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• Karachi: Violence claims 4 more lives
• Eid-ul-Azha to be celebrated today
• Romney hopes to shift focus back to weak economy
• Sandy pounds Bahamas after killing 40 in Caribbean
• Car bomb explosion, gunmen kill 4 people in Iraq
• Oil prices rise on US growth, Hurricane Sandy
• Federer, Del Potro on course for Basel final clash
• Ferrer beats Almagro at Valencia, makes semifinals
• Cycling: Armstrong's Tour victories to have no winner
• ISI created IJI against Benazir Bhutto
• Pak Army recovers 3 more bodies from Giyari sector: ISPR
• Hong Kong Super Sixes kicks off today
• PCB retains Misbah and Hafeez as Test, ODI and T20 captain
• Pakistan Premier League in March next year: Zaka Ashraf
• Sydney Sixers reach Champions League final

Karachi: Violence claims 4 more lives Posted: Incidents of violence and target killing continued in Karachi and four people were killed in different localities of the city.According to details, some unidentified miscreants riding on motorcycles opened fire and killed a man named Imran in Orangi Town.In a separate development in the same locality, two dacoits were shot dead by resident when they were robbing a man named Sultan. According to police, one of the dacoits was identified as Muna Dacate alias ‘one two five’.In Sohrab Goth, police arrested two accused including an injured dacoit after an encounter. Police have also claimed to recover arms from the accused.Meanwhile, a man who was wounded in firing incident in Shadman Town area succumbed to his injuries in hospital.

Eid-ul-Azha to be celebrated today Posted: Eid-ul-Azha is being celebrated today (Saturday) in commemoration of the supreme sacrifice offered by Hazrat Ibrahim and his son Hazrat Ismail in the fulfillment of the divine order.Special prayers will be offered for the prosperity of the country and unity among the Muslim Ummah. It will be followed by offering sacrifices of animals by the faithful in accordance with the Sunnat-e-Ibrahimi.The main Eid congregation in the federal capital will be held at the Faisal Mosque. Eid congregations will also be held in cities, towns and villages across the country.

Romney hopes to shift focus back to weak economy Posted: Presidential candidate Mitt Romney wanted to keep voters focused on the U.S. economy Friday instead of a fellow Republicans comments that pregnancy caused by rape is something God intended.With President Barack Obama spending the day at the White House after a two-day dash across eight battleground states that will determine the tight election, Romney planned what he called a major speech on the economy, the top issue among voters with less than two weeks left before Nov. 6.Romney, however, faced questions about the remarks of Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock and new questions about his role in a key supporters divorce. Court documents released Thursday revealed that Romney created a special class of company stock for Staples founder Tom Stembergs then-wife as a favor. Romney uses his equity capital firm Bains involvement in the creation of the office supply company to show off his business skills.Romney has tried to ignore both lines of attack, instead accusing Obama of playing partisan politics in an incredibly shrinking campaign.Opinion polls show Obama and Romney tied nationally. A new Associated Press-GfK poll of likely voters had Romney up 47 percent to 45 percent, a result within the polls margin of sampling error.The presidential contest has crossed the $2 billion fundraising mark, putting the election on track to be the costliest in history. Its being fueled by a campaign finance system vastly altered by the new proliferation of independent political action committees that are bankrolling TV ads in closely contested statesRomney was to deliver his speech on the economy in the battleground state of Iowa. Instead of more spending, more borrowing from China and higher taxes from Washington, well renew our faith in the power of free people pursuing their dreams, Romney says in excerpts his campaign released before the speech. He argues that Obama has no proposals that can meet the challenges of the times.The government on Friday said U.S. economic growth improved to a slightly faster 2 percent rate in the third quarter, but Romney called that discouraging and said he could do better.Tepid growth has given Romney an opening to challenge Obamas assessment that the economy is moving in the right direction. While Romney is seen by voters as better qualified to handle the economy recovery, recent polling shows Americans are increasingly positive about the direction of the country.Obama returned to Washington late Thursday after a 40-hour, coast-to-coast tour of eight battleground states. On Friday, he will reach out to key constituencies in an MTV interview aimed at rallying the youth vote and an interview with American Urban Radio Networks, which has a largely black audience.The U.S. presidential race is not decided by popular vote but on a state-by-state basis. The outcome depends on nine of the 50 U.S. states Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado that do not reliably vote Democrat or Republican.Obama on Thursday intensified pressure on Romney to break ties with Mourdock over the candidates remarks on abortion.The comments offered the Obama campaign a new opportunity to highlight differences with Romney on an issue important to women. The president had long enjoyed an edge with that voting bloc, but a recent Associated Press-GfK poll found Romney had erased the presidents 16-point advantage among female likely voters.Obama advisers insist theyve lost no ground with women, but their eagerness to highlight Romneys connections to Mourdock showed a degree of nervousness within the campaign.With the candidates virtually tied in national polling, a significant lead among women voters could tip the balance.

