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- Pakistan, New Zealand head for run-a-ball finale
- Fire damages flour mill in Multan
- Karachi: Residents vacate dilapidated building after compensation talks
- Karachi: 5 accused arrested in police operation
- Khairpur: 4 killed in car, bus collision
- Civil-Military relations not at their best in COAS Raheel era
- Gen Qamar Bajwa to assume command of Pak Army today
- Pakistan 76/0 at lunch on last day of the test, need 293 to win
- 3 accused involved in Millat Park robbery arrested
- Cold, dry weather expected in most parts of the country
- Unofficial result: PPP wins NA-258 by-election
- Exodus as Syria rebels lose northeast Aleppo
- UN urges halt to Aleppo fighting, says aid needed
- Iraqi forces try to weed out IS from those fleeing Mosul
- Yemen rebels give 'salvation' govt line-up
| Pakistan, New Zealand head for run-a-ball finale Posted: HAMILTON (AFP) - Sami Aslam was unbeaten on 75 as Pakistan went to tea at 158-1 needing a run a ball in a climactic final session of the second Test against New Zealand on Tuesday.Aslam and Azhar Ali (58) produced a 131-run stand for the first wicket, and with Babar Azam not out on 16 the tourists were set for a final showdown at Hamiltons Seddon Park. It is not a foreign situation for them.When they required 292 in 62 overs at lunch it evoked memories of an epic run chase in Sharjah two years ago when they smacked 302 in the fourth innings in 57.3 overs to beat Sri Lanka. Despite the Seddon Park wicket still offering some support to the bowlers on a flattening pitch, Azhar and Aslam were able to set the stage for another grandstand finish.Pakistan require 211 runs off 204 balls if they are to snatch victory and level the series.After losing the first Test in Christchurch, only a win in Hamilton can keep Pakistan second to India in the world rankings. A draw or a loss will consign them to fourth place below England and Australia.At the top of the innings, Azhar and Aslam were resolute with their best performances of the series although Aslam had two heart-stopping moments. On 31 he was given not out on an lbw appeal when Kane Williamson debated too long on whether to go for a referral and his chance to request a review timed out. Replays showed Aslam was plumb in front. He could also have been run out on 45 had Mitchell Santers throw from midwicket been fast and direct to the wicketkeeper.Aslam brought up his sixth 50 in nine Tests carving a Neil Wagner bouncer to the boundary, giving him some satisfaction in a match where he dropped three critical catch offerings in the field. Azhar, standing in as captain for the unavailable Misbah-ul-Haq, faced 147 deliveries before he reached his 23rd half century with a single off Matt Henry. But his patient innings ended soon after when he went to drive Santner out of the ground only to drag the ball back on to his stumps.  |
| Fire damages flour mill in Multan Posted: MULTAN (Dunya News) - According to details, fire broke out at a private flour mill situated near Sadu Saam Chowk in Multan on Monday which engulfed the entire mill very quickly. Three workers were also trapped in the building of the flour mill. Fire brigade and rescue teams reached the spot and rescued the trapped workers.The firefighters brought the blaze under control after the hectic efforts of three hours. According to initial estimates, valuables worth millions of rupees were destroyed in the fire.  |
| Karachi: Residents vacate dilapidated building after compensation talks Posted: KARACHI (Dunya News) – Residents vacated a dilapidated residential building near Pakistan Chowk area in Karachi on Monday after successful negotiations with the owner of the building, Dunya News reported.The occupants were stuck in the building when stairs of one of the floors collapsed on Sunday. However, the families living on the floor refused to leave the building.Successful negotiations were held between the occupants and owner of the building, Malik Tasleem, on Monday. Malik Tasleem assured the residents that each family will get Rs five lakh after which they agreed to vacate the building.The four families living in the dilapidated building were evacuated with the help of a snorkel.  |
| Karachi: 5 accused arrested in police operation Posted: KARACHI (Dunya News) - Crackdown against criminal elements under National Action Plan (NAP) continues in Karachi as five accused were taken into custody by police during operations in different parts of the city, Dunya News reported.According to details, police arrested three street criminals in injured condition after and encounter near Gulshan Ghazi graveyard in Pakistan Bazar area of Orangi Town. SHO (Station House Officer) Pakistan Bazar Police Station informed media that the arrested person were involved in street crime.Police have also recovered three TT pistols, bullets and two stolen motorcycles from the arrested persons.Separately, police also arrested two accused after and encounter during snap checking in Zaman Town area. Police also recovered arms from their possession.  |
