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• Karachi: ANP to observe day of mourning today
• BB Murder: FIA starts investigation against Musharraf today
• Kidnapped former Balochistan minister rescued
• Ballot papers printing: SHC reserve judgement
• Hyderabad: 25 suspects arrested during Rangers operation
• Multan: PPP activists torture PML-N workers
• Gujranwala: Fire destroys 70 shops
• Death toll in Bangladesh collapse passes 300
• 45 dead as Afghan bus hits tanker wrecked by Taliban
• Iraqi soldiers retake control of Sunni town
• Number of Gitmo prisoners on hunger strike rises
• Russia detains 140 suspected Islamists
• Nadal does double duty to reach Barcelona semis
• Sharapova edges Ivanovic to reach Stuttgart semis
• Ronaldo out of Madrid derby: club

Karachi: ANP to observe day of mourning today Posted: KARACHI Dunya News) - The Awami National Party (ANP) will observe a day of mourning today against the deadly bomb attack near its office in Mominabad area of Orangi Town in which at least 11 were people and more than 50 got.The ANP chief Asfandyar Wali Khan, while condemning the blast said that such attacks cannot dent ANP poll campaign.Talking to Dunya News, ANP Sindh chapter leader Shahid Syed appealed to people of Karachi to mark the day of mourn peacefully keeping their businesses open and transport on the roads.Condemning what he said a cowardly assault, he said that such attacks could not restrain ANP from its struggle.

BB Murder: FIA starts investigation against Musharraf today Posted: ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – A joint Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team, probing Benazir Bhutto murder case, held a meeting in Islamabad.According to sources, the meeting decided to start investigation against former president today and the investigation team under Additional Director FIA, Khalid Qureshi, will visit Chak Shehzad sub jail today in this regard.A member of the FIA joint investigation team, Azad Khan also reached Islamabad. According to sources, the FIA team will question Pervez Musharraf and also record the statement of the former president.

Kidnapped former Balochistan minister rescued Posted: QUETTA (Dunya News) – According to details, former Balochistan prison minister, Sultan Tareen, was rescued from Qilla Abdullah area in Balochistan.According to the family sources, Sultan Tareen was rescued by the joint efforts of tribal elders and local administration and he reached his home in Harnai after release.The former minister was kidnapped by some unidentified gunmen from Kachlak area last month when he was going to Pashin from Quetta.Some sources claimed that the minister was released by kidnappers after payment of ransom money. However, Sultan Tareen’s brother and the administration have denied the claim.

Ballot papers printing: SHC reserve judgement Posted: KARACHI (Dunya News) - The Sindh High Court (SHC) reserved judgement on printing of ballot papers of recently delimited constituencies of the National Assembly and the Sindh Assembly in Karachi and Naushero Feroze.Earlier, during previous hearing, divisional bench comprising Justice Maqbool Baqir and Justice Farooq Shah of the Sindh High Court had issued stay order on printing of ballot papers of recently delimited 11 constituencies of the National Assembly and the Sindh Assembly in Karachi on petition filed by the MQM and seven constituencies of Naushero Feroze on petition filed by Mureed Hussain Shah.During Friday’s hearing, the court has reserved its judgement on these petitions.

Hyderabad: 25 suspects arrested during Rangers operation Posted: HYDERABAD (Dunya News) – Rangers and police launched a joint operation in different parts of Latifabad after Thursday’s attack on Rangers Headquarters in which one official was killed and three others were wounded.Rangers cordoned off different areas of Latifabad and arrested 25 suspects during house-to-house search. Large quantity of arms was also recovered during the operation.The arrested suspects were shifted to some undisclosed location for further investigation.

Multan: PPP activists torture PML-N workers Posted: MULTAN (Dunya News) – According to details, security guards and workers of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate from NA-151, Abdul Qadir Gilani, resorted to aerial firing and tortured Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supporters over dispute of removing party flag.The resident of the area staged a protest against Gilani family against alleged torture and blocked Band Bosan Chowk. Police reached the spot and brought the situation under control. Residents of the area have demanded of the Election Commission to take action against people involved in aerial firing.

