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• Pak-born British tailor makes world's most expensive suit
• Putin: US-Russia positions on Syria don't coincide
• Turkey warns it may use army to end protest unrest
• Ban to hold talks with Chinese leaders
• British, US agencies spied on world leaders at G20
• Millions of moths mass on Madrid
• Tennis: Radwanska dreaming of grass-court consistency
• Vesnina beats Ivanovic in Wimbledon warmup
• Nigeria swamp Tahiti in Confed Cup opener
• Oil posts small loss after hitting high for year
• Sri Lanka into CT semis after beating Australia
• Missing persons: Commission likely to submit report to PM
• BBC veteran Broadcaster jailed for sex assaults
• Report sought on appointments in IT Ministry
• Israel picks team to build high-speed web network

Pak-born British tailor makes world's most expensive suit Posted: HONG KONG (Agencies) - Some of the world’s most prestigious fashion brands, like Gucci or Prada, design suits that can cost ups of $3,000. While many may think that is already a hefty price to pay in the name of fashion, one company in Hong Kong dares to challenge that. Arshad Mahmood and his team of tailors made what he claims could be one the world’s most expensive suits -- priced at a cool million Hong Kong dollars (about US$129,000).According to the South China Morning Post, the suit, which includes 22-carat gold stitching, a gold waistcoat and diamond encrusted gold buttons, was sold on May 29.Mahmood is the director of Apsley Tailors -- otherwise known locally as Punjab House in Hong Kong -- a company known for their bespoke garments. The suit reportedly took Mahmood’s tailors about 200 hours to make, using the highest quality wool that had gold strands intertwined in the fabric.“It is very special,” Mahmood said in an interview. “It’s a great achievement for us,” he added with pride, saying the million-dollar gold suit is the only one of its kind. Such a special suit also means it will only be worn on special occasions. “People are not going to wear it everyday,” he said, adding that he speculates the well-dressed mystery owner of the suit will probably only wear it twice a year for very special occasions.However, it seems that the Apsley suit is in fact the world’s second-most expensive suit, beaten out by a silk and diamond suit by Stuart Hughes and Richard Jewls of Manchester, England. That suit is made from a blend of cashmere wool and silk and contains over 480 diamonds measuring up to over 240 carats of suit sparkle. The suit was sold for $7.3 million Hong Kong dollars, or $943,000 US.

Putin: US-Russia positions on Syria don't coincide Posted: ENNISKILLEN (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Barack Obama on Monday that their positions on Syria do not coincide but the two leaders said during the G-8 summit that they have a shared interest in stopping the violence that has ravaged the Middle Eastern country during a two-year-old civil war.Obama acknowledged in a bilateral meeting with Putin in Northern Ireland that they have a different perspective on Syria but he said that both leaders wanted to address the fierce fighting and also wanted to secure chemical weapons in the country. The U.S. president said both sides would work to develop talks in Geneva aimed at ending the country's bloody civil war.We do have differing perspectives on the problem but we share an interest in reducing the violence, securing chemical weapons and ensuring that they're neither used nor are they subject to proliferation, Obama said. We want to try to resolve the issue through political means if possible.Putin said of course our opinions do not coincide, but all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria and to stop the growth of victims and to solve the situation peacefully, including by bringing the parties to the negotiations table in Geneva. We agreed to push the parties to the negotiations table.While Putin has called for negotiated peace talks, he has not urged Syrian President Bashar Assad to leave power, and he remains one of Assad's strongest political and military allies. The White House did not expect any breakthrough with Putin on Syria during the gathering of the Group of Eight Summit and the meeting further highlighted the rift between the two countries on how to address the fighting in Syria.Obama announced Friday that the U.S. would start sending weaponry, while Britain and France remained concerned that the firepower might end up helping anti-democratic extremists linked to Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia. Putin has defended Russia's continuing supply of weapons to Assad's military.At least 93,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict since it erupted in March 2011, according to a recent U.N. estimate. Millions have been displaced.

