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• INCB concerned over increase in ephedrine demand
• JUI-F rejects two-party decision on caretaker government
• England beat South Africa to level T20 series 1-1
• Snooker match under corruption investigation
• Obama, Karzai vow to prevent repeat of Libya attacks
• Libya's parliament elects new prime minister
• Methanol kills 19, injures 24 in central Europe
• Global oil prices hold steady after early rally
• Euro gains on ESM ruling, ahead of Fed meet
• Mars rover Curiosity wrapping up health checkups
• Whooping cough vaccine efficiency questioned
• GB Assembly passes resolution for province
• Punjab govt spent Rs70b on a single road: Imran
• Fire issue: SHC issues notices to IG, DG rangers, others
• 5 including 3 PPP workers fall prey to Karachi violence

INCB concerned over increase in ephedrine demand Posted: According to Director Legal, Anti-Narcotic Force, Akhtar Abbas the two-member International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) delegation has expressed concern over increase in ephedrine demand in Pakistan.The INCB delegation also expressed surprise over government reluctance in providing help to investigation agency. INCB delegation will remain in Pakital until September 14 after which it will submit its report to the United Nation.

JUI-F rejects two-party decision on caretaker government Posted: The central executive committee of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F), which met in Islamabad, has demanded of the government to all political parties into confidence on the issue of caretaker set up.The meeting also decided to start masses contact campaign in wake of upcoming general election. The central executive committee termed the Sindh LG Ordinance as of dual nature and said the even the coalition partners of the government have rejected it.The meeting also criticized the visit of UN team and termed it interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan.

England beat South Africa to level T20 series 1-1 Posted: Jos Buttlers quickfire 32 not out provided the platform for England to beat South Africa by 28 runs in the third and final Twenty20 international at Edgbaston on Wednesday.Victory saw World Twenty20 champions England, who head to Sri Lanka on Thursday to defend the title they won in the Caribbean two years ago, square this three-match series at 1-1 with one no result.Most of Buttlers runs, in a match reduced by rain to 11 overs per side, came in a costly ninth over worth 32 from left-arm quick Wayne Parnell.It was the second most expensive over in Twenty20 international history after Yuvraj Singh struck England captain Stuart Broad for 36 runs made up of six sixes in Durban during the inaugural 2007 World Twenty20.England made 118 for five -- with man-of-the-match Buttler facing just 10 balls including three sixes and two fours.South Africa, who were never up with the rate, finished on 90 for five.Opener Craig Kieswetter made 50 off 32 balls with three sixes and three fours and together with Buttler, whose previous England best was 13, he put on 48 in 14 balls.South Africa fast bowler Morne Morkels third ball of the match was a huge wide that sped past Proteas captain and wicket-keeper AB de Villiers on its way to the fine leg boundary, with 16 runs in all coming off the first over.But South Africa pulled things back in the second over when Parnell bowled recalled opener Michael Lumb middle stump.Luke Wright then holed out against off-spinner Johan Botha to leave England 43 for two in the fifth over. Botha took an impressive two for 19 in three overs but Kieswetter got England going again by launching fast bowling all-rounder Jacques Kallis for six over long-on.Buttler, at last replicating at England level the form hes often showed for Somerset, struck Parnell for two superb straight sixes in as many balls.And when Parnell twice no-balled, Buttler cleverly flicked the resulting free-hits over short fine leg for two consecutive fours.He then pulled him for six as 32 runs came of the over. Kieswetter then pulled Morne Morkel for six to complete his fifty only to be bowled next ball.South Africa suffered an early setback when the big-hitting Richard Levi was bowled by Tim Bresnan for one.And they lost Faf du Plessis for eight when he became debutant left-arm spinner Danny Briggss first Twenty20 international wicket, the Hampshire bowler deceiving him in flight as the batsman hit across the line and got a leading edge to mid-off. Briggs took one for 16 in two overs.But Hashim Amla, a thorn in Englands side throughout this summer, was still there, having hit his 100th four of the season in all formats.After six overs South Africa were 51 for two, needing a further 68 runs from their final five overs for victory.However, Amla fell for 36, off 27 balls with six fours, when he slogged off-spinner Graeme Swann to Jonathan Bairstow in the deep.That left South Africa 53 for four off seven overs and in the next over seamer Jade Dernbach conceded just two runs. From then on, there was no way back for the Proteas.