Gujranwala: Fire destroys 70 shops Posted: GUJRANWALA (Dunya News) – According to details, fire broke out due to short circuit at a shop in Purani Sabzi Mandi area of Gujranwala on Friday which engulfed 70 others shops quickly.Rescue teams reached the spot after getting information and started rescue operation but they faced hardships in their work due to narrow streets in the area.Goods worth million of rupees present in the shops destroyed by the blaze.

Death toll in Bangladesh collapse passes 300 Posted: SAVAR (AP) - With time running out to save workers still trapped in a collapsed garment factory building, rescuers dug through mangled metal and concrete Friday and found more survivors but also more corpses that pushed the death toll past 300.Wailing, angry relatives fought with police who held them back from the wrecked, eight-story Rana Plaza building, as search-and-rescue operations went on more than two days after the structure crumbled.Amid the cries for help and the smell of decaying bodies, the rescue of 18-year-old Mussamat Anna came at a high cost:Emergency crews cut off the garment workers mangled right hand to pull her free from the debris Thursday night.First a machine fell over my hand, and I was crushed under the debris. ... Then the roof collapsed over me, she told an Associated Press cameraman from a hospital bed Friday.More than 40 survivors were found late Friday evening on some floors of the Rana Plaza, said fire service inspector Shafiqul Islam, who searched the building. Through holes in the structure, he gave them water and juice packs to combat dehydration in the stifling heat and humidity.They are alive, they are trapped, but most of them are safe. We need to cut through debris and walls to bring them out, Islam said.By Friday night, more than 80 survivors had been rescued, according to officials at a command center.But more dead were also discovered. Shamim Islam, a volunteer who entered the collapsed building along with rescue workers, said he saw many bodies inside.I threw some water bottles through a hole, as there were some survivors, too, he said.The search will continue into Saturday, officials said, with crews cautiously using hammers, shovels and their bare hands.Many of the trapped workers were so badly hurt and weakened that they needed to be removed within a few hours, the rescuers said.There were fears that even if unhurt, the survivors could be dehydrated, with daytime temperatures soaring to 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) and about 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight.Hundreds of rescuers crawled through the rubble amid the cries of the trapped and the wails of workers relatives gathered outside the building, which housed numerous garment factories and a handful of other companies.Brig. Gen. Mohammed Siddiqul Alam Shikder, who is overseeing rescue operations, said before the evening rescues that 2,200 people have been pulled out alive. A garment manufacturers group said the factories in the building employed 3,122 workers, but it was not clear how many were inside it when it collapsed Wednesday in Savar, a suburb of Bangladeshs capital, Dhaka.Military spokesman Shahin Islam told reporters that 304 bodies had been recovered so far.An AP cameraman who accompanied a rescue crew Thursday heard the anguished cries for help from two men one half-buried under a slab beside two corpses, the other entombed deep in the rubble. The first man later died and the second had not been heard from for hours and is presumed dead, rescuers said.Maj. Gen. Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy told reporters that search-and-rescue operations would continue until at least Saturday, because we know a human being can survive for up to 72 hours in this situation.Forty people had been trapped on the fourth floor of the building until rescuers reached them Thursday evening. Twelve were soon freed, and crews worked to get the rest out safely, Shikder said. Crowds burst into applause as survivors were brought out.Police cordoned off the site, pushing back thousands of bystanders and relatives after rescue workers complained the crowds were hampering their work.