Turkey warns it may use army to end protest unrest Posted: ISTANBUL (AFP) - Turkey warned on Monday it may bring in the army to help quell nearly three weeks of nationwide anti-government protests as two major union federations went on strike over police violence against demonstrators.The government raised the threat of putting soldiers on the streets after a weekend of violent clashes sparked by the eviction of campers occupying Istanbul's Gezi Park, the epicentre of the protest movement.Police will use all their powers to end the unrest, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said in a televised interview. If this is not enough, we can even utilise the Turkish armed forces in cities.The deployment of the military, the self-described guardian of the secular state, would mark an escalation of a crisis posing the biggest challenge yet to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamic-rooted government.But after losing their focal protest site, with Gezi Park and the adjoining Taksim Square still guarded by police on Monday, the demos appeared to lose some of their intensity.The more subdued mood was in stark contrast to the weekend, when riot police fired volleys of tear gas and jets of water in hours-long running battles with thousands of protesters.Groups of hundreds of striking workers from the KESK and DISK union federations took to the streets in Istanbul, Ankara and the western city Izmir calling for the police violence against protesters to end immediately and chanting Erdogan, resign.Their progress was at times blocked by officers backed by water cannon trucks but there were no reports of fresh clashes.The unions' turnout was smaller than when they marched in support of the demonstrators on June 5.After the members dispersed in Istanbul in the evening, some 300 youngsters clashed briefly with police who fired tear gas, water and rubber bullets.Turkey's crisis began when a sit-in to save Gezi's 600 trees from being razed in a redevelopment project prompted a brutal police response on May 31, spiralling into countrywide demonstrations against Erdogan, seen as increasingly authoritarian.So far four people have been killed and nearly 7,500 people injured, according to the Turkish Medical Association (TBB).At a rally of more than 100,000 supporters of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Sunday, Erdogan defended his response to the demos, saying it was his duty as prime minister to order police to storm Gezi Park after protesters defied his warnings to clear out.He also vowed to go after those who had offered assistance to the protesters, in a nod to the luxury hotels who opened their doors to people fleeing the clouds of tear gas and jets of water during the park's evacuation on Saturday.We know the ones who sheltered in their hotels those who cooperated with terror. They will be held accountable, the combative premier said

Ban to hold talks with Chinese leaders Posted: UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - UN leader Ban Ki-moon will on Tuesday start talks with Chinese leaders in Beijing and diplomats say North Korea and Syria will top the agenda.Ban is to meet with President Xi Xinping and other top leaders during a three day stay in Beijing, said a UN spokesman.He is going to be meeting the president, the premier, senior officials. He will be visiting a peacekeeping academy there, said deputy UN spokesman Eduardo del Buey.The spokesman refused to disclose the topics that Ban would discuss. Diplomats said however that the worsening Syria conflict and North Korea must top Ban's list in Beijing.Ban has taken a hard line on Syria where China has sided with Russia. But North Korea is also an urgent problem for everyone, said a UN Security Council diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity.China has sided with Russia three times in using a veto against Western proposed UN Security Council resolutions that would increase pressure on Syria's President Bashar al-Assad.The UN has spoken out against China's treatment of North Korean refugees, but North Korea's nuclear program is also a major UN concern.Ban noted North Korea's offer to hold talks with the arch-rival the United States, said del Buey.He has consistently stated that the parties should resolve their differences through dialogue and for any dialogue to be meaningful it should be firmly anchored in the common goal of the verifiable denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, added the spokesman.

