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UBL Hard Court Tennis Cship starts today
14 arrested in targeted operation in Karachi
Zardari phones Sibghatullah, inquires about Pagaros health
Zardari recovering, will return soon: Malik
Ship with migrants sinks off Indonesia island
NATO ends Iraq training mission
Motorways and national highways under fog cover
Sibi: Ten-year-old boy molested
Dunya News obtains copy of forensic report of Benazirs blackberry
UK questioned on links to US drone strikes in Pakistan
WTO talks end with Doha round still deadlocked
Kulasekara, Prasad to join Sri Lanka tour
Warner outshines Warne with explosives century
Golf: Teen sensation Thompson wins in Dubai
Chelsea misses chance with 1-1 draw at Wigan

UBL Hard Court Tennis Cship starts today

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The United Bank Limited (UBL), in collaboration with the Pakistan Tennis Federation  and the Sindh Tennis Players Association, is holding the UBL International Hard Court Tennis Championship at the Karachi Gymkhana. The final of the tournament will be played on December 24. Pakistan tennis ace, Aisam-ul-Haq will be chief guest on the final day.

14 arrested in targeted operation in Karachi

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According to SP Site, Shahjahan, the targeted operation was launched after receiving information that some criminals are present in the Qasba Colony area of Karachi. Police launched house to house search after encircling the area and arrested 14 people and recovered 12 pistols from their possession. Police also raided the house of a woman, Shaukat Aara and recovered an air gun from the house and arrested her son Irfan in this connection.

Zardari phones Sibghatullah, inquires about Pagaros health

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President Asif Ali Zardary telephoned Pir Sibghatullah Rashidi on Saturday night and inquired about Pir Pagaro’s health. They also discussed present political situation in the country during telephonic conversation. The president also prayed for the early recovery of the Pir Pagaro.

Zardari recovering, will return soon: Malik

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Talking to media at the Islamabad Airport, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that President Asif Ali Zardari is recovering very fast and will return to Pakistan very soon. Rehman Malik said that those who are spreading rumours about president’s health will be disappointed. The interior minister further informed that talks between Pakistan and UAE were held for exchange of prisoners, He informed that a team of UAE task force will soon visit Pakistan in this regard while a team of Pakistan will travel to UAE. Meanwhile, On the other hand, Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Qaim Ali while briefing the media at the Karachi Airport after his return from Dubai said that that speculation about president and government must end.

Ship with migrants sinks off Indonesia island

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A wooden ship believed to be carrying more than 200 migrants, many of them from the Middle East, sank Saturday off Indonesia s main island of Java, local media reported. So far only 33 people have been rescued. Police blamed the accident on overloading, telling the official news agency Antara that the vessel appeared to have been carrying more than twice its capacity. One of the survivors, Esmat Adine, told Antara the ship started rocking from side to side, triggering widespread panic. Because people were so tightly packed, they had no where to go, said the 24-year-old Afghan migrant. "That made the boat even more unstable and eventually it sank," he said. Adine said that he and others survived by clinging to parts of the broken vessel until they were picked up by local fishermen. He estimated that more than 40 children were on the ship. It was not immediately clear if any were rescued. Indonesia, a sprawling archipelagic nation of 240 million people, has more than 18,000 islands and thousands of miles (kilometres) of unpatrolled coastline, making it a key transit point for smuggling migrants. Those on board Saturday apparently heading to Australia were from Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. The private television station Metro TV reported that 33 people had been found alive and that perhaps 215 others were still missing. Last month a ship carrying about 70 asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan capsized off the southern coast of Central Java; at least eight people died.

NATO ends Iraq training mission

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NATO ended its training mission in Iraq on Saturday as alliance officials lamented the collapse of a deal to extend it because Baghdad refused to grant its troops immunity from prosecution. US Lieutenant General Robert Caslen, the head of the NATO training mission, said the alliance had been willing to sign a deal with Iraq s government and did not require parliamentary approval, but Baghdad s lawyers said MPs would need to vote on any pact. By contrast, the collapse of an agreement for a post-2011 US training mission, which was being discussed between Baghdad and Washington, was due to the US s insistance that it be approved by lawmakers. The United States has signed over its final base in the country, and virtually all remaining American forces in Iraq are due out in the coming days. Admiral James Stavridis, NATO s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, said in a letter addressed to Caslen and read out at Saturday s ceremony that "there were hopes to continue the mission beyond 2011, and we are concluding earlier than we had hoped." Caslen told reporters after the ceremony that NATO was willing to sign an agreement with Iraq s executive, "but... as the lawyers reviewed it and looked at it, they thought that the immunities had to go back down to the parliament." "They knew they weren t going to get that (approved)," he said. He continued: "The secretary general of NATO had the authority to go ahead and approve it with whatever (authority) the Iraqi government decided." "So the issue ended up being who in the Iraqi government had the authority to approve this... It turned out to be, Iraqi law said the authority had to be at the legislative level." He added that the lack of a post-2011 NATO training mission was "unfortunate".

