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Thursday, April 4, 2013

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ZABs death anniversary being observed today

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LARKANA (Online) - The 35th death anniversary of former Prime Minister, Zulifkar Ali Bhutto is being observed today (Thursday) throughout the countryChairman of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari along with Asifa Bhutto Zardari and Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari arrived at Nau Dero House from Karachi to attend the death anniversary of maternal grandfather, Zulifkar Ali Bhutto.They also visited Garhi Khuda Bux and showered rose petals on the graves of ancestors and offered ‘Fateha’ there.

CNG stations in Sindh to remain closed for 24 hours

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KARACHI: The CNG stations across Sindh, including Karachi, will remain closed from 8:00am on Thursday till 8:00am on Friday.According to the Sui Southern Gas Company, the decision has been taken by gas load management.Special vigilance teams will monitor the situation to ensure implementation of the decision and any gas filling station which violated the schedule would be closed for further 24 hours.

PML-N leader Muhammad Sharif Gujar dies in road accident

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SHEIKHUPURA (Dunya News) - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader from Samundri, Chaudhry Muhammad Sharif Gujar died in a road accident near Kot Ranjeet in Shehupura on Wednesday night.According to details, Muhammad Sharif Gujar was going to Samundri from Lahore one his Prado. A tyre of his vehicle busted near Kot Ranjeet and it collided with a truck, killing him and his driver on the spot and injuring two others. The injured were admitted to DHQ Hospital.A large number of his relatives and friends reached Sheikhupura after hearing news about the accident. His funeral prayers will be offered at 8:00pm today (Thursday).Chaudhry Muhammad Sharif Gujar was a close associate of PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif and former Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif. He was a candidate of PML-N from NA-79.Chaudhry Muhammad Sharif Gujar served as Deputy Director FIA in Karachi and also served in the Intelligence Bureau.

US missile defense shield to counter NKorea threat

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WASHINGTON (AP) - In the face of escalating threats from North Korea, the Pentagon said Wednesday it will deploy a missile defense system to the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam to strengthen the regions protections against a possible attack.The delivery of the missile shield system comes as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel labeled North Koreas recent rhetoric as a real, clear danger and threat to the U.S. and its Asia-Pacific allies. The Pentagon chief said the U.S. is doing all it can to defuse the situation.Deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System is the latest step the U.S. has taken to bolster forces in the region in a far-reaching show of force aimed at countering the North Korean threat.The Pentagon already has sent dispatched bombers, stealth fighters and ships.Tensions have escalated between North and South Korea in recent weeks. The communist North has vowed to increase production of nuclear weapons materials, and threatened a pre-emptive strike against the U.S.Hagel told an audience at the National Defense University that there is a path to peace on the troubled Korean peninsula, but it doesnt include making nuclear threats or taking provocative actions.The land-based missile defense system includes a truck-mounted launcher, tracking radar, interceptor missiles, and an integrated fire control system. The Pentagon said the system will boost defenses for American citizens in Guam, a U.S. territory, and U.S. forces stationed there.