| Khairpur: 4 killed in car, bus collision Posted: KHAIRPUR (Dunya News) – At least four people were killed and 10 other sustained injuries when a speeding bus collided with a car in Thari Mirwah area near Khairpur on Monday, Dunya News reported.According to details, a bus going to Karachi from Sukkur hit a car at the National Highway in Thari Mirwah, killing four people travelling in the car on the spot. At least 10 passengers of the bus, including women and children, were wounded in the accident.Police and rescue teams reached the spot and shifted the dead and injured to Civil Hospital Khairpur.  |
| Civil-Military relations not at their best in COAS Raheel era Posted: LAHORE (Web Desk) - The relations between Civil-Military relations between government of Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif and Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) were not at their best, reported Dunya News.Kamran Khan discussed the relations in his program Dunya Kamran Khan Ke Saath. The things got serious at the beginning when government decided to pursue the case against former Army chief General Pervez Musharraf, who had good relations with Raheel Sharif and family, as General Musharraf was course mate of General Raheels brother Nishan-e-Haider Major Shabbir Sharif.Raheel Sharif indicated to Nawaz Sharif that Pakistan Army wants to move on and then General Musharraf had to go to hospitalArmed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC) due to health problem. He stayed in hospital for 3 months.Musharraf was allowed to go out of Pakistan for treatment on 31 May but PM Nawaz stopped him from travelling. This worsened the relations between Army and government but Musharraf shifted to Karachi and did not present himself in front of any court in this time. Musharraf travelled abroad after staying in Karachi for two years but PM Nawaz was not so happy with that.Terrorists were very active in first few months in General Raheel Sharifs era and government wanted to have dialogue with the terrorists but COAS started Zarb-e-Azb operation on 15 June 2014, which was announced by Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).The relations also took a turn during Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Dharna when PML-N leaders Khawaja Asif and Mushahid Ullah Khan said that former DG ISI Zaheer-ul-Islam had asked Imran Khan to do that to overthrow the government. Mushahid Ullah Khan had to lose his ministry after that statement but Khawaja Asif remained on his position, which showed that government had the same stance.  |
| Gen Qamar Bajwa to assume command of Pak Army today Posted: RAWALPINDI (Dunya News) - General Qamar Javed Bajwa will take up the post of the 16th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army today (Tuesday) to replace General Raheel Sharif, Dunya News reported.Invitations have been dispatched to ambassadors, civil leaders, military officials among other dignitaries to attend the change of command ceremony that is scheduled to be held at the hockey ground adjacent to General Headquarters (GHQ).On the other hand, General Zubair Mehmood Hayat has assumed charge as the Chairman of Joint Chiefs Staff Committee (CJCSC) on Monday in a ceremony that was held in the GHQ.In the ceremony, contingents of all three armed forces conducted a march-past while the freshly appointed CJCSC reviewed Guard of Honour.The ceremony was attended by chiefs of all three armed forces including the army chief designate.Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif designated General Bajwa as the army chief on Saturday after which he convened a one-on-one meeting with him as well as with General Hayat.The decision came after the premier returned from his two-day Turkmenistan visit following which he convened a meeting with President Mamnoon Hussain and took him in confidence over the decision and fresh appointments.Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly (NA), Khurshid Shah and chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) among other leaders of different political parties welcomed PM Nawaz’s decision and hoped that the new military chief followed the footsteps of his predecessor, General Raheel Sharif.The outgoing chief has been lauded by both national and international bodies for his fruitful actions against extremism in the country. Operation Zarb-e-Azb, a large-scale coercive action against hideouts and thousands of terrorists in Norht Waziristan was launched in June 2014, under his supervision.General Raheel Sharif chaired a farewell meeting of corps commanders in GHQ on Monday during which he thanked the commanders for cooperation that led to success of Pakistan Army on multiple fronts in past years.  |
