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Burewala: 5 killed in bus, truck collision
Obama, Karzai agree to continue 'partnership'
Sargodha: Ex-MPA breaks legs of school teacher
Saudi Arabia gifts 200 tons of dates to Pakistan
Rawalpindi: Degrees of 18 police official found fake
Polio vaccination drive in 67 districts to start on March 12
US woman kept father's body in icebox for years
Oil up on Greek debt talks
Double blow for Manchester as City, United lose
Lieuwe Westra wins 5th stage of Paris-Nice
Chong Wei advances to All England quarters
Biologists project big Pacific Coast salmon season
Biggest solar storm in years hits, so far so good
Pakistan to not hand over Dr Shakil Afridi to US
Faisal appointed FIFA Strategic Committee member

Burewala: 5 killed in bus, truck collision

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According to details, ill fated bus was going to Manchanabad from Dunyapur. It collided with a truck, coming from opposite side when the driver tried to overtake a trailer near Chak No 217 Gogo Mandi, killing four people on the spot and injuring 14 others. An injured died of his wounds in the hospital later. Those who died in the accident were identified as Muhammad Iqbal, Khursheed, Ashraf, Ghulam Raza and the identity of the fifth victim is not yet known. Five of the injured were shifted to Gogo Mandi Rural Health Centre while the eight were admitted at the District Headquarters Hospital Burewala.

Obama, Karzai agree to continue 'partnership'

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US President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai agreed in a video conference Thursday to continue a "partnership" tested by violence sparked after US troops burned Korans. "President Karzai updated the president on the security situation in Afghanistan, which has calmed since the events of recent weeks," said White House spokesman Jay Carney. Obama and Karzai also talked about Afghan-led reconciliation talks with the Taliban and other regional security questions, as well as the planned transition of security from NATO-led forces to Afghan control, Carney said. "The leaders noted progress toward concluding a strategic partnership that reinforces Afghan sovereignty while addressing the practical requirements of transition. "The president and President Karzai agreed that it is in both our interests to continue a partnership that is based on mutual respect, and they agreed to stay in close touch in the lead-up to (May s) NATO summit in Chicago." The fallout from the burning of Korans at a US base has complicated already troubled negotiations about the nature of the US-Afghan relationship once NATO combat troops leave in two years  time. The US military has insisted the Korans were sent to the incinerator by accident and that the incident was unintentional. But the Koran burning ignited days of violent anti-US protests in which some 40 people died, plunging relations between foreign forces and their Afghan allies to an all-time low and forcing Obama to apologize.

Sargodha: Ex-MPA breaks legs of school teacher

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According to details, 65-year-old Nafees Khan Lodhi, a private school teacher, lodged complaints against ex-MPA Aslam Madhyana who is also the father of sitting MPA Awais Madhyana during an open kutchery and alleged him of backing the criminals in the area. Nafees Khan Lodhi was abducted by 11 persons after he leveled allegations against Aslam Madhyana. The kidnappers subjected him to severe torture and threw him in a deserted place after breaking his legs. Six of the 11 kidnappers were arrested on the order of DPO Dr Muhammad Rizwan while Aslam Madhyana managed to get interim bail in the case. Aslam Madhyana, in a bid to take revenge, showered bullets at Nafees Khan Lodhi legs in a busy bazaar. Nafees informed that Aslam Madhyana gives protection to dacoits, thieves and other criminals in the area. A case has been registered against Aslam Madhyana on the instruction of Lahore High Court. It is interesting to mention here that the DPO Dr Muhammad Rizwan, who provided some relief to poor teacher, has been transferred from Sargodha to Gilgit-Baltistan.

Saudi Arabia gifts 200 tons of dates to Pakistan

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Saudi officials handed over the gift of 200 tons of dates to Director General Emergency Relief cell in Islamabad. Director General Emergency Relief cell while talking at the occasion said that Saudi government always supported Pakistani people in the hour of need. He said the relations between the two brotherly countries will be strengthened further in the future.

Rawalpindi: Degrees of 18 police official found fake

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According to details, the FA and BA degrees of 18 police officials, appointed in different police stations of Rawalpindi, were found bogus.  The officials whose degrees were found bogus also included four sub-inspectors. The BA degree of SHO Hassan Abdal, Muhammad Aslam, was also proved bogus. Meanwhile cases have registered fake degree holder police officials but they managed to escape to avoid arrest.

