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Ton-up Sangakkara keeps Pakistan on bay
NICL scam: Court acquits Moonis Elahi
US believes in Pakistans sovereignty: Clinton
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Journalists boycott IPC meeting
Price of gold become low
Multan: Railway employees protest continues
FESCO disconnects connections of defaulters
Punjabs resources being spent on public gatherings: Babar
Pakistan elected to UN Security Council as non-permanent member
US senator warns Pakistan on ties to Haqqani group
Tarpal school in Jhelum
LHC seeks explanation from education department
Lahore: Youth killed over resistance
Lahore: four arrested over making fake fertilizer, pesticides

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Kumar Sangakkara put his wealth of experience on show with a pugnacious unbeaten hundred to keep Pakistan s victory bids on hold in the first Test here on Friday. The 33-year-old left-hander notched 161 for his 26th Test hundred to help Sri Lanka, trailing by 314 runs in the first innings, reach 298-5 in their second knock at close on the fourth day at Abu Dhabi stadium. They need only 16 runs to make Pakistan bat again, and will look to bat out at least two of the three sessions on the fifth and final day to salvage an unlikely draw. Sangakkara found an able ally in Prasanna Jayawardene (25 not out) to fight off the second new ball, with which paceman Umar Gul struck with the first delivery to remove Angelo Mathews (22). The Sangakkara-Jayawardene stand for the sixth wicket has so far yielded 65 runs. Playing his 101st Test, Sangakkara took the fight to the Pakistani bowlers, adding an invaluable 153 runs for the second wickets with opener Lahiru Thirimanne who made a career-best 68. Walking into bat after Sri Lanka lost opener Tharanga Paranavitana off the very first ball of their second innings on Thursday, Sangakkara batted with resolve as Sri Lanka, resuming at 47-1, reached 125-1 by lunch. Pakistan then hit back by dismissing Thirimanne soon after lunch, run out after the opener, taking a second run but failed to beat a throw from the fine-leg by Azhar Ali. Seven runs later, Mahela Jayawardene (four) played on to off-spinner Saeed Ajmal before paceman Junaid Khan bowled skipper Tillakaratne Dilshan through the gate for nine, leaving Sri Lanka at 191-4. Despite losing partners, Sangakkara kept his cool, hitting Khan for his 11th boundary to reach three-figure mark, his sixth against Pakistan. He has so far hit 16 boundaries off 295 balls. Pakistan spilled as many as six catches, three off Thirimanne, which helped Sri Lanka fight back. Junaid, who destroyed Sri Lanka with 5-38 in their first innings of 197, was the unlucky bowler on three occasions as Mohammad Hafeez grassed two regulation catches in the slip off Thirimanne when he was on 40. Much to Junaid  s disappointment Younis Khan held a sharp edge off Sangakkara but the catch was disallowed by the umpires as the ball had bounced before getting into the hands of the slip fielder. Pakistan again let off Sangakkara when Younis failed to hold onto a sharp edge when a Saeed Ajmal s delivery surprised the left-handed batsman batting on 56. Pakistan also let off Prasanna when substitute fielder Wahab Riaz failed to catch a miscued hook off Gul when the batsman was 12. The two remaining Test matches in the series, shifted to neutral venues over security fears in Pakistan, will be played in Dubai (October 26-30) and Sharjah (November 3-7).

NICL scam: Court acquits Moonis Elahi

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The Lahore session court has acquitted Pakistan Muslim League (Q) leader Moonis Elahi in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam case on Friday. After a conclusion of arguments by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), District and Sessions Judge Mujahid Mustaqeem Ahmed on October 15 reserved his decision on the acquittal application of accused Elahi. Hundreds of PML-Q activists started chanting slogans in favour of their leader soon after the judge announced reserved verdict. Moonis Elahi was accused of receiving Rs320 million in the NICL scam through bogus accounts. His Manager Abdul Maalick, Rizwan Bhatti and Khalil Ahmad were also indicted in the case. The first FIR was registered on December 27, 2010 and the second on January 27, 2011.

