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SIALKOT - A severe dust storm left at least 11 people dead and 50 others injured in Sialkot near the Pak-India border on Saturday afternoon.The storm, described by some people as a tornado, devastated Bahadarpura, Machchraala and Chakraala villages near Head Marala, as most of the houses collapsed amidst high-intensity wind while hundreds of cattle were also reportedly killed.
According to the locals, the strong winds sent the people, buffaloes, cars, motorcycles and tractor

KARACHI - At least 12 people were killed and several others injured in the latest incidents of violence and targeted killings in Karachi on Saturday. Killing of an MQM worker in the afternoon created panic, leading to the closure of all business activities across the city.
Khurram, 40, son of Saleem was standing outside his house when two motorcyclists opened fire on him, killing him on the spot. City Town Superintendent of Police (SP) Qamar Raza Jiskani said the victim was an

QUETTA - Five persons including two women were killed and twenty two others received injuries in a land mine explosion and an armed attack in Dera Bugti area on Wednesday. According to reports, a pick-up carrying a family from Sui to Pir Koh area rolled on a land mine in Patar Nulla. The resulting explosion killed 4 including two women and eighteen others, of which one passed away. The injured were shifted to PPL hospital at Sui town. The deceased were identified as Jungyan, Laalan,

HAFIZABAD - At least two people died from suffocation in village Kot Kushhal Khan near Hafizabad. Reportedly, Shabbir Hussain and Zahid Iqbal were sleeping in a room when a gas cylinder leaked as a result of which both of them were suffocated to death.
Meanwhile, a three-year-old child was crushed to death in a village Praimkot when a speedy rickshaw ran over him.
332 kgs of hashish seized: Sukheki police arrested three people of village Ammabaltas and recovered 332

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

CAIRO/SANAA - Unrest swept across the Middle East on Saturday with reports from Libya saying more than 80 people had been killed in a bloody crackdown, as an anti-government protester was killed in clashes in the Yemeni capital. On the fifth day of an unprecedented challenge to his four-decade regime, Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi had still made no public comment, although he reportedly appeared at a mass rally of supporters in the capital on Thursday.
After regime opponents used

BEIJING - Major road accidents have claimed as many as 44 lives in China since February 2, the eve of the Lunar New Year, figures released by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security said on Tuesday.
Six road accidents, each killing at least five people, were reported nationwide between February 2 to 7.Most cases involved small vehicles in head-on collisions, and majority of the victims were families and friends, said the statement.
The ministry urged police across the

KARACHI - Pakistan has emerged as one of the countries with the highest rate of breast cancer mortality rate with around 40,000 deaths a year, Dr Jo Anne Zujewski said on Thursday.
She was delivering a lecture on 'Breast Cancer Awareness' at local hotel, arranged by the US Consulate General Karachi for journalists working for the print and electronic media.
Zujewski is head of the Breast Cancer Therapeutics in the Clinical Investigation Branch of the Cancer Therapy

KABUL - A total of 13 civilians including children and women were killed Wednesday by a Taliban-style roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. The blast hit a three-wheeled vehicle and killed "13 of our innocent civilian compatriots, including women, children and elderly men," the interior ministry in Kabul said in a statement.
It blamed the attack on "enemies of Afghanistan's people", a phrase often used by officials to refer to the Taliban, while President Hamid

"Pakistan is our home - we shall live and die on our land," so said Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed in a crowded press conference at London's Heathrow Airport on 13 January, 1984. She had reached there after a long imprisonment in Pakistan for the operation of her ears.
BB Shaheed's historic words continue to echo in Pakistan even today. Her prophetic statement rang true on the fateful day of 27 December, 2007 when she was brutally martyred at Liaquat Bagh. Today is BB's third

KANDAHAR - Two civilians died and 11 others were injured in a Taliban suicide car bomb attack targeting a district governor in southern Afghanistan Saturday, local officials said.
The attack near Kandahar city -- the spiritual home of the Taliban -- targeted the governor of Dand district, Ahmadullah Nazak, but he escaped unhurt, officials said. "At around 2:00pm, a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle packed with explosives near the convoy of Dand district chief Ahmadullah

KHOST: Two NATO and two Afghan soldiers were killed in a suicide attack at a market close to a joint military base in the east of the country on Sunday, coalition and local officials said.
An unknown number of Afghan soldiers and troops with NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were also injured in the blast that tore through the bazaar in Gardez, the provincial capital of Paktia.
"There was some sort of explosion near the operating base in Gardez

PESHAWAR: Three people, including two police constables, were killed and another eight injured in a suicide attack at Swabi Police Lines on Monday. The bomber blew himself up outside the Shah Mansoor compound of the police lines.
According to details, four assailants, including the suicide bomber, arrived at the lines by a car and opened indiscriminate fire at the police guards at the gate, killing two officials.
The attackers then tried to enter the lines, but officials