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- Karachi: Blast near Rangers Sachal Wing kills one
- 83 MNAs have yet to submit affidavits on nationality
- Altaf urges need for harmony among institutions
- Mian Iftikhar for crackdown against terrorists
- Djokovic fights back to beat old rival Murray
- Manchester United reach knockout stage
- Chelsea beat Shakhtar 3-2 with late Moses goal
- Barcelona lose 2-1 at Celtic in Champions League
- Bolivia returns ancient mummy to Peru
- Greek protests get violent ahead of austerity vote
- Caveman was not thick-skulled: study
- Sammy confident of West Indies preparation
- Swann returns home to be with ill daughter
- Marsh dismisses day/night Test concerns
- Anti-Muslim filmmaker jailed for year in jail
| Karachi: Blast near Rangers Sachal Wing kills one Posted: According to details, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive laden vehicle near the gate of Rangers Headquarters Sachal Wing in North Nazimabad, killing one person and wounding 13 others.The blast was so severe that portion of a nearby building collapsed and also caught fire. The window panes of nearby buildings were also broken.Law enforcement agencies have cordoned off the area. The security forces have also arrested a suspect from the scene.
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| 83 MNAs have yet to submit affidavits on nationality Posted: At least 83 members of National Assembly, including Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf and JUI chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, have yet to submit fresh affidavits on their nationality to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).The deadline for submission of affidavits expires on November 9.According to the ECP, 38 senators including Raza Rabbani, Jahangir Badr and Aitzaz Ahsan, 76 members of Sindh Assembly, 27 from Punjab Assembly, seven of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and one member of Balochistan Assembly have yet to submit their affidavits.
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| Altaf urges need for harmony among institutions Posted: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has said that all institutions should respect each other and work in unison within their constitutionally given mandate.He said that no individual or individuals will be allowed to tarnish Pakistan’s image as country is passing through most difficult time of its history.
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| Mian Iftikhar for crackdown against terrorists Posted: Addressing a reception in Peshawar, Minister for Information Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said that terrorists are targeting minors like Malala Yousufzai.He said that it is high time a crackdown on terrorists be launched against terrorists to save lives of innocent Pakistanis.
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| Djokovic fights back to beat old rival Murray Posted: Novak Djokovic won the latest installment of his thrilling rivalry with Andy Murray as the world number one fought back to secure a dramatic 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory in the ATP Tour Finals at Londons O2 Arena on Wednesday.Djokovic has a 100 percent record after two Group A matches at the season-ending event and will be guaranteed a place in the semi-finals if Frances Jo-Wilfried Tsonga defeats Czech fifth seed Tomas Berdych later on Wednesday.World number three Murray now needs to win his final group match against Tsonga on Friday to avoid an early exit after the US Open champion failed to take advantage of a promising start.Djokovic and Murray have been on-court rivals and off-court friends since the day they first faced off at an Under-12s tournament in the south of France.And, with Roger Federer approaching the end of his career and Rafael Nadal hampered by knee problems, their meetings have emerged as the sports most significant occasions.In 2012 alone they have clashed seven times, with Djokovic starting the year with victory in the Australian Open semi-finals and Murray getting his revenge with an Olympic last four win and then, even more significantly, a five-set triumph over the Serb to win his first Grand Slam title at the US Open.Djokovic won their most recent meeting in the Shanghai final after saving five match points and his self-preservation instincts helped him survive another epic showdown lasting two hours and 34 minutes.With their two Grand Slam meetings this year both timed at just short of five hours, Murray expected another gruelling clash against one of the few players who can match his stamina and defensive skills. He wasnt to be disappointed.The Scot tried to stamp his authority on the tie as quickly as possible and earned a break point in the first game which he took with a forehand winner on the run.Murray kept Djokovic at bay with some fine serving and, while he couldnt convert his first set point on the Serbs serve, he sealed the set at the second attempt in the next game.Djokovic was gradually finding his rhythm however and a lunging volley in the sixth game of the second set secured his first break point, which he converted, celebrating with a wild fist-pump when Murrays volley drifted long, before serving out the set.There was real power and purpose to Djokovics game now and he pounced on a rare loose service game from Murray to break for a 2-1 lead in the decider.But, with the finish line in sight, there was one final twist.Leading 4-3, Djokovic suddenly lost concentration and Murray, correctly challenging a crucial call on break point, seized his chance to draw level.That was the cue for the most intense period of the match as both players slugged it out in search of the knockout blow.It was Djokovic who delivered it, breaking for a 5-4 lead, then saving two break points and finally bringing to a close a decidedly heavyweight bout.
