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Dry weather expected in next 24 hours
Gilani holds informal meeting with Manmohan
US eyes missile-defense shields for Asia, Mideast
Worlds security depends on nulear summit: Obama
Poll: Support for Afghan war hits all-time low
Afghan security forces kill three ISAF soldiers
US offered advance notice of drone attacks to Pakistan
SC to resume contempt case hearing against PM today
Inspectors working as DSPs asked to vacate charge
Clinton starts diplomatic drive on Syria with stop in Syria
PM Gilani to meet Obama today
ST to give priority to national interest in forming alliance
US respects Pakistans sovereignty
Sharjeel Memon, Humaira Alvi receive threat letters
US researchers find cure for dengue

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Mainly dry weather is expected in most parts of the country. According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department Scattered dust-thunderstorm/ rain occurred in Quetta, Zhob, Malakand, Hazara, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar divisions, Kashmir and Gilgit- Baltistan.  The maximum temperature in Islamabad will remain at 27C in the next 24 hours, Lahore 31C and Karachi 37C.

Gilani holds informal meeting with Manmohan

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Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani held an informal meeting with Indian PM Dr Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of nuclear summit in Seoul on Tuesday. Both the leaders vowed to speed up bilateral negotiation to improve Pak-India ties. The prime ministers of Pakistan and India are attending the nuclear summit in Seoul. Heads of states from more than 50 countries, including United States, are attending the summit.

US eyes missile-defense shields for Asia, Mideast

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The United States is seeking to build regional shields against ballistic missiles in both Asia and the Middle East akin to an emerging bulwark in Europe, a senior Pentagon official disclosed Monday. The effort may complicate U.S. ties with Russia and China, both of which fear such defenses could harm their security even though the United States says they are designed only to protect against states like Iran and North Korea. The U.S. push for new regional bulwarks includes two sets of trilateral dialogues - one with Japan and Australia and the other with Japan and South Korea, said Madelyn Creedon, an assistant secretary of defense for global strategic affairs. Such shields could help counter perceived threats to their neighbors from Iran and North Korea and help defend the United States from any future long-range missiles that the two countries might develop, she told a conference co-hosted by the Pentagon s Missile Defense Agency. Russia says it fears this system could weaken it by becoming capable of thwarting the nuclear missiles relied on by Moscow as a strategic deterrent against attack. China likely would be even more opposed to a new antimissile defense in its backyard, said Riki Ellison, a prominent missile-defense advocate noted for his close ties to senior military officials involved in the effort. Beijing "would take much more offense to an Asian phased adaptive approach than Russia is doing with the European one," he said, calling regional shields a good idea in theory but problematic in reality.

Worlds security depends on nulear summit: Obama

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Nuclear terrorism remains a global threat and the safety of the world depends on decisions taken at a summit in the South Korean capital, US President Barack Obama said Tuesday. Obama was addressing a 53-nation nuclear security summit dedicated to keeping such material out of the hands of terrorists. "The security of the world depends on the actions that we take," he told fellow leaders and senior officials at the start of the second and final day. Obama began the process with a summit in Washington in 2010. The Seoul  gathering will consider progress since then. "We are fulfilling the commitments we made in Washington," Obama said, adding security at nuclear facilities had been tightened and vulnerable material had been removed or destroyed. "As a result, more of the world s nuclear material will never fall into the  hands of terrorists who would gladly use it against us," he said. "What s also undeniable is that the threat remains. There are still too many bad actors in search of these dangerous materials and these dangerous materials are still vulnerable in too many places. "It would not take much -- just a handful of so of these materials -- to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people." Obama said that as a consequence of the Seoul summit, "more of our citizens will be safer from the danger of nuclear terrorism".

Poll: Support for Afghan war hits all-time low

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After a series of violent episodes and setbacks, support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped sharply among both Republicans and Democrats, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. The survey found that more than two-thirds of those polled — 69 percent —thought that the United States should not be at war in Afghanistan. Just four months ago, 53 percent said that Americans should no longer be fighting in the conflict, more than a decade old. The increased disillusionment was even more pronounced when respondents were asked their impressions of how the war was going. The poll found that 68 percent thought the fighting was going “somewhat badly” or “very badly,” compared with 42 percent who had those impressions in November 2011. The Times/CBS News poll was consistent with other surveys this month that showed a drop in support for the war. In a Washington Post/ABC News poll, 60 percent of respondents said the war in Afghanistan had not been worth the fighting, while 57 percent in a Pew Research Center poll said that the United States should bring home American troops as soon as possible. In a Gallup/USA Today poll, 50 percent of respondents said the United States should speed up the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Negative impressions of the war have grown among Republicans as well as Democrats, according to the Times/CBS News poll. Among Republicans, 60 percent said the war was going somewhat or very badly, compared with 40 percent in November. Among Democrats, 68 percent said the war was going somewhat or very badly, compared with 38 percent in November. But the poll found that Republicans were more likely to want to stay in Afghanistan for as long as it would take to stabilize the situation: 3 in 10 said the United States should stay, compared with 2 in 10 independents and 1 in 10 Democrats. Republicans themselves are divided, however, over when to leave, with a plurality, 40 percent, saying the United States should withdraw earlier than the end of 2014, when under an agreement with the Afghan government all American troops are to be out of the country.

