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Faisalabad: Two killed in road accident
PM to chair cabinet meeting in Karachi today
CJP for elimination of no go areas in Karachi
Karachi violence claims five more lives
Amir Muqam likely to form new PML faction
Qauids 135th birthday today
Fire gutted vehicle near PTI rally site
US suspends drone strikes in Pakistan
NATO night raids in Afghanistan must stop: Karzai
Last combat troops out of Iraq back at Fort Hood
First freely elected Tunisian govt sworn in
Libya marks 1st independence day in 42 years
Gaddafi children aim to destabilise Libya: NTC chief
UN cuts budget amid global downturn
Attacks, military crackdown kill up to 100 in Nigeria

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According to details, a high speeding car collided with a motorcycle coming from opposite side in Gatwala near Faisalabad. As a result of collision, the car and motorcycle rider, his wife and daughter fell into canal. Rescue 1122 reached the spot and recovered dead bodies of motorcyclists Ahmad Khan and his wife Razia from the canal while search continued for their eight-year-old daughter Marium and car driver Abdul Aziz.

PM to chair cabinet meeting in Karachi today

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The Prime Minister will chair the cabinet meeting in Karachi today. The meeting will focus on giving projection to the vision of Father of the Nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Membrs of the cabinet will visit Quaid mausoleum to pay homage to the father of the Nation and also offer fateha.

CJP for elimination of no go areas in Karachi

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Chief Justice of Pakistan chaired high level meeting at the Supreme Court Branch Registry in Karachi, held in connection with the performance of anti-terrorism courts in the province and the role of prosecution and investigation agencies in quick disposal of the cases. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took strong notice of release of dangerous criminal at the hands of police who were arrested by Rangers. The IGP reported that the allegation of showing leniency and favour to an accused namely Muhammad Salim alias Choto, disciplinary proceedings had been initiated by the government against SP Umar Khitab. The chief justice said that there must not be any “no go area” in Karachi, adding that if any such area was found, the police and Rangers shall take strong and decisive action to eliminate it. The meeting was informed that there were 31,124 anti-terrorism cases pending before the 11 anti-terrorism courts in the province. With the increase in number of judges the pending cases will be disposed off quickly.

Karachi violence claims five more lives

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A new wave of target killing in Karachi has been intensified and five more people were shot dead in different parts of the city. According to police, some unidentified motorcyclists shot dead 25-year-old Kashif in Malir khokhara Par area. In Nabi Bax area 55-year-old Saeed Khan was killed by miscreants while in another incident, security guard Jafar Ali was shot dead. In yet another incident, one Akbar along with his son shot dead his nephew Bachal in Sohrab Goth area. Police have arrested both the accused. Meanwhile, an unidentified man was shot dead in Madina Colony while he was sitting on a hotel. According to police the cause of killing was old enmity.

Amir Muqam likely to form new PML faction

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Provincial leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q), Amir Muqam is likely to form his own faction of the party. Talking to Dunya News, Amir Muqam said that party fellows had reposed confidence in him, adding that the office-bearers of the party’s Malakand Division chapter had given him the authority to formulate a new faction. Muqam said the decision emerged at a meeting of local party leaders, chaired by him, at his residence in Swat’s Sangota area. “A final decision will be taken after deliberation and consultation with party members from FATA and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. I have been advised by my party fellows that I should form a new faction to play an active role in national politics,” he stated.

Qauids 135th birthday today

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All set to celebrate 135th birthday of Founder of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah today in a befitting manner. National flag on principal buildings would be hoisted all over the country. TV channels and radio in Pakistan would telecast and broadcast special programmes on the life; ideas and achievements of the Quaid-e-Azam on the occasion.

Fire gutted vehicle near PTI rally site

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According to details, the car caught fire on night between Saturday and Sunday few hours after Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief left the site after inspecting the preparations for his party today’s rally. The blaze completely destroyed the vehicle. Fire brigade reached the spot after 25 minutes and brought the fire under control. The cause of fire is not yet known.

US suspends drone strikes in Pakistan

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The US acknowledgment of an ongoing six-week suspension of drone strikes in Pakistan came Saturday amid White House efforts to repair a relationship damaged when 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a US airstrike last month. An Obama administration official told CNN on Saturday that US drone strikes haven t been conducted in Pakistan for about six weeks. The official declined to be identified due to the sensitive nature of the information.