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| Manchester United reach knockout stage Posted: English giants Manchester United became the third side to reach the knockout stage of the Champions League this season after a come from behind 3-1 win over Portuguese opponents Braga.All the United goals came in the second-half through substitute Robin van Persie, a penalty from Wayne Rooney and Mexican star Javier Hernandez after Alan had given the hosts the lead early in the second-half from the penalty spot.United join 2004 champions Porto and debutants Malaga of Spain - who both qualified on Tuesday - in the last 16.
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| Chelsea beat Shakhtar 3-2 with late Moses goal Posted: Victor Moses headed home the winner four minutes into injury time to earn Chelsea a 3-2 victory over Shakhtar Donetsk, allowing the holders to move level on points with the Ukrainian side in Group E of the Champions League.Chelsea twice surrendered the lead in a frenetic match at Stamford Bridge, with Willian scoring both of Shakhtars goals in the ninth and 47th minutes to enhance his burgeoning reputation.Fernando Torres had scored Chelseas opener in the sixth and Oscar had reclaimed the lead for the hosts in the 40th with a stunning 45-yard shot, with goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov to blame for both goals.Substitute Moses had the last laugh as Chelsea finished strongly, heading in Matas cross with almost the last touch. Shakhtar is ahead on goal difference.
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| Barcelona lose 2-1 at Celtic in Champions League Posted: Celtic produced a stunning 2-1 victory over Barcelona in the Champions League on Wednesday, rewarded for a disciplined defensive display against the European heavyweight and making the most of their rare attacks.Victor Wanyama headed the Scottish champions in front in the 21st minute and teenage substitute Tony Watt rounded off another swift counterattack in the 83rd.Barca dominated possession but could only score in stoppage time when Lionel Messi found the net after being continuously thwarted by goalkeeper Fraser Forster.Barcas first loss in Group G after three straight wins prevented them from securing early qualification for the knockout phase.
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| Bolivia returns ancient mummy to Peru Posted: Bolivian authorities on Tuesday returned to Peru the ancient mummy of a young girl that was intercepted by police as it was about to be illegally shipped to France.The mummy, which dates from between the years 1200 and 1450, was discovered in October 2010 when a Bolivian citizen was attempting to send a box to the French city of Compiegne to be then presumably sent to an auction house, Perus Ministry of Culture said in the statement.When authorities opened the box they found the mummified remains of a girl approximately two years old in a fetal position.The childs body was wrapped in five layers of cotton and wool fabric, and experts said she likely lived among people who lived centuries ago on Perus southern coast.Bolivian Cultures Minister Pablo Groux Canedo handed over the mummy to Peruvian counterpart Luis Peirano at an event at Perus foreign ministry.
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| Greek protests get violent ahead of austerity vote Posted: Hundreds of protesters clashed with Greek riot police Wednesday while more than 80,000 demonstrated outside Parliament, where lawmakers prepared to vote on new austerity measures needed to avoid financial disaster.The cutbacks, worth €13.5 billion ($17 billion) over the next two years, are essential if Greece is to continue receiving vital bailout funds from its international creditors to avoid bankruptcy. The vote is the toughest test yet for the countrys fragile four month-old government.Protesters hurled rocks and gasoline bombs at lines of riot police guarding Parliament, who responded with volleys of tear gas and stun grenades, and the first use of water cannon in Greece in years.Demonstrators in the packed crowd ran for cover as running battles broke out with police. Clouds of tear gas rose from Syntagma Square.Inside the building, lawmakers interrupted the debate as Parliament employees went on strike to protest cuts to their wages brought by Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras in an amendment to the austerity bill. Stournaras declared minutes later that he was withdrawing the amendment.The austerity package is expected to scrape through when the vote is held later in the night. But any defections or abstentions could severely weaken the conservative-led coalition formed in June.Greeces next bailout loan installment of €31.5 billion, out of a total of €240 billion, is already five months overdue. Without it, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says, Greece will run out of money on Nov. 16.If Athens cannot raise sufficient funds otherwise, it will quickly find it impossible to pay its huge debts. As well as pushing the country out of the 17-country group that uses the euro, this could trigger a nightmare of bank runs, hyperinflation and currency depreciation that would vaporize savings and put many basic goods out of the reach of many Greeks.We must vote in favor of the measures, conservative New Democracy lawmaker Constantinos Tassoulas urged Parliament. It is our duty.The measures being debated include new deep pension cuts and tax hikes, a two-year increase in the retirement age to 67, and laws that will make it easier to fire and transfer civil servants who are currently guaranteed jobs for life. The country is suffering a deep recession set to enter a sixth year, and record high unemployment of 25 percent.