US believes in Pakistans sovereignty: Clinton

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United States on Friday said it strongly believed in Pakistan’s sovereignty and security and would continue to work with it on eliminating terrorism by targeting safe havens along the Pak-Afghan border. “I agree with General Kayani’s statement that Pakistan is not Afghanistan, not Iraq. Pakistan is a sovereign nation,” US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, at Foreign Office here. Clinton who in her two-day visit to Islamabad held talks with Pakistan’s leadership said the United States was looking forward to operationalize this discussion, “not in months but days”. “We consider working with Pakistan as a very right thing to do and we need the momentum going.” Khar and Clinton, who met along with their delegations prior to the press conference, termed their meeting as “useful and substantive” and agreed on “giving peace a chance” for the region’s stability. Hina said the talks focused on the ongoing challenging phase between the two countries and were meant to be constructive to clarify certain mutual misperceptions. She said the meeting was directed at finding ways to develop strategic convergence into an operational one. Hina said fighting terrorism was in Pakistan’s own interest, for its people and for the coming generations. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said stopping terrorism was the objective that Pakistan and the US shared together. She said the US encouraged Pakistan and Afghanistan to work together and stressed that the process needed to be transparent. She stressed the need to “squeeze” the Haqqani network and added that the United States along with Afghanistan had a recent successful operation against the Haqqani network inside Afghanistan and captured and killed dozens of terrorists. “We are trying to squeeze them in Afghanistan and we wait for the Pakistani support alongside,” she said. She insisted that Pakistani Taliban were a “terrible threat” to Pakistan and said the issue needed not just a military solution but required a political agenda, including economic assistance. She said the US realized the sacrifices of Pakistan and said “we respect the heavy toll of sacrifices that mark more than 30,000.” Foreign Minister Khar said Pakistan was keen to cooperate with the US and other countries on countering terrorism. “Yes, we can cooperate more and achieve better results. We are keen to cooperate with the United States closely and to evolve a common strategy,” she added. She said Pakistan believed in an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned solution to the issue of Afghanistan for a sustainable peace in the region. The Foreign Minister hoped that the upcoming Istanbul and Bonn Conference, also to be attended by Pakistan, would prove constructive in discussing the issue of peace in Afghanistan. She said like any other sovereign nation, Pakistan’s strategies were being devised by its state institutions with Parliament having greater supremacy. She mentioned the recent resolution signed by political parties across the country during the All Parties Conference (APC) as a united voice for Pakistan’s security. She said parliament had the authority to decide for the country’s chief executive to take military action. Clinton said she saw APC resolution as a very significant document and termed it a very important public commitment that wanted to give peace a chance. She urged the leaders of Pakistan to reduce corruption and implement development reforms in the country and stressed the Pakistani people to demand these rights. Clinton said Pakistan had a very critical role to play in ending conflict in Afghanistan. She supported the enhanced working atmosphere between Pakistan and India with an improved bilateral trade. On the killing of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, Clinton said his death closed a very unfortunate chapter, but start of a new era. Clinton mentioned the eagerness of Libyans, she observed during her recent trip to Libya, and said the United States was committed to their efforts of ensuring democracy in the country.

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Journalists boycott IPC meeting

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The journalists staged a symbolic boycott of a National Assembly standing committee on Inter Provincial Coordination when PML-N MNA Qudsia Arshad leveled corruption allegations against media  The session of aforesaid standing committee was held at parliament house under the supervision of Mir Ahmadan Bugti. She claimed that media does not give coverage to any issue without money. The standing committee members should give the journalist some money from their allowances to make their mouths shut, she said. The journalists, on hearing these comments, boycotted the session of the committee.