NATO night raids in Afghanistan must stop: Karzai

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday Afghanistan will not sign a strategic partnership deal with the US until NATO-led night raids and house searches stop. The president s remarks came after he heard back from a government-appointed delegation assigned to look into civilian casualties sustained during recent NATO airstrikes and night time raids. "The president stressed that the strategic partnership document will not be signed until the night raids and house searches stop," his office said in a statement. "After hearing the report by the delegation, the president said that the arbitrary operations and house searches by NATO have become a serious problem between Afghanistan and NATO forces and that this has been one of the main obstacles on signing the strategic partnership deal with the United States." The strategic partnership document being negotiated with Washington will govern the relationship between American troops and the Afghan government after the scheduled withdrawal of combat troops in 2014. Night raids have been a persistent sticking point, but Karzai s refusal to sign until the operations end is his bluntest yet. NATO has defended the operations as the safest way of targeting insurgent leaders, insisting they will continue but with the increasing involvement of Afghan special forces. It insists that in 85 percent of night raids no shot is fired and they cause less than one percent of civilian casualties. But Karzai has led public criticism of the controversial raids, saying they endanger lives and harass local communities, and repeatedly called on US-led international forces to stop entering Afghan homes. The delegation appointed by Karzai investigated NATO airstrikes in Kandahar and Kapisa provinces in which several civilians died, and also a raid in Paktia in which the pregnant wife of the provincial anti-drugs chief was killed. Lead investigator Mohammad Tahir Safi said: "We want civilian casualties to stop. We cannot tolerate any more. "NATO-led ISAF forces have killed Afghan civilians for no reason." According to the United Nations, the number of civilians killed in violence in Afghanistan rose by 15 percent in the first six months of this year to 1,462, with insurgents blamed for 80 percent of the killings. There are around 140,000 international troops in Afghanistan fighting a decade-long Taliban insurgency alongside Afghan government forces.

Last combat troops out of Iraq back at Fort Hood

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Nearly 200 soldiers arrived at Fort Hood on Saturday, while others arrived earlier in the week. The drizzling rain and chilling wind didn t dampen relatives  excitement. They screamed upon seeing the troops from the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division and then ran onto the field at the Texas Army post. 1st Sgt. Scott Dawson hugged his two young daughters and kissed his wife. He says it s great to be home and the significance of being in the last brigade to leave Iraq will probably hit him later. The brigade rolled across the Iraq border a week ago. About a dozen troops in the brigade are still overseas.

First freely elected Tunisian govt sworn in

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The new government led by moderate Islamist party Ennahda received a vote of confidence in parliament Friday and was sworn in Saturday. Tunisia threw off decades of authoritarian rule in January and held widely praised elections, but Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali warned the country faces many challenges: high unemployment, pockets of unrest and a stagnating economy. Tunisia s democratic transition is being closely watched since its revolt led to a rash of similar uprisings across the Arab world. Its new government is still only temporary, running the country until a new constitution is written and another round of elections held.

Libya marks 1st independence day in 42 years

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For the first time in more than four decades, Libyans on Saturday celebrated the 60th anniversary of the country s independence from Italy and France. Under Moammar Gadhafi s 42-year rule, the celebration was scrapped and instead, only the 1969 date of his coup was marked. "Today we begin the building of Libya as our forefathers have done," Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib said during the celebration. "We call on our sons to build Libya after its destruction." His remarks were part of an official ceremony in the capital Tripoli. Libya was occupied for decades by various nations, and it was not until 1947 that both Italy and France relinquished claims to parts of the country. The United Libyan Kingdom was announced with U.N. backing in late 1951 under King Idris. On the sidelines of the ceremony, el-Keib told reporters that the Economy Minister Taher Sharkas had resigned due to health reasons. The resignation comes after protests demanding that officials of the former regime be barred from serving in government. Sharkas had been appointed to the same post by Gadhafi just two months before the longtime leader s capture and killing in October, a few three days before rebel fighters took over the capital, Tripoli. Protesters in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, where the anti-Gadhafi uprising broke out in February, have been protesting for nearly two weeks, demanding transparency and justice from the country s new leaders. They also called for Sharkas  ouster after it was discovered that Gadhafi appointed as a minister on Aug. 18 The new government has said it is open to some reconciliation with former regime officials, but protesters are opposed. According to an NTC official, who wished to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to disclose internal policy, the prime minister is the one who chose Sharkas for the post. The official said it was a "sloppy" mistake and that el-Keib had not done enough research on Sharkas  background.