Snooker match under corruption investigation Posted: Snookers governing body is investigating unusual betting patterns in a match between six-time world champion Steve Davies and Thepchaiya Un-Nooh of Thailand at a tournament in England last week.The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) said in a statement on its website Wednesday that the case has been passed to its integrity unit to establish what has taken place and to consider if any action is appropriate.The 55-year-old Davis won 4-0 in the third-round match of the Players Tour Championship last Saturday.WPBSA Chairman Jason Ferguson says his organization takes any potential breach of the Members Betting Rules very seriously and that any player found guilty of such a breach is likely to be banned for life from snooker.

Obama, Karzai vow to prevent repeat of Libya attacks Posted: President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai vowed Wednesday to prevent a flare-up of anti-American violence in Afghanistan after the killing of US diplomats in Libya.Flags were lowered at US installations around the world, and Obama ordered increased security at American diplomatic missions following Tuesdays deadly assault in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.The assault, which killed Washingtons ambassador to Libya and three colleagues, was triggered by a mob angered by a film deemed offensive to Islam that Afghanistan has condemned as inhuman and insulting.During their telephone call, Obama and Karzai discussed the importance of working together to help ensure that the circumstances that led to the violence in Libya and Egypt do not pose a threat to US forces or Afghans, the White House said in a statement.Thousands of Egyptian demonstrators tore down the Stars and Stripes at the US embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and replaced it with a black Islamic flag similar to one adopted by several militant groups.The White House said Karzai expressed condolences for the tragic deaths in Libya during the call.The film has been promoted by controversial US pastor Terry Jones, who has drawn protests for burning the Quran and vehemently opposing the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero in New York.Karzai and Obamas conversation was billed as part of regular consultations ahead of a security transition to Afghan responsibility in the war-wracked country by the end of 2014, when US forces are set to withdraw after more than a decade.Obama also reaffirmed his commitment to transferring detainees to Afghan authority in a manner that respects Afghan sovereignty and protects US and Afghan forces, the statement said.The two leaders were set to speak again soon.Insults to Islam are taken very seriously in deeply conservative Afghanistan, where the Taliban are fighting a 10-year insurgency against 117,000 NATO troops and the US-backed government.Riots killed around 40 people earlier this year after US troops burnt copies of the Quran on a military base.

Libya's parliament elects new prime minister Posted: Libyas parliament has chosen a leading member in the countrys oldest opposition movement to be its new prime minister.Mustafa Al-Shakour, elected Wednesday, is tasked with stabilizing a country where armed groups proliferate. The U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed during a late Tuesday attack in eastern Libya.Al-Shakour, deputy to Libyas current interim president, is considered a compromise figure acceptable to both Islamists and liberals. He is the first elected head of government since the ouster of dictator Moammar Gaddafi in last years civil war.He hails from the National Front Party, an offshoot of a longstanding anti-Gaddafi movement. He narrowly beat liberal Mahmoud Jibril by 96 votes out of 190.

Methanol kills 19, injures 24 in central Europe Posted: At least 19 people are dead and 24 others hospitalized. Some of them have been blinded, while others have been induced into comas in the hope that doctors can save them.All had drunk cheap vodka and rum laced with methanol, a toxic substance used to stretch alcohol on the black market and guarantee high profits for manufacturers.The Czech Republic announced emergency measures Wednesday as the death toll from the methanol poisoning mounted, including two women aged 28 and 21. Kiosks and markets were banned from selling spirits with more than 30 percent alcohol content and police raided outlets nationwide. At 410 sites, they found 70 cases of illegal alcohol.Prime Minister Petr Necas called on all Czechs to refrain from drinking any alcohol whose origin is uncertain but authorities still feared the death toll will rise further.Little is officially known about the culprits other than that they work in the countrys depressed northeast, a former heartland of industry under communism. The Moravian-Silesian region near the border with Poland has unemployment about 50 percent higher than the national average of 8.3 percent.Of the 16 confirmed dead in the Czech Republic, eight lived in the region; two others died in neighboring Poland and one more in Slovakia.Senior police official Vaclav Kucera said all the poisoning cases so far are likely connected and two suspects have been arrested one in the eastern city of Zlin and another in the northeastern city of Havirov. The first two fatalities were announced Sept. 6 in Havirov.Methanol is mainly used for industrial purposes but unscrupulous criminal networks sometimes misuse it to illegally produce cheap liquor because its cheap and impossible to distinguish from real drinking alcohol.Igor Dvoracek, a doctor in the eastern city of Ostrava, said autopsies might be done on about 150 people who have died in recent weeks to see if they were also victims.The Czech Republic is world-renowned for its high-quality pilsner beer and burgeoning wine industry and is the worlds biggest consumer of beer per capita. In 2011, 65 million liters of spirits were drunk in a nation of just over 10 million people.But the methanol scandal has shown an uncomfortable light on the darker side of the alcohol industry and the way some are struggling to deal with a recession that has blighted parts of the country far away from the wealthy tourist magnet of Prague. The export-dependent Czech economy has been contracting since the third quarter of 2011 and only the biggest optimists see a tepid return to growth of less than one percent in 2013.People with the lowest income are looking for the cheapest alcohol and are ready to accept unknown origins, said Vladimir Steiner, executive director of a union of spirits producers.He estimated that 20 percent of all the liquor in restaurants across the country is likely made on the black market.Last year in India, a huge outbreak of methanol poisoning killed 170 people.Despite the current tragedy, such outbreaks have been rare in Europe. In Serbia, 43 people died in 1998 from illegally-made plum brandy and a man was sentenced to 12 years in jail.