| Pakistan 76/0 at lunch on last day of the test, need 293 to win Posted: HAMILTON (Dunya News) - Pakistan were 76 for no loss at lunch on last day of the second test against New Zealand, as they needed 293 runs to win the match and level the series, reported Dunya News.Openers Azhar Ali and Sami Aslam batted slow and steadily to make sure that no wicket fell in the first session. At lunch Azhar Ali was batting on 36 off 113 balls whereas Sami was on 32 of 122 balls.  |
| 3 accused involved in Millat Park robbery arrested Posted: LAHORE (Dunya News) - Three accused who were involved in Millat Park robbery and had killed five people, were arrested on Monday, reported Dunya News.According to police, Zahid, Jahangir and Basu are professional criminals and two of them belong to Hafizabad and one is from Kot Abdul Malik.According to report, Basit alias Basu looked after both whereas Jahangir and Zahid fired shots. They had killed five people and injured two.Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shehbaz Sharif had taken notice of the incident and CIA Police special team was also finding the culprits.  |
| Cold, dry weather expected in most parts of the country Posted: ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Mainly cold and dry weather is expected in most parts of the country during the next 24 hours. However, cloudy condition with light rain and snowfall over the hills is expected at isolated places in Malakand division and Gilgit-Baltistan.According to Pakistan Meteorological Department, foggy conditions are expected in plain areas of Punjab and upper Sindh during morning hours.  |
| Unofficial result: PPP wins NA-258 by-election Posted: KARACHI (Dunya News) – According to unofficial and unconfirmed result, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate Abdul Hakim Baloch won the National Assembly constituency NA-258 by-election on Monday, Dunya News reported.The seat fell vacant when Abdul Hakim Baloch, then a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA, resigned and joined PPP on September 22, 2016. Abdul Hakim Baloch had won this seat in the 2013 general election on PML-N ticket.According to unofficial result, Abdul Hakim Baloch won the NA-258 by-election by securing 80,196 votes. It is pertinent to mention here that Pakistan chapter of MQM and PTI boycotted the by-election.  |
| Exodus as Syria rebels lose northeast Aleppo Posted: ALEPPO (AFP) - Syrias rebels lost all of the northern neighbourhoods of their stronghold in east Aleppo on Monday, as the army made significant advances in its offensive to recapture the entire city.The regime gains have prompted an exodus of thousands of desperate civilians, some fleeing to districts held by the government or Kurdish forces, others heading south into areas still under opposition control.The situation is disastrous, said Ibrahim Abu Al-Leith, a spokesman for the White Helmets rescue group in the Ansari neighbourhood.There is mass displacement and morale is in the gutter, he said, his voice cracking with emotion.People are sleeping in the streets. They dont have anything to eat or drink, but neither do we, he told AFP.The loss of eastern Aleppo would be a potentially devastating blow to Syrias rebels, who seized the area in 2012.The opposition has steadily lost territory since Russia intervened to bolster President Bashar al-Assad in September 2015.On Monday, government forces seized the Sakhur, Haydariya and Sheikh Khodr districts, and Kurdish fighters took the Sheikh Fares neighbourhood from rebels, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.This is their (the rebels) worst defeat since they seized half the city in 2012, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.The advances left all of northeast Aleppo under government control.Syrias White Helmets warned on Monday they had no more fuel reserves for rescue vehicles.In a video statement, the group urged all humanitarian, aid, and medical organisations to immediately intervene to put an end to the humanitarian disaster facing civilians in besieged Aleppo.Nearly 10,000 civilians have fled the east, the Observatory said late Sunday, with about 6,000 moving to the Kurdish-held Sheikh Maqsud neighbourhood and 4,000 to government-held west Aleppo.Kurdish officials published a video they said showed civilians crossing a field to Sheikh Maqsud, where local forces helped people cross a makeshift berm.Syrias Kurds are officially aligned with neither the government nor the rebels, but the opposition views them as effectively allied with the regime in its efforts to recapture Aleppo.Hundreds of civilians were also fleeing south to the remaining rebel-held districts