British, US agencies spied on world leaders at G20 Posted: LONDON (Agencies) - British Prime Minister David Cameron has refused to comment on reports the country’s intelligence services intercepted communications by delegates attending two G20 meetings in 2009 in London.Edward Snowden, a former US National Security Agency contractor turned whistleblower, has obtained a wider range of materials about US government surveillance than had been known, including one document detailing how American and British intelligence eavesdropped on world leaders at a conference in London in 2009.The latest disclosures, made by The Guardian on Sunday, come as the leaders of some of the worlds richest nations gather at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland. Some leaders who were intelligence targets four years ago will be at this weeks summit.We never comment on security or intelligence issues and I am not about to start now, Mr Cameron told Sky News. I don’t make comments on security or intelligence issues - that would be breaking something that no government has previously done.The British eavesdropping agency GCHQ, which works closely with the NSA, monitored emails and telephone conversations of other countries representatives at the two G20 meetings, in part by setting up a monitored internet cafe for participants, the newspaper reported.In addition, the US intercepted communications by Dmitry Medvedev, then Russias president and now its Prime Minister, The Guardian said.The leaked GCHQ documents indicate that email interception and key-logging software was installed on the computers in the ersatz internet cafe; that foreign diplomats BlackBerry messages and phone calls were intercepted, and that 45 analysts tracked who was telephoning whom at the summit.The initiative, which targeted countries including Turkey and South Africa, was to improve Britain’s negotiating position during the summit, rather than address security concerns, the report said.Richard Aldrich, professor of international security at Warwick University and the author of a history of GCHQ, said the logos of the NSA and Canadian intelligence on one of the British documents suggested that they were accessible to Mr Snowden under the auspices of a joint program.He said Mr Snowdens leak shows that British and US diplomats and politicians get a real-time feed of intelligence on their counterparts at major summits. Now this is integrated into summit diplomacy, almost like a newsreader getting a feed in their ear, he said.US intelligence officials are alarmed at the variety of highly classified material Mr Snowden has obtained, suggesting that his actions reveal a shocking breach in the fundamental principle that intelligence officers should have access only to the material they need to do their jobs.A spokesman for the British foreign service said he would not comment on intelligence matters.Disclosures linked to Mr Snowden, 29, rank among the most significant breaches in the NSA, the largest US intelligence agency, since its creation in 1952.In 2003, GCHQ translator Katharine Gun revealed the NSA was eavesdropping on the United Nations before the Iraq invasion. In 2005, officials told The New York Times about the NSAs eavesdropping, without warrants, inside the United States.By contrast, the latest disclosures have exposed surveillance approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and shared with Congress.Matthew Aid, an intelligence historian in Washington, said the reports have confirmed longstanding suspicions that NSAs surveillance in this country is far more intrusive than we knew.However, he said the reports of spying on world leaders, while distressing to the eavesdroppers because it will make their targets more wary, contain no surprises.This is just what intelligence agencies do - spy on friends and enemies alike. Only because the shroud of secrecy that covers all of NSA operations is so thick does a glimpse like this come as a shock.

Millions of moths mass on Madrid Posted: MADRID (AFP) - Millions of moths have engulfed Madrid in a population explosion blamed on spring rains, a sudden blast of summer heat and winds that have wafted them in as unwelcome guests to the Spanish capital.Across the city, people are swapping tales of night-time battles to swat moths lured by the light into their bedrooms, a whole new genre of jokes has been born and the phenomenon has become a trending Twitter topic.No-one is sure of precisely where they came from.Roger Vila, researcher at the butterfly diversity and evolution laboratory in the northeastern city of Barcelona, identified three types of moth from photographic evidence: the Gamma, Noctua and Catocala.Many of them flew to the capital from southern Spain but others may have migrated from northern Africa on a long journey across the Gibraltar Strait to destinations across Europe, he told AFP on Monday.What happened is that there were very special climactic conditions, Vila explained. After a cool, rainy spring ideal for the vegetation that caterpillars feed on, the weather turned hot recently, leading the moths to emerge en masse from their chrysalids at about the same time, the scientist said.The flying insects, which carry no health risk and are not the clothes-eating variety, probably ended up in Madrid because of prevailing winds, Vila said.They live for about a week so they will certainly die within a few days, he added. The only question is whether more arrive at some point.Jose Maria Camera, a vet at the Madrid city hall's health department, said there were countless moths in the city.Residents had called the city authorities with sightings of anything from two or three moths to a barely credible 150, he said.The first reaction was alarm, then curiosity and even irony and jokes, the city official said.Many citizens, for example, jokingly blame Atletico Madrid football supporters, who won this year's Spanish Cup and removed their scarves from musty drawers for the supposedly rare celebration.On Twitter, one wit is sending messages pretending to be a moth (polilla in Spanish) and signing them Polilla de Madrid. One of his latest tweets reads: The truth is your homes are so comfy. Don't you love the sound of our wings?

