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• Attack on Malala: Youm-e-Dua is being observed today
• CNG stations in Sindh to remain closed for 48 hours
• Pomegranates have positive effect in heart, liver ailment
• 450m world population has mental health disorders: WHO
• Mars rover's peek at rock turns up a curiosity
• At least 87 Syrian soldiers killed: NGO
• UK: 7 Marines arrested on suspicion of murder
• Hezbollah says sent Iranian-built drone over Israel
• Mo Yan of China wins Nobel Literature Prize
• UN aims to end child marriage by 2030
• 9/11 mastermind loses appeal to delay Monday hearing
• Pakistan vital for US interests in the region: Congressman Burton
• UN envoy Brown to visit Pakistan after Malala shooting
• Counter-terrorism cooperation with Pakistan important: US
• Azarenka, Ivanovic into Generali Ladies quarters

Attack on Malala: Youm-e-Dua is being observed today Posted: Nation is observing Youm-e-Dua today for early recovery of Malala Yusufzai who was seriously injured in terrorists attack in Sawat. One minute silence will also be observed at 12:00noon in this regard.Malala Yusufzai has been shifted to Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi. She is on ventilator in Children ITC.DG ISPR has said next 24 hours are important for the life of Malala. He said surgery has been done to lessen the swelling in her brain, adding best doctors of the world were treating Malala.

CNG stations in Sindh to remain closed for 48 hours Posted: According to the Sui Southern Gas Company’s gas load management programme, the CNG stations throughout Sindh, including Karachi, will remain closed for 48 hours from 9:00am on Friday to 9:00am on Sunday.According to a spokesman of the Sui Southern Gas Company, the supply to CNG station will remain shut for 48 hours due to decrease in gas supply from gas field.According to Gas Company, vigilance teams have been formed for monitoring of implementation of the decision. The violators would have to be deprived of availability of gas for 24 hours more as a penalty.

Pomegranates have positive effect in heart, liver ailment Posted: Pomegranates have long been hailed as a healthy food we should all be eating more of and new research indicates that it can have a positive effect of arterial health, blood pressure and moving fat cells away from the waist.The newly published paper in the Journal of Nutritional Science from researchers at Queen Margaret University (QMU) in Edinburgh finds that pomegranate juice consumption can have a beneficial effect on your diet.The peer-reviewed paper adds further weight to a body of clinical research that charts the health benefits associated with regular pomegranate juice consumption.Widely regarded as a superfood, pomegranate juice is packed with anti-oxidants and is also known to lower blood pressure, guard against heart and liver diseases and help fight certain types of cancer.

450m world population has mental health disorders: WHO Posted: Nearly 450 million people have mental health disorders and more than three-quarters live in developing countries.According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), eight in every 10 of those living in developing nations receive no treatment at all.There is very little funding for mental health innovations in low- and middle-income countries, where mental illness is the most neglected of many neglected diseases.

Mars rover's peek at rock turns up a curiosity Posted: The first rock nuzzled by NASAs Mars Curiosity rover is turning out to be a bit more unusual than scientists thought it would be.Curiosity used its robot arm to touch at a football-sized pyramid-shaped rock for the first time two weeks ago. It also shot the rock dozens of times with a laser.The results surprised scientists. They said Thursday that it is not like other rocks seen on Mars. It has more sodium and potassium.Scientist Edward Stolper said the rock is more like rare volcanic rocks seen on Earth in places like Hawaii. Those rocks are formed under high pressure, deep underground and once contained water.Scientists do not know how old the Martian rock is.

At least 87 Syrian soldiers killed: NGO Posted: At least 87 soldiers in the Syrian army have been killed in the days fighting -- the heaviest toll since the start of the conflict, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday.More than 70 percent of the deaths today are soldiers -- that shows the intensity of the fighting, said the Observatorys president, Rami Abdel Rahman.At least 210 people had been killed across the country Thursday, including 64 rebel fighters and 59 civilians, according to the latest Observatory toll.The group compiles its figures from a network of contacts on the ground.Of the soldiers killed Thursday, 36 of them died in fighting in the northeast province of Idlib, where much of the fiercest clashes have taken place over the last three months.Todays death added to an overall tally of more than 32,000 killed in the nearly 19-month conflict.

UK: 7 Marines arrested on suspicion of murder Posted: Seven Royal Marines have been arrested on suspicion of murder in relation to an incident in Afghanistan in 2011, Britains Ministry of Defense said Thursday.The defense ministry said that the incident followed an engagement with an insurgent and that no civilians were involved.It added that the seven were arrested Thursday by Royal Military Police, but did not name the marines. While the ministry said the marines were not arrested in Afghanistan, it would not specify where the arrests took place or give any further details on the alleged murder.The investigation will now be taken forward and dealt with by the Service Justice system, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement, adding that as with any serious incident of this nature, there will be an internal review to identify lessons learned.It is believed to be the first time U.K. servicemen have been arrested on suspicion of murder over events or incidents that took place in Afghanistan.Last year, a British soldier was jailed for stabbing a 10-year-old Afghan boy with a bayonet. The boy survived the incident, which happened in March 2010.Britain has 9,500 troops in Afghanistan the second largest foreign force after the United States based in the southern Helmand province.About 500 troops will leave this year, ahead of the withdrawal of all international forces at the end of 2014.