with little more than the clothes they wore, an AFP correspondent said.People in southern neighbourhoods were donating blankets and other items to the new arrivals, who had travelled on foot, exhausted, cold and hungry.The United Nations said it was deeply concerned about civilians in the east, where international aid is exhausted and food stocks are desperately low.The UN has appealed for access to the east many times, but has failed to secure the necessary guarantees to enable aid deliveries.In terms of east Aleppo, we just need the green light from the people who control the roads going in because, as you know, the east of Aleppo is besieged, Ramesh Rajasingham, the UNs deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, told AFP.The government advances mean the regime now controls at least a third of eastern Aleppo, just under two weeks into its renewed bid to recapture the city.State television said the army had captured the key Suleiman al-Halabi pumping station, which controls water supplies to government-held west Aleppo and has periodically been shut by rebels.Three people were killed and 29 wounded in rebel fire on western Aleppo on Monday, state media said.Regime bombardment of eastern districts killed six civilians, Abdel Rahman said.The government assault of heavy air strikes, barrel bomb attacks and artillery fire has killed at least 235 civilians, including 27 children, in east Aleppo, according to the Observatory.Rebel fire into the government-held west has also killed at least 27 civilians, among them 11 children, since November 15, it says.Syrias Al-Watan daily, which is close to the government, said the next stage would be to divide the remaining (rebel-held) area into... districts that will be easily controlled and to capture them successively.But British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called for an immediate ceasefire in Aleppo, saying the assault is threatening a humanitarian catastrophe.More than 300,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since the conflict began with anti-government protests in March 2011.Syrias deputy foreign minister on Monday denounced accusations by western countries that it has used chemical weapons in the conflict as a campaign of lies.Faisal Muqdad was speaking at the annual conference in The Hague of countries belonging to the Chemical Weapons Convention.  |
| UN urges halt to Aleppo fighting, says aid needed Posted: UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The United Nations on Monday issued an urgent appeal to Syrias warring parties to halt attacks endangering civilians in Aleppo and allow humanitarian aid deliveries to besieged parts of the city.Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said rebel-held parts of Aleppo had received no aid since the beginning of July, and food was becoming scarce.Supplies provided by the World Food Program ran out on November 13 and aid from other agencies is dwindling, effectively leaving Eastern Aleppo city without food, he said.The UN is extremely concerned about the estimated 275,000 civilians trapped in horrific conditions.We urge all parties to the conflict to put an end to the indiscriminate bombing and shelling and to protect civilians and civilian infrastructures and to enable life-saving humanitarian assistance, as required under international humanitarian law, Dujarric said.Faced with devastating bombing and street fighting, thousands are fleeing to safety after more than four months of siege.Syrias rebels lost all of the northern neighborhoods of their stronghold in east Aleppo on Monday, as the army of President Bashar al-Assad made significant advances in its offensive to recapture the entire city.  |
| Iraqi forces try to weed out IS from those fleeing Mosul Posted: BARTALLA (AFP) - An Iraqi officer shuffled through identity cards as he sat at a battered desk by the side of the dust-blown highway heading east from the city of Mosul.Six men in dirt-spattered tracksuits huddled nearby, waiting on a concrete slab, part of the latest convoy of civilians to flee fighting as government forces try to oust Islamic State jihadists from the city.Clutching a phone to his ear, the officer stood up and read out the mens names one by one, waiting a second to receive a word from the person on the other end. He then handed them back their identity cards and let them go.Eventually, only one man remained. The officer repeated his name several times, his voice rising. Suddenly, he grabbed the man and started hauling him into a makeshift cell at the back of what was once a roadside car workshop.Everyone in Mosul knows who the terrorists are, said Lieutenant Ali of Iraqs special forces, part of a group of officers involved in the screening.Some 70,000 civilians have fled the violence since Iraqi forces started the offensive