Polio vaccination drive in 67 districts to start on March 12

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The polio vaccination campaign in 67 districts of the country will start on March 12. Millions of children will be deprived of vaccination due to strike of health workers in different parts of the countru. According to UNICEF sources, the strike of health workers may delay polio vaccination campaign in Sukkur division in Sindh which will deprive millions of children from anti-polio drops. The sources said that 0.285 million children in district and 0.3 million in Sukkur and Nowshero Feroz will be deprived of vaccination. Talking to Dunya News, Commissioner Larkana said that consultation with protesting health workers are underway, however, he feared that the polio campaign in these districts may be delayed.

US woman kept father's body in icebox for years

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A woman who kept her father s decomposing body in an ice box for years so she could continue to collect his Social Security checks was charged Thursday with mutilating his corpse and failing to lawfully dispose of his remains. Debra Fisher, 58, is currently being medically evaluated to determine whether she is mentally fit to face charges. She will be arrested upon her release, the sheriff s department said. Her long-time roommate, Heidi Todd, 44, also faces criminal charges. "He apparently died while in bed," said George Bonnett, a spokesman for the St. Tammany Parish sheriff s department. "She left him in the bed for quite some time. Once the body started to decompose, she then transferred him into the ice chest but before doing so she chopped the hands off and put them in a box in her freezer," Bonnet told AFP. "The thinking there is that their plans were, we believe, to eventually dispose of the body. Why two or three years went by and they never did that, I don t know. What we re hearing is they didn t want the body to be identified through fingerprints." Fisher s father, who has not been identified by name, would have been 83. It s not yet clear whether he died of natural causes or how long his 6 2" frame was concealed in the 160 quart ice chest, which was kept inside the house. His death came to light after Fisher and Todd refused to let an air conditioner repairman into the house. The repairman contacted the landlord, who called police and said he was concerned because he hadn t seen Fisher s father in a while. "That wasn t unusual because he was bedridden," Bonnett said. But two deputies visited the home Tuesday to do a standard welfare check. While they noticed "deplorable" living conditions, their suspicions were not raised because the women said Fisher s father had gone out and would be back soon. "They left with the intention of coming back later to check on him, of course never thinking to look in an ice chest for a body," he said in a telephone interview. About an hour later, the two women went to the local police station and explained what they had done.

Oil up on Greek debt talks

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Crude oil prices edged higher to near $107 a barrel Thursday on hopes that the Greek debt crisis is close to resolution, which would benefit the European economy. Benchmark oil for April delivery was up 82 cents to $106.98 a barrel in late morning trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It hit a day high of $107.19 earlier in the trading session. In London, Brent crude was up 69 cents at $124.96 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange. Commodities were in step with rising world equity markets, optimistic that Greece will be able to complete a bond swap plan with private investors aimed at cutting €107 billion ($140 billion) off its national debt. Crude has risen from $96 last month to near 10-month highs because of worries a military conflict over Iran s nuclear program would disrupt global oil supplies. The U.S. and Europe have imposed sanctions while Iran has threatened to halt crude tankers passing through the Persian Gulf. Signs of an improving U.S. economy have helped raise oil from $75 in October.

Double blow for Manchester as City, United lose

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Premier League title chasers Manchester City and Manchester United slumped to Europa League last 16 first-leg defeats on Thursday as Spain celebrated three wins out of three. United were stunned 3-2 by Athletic Bilbao at Old Trafford, while City suffered a 1-0 defeat by Sporting Lisbon in Portugal. Sir Alex Ferguson s United took a 22nd-minute lead through Wayne Rooney but Bilbao roared back with goals from Fernando Llorente, Oscar de Marcos and Iker Muniain. Rooney reduced the damage ahead of next week s second leg with an injury-time penalty to keep alive United s hopes of making the quarter-finals. "We were well beaten. Bilbao were the better side," admitted Ferguson. City had crushed Portuguese league leaders Porto 6-1 on aggregate in the previous round, but Sporting proved a far more formidable obstacle at Lisbon s Jose Alvalade Stadium. Brazilian centre-back Xandao claimed the game s only goal with a clever back-heel in the 51st minute to give Ricardo Sa Pinto s side a narrow advantage ahead of the second leg at the City of Manchester Stadium next week. Victory extended Sporting s unbeaten European home record to 10 games, while City coach Roberto Mancini was left to rue an injury to captain Vincent Kompany that forced the Belgian centre-back to leave the fray early in the game. Mancini said later that Kompany, who has a calf strain, will now miss the weekend trip to Swansea City, the second leg against Sporting and possibly the home game with Chelsea.