45 dead as Afghan bus hits tanker wrecked by Taliban Posted: KANDAHAR (AFP) - A passenger bus in Afghanistan collided Friday with a wrecked fuel tanker left on a road after a Taliban insurgent attack, killing at least 45 people, officials said.The accident occurred before dawn in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province when the packed bus ploughed into the tanker, which had been burnt out in a Taliban strike several days ago.Tragically, around 4:00 am, the passenger bus collided with a fuel tanker, Javid Faisal, spokesman for the Kandahar provincial governor, told AFP. We have 45 passengers dead in this accident and ten others wounded.The wreckage of a truck, which was put alight by the Taliban, was left there for several days, and the bus collided with it.Many of those hurt were travelling to join the short neishtar harvest season, when villagers from across southern Afghanistan work in poppy fields during one of the most lucrative times of the year for casual labourers.A neishtar is the small lance used to make incisions on poppy plants to let out the resin, which dries into solid opium residue.Faisal had earlier denied reports that the wrecked tanker had been set on fire by Taliban insurgents, who are highly active in Kandahar province, one of the hotbeds of the insurgency fighting to oust the US-backed Kabul government.The bus had just crossed the border into Kandahar from Helmand province when it hit the tanker.We were more than 50 passengers in the bus. Most of the passengers were men, Faizullah, one of the passengers who survived the accident, told AFP.Our vehicle caught fire. I broke the glass of the vehicle and then jumped. I heard people yelling for help.Afghanistan has some of the most dangerous roads in the world and traffic accidents are common.

Iraqi soldiers retake control of Sunni town Posted: BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraqi soldiers backed by tanks retook control of a Sunni town north of Baghdad on Friday after gunmen withdrew without a fight, although violence erupted at three Sunni mosques and clerics called for the formation of a tribal army to protect Sunni cities.The Sunni gunmen had seized Suleiman Beg on Thursday after a firefight with security forces, one in a string of incidents that have killed more than 170 people in a spate of violence and clashes in Sunni Muslim towns in western and northern Iraq during the past four days.The growing turmoil prompted the top United Nations official in Iraq on Friday to warn that the country is at a crossroads.Police and military officials said army units entered the town after negotiations with local tribal leaders.The recent unrest in the country followed a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest in the northern town of Hawija four days ago.In Iraqs predominantly Sunni provinces, anti-government rallies continued as preachers at protest sites called for the formation of tribal army that would protect Sunni areas from attacks by government forces.In Samarra, Sunni cleric Najih al-Mizan lashed out at what he said were the policies of tyranny and repression adopted by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He said al-Malikis resignation was the only solution to save the country from the current crisis.We call upon our tribes to form an army that can protect us from a government that does not hesitate to kill its people, said al-Mizan.In Fallujah, Sunni cleric Ali al-Basra repeated the call to form a tribal army to protect Sunni cities. Several protesters held aloft al-Qaida flags during the rally.The new calls for Sunnis to take up arms could further raise the tension between the government and the Sunni minority.Al-Maliki appeared on national television on Thursday to appeal for calm.The U.N. envoy to Iraq, Martin Kobler, underscored growing concern about the deteriorating situation in a renewed call for restraint.The country is at a crossroads, he said. It is the historical responsibility of all Iraqi leaders to assume leadership and take bold initiatives, such as sitting together and calling in one voice for immediate restoration of calm and for a broad-based national dialogue.Violence continued on Friday.A bomb blast hit Sunni worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in western Baghdad after the end of Friday prayers, killing five worshippers and wounding 22 others. Minutes later, a Sunni was killed and six others were wounded when a bomb struck Sunnis near a mosque in the Rashidiyah area, 20 kilometers north of the capital. Also, a bomb exploded near a third Sunni mosque in northeastern Baghdad, killing two people.There was no claim of responsibility for the attacks against Sunni mosques, which have now happened for two Fridays in a row. Last Friday, a pair of bombs struck outside a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad, killing at least 11 people.Also on Friday, police said a bomb exploded shortly after sunset near a small restaurant in Baghdads Shiite neighborhood of Sadr city, killing four people and wounding 20 others. Later on, police said three people were killed and 17 others wounded after a car bomb went off in a commercial street in southern Baghdad.