Tennis: Radwanska dreaming of grass-court consistency Posted: EASTBOURNE (AFP) - Last year's Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwanska is hoping to improve her grass-play consistency on what she calls her favourite surface as she starts her grand slam preparation as women's top seed at the ATP-WTA Eastbourne International.The fourth-ranked Pole has had her ups and downs on the lawns, losing on the South coast in the first round a year ago but going on to make a surprise appearance in her first major final facing Serena Williams in the title match at the All England club a little more than a fortnight later.It's good to be back, even if last year was not so good for me here, said Radwanska, heading a field with nine grass-court title winners in the women's draw.Radwanska cannot decipher why she loves grass so much, especially since she only steps onto it for the brief Wimbledon period. But the secret may lie in the fact that she and her sister Ursula train on synthetic grass during the winter off-season at home.The right-hander from Krakow added: We don't have any hard courts in my city, and certainly no real grass. In the winter, synthetic grass is all we have.Radwanska will open play at windy Devonshire Park against the winner of the match between Briton Johanna Konta and Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan.Radwanska hopes to get enough polish on her grass game this week to make another big impression when Wimbledon begins next Monday.I hope I can make the final again and maybe go even further. Playing a grand slam final is so special, it feels like nothing else in the sport.I'm defending the final there so of course there is pressure. But I just try not to think of it and play my game.Former world number one Ana Ivanovic, the number seven, became the first seed to fall as she lost to Russian Elena Vesnina 2-6. 6-4, 6-3.The crowd-pleasing Serb saved two match points in the final game after falling behind 3-5 in the third set. But Vesnina won her first match here in her third appearance to reach the second round.On grass it's very hard to get rhythm, you don't get many long rallies and long points, said Ivanovic. But overall I was pleased with my serving today, and in the first set I did quite a few good things.I want to build now and hopefully have another few good days of practise before Wimbledon.Ivanovic had won both her previous meetings with the 36th-ranked Vesnina, who claimed her first WTA title in January in Hobart.Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli, the 2011 titleholder got off to a comfortable 6-3, 6-2 winning start over Italy's Flavia Pennetta.Bartoli was playing for the first time since losing in the French Open third round and withdrawing from last week's Birmingham grass tournament due to an ankle problem.In the men's draw, Italian seeds advanced with number seven Andreas Seppi, last year's losing finalist, beating Guillaume Rufin of France 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 and number eight Fabio Fognini defeating Grega Zemlja of Slovenia, 6-7 (6/8), 6-2, 6-4.American Ryan Harrison dfeated France's Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7/4) and wild card Kyle Edmund earned a British win over qualifier Kenny De Schepper 6-4, 6-4.

Vesnina beats Ivanovic in Wimbledon warmup Posted: EASTBOURNE (AP) - Ana Ivanovic was the first seed to fall at Eastbourne when she was beaten 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 by Russia's Elena Vesnina, and 2012 men's runner-up Andreas Seppi needed to fight back from a set down to reach the second round on Monday.Former champion Marion Bartoli of France eased past Flavia Pennetta of Italy 6-3, 6-2 to set up a possible clash with second-seeded Li Na, and sixth-seeded Maria Kirilenko of Russia defeated Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia 7-6 (5), 6-1.Ivanovic swept to 4-0 against Vesnina but the seventh-seeded Serb failed to maintain her momentum, and for the remainder of the match she lacked rhythm against an aggressive opponent.I think on grass it's very hard to get rhythm. You don't get many long rallies and long points, Ivanovic said. But overall I was pleased with my serving today, and in the first set I did quite a few good things.Seventh-seeded Seppi prevailed 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 against French qualifier Guillaume Rufin, and there was also victory for fellow Italian and No. 8-seeded Fabio Fognini, who rallied to beat Slovenian Grega Zemlja 6-7 (6), 6-2, 6-4.Sixth-seededed Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov was beaten 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 by Spain's Fernando Verdasco, and American qualifier Ryan Harrison edged former three-time quarterfinalist Paul-Henri Mathieu of France, failing to serve out the match at 5-4 before winning 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (4).Agnieszka Radwanska and Li top the women's draw, and Milos Raonic and Gilles Simon head the men's event.