Hezbollah says sent Iranian-built drone over Israel Posted: The head of Lebanons Hezbollah boasted Thursday that his Shiite militant group sent a sophisticated unmanned drone over Israel last week, saying the device was built by the Jewish states archfoe Iran.Hassan Nasrallahs acknowledgement of the drone which Israel shot down on October 6 came shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed at Hezbollah and vowed to defend his country against further threats.A sophisticated reconnaissance aircraft was sent from Lebanese territory ... and travelled hundreds of kilometres (miles) over the sea before crossing enemy lines and into occupied Palestine, Nasrallah said on television.It overflew sensitive and important installations for dozens of kilometres until the enemy spotted it near (the nuclear site) Dimona, Nasrallah added on Hezbollahs television Al-Manar. He did not identify the installations.Nasrallah insisted that possession of such an aerial capacity is a first in the history of any resistance movement in Lebanon and the region.Its not the first time (that a drone was sent) and it will not be the last. We can reach all the zones of Israel, said Nasrallah, referring to a less sophisticated drone sent by Hezbollah during its 2006 war against Israel.He said the latest drone was Iranian built and assembled in Lebanon.An Israeli official questioned by AFP in Jerusalem said he was not surprised that the drone was made in Iran. The fact that Hezbollah weapons come from Iran does not surprise anyone, the official said on condition of anonymity.The Israeli premier earlier accused Hezbollah of launching the previously unidentified drone and vowed to protect Israeli borders against further intrusions.

Mo Yan of China wins Nobel Literature Prize Posted: Mo Yan, one of Chinas leading writers of the past half-century, on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for his writing that mixes folk tales, history and the contemporary, the Swedish Academy announced.At 57 he became the first Chinese national to win the prize, and the initial official reaction indicated it would be held up as a victory for China, in sharp contrast to Beijings angry response to the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for dissident Liu Xiaobo.Chinese-born writer, political dissident and exile Gao Xingian, who received French citizenship in 1997, won the Nobel Literature Prize in 2000 but it was ignored by the Chinese press at the time.Mo Yans works explore the brutality and darkness of 20th-century Chinese society with a cynical wit.He is perhaps best-known abroad for his 1987 novella Red Sorghum, a tale of the violence that plagued the eastern China countryside -- where he grew up -- during the 1920s and 30s.The story was later made into an acclaimed film by leading Chinese director Zhang Yimou.Through a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives, Mo Yan has created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition, the Swedish Academy said.Winning the Nobel prize has stunned me, as I always thought it was very distant for me, Mo Yan said in a recorded interview posted on the Nobel prize website.On hearing the news that I won the award, I was very happy, he was quoted as saying by the official China News Service.I will focus on creating new works. I will strive harder to thank everyone.AFP could not immediately reach Mo Yan, whose mobile phone was switched off.State media said he was at his home in rural Shandong province, where many of his works are set.The Nobel prize is often dismissed in China as Western-focused, but users of the countrys hugely popular microblogging services broadly welcomed the win as a triumph for Chinese literature.It was the most discussed topic on Weibo, Chinas version of Twitter, with almost three million web-users posting messages within two hours of the announcement.The Swedish Academy hailed Mo Yan, a pseudonym that means Dont speak, and whose real name is Guan Moye, for a body of work which, with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.The Academys permanent secretary, Peter Englund, said the Academy had spoken to Mo Yan by telephone and quoted him as saying he was overjoyed and terrified at being given the prize.Englund said his use of satire was important to be able to enjoy the dark sides in his work, describing it as both crude and sensual.There are things (in his books) that are among the most frightening things I have read, Englund told Swedens Aftonbladet TV.Mo Yan has published novels, short stories and essays on various topics, and despite his social criticism is seen in his homeland as one of the foremost contemporary authors, the Nobel committee noted.