N Korea approves nuclear strike on United States

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SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea dramatically escalated its warlike rhetoric on Thursday, warning that it had authorised plans for nuclear strikes on targets in the United States.The moment of explosion is approaching fast, the North Korean military said, warning that war could break out today or tomorrow.Pyongyangs latest pronouncement came as Washington scrambled to reinforce its Pacific missile defences, preparing to send ground-based interceptors to Guam and dispatching two Aegis class destroyers to the region.Tension was also high on the Norths heavily-fortified border with South Korea, after Kim Jong-Uns isolated regime barred South Koreans from entering a Seoul-funded joint industrial park on its side of the frontier.In a statement published by the state KCNA news agency, the Korean Peoples Army general staff warned Washington that US threats would be smashed by... cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike means.The merciless operation of our revolutionary armed forces in this regard has been finally examined and ratified, the statement said.Last month, North Korea threatened a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, and last week its supreme army command ordered strategic rocket units to combat status.But, while Pyongyang has successfully carried out test nuclear detonations, most experts think it is not yet capable of mounting a device on a ballistic missile capable of striking US bases or territory.Mounting tension in the region could however trigger incidents on the tense and heavily-militarised border between North and South Korea.There was no immediate American reaction to the Norths latest statement, but US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Pyongyang represented a real and clear danger to the United States and to its allies South Korea and Japan.They have nuclear capacity now, they have missile delivery capacity now, Hagel said after a strategy speech at the National Defense University. We take those threats seriously, we have to take those threats seriously.We are doing everything we can, working with the Chinese and others, to defuse that situation on the peninsula. I hope the North will ratchet its very dangerous rhetoric down, he said.The Pentagon said it would send ground-based THAAD interceptor batteries to protect US bases on the island of Guam, complementing two Aegis anti-missile destroyers already dispatched to the region.The THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defence) is a truck-mounted system that can pinpoint an enemy missile launch, track the projectile and launch an interceptor to bring it down.Guam is a US island territory 3,380 kilometres (2,100 miles) southeast of North Korea in the Pacific and is home to 6,000 American military personnel, as well as bases for submarines and strategic bombers.The new defensive measures came as Pyongyang stopped South Korean staff members from entering the Kaesong complex, a shared industrial zone funded by Seoul but 10 kilometres inside the North.Pyongyang said the 861 South Koreans already in the zone could leave, but the move cut the last practical cooperation between the rival powers and was seen as a dramatic escalation in the crisis.South Koreas defence ministry said it had contingency plans that included military action if the safety of its citizens in Kaesong was threatened.China, the Norths sole major ally, appealed for calm from all sides and Russias Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov said he was worried that the situation could spiral out of control.Describing the Kaesong ban as very regrettable, South Koreas Unification Ministry urged the North to normalise access immediately.Otherwise, the ministry warned, not only will inter-Korean relations be negatively affected but North Korea will invoke greater criticism and isolation from the international community.It said 33 South Koreans had returned from Kaesong, with hundreds staying on to keep their companies running smoothly.Around 53,000 North Koreans work at 120 South Korean plants at the complex, which was still operating normally Wednesday.Tensions have soared on the Korean peninsula since December, when the North test launched a long-range rocket. In February, it upped the ante once again by conducting its third nuclear test.Washington has deployed nuclear-capable US B-52s, B-2 stealth bombers and two US destroyers to South Korean air and sea space.This week, the North warned it would reopen its mothballed Yongbyon reactor -- its source of weapons-grade plutonium.The North shut down Yongbyon in July 2007 under a six-nation aid-for-disarmament accord.Experts say it would take at least six months to get the reactor back up and running, after which it will be able to produce one bombs worth of weapons-grade plutonium per year.

Kerry to make new Middle East visit

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Istanbul this weekend before traveling on to Israel and Ramallah, a top US official said Wednesday, on what will be Kerrys third trip to the Middle East.Kerry will meet with top Turkish leaders to discuss the situation in Syria, before heading to Jerusalem and the West Bank on Monday and Tuesday.He will hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, adding Kerry wanted to see what is possible on the peace talks.The visit to the Middle East has been added to a previously announced trip during which Kerry will also travel to London before heading to Asia for the first time as Americas new secretary of state.But Nuland dismissed the notion that Kerry might be ready to unveil a new initiative to try to bring together the Israelis and the Palestinians, with the peace process having stalled since late 2010.The secretary is not planning to put a big plan on the table, Nuland said, stressing this was to be a listening tour.He will also be making clear that the parties have to want to get back to the table, she said, warning that compromises and sacrifices will have to be made on both sides.On his first overseas trip since taking up the post, Kerry visited Egypt in early March for talks with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.He then accompanied President Barack Obama on a trip last month, before holding one-on-one talks with the Israeli and Palestinian leadership in Jerusalem and Amman on March 24.

18 killed in Nigerian road crash: official

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LAGOS (AFP) - Eighteen people were killed and nine others seriously injured Wednesday when their bus veered off its lane and collided with another bus along a highway linking the capital Abuja to the central city of Lokoja, officials said.The bus driver suddenly left his lane and ran into the other lane apparently due to fatigue, resulting to a collision with the luxury bus, a statement from the Federal Road Safety Commission said.Nigeria, Africas most populous nation, has one of the worst road accident records in Africa, with poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving conspiring to kill thousands every year.