Price of gold become low

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According to all Pakistan Jewellers and Gems Association, price of 10 g gold has become Rs 46,457 with decrease of Rs 171 while the price of one tola gold has become Rs 54,200.  In the world market, decrease of $4 was recorded in the price of one ounce.

Multan: Railway employees protest continues

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The employees also observed symbolic hanging over not restoring power supply to Multan Railways Station and Railways Colony. As per details, a large number of Railways employees gathered at the Multan Railways Station and chanted slogans against mismanagement of administration. They complained that their children were bound to sit in the sun because of cold-heartedness of Railways Department. They have been surviving without electric power since nine days but nobody paid heed to their issue, they said. The Railway employees have started a drive, seeking resignation of Railways minister. They threatened the authorities that if their demands were not met, they would observe hunger strike before the Supreme Court. On the other hand, employees also observed red and black day regarding ‘Rail Bachao Tehreek’ in Karachi. The labour leaders demanded that the Railways ministry should be liquidated and the department should be handed over to an autonomous board.

FESCO disconnects connections of defaulters

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According to Faisalabad Electric Supply Company, 33 connections of the Railway department have been disconnected due to nonpayment worth Rs 10.59 million while 13 connections of the PTL have been disconnected for being defaulter of Rs0.7 million. Likewise, Punjab Scarp department is defaulter of Rs 4.3 million due to which its 142 connections have been disconnected. In the same way, 36 connections of the Punjab Police have been disconnected over nonpayment of worth Rs7.7 million while the Punjab Irrigation Department is also defaulter of Rs 20 million and its three power connections have been disconnected. Apart from this, 9 connections of TMA Jaranwala and 19 connections of TMA Loyalpur Town Faisalabad have disconnected due to nonpayment of heavy amount.

Punjabs resources being spent on public gatherings: Babar

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Talking to media on the house of PPP’s worker Akber Khan, former Law Minister Babar Awan said that at laest eight people have been falling victim of dengue daily whereas Punjab government is spending its resources on public gatherings. Nawaz Sharif should participate in the funeral prayer of dengue-hit patients rather than leaving for oversees tours, he added. While highlighting the academic issues, he said that what kind of good governance that a large number of students are forced to come out on roads.  Awan also urged judiciary to take suo motu on dengue issue.

Pakistan elected to UN Security Council as non-permanent member

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Pakistan envoy played down fears of conflict with India and the United States on the UN Security Council as it was among four countries which won seats on the UN s most powerful body. Pakistan, Morocco, Guatemala and Togo all secured two-year seats on the council. But a battle between Azerbaijan and Slovenia for a fifth available seat on the Security Council went into multiple rounds of voting as neither could get the required two thirds majority in the 193 member UN General Assembly. The election to the 15-member council was one of the most hotly contested in years. The new countries will replace Bosnia, Brazil, Gabon, Lebanon and Nigeria. Pakistan won the Asia-Pacific seat, getting 129 votes, the minimum required, to 55 for its only rival Kyrgyzstan. Morocco secured 151 votes to take one of Africa s seats in the first round. It will also become the Arab representative on the council on January 1. Morocco s foreign minister accused the African Union of trying to block his country s candidacy. Togo took the second African seat in the third round of voting when it secured 131 votes to 61 for Mauritania. Guatemala secured its seat unopposed, although two countries abstained. In the race for a seat for Eastern Europe, Azerbaijan (74 votes), Slovenia (67) and Hungary (52) fell well short of the required majority in the first round. Hungary had to drop out but three rounds of voting failed to find an immediate winner. Pakistan will join nuclear-armed rival India on the Security Council for the next year. It will also be next to the United States, which has given stern warnings in recent weeks about the activities of militant groups in Pakistan. Pakistan is expected to side with China, Brazil, South Africa and India in any opposing efforts by the United States and its allies to sanction Syria or Iran. Pakistan s UN envoy, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, played down fears of tensions on the council. India will stay on the council through 2012. The two, who have fought three wars since 1947, have been on the body together at least twice in the past seven decades. Haroon said Pakistan would fight for the "underdogs" on the council and added: "Hopefully we will be working with all the other members of the Security Council especially India." He said he had a good working relationship with India s UN envoy, Hardeep Singh Puri. "You have seen that the usual tendencies have not erupted between us and that is a good factor. "Perhaps both of us have been beneficial in starting dialogue between both the countries." The Pakistan envoy acknowledged differences with the United States over the presence of militant groups. "We have our points of view and I think the best we can do is sit together and talk and resolve these issues," he said. "I don t think there is going to be any winners in anything that comes into a larger conflagration."

