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- 11 gunned down in Karachi violence
- Oil prices dive in late-session trade
- Euro slips vs dollar after hitting 4-month high
- NRO Case: PM Ashraf to appear before SC today
- President, PM chair meeting of allied parties
- LB polls: PPP chalk out strategy to pressurize Punjab govt
- Karachi: Killing of JI leader condemned
- 2 jets at JFK airport searched after bogus threats
- Pakistan blocks YouTube over anti-Islam film
- Armadillo unveiled as mascot of 2014 World Cup
- World Twenty20 to get under way in Sri Lanka today
- Lahore: Heavy rain inundates low-lying areas
- Two killed as anti-US rallies held across country
- England beat Australia in WT20 warm-up
- Nigerian military kills 2 radical sect leaders
| 11 gunned down in Karachi violence Posted: Target killing continues in Karachi as 11 more people, including a Jamaat-i-Islami leader and a former first class cricketer, were killed in incidents of firing and violence.According to details, Jamaat-i-Islami leader and former Nazim of Liquatabad Dr Pervez Mahmood’s car came under unidentified persons firing near KDA. Former first class cricketer Khaleeq Ullah was also travelling in the car. According to police, both of them died on the spot.In another incident of violence, dead bodies, packed in gunny bags, of four friends, including Nasir alias Baba, Umar, Zafar were recovered from different localities of the city. They were abducted from Zoo in the morning.A man was shot dead in firing incident in Napier area. The deceased was identified as Nasir. In yet another incident of violence, police recovered bodies of a woman and her daughter from a residential apartment in Gulshan Iqbal.In Kallari, a man named Janan Khan was shot dead while Farhan was killed in Shah Faisal Colony. Meanwhile, Dr Shahzad was killed in firing incident at Iqbal Market in Orangi Town.
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| Oil prices dive in late-session trade Posted: Crude oil prices dived on Monday amid market speculation that the Obama administration would release strategic supplies to lower gasolines prices ahead of the November 6 election.Late in the New York Mercantile Exchange trading session, West Texas Intermediate (WTI), or light sweet crude, for October delivery tumbled by $4.35 a barrel from Fridays close.The benchmark WTI contract recovered to settle $2.38 lower at $96.62 a barrel.In London trade, Brent North Sea crude for delivery in November ended down $3.23 to close at $113.79, after falling by as much as $11.50 from Friday.Analysts scrambled to explain Mondays dramatic plunge.The weakness in crude oil has been attributed to a number of factors, including rumors of a strategic oil reserve release (which have since been denied by the White House), along with chatter of a potential fat-finger trade, in combination with light volume and a break of technical levels, Briefing.com analysts said in a client note.The market chatter on strategic petroleum reserves came as President Barack Obama faces a tight re-election race against Republican rival Mitt Romney, with the flagging economy at the top of voter concerns.I think the SPR is on the tongue of everybody at the White House, said Rich Ilczyszyn, chief market strategist at iiTrader.com.Traders on the floor do not want to buy crude at $90 because they are worried about that sucker punch of a SPR release that would hammer prices, he said.But Tim Evans at Citi Futures took a broader view of the sudden price drop.We think this was profit taking run amok by market bulls who became dissatisfied with the minor gains registered since the FOMC announcement on Thursday and recent protests around the Middle East, Evans said.Oil prices had surged on Friday to their highest levels since early May after the Federal Open Market Committee unveiled the plan to boost economic growth in the worlds largest crude-consuming nation.
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| Euro slips vs dollar after hitting 4-month high Posted: The euro has been gaining against the dollar since the Federal Reserve said Thursday that it will launch another round of bond purchases to help boost the U.S. economy. Those purchases push interest rates lower and can weaken the dollar.With no economic data released on Monday, traders are awaiting this weeks housing and jobs data to see how the U.S. economy is doing.The euro slipped to $1.3107 late Monday from $1.3117 late Friday. The euro rose as high as $1.3171 early Monday, its highest point against the dollar since May.The British pound rose to $1.6241 from $1.6223.The dollar rose to 78.74 Japanese yen from 78.30 Japanese yen, to 0.9282 Swiss franc from 0.9274 Swiss franc and to 97.55 Canadian cents from 97.02 Canadian cents.