Tennis: Serena wins WTA clay opener

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CHARLESTON (AFP) - World No. 1 Serena Williams served nine aces Tuesday during her first match this season on clay, beating Italys Camila Giorgi 6-2, 6-3 at the $795,000 WTA Family Circle Cup.Williams did not commit a double fault but took full advantage of 12 by her 85th-ranked rival to win after 82 minutes in her first match since capturing the WTA Miami crown last Saturday by beating Maria Sharapova in the final.It wasnt great for me -- I played well, but I wasnt great, footing-wise, Williams said of the switch from the hard courts of Miami to the clay courts of Charleston.I was just trying to get my stability. I only had one or two days of practice. But I felt good. Im glad I came here and hope I can get ready for what can hopefully be another good clay court season.Next in the path of Williams, who was among eight top seeds to receive a first-round bye, is a third-round match against either Germanys 15th-seeded Sabine Lisicki or US qualifier Mallory Burdette.Others reaching the third round included Swiss Stefanie Voegele, who ousted Spanish seventh seed Carla Suarez Navarro 6-2, 6-4, and Romanian 11th seed Sorana Cirstea, who defeated Spains Anabel Medina Garrigues in a walkover.US wildcard Bethanie Mattek-Sands rebounded from a marathon first-round victory on Monday to topple fourth-seeded compatriot Sloane Stephens 6-2, 6-0 and reach the third round.Among first-round winners were Britains Laura Robson, who dismissed Spains Estrella Cabeza Candela 6-2, 6-2, and New Zealands Marina Erakovic, who eliminated Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova 7-6 (7/2), 6-4.

Real Madrid beat Galatasaray 3-0 in Champs League

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MADRID (AP) - Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring after just nine minutes as Real Madrid swept to a convincing 3-0 victory over Galatasaray in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal on Wednesday.Ronaldos delicate chip shot was followed 20 minutes later by a close-range strike from Karim Benzema as a dominant Madrid moved effortlessly through the gears.Gonzalo Higuain came on for Benzema in the 65th and headed home eight minutes later, leaving Galatasaray with a near-impossible task in Tuesdays second leg in Istanbul to reach the semifinals.Ronaldo set the early tone with an exquisite piece of skill, running on to Mesut Oezils defense-splitting pass before lifting the ball over goalkeeper Fernando Muslera and into the far corner of the net. Since his arrival at Madrid, the German midfielder has supplied Ronaldo with 25 goalscoring assists.Didier Drogba could have equalized for the visitors in the 12th after controlling the ball on the edge of the penalty area, but his shot flew high. Three minutes later, Wesley Sneijders effort also sailed over the Madrid crossbar in one of the visitors best periods of the game.Muslera was forced to make a good, low save in the 18th minute from a shot by Oezil before Madrid made its superiority count for a second time.Benzema was picked out by a long cross from the right by Michael Essien and the France international was allowed just enough time to unleash a low, right-foot shot inside Musleras near post.Madrid continued to the control game in the second half, while Galatsaray had very little to show for its efforts and lacked any real bit in the final third.Angel Di Maria had a shot at close range, but the ball was held by Muslera in the 62nd.However, there was nothing the Galatasaray keeper could do in the 73rd minute when Higuain rose to meet a free kick by Xabi Alonso and sent a glancing header into the corner of the net.In Wednesdays other quarterfinal, first leg match, Malaga held Borussia Dortmund to a 0-0 draw in Spain.

Malaga draw 0-0 with Dortmund in CL quarters

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MALAGA, Spain (AP) - Malaga held on for a 0-0 draw with Borussia Dortmund thanks to an inspired performance by goalkeeper Willy Caballero on Wednesday in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal.Dortmunds high-paced attack led by Mario Goetze and Robert Lewandowski produced several scoring chances for the German champions, but their lack of finishing touch and Caballeros saves let the hosts keep their seventh clean sheet in 11 games.Malaga will have a slight away-goal advantage when it visits Dortmund for the return leg on April 9.Real Madrid beat Galatasaray 3-0 in the nights other first leg match.They didnt score against us today, that is the most important thing, Caballero said. I hope my saves serve for something come next week. We are facing a very tough rival. Now we have another week to study them.Dortmund remained unbeaten in the competition this season, while Malaga has yet to lose at its La Rosaleda Stadium in its first appearance in Europes top-tier tournament.Pushed forward by its raucous home fans, Malaga made a bright enough start. But once Dortmund started to click, the German side didnt slow down.After Malagas Javier Saviola hit the side-netting in the seventh minute, Goetze had two golden chances to put Dortmund ahead but Caballero denied him on both occasions.The young Dortmund stars weak shot was parried by Caballero in a one-on-one in the 14th minute after Lewandowski had headed a long ball on to Goetze, giving him all the time he needed to size up the keeper.Goetze did better with a sharp strike on the break four minutes later, only for Caballero again to bail out his defense as he stood his ground.Although Malaga forward Franciso Isco Alarcon provided a threat, the match tilted in Dortmunds favor as it gained a greater share of the ball and got Malaga on the back foot. Dortmunds blistering pace, fueled by Marco Reus, started to overrun Malagas defensive midfield pair of Jeremy Toulalan and Manuel Iturra.Malaga centerback Weligton was forced to scramble back and foul Lewandowski on the edge of the box at the half-hour mark, meaning he will miss the return leg.Bending but refusing to break, Malaga managed to settle down and the final 10 minutes before halftime were a constant back-and-forth by both teams seeking the elusive goal.Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller got his first true test in the 42nd minute when Weligton sent in a header that he did well to repel, while Caballero saved a long shot from Sebastian Kehl before the break.The visitors picked up where they had left off in the second half, and soon dominated possession.Lewandowski scuffed a clear chance in the 47th after Goetze had broken behind Malagas backline and crossed for his striker as he arrived unmarked down the middle of the box.Goetze then went close again in the 65th with a shot by the far post, a minute before Isco replied with a stringing strike punched clear by Weidenfeller.Malagas Iturra will also miss the second leg after picking up a yellow card in the 78th.We have suffered all season from losing players that have had to leave, so we will move forward, Caballero said, referring to the clubs sale of regular starters Santi Cazorla, Nacho Monreal, and Jose Rondon since last season.