Lieuwe Westra wins 5th stage of Paris-Nice

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Dutch rider Lieuwe Westra attacked late in the final climb of the day to win the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice race on Thursday, while Bradley Wiggins extended his overall lead to 10 seconds over his main rival Levi Leipheimer. Wiggins was well positioned at the front of the pack when Frenchman Arnold Jeannesson launched an attack with 700 meters to go. Even though Jeannesson is not a threat for overall victory, Wiggins still chased and isolated himself. Westra took advantage by surging ahead with a brutal acceleration in the last 300 meters, and Wiggins could not follow him. Westra casually looked over his shoulder and tapped his chest as he crossed the line. "For the last couple of days I felt super," the 29-year-old Westra said. "I have good legs now, and I told myself I should attack today. It s unbelievable to win in front of such big names. It s a great day in my life." Westra moved into second place, six seconds behind Wiggins, but is also not a major threat to the leader. "It was a day in hell with the cold air and wind all day. I really must thank (my teammates) Richie (Porte) and Rigoberto (Uran), who did an amazing job," Wiggins said, adding that "it s looking promising" for the Paris-Nice win. "It s been a good day. It wasn t my kind of climbs, but we ve been working on it this winter," the 31-year-old Wiggins said. "My form is the best it s ever been and we continue to work on the things we re weaker at." Jeannesson, meanwhile, was disappointed to finish seventh. Friday s sixth stage is an undulating trek from Suze-la-Rousse to Sisteron with a few small climbs, but it should not affect the overall order. Saturday s penultimate stage ends with a long category 1 climb, but Sunday s mountain time trial is expected to decide the race winner. "This was the stage everybody was taking about," Wiggins said. "But now it all comes down to Sunday." Wiggins and Leiphemier are evenly matched in time trials, but both have the edge on Valverde.

Chong Wei advances to All England quarters

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Two-time defending champion Lee Chong Wei reached the All England Open badminton quarterfinals after a 45-minute workout with Hans-Kristian Vittinghus on Thursday. Chong Wei won an entertaining second-round match 23-21, 21-18 and patted Vittinghus  head with his racket afterward as a compliment for the Dane s unrelenting attitude in his first go at the No. 1 player in the world. Also through were Lee Hyun-il of South Korea for the first time since he went all the way to the final in 2006, and Indonesian surprise Dionysius Hayom Rumbaka, whose first All England quarterfinal will be against Chong Wei. Fourth-seeded Saina Nehwal of India was the first woman to make the quarters.

Biologists project big Pacific Coast salmon season

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Pacific Coast fishermen can start gearing up for what s expected to be the best salmon fishing season in years. U.S. fishery managers are projecting robust populations of Chinook and coho salmon off the Pacific Coast and in California and Oregon rivers. The Pacific Fishery Management Council on Wednesday approved three options for managing West Coast salmon fisheries this year. All of them give anglers plenty of time to fish later this spring and summer. The regulatory council is expected to choose a final plan when it meets in Seattle in early April. Biologists say the number of Chinook salmon returning to the Sacramento, Klamath and Rogue Rivers is projected to be significantly higher this year. In 2008 and 2009, poor salmon returns led to the largest fishery closures on record.

