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SRINAGAR - Police in Indian Kashmir said Thursday they had shot dead the top commander of a Pakistan-based militant group blamed for a series of local attacks, including an assault on the state assembly in 2001. The chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM), Sajjad Afghani, and his bodyguard were killed in a gunfight along the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar, the biggest city in Kashmir, senior police chief S.M. Sahai told reporters. Afghani, who was also known among the militant ranks as "Qari

KARACHI - Another eight people, including a policeman, were killed in several shootouts in Karachi and three corpses were found across the city on Thursday. According to a private TV channel, police constable Akram Abbas was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on a railway track near Zafar Town in the Latif Town police precincts.
A man was shot dead in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, while a youngster was shot and killed by robbers in Teeser Town when he tried to resist. A man named Akbar shot and

MARANA - Britain's Luke Donald concluded a week of dominant golf by winning the biggest title of his career with a 3&2 victory over Germany's Martin Kaymer in Sunday's final of WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. Three up after just five holes on a chilly day at Dove Mountain's Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Donald held off a front-nine fightback by the German before sealing the win with a two-putt par at the short 16th.
It was Donald's third PGA Tour victory but his first in an

MIANWALI/SHEIKHUPURA - Family disputes claimed eight lives in two separate incidents in Mianwali and Sheikhupura on the night between Friday and Saturday. In the hilly area of Wandah Kara in Mianwali, a man killed his five of his in-laws, including four women. The accused, Asmatullah, had been married to the daughter of his uncle Matiullah.
The coupled had developed severe differences, resulting in regulars quarrels. Asmatullah with the help of two accomplices, Muzaffar Khan and

CAIRO/LONDON - Clashes in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday left 160 people dead, Arabiya television quoted eyewitnesses as saying. The Arab satellite channel gave the number in a newsflash, without providing further details. Tripoli residents gave conflicting reports on Monday, with some saying they could hear gunfire in the Libyan capital and a political activist telling Al Jazeera warplanes were bombing the city.
"We don't know what is going on, all we can hear are

ISLAMABAD - Islamic finance has proved its viability on a global scale as Islamic banking and finance is spreading at a rapid pace, Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh has stated. "In the wake of recent global financial crisis and debt problem of the Third world countries and the Eurozone, Islamic finance is now firmly established in the mainstream," the federal minister said while addressing the inaugural session of two day international

CAIRO - Authorities at Cairo airport began screening incoming and outgoing diplomatic pouches on Monday, the MENA agency said, a day after the foreign ministry accused diplomats of trying to bring weapons into Egypt. The pouches will be screened by X-ray... to stop any illegal items from entering Egypt, which has been rocked by two weeks of deadly nationwide anti-government protests.
The exceptional measures were introduced on the orders of the foreign ministry, despite

QUETTA - Shahzain Bugti, the provincial president of Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) and grandson of slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, Thursday rejected the ban imposed on his and his brother's movement and said he would claim compensation from the government for the loss of millions of rupees suffered daily.
He was talking to reporters after the hearing of his petition challenging the government order of restricting his movement. Shahzain said during the hearing, the

DOHA - South Korea bowed out of the Asian Cup in style by edging Uzbekistan 3-2 in an entertaining third-place play-off on Friday to secure an automatic place at the 2015 tournament in Australia. Cho Kwang-Rae's men looked on course for a handsome victory at 3-0 up in the first-half, but Uzbekistan clawed back the deficit to salvage some pride after their 6-0 drubbing by Australia in the semi-finals.
Koo Ja-Cheol's fifth goal of the competition, making him outright top scorer,

QUETTA - Four people were killed and one other received serious injuries in two separate blasts that occurred in bordering town of Mand of Kechh district and Chamalang area of Kohlu district on Tuesday.
Unidentified people placed a roadside explosive in Mand which exploded soon after a vehicle passed by, resulting in Abid's and Kareem's death, Levies officials said, adding that the vehicle belonged to Babu Dakiat. Soon after the incident Levies and personnel of Frontier Corps

BRISBANE - Sweden's Robin Soderling served notice that he cannot be discounted for the Australian Open after overwhelming Andy Roddick in the final of the Brisbane International here on Sunday. Soderling turned in a brilliant display of powerful serving and crushing groundstrokes in cool and damp conditions to see off a gallant Roddick 6-3, 7-5 and claim the seventh title of his career.
While Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer are hot favourites to fight out the first Grand Slam of

BRISBANE - Petra Kvitova stamped herself as an Australian Open contender after she overpowered Germany's Andrea Petkovic 6-1, 6-3 to claim the Brisbane International here Saturday. Although most people hardly gave her a chance of beating Petkovic, who had been in imperious form all week, the 2010 Wimbledon semi-finalist tore up the script as she demolished her German opponent in 71 minutes at the Pat Rafter Arena.
Petkovic's groundstrokes, which dominated her opponents in the

PESHAWAR - Three US missile attacks spaced just hours apart have killed at least 19 people in the North Waziristan Agency, private TV channels quoted unnamed intelligence officials as saying on Saturday.
At least nine people were killed in the first attack, when missiles struck a moving vehicle in the tribal region, the officials said. About two hours later, drones struck the same site again, killing five people who had gathered to retrieve the bodies.
The third raid

KARACHI: A three-member Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) committee recommended that the Board seek more information from Haider because it is unclear why the wicketkeeper quit the team and left the United Arab Emirates for London. The committee has been told that wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider, who had sought asylum in London last month, has a complex personality and "weak nerves."
The committee interviewed Pakistan team members and support staff, and were told that Haider "is a

ISLAMABAD: Intelligence officials met Attorney General Anwarul Haq in his office on Tuesday and told him that there was a major breakthrough in the case of 11 missing inmates of Adiala Jail, sources told Pakistan Today.
They said just after the meeting, the attorney general filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking early hearing of the missing prisoners' case, fixed for hearing on December 13. According to the sources, the attorney general stated in his application that

WARRI: A militant faction in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta said on Monday it had ruptured an oil pipeline in response to what it said was the killing of innocent civilians during a military offensive last week.
The Niger Delta Liberation Force (NDLF) said it had struck what it described as a "major pipeline" belonging to state-run oil firm the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) close to the Batan flow station late on Sunday night. NNPC declined to comment and there

LAHORE: Carlton Tower Hotel cut the combined team of Guard Group and Diamond Paints into half in the final to claim the Novices Polo Cup 2010 here at the Lahore Polo Club's Aibak Ground on Sunday.
Rijas on the other hand claimed the subsidiary final when it edged aside Karachi Polo Team 5-4 earlier in the day.
In the presence of chief guest Gen. (R) Jehangir Karamat and fans who gathered at the LPC lounge to enjoy the mild weather, Shah Qubali Alam and Hamza Mawaz Khan