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- Karachi: Minor killed as fire erupts in huts at Federal B Area
- 8 killed, 60 injured in road accident near Jhang
- Joint sitting of Parliament today
- Amir accuses captain and agent of entrapment
- Quetta: Large quantity of explosives seized
- Dust storm in Sindh, Balochistan disrupts flights
- US to monitor parliamentary review debate
- Balochistan target killing: SC to resume hearing today
- Laughing your way to health
- SC to indict Babar Awan in contempt case today
- Single gene mutation leads to uncontrolled obesity: study
- Aitzaz owns up to PM's no-letter reply
- Bermuda secure first win in ICC T20 qualifiers
- Inser joins ATP Top 10
- Azarenka pulls ahead in WTA rankings
| Karachi: Minor killed as fire erupts in huts at Federal B Area Posted: <p> </p><p>According to details, fire broke out at the Federal B Area in Karachi which engulfed more than three dozens of huts, killing a boy and injuring another.</p><p> </p><p>Five vehicles of fire brigade and rescue teams reached the site and started rescue operation. The residents said that the fire spread quickly due to strong winds giving them no time to save their children and belongings. The cause of fire is not yet known.</p>
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| 8 killed, 60 injured in road accident near Jhang Posted: <p> </p><p>According to details, the ill-fated bus was going to Shaki Sarwar from Jhanh. The bus turned turtle while taking a sharp turn due to over-speeding at Haveli Bahadur Khan near Jhang, killing eight people and injuring 60 others.</p><p> </p><p>The bus was overloaded with passengers who were going to the shrine of Mai Baap. The Rescue1122 and police teams reached the spot soon after the accident and shifted the injured to Rural Health Centre Haveli Bahadur Khan while 20 critically injured persons were shifted to District Hospital Jhang.<br /> </p>
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| Joint sitting of Parliament today Posted: <p> </p><p>Both the houses of the Parliament will meet Tuesday forenoon at a joint sitting to discuss the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security to revisit relations with the United States and NATO.</p><p> </p><p>Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza will chair the session summoned by President Asif Ali Zardari in exercise of powers conferred upon him under Clause (1) of Article 54 of the Constitution.</p><p> </p><p>During the sitting, expected to continue for three days, the Parliament will discuss about new terms of engagement with the US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).</p><p> </p><p>It is for the first time since suspension of the NATO supplies after killing of around two-dozen Pakistani military personnel at Salala check post in Mohmand Agency near Pak-Afghan border that the joint sitting of the Parliament is going to discuss the future dynamism of relations.<br /> </p>
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| Amir accuses captain and agent of entrapment Posted: <p> </p><p>Banned Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir has accused former captain Salman Butt and agent Mazhar Majeed of tricking him into bowling deliberate no-balls in the 2010 Lord s test against England.</p><p> </p><p>Amir, 19, returned home last month after serving three months in a young offenders institution in Britain for his involvement in the spot-fixing scandal. Butt, Majeed and pace bowler Mohammad Asif are still serving prison terms.</p><p> </p><p>In an interview with Sky Sports screened on Monday, Amir, who has been banned from all cricket for five years, said he had sent his bank details to a businessman identified only as Ali during the 2010 tour. He had also sent text messages to Ali asking why he wanted the information.</p><p> </p><p>Amir said on the day before the Lord s test that Mazhar had asked him to meet in his car. Butt later joined them.</p><p> </p><p>He said Majeed had told him the International Cricket Council (ICC) was investigating the calls and texts to Ali but the case could be stopped if he bowled two no-balls in the forthcoming test. At practice subsequently, Butt had told him to practise bowling no-balls.</p><p> </p><p>Amir said he had not been offered money at any stage but on the evening of the first day, after he had bowled the first no-ball, Majeed had come to his room and given him 1,500 pounds.</p><p> </p><p>"He was happy...I knew why he was happy," he said. "No one is so stupid not to realise that if he was getting to deliver no-balls it must because of some sort of bet."</p><p> </p><p>But Amir said he did not realise until the News of the World newspaper published details of a sting operation involving Majeed that it was the no-balls and not his relationship with Ali that were being investigated.</p><p> </p><p>He said he knew nothing about a no-ball delivered by Asif and had not bowled his no-balls for money but because Majeed and Butt had told him he was in trouble over the texts to Ali.</p><p> </p><p>"How was I manipulated? How was I made to do a thing like that? How was I trapped?," Amir said</p><p> </p><p>"Why did those people do what they did to me? Up to now I have not been able to figure it out. However, I never did it for money."<br /> </p>
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| Quetta: Large quantity of explosives seized Posted: <p> </p><p>According to the sources, an explosive laden vehicle was on its way to Quetta. During checking at the Balaily Check Post the accused fled from the scene after leaving the vehicle behind.</p><p> </p><p>The security forces found mines and 500 kgs of explosive from the vehicle during checking. The security forces took possession of the mines and explosives and diffused it.</p><p> </p><p>According to security forces, the explosive material was being smuggled into Quetta for use in terrorist activities on March 23.<br /> </p>