Global oil prices hold steady after early rally Posted: Oil prices paused on Wednesday, having earlier rallied after Germanys top court approved the eurozones bailout fund and fiscal pact.In late afternoon deals, Brent North Sea crude for delivery in October advanced by 35 cents to $115.75 per barrel.New Yorks main contract, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) or light sweet crude for delivery in October retreated eight cents to $97.09 a barrel.In earlier trade, Brent crude had surged as high as $116.67 -- touching the highest point since May 3 -- and WTI soared to $98.06, reaching a level last witnessed on August 23.Both contracts subsequently pulled back from these levels and then fell sharply following the release of US crude oil inventories, said analyst Fawad Razaqzada at trading group GFT.The US governments Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced on Wednesday that American crude stockpiles rose by two million barrels in the week ending September 7.That confounded market expectations for a drop of 2.2 million barrels, according to analysts polled by Dow Jones Newswires, and indicated weaker-than-expected demand in the worlds biggest oil-consuming nation.Razaqzada cautioned that the demand outlook was unclear, with traders also on edge over simmering geopolitical tensions.The outlook for global demand looks uncertain as the economies of the US, China and the eurozone continue to slow, added Razaqzada.However, oil is being supported by geopolitical tensions which rose again following news of a public spat between Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the White House administration, and attacks on US embassies in Egypt and Libya.The oil market had fizzed higher in earlier deals after Germanys top court approved a new European firewall for ratification, with some minor conditions, easing fears over the long-running eurozone debt crisis.In a separate development, the International Energy Agency said oil demand growth was forecast to grow at a steady rate of just 0.8 million barrels per day in 2012 and 2013.However, the IEA added that the strains of weak global economic growth and high prices were fuelling increased energy efficiency and would cap demand growth.

Euro gains on ESM ruling, ahead of Fed meet Posted: The euro topped $1.29 for the first time in four months Thursday in the wake of a German court ruling that the crucial eurozone bailout fund is constitutional.The US greenback was also pressed lower by expectations that the Federal Reserve will opt for more monetary easing when it concludes a two-day policy meeting on Thursday.At 2100 GMT the euro was at $1.2899, up from $1.2848 late Wednesday.The safe haven for the risk-averse, the Japanese yen, fell against both: the dollar was buying 77.84 yen, compared with 77.73 Wednesday, while the euro pushed to 100.40 yen from 99.88.The German courts approval of the permanent 500-billion-euro ($645-billion) European Stability Mechanism gave hope that the eurozone financial crisis might be quelled.The approval is another important development in Europes policy response to the regions debt crisis which, in addition to the euro gains, prompted a modest rise in European equities and a slight decline in Spanish and Italian bond yields, said Nick Bennenbroek of Wells Fargo Bank.Meanwhile, with the Feds policy board meeting, he said, There are widespread expectations of further balance sheet expansion at this weeks meeting. Should the Fed deliver, we expect moderate further weakness in the US dollar.The Swiss franc picked up ground, with the dollar falling to 0.9372 francs from 0.9392 francs.The British pound also pressed higher, rising to $1.6107 from $1.6067.

Mars rover Curiosity wrapping up health checkups Posted: The Mars rover Curiosity is preparing to roll again after it completes its health checkups this week, project managers said Wednesday.Since landing in an ancient crater near the Martian equator Aug. 5, the car-size rover has trekked more than the length of a football field, leaving wheel tracks in the soil that could be spied from space.The most high-tech rover sent to the red planet, it spent the past month testing its instruments before embarking on a mission to examine whether the environment could have been hospitable to microbial life.Mission manager Jennifer Trosper said the six-wheel Curiosity has performed almost flawlessly so far.It still has to do a final check of its robotic arm and aim its camera to track one of Mars moons, Phobos, crawling across the face of the sun before hitting the road Friday night.The plan is to drive, drive, drive, said Trosper of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the $2.5 billion mission.Curiosity is headed toward a spot called Glenelg where three types of terrain meet. Along the way, it will select rocks to study and scoop up soil. Within a month or so, it plans to use its robotic arm to drill into rocks.The rovers ultimate destination is Mount Sharp, a mountain rising from the crater floor, but it was not expected to journey there until the end of the year. From orbit, the base appeared to contain signs of past water, providing a starting point to search for the chemical building blocks of life.

