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SOHAR - Heavy security prevented fresh protests after Friday prayers in the Omani city of Sohar, where protesters camped out for over a month before security forces moved them out last week.
Checkpoints were set up across the northeastern industrial city with dozens of armoured vehicles blocking access to protest areas. Residents' names were checked against a list and access to mosques was restricted, while a helicopter flew overhead, witnesses said. Demonstrations in Oman,

KARACHI - City Administrator Fazlur Rehman on Thursday announced a package of Rs 8 million to be utilised on acquiring uniforms for city wardens while increasing budget allocations for city wardens and fire brigade department in the next financial year.
Addressing the concluding ceremony of a 15-day training course for city wardens, Rehman said that such useful training was mandatory not only for city wardens but for the whole nation, adding that the people have appreciated the

KARACHI - City Administrator Fazlur Rehman on Thursday announced a package of Rs 8 million to be utilised on acquiring uniforms for city wardens while increasing budget allocations for city wardens and fire brigade department in the next financial year.
Addressing the concluding ceremony of a 15-day training course for city wardens, Rehman said that such useful training was mandatory not only for city wardens but for the whole nation, adding that the people have appreciated the

LONDON - Manchester City moved into third place in the Premier League with a 5-0 demolition of Sunderland at Eastlands on Sunday. Roberto Mancini's side killed off the Black Cats with goals from Adam Johnson and Carlos Tevez in the first 15 minutes before David Silva, Patrick Vieira and Yaya Toure netted in the second half.
City's biggest league win of the season lifted them one point ahead of fourth placed Chelsea and six in front of Tottenham in fifth spot, leaving Mancini's

KARACHI - Pasban Karachi President Usman Moazzam's nephew was abducted from near his house in Gulshan-e-Hadeed on Saturday. Moazzam said that Aazib Imtiaz Qudwai was kidnapped because he has close ties with the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). Aazib's father Nafees Qudwai said, "My son and I were on our way to the mosque to offer the Fajr prayer when an Indus Corolla without a number plate collided with him. Three men carrying weapons got out of the car, forced him into the vehicle and drove

KARACHI - Karachi Administrator Fazlur Rehman warned dairy farmers on Friday that strict action would be taken against them under the Maintenance of Public Order if they are found involved in hoarding milk to increase the commodity's prices.
He was addressing a meeting of EDOs at the DCO Camp Office cancelling his remaining medical leave and reassuming his post.
"All buffalo farms established on government land will be removed and measures have been taken to arrest milk

ISLAMABAD - Capital city is facing acute water shortage as the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has so far failed to supply 150 million gallons per day (MGD) to meet the daily needs of over one million consumers.
"CDA only has the capacity to supply 60 MGD, 40 percent of which goes to waste because of outdated supply lines. The wastage is equivalent to the total storage of Simly Dam," a CDA senior official confided to Pakistan Today.
He said the federal government had so

HONG KONG - The world's highest hotel opened its doors in Hong Kong on Tuesday, housed in the city's tallest skyscraper and offering unrivalled panoramic views of the world famous Victoria Harbour.
Towering some 490 metres (1,600 feet) above the bustling, chaotic streets of the Southern Chinese city, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel is making a grand comeback after temporarily closing in 2008.
Visitors peered out of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the 118th floor of the International

RABAT - Western forces bombed the southern Libyan city of Sabha at dawn on Monday, leading to several casualties. the Libyan state news agency reported.
"The crusader and colonial bombing targeted inhabited areas in the city of Sabha at dawn on Monday, causing the destruction of several houses," the agency reported. "Ambulances and firefighter teams rushed to those areas."
"Sources at the Health Ministry in Sabha spoke of several casualties among civilians in those areas."

KARACHI - Despite having intermittent power outages throughout the day thanks to the KESC, the city witnessed another blackout from 8:30pm to 9:30pm on Saturday - albeit of a special kind.
As millions of energy-conscious people across the world celebrated the Earth Hour 2011, 31 major buildings in the province with 14 in the city, including national landmarks and strategic installations, plunged into darkness.
The Chief Minister's House, the Governor's House, Sindh

KARACHI - A man was gunned down, a couple fell victim to karo-kari and a minor girl was burnt to death in separate incidents on Saturday. According to details, a man was gunned down in the Teen Hatti area. Police said that 60-year-old Afzal was killed when unidentified culprits opened fire on him under the Teen Hatti bridge.
KARO-KARI: The Sukkan police found bullet-riddled bodies of a 27-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman from Peer jo Goth. It is suspected that the

KARACHI - The Federal Anti-Corruption Court issued a show-cause notice on Friday to the superintendent of the Karachi Central Jail for failing to bring former National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) chairman Ayaz Khan Niazi, who has been accused for financial scam, to the court.
The prison official was ordered to submit an explanation for failing to comply with the court's order, whereas the jail superintendent was also issued directives for ensuring that the main accused,

ISLAMABAD - Heading a two-member Supreme Court bench, which is hearing a petition challenging a $233.7 million security venture signed with a Chinese firm to keep the cities of Islamabad and Peshawar secure, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday observed that the agreements with foreign companies should be transparent and there would be no compromise on transparency.
The court directed the Planning Commission to produce details of the agreement within three weeks.

DAMASCUS - Some 20,000 people gathered in the Syrian city of Daraa on Thursday for the burial of victims killed by police gunfire the day before, chanting support for a rising anti-regime movement there, rights activists said.
One activist in Daraa, contacted by telephone, said the mourners made their way
from the Omari mosque, where protesters have been holed up for a week, to the burial grounds under pouring rain, chanting: "With our souls, with our blood, we are loyal to

FAISALABAD - The city district government, on the special instructions of the Punjab government, has launched a 12-day anti-mosquito spray campaign, targeting slum areas to wipe out the possibilities of dengue fever.
Inaugurating the spray campaign at Eisa Nagri a slum locality in the city, DCO Naseem Sadiq said the city government would do its level best to fight dengue fever in the city and had drawn out a plan to control its spread. Executive District Officer (EDO) Health

LAHORE - Hundreds of Hindus celebrated the festival of Holi with zeal and fervour in the city, yesterday. They celebrated the festival by applying colours on the faces of their loved ones.
Devotees enjoyed the festival at the Balmiki temple, Neela Gumad on Sunday. Holi is celebrated every year at the end of the winter season on the last full moon of the lunar month that marks the arrival of the spring season.

LAHORE - The city's main roads roared with anti-Raymond Davis slogans as people turned out in large numbers to protest against his release on Thursday. Protests were held all across the city. Islami Jamiat Talba(IJT) held protests outside the US Consulate and inside the Punjab University's new campus, while Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) protested in Thokar Niaz Baig and at Shalamar Chowk, and lawyers protested outside the Lahore High Court. LAWYERS PROTEST: The lawyers in their