Sandy pounds Bahamas after killing 40 in Caribbean Posted: Hurricane Sandy rolled out of the Bahamas on Friday after causing 40 deaths across the Caribbean, churning toward the U.S. East Coast, where it threatens to join forces with winter weather fronts to create a devastating super storm.The Category 1 hurricane toppled light posts, flooded roads and tore off tree branches as it charged through Cat Island and Eleuthera in the scattered archipelago, with authorities reporting one man killed, the British CEO of an investment bank.The death toll was still rising in impoverished Haiti, reaching 26 on Friday as word of disasters reached officials and rain continued to fall.Joseph Edgard Celestin, a spokesman for Haitis civil protection office, said some people died trying to cross storm-swollen rivers. While the storms center missed the country as it passed on Wednesday, Haitis ramshackle housing and denuded hillsides make it especially vulnerable to flood damage.Officials at a morgue in the western town of Grand Goave said a mudslide crashed through a wooden home on Thursday, killing 40-year-old Jacqueline Tatille and her four children, ranging in ages from 5 to 17.If the rain continues, for sure well have more people die, said morgue deputy Joseph Franck Laporte. The earth cannot hold the rain.Sandy was a Category 2 hurricane when it wreaked havoc in Cuba on Thursday, killing 11 people in eastern Santiago and Guantanamo provinces as its howling winds and rain destroyed thousands of houses and ripped off roofs. Authorities said it was Cubas deadliest storm since July 2005, when category 5 Hurricane Dennis killed 16 people and caused $2.4 billion in damage.Cuban authorities said the islands 11 dead included a 4-month-old boy who was crushed when his home collapsed and an 84-year-old man in Santiago province. Near the city of Guantanamo, the Communist Party daily Granma reported, two men were killed by falling trees.Sandy also killed a man in Jamaica on Wednesday when a boulder crashed through his house, and police in the Bahamas said a 66-year-old man died after falling from his roof in upscale Lyford Cay late Thursday while trying to repair a window shutter. Officials at Deltec Bank & Trust identified him as Timothy Fraser-Smith, who became CEO in June 2000.One death was reported in Puerto Rico. Police said a man in his 50s was swept away Friday by a swollen river in the southern town of Juana Diaz, where rain from Sandys outer bands has been steadily falling.On Friday afternoon, the hurricanes center was about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north-northeast of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas and 430 miles (695 kilometers) south-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. Sandy was moving north at 7 mph (11 kph) with maximum sustained winds near 75 mph (120 kph).

Car bomb explosion, gunmen kill 4 people in Iraq Posted: A car bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad and gunmen opened fire at a security checkpoint elsewhere in Iraq, leaving four people dead and eight wounded in attacks Friday.Violence has ebbed across Iraq, but insurgents frequently attack security forces and civilians in an attempt to undermine the countrys Shiite-led government.Fridays attacks came as Iraqis marked the first day of a major Muslim holiday, the Eid al-Adha, with traditional prayers. Ammar al-Hakim, a Shiite leader and the head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, led the prayers in the capital, Baghdad.The first attack took place in the early morning hours, when gunmen opened fire on a group of policemen at a checkpoint in Buhriz, about 60 kilometers (35 miles) north of Baghdad, police officers said. Two policemen were killed and two were wounded in the shooting in Buhriz, a former insurgent stronghold.Shortly after sunset, a car bomb exploded near a Shiite mosque in Mahaweel, killing two Shiite worshippers as they were leaving the mosque compound, police officials said. Six worshippers were wounded in the attack. Mahaweel is 56 kilometers (35 miles) south of Baghdad.Medics in nearby hospitals confirmed the casualties. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

