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• Zardari to reach Quetta today
• Karachi law and order case: SC to resume hearing today
• Karachi: Sindh Governor returns from Dubai
• Faisalabad: Boiler explosion kills 4 labourers
• One PML-F, two PML-Q MPAs resign from Punjab Assembly
• Notification for reinstatement of 1979 LB system issued
• Hike in POL prices likely from March 1
• 35 dead in Kenya bus crash
• Kerry hints at greater US support for Syria opposition
• Iraqi Airways resumes Kuwait flights after two decades
• Prince Harry returns to Lesotho for charity visit
• Obama unveils Capitol statue of rights icon Rosa Parks
• Djokovic, Federer close in on Dubai showdown
• Chelsea sets up FA Cup quarterfinal vs Man United
• Bayern Munich, Stuttgart reach German Cup semis

Zardari to reach Quetta today Posted: President Asif Ali Zardari will reachi Quetta today (Thursday) after conclusion of his two-day official visit to Tehran.According to well informed sources, President Zardari will hold meeting with members of Balochistan Assembly hold meetings with parliamentary leaders of the political parties having representation in the Balochistan Assembly.He would also discuss with them lifting of governor’s rule from the province. He would also discuss with them lifting of governor’s rule from the province.

Karachi law and order case: SC to resume hearing today Posted: A larger five-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) headed by Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali will resume hearing of the Karachi law and order case today at the SC Karachi Registry.During previous hearing, the Supreme Court dismissed the review petition of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) over the delimitation of new constituencies in Karachi.Rejecting ECP’s petition, the bench remarked that ECP was bound to comply with orders of the apex court, adding that census had nothing to do with the delimitation.Meanwhile, the court withdrew show-cause notice against Sindh IG after he submitted written apology over the matter.

Karachi: Sindh Governor returns from Dubai Posted: Talking to media at the Karachi Airports soon after his return from Dubai, Dr Ishratul Ebad said that he had submitted his resignation on his own.However, Dr Ebad informed media that he withdrew his resignation on the advice of MQM chief Altaf Hussain. He also thanked President Zardari, MQM chief Altaf Hussain and Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

Faisalabad: Boiler explosion kills 4 labourers Posted: According to details, the boiler of a textile factory in the congested Mansoorabad area of Faisalabad exploded with a big bang, killing four labourers and wounding several others.The explosion was so severe that the roof of the factory was blown away while a portion of the factory also caught fire.Rescue teams reached the area and brought the fire under control and rescure the labourers trapped under the debris. The dead were identified as Faizan (28), Zahoor Ahmad (24) and Muhammad Ali (23).

One PML-F, two PML-Q MPAs resign from Punjab Assembly Posted: According to details, two Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) MPAs, Khalid Mahmood Sargana and Yaqoob Sheikh, and one Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) MPA Asma Mamdot have submitted their resignations to the Punjab Assembly Secretariat.Speaker Punjab Assembly has accepted their resignation and also issued notification.According to the sources, Pakistan Muslim League-Functional MPA Asma Mamdoot is likely to join Pakistan People’s Party.

Notification for reinstatement of 1979 LB system issued Posted: The notification for reinstatement of 1979 LB system for Sindh has been issued on Wednesday, after which counselors of Karachi Municipal Corporation and district level also stand reinstated.In wake of the official notification, all other LB departments functioning under People’s Local Government act also stand dissolved.The notification has reinstated municipal corporations of all five districts of Karachi.

Hike in POL prices likely from March 1 Posted: A major hike in prices of petroleum products is likely from March 1, as Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) has forwarded a proposal to the Ministry of Petroleum seeking increase in petroleum prices from March 1.OGRA in its summary forwarded to the Ministry of Petroleum sought a per litre increase of Rs3.52 in the price of petrol and Rs Rs 4.33 rise in diesel prices.

35 dead in Kenya bus crash Posted: NAIROBI (AFP) - At least 35 people in eastern Kenya died Wednesday when the bus they were travelling in veered out of control and rolled several times, police said.Traffic police chief boss Samuel Kimaru said 11 people died at the scene and another 24 while being treated or on their way to hospital.Many of those on the bus -- travelling from the capital Nairobi to the northeastern town of Garissa -- were believed to have been on their way to vote in Kenyas general elections next Monday.More than 20 other passengers were admitted to hospital, Kimaru added.The crash is the latest in a string of fatal accidents, with 17 people killed and dozens injured in two separate crashes in Kenyas coastal region on Saturday.