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| NRO Case: PM Ashraf to appear before SC today Posted: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf will appear before the Supreme Court today (Tuesday) in controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) implementation case.A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Asif Khosa, will resume hearing of the case at 9:30an at Court No 4.During last hearing on August 27, a five-judge bench headed by Justice Asif Khosa asked Raja Ashraf to reappear before the court on September 18 as the Prime Minster sought time to visit China.Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf would be accompanied by federal ministers of PPP besides leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Awami National Party (ANP).The Supreme Court last month issued a contempt notice to Prime Minister Ashraf for not implementing its order of writing a letter to the Swiss authorities to reopen a money-laundering case against President Zardari.PM Ashraf will be asked again by the court to write letter to Swiss authorities and in case of refusal he will be indicted.Tight security arrangements have been made for Prime Minister’s appearance in the Court and entry in the premises of the Supreme Court will be through special passes issued for the purpose.
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| President, PM chair meeting of allied parties Posted: Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf will appear before the Supreme Court today (Tuesday). This was decided in a high-level meeting held at the Presidency on Monday.A meeting of the heads of allied parties was held here at the Aiwan-e-Sadr on Monday night with President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in the chair.The meeting decided that Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf will appear before the Supreme Court today (Tuesday).The meeting was attended among others by Deputy Prime Minister, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed and Basharat Raja of PML(Q), Asfandyar Wali Khan and Senator Afrasiab Khattak of ANP, Dr. Farooq Sattar and Senator Babar Khan Ghouri of MQM, Senator Mir Israrullah Khan Zehri of BNP, Hameedullah Jan Afridi, Munir Khan Orakzai and Senator Abbas Khan Afridi of FATA.Former Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, Law Minister, Senator Farook H. Naek, Minister for Water and Power, Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar, Ms. Mehreen Anwar Raja and spokesperson to the President, Senator Farhatullah Babar were also present during the meeting.Briefing about the meeting, spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar said that current situation with focus on energy issues, floods situation, law and order situation and coalition matters were discussed during the meeting.The Prime Minister briefed the meeting on the current power situation in the country and the progress on various measures being taken to overcome the power shortage in the country. The meeting was informed that the various immediate steps undertaken by the government have resulted in steadily improving the power situation and expressed the hope that with the rising water levels in reservoirs as a result of recent rains, the power generation will further improve. The President directed for vigorous steps to address the power issue.The meeting was also updated on the latest floods situation in various parts of the country and the steps taken for the relief and rehabilitation of floods and rain affectees. The meeting expressed sympathies with the victims of floods and torrential rains in the country.The spokesperson said that the meeting condemned the anti- Islam film and called it an act of grave provocation.The spokesperson said that the Prime Minister also briefed the meeting of coalition parties about his recent visit to China and bilateral meetings with Chinese leadership and world leaders on the sidelines of World Economic Forum.Participants of the meeting prayed for the victims of fire incidents in Lahore and Karachi and expressed sympathies with the bereaved families.The spokesperson said that Law Minister, Mr. Farook H Naek briefed the meeting on the status of various court cases.Senator Farhatullah Babar informed that Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf will appear before the Supreme Court today (Tuesday) and the coalition partners, he said, decided to accompany the Prime Minister to the Supreme Court as a mark of solidarity.The spokesperson said that coalition partners reiterated their full support to the government.The President also hosted dinner for the heads of allied parties.
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| LB polls: PPP chalk out strategy to pressurize Punjab govt Posted: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has convened meetings of former Nazimz at different divisional headquarters of Punjab to put pressure on Punjab government for holding local bodies polls.The first convention in this regard will be held in Lahore on September 30. The PPP leadership is of the view that the Punjab government is refusing to hold local government polls to use its funds during the upcoming general elections.
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| Karachi: Killing of JI leader condemned Posted: In his statement, Ameer, Jamaat-i-Islami, Pakistan, Syed Munawwar Hasan said that Dr Pervez Mahmood has rendered great services during his tenure as Town Nazim which cannot be forgotten. He said that the killers are roaming free in the city but no one is taking any action against them.Jamaat-i-Islami leader Naimat Ullah Khan said that police failed to provide protection to Dr Pervez despite the fact that they knew about the death plot.Ijaz Durrani, a spokesman of Bilawal House, also condemned the killing of Dr Pervez. In his statement he termed the killing of JI leader an attempt to fan violence in Karachi.He said that Pakistan People’s Party strongly condemns the killing of Dr Pervez Mahmood.