Gaddafi children aim to destabilise Libya: NTC chief

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The surviving children of Libya s dead dictator Moamer Gaddafi are determined to destabilise the country, National Transitional Council chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil said on Saturday. "It is true that Moamer Gaddafi and his children will no longer have a place in the future Libya, but they are still determined to destabilise it and cause many concerns," he said without elaborating. He was speaking to members of the government and Libyan personalities on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the country s independence, which Libya is celebrating for the first time in 40 years. Three of the sons of Gaddafi, who was killed on October 20, are also dead. Only one is in the country -- Seif al-Islam, the despot s long-assumed successor, who was captured last month and is being held in Zintan. Gaddafi s second wife Safiya, daughter Aisha and her brothers Mohammed and Hannibal have been in Algeria since the end of August along with several other family members, while another son, Saadi, has found refuge in Niger. At the end of November, Aisha Gaddafi called for the new Libyan government to be overthrown, in an audio message broadcast by the Syria-based television channel Arrai. In September she had called the new Libyan authorities traitors, prompting a rebuke from Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci who called her comment "unacceptable." After Gaddafi s downfall, Libya s new rulers organised ceremonies to commemorate December 24, 1951, when the country gained independence under former king Idris from the French and British, who had administered the territory following Italy s defeat in the Second World War.

UN cuts budget amid global downturn

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The 193 UN member countries, after a series of all-night negotiations, agreed Saturday to cut the global body s budget for only the second time in the past 50 years. An accord struck at dawn on Saturday saw the 2012-13 budget set at $5.15 billion, down from $5.41 billion in 2010-11. The United States and crisis-stricken European countries had fought for cuts while developing countries had demanded spending be kept up. "All budget years are tough. But this year was especially difficult," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said, welcoming the accord and vowing more cuts in coming months. "Governments and people everywhere are struggling." US negotiator Joseph Torsella called the budget a "historic agreement" though he acknowledged it had taken "difficult negotiations." Nearly every day in the past week talks have finished at about 5:00 am. This accord "is the first time since 1998 -- and only the second time in the last 50 years -- that the UN regular budget has declined in comparison to the previous budget s actual expenses," said Torsella. He called it a "budget for a strengthened, more efficient, and more effective United Nations that saves the American taxpayers millions of dollars and sets the United Nations on the path of real fiscal discipline and continued reform." The United States has taken a tough line on UN spending, with Torsella this year railing at increased salary allowances for UN staff. The UN leader acknowledged that the global body has to "cut fat." It has already cut posts and contracted out services in many departments at the New York headquarters. Several of the UN s foreign missions saw their budget cut, including in Ivory Coast where UN peacekeepers fought followers of incumbent Laurent Gbagbo after he refused to stand down after losing an election. "One year from now, I will return to you with greater cost savings," Ban vowed in a speech to the delegates who struck the budget accord.

Attacks, military crackdown kill up to 100 in Nigeria

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Attacks blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram followed by a heavy military crackdown have killed up to 100 people in the north of Nigeria, authorities and a rights group said Saturday. Explosions and gunfire began on Thursday in the cities of Damaturu, Maiduguri and Potiskum in the country s northeast, where most of the violence blamed on Boko Haram has occurred, and continued into Friday in some areas. Soldiers in trucks and armoured vehicles arrived in Damaturu on Friday and gave residents of the neighbourhood where violence had broken out 30 minutes to leave. The neighbourhood was later cordoned-off after residents fled. The chief of army staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, was quoted by local media as saying soldiers killed 59 Boko Haram members in Damaturu. Shootouts had taken place over the course of the two days. Others said the total death toll on all sides -- authorities, extremists and civilians -- could be as high as 100. Sporadic firing could still be heard Saturday but the situation was generally calm, local residents and security officials said. Fresh gunfire also broke out in Maiduguri on Saturday night, residents said. "From reports I have been receiving from Damaturu, up to 100 people could have been killed," a senior police source in the region told AFP, while Chidi Odinkalu, head of the Open Society Justice Initiative, gave a figure of 69 to 100. Odinkalu expressed concern over what he said appeared to have been a disproportionate use of force by the military. The military has been accused of killing civilians and burning their homes after previous bomb attacks attributed to Boko Haram. A purported spokesman for Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the initial violence in the three northeastern cities, saying they were revenge for a brutal military assault against the sect in 2009. "We are responsible for the attacks in Maiduguri, Damaturu and Potiskum. We carried out the attacks to avenge the killings of our brothers by the security forces in 2009," Abul Qaqa said. "We will continue to wage war against the Nigerian state until we abolish the secular system and establish an Islamic state."

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