Oil prices rise on US growth, Hurricane Sandy Posted: Oil prices closed higher Friday, lifted by better-than-expected US economic growth in the third quarter and worries about Hurricane Sandy churning toward the heavily populated US east coast.New Yorks main contract, light sweet crude for December settled at $86.28 a barrel, up 23 cents from Thursdays close.Meanwhile, Brent North Sea crude for delivery in December gained $1.06 at $109.55 a barrel in London trade.The US economy grew 2.0 percent at an annualized rate in the July-September quarter, accelerating from 1.3 percent in the second quarter, the Commerce Department reported.That was slightly above the 1.9 percent consensus estimate for gross domestic product growth, spurring hopes for better demand in the worlds biggest crude oil-consuming country.GDP has encouraged the market a little bit from previous levels, said Bill Baruch at iiTrader.In the global economic market, the fear for demand has kept the market underwater for the last two weeks, he added.Timothy Evans at Citi Futures pointed out the European macroeconomic outlook remained an offsetting drag on global performance, with the new high in Spanish unemployment underscoring the challenges there.Crude oil prices continue to remain under pressure, following the recent disappointing US earnings results and the tentative economic conditions in Greece and Spain, said Sucden Financial Research analyst Myrto Sokou.The market was keeping a close eye on Hurricane Sandy, which has left dozens dead as it barrels through the Caribbean.US National Hurricane Center forecasters said the storm was likely to make US landfall early Tuesday, anywhere from south of Delaware up through northern New England.The storm could hit a cluster of refineries along the Atlantic coast from Virginia all the way up to New Jersey, said John Kilduff at Again Capital, adding they may shutter operations as a precautionary measure.

Federer, Del Potro on course for Basel final clash Posted: Home hero Roger Federer won his 32nd match from his last 33 played at the Swiss Indoors on Friday, reaching the semi-finals in emphatic fashion over Benoit Paire, 6-2, 6-2.The 23-year-old French challenger knew he was in for the match of his life against the five-time tournament winner who was born in Basel.The force of the world number one and top seed was on full display in his 54-minute quarter-final rout of the outsider, a victory studded with seven aces and four breaks of serve.Federer will Saturday play another French opponent when he takes on fellow veteran Paul-Henri Mathieu, who reached his second semi-final since coming back in late January after a year away with a knee injury.Mathieu claimed his final-four spot with a 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/4) win over Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.Second seed Juan Martin del Potro struggled into the semi-finals by beating South African Kevin Anderson 3-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2, a day after qualifying for the year-ending ATP World Tour Finals.The Argentine will take a 4-1 lead into his match with French third seed Richard Gasquet, who kept alive his bid to secure one of the two remaining places in the eight-man event in London with a 6-2, 7-6 (7/5) defeat of sixth seed Mikhail Youzhny.Federer suffered his only recent defeat in Basel in 2009 when he lost the final to Novak Djokovic.But the Swiss was taking no chances in front of his sold-out public, sweeping the opening set against Paire in 29 minutes with two breaks.The second set was equally brief as Federer moved within two wins of his seventh trophy of the season.He broke Paires first two service games and sent down over a pair aces for a 5-1 lead before closing it out.Gasquet is also seeking one of two remaining spots in the London field, trailing three rivals as he stands adrift of compatriot Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Serb Janko Tipsarevic and Spains Nicolas Almagro.Of the three, Tsonga and Tipsarevic quit first-round matches due to injuries in Valencia while Almagro reached the quarter-finals but lost to David Ferrer on Friday.

Ferrer beats Almagro at Valencia, makes semifinals Posted: David Ferrer beat his Spanish Davis Cup teammate Nicolas Almagro 6-3, 7-5 on Friday to reach the semifinals of the Valencia Open.The fifth-ranked Ferrer was little troubled on the hard indoor surface as he improved to 12-0 against an opponent who will become his teammate next month in the Czech Republic when Spain looks to defend its Davis Cup title.Ferrer has won the Valencia title twice and has never lost to Almagro, a record that includes four encounters this season.Almagro had a triple-break chance in the sixth game of the second set but failed to turn it around as Ferrer held before breaking in the 11th game. Ferrer saved his fourth break point in the final game before clinching the win when Almagro hit long.Earlier, Jurgen Melzer and Alexandr Dolgopolov each won to set up their own semifinal match.Melzer, who hasnt dropped a set at the tournament, beat David Goffin of Belgium 7-6 (7), 6-4. The Austrian overcame a poor first serve, including seven double-faults.Dolgopolov defeated defending champion Marcel Granollers 6-0, 6-2. The Ukrainian was perfect on his first serve in the first set.It was for sure easier than expected. He was frustrated and he wasnt playing his best tennis, said the 21st-ranked Dolgopolov, who broke the Spaniard five times.I had no chance of coming back, said Granollers, who had reached the last two finals in Valencia.Granollers is expected to lead Spains doubles team in Prague.