Afghan security forces kill three ISAF soldiers

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Three foreign soldiers, including two Britons, were shot dead by Afghan security forces personnel on Monday in the latest round of so-called insider killings which have raised deep concerns about the reliability of NATO s local allies and their ability to keep the peace. Insider attacks have mounted as tension between Afghanistan and its foreign backers rises over a series of incidents, including the burning of Korans at a NATO base and a massacre of 17 villagers for which a U.S. soldier has been charged. In Monday s attacks, an Afghan army soldier killed two British soldiers at their headquarters in southern Afghanistan, Britain and NATO officials said, while a local policeman shot dead another foreign soldier in the east. The attack on British troops took place in Lashkar Gah city in southern Helmand province, the main area of operations for British forces in Afghanistan. The attacker was shot dead by NATO soldiers, the alliance and the governor s office said.

US offered advance notice of drone attacks to Pakistan

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According to a foreign news agency, in a bid to save the CIA s drone campaign against al-Qaida in Pakistan, US officials offered key concessions to Pakistan s spy chief that included advance notice and limits on the types of targets. But the offers were flatly rejected, leaving US-Pakistani relations strained as President Barack Obama prepares to meet Tuesday with Pakistan s prime minister. CIA Director David Petraeus, who met with Pakistan s then-spy chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha at a meeting in London in January, offered to give Pakistan advance notice of future CIA drone strikes against targets on its territory in a bid to keep Pakistan from blocking the strikes — arguably one of the most potent U.S. tools against al-Qaida. The CIA chief also offered to apply new limits on the types of targets hit, said a senior U.S. intelligence official briefed on the meetings. No longer would large groups of armed men rate near-automatic action, as they had in the past — one of the so-called "signature" strikes, where CIA targeters deemed certain groups and behavior as clearly indicative of militant activity. Pasha said then what Pakistani officials and its parliament have repeated in recent days: that Pakistan will no longer brook independent U.S. action on its territory by CIA drones, two Pakistani officials said. All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations. Pasha went further, saying Pakistan s intelligence service would no longer carry out joint raids with U.S. counterterrorist teams inside its country, as it had in the past. Instead, Pakistan would demand that the U.S. hand over the intelligence, so its forces could pursue targets on their own in urban areas, or send the Pakistani army or jets to attack the targets in the tribal areas, explained a senior Pakistani official.

SC to resume contempt case hearing against PM today

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A seven-member larger bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, is hearing of the contempt case against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. In the previous hearing on Monday, the PM’s assistant counsel in the case, Barrister Gohar, informed the apex court that PM’s counsel Aitzaz Ahsan could not appear before that court as his was not feeling well after which the court adjourned the hearing of the case till today.

Inspectors working as DSPs asked to vacate charge

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According to details, at least 180 inspectors of Sindh Police are working as DSPs across Sindh including Karachi. According to the sources, these police inspectors were promoted to the rank of DSPs due to their political affiliations. Most of these police officials were presently working in CIA, Police investigation department, police operation department and SOU. After vacating the charge of DSPs, these police officials will work as inspectors.

Clinton starts diplomatic drive on Syria with stop in Syria

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will late this week launch a new diplomatic drive aimed at ending the bloodshed in Syria, making visits to Saudi Arabia and Turkey, officials said Monday. Clinton will meet in Riyadh with Saudi King Abdullah and Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal as well as foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia s five Gulf Arab neighbors, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Monday. The chief US diplomat s talks are set for Friday and Saturday, just before she attends the second "Friends of Syria" meeting Sunday in Istanbul that will draw not just Arab delegates but also those from Turkey and Western powers. The disparate Syrian opposition is expected to attend. In Riyadh, Clinton will attend the first ministerial meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council-US strategic cooperation forum, which is likely to also discuss the perceived threat from Iran across the Gulf. The council known as the GCC is composed of heavyweight Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. "She will discuss the full range of bilateral and regional issues, including ongoing security cooperation in the region, as well as the international community s continuing efforts to stop the bloodshed in Syria," Nuland said. Repeating an announcement she made last week, Nuland said Clinton will later Saturday travel to the Turkish city of Istanbul to attend the second meeting of the "Friends of the Syrian People." The grouping is also known as the "Friends of Syria." Nuland says the new meeting will build on efforts in Tunis last month to end the violence, enable the delivery of humanitarian aid and launch a political process aimed at replacing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. "This meeting will build upon steps that our friends, allies, and the Syrian opposition continue to take in an attempt to halt the slaughter of the Syrian people and pursue a transition to democracy in Syria," Nuland said. "While in Istanbul, Secretary Clinton will also conduct bilateral meetings with Turkish Foreign Minister (Ahmet) Davutoglu and other foreign leaders," the statement said.