to retake Mosul last month.After more that two years of extremist rule over the city of more than a million inhabitants, the authorities are desperate to stop any jihadists escaping among the throngs of displaced civilians.To do this, they say they use a database of intelligence collected from different sources, including Western spy agencies, old records and Mosul residents who lived under IS.We get information from Mosul because of the difficulties people suffered during the two-and-a-half years under Daesh, Ali said, using an Arabic acronym for IS.Official figures are not made public on how many people have been detained by the various forces fighting IS -- the Iraqi army, special forces, police and Kurdish peshmerga. Intelligence officer Ali, who did not give his second name, estimated that some five percent of the men fleeing the city have been held on suspicion of cooperating with IS.That would mean hundreds -- if not thousands -- are currently detained.Iraqi officials say the men they detain are investigated and -- if enough evidence is provided of their ties to IS -- put on trial.Some parts of Mosuls population initially welcomed the jihadists, following abuses committed by the Shiite-dominated security forces against the Sunni-majority citys residents before IS swept in.And when the daily hardships of life in ISs tyrannical caliphate became evident, some level of acceptance of the jihadist organisation was sometimes necessary to survive.Dhiaa Zuhair clutched his ID card in relief as he walked back to his family after passing through the screening. The dust from walking out of the Mosul battlefield still clung to his clothes, shoes and hair. I wasnt worried because I had nothing to do with IS, he said. The forces have very good intelligence.But some said that the dragnet for IS members was falling too wide and subject to abuse. Several rights groups have said the process is opaque and has not undergone enough scrutiny. At her tent in the sprawling Khazir camp for displaced people, Um Yamen showed off the note she had received from her husband that morning.Im well and in good health, read the message handwritten on paper from the International Committee of the Red Cross. Im in prison.It was the first news she had received from her husband in the 20 days since Kurdish forces arrested him as he followed her out of their village close to Mosul. They accused him of working with IS, and Kurdish intelligence is holding him in a neighbouring district.But his wife insisted he was just a clerk at the local power company doing his job. The real reason he was detained, she said, was that some people in the village had a grudge against him and claimed he was a member of IS to get him in trouble.This is an injustice. He didnt do anything wrong. He was just going to his job, she said, asking to use a pseudonym. I dont really understand why this has happened.  |
| Yemen rebels give 'salvation' govt line-up Posted: SANAA (AFP) - Yemens rebels announced the line-up of a national salvation government Monday as the United Nations tried to revive peace efforts in the war-wracked Arabian Peninsula country.Announcement of the 42-member body headed by Abdel Aziz bin Habtoor, a former governor of Aden, is likely to provoke a strong response from the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, whose forces have been battling the Iran-backed Huthi rebels and their allies since 2014.It could also be a gesture of defiance aimed at the United Nations and United States, which continue to advocate a national unity government that would include rebels and representatives of the Hadi camp.The new cabinet was announced by the supreme political council which was established earlier this year by the Huthis and their allies, supporters of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.It came after UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed met the rebels in Muscat last week and was scheduled to meet Hadi in Aden, the southern port city and temporary seat of the internationally recognised government.A previous round of peace talks held in Kuwait collapsed in August, and a 48-hour ceasefire declared by the coalition ended last Monday with little success in reducing the violence.Releasing the government line-up on Monday, the rebels said they were responding to Hadis stubbornness in continuing the war with the backing of the Saudi-led Arab coalition that intervened in March 2015.Saleh supporters have been given the defence, interior and foreign ministries and the Huthis the portfolios of petroleum, finance, information, education and justice, according to the rebels sabanews.net website.The United Nations says the war in Yemen has killed more than 7,000 people and wounded nearly 37,000 since March last year.  |
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