Cycling: Armstrong's Tour victories to have no winner Posted: The 1999-2005 Tour de France races will have no winners attributed to them, embattled world cycling officials announced Friday, ordering doping-tainted icon Lance Armstrong to repay his prize money.The International Cycling Union (UCI) this week effectively erased Armstrong from the cycling history books when it decided not to appeal sanctions imposed on the American by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).A damning report by USADA last week concluded that Armstrong helped orchestrate the most sophisticated doping programme in the history of sport.An UCI management committee on Friday acknowledged that decisive action was needed in response to the report.Armstrong will now lose all of his results from 1998, the year he resumed racing after successfully battling cancer, and a year before the first of his seven consecutive yellow jersey wins from 1999-2005.With respect to Lance Armstrong and the implications of the USADA sanctions which it endorsed on Monday 22 October, the management committee decided not to award victories to any other rider or upgrade other placings in any of the affected events, the UCI said.The committee decided to apply this ruling from now on to any competitive sporting results disqualified due to doping for the period from 1998 to 2005, without prejudice to the statute of limitation.The UCI added: The committee also called on Armstrong and all other affected riders to return the prize money they had received.It is estimated that Armstrong earned prize money of 2.95 million euros for his Tour de France victories.The UCI justified its decision not to re-attribute podium spots on the Tour as a point of principle.The UCI management committee acknowledged that a cloud of suspicion would remain hanging over this dark period - but that while this might appear harsh for those who rode clean, they would understand there was little honour to be gained in reallocating places, it said.Tour de France organisers later pointed out that the UCIs decision reflected their own.This decision is entirely consistent with the wishes already expressed 10 days ago by the organisers of the event, said a brief statement.The UCI, whose president Pat McQuaid and predecessor Hein Verbruggen have come under increasing scrutiny over their stance on doping, also announced the establishment of an independent external commission to look into the various allegations made about UCI relating to the Armstrong affair.The committee agreed that part of the independent commissions remit would be to find ways to ensure that persons caught for doping were no longer able to take part in the sport, including as part of an entourage, it said.A report and recommendations from this commission are expected to be published no later than June 1, 2013.Pending those findings, the UCI froze its legal case for defamation against Irish journalist Paul Kimmage, the former Sunday Times reporter who accused the body of corruption.UCI is determined to turn around this painful episode in the history of our sport, McQuaid said.We will take whatever actions are deemed necessary by the independent commission and we will put cycling back on track.Today, cycling is a completely different sport from what it was in the period 1998-2005.Riders are now subject to the most innovative and effective anti-doping procedures and regulations in sport. Nevertheless, we have listened to the worlds reaction to the Lance Armstrong affair and have taken these additional decisive steps in response to the grave concerns raised.

ISI created IJI against Benazir Bhutto Posted: Talking to Dunya News, former interior secretary Roedad Khan said that ISI created IJI because Benazir government had become a security risk as it wanted to roll back Pakistan’s nuclear programme.He revealed that the ISI under guidance from Gen (retd) Hameed Gul created IJI to get rid of Benazir government.He said that the US was surprised at completion of nuclear programme during Ziaul Haq tenure.He further revealed the US and Gen (retd) Aslam Beg were involved in Bahawalpur C130 crash in which former Army Chief and President Ziaul Haq was killed. He said that US believed that they would have no role in Afghanistan if Gen Zia remained in power so they decided to remove this hurdle and Aslem Beg was also involved in this conspiracy.Answering another question, Roedad Khan said that establishment is afraid of Nawaz Sharif.Replying to another question, he said that judiciary is not a week institution and Pakistan Army will implement the verdicts issued by judiciary.

Pak Army recovers 3 more bodies from Giyari sector: ISPR Posted: A statement of Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) on Friday said that ninety-seven bodies have so far been recovered from the snow.An avalanche hit a Pakistani military base near the disputed Siachen Glacier region in April this year‚ trapping one hundred and forty soldiers and civilian contractors under deep snow, statement concluded.