Kerry hints at greater US support for Syria opposition Posted: PARIS (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry hinted at greater US support for Syrias opposition Wednesday, saying it needs more help in the struggle against Bashar al-Assad and that Washington wants to speed up a political transition.In Paris on the eve of a meeting in Rome of the Friends of Syria group, Kerry said boosting support for the opposition would be a key part of the talks Thursday bringing together foreign powers and the main opposition National Coalition.We are examining and developing ways to accelerate the political transition that the Syrian people seek and deserve, and that is what we will be discussing in Rome, Kerry said at a joint press conference with French counterpart Laurent Fabius.He said he wanted to hear from the opposition about how best to end the violence in Syria, where the United Nations says at least 70,000 have died and hundreds of thousands have been uprooted in the two-year conflict.That may require us to change president Assads current calculation. He needs to know he cant shoot his way out of this, Kerry said. I think the opposition needs more help in order to be able to do that and we are working together to have a united position.Kerry said there was a desire to help the opposition deliver assistance and basic services in areas it has liberated from the regime and also to protect the legitimate institutions of the state.The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the White House was considering a policy shift to supply rebels with non-lethal aid, including armoured vehicles and perhaps even military training.CNN ran a similar story on its website.Kerrys remarks also came ahead of a weekend opposition gathering in Istanbul to elect a prime minister and government to run liberated parts of Syria.

Iraqi Airways resumes Kuwait flights after two decades Posted: KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - An Iraqi Airways plane landed in Kuwait City on Wednesday for the first time since Iraqs invasion of the emirate in August 1990, after a commercial dispute was resolved.Iraqs Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and Transport Minister Hadi al-Amari flew in on an Airbus A320, to a welcome from Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Sabah.Kuwait and Iraqs national carriers reached an agreement late last year to resolve a 22-year-old commercial dispute, with Iraqi Airways agreeing to pay $500 million to Kuwait Airways.Under orders from former dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait in August 1990 but were driven out seven months later by a US-led international coalition.Kuwait Airways chief Sami al-Nisf, quoted by official news agency KUNA, said the Iraqi carrier will make four flights a week to the emirate, while only private Kuwaiti carriers are flying the route.

Prince Harry returns to Lesotho for charity visit Posted: JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Britains Prince Harry attended a fundraising gala dinner organised in neighbouring South Africa for his Lesotho charity projects as he wrapped up his three-day visit to southern Africa.The funds will be used to build a permanent centre for children and youths orphaned and infected by HIV and AIDS. The centre will enable the services to widen four fold the numbers of children currently cared for.During a tour of the projects in Lesotho earlier in the day the third-in-line to the British throne found time to perform traditional dance moves with children. It was his return visit to the southern African kingdom.On the last day of the tour, the 28-year-old stopped by schools for deaf and blind children in and around the capital Maseru.He watched fascinated as students at St Bernadettes Resource Centre for the Blind played a football match unassisted, and chatted with pupils afterwards.What do you want to be when you grow up? he asked a boy dressed in the schools khaki-coloured uniform.A soldier, he replied in Sesotho, the local language.Im a soldier myself. Ill tell you what that is like next time, said Harry, who returned in January from a five-month tour in Afghanistan as an army helicopter gunner.The royal was also shown how to use some of the braille equipment at the school - the only institution for blind children in the tiny mountain kingdom.His NGO Sentebale pays for 60 percent of the centres running costs, where all 68 pupils board full-time.Harry set up Sentebale in 2006 with Prince Seeiso, the younger brother of King Letsie of Lesotho, in memory of their late mothers.Its name means forget me not in Sesotho.The organisation supports children infected with HIV and AIDS, as well as those orphaned by the virus or with disabilities.Earlier in the day the royal visited the Kananelo Centre for the Deaf in the nearby town of Buasono, where around 70 students cheered his arrival.He took part in a traditional dance with them, though the locals coyly admitted that the flame-haired royal messed up the moves.Some children also performed a mini-theatre production in sign language to show off the skills learnt at the centre.The prince learnt a few simple sign language words like father and mother and tried his hand at baking mokoenya, a traditional sweet bread, while wearing an apron with teddy bear print.Sentebale carries most of the institutions overheads, contributing around 350,000 maloti ($40,000, 30,000 euros) a year.It teaches the national curriculum in sign language and also trains life skills in the impoverished country.The prince was given a violin-like musical instrument, traditional straw hat, and cloth blanket as gifts.On Tuesday he rode a helicopter to the remote Mokhotlong region in the north, where Sentebale is building schools for cattle-herding boys.

Obama unveils Capitol statue of rights icon Rosa Parks Posted: WASHINGTON (AFP) - Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, so it was fitting that her statue unveiled Wednesday by President Barack Obama in the US Capitol depicts her in the position from which she launched a civil rights revolution.Congressional leaders, dozens of relatives and several hundred guests joined Obama as Parks, represented by a nine-foot (2.7-meter) bronze statue, took her rightful place among the nations heroes depicted in Statuary Hall.The statue is the first of an African-American woman in the US Capitol.This morning we celebrate a seamstress slight in stature, but mighty in courage, Obama said in tribute to the woman who, on December 1, 1955 at age 42, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a crowded bus in Montgomery, Alabama.In a single moment with the simplest of gestures she helped change America and change the world, the president said.James Clyburn, the most senior African-American in Congress, described Parks as the first lady of civil rights, the mother of the movement, the saint of an endless struggle.Blacks were freed from slavery 150 years ago when president Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, but it took another century marred by second-class citizenship, racial violence, and voter suppression before the civil rights movement took root, culminating with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.As America shapes its future it struggles with its past -- a past in which equality was our principle but not always our practice, said Democratic Senate majority leader Harry Reid as he noted the countrys continuing efforts to eradicate slaverys unsavory successors: racism and inequality.Without the determination and sacrifice of Rosa Parks, this presidency... and so much of the progress we have made to perfect our union would not have been possible. So today a nation pays enduring tribute to the woman who moved the world when she refused to move from her seat.Parks is depicted in the statue as many Americans envision her: sitting, hands folded across her lap and clutching her handbag, her hair pulled back, and staring steadily out from behind rimless glasses.But she was no meek woman. She fought hard for her right to vote, fighting a voter literacy test skewed against African-Americans. She later collaborated with civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King Jr and Jesse Jackson, who was at Wednesdays unveiling.Rosa Parks was the fire, the igniter of the movement, US Representative Sheila Jackson Lee told AFP.She pointed to a case now before the Supreme Court challenging a section of the US voting rights law -- a cornerstone of efforts to guard against racial discrimination in states with a segregationist past -- as evidence that more needs to be done.I wonder what she would think about this year, when we must still be in the midst of the fight? Jackson Lee said.