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| Caveman was not thick-skulled: study Posted: Paleontologists said Wednesday they have found small blades in a South African cave proving that Man was an advanced thinker making stone tools 71,000 years ago -- millennia earlier than thought.The find suggests early humans from Africa had a capacity for complex thought and weapons production that gave them a distinct evolutionary advantage over Neanderthals, say the authors of a study published in Nature.Scientists agree that our lineage appeared in Africa more than 100,000 years ago, but there is much debate about when Homo sapiens cultural and cognitive character began resembling that of modern humans.Small, manufactured blades such as those found in hunting arrows were first thought to have appeared in South Africa between 65,000 and 60,000 years ago.Now, a team of scientists say they have found much older blades, called microliths and produced by chipping away at heat-treated stone, in a cave near Mossel Bay on South Africas south coast.Our research... shows that microlithic technology originated early in South Africa, evolved over a vast time span (about 11,000 years) and was typically coupled to complex heat treatment, the study authors wrote.Advanced technologies in Africa were early and enduring, they said, adding that long absences of tool-use evidence in the palaeontological record are explained by the relatively small number of sites excavated to date, not by an ebb and flow in early Mans technological know-how.The find is evidence that early modern humans in South Africa had the ability to make complex designs and teach others to copy them, said the researchers.This would have allowed them to produce tools like arrows with a much longer killing distance than hand-cast spears.Microlith-tipped projectile weapons increased hunting success rate, reduced injury from hunting encounters gone wrong, extended the effective range of lethal interpersonal violence, wrote the team.It would also have conferred substantive advantages on modern humans as they left Africa and encountered Neanderthals equipped only with hand-cast spears.Neanderthals lived in parts of Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East for up to 300,000 years but appear to have vanished some 40,000 years ago.In a comment on the study, also published by Nature, anthropologist Sally McBrearty from the University of Connecticut said humans making the monoliths would have chipped small blades from stone carefully selected for its texture and heat-treated to make it easier to work with.They would then have retouched the blades into geometric shapes, probably for use in arrows to be shot from bows.This, in turn, meant the makers would have had to collect other materials such as wood, fibres, feathers, bone and sinew over a period of days, weeks or months, interrupted by other, more urgent tasks.The ability to hold and manipulate operations and images of objects in memory, and to execute goal-directed procedures over space and time, is termed executive function and is an essential component of the modern mind, McBrearty wrote.
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| Sammy confident of West Indies preparation Posted: West Indies captain Darren Sammy Wednesday said his teams preparations for next weeks first Test against Bangladesh were on course despite their warm-up match being shortened by a day due to wet ground.The West Indies were due to start the tour with a three-day game against Bangladesh Cricket Board XI in Savar, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of the capital Dhaka on Thursday, but were told the match was delayed by a day.However Sammy was still hopeful his team would be ready in time for the first of two Tests which start in Dhaka on November 13.We have been told that the ground where we are supposed to play the practice match is wet, we are still monitoring the situation and hoping to get some practice before the Test match, Sammy told a press conference.It will be the first West Indies tour since they won the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka last month, their first world title since clinching back-to-back World Cups in 1975 and 1979.The second Test will be played in the new venue of Khulna from November 21. The West Indies will also play five one-day matches and one Twenty20 tournament on the tour.Sammy said the return of opener Chris Gayle and batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul is likely to give the West Indies the edge in the series.We have got an experienced batting line up, last year we came here without Gayle who is now in the team while Chanderpaul is still one of the best Test batsmen in the world and Marlon Samuels is in good form, said Sammy.The West Indies won a two-Test series in Bangladesh last year, with Gayle not selected due to his differences with the Caribbean board.We have young players like (Darren) Bravo and Kirk Edwards had a good series here, said Sammy of Edwards who scored a century and fifty in the West Indiess 229-run win in the second Test in Dhaka last year.We are quite confident in what we have and what we could do and we just need to go down and execute our plans, said Sammy. I think we have got a good balance and (are) just looking to come out and perform consistently.Sammy said his team will not underestimate Bangladesh.Bangladesh is a team we have never taken lightly, they are always difficult opposition at home so we have a lot of respect and will do our best to win, said Sammy.
