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Two captive women reach police station
Contempt case hearing against Babar Awan resumes today
PNSC to meet today in Islamabad
Newcastle, Tottenham score wins in Premier League
Thousands cycle Rio's Copacabana beach
Karachi violence claims 4 more lives
PML-N to end loadshedding after coming into power: Shahbaz
Gojra: 4 killed in road accident
Gilgit: People protest closure of bus route
Myanmar's Suu Kyi wins parliament seat
Babar Awan contempt case hearing on Monday
Hungarian university head resigns over plagiarism
China women win gold to complete sweep
Riots break out in Layari , dozens of kiosks torched
PML-N boycotts PCNS, calls strike over fuel prices

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According to details, Gachi Baskh and his brother Ahmad Ali of village Kachi Pul near Qambar area of Shahdad Kot kept their wives, Kalsoom and Shahzadi, under chains for not working in the fields. Bothe the women managed to escape and reached Qabo Saeed Khan Police Station. They revealed that their husbands used to torture them and also gave them electric shocks. Police have handed over the women to women police and registered case against the accused.

Contempt case hearing against Babar Awan resumes today

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Two-member bench of Supreme Court (SC), headed by Justice Afzal Ijaz, would conduct hearing of the Contempt of Court Case against Senator Babar Awan. On last hearing, the court has called to Babar Awan to frame charges against him but he requested the court to postpone the case due to assignments of his counsel Ali Zafer in Lahore. The court, while accepting his request, adjourned the hearing till April 2.

PNSC to meet today in Islamabad

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The Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PNSC), headed by Senator Raza Rabbani, meeting will start work on the final draft of recommendations to be presented in the joint sitting of the parliament. Senator Raza Rabbani said the efforts are on to evolve a consensus on the draft of proposed resolution. The resolution is likely to be presented before the joint parliamentary session on April 5. However, the committee is yet to reach a consensus on restoration of NATO supply line. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid have linked the NATO supplies resumption to suspension of drone strikes in Pakistan According to sources, the chances of reaching consensus on the proposed draft till April 5 are very remote.

Newcastle, Tottenham score wins in Premier League

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Papiss Demba Cisse scored both goals as Newcastle inflicted fresh Premier League misery upon 10-man Liverpool with a 2-0 victory at St James  Park on Sunday. The Senegal striker made it seven goals in as many Premier League games for Newcastle with a 19th minute header and a close range-finish just shy of the hour mark to boost their challenge for a Champions League place. Liverpool were reduced to 10 men with eight minutes remaining as goalkeeper Pepe Reina was sent off after he appeared to headbutt Newcastle s James Perch. By then Liverpool had used all their substitutes, so full-back Jose Enrique, one of several former Newcastle players in the visitors  team, had to go between the posts. The result condemned Liverpool to a sixth defeat in seven league matches and left them in eighth place, one position below Merseyside rivals Everton -- and 11 points adrift of Newcastle. Meanwhile, Sunday s other Premier League match saw Tottenham Hotspur go level on points with third-placed north London foes Arsenal and five clear of both Chelsea and Newcastle after they beat Swansea 3-1 at White Hart Lane. The score was 1-1 at the breather.

Thousands cycle Rio's Copacabana beach

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Some 6,000 people picked up their bikes on Sunday (April 1) morning in Rio de Janeiro and headed to the city s fabled Copacabana beach to take part in the  World Bike Tour . The event, which takes place in various cities around the world, was started in 2006 in Portugal with the aim of promoting the use of bicycles as an alternative means of transport. "We want to promote physical exercise because it s good for one s health and also this way we can also promote a means of transport which causes the least amount of pollution on a global level," explained Diamantino Nunes, an organiser of the Rio  World Bike Tour . The bike tour through Rio, which was 11 kilometres (7 miles) long, was also attended by Rio de Janeiro s Environment Secretary Carlos Minc. "We need to humanise this city by respecting the cyclist and also by reducing pollution in the city in which we live," he told reporters before the tour started. Some cyclists took part in costumes they hoped would send an environmental message to spectators of the  World Bike Tour . "The bicycle does not pollute and mother nature is good for the heart. This is the form in which I felt relaxed and to declare my love for mother nature," said Jose Gerardo Da Silva, a Rio resident who took part in a costume which featured leaves, plants, birds and the Brazilian flag.