Number of Gitmo prisoners on hunger strike rises Posted: SAN JUAN (AP) - The number of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay who are on a hunger strike has risen again.Lt. Col. Samuel House said Friday that 97 men are now on strike, up three from the day before. He says 19 of them are receiving liquid nutrients through a nasal tube to prevent dangerous weight loss. Another five are under observation at the hospital on the U.S. base in Cuba.He says none have life-threatening conditions.The hunger strike began in February, with prisoners protesting conditions and their indefinite confinement. Lawyers for the prisoners say the military is undercounting the number of hunger strikers.The U.S. holds 166 prisoners at Guantanamo, most without charges.

Russia detains 140 suspected Islamists Posted: MOSCOW (AP) - Russian police and security agents detained 140 people at a mosque in Moscow on Friday on suspicion of involvement with Islamic extremism.A statement from the Federal Security Agency reported by Russian news agencies said among those detained were 30 citizens of unspecified foreign countries.The detentions come a week after the two suspects in the fatal Boston Marathon bombings were identified as Russian-born ethnic Chechens who sympathized with Islamic extremists.There were no immediate reports of charges being filed. The security agency referred The Associated Press to a district office, where the telephone was not answered.The reports cited the agency as saying the mosque previously has been visited by people who had been involved in preparing or carrying out terrorist attacks.A Chechen separatist insurgency that began in the 1990s increasingly took on a fundamentalist Muslim character and spread to neighboring Russian Caucasus regions, including Dagestan, where Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and their family lived for a period before emigrating to the United States in 2002 or 2003.The Tsarnaevs parents later returned to Dagestan, and Tamerlan, who was killed in a shootout with police last week, made a long visit in 2012. Investigators are trying to find out details of what he did on the six-month sojourn, especially whether he met with any extremists.Caucasus extremists have carried out gruesome attacks on civilians in Russia, including the 2004 seizure of a school in the town of Beslan that ended in the deaths of 330 people, about half of them children. They also claimed responsibility for the 2011 bombing of Russias busiest airport, killing 36 people.In 2011, U.S. authorities questioned Tamerlan Tsarnaev at Russias request, but found nothing that sparked their interest and stopped watching him.On Friday, officials briefed on the investigation told the AP that U.S. intelligence agencies had added the mother of the suspects, Zubeidat, to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings. The officials spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak publicly about the ongoing case.The mother called the information lies and hypocrisy and said she has never been linked to crimes or terrorism.

Nadal does double duty to reach Barcelona semis Posted: BARCELONA (AFP) - Rafael Nadal continued to re-establish his impeccable clay credentials as the seven-time champion scored two victories Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open.Due to rain on Thursday which wiped out much of the programme, the second seed did double duty in both the third round and quarter-finals, defeating Frenchman Benoit Paire 7-6 (7/2), 6-2 in the morning and following up with a more substantial victory over Spanish compatriot Albert Ramos 6-3, 6-0 in late afternoon.Ramos had booked his place against Nadal by putting out Japanese sixth seed Kei Nishikori 6-4, 7-6 (7/4) in a delayed third-round match.Nadal will play a Saturday semi-final against Canadian fifth seed Milos Raonic, who beat Ernests Gulbis 6-2, 7-6 (8/6) and followed up by winning a hard-fought battle with Spanish veteran Tommy Robredo 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 7-6 (7/2) in almost two and a half hours.Nadal has won seven of the last eight editions at the Real Club de Tenis.The Spaniard, sidelined for seven months until February with a knee injury, appeared to be well on the road to recovery after his loss in the Monte Carlo final last week to Novak Djokovic.The 26-year-old Nadal improved to a 38-1 career record in Barcelona with his only loss against current Davis Cup coach Alex Corretja in the 2003 second round.He now stands 24-2 this season and 19-2 on clay.In his win against Paire, Nadal shook off a slow start. As the morning match wore on, he found his familiar claycourt groove, lifting the first set in a tie-breaker and dominating in the second to take his third-round win.It wasnt a brilliant match but winning was the most important thing, said Nadal. Its a long day today, so straight sets is not a bad way to start.Nadal could not have been happier with his days work: I played my best match of the tournament so far, he said after dispatching Ramos in 65 minutes. I got through this very complicated day just fine.I was much better in the second match and was helped by a lot of mistakes from Albert.German eighth seed Philipp Kohlschreiber came back to finish a Thursday match, turning the tables on Slovak 11th seed Martin Klizan for a 1-6, 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/5) win.Kohlschreiber then struck it lucky as intended quarter-final opponent Thomaz Bellucci withdrew injured, sending his opponent into the first of the semi-final places.He will aim for the final against Spanish fourth seed Nicolas Almagro, who defeated Argentine Juan Monaco 6-3, 7-5.Im excited to finally make the semis here, said Almagro. But it will be tough against Kohlschreiber, hes such a good returner.