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| 2 jets at JFK airport searched after bogus threats Posted: Authorities say two commercial passenger jets have been searched at John F. Kennedy International Airport because of an anonymous phone call claiming explosives were on them. They say no explosives have been found.Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Ron Marsico says Port Authority police received the threats regarding Finnair Flight 5 from Helsinki and American Airlines Flight 24 from San Francisco on Monday afternoon.Both planes landed without incident and were immediately searched. Police say both flights have been cleared.The Port Authority says there was minimal impact on other flights going in and out of JFK.Earlier this month, Philadelphia police aborted a Dallas-bound flight after someone called to report explosives. They blame the call on a man angry at his girlfriends ex-boyfriend.
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| Pakistan blocks YouTube over anti-Islam film Posted: Pakistan blocked access to YouTube on Monday after the video sharing website failed to take down an anti-Islam film that has sparked furious protests across the Muslim world.Attempts to access YouTube met with a message saying the website had been classed as containing indecent material and was blocked on the orders of the Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA).The ban was ordered by Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf after YouTube refused to heed to the advice of the government of Pakistan to remove blasphemous film from its site, a statement from his office said.The movie entitled Innocence of Muslims, believed to have been produced by a small group of extremist Christians, has sparked a week of furious protests outside US embassies and other American symbols in Pakistan and at least 20 countries.
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| Armadillo unveiled as mascot of 2014 World Cup Posted: The mascot of the 2014 World Cup is a yet to-be-named Brazilian endangered armadillo.FIFA said Brazilians will have until mid-November to choose the mascots name from three choices Amijubi, Fuleco and Zuzeco. The mascots announcement was made Sunday on a television show with the participation of former Brazil star Ronaldo.Im delighted to welcome such an important member to the 2014 team, Ronaldo said. The mascot will play a key ambassadorial role in the next two years. Im sure he will inspire many young football fans in Brazil and all over the world with the great passion which he has for the sport and for his country.The three-banded armadillo, which is in danger of extinction, rolls up into the shape of a ball when threatened and is commonly found in northeastern Brazil.The mascot carries the colors of the Brazilian flag. It is yellow, with green shorts and a blue shell and tail. It is dressed in a white shirt with the words Brazil 2014 written on it.The fact that the three-banded armadillo is a vulnerable species is very fitting, FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke said in a statement. One of the key objectives through the 2014 FIFA World Cup is to use the event as a platform to communicate the importance of the environment and ecology.FIFA said Amijubi is a representation of friendliness and joy, while Fuleco and Zuzeco are linked to an ecological message.Footballs governing body said the three options were picked after a vote by a high-profile judging committee in Brazil, including former Ronaldo teammate Bebeto.The mascot of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was a leopard, an animal commonly found in that country. It was yellow and green the South African colors and was called Zakumi. In 2006 in Germany, the mascot was a lion called Goleo.The first time a mascot was introduced at the World Cup was in 1966 in England a lion dressed in the Union Jack flag and named Willie.Other World Cup mascots included a boy called Juanito in Mexico in 1970, an orange named Naranjito in Spain in 1982, a dog called Striker in the United States in 1994 and a rooster named Footix in France in 1998.
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| World Twenty20 to get under way in Sri Lanka today Posted: Hosts Sri Lanka open crickets World Twenty20 against Zimbabwe Tuesday, kicking off the countrys biggest ever sports event -- and just three years after the end of a bloody civil war.Mahela Jayawardenes men will take the field in Hambantota, the southeastern home town of President Mahinda Rajapakse, with hopes high they can end a 16-year wait for their second global title in front of their cricket-obsessed fans.The match, at 7:30 pm (1400 GMT), starts a three-week cricket fiesta involving 12 teams in coastal Hambantota, hill town Pallekele and the capital Colombo, where the fourth World Twenty20 champions will be crowned on October 7.The tournament offers the Teardrop Island the chance to showcase its lush landscapes, beaches and temples, and turn the page on the 37-year ethnic conflict that claimed up to 100,000 lives.In 2009, Rajapakses government declared victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels, a group notorious for suicide bombings. The brutal final offensive prompted a UN Human Rights Council resolution against Sri Lanka earlier this year.The T20 World Cup programme will provide an excellent platform to endorse the new Sri Lanka brand during the next three weeks, said Nivard Cabraal, the central bank governor.I am confident that this trend will continue in the future, and those so-called international calls for (war crimes) investigation will fade away, he told AFP.Sri Lanka start the tournament as marginal favourites, although predictions are notoriously difficult in crickets shortest format, which has revolutionised the sport and divided opinion since its introduction in 2003.Home advantage will help the hosts, who have a well-balanced side including the newly crowned cricketer of the year, wicketkeeper-batsman Kumar Sangakkara.Sri Lanka won the 50-over World Cup in 1996 and have reached the tournaments two most recent finals, along with the 2009 World Twenty20 title match which they lost to Pakistan.Lots of people have asked us why we have choked in the finals, skipper Jayawardene said. Id rather be in that situation than being knocked out in earlier rounds.Defending champions England arrive with a youthful squad shorn of star batsman Kevin Pietersen, who is in international exile after a sequence of bust-ups with team management.South Africa, the number one Test team, are seeking their first ever limited-overs world title, while the powerful West Indies would be a popular winner. The World Twenty20 is the one major trophy to elude Australia.India, schooled in Twenty20 cricket in the lucrative Indian Premier League, won the inaugural event in 2007, while mercurial Pakistan will hope to reprise their 2009 title run.The teams have been divided into four pools of three for the preliminary league, with the top two from each advancing to the Super Eights round.If the seedings go to plan, fans can expect exciting cricket in the Super Eights -- a week-long race to the semis and final.England, the West Indies, Sri Lanka and New Zealand are seeded to meet in group one of the Super Eights, with the top two teams making it to the semi-finals.Group two is already being billed as the Group of Death, with arch-rivals India and Pakistan seeded to face Australia and South Africa.