Karachi violence claims 4 more lives

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Violence spread across Karachi as four more people, including a woman, were shot dead in firing incidents in the past few hours. At least 15 people were also injured. According to details, some unidentified persons opened fire and killed a woman who was sitting in an ice cream parlor at the MA Jinnah Road. In another incident in Sikandarabad area near the Super Highway, some unidentified miscreants shot dead a man while the armed bandits opened fire at a car near Nazimabad Board Office, killing one person. In yet another incident, some unidentified persons, riding on a motorcycle, shot dead a youth in Sohrab Goth area. Meanwhile, at least 15 people, including an activist of a political party, were injured in firing incidents in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Kemari, Issa Nagri, Malir and Machar Colony.

PML-N to end loadshedding after coming into power: Shahbaz

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Addressing the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers in London, Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif said that the credit of court verdict in Rental Power Projects (RPPs) case goes to PML-N. He said that billions of rupees were looted in the name of RPPs. He said that Ali Baba 40 thieves are ruling Pakistan. Chief Minister said that President Asif Ali Zardari has damaged country’s prestige. Shahbaz Sharif said that he will leave politics if corruption of a single penny was proved in any project of the Punjab government.

Gojra: 4 killed in road accident

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According to details, a speeding trailer collided with a tractor trolley, coming from opposite direction, near Govt College of Commerce on Gojra-Toba Tek Singh Road, killing two persons on the spot and injuring five others. The injured were rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital, Gojra where two of the injured persons succumbed to their wounds. The dead are yet to be identified.

Gilgit: People protest closure of bus route

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The resident in Gilgit staged a protest against closure of No 5 bus route by government in the city and blocked all the main roads by burning tyres. Police used tear gar to disperse protesters. Incidents of aerial firing were also reported from different parts of the city. All the business centres rained shut during the protest.

Myanmar's Suu Kyi wins parliament seat

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Her party said she won a parliamentary seat in a landmark election, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time. The victory, if confirmed, would mark a major milestone in the Southeast Asian nation, where the military has ruled almost exclusively for a half-century and where a new reform-minded government is seeking legitimacy and a lifting of Western sanctions. It would also mark the biggest prize of Suu Kyi s political career, and a spectacular reversal of fortune for the 66-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate who the former junta had kept imprisoned in her lakeside home for the better part of two decades. The victory claim was displayed on a digital signboard above the opposition National League for Democracy s headquarters in Myanmar s main city, Yangon, where more than 1,000 supporters began wildly shouting upon learning the news. "We won We won" her supporters chanted while clapping, dancing, waving red party flags and gesturing with thumbs-up and V-for-victory signs. "It is the people s victory We have taught them a lesson," said a shopkeeper who goes by the single name Thien who wore a t-shirt with Suu Kyi s picture on the front and her party s fighting peacock on the back. Earlier, the party had claimed that Suu Kyi was ahead with 65 percent of the vote in 82 of her constituency s 129 polling stations. The party had staff and volunteers spread throughout the vast rice-farming district, who were calling in preliminary results by phone to their headquarters in Yangon. The results must be confirmed by the official electoral commission, however, which has yet to release any outcome and may not make an official declaration for days. The victory claim came despite allegations by her National League for Democracy party that "rampant irregularities" had taken place on voting day. Party spokesman Nyan Win said that by midday alone the party had filed more than 50 complaints to the Election Commission. He said most alleged violations concerned waxed ballot papers that made it difficult to mark votes. There were also ballot cards that lacked the Election Commission s seal, which would render them invalid. Sunday s by-election was called to fill just 45 vacant seats in Myanmar s 664-seat national Parliament and will not change the balance of power in a new government that is nominally civilian but still heavily controlled by retired generals. Suu Kyi and other opposition candidates would have almost no say even if they win all the seats they are contesting. But her candidacy has resurrected hope among Myanmar s downtrodden masses, who have grown up for generations under strict military rule. If Suu Kyi takes office as expected, it would symbolize a giant leap toward national reconciliation. "She may not be able to do anything at this stage," said one voter, Go Khehtay, who cast his ballot for Suu Kyi at Wah Thin Kha, one of the dirt-poor villages in the rural constituency south of Yangon that she is vying to represent. "But one day, I believe she ll be able to bring real change." Earlier, crowds of supporters mobbed Suu Kyi as she visited a polling station in the village after spending the night there. The tiny community of 3,000 farmers has no electricity or running water, and its near-total underdevelopment illustrates the profound challenges facing the country as it slowly emerges from 49 years of army rule. Despite the reports of widespread irregularities, a confirmed victory by Suu Kyi could cheer Western powers and nudge them closer to easing economic sanctions they have imposed on the country for years. Suu Kyi herself told reporters Friday that the campaigning for Sunday s vote been anything but free or fair, but that she was pressing for forward with her candidacy because it s "what our people want." Last year, Myanmar s long-entrenched military junta handed power to a civilian government dominated by retired officers that skeptics decried as a proxy for continued military rule. But the new rulers who came to power in a 2010 vote that critics say was neither free nor fair have surprised the world with a wave of reform. The government of President Thein Sein, himself a retired lieutenant general, has freed political prisoners, signed truces with rebel groups and opened a direct dialogue with Suu Kyi, who wields enough moral authority to greatly influence the Myanmar policy of the U.S. and other powers. Suu Kyi s decision to endorse Thein Sein s reforms so far and run in Sunday s election represents a political gamble. Once in parliament, she can seek to influence policy and challenge the government from within. But she also risks legitimizing a regime she has fought against for decades while gaining little true legislative power. Suu Kyi is in a "strategic symbiosis" with some of the country s generals and ex-generals, said Maung Zarni, a Myanmar expert and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics. "They need her and she needs them to break the 25 years of political stalemate," Zarni said. "She holds the key for the regime s need for its international acceptance and normalization." Sunday s poll marks the first foray into electoral politics by Suu Kyi s National League for Democracy party since winning a landslide election victory in 1990. The military annulled those results and kept Suu Kyi in detention for much of the next two decades. The party boycotted the last vote in 2010, but in January the government amended key electoral laws, paving the way for a run in this weekend s ballot. A new reform was expected Monday when Myanmar s currency will be largely unshackled from government controls that kept the kyat at an artificially high rate for decades. The International Monetary fund says the change could lift a major constraint on growth in one of Asia s least developed countries.