Sharapova edges Ivanovic to reach Stuttgart semis Posted: STUTTGART (AFP) - Defending champion Maria Sharapova had another tough battle on Friday as she booked her place in the semi-finals of the Stuttgart WTA tournament with a 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 quarter-final win against former world number one Ana Ivanovic.The 26-year-old Sharapova, who is using the claycourt tournament to help prepare for the defence of her French Open title at the end of May, was again taken to three sets as Ivanovic rallied in the second set.Having needed three hours to beat Lucie Safarova in Thursdays second round, the statuesque Russian has now played more than five hours of tennis inside 24 hours after needing two hours, 16 minutes to beat Ivanovic.Its good to face different styles of playing from different opponents, said Sharapova.Ana is a bit more aggressive, while Lucie had a bit more variety in her game yesterday.I am happy to get through, but I had to push myself.It was a tough battle, it was hard to get my body going again after the last game, but it was good to get another three sets under the belt.After Sharapova took the first set, claycourt specialist Ivanovic rallied in the second with plenty of aggressive shots on her forehand and is on her way back up the rankings, but lacks consistency.Sharapova broke Ivanovic twice in the third, in a sequence of three breaks, before her aggressive game finally wore down the 25-year-old Serb, who reached the world number one ranking just after winning the 2008 French Open title.Sharapova, ranked second in the world, will now play third-seed Angelique Kerber in Saturdays semi-final after the German beat Kazakhstans Yaroslava Shvedova 6-3, 7-6 earlier.Qualifier Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the USA, ranked 104th in the world, has made it through to the semi-finals on her first appearance in the main draw after she enjoyed a 6-4, 6-2 win over Germanys Sabine Lisicki.Having failed to qualify on her last attempt here in 2005, the 28-year-old will now faces face either second-seed Chinas Li Na or Petra Kvitova, who meet in Fridays final last four clash for a place in Sundays final.

Ronaldo out of Madrid derby: club Posted: MADRID (AFP) - Real Madrids Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo will miss Saturdays derby against Atletico Madrid, the clubs assistant coach Aitor Karanka confirmed on Friday.Ronaldo, 28, picked up a thigh strain in Wednesdays crushing 4-1 Champions League semi-final, first leg defeat at Borussia Dortmund and did barely five minutes of jogging on Friday before returning to the indoor gym at Reals training complex, Spanish media reported.He has a muscle problem and he wasnt able to train today and he isnt in the squad for tomorrow, Karanka said.We hope to have him back for the return match against Dortmund, he added.Resting Ronaldo gives him an extra three days to recover in time for the second leg against Dortmund on Tuesday.Real need to get a result in the derby to maintain their hold on second place in La Liga with their city rivals just three points behind in third.Ronaldo, the top scorer in the Champions League this season with 12 goals, had been thought to be certain to start against Dortmund in the Bernabeu but Fridays news has caused some to question that theory.At Real they said the Portuguese was sure to play in the semi-final second leg but Fridays training session has instilled some doubt, sports paper Marca said on their internet site.

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