US senator warns Pakistan on ties to Haqqani group

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The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday warned Pakistan that the United States, if necessary, will aggressively target extremists operating within its borders and attacking American forces in Afghanistan. Echoing the blunt message that Obama administration officials delivered in Islamabad, Sen. Carl Levin, a Democrat, said Pakistan could lose an ally if it fails to take responsibility for allowing and supporting the attacks because the United States will always defend its troops. "We have the right to target not only forces and artillery attacking our forces in Afghanistan from across the border in Pakistan, but to target the people controlling those forces as well," Levin said in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. Levin said Pakistan must crack down on the Haqqani network, considered a major threat to American forces. Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen told Congress last month that the violent Haqqani network "acts as a veritable arm" of Islamabad s intelligence agency. "We should inform Pakistan that it should not expect to normalize its relationship with the United States so long as it provides safe haven for violent extremist groups or uses terrorists as proxies to weaken other countries or bully them into acceding to Pakistan s demands," Levin said. Levin said the United States should designate the Haqqani network a terrorist organization like the Taliban and al-Qaida. The senator also criticized Pakistan s obstruction of reconciliation efforts in Afghanistan and said it is an impediment to improved relations with the United States.

Tarpal school in Jhelum

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Government Primary School Nawan Gran, situated ahead of 60 km from Jhelum, is deprived of basic facilities even in the 21st century.  At least 100 male and female students study in this school devoid of any proper building.  There is neither any boundary wall nor any room for children sitting. A tent has been installed by the assistance of local people which gives shelter to students while some of them are bound to sit under the tress.  Likewise, there is neither any furniture for students nor chairs for teachers. The students are bound to face the bitterness and intensity of weather. So far as the high-ups of education department are concerned, they pay no heed to education sector in far flung areas of the country.  The area people demanded that proper attention should be focussed on their issues and take reasonable steps to provide them basic facilities; so that division between the haves and have nots may be diminished with the passage of time.

LHC seeks explanation from education department

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When LHC Justice Umar Bandia started hearing of the case, the counsel for the petitioner Shabana Kauser said that there were no proper security arrangements in all the examination centres in Punjab.  As a result, ‘booti mafia’ became active during examinations.  The court accepted the petition for further hearing and sought explanation from Punjab education ministry and the Secretary Board on November 3.

Lahore: Youth killed over resistance

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Inam Ulllah was returning late night after rendering his services in an office when two unknown motor cyclists stopped and looted him and ultimately shot him dead on showing resistance.  The injured Inam was taken to Mayo Hospital for first aid but he succumbed to injuries. Police have registered a murder case against unknown assaulters and handed the dead body handed over to the parents without postmortem.

Lahore: four arrested over making fake fertilizer, pesticides

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The police also registered case against them after seizing fertilizer and pesticides worth million of rupees. On the tip-off, Nishtar Colony police learned that a factory was preparing fake fertilizer and pesticides in Green Cap Society. They raided the factory and arrested two owners of the factory Mian Tahir and Muhammad Ilyas including two dealers who had come there to purchase fake fertilizer. According to police, the accused used to sell artificial fertilizer and pesticides throughout the Punjab particularly in agrarian areas. It is worth mentioning that all the products were being marketed against the name of Fauji Fertilizers.

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