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| Lahore: Heavy rain inundates low-lying areas Posted: The city roads gave a look of canals after heavy rain which started on Monday evening. Several roads in the city, including Davis Road, Jail Road, Abbot Road, McLeod Road, Nisbat Road, were submerged under three to four feet of rainwater.Dozens of motorcycles and cars were trapped on flooded roads and people faced hardship in reaching their homes.
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| Two killed as anti-US rallies held across country Posted: Thousands took to the streets in towns and cities across the country to vent their fury at the film, Innocence of Muslims, which mocks the Prophet Mohammad, burning American flags and effigies of US President Barack Obama.About 800 people demonstrated in the northwestern town of Warai, in Upper Dir district, setting fire to a magistrates house and the local press club before a protester was killed in an exchange of gunfire with police.Another demonstrator died on Monday afternoon after being shot in the head during clashes with police near the US consulate in Karachi on Sunday, a hospital official said.Up to 3,000 university students, teachers and employees marched in Peshawar, the main city of the militant-plagued northwest, chanting anti-US slogans and demanding a ban on the Innocence of Muslims movie.In the eastern city of Lahore, around 500 angry protesters tried to reach the US consulate on Monday evening but were dispersed by police with tear gas.The low-budget film, thought to have been produced by a small group of Christian extremists in the United States, has sparked violent anti-American protests across the Islamic world.The American embassy in Islamabad was closed on Monday because of the risk of demonstrations near the mission, and diplomats have been banned from all but essential travel throughout the country.During the protest in Warai earlier, officers had baton-charged protesters and fired tear gas to try to disperse them, Mohammad Irshad, a senior local government official in Upper Dir, told AFP.Ihsanullah Khan, police chief for Upper Dir, which is adjacent to a former Taliban stronghold crushed in 2009, said 22 protesters had been arrested and the situation was under control.Hundreds of students protested in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan, with caricatures of Obama placed on a donkey as a gesture of humiliation.At another protest in Peshawar, some 350 activists from Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba, a student wing of the hardline Sunni party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), blocked a main road by setting fire to tyres and burning a US flag, an AFP reporter said.In the port city of Karachi, up to 100 youths from JI rallied, trying to reach the American consulate before being dispersed by police with tear gas.A total of 19 people have now died in violence linked to the film, including the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans killed in the Libyan city of Benghazi last week.
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| England beat Australia in WT20 warm-up Posted: Defending champions England made 172-6, opener Alex Hales top-scoring with 52 from 38 balls, including seven fours.Mike Hussey looked like he might lead his side to victory but he was dismissed for 71 in the 17th over and Australia finished on 163-6.It was Englands fifth successive win over Australia this year after a 4-0 one-day series victory in the summer.England have another warm-up match against Pakistan on Wednesday before their tournament opener against Afghanistan on Friday.Nottinghamshire batsman Hales got England off to a solid start while Luke Wright (35) and Eoin Morgan (30) also weighed in at the top of the order.Aussie opener Shane Watson made 37 in reply and put on 74 with Hussey, who hit Hampshire spinner Danny Briggs for three consecutive sixes and hit five sixes in all.But England skipper Stuart Broad dismissed Hussey lbw and the Australia lower order were not able to maintain the momentum.Steve Finn (2-26) and Graeme Swann (1-21) were the pick of the England bowlers.Its a great way to start the warm-up to this tournament, and we also had that good win against South Africa in Birmingham last week , said Hales.Its nice to get some runs under your belt in the first warm-up game, he added. It is a very different challenge to what were used to in England, but I think the deck was a lot better than everyone expected.