Nigeria swamp Tahiti in Confed Cup opener Posted: BELO HORIZONTE (AFP) - Nnamdi Oduamadi claimed a hat-trick as Nigeria shook off the jet lag to thrash minnows Tahiti 6-1 in their opening Confederations Cup game in Belo Horizonte on Monday.The African champions only arrived in Brazil 36 hours before the game after a row over bonus payments, but they could even afford some wasteful finishing as they leapfrogged world champions Spain to the top of Group B.It was a predictably chastening experience for Tahiti, ranked 138th in the world, but they were nonetheless able to celebrate when Jonathan Tehau headed in their first ever goal at a high-profile international event.Tehau's goal, early in the second half, trimmed Nigeria's lead to 3-1 after a deflected Uwa Echiejile shot and a pair of goals from Oduamadi had put Nigeria in command.However, the south Pacific islanders' hopes of a famous comeback were dashed as Tehau put through his own goal before Oduamadi and Echiejile added further goals to give Stephen Keshi's men a spring in their step ahead of Thursday's crucial showdown with Uruguay.A sparse crowd of just 20,187 made their way to the newly renovated Estadio Mineirao but they were vocal in their support of Tahiti, who registered the game's first shot on target through Vincent Simon.Fortune deserted the underdogs moments later, however.After the ball bounced off referee Joel Aguilar, Echiejile launched a speculative shot that deflected off Tehau and captain Nicolas Vallar and ricocheted past Tahiti goalkeeper Xavier Samin.Oduamadi added two more, neatly side-stepping a pair of challenges and sweeping home in the 10th minute, before tapping in his second when Samin spilled a low cross from Ahmed Musa.Nigeria made heavy work of putting the game to bed though, with Musa miskicking in front of an open goal before Anthony Ujah and Sunday Mba both allowed Samin to save when clean through on goal.Tahiti had already seen their one professional player, Marama Vahirua, drive a shot narrowly over, and they threatened to make things interesting as Steevy Chong Hue headed wide from a Ricky Aitamai cross.Musa miscued again from 12 yards early in the second half, before the goal that Tahiti had been threatening arrived in the 54th minute.The honour fell to Tehau, who headed in a deep corner kick from Vahirua at the back post and then led his ecstatic team-mates in a canoe-paddling celebration.The goal also sparked jubilation on the bench, coach Eddy Etatea leaping from the dug-out with his fists in the air, but Tehau's day took a turn for the worse in the 68th minute when he inadvertently toed the ball into his own goal to restore Nigeria's three-goal advantage.Oduamadi tucked in a cross from substitute Brown Ideye to complete his hat-trick in the 76th minute, with Echiejile adding a sixth shortly after as Tahiti's reserves of resistance finally ran dry.

Oil posts small loss after hitting high for year Posted: NEW YORK (AP) - The price of oil fell slightly after it climbed to a high for the year Monday, as the market waits to see the results of this weeks Federal Reserve policy meeting.U.S. benchmark oil for July delivery fell 8 cents to finish at $97.77 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier, crude rose to $98.74, the highest level since mid-September.Brent crude, a benchmark for many international oil varieties, fell 46 cents to end at $105.47 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.Concern that the conflict in Syria could spread and disrupt oil supplies from key producing countries has boosted oil.Jim Ritterbusch, president of oil consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates, speculated that the White Houses decision to arm rebels in the country has added $2 to the price of a barrel.But Ritterbusch and others questioned how much more of a security premium could be packed into the price of oil.We still have some difficulty associating a minor escalation in the Syrian conflict with any significant supply disruptions from nearby oil producers such as Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Ritterbusch said in a daily note to clients.Julian Jessop, head of commodities research at Capital Economics, predicted in a note to clients that the U.S. and its allies would respond to any disruption in supplies by releasing oil from strategic reserves in order to suppress any price spike.Hopes that the U.S. Federal Reserve will maintain its aggressive stimulus measures have also lifted oil and U.S. stock markets. The central banks policy of ultra-low interest rates has made riskier assets like stocks and oil more attractive than low-yielding bonds.Some investors worry that long-term interest rates could spike when the Fed tightens monetary policy, threatening the economic recovery. The Fed concludes a two-day policy meeting Wednesday.The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard and Poors 500 index each rose Monday.The election of Hasan Rowhani as president of Iran helped contain some of the upside in the price of oil. Considered a moderate, Rowhanis election is being viewed as lowering the potential of further conflict in the Middle East, which supplies around a third of the worlds crude.