Babar Awan contempt case hearing on Monday

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Two-member bench of Supreme Court headed by Justice Afzal Ijaz would conduct hearing of the Babar Awan Contempt of Court Case. On last hearing, the court has called to Babar Awan to frame charges against him but he requested the court to postpone the case due to assignments of his counsel Ali Zafer in Lahore. The court, while accepting his request, adjourned the hearing till April 2.

Hungarian university head resigns over plagiarism

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Tivadar Tulassay said Sunday that the decision by Semmelweis University to revoke President Pal Schmitt s 1992 doctorate has led to a noticeable loss of confidence in Tulassay by the Ministry of National Resources, which oversees education matters. Tulassay says that he will notify the ministry on Monday about his departure, which he hopes will ensure the university can return to normalcy after the scandal. Following up on media reports, a university investigation found Tuesday that some 200 pages of Schmitt s 215-page thesis on the modern Olympic Games was mostly copied from two other authors. Schmitt has said he will not resign.

China women win gold to complete sweep

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Their women s team also beat defending champions Singapore 3-0 in Sunday s final. China s male team had earlier beaten hosts Germany 3-0. After the men had downed hosts Germany 3-0 earlier in their final, the Chinese dragon roared again as the women s team took revenge for their defeat in the world team final two years ago in Moscow with victory over Singapore. China s Ding Ning put her side ahead in the opening match with a 3-1 win over Feng Tianwei, while compatriot Li Xiaoxia also had few problems in her 3-1 win over Wang Yuegu. It fell to Guo Yue to seal victory and she dominated Li Jiawei with a 3-0 win in straight games. It was the Chinese women s 18th gold medal at the world team championships and their 2010 defeat was the only time they have lost a world team final since 1991. Overall, China have won 36 gold medals in both the men s and women s world team championships since the tournament was first held in 1926. The world championships doubles as an Olympic qualifier with London places up for grabs for the highest-ranked nation from each of the six continents and China are the defending champions in both the mens and womens events.--AFP

Riots break out in Layari , dozens of kiosks torched

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As per details, a women and youths gathered in front of Lyari police station and held a protest demonstration in the area of Chakewara on killing of a man allegedly by police during an encounter. Protestors also shouted slogans against security men. Police opened aerial firing and threw shells of tear gas in order to disperse protestors. As a reaction, angry people piled stones and petrol bombs on police and set dozens of kiosks on fire. The area turned into a battlefield where security forces and protestors fought pitched battles. Panic overwhelmed the entire area while all the shopping centres were closed immediately.

PML-N boycotts PCNS, calls strike over fuel prices

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The party boycotted the meeting of the crucial parliamentary committee against the rise in petroleum and CNG prices. Ch Nisar, the opposition leader and leader of the PML-N, said the people would have to come to the streets against the unjust raise in prices of petroleum products. In a statement issued from Islamabad, Nisar said President Zardari is seeking revenge from the nation for, God knows, which crime. “The raise in petroleum products is not just severe, it also reflects on the failure of the government and its policies,” he added. He said the rulers want to make money for their foreign tours by burdening the masses who are already crushed under price hike. He said the PML-N would boycott the PCNS meeting scheduled for Monday, while a rally would be taken out in Rawalpindi on Wednesday.

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