PM Gilani to meet Obama today

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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will meet US President Barack Obama on the sidelines of nuclear summit in Seoul today. Earlier on Monday, Gilani informed the US president in an informal meeting that the Parliament would decided about the recommendations put forward by the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) in connection with Pak-US relationship. Meanwhile, US deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters in Seoul that President Barack Obama would seek to put strained relations with Pakistan on a more even footing when he meets Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at the end of a nuclear security summit. Pak-US ties plunged to a new low in November when NATO’s aircraft from Afghanistan attacked two Pakistani border posts and killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. “There obviously has been a fairly turbulent period in US-Pakistan relations over the course of the last several months,” Ben Rhodes said. “We’ll want to address the state of the relationship,” he said. He said Obama would assure Gilani of “our continued interest in counter-terrorism cooperation” with Pakistan. Pakistan’s cooperation is considered critical to US efforts to stabilise Afghanistan before most foreign combat troops leave at the end of 2014. Pakistan has strong traditional links with the Afghan Taliban and other militant groups. Meanwhile, during a press briefing in Washington, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said that US respect Pakistan’s sovereignty. Victoria said that Pakistan and US are in talks regarding the new projects of energy sector in Pakistan. Nuland said that US understand the problem faced by Pakistan in energy sector and soon the problems would be resolved by the co-operation of both countries. Nuland said that President Obama met President Asif Ali Zardari in Dushanbe and matters regarding the current regional situation were discussed.

ST to give priority to national interest in forming alliance

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Chief of Sunni Tehrik, Sarwat Ijaz Qadri, has said that his party will not enter into alliance with any political party who was involved in bifurcation of the country. Talking to media in Lahore, Qadri said that Sunni Tehrik will start party membership soon. He said that that Sunni Tehrik flags were removed during its public meeting at the Minar-e-Pakistan but none of his party member responded with any illegal act.

US respects Pakistans sovereignty

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Victoria said that Pakistan and US are in Talks regarding the new projects of energy sector in Pakistan. Giving a press briefing to media Nuland said that US understand the problem faced by Pakistan in energy sector and soon the problems would be resolved by the co-operation of both countries. Nuland said that President Obama met President Asif Ali Zardari in Dushanbe and matters regarding the current regional situation were discussed. The state department spokesperson refused to talk regarding the NATO-supplies and said that the issue was under consideration in Pakistani parliament. Replying to question regarding Afghanistan’s situation Nuland said that US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman would meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai soon.

Sharjeel Memon, Humaira Alvi receive threat letters

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Talking to Dunya News former Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon said that he has been asked to move to interior Sindh along with his family or be ready to face the consequences. Member Sindh Assembly Humaira Alvi of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was asked in the letter to leave the ‘Muhajir Province’ or be ready to face the consequences. Humaira Alvi, while talking to Dunya News, said that such threats cannot terrorise her. It is pertinent to mention here that Sindh Culture Minister Sassi Palijo also received same kind of letter a day ago.

US researchers find cure for dengue

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Enzymes and biochemical compounds called lipids that are targeted and altered during infection by the dengue virus have been identified by a team of researchers from Purdue University. The findings indicate a potential new approach to control the virus, according to a study. The team’s findings indicate that drugs used to treat other lipid-related conditions, such as high cholesterol might prevent the virus from replicating and could be used as a potential new treatment. The team discovered how infected mosquito cells alter certain lipids in membranes and in biochemical sensors that warn cells of invading viruses. The team gained new insight into how the virus changes lipids in membranes surrounding structures inside cells called organelles, including the mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum. Mitochondria are the cell’s power generators while the endoplasmic reticulum is responsible for the production of proteins and lipids. Findings from the study could apply to viruses similar to dengue, including the hepatitis C, West Nile virus, and yellow fever. Dengue is believed to be one of the most aggressive mosquito-borne human pathogens worldwide. In some Latin American and Asian countries, dengue is a leading cause of severe illness and death among children.

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