Sri Lanka into CT semis after beating Australia Posted: LONDON (AP) - Sri Lanka will play India in the Champion Trophy semifinals after ousting defending champion Australia by 20 runs and overtaking New Zealand in the group standings on Monday.Sri Lanka posted 253-8 on a turning pitch at The Oval due to Mahela Jayawardene's 84 from 81 deliveries and Lahiru Thirimanne's 57.That meant Australia needed to eclipse the target in 29.1 overs to advance, a prospect that always seemed unlikely and proved increasingly so when it lost four wickets inside the opening nine overs.However, the Australian middle order and tail fought a thrilling rearguard action to finish on 233 from 42.3 overs.While the Sri Lankans missed a chance to edge England to win Group A, the victory delivered a double knockout in eliminating both finalists from the previous Champions Trophy in 2009, Australia and New Zealand. The Kiwis would have advanced with a Sri Lanka loss.Instead, Sri Lanka plays on Thursday in the second semifinal in Cardiff, Wales. England meets South Africa a day earlier at The Oval.The run rate for Australia initially wasn't a problem through big-hitting Glenn Maxwell's 32 from 20 balls, but it fell away as the wickets tumbled.Adam Voges made 49, while wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade contributed 31 from 23 deliveries. A last-wicket stand of 41 between Clint McKay and Xavier Doherty, who notched career-best ODI scores of 30 and 15 not out respectively, took Australia much closer to victory than seemed likely.Nuwan Kulasekara was the star in the field, claiming 3-42 with the ball, holding a good catch and executing a run out.Australia got off to a bad start when Shane Watson chopped the eighth ball of the innings, from Kulasekara, onto his stumps to send the largely Sri Lankan crowd into paroxysms of delight.Maxwell was promoted up the order and he was instrumental in ensuring Australia scored 27 in total from the fourth and fifth overs.Two balls later, however, Kulasekara took his second wicket when Phillip Hughes tried to steer the ball to third man but succeeded only in directing it to wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara. He was caught for 13 with the total on 45.Australia's 50 came up off only 34 balls when Maxwell found the midwicket fence. But his cameo, which included five boundaries and a six, came to an end when he lost his leg stump to a full ball from Lasith Malinga to make it 59-3 in the seventh over.Two overs later with 10 added to the total, captain George Bailey was caught dawdling to be run out at the non-striker's end by a direct hit by Kulasekara from short fine-leg.Australia slumped to 80-5 in the 13th over when Mitchell Marsh completely misread a slower ball from Angelo Mathews and was bowled.Wade, James Faulkner and Mitchell Johnson soon departed, but the last-wicket stand threatened to secure victory. Instead, Australia finished last in the group, with its only point coming from the no-result against New Zealand, and missed out on the semis for the first time since 2000.Earlier, Jayawardene moved past 11,000 one-day international runs in hitting his 69th half-century after Australia won the toss and elected to field.Tillakaratne Dilshan (34) and Lahiru Thirimanne (57) put on a 72-run stand to form the foundation of Sri Lanka's innings. Jayawardene then struck 11 boundaries and received able support from Dinesh Chandimal's 31 from 32 balls.Australia's bowling performance was largely disciplined. Doherty and Johnson were the pick of the seven bowlers used. Johnson found his rhythm to generate pace and capture 3-48, while Doherty was more frugal in taking 1-30.