UN aims to end child marriage by 2030 Posted: Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Thursday he is as committed to abolishing child marriage around the globe as he was to fighting apartheid in South Africa.Tutu made his remarks at the launch of UN campaign to end child marriage by 2030, in a bid to free girls from poverty, ignorance and oppression at the hands of their husbands.The UN Population Fund says about 37,000 girls under age 18 are being married off daily, at a pace rising toward 14.2 million a year by 2020, and 15.1 million a year by 2030, if the trend is not curbed.I give my commitment to work for the abolition of child marriage. That commitment is my dream, and I want it to be equal to the commitment that I had when I fought against apartheid, said Tutu who is one of the group of Elders who advise the UN and governments on social problems.The UN agency said the problem is mainly concentrated in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where girls as young as 5 or 6 are married off, but its study, Marrying Too Young, focused on the developing world, and did not include statistics on child marriage in China, Russia, Western Europe, Canada or the United States.The UN Population Funds executive director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, called for all nations to set a mandatory marriage age of 18.Many U.S. states allow children of 16 or 17 to marry with parental permission or a court order; some allow marriage at 15 or 14 in special circumstances.In South Asia, 46 percent of women aged 20-24 had married before they were 18, the UN study found. In Bangladesh, the rate was 66 percent.In sub-Saharan Africa, 37 percent of women aged 20-24 had married before they were 18, the study found. Niger had the highest rate, at 77 percent.Girls under 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s, and girls age 15-18 are twice as likely to die, the UN study found. The children of girl brides are 60 percent more likely to die by their first birthday than children with mothers over age 19.Let us help those who are already married to lead more fulfilling lives. All members of society will benefit when we let girls be girls, not brides, said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.By 2020, 142 million innocent young girls worldwide will be separated from their friends and family, deprived of an education and put in harms way because of child marriage, Ban said, adding that young girls are unable to safely bear pregnancies, and their newborns are at risk of low birth weight.In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took time out to observe the launch of the UNs first International Day of the Girl Child.

9/11 mastermind loses appeal to delay Monday hearing Posted: The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 terror attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has lost an appeal to delay his court appearance on Monday because of rats and mold, a defense lawyer told AFP.Judge James Pohls decision was still sealed Thursday, three days before the hearing in question, but lawyer James Connell said he had received word mid-afternoon local time.Khalid Sheikh Mohammeds emergency motion to delay October hearings -- due to defense offices deemed unsafe due to the presence of hazardous mold, rodents and rodent feces -- was denied, announced Connell, defense lawyer for one of the five men accused of plotting the September 11 attacks, the worst attacks on US soil.The new series of preliminary hearings in the trial of the five is scheduled to begin Monday on the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.The hearings had already been postponed so that the defendants could observe the holy month of Ramadan and then pushed back a day when a derailed freight train in the US state of Maryland caused an Internet outage at the base. They were then delayed again due to Tropical Storm Isaac.Mohammed is on trial along with his Pakistani nephew Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi; Mustapha al-Hawsawi of Saudi Arabia and Yemenis Ramzi Binalshibh and Walid bin Attash.The five face the death penalty if convicted for their roles in the 2001 attacks by Al Qaeda militants in which hijacked planes were used to strike New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing 2,976 people.

Pakistan vital for US interests in the region: Congressman Burton Posted: While addressing a discussion organized by the Pakistani-American League at the Capitol Hill Thursday, he said Pakistan was a friend and ally of the US for a long time, ever since the time of first Afghan war. There are some difference of opinion about why we should continue to support Pakistan, and cutting-off aid to some countries but we should look at the larger picture, he argued.Congressman Burton, Republican from Indiana and a member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, said that Pakistan was a nuclear power and the US had to deal with it in a different way. There is potential of conflict in the region, if we pull out, because India is also a nuclear power. Balance of power in the region is also important, he maintained.We have had strong differences with Pakistan, but there are reason for which we need to support them to ensure stability in the region, he said while calling himself a friend of Pakistan. I may not agree with everything that Pakistan does, but we need to look at areas where we can cooperate, he opined.On the issue of the controversial movie, he said that people came to US from all over the world for religious freedom and better opportunities. All countries deserve the same kind of liberties and religious tolerance, but this is not happening, he said while urging the importance to understand that the world is made up with different kinds of people with different views.He cautioned against the policy to send forces to other countries without looking at the possible consequences. Before US decides to enter any other country for changing the regime, it must look at the consequences in the future for the world, he said while giving the example of Arab spring that led to the killing of US ambassador to Libya.Nobody knows how Arab spring is going to turn out. My worry is that we dont have looked ahead where it will go, Burton stated adding that any action should first think about results and whether it will promote further radicalism. There is a great deal of concern because of what is going on in Iran, Egypt, Libya and other parts of the world, he said while cautioning that the US couldnt change the world according to its wishes overnight.Safia Ghouri -- from Special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Ambassador Marc Grossmans office -- said agreed that there had been issues in Pak-US relationship during the last couple of years. But we are now moving from problem-identification to problem-solving phase, she appreciated.She said that ordinary people coming out in support of Malala Yusufzai and against violence in Pakistan was very significant. We are in touch with the Pakistan government on this case and have offered any kind of medical or other treatment that we can extend for her well-being, she said. She also called the US administrations rejection of controversial movie as encouraging as it sent out a clear message.President of Pak-American League, Dr. Nisar Chaudhary, on the occasion, said that violence and killings should not happen because of senseless action of a few people. There is a need to bridge the gap between different faith and races as well as ideologies, he said adding that freedom of expression was in US constitution, but time had changed and efforts should be undertaken to stop acts like the blasphemous movie in future.Abdullah Wahab, Imam of Islamic Center in Washington, DC, in his remarks said that some people in the west had negative perspectives about Islam. Islam teaches tolerance. Many people claim to be part of the religion, but they dont understand religion, he regretted. Several members of the Pakistani-American community also attended the discussion.- Contributed by Awais Saleem, Dunya News correspondent in Washington, DC