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| Nigerian military kills 2 radical sect leaders Posted: The dead included the spokesman for the sect known as Boko Haram, as well as a commander who operates in Kogi state south of Nigerias capital, the official said.The killings could prove to be a boon to Nigerias security forces, which remain largely unable to stop guerrilla attacks and bombings by the sect, which killed another 13 people this weekend alone, authorities said.The shooting occurred Monday morning in Mariri, a town to the southeast of Kano, the largest city in Nigerias Muslim north.There, soldiers stopped a vehicle with the sect spokesman, the commander, the spokesmans wife and their children, the official said. It is unclear what happened next, though the official said soldiers shot dead both the commander and the spokesman.The wife and children remain in military custody, the official said.The wife told soldiers the men had accompanied her to Kano where she sought medical help, the official said.The official spoke on condition of anonymity as the information was not to be made immediately public Monday. Lt. Iweha Ikedichi, a military spokesman in the region, later told journalists that soldiers had only killed one man, the Boko Haram spokesman. However, the official who spoke to The Associated Press had been at the checkpoint and offered further details about the scene.Government officials may be hesitating as they previously claimed in February to have arrested the sects spokesman, who uses the nom de guerre Abul Qaqa when speaking to journalists. Only days afterward, a spokesman using the same name told journalists: We are waxing stronger by the day despite the arrest of some of our top members. The sect also threatened journalists who previously reported on the governments claim without mentioning Boko Harams denial.The sect, whose name means Western education is sacrilege in the Hausa language of Nigerias north, has been waging an increasingly bloody fight against the nations government. More than 680 people have died in drive-by killings and bombings blamed on Boko Haram this year alone, according to a count by The Associated Press. The sect has demanded the release of all its captive members and has called for strict Shariah law to be implemented across the entire country.The killing of members of the sects senior leadership comes as the group recently changed some of its tactics and attacked more than 30 mobile phone towers throughout northern Nigeria, disrupting communications in a nation reliant on cellular phones.Meanwhile, Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the sect who occasionally appears in videos posted to the Internet, remains at large. Security officials and experts believe he and other Boko Haram members are hiding somewhere in the neighboring countries of Cameroon, Chad or Niger.The U.S. in June placed financial sanctions on Shekau and two other high-ranking Boko Haram members, though it remains unclear whether the group has any assets in America or use banks there. American officials also have said Boko Haram has loose ties with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and the Somali terrorist organization al-Shabab.The groups attacks also raised ethnic and religious tensions in Nigeria, a nation of more than 160 million people largely split between a Christian south and a Muslim north.This weekend, killings blamed on Boko Haram continued. In Kano, police said a security agent and three of his family members were shot dead Sunday by sect members. Gunmen attacked a suburb Sunday on the outskirts of Bauchi, killing eight people who were playing poker, state police commissioner Muhammad Ladan said.Assailants also shot dead a respected moderate Muslim cleric in Maiduguri, the northeastern city thats the sects spiritual home, authorities said.Long flight delays soar in July The number of long flight delays in July was more than previous eight months combined.Twenty eight planes were stuck on the ground at U.S. airports for more than three hours that month, the height of the summer travel season. Eighteen of those planes were operated by U.S. carriers.Sixteen of the U.S. flights were going in or out of Chicago OHare on July 13, a day of severe thunderstorms. All of the longest delays were on regional carriers that operate smaller jets for larger airlines.There was only one international flight that sat on the ground for more than four hours, and its susceptible to a big fine. Caribbean Airlines flight 526 from Georgetown, Guyana to New Yorks JFK Airport sat on the ground for four hours and three minutes. U.S. and international airlines can be fined up to $27,500 per passenger if a flight is stuck for more than three hours.The last time there were more three hour delays in a single month was October 2011. There was just one long delay last July.Overall, flights were less on-time in July than they were in both June 2012 and July 2011. United Airlines, which has a base in Chicago, had the worst on-time rate. US Airways had the best on-time rate for a network carrier, but Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines topped the overall list.As more flights were stuck and passengers grew frustrated, they complained much more. The Department of Transportation received just under 2,500 complaints in July, almost double a year earlier and up 50 percent from June.They also had more reason to complain about lost or damaged bags. The mishandled baggage rate fell from a year earlier but was up from June.
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