the president becomes prime minister next year as planned. Alexei Kudrin has been finance minister since 2000 and his conservative fiscal policies are widely credited with helping Russia weather the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. He is close to Vladimir Putin, the current prime minister, who Saturday announced his intention to return to the presidency next year. Putin said he would then name Medvedev prime minister. Kudrin told reporters from Russia s state news agencies in Washington later Saturday that he would not serve in Medvedev s government because of disagreements over economic policy. He specifically cited Medvedev s plans to increase military spending. "I do not see myself in the new government, and it is not just that I have not been offered the job," he told reporters on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. "I think that those differences of opinion that I have will not allow me to join the government." During Putin s presidency from 2000 to 2008, Kudrin stashed some of the revenue from Russia s oil exports in a stabilization fund. In doing so, he had faced strong opposition from other government ministers who wanted the money for expenditures, but when the financial crisis hit and oil prices fell, those savings proved crucial in reducing the blow. Medvedev s spokeswoman, Natalya Timakova, said it was too soon to discuss the composition of the next government. "President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin proceed from the understanding that all federal officials are continuing to perform their duties at their place of work," she was quoted by state news agencies as saying. "If someone has other ideas, they should be ready to change their place of work." Putin s spokesman said Kudrin has never hidden his disagreements with Putin or Medvedev on economic policies.

Oman to hold elections on October 15

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Mohammed al-Bousaidi urged all eligible voters to confirm their registration before Wednesday to participate in the polls in which 1,133 candidates, among them 77 women,  will compete for seats in the council for the term that ends in 2015. Rights groups will not be invited to monitor the elections which will be covered by local and international media as well as civil society organisations, he said. Oman s Sultan Qaboos has ordered a "study to extend the council s powers," Bousaidi said without giving further details. The 84-member advisory council, which was created in 1991 and has a four-year term, questions ministers and advises the government on socio-economic issues but has no legislative power or role in defence, internal security or foreign policy. Political parties remain banned. Oman, a non-OPEC member, was the first Gulf Arab state to give women the right to vote and stand for public office in 1994. Elections are becoming more frequent in the Gulf, as Arab monarchies take tentative steps towards meeting demands for reform. But only Kuwait and Bahrain have elected parliaments and in the latter the elected chamber shares legislative power with an appointed upper house.

Suicide bombing at Indonesian church injures 22

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A suicide bomber blew himself up inside an Indonesian church as hundreds of worshippers were filing out after the Sunday service, injuring at least 22 people, police said. The bomber s mangled body lay at the entrance of the Tenth Bethel Gospel Church. Around him, screaming people were splattered in blood. Police Chief Gen. Timur Pradopo said the low-intensity device appeared to be attached to the man s stomach. "We are now waiting for DNA test results to confirm his identity," Pradopo said. "We hope to reveal it soon." A woman working at an Internet cafe near the church in the Central Java town of Solo said the man had visited her shop an hour before the explosion and browsed websites about Al Qaeda and a local Islamist group. Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim nation of 237 million, has been hit by a string of suicide bombings blamed on the Al Qaeda-linked network Jemaah Islamiyah and its offshoots since 2002, when a strike on two Bali nightclubs killed 202 people, most of them foreign tourists. Subsequent attacks targeting restaurants and hotels have been far less deadly, however, and the last occurred more than two years ago, thanks in large to a security crackdown that led to the arrests and convictions of dozens of suspects.

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