UN envoy Brown to visit Pakistan after Malala shooting Posted: UN special education envoy Gordon Brown will visit Pakistan next month for talks with President Asif Ali Zardari after the shooting of a child activist by the Taliban, Browns office said Thursday.Brown, who was prime minister of Britain from 2007-2010, will lead a delegation that will discuss with the Pakistani government how to improve education opportunities for children.He said he was concerned about the shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai on a school bus in the Swat valley in northwest Pakistan, carried out by the Taliban in revenge for the girls campaign for the right to an education.I have asked Pakistans President Zardari to pledge that Malalas suffering will not be in vain, Brown said in a statement released by his office.In response, he has invited me to lead a delegation of education leaders to visit him in Pakistan in November to talk about how he can improve opportunities for children.Malala was airlifted to the countrys top military hospital for specialist treatment on Thursday and was still in a critical condition.Brown was appointed special global education envoy to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in July, following in the footsteps of former US president Bill Clinton and former UN secretary general Kofi Annan.

Counter-terrorism cooperation with Pakistan important: US Posted: The US Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Mike Hammer has urged the need for Pakistan and US to work together against extremists.We have keen interest in working with Pakistan on common challenges to combat extremism, he said adding that the US administration was looking at how it could cooperate with Pakistan on common areas.Secretary Clinton, he said, was herself involved in this process because both Pakistan and the US were threatened by terrorism. The only way to deal with it is to work together against militants, he asserted during a briefing at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, DC.The Assistant Secretary said that the US government was looking for joint mechanism and ways to act against extremists. It is important to work jointly with Pakistan on counter-terrorism areas through working groups and other available means, he argued.Speaking about the tragic attack on Malala Yusufzai, he said that Secretary Clinton had joined in the global condemnation of the terrorist attack on Malala. This attack in Pakistan was cowardly and barbaric by the terrorists, he regretted.Mike Hammer said that Malala only wanted education like so many other girls of the world. Education is the key to a better economic future and we are committed to advancing the rights of women and girls, he remarked.On the issue of Syria, he categorically said that President Bashar-ul-Assad had no future and had to leave power. We will continue to work with partners around the world to put more pressure on Assad to achieve this objective, he opined.He termed the killing of a diplomatic employee in Sanaa as a tragic incident and stressed that all security-related details were taken into account for safety of US officials and citizens serving overseas.He said Al Qaeda wanted to harm US interests, but the war against terror was putting them on a path of defeat. We have been very aggressive in pushing extremists and well continue to do so, he maintained.-Contributed by Awais Saleem, Dunya News correspondent in Washington, DC

Azarenka, Ivanovic into Generali Ladies quarters Posted: Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka and two-time former champion Ana Ivanovic had straight-set wins Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Generali Ladies.Azarenka beat Simona Halep of Romania 6-1, 6-1, and Ivanovic defeated Andrea Petkovic of Germany 6-4, 6-3.Azarenka dominated play from the baseline and hit 20 winners.My game was more fluent than in the first round, Azarenka said. My timing was better and I was less nervous. But I have to improve my serving as I had a couple of double faults.Azarenka, who has conceded only four games in two matches, will next play Petra Martic after the Croat defeated Patricia Mayr-Achleitner of Austria 6-2, 3-6, 6-0.Martic hit seven aces to reach her 10th career quarterfinal. Mayr-Achleitner won just five of 29 points in the deciding set.The second-seeded Ivanovic had to dig deep against Petkovic, who has dropped to 192nd following a persistent right ankle injury.The German rallied from an early break down in the second set to level at 3-3 before folding.It was very tough. She is such a good player and its good to see her back, Ivanovic said. I am getting more consistent now. Its all about confidence.Ivanovic, the 2008 and 2010 champion who has at least reached the quarterfinals all five times at the event, takes on Mallory Burdette of the United States or Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium.Bethanie Mattek-Sands reached her first quarterfinal of the season by defeating Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain 6-3, 6-3.The 201st-ranked American, who is battling her way back up the rankings after recent hip, back and left foot injuries, will face next face Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania.Begu lost in qualifying but replaced Anna Tatishvili of Georgia in the main draw, and beat Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands 6-4, 7-6 (7).

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