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| Swann returns home to be with ill daughter Posted: England spinner Graeme Swann will be available for the first test against India starting Nov. 15 despite flying back home from tour on Wednesday to be with his ill daughter.Swann, Englands top slow bowler, returned home to support his family and spend time with his daughter, who is currently unwell, according to a statement released by the England and Wales Cricket Board.Before flying out to India last month, Swann spoke off his sadness at having to say goodbye to daughter Charlotte only a week after she was born.It means Swann will head into the first of the four-match test series having played just one practice game the tour opener against India A. He will miss the final four-day preparation match, against Haryana in Ahmedabad starting tomorrow, having also sat out last weeks three-day game against the Mumbai A team.England already has concerns regarding the fitness of pacemen Steven Finn (thigh) and Stuart Broad (heel).Swanns absence gives Monty Panesar a chance to stake his claim for a test spot in the match against Haryana.
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| Marsh dismisses day/night Test concerns Posted: Australia great Rodney Marsh has said that concerns over ball colour should not stop the staging of day/night Tests, given it is more than 30 years since he played in floodlit Supertests during World Series Cricket.Last month the sports global governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), announced Tests could be played under lights, with rival teams deciding on the hours of play and the colour of the ball to be used.I say bring it on Marsh, who played in the rebel World Series Cricket run by the Australian media mogul Kerry Packer in the 1970s, which pioneered innovations now commonplace to the world game such as coloured clothing and floodlights.What people need to understand is that during World Series Cricket we played Supertests at night, Marsh, one of crickets greatest wicket-keepers, was quoted as saying on Lords.org on Wednesday.This was nearly 35 years ago and there is no reason why this cant happen with Test matches today.While Test cricket attracts large crowds in England, attendances in other parts of the world for the five-day game have declined.But supporters of day/night Tests argue they could revive spectator interest in the format, making it easier for fans to work during the day.Day/night fixtures proved popular with Australian crowds when introduced by Packer and have since become an accepted part of one-day games around the world.Australia selector Marsh, 65, said there was no reason why floodlit cricket would not succeed at Test level as well.Night Test cricket would be really successful on the sub-continent and in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, he said.I dont think its necessary in the UK but it could easily go through until 8:00 pm (1900 GMT during the English season) with a red ball. The West Indies may also embrace day/night Test matches.One longstanding concern raised about floodlit Tests concerns the type of ball that would be used.The traditional red ball is not as easy to see under lights while white balls used in limited-overs matches are reckoned to be insufficiently durable for first-class cricket.Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which is responsible for the sports laws, have experimented in recent years with a pink ball in their traditional opening fixture of the English season against the champion county.But Marsh, who in 96 Tests from 1970 to 1984 completed a then world record 355 dismissals, said ball type should not put a block on floodlit Tests.If a pink ball isnt going to be the way to go, then why not use a white ball (or two) and play in coloured clothing?, said Marsh, who joined MCCs world cricket committee earlier this year.If they wanted to be really courageous then players could use a red ball in the day time and white clothing and then change to colours and a white ball in the evening session.Cricket Australia are keen to press ahead with day/night Tests, provided a suitable ball can be developed, but officials in India, world crickets financial powerhouse, are less enthusiastic.The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) remain lukewarm to the concept following a trial in a first-class match back in 1997.We were the first to experiment with this and our experience was not so great, BCCI chief administrative officer Ratnakar Shetty said last month. At this stage we have no such proposal.
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| Anti-Muslim filmmaker jailed for year in jail Posted: The man behind the anti-Islam video blamed for sparking widespread protests in the Muslim world was jailed for one year Wednesday for breaching the terms of his probation for a previous offense.Mark Basseley Youssef will serve the sentence in federal prison after he admitted four allegations of using false identities, violating the terms of his probation for a bank fraud conviction in 2010.The 55-year-old was identified as the main man behind Innocence of Muslims, which triggered a wave of protests in September, and was initially blamed for an attack which killed the US ambassador to Libya.In February 2009, a federal indictment accused Youssef and others of fraudulently obtaining the identities and Social Security numbers of customers at several Wells Fargo branches in California and withdrawing $860 from them.He was arrested in September for eight probation violations. At a hearing last month he denied all counts, but on Wednesday he admitted to four, in return for the other four being set aside.US District Judge Christina A. Snyder said Youssef, who has already spent five weeks in custody, must spend 12 months behind bars, followed by four years of supervised release.Youssef was previously listed as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, and known as Sam Bacile when the protests about the video emerged.The amateurish film depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a thuggish deviant offended many Muslims, and sparked a wave of anti-US protests that cost several lives and saw mobs set US missions, schools and businesses ablaze.It was also linked to the September 11 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in which US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
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