Biggest solar storm in years hits, so far so good

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One of the strongest solar storms in years engulfed Earth early Thursday, but scientists say the planet may have lucked out. Hours after the storm arrived, officials said were no reports of problems with power grids, satellites or other technologies that are often disrupted by solar storms. But that still can change as the storm shakes the planet s magnetic field in ways that could disrupt technology but also spread colorful Northern Lights. Early indications show that it is about 10 times stronger than the normal solar wind that hits Earth. The storm started with a massive solar flare Tuesday evening and grew as it raced outward from the sun, expanding like a giant soap bubble, scientists said. The charged particles were expected to hit at 4 million mph (6.4 million kph). The storm struck about 6 a.m. EST (1100 GMT) in a direction that causes the least amount of problems, said Joe Kunches, a scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration s Space Weather Prediction Center. "It s not a terribly strong event. It s a very interesting event," he said. Forecasters can predict the speed a solar storm travels and its strength, but the north-south orientation is the wild card. And this time, Earth got dealt a good card with a northern orientation, which is "pretty benign," Kunches said. If it had been southern, that would have caused the most damaging technological disruption and biggest auroras. "We re not out of the woods," Kunches said Thursday morning. "It was a good start. If I m a power grid, I m really happy so far." But that storm orientation can and is changing, he said. "It could flip-flop and we could end up with the strength of the storm still to come," Kunches said from the NOAA forecast center. North American utilities so far have not reported any problems, said Kimberly Mielcarek, spokeswoman for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a consortium of electricity grid operators A massive cloud of charged particles can disrupt utility grids, airline flights, satellite networks and glovbal positioning services, especially in northern areas. But the same blast can also paint colorful auroras farther from the poles than normal. Astronomers say the sun has been relatively quiet for some time. And this storm, while strong, may seem fiercer because Earth has been lulled by several years of weak solar activity. The storm is part of the sun s normal 11-year cycle, which is supposed to reach a peak next year. Solar storms do not harm people, but they do disrupt technology. And during the last peak around 2002, experts learned that GPS was vulnerable to solar outbursts. Because new technology has flourished since then, scientists could discover that some new systems are also at risk, said Jeffrey Hughes, director of the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling at Boston University. The region of the sun that erupted can still send more blasts our way, Kunches said. Another set of active sunspots is ready to aim at Earth. "This is a big sun spot group, particularly nasty," NASA solar physicist David Hathaway said. "Things are really twisted up and mixed up. It keeps flaring." Storms like this start with sun spots, Hathaway said. Then comes an initial solar flare of subatomic particles that resemble a filament coming out of the sun. That part from this storm hit Earth only minutes after the initial burst, bringing radio and radiation disturbances. After that comes the coronal mass ejection, which looks like a growing bubble and takes a couple days to reach Earth.

Pakistan to not hand over Dr Shakil Afridi to US

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Pakistani government Thursday decided not to handover Dr Shakil Afridi to the US, rather action would be taken against him in Pakistan under Frontier Crime Regulation (FRC), sources revealed. Well-placed sources told Online Dr. Shakil Afridi identified the presence of Chief, Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden in Abbotabad. After identification of Bin Laden by Dr. Afridi and operation of US security forces in Abbotabad on the compound of the Chief Al-Qaeda, there was a great pressure on Pakistan in order to handover Dr. Shakil Afridi to the US government. In reply, after high-level meeting and consultation of the military and civil government officials, it was decided that Dr. Shakil Afridi would not be handed over to the US government rather Pakistan would take action legally against him under Frontier Crime Regulation (FRC). Sources further said that in this regard the US Officials offered attractive incentives, however, Pakistani government rejected the offer. In connection of cases under the Foreign Act against the widow of Osama Bin Laden and other members, some of their relatives also contacted to the Pakistani government while visas were also stamped on their passports, however, now they do not know about these passports, sources disclosed.

Faisal appointed FIFA Strategic Committee member

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Makhdoom Sayed Faisal Saleh Hayat, President Pakistan Football Federation (PFF), has been appointed member of “Strategic Committee” of Federation Internationale de Football Associations (FIFA) in addition to his continuation as member of Players’ Status Committee. FIFA Strategic Committee deals with global strategies for football and its political, economic and social status and out of 26 FIFA Committees, FIFA Strategic Committee in the only committee which is headed by the President FIFA Mr. Joseph S. Blatter. According to the press release issued here by PFF, it is highlighted that in 64 years history of Pakistan, Mr. Hayat holds the unique distinction of becoming member of dual Committees of FIFA from South Asian region. The appointment of Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat as a member FIFA Strategic Committee is a great honour and pride for the nation and entire football family of Pakistan as he has been entrusted with yet another elite and prestigious assignment which reflects trust reposed by FIFA in the leadership of Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat in recognition of services rendered by the President PFF for the promotion of soccer in Asia.

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