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QUETTA - A Hindu trader was kidnapped and killed by armed men on Sunday. According to police, Ramesh Kumar, a resident of Multani Muhalla was going to his shop when unidentified armed men intercepted him on Patel Road, held him up at gunpoint and then killed him when he tried to escape.
Police reached to the scene and shifted the body to Civil Hospital Quetta for autopsy. Hospital sources said the bullets were fired at his head which killed him instantly. Balochistan Minister for

KARACHI - A week after the death of six Indus blind dolphins in the protected 'Indus Dolphin Reserve', the Sindh chief minister has finally taken notice of the incident and asked the departments concerned on Sunday to present a detailed report on the issue. Between January 24 and 28, six dolphins were reported dead in the Indus River between Guddu and Sukkur barrages in the Sukkur region.
Nature conservationists were of the view that chemical pollution or the poisons used by

KIRKUK - Gunmen fired on a top anti-terror official in northern Iraq, killing two of his sons and leaving the officer and another son wounded, police said Friday. Colonel Abbas Nuri had been exiting a shop late Thursday in Tuz Khurmatu and walking to his car, where his three teenage sons were waiting, when gunmen opened fire on the family and fled, the town's police chief Colonel Ali al-Hamdani said.
Two of Nuri's sons, aged 15 and 16, were killed, while his 18-year-old boy was

LUBUMBASHI - DR Congo's army repulsed an assault by gunmen on Lubumbashi airport in the south of the country Friday in which a civilian security guard was killed, a government spokesman said. "Fewer than 20 people", who have not yet been identified, sparked a three-hour gun battle when they attacked the airport at around 4:00 am, Communications Minister Lambert Mende told AFP.
"The situation is under control. The people who were trying to seize control of the airport's arms store

LAHORE - Some days ago, Nawaz Sharif constituted a committee consisting of some of his own party men and renowned socialite and cultural arts promoter Mian Yousaf Salahuddin to finalise proposals for celebrating the spring season, popularly known as the Jashan-e-Bahara'n and the kite-flying festival of Basant. This can be seen as an attempt to revive the identity, which had faded in recent years.
It is amazing that since entering politics in 1981, Nawaz has never openly supported

HAFIZABAD - A man shot her wife dead over a domestic dispute in village Kot Hassan Khan the other day. As per reports, Asghar Ali contracted second marriage to Sameera Bibi. As his first wife was angry with him, he took Sameera to a Dera.
After a few months, differences also arose between Asghar Ali and Sameera who filed a suit in a local court against him. On the day of the incident, Asghar shot her dead. Kasoki police have registered a case against Asghar Ali, Naveed and

GUJRANWALA - A 25-year-old girl was gunned down for resisting a robbery to save her dowry late last night in village Fatehpur of Gakhar Police Station. Reportedly, five armed robbers entered the house of the late Muhammad Boota, took the whole family hostage and collected Rs 250,000, household valuables and gold jewellery.
Sadia, who was to be married next month, offered resistance on which the robbers shot her dead and fled away.
OBITUARY: Gujranwala Cantonment Board member

LAHORE - Mayo Hospital and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Tuesday received around 75 injured and 10 dead bodies including four policemen, one woman, one minor and five others after the Tuesday's suicide bombing.
Rescue 1122, Edhi Foundation, Pakistan Red Crescent Society and other welfare organisation ambulances transported the bodies and injured. The injured included seven policemen, children and passers-by. Mayo Hospital Medical Superintendent Zahid Pervaiz said 22 injured were

LAHORE - As many as five people lost their lives in separate incidents here on Sunday in the provincial metropolis.
A 45-year-olds body was recovered near the gate number 5 of the Data Darbar in the jurisdiction of the Lower Mall Police. Police speculated that the deceased person was a drug addict and died due to a drug over dose.
As per details, a man whose identity is yet to be ascertained was lying near the gate number five of the Data Darbar as the pilgrims of the Urs

KASUR - A young girl was killed over a marriage dispute at Kandonagar in the jurisdiction of Chunian Police Station. Reportedly, Waryam and Shaukat came to the house of Tufail and proposed his daughter for marriage to one of their relatives. On his refusal, they killed his daughter Manzooran.
TWO KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENT: Two people were killed in a road accident in the jurisdiction of Sarai Mughal Police Station. Reportedly, three people were going to their village on their

BAQUBA - A suicide bomber rammed an ambulance packed with explosives into a security headquarters on Wednesday, killing 13 people in the second major attack against Iraqi forces in as many days.
Another suicide attack in a nearby town killed two others and wounded a top provincial official, shattering a relative calm in Iraq following the formation of a new government by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki last month.
"I was on my way to the market close to the building when I saw

TERESOPOLIS - Brazil is suffering its worst-ever flood disaster after mudslides near Rio de Janeiro this week killed more than 500 people, media compiling the deaths said Friday.
Municipal officials in the Serrana region just north of Rio said at least 506 people were killed, surpassing the 437 killed in a 1967 mudslide tragedy that had been previously considered Brazil's biggest disaster. More bodies were expected to turn up as rescuers finally reached villages cut off because

Veteran rocker Steven Tyler on Tuesday denied that his new role as a judge on 'American Idol' meant the death of his band Aerosmith, and said he wanted to start work on a much-delayed new album later this month. "We are just on a break. We are still rocking big time," Tyler, 62, told television journalists, while promoting the new season of "American Idol".
Aerosmith has not recorded a studio album since 2001 and a 2009 feud between Tyler and his bandmates threatened to break up

PESHAWAR - Police opened fire on a crowd demonstrating against power cuts in Bannu on Tuesday, killing one protester and injuring dozens. Several were arrested as police tear gassed and beat the demonstrators who were chanting slogans against "the mute and incompetent rulers" while demanding the government emancipate the masses from the protracted power load shedding. Police said the protester was killed during exchange of fire, but residents blamed police for the killing.
"One

MADRID - Former Spanish mountain bike rider Alberto Leon, one of six people accused last month as part of a probe into sports doping, was found dead in an apparent suicide, reports said Monday.
Leon was found hanged at his home at
San Lorenzo del Escorial near Madrid, radio Cadena Ser and other media
outlets reported.
In December he was accused of public health offences and trafficking in illegal substances as part of a major police investigation into a doping

ALGIERS - Two people were killed and 400 injured, 300 of them police, in riots in Algeria linked to rising food costs and unemployment, Interior Minister Dahou Oul Kablia said Saturday as the government scrambled to defuse the crisis.
One was shot dead on Friday in Ain Lahdjel in the M'Sila region, 300 kilometres southeast of Algiers, the minister said on national radio. "He died in an attempt to break into a police station," he added, confirming a report in the Arab-language

LAHORE - A 28-year-old man was gunned down by dacoits and his brother sustained bullet injuries in Shahdara Police Station precincts on Friday. The victim was identified as Ilyas and his brother as Ashfaq, 25, a resident of Islampura, Shahdara Town.
Ilyas's brother Nawaz told Pakistan Today that Ilyas and Ashfaq were sleeping in their house in upper portion of a building when some unidentified dacoits broke into the house from the rooftop. Two of them entered the room where the