Motorways and national highways under fog cover

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The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has predicted dense fog from Peshawar to Sawabi on Motorway M1 from 2:00am to 9:00 while there will be light fog from Sawabi to Islamabad. The PMD has predicted light fog on Motorway M2 from Islamabad to Lahore, while Motorway M3, from Pindi Bhattian to Faisalabad will be under fog cover from 6:00am to 10:00am. Meanwhile, there will be light fog on Grand Trunk Road from Islamabad to Lahore from 6:00am to 10:00am while fog and partially cloudy weather has been predicted from Lahore to Mian Channu and from Mian Channu to Multan and Bahawalpur.

Sibi: Ten-year-old boy molested

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According to details, ten-year-old Khalil Ahmad of Gharibabad locality of Sibi went to play in a nearby playground where accused Mubeen along with his six other accomplices committed unnatural act with him. The accused threw Khalil Ahmad in the bushes after the crime. Hearing the noise of the victim, the resident gathered and informed the police. The victim was shifted to hospital in critical condition. Police have arrested three accused and are conducting raids to arrest other culprits. Meanwhile, the heirs of the victim have appealed for justice from higher authorities.

Dunya News obtains copy of forensic report of Benazirs blackberry

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The reports consist of 82 and 54 pages respectively which were submitted in the Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) expert Nauman Ashraf. According to report, the two accused in Benazir Bhutto murder case, Rafaqat and Hasnain, were in contact with each other on December 27, 2007. The accused had set 4:45am alarm on their mobile phones. The forensic expert Nauman Ashraf also submitted records of two blackberries of Benazir Bhutto on Saturday in the Anti-Terrorism Court.

UK questioned on links to US drone strikes in Pakistan

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Lawyers for a Pakistani man who says his father was killed in an American drone strike called on Britain Saturday to reveal whether it provided intelligence to help the US launch the attacks. British lawyers Leigh Day and Co. have written a letter to Foreign Secretary William Hague, demanding answers over London s alleged links to the CIA s covert drone war. In particular, they want to know whether British intelligence was used in the March attack in northwest Pakistan that they claim killed the father of their client, Noor Khan. The lawyers cite media reports which detail how British intelligence agencies provided information on the location of militants targeted by the drones. "We ask the foreign secretary whether any information is being passed by agents of the UK government to US government forces to assist in these attacks," said Richard Stein, head of Leigh Day and Co. s human rights team. "Unless it is categorically denied that the UK continues to pass such information to the US government forces, we require a clear policy statement of the arrangements which are in place and circumstances in which the UK considers it to be lawful to do so," he added in a statement. Clive Stafford Smith, head of British legal charity Reprieve, added: "CIA drone strikes are killing huge numbers of civilians and destabilising Pakistan.    "The British people have a right to know what their country s policy is regarding our involvement in this illegal and disastrous campaign." A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We will study this letter closely and respond to the issues raised." The raids by the CIA s fleet of unmanned aircraft target Al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists in northwest Pakistan. Islamabad has tacitly consented to the drone campaign, which many Pakistanis see as a violation of their country s sovereignty. But the US was this month forced to start evacuating the Shamsi air base in southwest Pakistan, understood to be a hub for drone strikes, following an outcry over a NATO air raid on Pakistan s border that left 24 of its soldiers dead.

WTO talks end with Doha round still deadlocked

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The World Trade Organisation wrapped up its ministerial meeting Saturday still deadlocked on the Doha Round of negotiations for a global free trade pact with some ministers calling for a new path. Conference chairman and Nigerian Trade Minister Olusegun Aganga voiced his regret at the impasse, according to a draft copy of a statement due to be issued at the end of the day. It calls on the WTO s 153 member states to "more fully explore different negotiating approaches" and "intensify their efforts to look into ways" to overcome the stalemate. Launched a decade ago in the Qatari capital, the Doha Round of negotiations has faltered, as developing and developed countries failed to bridge entrenched positions on cutting farm subsidies and lowering industrial tariffs. With the talks at a standstill, ministers had arrived in Geneva knowing full well that their three-day meeting was not a negotiating session. The main bright spot of the conference was Russia s accession to the world trade body this week after a record 18 years of negotiations. Russia applied in 1993 but talks dragged on and its brief war with Georgia in 2008 further delayed its application as Tbilisi was able to veto Moscow s application by virtue of its WTO membership. Besides Russia, the WTO on Saturday ushered in two other countries -- Samoa and Montenegro -- to its fold, although parliaments in all three nations must first ratify the move. Beyond the expanding membership, there was little progress on the Doha Round, with some ministers saying blatantly that negotiations would not bear fruit if they continued in the same direction, a point made by the G20 summit in November. "With this ministerial conference, it is clear that we are turning a page in our decade-long pursuit of the Doha Development Agenda," said Ron Kirk, US trade representative. It is "crystal clear" that gaps "exist not only in non-agricultural market access, but indeed across the broad scope of the Doha agenda," he added. "The frank recognition that our current path is simply not leading in a fruitful direction is the only logical place to start if we are to find a better and more productive path for conducting negotiations within this institution," Kirk told the ministerial meeting. EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht admitted at a press conference that WTO member states needed to "recognise that our credibility has been seriously damaged by our failure to get Doha off the ground."