Missing persons: Commission likely to submit report to PM Posted: ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The Commission headed by Justice (r) Javed Iqbal has prepared a report about the missing persons.The report says that the commission collected information about 415 out of 1054 missing persons. The report would be submitted to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the end of this month.The commission has termed the issue of missing persons a human tragedy.According to the report, the commission recovered and handed over missing persons to their families including 64 from Balochistan, 145 from Punjab, 24 from Sindh and 164 from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.Meanwhile, the commission also worked to recover missing persons including 15 belonging to FATA, 10 to Kashmir and 23 residents of the federal capital.The commissions also revealed recovering 21 dead bodies of missing persons from Balochistan while the commission also tried to contact families of 13 of them.The report says that the reasons behind these disappearances were militancy, tribal rivalries, kidnapping for ransom and old enmities.Most of the missing persons were reportedly kidnapped with the involvement of police officials in plain clothes and were detained in basements.The commission has directed the interior and defence ministries to register criminal cases against officials of intelligence agencies, police and FC.

BBC veteran Broadcaster jailed for sex assaults Posted: LONDON (Web Desk) - Veteran British television and radio presenter Stuart Hall was jailed for 15 months on Monday after admitting 14 charges of indecently assaulting girls as young as nine.Prosecutors said the 83-year-old, who presented the hit BBC television show Its a Knockout in the 1970s and 1980s, was an opportunistic predator who befriended his victims before assaulting them.The abuse surfaced following a police investigation into revelations about late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile, now believed to be one of Britains worst-ever sex offenders.Judge Anthony Russell said during sentencing that the broadcaster was known for his genial personality. He said: The general publics now know that there is a darker side to you, one hidden from the public view until now -- and a side which you were able to conceal, taking advantage of your status as a well-liked celebrity.Several of these cases reveal an abuse of power by you because your status gave you an influence and standing which you abused.Many of Halls victims were sitting behind him in the public gallery. The judge noted that nearly every victim was a child at the time. The repeated sexual abuse of young children, too young to consent and in no position to resist your advances, even if the individual acts are relatively mild, is a serious crime, he said.Known for his florid descriptive style, scattered with allusions to literary classics, Hall was in recent years a familiar voice on BBC radio commentating on English Premier League football. He has not worked for the corporation since the allegations emerged. The assaults, involving 13 victims, took place between 1967 and 1985, when he regularly appeared on television in Britain.Hall pleaded guilty in April. A charge of rape that he denies has been allowed to stay on the file after the alleged victim said she did not want to go through a trial.Halls lawyer Crispin Aylett said he had been arrested as a consequence of the Savile investigations but his crimes were nowhere near that scale.In the dock today is a frightened and bewildered 83-year-old man answering for the touching -- no more, no less -- of all of 13, -- not 1,300 -- victims over a quarter of a century ago, he said.The BBC has asked a former High Court judge to investigate Halls behaviour while he worked for them, to be published as part of a review into Saviles actions when employed by the corporation.The BBC is appalled that some of Stuart Halls crimes took place in connection with his work at the BBC and offer an unreserved apology to the people he abused, the broadcaster said in a statement.

Report sought on appointments in IT Ministry Posted: ISLAMABAD (Online) - Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology has urged the IT Ministry to provide all the details of appointments during the past six months.According to reports, the meeting of the Standing Committee was chaired by Senator Idrees Khan Safi who demanded the IT Ministry to provide the details within a week.During the meeting, IT officials briefed the participants that the mobile operators are not ready to work in FATA.No result came out besides several meetings with the operators.The committee was told that even the Special Communication Organization has not got the license to launch its services in FATA.State Minister for IT Anusha Rehman said, There must be a communication system in the Tribal Areas and the IT Ministry is taking the due measures in this regard.

Israel picks team to build high-speed web network Posted: JERUSALEM (AP) - An Israeli committee has chosen a consortium led by Swedish company ViaEuropa to build a nationwide high-speed broadband network.The committee, which includes representatives from the government and the state-owned Israel Electric Corp, announced its decision Monday.It said the consortium includes Israeli company Rapac, BATM, Zisapel Properties and private equity firm Tamares Holdings. International networking giant Cisco Systems will provide technology.The consortium is teaming with the electricity company to build the network on existing power cables. The fiber-optic network is expected to provide connections up to one gigabyte.The new consortium will hold a 60 percent stake in the venture, and the electricity company will hold 40 percent. Financial terms were not disclosed.Construction is expected to begin this year and would take several years to complete.

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