Djokovic, Federer close in on Dubai showdown Posted: DUBAI (AFP) - Novak Djokovic, the world number one, and Roger Federer, the defending champion, moved nearer to a showdown in Saturdays final when both raced into the quarter-finals of the Dubai Open.Federer set the pace by getting there in only 71 minutes against Marcel Granollers, the world number 34 from Spain, with Djokovic taking just 90 minutes to get past another Spaniard, Roberto Bautista-Agut, the world number 55.Djokovic applied constant pressure with his speedy court coverage and the weight and angles of his ground strokes, and might have won in under an hour had he not lapsed briefly in the second set, letting Bautista Agut back into it.This enabled the man nicknamed Bati to launch some hard blows, come from 2-5 down, and save four match points in a 24-point ninth game before going down 6-1, 7-6 (7/4).Federer mixed phases where he appeared to be coasting, with moments when he suddenly switched two gears to deliver stunning winners, in a 6-3, 6-4 success.He was also tactically unpredictable.Encouraged by the fast court and perhaps by his opponents frequent charges into the forecourt, Federer came to the net more often than usual. But he was curiously unclear about why he did not attempt this more often.Its something I have been trying my whole life, to be more aggressive, he said. I would like to serve-volley more - but Im winning, so its okay.I dont know why I dont do it more. Perhaps because courts around the world are on the slower side, and you come to the quicker courts like this and you dont dare. Its a habit.Later he explained it as an outcome of his bright new pink shoes, about which he was questioned.Thats the problem: I come to the net and the guy knows, Federer grinned. It aint good, you know. Definitely not camouflage.Djokovics match confirmed the importance, even for the best player in the world, to keep his mind pinned down till the end.I played a good match for an hour or so, but then I didnt stay committed to every point, he admitted.Djokovic now plays Andrea Seppi, the seventh seeded Italian, whose elegance off the ground may punish any further lapses more severely.Federer will follow Djokovic with a match against Nikolay Davydenko, the former world number three who ousted the sixth seeded Janko Tipsarevic, and followed it with a 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) victory over Victor Hanescu, of Romania.Federer has a likely semi-final with Tomas Berdych, his Wimbledon conqueror of two years ago, who overcame jet-lag, an umpires warning, and a difficult first set against Germanys Tobias Kamke before calling for changes to the time limit rule.Berdych emerged relieved and disgruntled after surviving 7-5, 6-1 against the world number 90, apparently under pressure from multiple sources.

Chelsea sets up FA Cup quarterfinal vs Man United Posted: LONDON (AP) - Chelsea set up an eye-catching FA Cup quarterfinal against Manchester United by beating second-tier Middlesbrough 2-0 in the fifth round on Wednesday thanks to second-half goals by Ramires and Victor Moses.Unconvincing in the first half, the defending champions improved after the break and Ramires opened the scoring in the 51st minute by curling in a shot from the edge of the area that took a slight deflection of Fernando Torres.Moses sealed victory at Riverside Stadium for a Chelsea team featuring several fringe players, tapping home in the 73rd minute after good work by fellow forward Oscar.Chelsea, which has won the FA Cup in four of the last six seasons, will play United the current Premier League leader at Old Trafford on March 10.

Bayern Munich, Stuttgart reach German Cup semis Posted: FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Arjen Robben scored late in the first half for Bayern Munich to beat title-holder Borussia Dortmund 1-0 on Wednesday and reach the German Cup semi-finals.Dortmund beat Bayern 5-2 in last seasons final and won its second consecutive Bundesliga championship. But this has been Bayerns season and it has a 17-point lead over Dortmund in the Bundesliga.Robben curled in a shot from the edge of the penalty area after Dortmund lost possession, giving Bayern its first win over Dortmund after five straight losses and one draw.Stuttgart also advanced to the semi-finals for the first time since 2007 with a comfortable 2-0 victory over second-division Bochum.Christian Gentner scored with a deflected shot in the 18th and Vedad Ibisevic notched his first goal of 2013 in the 83rd to secure Stuttgarts victory.Bayern and Stuttgart, which won the Bundesliga in 2007, join Wolfsburg and Freiburg in the semi-finals.

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