Kulasekara, Prasad to join Sri Lanka tour

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Seam bowlers Nuwan Kulasekara and Dhammika Prasad will join Sri Lanka s squad in South Africa to boost the tourists after they fell to a heavy loss in the first test on Saturday. Captain Tillakaratne Dilshan says the pair will arrive in the next couple of days ahead of the second test in Durban, which starts on Dec. 26. Kulasekara and Prasad are both returning from injury layoffs. Sri Lanka struggled with a host of injuries to fast bowlers ahead of the three-match series in South Africa, where it has never won a test. Sri Lanka lost by an innings and 81 runs inside three days in Centurion to go 1-0 down ahead of tests in Durban and then Cape Town in early January. The Sri Lankans have now gone 15 tests without a win.

Warner outshines Warne with explosives century

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Dynamic opening batsman David Warner thwarted Shane Warne s comeback to Twenty20 cricket with a pulsating century in Australia s Big Bash League at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday. The powerful left-hander smashed an unbeaten 102 off 51 balls to steer Sydney Thunder to a six-wicket win over Warne s Melbourne Stars. Leg-spin legend Warne, playing for the first time since his final game in the Indian Premier League last May, only bowled two overs but was clouted for two sixes by Warner. Warner, who last Monday scored his maiden Test century with an unbeaten 123 in the Hobart Test loss to New Zealand, belted a total of six sixes and six fours in his explosive century. His big-hitting enabled Sydney Thunder to easily chase down the Stars  153 for seven with 154 for four off 19 overs. Warne, 42, played despite burning his right bowling hand while frying bacon at home on Monday and his two overs cost 19 runs. Warne s wily skills were not enough to curb Warner s aggressive hitting, with several of his prodigious sixes carrying the ball 80 metres over the ropes at the vast MCG arena.

Golf: Teen sensation Thompson wins in Dubai

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American teenager Lexi Thompson has made history as the youngest winner on both the LPGA and Ladies European Tours. The 16-year-old Thompson shot a 5-under 67 Saturday to win the Dubai Ladies Masters, becoming the youngest professional winner on that side of the Atlantic. Thompson pulled away from Lee-Anne Pace of South Africa to win by four strokes for her second professional victory. In September, she became the youngest winner of an LPGA tournament at the Navistar LPGA Classic in Alabama. "It feels amazing," Thompson said. "I m just honored they invited me back and I m just grateful to be here. I ve been working on my game really hard and it has paid off." Thompson chipped in for a birdie on No. 9 to take a one-shot lead over Pace and extended her lead with four birdies on the back nine for a 15-under 273 total. Pace (69) started strong with two birdies and an eagle on her first six holes, but shaky putting on the back nine ended her chances. The 2010 European Tour money winner, Pace hit her approach shot on No. 12 over the green for her second bogey in five holes. "Things could have been a little different," Pace said. "I hit a bad club on 12, which cost me a shot, and that is where things changed around." Sophie Gustafson of Sweden (71) was a shot behind Pace in third place followed by four players another shot back. Michelle Wie (72) came into the final round five shots behind leader Thompson. She fell out of contention with two bogeys and a double-bogey on the front nine, finishing tied for 12th.

Chelsea misses chance with 1-1 draw at Wigan

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Chelsea missed the chance to put pressure on the Manchester clubs at the top of the Premier League on Saturday, conceding with two minutes remaining to draw 1-1 at relegation-threatened Wigan. Despite a poor performance, Chelsea looked on course for a fourth straight Premier League win when Daniel Sturridge scored his eighth goal of the season in the 59th minute. But Wigan dominated the second half and Jordi Gomez tapped in from close range after a mistake by Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech. The result left Chelsea with 32 points from 16 matches, four behind second-place Manchester United and six behind longtime leader City. The Manchester clubs both play Sunday.

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