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KARACHI - Sporadic incidents of targeted killings continued in Karachi on Tuesday, claiming the life of 13 people, including a woman and a minor girl, and injuring another 23.As per details, at least three people were killed and 15 others, including Rangers personnel, injured in firing incidents in Orangi.
Sources said unidentified motorcyclists opened fire at Shaheen Qabayl Hotel near Metro Cinema killing at least five people and injuring 13 others.TPO Khurram Waris said

LAHORE - Despite end of winter gas management plan, the CNG stations of the city would remain closed for two days. SNGPL had announced it shall to restore gas supplies to CNG stations after March 15th, 2011 and ending two-day gas closure in a week for CNG but the load shedding is all set to continue.
All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) has announced to hold protest against SNGPL injustice. APCNGA Supreme Council Chairman Ghayas Abdullah Paracha said that SNGPL has asked CNG

DHAKA - Bangladesh's slender hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the World Cup they are co-hosting were crushed mercilessly by South Africa on Saturday with a 206-run Group B defeat. The result means South Africa will top the group and should have the easiest -- on paper -- draw of the qualifiers in the last eight against the fourth-placed Group A side.
It also ensured that India, England and the West Indies will progress to the knockout stage although the order in which they

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) Managing Director Rasul Khan Mahsud has said that electricity load-shedding could end in a day if full supply of furnace oil and gas was ensured.
Briefing the National Assembly Standing Committee on Water and Power on Friday, he said PEPCO had a daily furnace oil requirement of 27,000 tons, while Pakistan State Oil managed to provide only 18,000 tons every day. He said PEPCO's total gas requirements were of 780mmcfd but it

ASADABAD - An emotional Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday urged international troops to "stop their operations in our land", his strongest criticism yet of mistaken killings of civilians. Karzai's comments came after a week in which a relative of his was killed in a raid by foreign forces and he rejected an apology by the US commander of troops General David Petraeus for the deaths of nine children in a NATO strike.
"I would like to ask NATO and the US with honour and

ISLAMABAD - The controversy over FIA Director General Waseem Ahmed's re-employment on contract after his retirement is turning into a serious standoff between the judiciary and the executive, as the government is not only dilly-dallying in implementing the Supreme Court's directions to terminate all such re-employments, but also continues to rehire retired officials besides extending the tenures of some top state officials.
A committee of secretaries of the Establishment

KARACHI - The doctors of the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) who have been agitating for their demands for the past two days resumed their duties on Friday. CHK Medical Superintendent Prof Said A Qureishi told APP that the doctors have given a written assurance that they would not continue their protest as their security has been beefed up. "Basically, it was a partial strike that the doctors from gynecology wards had observed after a man allegedly abused their colleagues," he said. In

LAHORE - Our future as a nation is linked with modern education and it can help us find our deliverance from the extremism and terrorism, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said here Wednesday. He was addressing at a briefing on education reforms, for schools in Punjab, devised by British educationist Sir Michael Barber. He said that Punjab government was implementing a comprehensive programme for overhauling the education sector.
Mujtaba Shuja, Saira Afzal, chairman of Punjab

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Punjab government to withdraw all shoulder promotions given in the police department and observed that there was no concept of such promotions in the law and police rules. The court said the mechanism was an invention of politicians who used the process for political purposes. The bench of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa directed the government to abolish the policy of shoulder

PALLEKELE - Pakistan batsman Mohammad Hafeez admitted on Monday that he and fellow struggling opener Ahmed Shahzad have let their team down, but a World Cup blitz could be just one innings away. Hafeez and Shahzad have managed opening partnerships of 11, 28 and 16 in three matches so far, a performance which captain Shahid Afridi and coach Waqar Younis have already insisted must improve.
Despite the lack of good starts, Pakistan's middle-order has fired to help the team win all

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday announced that gas load shedding would end by the mid of March, adding that 1,100 megawatts (MW) of electricity were in the pipeline which would be inducted in the main system in the near future.
Talking to a delegation of the Federation of the Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), the prime minister said the government had already inducted more than 1,700 megawatts of additional electricity since coming into

ISLAMABAD - The interior secretaries of Pakistan and India would meet in New Delhi on March 28-29 to resume the Indo-Pak dialogue, which has been suspended since the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, Foreign Office spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua said in a weekly press briefing on Thursday.
"Following agreement to resume a full-spectrum dialogue between Pakistan and India, the first meeting under the resumed process will be held on March 28-29 in the Indian capital," said Janjua. "[The]

KARACHI - The religious minorities of Sindh have termed the assassination of Federal Minority Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti 'the end of the road for religious minorities in Pakistan' as they are no longer safe in the country.
Representative organisations of Hindus - the largest religious minority in Pakistan - announced celebrating their religious festival Shivaratri on Wednesday evening with simplicity to mourn the minister's murder.
Talking to Pakistan Today, Pakistan

COLOMBO - Pakistan coach Waqar Younis Wednesday insisted the World Cup was clean and urged an end to talk about match-fixing in cricket. His comments come after Sri Lankan state TV channel ITN speculated over whether Mahela Jayawardene and Thilan Samaraweera may have changed the game by getting out cheaply in their team's defeat against Pakistan.
The station added a local businessman had placed an $18,000 bet on Sri Lanka losing the game. Sri Lanka's cricket authorities angrily

PRESS GALLERY - No fireworks - the 'Q' grumbled and the 'N' played it out. It was expected that the PML-Q would create havoc and the National Assembly would witness a rare commotion after the PML-N's assault on its camp in the Punjab but it all went smoothly as if the script for the day had been agreed to by both adversaries. The captain of the Q's wrecked ship was, however, seen clinging to the wreckage with no chance of being rescued in the troubled political waters.
Once a

COLOMBO - Batsmen Mohammad Hafeez and Kamran Akmal were left wondering which of them was out on Saturday against Sri Lanka in the World Cup after a mix-up left them both comically stranded at the same end. Kamran Akmal scampered to the striker's end for a quick single when Hafeez swept the ball behind the wicket facing off spinner Muttiah Muralitharan's in the 13th over.
Hafeez did not move an inch, even after Sri Lanka wicketkeeper and skipper Kumar Sangakkara's initial throw

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