Hong Kong Super Sixes kicks off today Posted: Hong Kong Super Sixes will kick off from Saturday (today) with defending champion Pakistan taking on Netherlands, Sri Lanka and India on the first day of the two-day event.Eight teams featuring in the event have been divided into two groups.The Group A comprises of host Hong Kong, Australia, South Africa and England while Pakistan, Netherlands, Sri Lanka and India have been placed in Group B.In the first match of the tournament, Pakistan will take on Netherlands at 9:15am before clashing with its arch-rivals India.The third and last match of the day will be between Pakistan and Sri Lanka.Pakistan is led by Kamran Akmal. Umar Akmal, Owaiz Zia, Hamad Azam, Yasir Shah, Junaid Khan and Tanvir Ahmed are also in the squad.The semi-finals and final will be played on Sunday.

PCB retains Misbah and Hafeez as Test, ODI and T20 captain Posted: The Pakistan Cricket Board has no immediate plans to make any changes in the national team management and Misbah-ul-Haq and Mohammad Hafeez will continue as captains of the Test, ODI and T20 teams respectively.A senior official of the board said PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf was satisfied with the work done by Hafeez as the national T20 captain and also had reposed confidence in Misbah as captain of the Test and ODI teams.There are no plans to make any changes in the team management and the same set up will continue for the tours to India and South Africa starting from December, the official said.

Pakistan Premier League in March next year: Zaka Ashraf Posted: The PCB is committed to launching its own domestic Twenty20 competition along the lines of the Indian Premier League next year despite Cricket South Africas (CSA) refusal to reschedule Pakistans forthcoming tour to the country.PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf on Friday said that the Pakistan Premier League (PPL) will be played in March 2013 and a request has already been made to the chief patron of the board, President Asif Ali Zardari to allow a five-year tax exemption for the event.There is a lot of foreign and local investment involved in holding this event and I have already requested the President to allow us the tax exemption as the Pakistan League will create job opportunities and will be good for our economy and image, said Ashraf.We just need a two-week window even though the Indian Premier League will also start from first week of April. We have already started groundwork for the project, he added.Ashraf returned from Dubai this morning after attending a series of meetings in connection with the PPL.He said the PPL will feature five franchises consisting of 30 international players, with six each in every team.We are targeting the big names of international cricket because their presence will boost the PPL and we are preparing a budget of millions for this.The Sialkot sports industry is keen to buy a franchise, someone like Mian Mansha is also ready to have his own franchise. The local and expatriate business community in the UAE also wants in, so we are well prepared for the event, he said.The PCB chief is keen on making the event an annual affair.We have our own mechanism to hold the PPL but I can say that we have taken inspiration from the IPL. May be, one day the PPL franchise can be part of the IPL as well, he said.The chairman said the tax exemption has been sought to make the Twenty20 league a financially successful model till it became self-reliant and to ensure the top players could be paid competitive sums for coming to Pakistan.He also hoped that the international cricket could be revived as early as next year following the successful staging of two exhibition matches in Karachi involving an International World XI and All Pakistan Star XI.For that to happen, Ashraf was committed towards providing best security measures to the overseas players.We have set up our own anti-vigilance and security divisions and we are also in close contact with the government as far as security arrangements for the tournament is concerned, he said.

Sydney Sixers reach Champions League final Posted: Australian outfit Sydney Sixers snatched a dramatic two-wicket victory over Titans Friday to set up a Champions League Twenty20 final against another South African side, Highveld Lions.Titans made 163-5 at their SuperSport Park home ground thanks to an unbeaten sixth-wicket partnership between middle-order David Wiese (61 not out) and opener Henry Davids (59 not out).Sixers reached 164-8 in reply with the winning run coming off the last ball and they face Lions at the Wanderers Sunday to see who succeeds Mumbai Indians as winners of the annual competition.While Sixers kept in touch with the required run rate, they started to lose wickets with worrying frequency and needed 19 off the last two overs with three wickets standing.Sydney had a lucky escape off the final ball of the penultimate over as Farhaan Behardien spilled an attempt to catch Pat Cummins, who had skied a stroke intended to clear long-off.The Australian outfit needed eight runs from the last over, but after a cheeky Ben Rohrer scoop earned two, he was out next ball, sending a mistimed shot straight to Roelef van der Merwe at mid-off.Tight bowling by CJ de Villiers kept Titans in a match that grew more tense with every ball and it came down to the final one with the visitors needing a run to win.And that is what the Sixers got as they scrambled a bye in a match that atoned for a far less dramatic first semi-final Thursday with the Lions defeating the Delhi Daredevils by 22 runs at Kingsmead in Durban.

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