City, Chelsea USA friendly sells out

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LONDON (AFP) - Manchester City said Wednesday their end-of-season friendly against Chelsea in the United States has sold out.City said the May 23 match in St Louis sold out inside just 20 minutes after tickets went on sale.The English Premier League giants will meet at the home of St Louis Cardinals, Busch Stadium, which has a capacity of 46,861.Citys chief commercial and operating officer said Tom Glick said: We believe in US soccer and we know how much passion the fans in North America have for the beautiful game.The club is committed to giving fans across the world the opportunity to get close to Manchester City FC.

Pistorius wants to resume training: manager

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JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Paralympian sprint star Oscar Pistorius is considering resuming training following the easing of the stringent bail terms imposed after he was charged with murdering his girlfriend, his manager said Thursday.He said he is considering coming back into training, manager Peet Van Zyl told AFP after talks with the double amputee.Obviously he thinks it is good for him to go back into training and put some form of routine back into his life, Van Zyl said.Pistorius, 26, whose athletics career has been on hold since the Valentines Day killing of 29-year-old Reeva Steenkamp, last month appealed against a raft of bail conditions he said were unfair and unwarranted.A judge relaxed most of them, allowing him to travel overseas if he wants to compete in international races.It is immediately unclear as to when he might return to the track, but Van Zyl said if he feels like tomorrow morning, he gets up and we will do it .. .theres no specific time frame.Pistorius may be eyeing the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships which take place in Moscow in August.The double amputee known as Blade Runner faces a trial later this year on a charge of premeditated murder.He claims he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he shot her several times through a locked bathroom door with a gun he kept under his bed, but the state argues it was pre-meditated murder.

WHO urges more effort to beat high blood pressure

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GENEVA (AFP) - Individuals and governments need to step up their efforts to battle high blood pressure, which is estimated to affect more than one in three adults aged over 25, the World Health Organisation said Wednesday.Around a billion people around the globe suffer from the condition, also known as hypertension, the United Nations health agency said.The condition is one of the most important contributors to heart disease and stroke, which together make up the world's number one cause of premature death and disability. Researchers estimate that high blood pressure contributes to nearly 9.4 million deaths from cardiovascular disease each year, the WHO said.It also increases the risk of conditions such as kidney failure and blindness.Our aim today is to make people aware of the need to know their blood pressure, to take high blood pressure seriously, and then to take control, the WHO's director general, Margaret Chan, said in a statement.Detecting high blood pressure is the first step in preventing and controlling it, the agency underlined.People can cut the risks by consuming less salt, eating a balanced diet, engaging in regular physical activity, avoiding tobacco use and cutting down on drinking, it said.According to WHO data, the prevalence of hypertension is highest in Africa, where it affects 46 percent of adults, while the lowest prevalence is in the Americas, where 35 percent have it.High-income countries overall have a lower prevalence of hypertension, 35 percent of adults, than their low- and middle-income counterparts, where 40 percent are affected.That difference is thanks to targeted health policies and better access to care, the WHO said.