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| Dust storm in Sindh, Balochistan disrupts flights Posted: <p> </p><p>The flight operations at the Karachi, Sukkur, Nawabshah, Turbat, Quetta, Gawadar, Panjgur and Moenjodaro have been badly affected by severe dust storm and airports have also been shut for all flights due to reduced visibility.<br />The dust storm is heading towards Punjab now.</p><p> </p><p>The dust storm started in Karachi on Monday evening which also affected traffic on the roads due to low visibility.</p><p> </p><p>According to Met office the areas in the South and South-West of the country are in the sever grip of dust storm.</p><p> </p><p>At Karachi airport, several domestic and international flights have been cancelled while some planes in the air have been diverted to other destinations.</p><p> </p><p>The Met office said visibility in these affected areas is reduced to below 100 metres.<br /> </p>
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| US to monitor parliamentary review debate Posted: <p> </p><p>The US State Department s spokesperson, Victoria Nuland was asked Monday about the US administration s expectations as the parliament in Islamabad from Tuesday starts discussing the best way forward for Pakistan’s relations with U.S.</p><p> </p><p>"We will obviously watch the parliamentary debate with interest, and we look forward to re-engaging with the Government of Pakistan when it has a sense of the results of that review," she stated.</p><p> </p><p>On the time elapsed during the review process, she said the US had no issues with it. "We have said that we will give Pakistan the time and the space to have this parliamentary review," Ms Nuland pointed out.</p><p> </p><p>Referring to President Zardari s address to the joint parliamentary session on Saturday, she said "President Zardari made a speech underscoring the importance of the relationship that we have together."</p><p> </p><p>"One of the points in Pakistani discussions is that it has paid a heavy price in fighting terrorists along the Afghan border and its soldiers and civilians have been killed. And there is not enough acknowledgment of its role and the sacrifices it has made. What do you think about this point, which is discussed a lot in Pakistani media and think tanks?," asked a reporter during the briefing.</p><p> </p><p>"Well, a point that we make almost every time we talk about the importance of US-Pakistani counter-terrorism cooperation is how much Pakistan has suffered -– its civilians as victims of terror and its soldiers in trying to defeat terror," the spokesperson acknowledged.</p><p> </p><p>"So we understand the risk to Pakistani society, and that is among the reasons why we are so intent on trying to help and trying to work together to beat this scourge," she asserted.</p><p> </p><p>The parliamentary review of the relationship with US started after the NATO attack on Salala check-post on November 26 last year that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. Pakistan has since closed down ground supply routes for NATO from its territory in protest besides going for the overall review of the nature of bilateral ties.</p><p> </p><p>- Contributed by Awais Saleem, Dunya News correspondent in Washington, DC<br /> </p>
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| Balochistan target killing: SC to resume hearing today Posted: <p> </p><p>The three-member bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary, Justice Khilgy Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Pervaiz will resume hearing of the case today on application filed by Balochistan High Court Bar.</p><p> </p><p>Advocate General and Interior Secretary Balochistan have been asked to appear before the court today. During previous hearing, Attorney General General Maulvi Anwar ul Haq had submitted ISI amd MI report on target killing and law and order situation in Balochistan.<br /> </p>
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| Posted: <p> </p><p>The new study by scientists has revealed that the human body gets four times more oxygen through laughter than through ordinary breathing and that laughter helps to push out the stale air that gets compressed in the lungs. Laughter also decreases cortisol, the stress hormone causing heart attacks, and secretes endorphins, the hormones of happiness.</p><p> </p><p>Laughing also burns more calories per hour than running. It’s like putting on rosy glasses to see the world. Some corporate offices and universities have even applied laughing yoga as a motivational technique uniting staff and establishing a warm atmosphere.<br /> </p>
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| SC to indict Babar Awan in contempt case today Posted: <p> </p><p>Supreme Court of Pakistan will indict Babar Awan in contempt of court case today (Tuesday). SC had taken the notice of former law minister’s press conference on Memogate scandal.</p><p> </p><p>Justice Ijaz Afzal Khan and Justice Athar Saeed would hear the case against Babar Awan. After hearing on 1st March SC saved its verdict and announced it on 9th of March.</p><p> </p><p>Supreme Court in verdict had declared that the press conference of 31st December came under the contempt of court. The Court will indict Babar Awan today (Tuesday) and after the formal trial of the case would be started.<br /> </p>
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| Single gene mutation leads to uncontrolled obesity: study Posted: <p> </p><p>Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have revealed how a mutation in a single gene is responsible for the inability of neurons to effectively pass along appetite suppressing signals from the body to the right place in the brain. What results is obesity caused by a voracious appetite. Their study, published March 18th on Nature Medicine s website, suggests there might be a way to stimulate expression of that gene to treat obesity caused by uncontrolled eating.</p><p> </p><p>The research team specifically found that a mutation in the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (Bdnf) gene in mice does not allow brain neurons to effectively pass leptin and insulin chemical signals through the brain. In humans, these hormones, which are released in the body after a person eats, are designed to "tell" the body to stop eating. But if the signals fail to reach correct locations in the hypothalamus, the area in the brain that signals satiety, eating continues.<br /> </p>