Whooping cough vaccine efficiency questioned Posted: US researchers are questioning how the United States protects against whooping cough, a disease that killed 11 babies and sickened thousands of people in a major outbreak in 2010.The current vaccine known as DTaP, which is designed to protect against whooping cough but also tetanus and diphtheria, wanes greatly in efficiency in the five years following the fifth shot given to children as per recommendations from the Centers for Disease control, the study said.It was carried out in California by the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center and published in the online version of the New England Journal of Medicine.The study period included a major whooping cough outbreak in California in 2010. It killed 11 newborns and more than 8,000 people fell ill. The disease is also known as pertussis.In the United States, the CDC recommends children get five shots, starting at two months and with the last coming between the ages of four and six, right before they start school.The research was the first to focus specifically on a large population of highly vaccinated children who had exclusively received DTaP vaccines since birth and for whom enough time had passed since their fifth dose that the vaccine waning could be assessed.The findings suggest that whooping cough control measures may need to be reconsidered. Prevention of future outbreaks may be best achieved by developing new pertussis-containing vaccines or reformulating current vaccines to provide long-lasting immunity, said Nicola Klein, lead author of the study.In the study, researchers compared 277 children, aged four to 12 and who were positive for whooping cough, with 3,318 children who were negative for pertussis and separately with 6,086 matched controls.They assessed the risk of pertussis in children from 2006 to 2011 in California relative to the time since the fifth dose of DTaP. The researchers found that protection from pertussis after the fifth dose of DTaP vaccine wanes more than 40 percent each year.The amount of protection remaining after five years depends heavily on the initial effectiveness of the fifth dose of DTaP, according to Klein.

GB Assembly passes resolution for province Posted: Member Assembly Muhammad Ayyub Shah moved a requisition in the Assembly which approved it by 31 out of 33 members.On the occasion, Chief Minister Gilgit-Biltistan Syed Mehdi Shah said that the resolution would remove the depreciations of the area people who have been falling victim to atrocities for 65 years.According to sources, a delegation led by CM Mehdi Shah would also hold a meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari for further strategy in this regard.

Punjab govt spent Rs70b on a single road: Imran Posted: While addressing a ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf chairman said that the PTI would form government in the next general elections.He said that the PTI is not dependent on its candidates; it doesn’t bother a worker is leaving the party, adding that the activist who likes to leave the party, he has freedom to do so.“Participation of more than 10 million workers in our party is tantamount to a revolution”, said the party chairman.He said that criticism is a good thing as it evaluates the importance of the party.

Fire issue: SHC issues notices to IG, DG rangers, others Posted: A petition was filed in the SHC over the horrific fire following which notices were issued to Secretary Labour, Municipal Commissioner, Deputy Attorney General, IG Sindh Police, DG Rangers and the Building Control Authority.Petitioner Nadeem Sheikh filed the application for negligence by authorities.The SHC Chief Justice Mushir Alam has also summoned the plan of the factory from the Building Control authority within ten days.Two-member committee comprising Deputy Commissioner west and Director Labor has also been formed to conduct an inquiry into the matter. The Minister for Interior also has included the name of factory owners in ECL.The KESCO has announced to waive off electricity bills of the affectees for six months while due charges of dead ones has been waved off as a whole.On the other hand, the MQM has announced to mourn the heartbreaking tragedy for three days and has demanded to conduct a high level inquiry in this regard.Save Sindh Committee also has announced to mourn for one day.

5 including 3 PPP workers fall prey to Karachi violence Posted: A man was shot dead in Lyari Kalri area of Karachi while a mutilated dead body of a man namely Sarwar was found from Juma Goth area of Malir.In another incident, three workers of Pakistan People’s Party were killed in firing on a car near the office of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education.According to police, the victims were identified as Meraj Khattak, Waseem Rasool and Sultan Beig.Secretary Information PPP Sindh Waqar Mehdi said that the workers fall prey to target killing. He said that the incident was a conspiracy to sabotage peace in the city.

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