Scientists find hint of dark matter from cosmos

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GENEVA (AP) - A $2 billion cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station has found the footprint of something that could be dark matter, the mysterious substance that is believed to hold the cosmos together but has never been directly observed, scientists say.But the first results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, known by its acronym AMS, are almost as enigmatic as dark matter itself. They show evidence of new physics phenomena that could be the strange and unknown dark matter or could be energy that originates from pulsars, scientists at the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva announced Wednesday.The results from the detector are significant, because dark matter is thought to make up about a quarter of all the matter in the universe. Unraveling the mystery of dark matter could help scientists better understand the composition of our universe and, more particularly, what holds galaxies together.Nobel-winning physicist Samuel Ting, who leads the team, told colleagues at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, that he expects a more conclusive answer within months about this unexpected new phenomena.The 7-ton detector, which was sent into space two years ago and has a 3-foot (0.91-meter) magnet ring at its core, is transmitting the data to CERN on the Swiss-French border, where it is being analyzed.The instrument will search for antimatter and dark matter for the rest of the life of the space station at least until 2020 transmitting data to an international team of 600 scientists based in Geneva that is led by Ting, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The findings Wednesday are based on seeing an excess of positrons positively charged subatomic particles.Since the highly accurate AMS magnetic detector began studying cosmic ray particles in space, it has found about 400,000 positrons whose surging energies indicate they might have been created when particles of dark matter collided and destroyed each other.It is this level of precision that will allow us to tell whether our current positron observation has a dark matter or pulsar origin, Ting said.Other scientists praised the results and looked forward to more.This is an 80-year-old detective story and we are getting close to the end, said University of Chicago physicist Michael Turner, one of the giants in the field of dark matter. This is a tantalizing clue and further results from AMS could finish the story.

Scientists find antibody 'roadmap' to AIDS vaccine

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PARIS (AFP) - Scientists on a quest for an antibody-based AIDS vaccine said Wednesday they found promising clues in the uncommonly robust natural immune response of a patient in Africa.Studying blood samples over a three-year period after the person was infected, researchers were witness to a microscopic battle between the virus and antibodies -- both evolving as they sought to gain the upper hand.For the first time, scientists were able to follow the full chain of events leading to the patient naturally producing broadly neutralising antibodies (BnAbs)-- so called because they attack different strains of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.The current research... fills gaps in knowledge that have impeded development of an effective vaccine for a virus that has killed more than 30 million people worldwide, said a statement from Duke Medicine, which participated in the study by a team of researchers in the United States and Malawi.We learned from this individual how the antibodies get induced with the hope that this information can be a map for how to induce these antibodies as a preventive vaccine, added team leader Barton Haynes, director of Duke Universitys Human Vaccine Institute.Antibodies are the foot soldiers of the immune system, latching onto viruses or microbial intruders and tagging them for destruction by specialised killer cells.Most antiviral vaccines are made by priming antibodies to recognise germs, but the method has not yet been successful in AIDS control.One of vaccine developers fiercest foes, the HIV virus typically evolves too fast to ever be left open to antibody attack.The individual in the study, from an African country that is not specified, is one of about 20 percent of HIV-infected people whose immune systems naturally produce BnAbs.Unfortunately, this generally only happens two to four years after infection and is of no help to the host who will still develop AIDS if not treated with anti-retroviral drugs.When broad neutralising antibodies are made they are no help to the person already infected. The notion is however; if they are present before infection, then they can prevent infection and prevent insertion of the virus genetic material into the host genetic material, Haynes told AFP of the research published in the journal Nature.In monkeys, BnAbs have shown to prevent infection.A BnAbs-based vaccine is being keenly pursued in the battle against AIDS, an immune system-wrecking disease first recognised in 1981.Almost one percent of the worlds population today is infected with HIV, according to the United Nations.In this study, researchers isolated an antibody named CH103, and found that it was triggered by a specific protein envelope found on an early, little-mutated form of the HIV virus.This meant the antibodies may only be stimulated to respond in the presence of this protein or other similar ones on the virus.While most antibodies require about 10 to 15 mutations to be able to attack their target, potent BnAbs show 40 to 100, said a comment on the study also published by Nature, which described the findings as a possible roadmap to an HIV vaccine.The CH103 antibody had a much lower number of mutations, which may explain how it developed so quickly in this patient.The scientists said they had gained a critical insight for developing a potential vaccine.We are now making recombinant forms of the (protein) envelopes from this patient as a vaccine to immunise animals to recreate the induction of a similar type of antibody, said Haynes.A Nature statement said it remained to be seen whether or not the finding could be used to develop an effective vaccine.But it presents a strong and testable rationale that can be used to address the major challenges of creating an antibody-based HIV-1 vaccine, it said.

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