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| Aitzaz owns up to PM's no-letter reply Posted: <p> </p><p>Speaking in Dunya News programme ‘CrossFire’, Aitzaz however said that he would not reveal exact details regarding the matter, yet his advice as counsel for the PM in the contempt case had be overriding.</p><p> </p><p>He also said that he is a PPP Jiala (activist) in politics, but a lawyer in the courtroom.</p><p> </p><p>He justified that he is an emotional political worker on political platform but so far as the courtroom is concerned, he acts purely as a lawyer.</p><p> </p><p>He said that he had played an important role for reinstatement of judges during lawyers’ movement and had urged President Zardari to restore judges on a priority base.</p><p> </p><p>After reinstatement of judges, he has neither tried to seek any relief from the court, nor requested any judge to confer any special endowment on him.</p><p> </p><p>To a question regarding impartiality, he said that he is counsel for Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and would stand by him through the trial.</p><p> </p><p>In the end, Aitzaz insisted that all must accept despite any or no prejudices that the President as head of state enjoys immunity. He also said that the government has not sought an change or review of the NRO verdict, but has only sought delay in the implementation which, he said, is permissible under the law. <br /> </p>
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| Bermuda secure first win in ICC T20 qualifiers Posted: <p> </p><p>They beat Papua New Guinea by five wickets thanks to an unbeaten 52 from Janeiro Tucker.</p><p> </p><p>Tucker smashed sixes off the first three balls of the last over, as Bermuda chased down a 156 target set by the Pacific islanders in their Group A match in Dubai.</p><p> </p><p>Vani Vagi Morea had earlier top-scored for Papua New Guinea with 49 not out in their 155-6 but Tucker and his 55-run, fourth-wicket stand with captain David Hemp (30 in 27 balls) helped Bermuda home with three balls to spare.--AFP<br /> </p>
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| Posted: <p> </p><p>He got in the Top 10 after beating world number one Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals of the Indian Wells tournament at the weekend.</p><p> </p><p>Serb Djokovic, winner at Indian Wells in 2011, sees his lead on Spaniard Rafael Nadal reduced. Swiss Roger Federer, who beat Nadal in the final to win the Indian Wells title, remains third behind the Spaniard.</p><p> </p><p>Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro drops two places after losing to Federer in the quarter-finals in the California tournament.</p><p><br />1. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 12670 pts</p><p>2. Rafael Nadal (ESP) 10175</p><p>3. Roger Federer (SUI) 9350</p><p>4. Andy Murray (GBR) 7450</p><p>5. David Ferrer (ESP) 4700</p><p>6. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 4535</p><p>7. Tomas Berdych (CZE) 3860</p><p>8. Mardy Fish (USA) 2910</p><p>9. Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 2730 (1)</p><p>10. John Isner (USA) 2675 (1)</p><p>11. Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) 2660 (-2)</p><p>12. Nicolas Almagro (ESP) 2205</p><p>13. Gilles Simon (FRA) 2140</p><p>14. Gael Monfils (FRA) 1970</p><p>15. Feliciano Lopez (ESP) 1890</p><p>16. Kei Nishikori (JPN) 1685 (1)</p><p>17. Richard Gasquet (FRA) 1595 (-1)</p><p>18. Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr. (UKR) 1540 (3)</p><p>19. Florian Mayer (GER) 1540 (-1)</p><p>20. Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 1530 (-1).--AFP<br /> </p>
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| Azarenka pulls ahead in WTA rankings Posted: <p> </p><p>She pulled ahead a day after achieving her fourth title of the season at Indian Wells.</p><p> </p><p>Russian Maria Sharapova, overpowered 6-2, 6-3 by Azarenka in the final of the California tournament, remains second ahead of Czech Petra Kvitova.</p><p> </p><p>Poland s Agnieszka Radwanska moves up one place to fourth with Australia s Samantha Stosur moves up a spot to fifth.</p><p> </p><p>Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki, beaten in the fourth round by Serb Ana Ivanovic, drops two places to sixth, as Germany s Angelique Kerber moves up to 14th.</p><p><br />1. Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 9730 pts</p><p>2. Maria Sharapova (RUS) 7930</p><p>3. Petra Kvitova (CZE) 7170</p><p>4. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) 5960 (1)</p><p>5. Samantha Stosur (AUS) 5825 (1)</p><p>6. Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 5410 (-2)</p><p>7. Marion Bartoli (FRA) 4710</p><p>8. Li Na (CHN) 4635</p><p>9. Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 4340</p><p>10. Andrea Petkovic (GER) 3800</p><p>11. Serena Williams (USA) 3580</p><p>12. Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 3515</p><p>13. Sabine Lisicki (GER) 3141</p><p>14. Angelique Kerber (GER) 2820 (5)</p><p>15. Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 2815 (-1)</p><p>16. Ana Ivanovic (SRB) 2785</p><p>17. Julia Goerges (GER) 2785 (-2)</p><p>18. Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 2485 (-1)</p><p>19. Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) 2450 (2)</p><p>20. Roberta Vinci (ITA) 2395 (2).--AFP<br /> </p>
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